Today the children have been finding out about Minibeasts as we have been reading the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

We went to our school’s wildlife garden to find out if we could find any Minibeasts and where they like to live.

The children looked in the grass, in the flower beds, under logs and stones, and in the school’s bug hotel.

We found lots of Minibeasts…snails, ants, ladybirds, centipedes, slugs, and a woodlouse.

Our next step in our learning is to make our very own bug hotel with Nursery in our Foundation Stage Outdoor area.

Yesterday, we made a huge Hungry Caterpillar out of biscuits! We helped to weigh the ingredients out and mixed them together. We then each using a rolling pin to roll out the mixture and used circle cutters to make different sized parts of the caterpillar’s body.

When we had baked the biscuits, we let them cool before adding red and green icing to make our representation of the Very Hungry Caterpillar. At the end of the morning session, we  shared the biscuits out fairly between us all.