The Reception children found some snails in the school garden and wanted to find out more about them.

• They looked closely at the snails through magnifying glasses and drew what they could see.

• They watched the snails moving on glass and painted pictures of them.

• They drew snail trails in shaving foam and made models of them in dough.

• They painted snail pictures and chalked huge pictures of the snails on the paving slabs outside.

• They put the snails on black paper and looked at the slimy trails that they left behind.

• They glittered the slimy trails and looked at books with pictures and diagrams of snails inside as well.

• The children made a home for their snails and discovered that the snails liked to eat cucumber and lettuce but they didn’t like Frosties or digestive biscuits!

We made a display of some of the work that the children did over the course of a week.

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