A wonderful week of dressing up! We have been promoting independence and supporting the children to learn to get dressed in the outfits and then take them off and pack them away, we have had princesses and princes and police and firemen and lots of fantastic role play outside with the ladies here making handcuffs, fire and flames and singing a lot of “Let it go”! The amp has been out for music which the children really love and it really makes us smile to see such brilliant dance moves!
Next week we will also be dressing up again as we have a week of partying for the Santa Domingo carnival and will be face painting and decorating masks and enjoying a party atmosphere. We will be dressing up in pink or red or wearing hearts on Monday for Valentines Day for a bit of fun too!
Our circle times have had a focus on the Winter Olympics this week in Sun and Moon and it has been great fun watching video’s of ski jumping and ski racing and the wonderful Bolero from the 1984 Olympics! The children loved the skeleton and the bobsleigh as well, joining in enthusiastically with our action games. We have talked about who we love and why, made some valentines cards, talked about being friendly/unfriendly and had a great time in our “Disney Dancing” circle time, I had a good explanation from a few children about why we can’t talk about “Bruno!” and another excellent explanation from a Mum when I asked her! We danced and sang to Moana, Frozen and the Greatest Showman, lots of smiles and laughter from children and ladies.
The Star circle has had a focus on numbers, counting and matching numbers, matching patterns on socks, printing selfie pictures and trying curling and exploring tunnels and music and stories.
We have a two ladies here who you may not have met properly called Claire and Jade, they have joined us over the last few weeks and are settled in now. Jade had children who came to the pre-school and Claire has recently moved to the area and has lots of experience in a school in Kuwait. Both are enjoying our lovely setting, having fun and are popular with the children. We will be taking their photo’s soon for the staff board so that your child can point them out to you.
Our Sun table has been a hub of learning, the topics we have covered are wide ranging – we learnt how to make….bread, crisps, chocolate, clothes, pasta, action figures, how Dinosaurs are made and toy cars.
Our continuous provision has been the mud kitchen, pull of mud pies, mud milkshakes and spices and herbs – next week we will be playing with water and ice.
Our growing garden is coming back to life with our crocus bulbs in flower and our daffodils coming up too. We have had a nice tidy and repotted some bulbs into hanging baskets which the children chose to hang in the tree.
We will be learning about music from around the world next week and playing musical games too.
