Spring Term Week 10

Another super busy and active week at pre-school! We have welcomed Sporty Mini’s into the setting on Tuesday morning for a trial session for the Sun and Moon groups which they really loved. Lots of exercise and ball skills practice. Robot Reg visited the Sun group while the Moons went off to St Andrew’s Church for an Easter visit and then Robot Reg played with our little Star group and they were amazing! Rebecca was really impressed with how well they took part and enjoyed all the activities and we hope to book her for more sessions in the Summer Term.

Our sponsored bike ride has been going really well this week, despite some very heavy rain showers! Most children have completed all their laps and the amount that has been pledged so far is absolutely incredible, it will be the most we have ever raised – we will wait until all the money has come in but we can share it is a 4 figure sum – WOW and a huge thank you from us all for getting so many sponsors. We have a great list of things we need to buy to enhance all the lovely activities and sets that we have to play with and we will share photos of all the things that we buy so that you can see!

Our Sun and Moon circles have played lots of animal games and used animals to count, dance, follow actions, counted out animal foods and learnt animal facts. The groups also enjoyed Forest School – working hard to get some seeds planted to grow their own veg. The children also worked on sorting skills – please do practice this at home as some children found it really hard to separate coins and plastic lids into matching pairs – they would match the colours but not the intricacies of patterns and size as well. For Example some found it hard to see the difference between 1 and 2 p coins and differences between the same colour plastic lids that had different patterns on the sides.

The Star group have been creative, they have following instructions, moved to music and used instruments, enjoyed a story sack, had a mini beast hunt in the back garden, dough gym to animal songs and Rosie the Rabbit came to visit us on Monday and all of the children loved cuddling her and she was so soft and gentle with them. We have really enjoyed our animal theme and learnt so much. Thank you for all the pet photos so far, we will be using them next week and adding them to our animal experiences display so do have a look and spot your pet!

Next week we will be enhancing our cafe outside with lots of play food activities and we will be taking part in Maths activities on a large scale outside as well. In the Sun room we will be making large scale worlds on the floor – laying out big sheets of paper, collecting props and making building, cutting grass to stick on – all to create a different world each am and pm. We will also be working on fine motor skills, puzzles, perseverance, more number work and story sacks inside as well.

Thank you for all the donations and please remember to link us to your Amazon account as every time you shop Amazon give money to us! The info can be found in our Newsletter.