This Week in EYFS: Jungle Mania! 🌴🦁

This week, our classroom turned into a jungle! We had lots of fun learning about jungle animals, creating bright and beautiful collage jungle habitats, and writing simple sentences about our favourite creatures.

We discovered that jungles are hot, wet and very green, and learned all about camouflage — some animals are so good at hiding they almost disappeared! 👀🌿

We also became animal experts by sorting animals into herbivores, carnivores and omnivores (and deciding which animals would definitely eat our lunch!).

In the Outside Classroom, we created our own brews for the tiger that came to tea, exploring role play, language, and creativity.

In maths we explored doubles and had so much fun with the Double Shuffle song! 🎶
Try it at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaqLjzMyyHI

To finish the week, we explored Forest School, looking carefully for animals and signs of wildlife. We even picked up litter to help keep animals safe and take care of our environment 🌍💚

What a roar-some week full of creativity, learning and jungle fun! 🐒✨

🌿 A Wild and Wonderful Week in Early Years! 🦁🦓

This week, Early Years turned into a busy grassland safari! The children loved learning about savannah animals, exploring who is a predator and who is prey, and finding out what makes a mammal a mammal.

In the writing area, our young authors wrote super sentences describing animals’ amazing features – from speedy legs to fluffy fur. Outside, the fun continued as the children cooked up delicious dishes in the Grassland Café and created their own dot-art style animal pictures by dipping, dabbing, and pressing with cotton buds.

A roaring week packed with learning, teamwork, and imagination – what an adventure! I wonder where in the world we will find out about the animals next week?🌍✨

 

Creature Teachers!

What a truly unforgettable experience for our EYFS children! We were delighted to welcome The Creature Teacher for a very special visit that brought learning to life in the most exciting way. The children loved discovering fascinating facts about a range of animals and showed incredible bravery and curiosity as they gently stroked and held a hissing cockroach, playful ferrets, a bearded dragon and even a snake! The highlight of the day was meeting a magnificent barn owl and watching it fly gracefully across the room, leaving the children in awe. This hands-on experience sparked lots of questions, wonder and excitement, supporting the children’s understanding of the natural world and creating memories they will be talking about for a long time to come!