Continuing our look back at 2018, the start of the Summer Holidays saw us enjoying these fab Bug Colour-In Crowns.
Childhood. Motherhood.
Continuing our look back at 2018, the start of the Summer Holidays saw us enjoying these fab Bug Colour-In Crowns.
Our garden is awash with lovely blooming Spring flowers at the moment and so now we are seeing some lovely minibeasts in the garden as a result. Today was our first sighting of a lovely fat bumblebee and this beautiful butterfly which landed on our outdoor kitchen earlier this week which served as the inspiration behind todays butterfly activities. The children made some lovely tissue paper butterfly sun catchers, enjoyed a lovely butterfly puzzle, had fun with butterfly stickers, looked at butterflies in books and watched an episode of Mr Tumble, who was at a butterfly farm, on CBeebies.
Areas of Learning covered: Understanding the World, Physical Development, Communication & Language, Literacy, Personal, Social and Emotional Development and Expressive Arts and Design
The children love stickers here at Aston Childcare which are great for developing fine motor skills (Physical Development) and earlier this week our sticker theme was Minibeasts which got us talking about spiders, butterflies, beetles, bees, caterpillars, centipedes……
To extend this activity and their learning we then went off and completed our lovely Minibeast puzzles.
Whilst Winter’s not the best time of year for a bug hunt (late spring, summer and early autumn are the best times) it did make me reflect on what other activities we do over the course of the year to learn about and explore Minibeasts –
Areas of Learning covered: Expressive Arts and Design, Maths, Understanding The World, Communication & Language, Literacy, Physical Development, Personal, Social and Emotional Development