In Reception, we took part in a touchy feely workshop. We learned to explore the world with our fingers. Cold, warm, hard, soft, rough, smooth, scaly, silky, slimy, hairy and of course tickly as we were introduced to a host of fascinating animals.

Have you ever run your fingers down a tortoise's scaly leg or had two hundred tickly legs walk across the palm of your hand? We have!

We were invited to stroke a whole host of things, from a silky live snake, a smooth lizard, tortoise, the rough exoskeleton of a giant stick insect and stroking a spider's hairy legs!

We were very brave and some of us developed the confidence to hold animals we have never seen or held before! We learned about what the animals like to eat and their habitats. We also learned how to care for them.