Little Explorers
Science club provides many opportunities for the children to explore science activities.
Science experiments give way to many learning opportunities such as making predictions, using imagination, supporting early speech, maths opportunities, understanding the world and many more fun learning experiences.
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Busy Bees provides opportunities to learn about current events and play based opportunities that involve all the children’s interests whilst exploring, and investigating opportunities they may not have explored before. The children help to prepare the activities so they can see the full experiment from start to finish.
Young Chefs
We really love cooking at Busy Bees and there are so many learning skills that can be learnt from each cooking experience.
We feel it is important to introduce these skills from an early age as this helps develop children's fine motor skills. Cooking helps with sensory experiences such as touching the food to feel the mixture and texture of different ingredients.
Cooking also supports early speech as it allows the children to share new words and experiences that they may have had at home. Cooking is a great way to encourage the children to follow instructions, make predictions and developing maths and science skills.
We base all our cooking around the children’s interests and encourage healthy eating and learning opportunities around what impact having a healthy lifestyle can have on us. We love to cook outside using our BBQ and use natural materials to cook on.
Muddy Fingers
The outside environment is so important to us here at Busy Bees. We have a beautiful big garden which we are proud of. This includes an area which is shaded by a huge canopy, which allows our children to be out in all weathers all year around.
Our garden is very much our outside classroom and so much learning through play happens outside. We listen for environmental sounds, go on bug hunts and have our very own growing area. The children enjoy planting and watering what they grow and this supports the children’s understanding of a life-cycle and how changes over time can happen.
We talk about the seasons and what we can do to help ensure the environment around us is looked after.
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The children gain a lot of knowledge from seeing what they have grown indoors to what happens when it is put outside. The change over time is very important to see and allows the children to ask many learning questions.
