We have had great fun this half term with our jungle topic. Thank you for your support, several of the children brought in creations they had made at home, books for us to share and lovely art work.

First we made jungle trees and a habitat for our animals, then we looked at the differences between lions, tigers and leopards exploring patterns with spots and stripes. We explained how a daddy lion had a mane and learnt that baby lions are called cubs and look a bit like giant sized cats, but w...

If you have a free afternoon you may like tp try one of these activities ready for our Jungle topic

  sort out the sock drawer then make a snake or other jungle animal from an odd sock
perhaps adding buttons for eyes or feathers from trips out to make a parrot

Why not make a jungle tree from a kitchen roll tube adding green paper leaves, perhaps make a whole jungle of them and use them to measure which is the tallest, shortest etc.

 
find the play animals to explore the jungle 

grow some cress s...

Our last traditional tale book for the half term was the Little Red Hen.

The children have made ‘red hens’ from paper plates, exploring circles and semi circles and the concept of whole and half. We have heard lovely descriptive language as they talked about the different materials they were using for decoration.

We revisited wind power investigating windmills, using non fiction books and our computers at home as a source of information. We had to problem solve to make sure the vanes of...

DIY Moon Sand.

I’ve seen a couple recipes for this, but this one is the simplest.
Just mix 8 cups of flour and 1 cup of baby oil. Easy to remember / clumps together well
makes a mess so best put into a large tray for outdoor play.brushes up easily praps not on the living room carpet tho!

Step One: Take a large bowl and add 2 cups flour, 1 cup salt, oil, 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, 2 tablespoons cream of tartar

Step Two: add in any dry extras such as glitter

Step Three: boil the kettle and pour 1 1/2 cups of the water into your mixture. Add in any food colouring at this stage so it mixes evenly through the dough.

Step Four: mix the ingredients together to form a dough.

Step Five: done! Your easy play dough recipe is co...

Lynn, Lisa, Jo and Will have been very busy over the Easter break creating a new look for Poppets.
 Please come in to have a look!

A BIG thank you to Luke and Imogen's daddies for their help with moving furniture and to Ryley and his mummy for donating a lovely Thomas train for all the Poppets children to enjoy.