Spring and The Garden Centre have been our themes in Aistear. In the role play area the girls have been buying and selling seeds, plant pots, trowels , wheelbarrows, gardening gloves and all the items that you would find in a gardening centre. The cashier writes down their name, phone number and what they have bought. We try our best to give back the correct change.
In our arts and crafts area, we have been painting colourful Spring flowers such as tulips and daffodils. We explored mixing primary colours (red, blue and yellow) to create secondary colours (green, orange and purple).
We have been practicing our procedural writing, using time words to help us put the instructions in the correct order. We used ‘Bossy Verbs’ when writing the procedure of how to plant a seed. Once we had finished our writing, we planted some sweet pea seeds. Hopefully, they will grow into beautiful flowers 🙂
As part of our Spring/ New Life theme we created farms at our role play area. We sorted the animals and put them in their correct homes. We drew ponds, chicken coops, pens, barns and stables. We put the baby animals with their mothers and wrote down their names- lambs, foal, calves, kids, ducklings, chicks and piglets.
