Down in the Garden

We will learn all about animals that live around our school, what plants need to grow and the importance of taking care of the natural environment and all living things.

Core Story: The Enormous Turnip 

Core Song: The Caterpillar Song

We also like singing:

Hello Song

Goodbye Song

Weather Song Video

Weather Song

Clean-up Song

Bee Background Music

Garden Songslide

Get ready for a fin-tastic time! Are you little stars excited to sing and dance? Doo doo doo doo doo doo! It's show day!

Let's get ready to swim onto the stage and show your best moves! Let's make some noise!

This year our theme is 'Under The Sea'. There will be 2 performances, please take note which day your child is performing!

Butterflies & Zebras: Wednesday 26th March @09:00

Elephants & Monkeys: Friday 28th March @09:00

We will perform our 'Under The Sea' themed songs for you all. let's practice them together!

Down By The Sea

Down In The Deep Blue Sea

Can you remember what we have been learning about? That’s right, we have been learning all about the different creepy crawlies that live outside in our gardens.

Let’s take a look at this picture and see what we can see:

Garden Picture

Did you spot some ants in that picture? Today we are going to learn all about ants!

I See Ants

 Now let’s get our bodies moving with this fun ant song. Stand up and let's get marching!

The Ants Go Marching 1 By 1

Can you rememeber what insect we are learning about today? An ant! Today we are going to find our magnifying glasses and head outside and see if we can find some ants. Look closely, how many legs do they have, can you see its head? I wonder where the ants are going…can you see they are all walking in a row just like in our story today.

I have something special to show you that is hiding in my mystery bag. I will show you one part of this object at a time and let’s see, can you guess what is hiding in the mystery bag?

What is hiding…that’s right, it’s an ant! Let’s continue learning about ants. Can you remember in our song yesterday the ants were playing instruments. Why don’t we all choose one instrument to play (rhythm sticks, egg shakers, bells, drums, casternets) and see if we can play the instruments in time with our ant marching song.

The Ants Go Marching 1 By 1

What can you see in this picture from our book yesterday?

Ants on an Apple Picture

Ants and Apples, what sound do they start with…a…a…a! Let’s sing our ‘a’ sound song about apples.

We Like to Eat Apples

Now let's learn about some other things that begin with the letter sound 'a'.

Starfall 'a'

I have something in this box. Can you figure out what it is? I have 3 clues for you:

1: I have 6 legs

2: I live in the garden

3: I am really strong

It is an ant! What letter sound does ant begin with? A! I have lots of toy ants and;

A Letter Sound A

Can you help your toy ants crawl along the letter sound A?

Let’s listen to this sound. What insect do you think we are learning about today? Thats right we are learning about bees! Does anybody know what we get from bees? Thats right Honey! Let's Watch this video to find out how bees make honey.

Now we are going to put some yummy honey on our morning snack! 

Carefully squeeze and drizzle the honey over your waffles. Now you can enjoy them! Do you like the honey? How does it taste?

Do you remember what insect we are learning about that makes honey? That's right Bees! I have a busy bee here can we help him to count to 10 with this counting song? backing music

song powerpoint

Busy bee has some numbers but they are all muddled up. Do you think you can help busy bee put the numbers into the correct order? (Use number cards in the classroom and a bee toy from small world area)

Lets practice counting some bees in the hive.

 In small groups of 3-4 we are going to play this busy bee counting game. Can you subitise or count the number of bees on your card and move that many spaces? Who will be the winner?

Game and cards

Makaton Signs of the Week

angry, worried, calm 

This week, we are moving onto Dance 8 - The Laid Down 8 which will help us draw the letter S.

After that, let’s have a movement break and dance to the action song! 

For our dough disco this week, we are pretending that we are buzzy bees! 

Expressive Arts and Design:

I can move my body in time to the music.

I can sing familiar songs.