Dance

Reception have been enjoying dance sessions linked to the life cycle from egg to butterfly.

We have been experimenting with movement and response to instrumental cues.

Here we are in action using movement to express and represent the stages of this amazing life cycle.

We will be developing this dance sequence further over the next few Fridays.

Well done everyone!

Miss B

Tiny eggs waiting to hatch...

Creeping, crawling caterpillars

Munch, munch, munch

Getting hungry and much bigger!

Time to start spinning the chrysalis

Creative thinking, using the equipment to 'hang from' just like real caterpillars

Time to spread those beautiful wings!

Fantastic!

The caterpillars are released

On Tuesday we released our five beautiful butterflies. The painted lady butterflies flew out of the net and off to find a new home and lay their eggs. Soon, out of their eggs will hatch caterpillars and we'll watch the life cycle again.

Butterflies update 3

We have picked more fresh flowers to feed the butterflies today and they are doing really well. They are spreading their wings and flying around the net, they will be ready to be released tomorrow.

Butterflies updated 2

Over night we had another butterfly hatch, so all five have hatched successfully. We have fed them some fruitand fresh flowers with nector.

They are painted lady butterflies and have yellow, red, orange and black speckled wings. They are getting more active and starting to fly around the net now.

We have removed the old cocoons that the butterflies have hatched out of and they look like this:

Butterfly update

We have welcomed four of our new butterflies into the world today! One hatched out of its cocoon last night, one this morning and two at lunch time.

They stayed still on the sides of the net for a while then began to open and close their wings. Red liquid came out of their wings as they stretched and dried their wings.

They are still very sleepy and slow it are gradually waking up.

We have picked them some flowers, spread them with nector and laid them on the base of the net. 

Caterpillars update.....

We have been looking after our five caterpillars for five weeks now. We watched them turn into their cocoons a week and a half ago. They've been hanging upside down, they've gone darker brown and we've moved them from their small tub into the larger net, ready for them to hatch into butterflies. Unfortunately, they haven't turned into butterflies before we've left to go on half term. They are coming home with me, I'll look after them here and keep you posted!

Stick Man - Photos (as promised)

Story mapping - using drawing and writing to recall the story

Speech bubbles - what did Stick Man say?

Developing our handwriting skills

Using phonic knowledge in our writing

Carrying out surveys

Using tallying to record findings

On Friday, we took part in a dance session.

Here we are taking on the role of Stick Man and other characters from the story.

Here we are using our bodies to move in time to the music. 

We are swans.

The weather is getting colder now.

Travelling in different ways 

Wake up Stick Man!

We are looking forward to next week's dance session!

Well done!

Miss B