Category: Early Years
Around the World Day
Lyndhurst came together and took a flight to go globetrotting on our ‘Oh, the places you’ll go…’ Around the World Day. The children dressed up representing countries from all the continents there was even a penguin from the Falklands Island! Passports were issued and we escaped through our imagination and with a litter help from…
Little Lyndhurst – letter formation
Nursery and some of Pre-Reception in Little Lyndhurst have been enjoying learning letter formation. They each had a turn to write with a brush, some letters in the fairy dust. With some students choosing to have a go at the first letter of their name and others chose random letters.
Little Lyndhurst – Poet Tree workshop
Nursery and Pre-Reception took part in the Poet Tree Workshop run by Jo from As Creative, where they had to act out the lifecycle of an oak tree. They started off as little acorns, then turned into a shoot until finally they grew into big oak trees. The children listened really well to the instructions…
Little Lyndhurst – Clothes and accessories
Pre-Reception in Little Lyndhurst have been looking at clothes and accessories for their topic. Their first activity was to sort clothing items into the different seasons, we talked as a group about when you may wear a certain type of clothing. They had lots of fun designing their own bag and dressing a fairy.
Little Lyndhurst – Fairies and woodland animals
Nursery have been focusing on the topic of fairies and woodland animals. They have made their very own magic wands where they have been casting spells and turning each other into frogs, unicorns and other creatures. Nursey have made toadstools and counted the spots as they glued them on. Lots of fun was had with…
Little Lyndhurst: writing and phonics games
In Pre-Reception in Little Lyndhurst, the children have been encouraged to continue name writing and playing phonics games. Some children have taken part in completing the initial sounds game. This is a great way for the children to hear and pair up the sound it matches to.
Little Lyndhurst: Beebots
In ICT, the children were very excited as they got to use Beebots coding robots. The children had to push the arrows then push go. This navigated the Beebot in the direction they wanted them to go. They had a lot of fun exploring with them.
Little Lyndhurst: Yoga fun
Nursery joined Pre-Reception for their weekly yoga on Monday. The children practiced their downward dog, tree and lotus poses.
Little Lyndhurst: Jungle Animals
Nursery have been focusing on the topic of jungle animals. They have made repeating snake patterns with pom poms in paint and they have been using their fine motor skills with playdough. They created enclosures for the animals and matched the animals to their patterned skin. A firm favourite was the giraffe game where the…
Little Lyndhurst – Pirate party
Pre-Reception in Little Lyndhurst were very excited to join in with some pirate fun and games. Each child made their own treasure map. First, they used tea bags to stain their paper then once it was dry, the children used colours to draw out their maps. The children printed gold treasure using bottle top lids…
