This week we have enjoyed Minibeasts as a topic.

Activities we have done include:

• learning about slugs and snails, their habitats, what they eat and how they help the environment
• going on a slug and snail hunt
• naming parts of a snail
• drawing snails
• learning about St Patricks Day and making a shamrock collage
• learning how to do some Irish dancing
• learning about different minibeast habitats
• reading lots of stories based on minibeasts such as 'what the ladybird heard'
• playing a game based on where a minibeast is hiding
• learning about spiders and the life cycle of a spider
• jolly phonic songs and singing nursery rhymes
• naming parts of a spider
• singing spider songs
• music, movement and action songs
• drawing spiders
• making handprint spiders
• learning about ladybirds
• making paper plate ladybirds
• counting spots on ladybirds
• cutting/sticking ladybirds
• lots of name recognition activities and name writing practice
• learning about bees
• making pictures of bees
• making honey biscuits

Please see the links below for home learning ideas related to our topic.

For further home learning ideas you can look back through the previous weeks to find more ideas of things you can do at home.

Best wishes, Julia, Claire, Hannah, Lisa and Adam


Home Learning Activities
Minibeasts