Buttercup Class Blog
On this page you can see updates over the term of our activities and learning.
- Date:
- 17 October
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
🍂🎃 Our Autumn Cafés are open for business! ☕🍁
Through role play, both indoors and outdoors, our Foundation children have been busy bringing their autumn cafés to life! Inside, the children are serving up delicious drinks, taking orders and creating their very own café experiences. Meanwhile, outside, our mud kitchen has transformed into the messiest, muddiest and most fun autumn café, full of pumpkin scooping, mixing, pouring and imaginative play! 🧡
- Date:
- 9 October
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
🍂 Autumn Leaf Art in Foundation 🍂
The children in Foundation have been enjoying exploring the outdoors and looking closely at the different trees around us. We noticed that each tree has its own unique leaves, with different shapes, sizes and patterns. 🌳🍁
When we discovered the children’s interest in the different leaf shapes, we decided to bring this curiosity into our creative learning. The children explored the leaves closely and used them to create beautiful autumn artwork, focusing on the outlines, shapes and sizes of the leaves.❤️
- Date:
- 9 October
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
🍂 Exploring Autumn in Our Outdoor Environment! 🍂
As autumn is now upon us, Foundation children went outside to investigate how our outdoor environment is changing. We explored the different trees and noticed how the leaves are changing colour. 🍁 We found beautiful red, brown and yellow leaves, helicopter leaves and many other natural treasures! The children had the best time exploring, collecting and talking about the changes they could see around them.🍂🌳💛
- Date:
- 9 October
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
🤎 Clay in Foundation 🤎
In Foundation, we have started a new adventure exploring clay! When Miss Wilson visited Reggio Emilia in Italy, she saw how highly valued hands-on exploration and materials such as clay are within the Reggio Emilia approach. Clay is seen as a wonderful material for children to explore through their “hundred languages” — using their hands, senses and imagination to express their ideas and discover what the material can do.
We thought we would bring this inspiration back into our classroom and see where our own clay journey could take us. The children have loved moulding, squashing, rolling and shaping the clay, as well as using different tools and natural materials to create interesting patterns, marks and textures.👐✨
We can’t wait to see what other adventures we can have with clay and where the children’s ideas will take us next! 🤎🌱
- Date:
- 20 September
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Light, Shadows & Imagination in Foundation!✨
In Foundation, we have been exploring and using our imaginations through light and shadows. The children have loved getting creative and discovering how everyday objects around the room can create different shadows. 🔦
They explored how they can change the size of a shadow depending on how close or far away they hold the object from the light.
Their imaginations really came to life as they created their own shadow cities and enjoyed role-playing superheroes flying across the city! 🦸♀️🏙️
It has been wonderful to see their creativity, curiosity and storytelling shine through as they explored the possibilities of light and shadow. 🌟
- Date:
- 17 September
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
Today in Foundation, we visited our fantastic tipi! 🌈
We began our session with some yoga, learning different ways to stretch and move our bodies. We then listened carefully to a range of musical instruments and moved our bodies to the different sounds they made. 🎶 We added colourful scarves to our movements, creating lots of fun and expressive shapes as we danced and moved.
We ended our session with different breathing exercises and calming techniques, helping us to relax and feel peaceful. 🧘♀️✨
What a lovely session of movement, music and mindfulness!
- Date:
- 17 September
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
👖💙 Jeans for Genes Day in EYFS 💙👖
Today in Foundation, we all wore our jeans to show our support and appreciation for the Jeans for Genes charity.
We learnt about the important work the charity does to support children and families. The children enjoyed taking part in lots of fun activities throughout the day, while learning about the importance of being kind, caring and supportive towards others.
It was lovely to see everyone joining in and showing their support by wearing their favourite jeans! 👖✨
- Date:
- 4 September
- Posted by:
- Miss Wilson
🌻 Our New Reception Children’s First Day! 🌼
What a wonderful first day we have had welcoming all our new Reception children to Laceby Stanford Primary Academy! 💛
We are so excited to have our new Buttercups and Sunflowers join us, and we couldn’t be prouder of how beautifully they have all settled in!
The children have already made lots of new friends, explored their new environment and had so much fun learning and playing together. ✨
They have also had the best time exploring our brand-new outdoor area! 🌳☀️ There has been lots of laughter, excitement and happy faces as the children discovered all the new things to enjoy.
We are incredibly proud of all our Buttercups and Sunflowers and can’t wait to see all the wonderful things they achieve throughout the year! 🌟🌈
Have a lovely weekend, everyone! We’ll see you on Monday for your first full week! 🥳🌼🌻
