We have very much enjoyed the sunshine and the paddling pools out this week – the children have loved getting their toes wet and their shorts wet and their t-shirts wet too! We do change them when they are wet so please dos end lots …
We had a wonderful week in the warm weather, exploring outside in the back garden in many of our circle times and we started a mini forest school session for the Star groups as well on a Thursday and Friday which they really enjoyed! A …
We have had a wonderful week and really enjoyed all the sunshine in the garden, we have made some fantastic small worlds on our sun table and will post those photos on facebook soon. We made a fairy world, mountain, farmyard, pyramids and the desert, an ocean scene and a teddy bear’s picnic too. We have also learnt a lot about road safety and we went on a walk to test our new knowledge and the children were great! We stopped and looked carefully and listened for cars and spotted hazards and talked about what was safe and unsafe. We enjoyed having the bikes out all day every day for the road safety week too.
We have an amazing total of £1895 for the sponsored bike ride which is really incredible – I have been looking through lots of early years catalogues and working on what we can order and how to revamp the pre-school and will be ordering some lovely things which I hope all your children can enjoy. Thank you all very very much indeed.
A real highlight of the week is the Forest School finale, we were lucky enough to invite parents along to lunch around the fire and on a walk to the river to sail the boats that we made. It was really wonderful to hear the sounds of voices in the garden again and to see how excited the children were to show their family around the Forest School garden.
We welcomed Mrs Davies from Willowbank this week which was great as she got to meet some of her children for the Autumn Term, circles have been full of fun and laughter with paper aeroplane making, stick insect yoga, learning about 3D shapes, making clay hedgehogs and our own traffic lights, we have built hoses for the 3 little pigs and looked a a video of Amelia’s pigs and drawn pictures of them, lots of dancing and singing and acting and stories as well.
We hope you all have a wonderful week off and we are back to open pre-school for the last half of term (can you believe it!!) on Monday 7th June – see you all during the course of that week.
This week has been full of our usual routines and fun and great activities and we have loved playing hairdressers and our science week has been a great success! We have explored ice and what makes it melt and how to get items out of …
Baking for snack time, bug hunting, gardening, watering, sand play, capacity, Forest School, minibeast sorting, minibeast making, creating with clay, stage set up, ticket making, a lot of singing, colourful wigs, learning about safety, taking care when using scissors, weather boxes (mainly the rainy one!!) …
We have loved our minibeast theme this week – we use a theme and a general over all place for ideas for activities and for planning so it brings lots of ideas together over all sorts of fun play and craft. We have taught the children how to differentiate between the insects and talk about their characteristics which has promoted fantastic chat and learning opportunities.
We are going to carry the theme on next week too, we can add maths and literacy to the play and lots of learning about the world around us.
Perhaps you can spot bugs and mini beast in the garden or at the park and take a photo together!
Thanks again to everyone how raised so much for the sponsored bike ride!
Mandy has sent an email out about having face to face parent chats with your key person – please do email in to request an appointment.
Our circle times have been really fun and productive and we have some fantastic observations from the week.
Our Star groups have learnt a lot about jobs and occupations and the group leaders have been teaching them about where different animals live and drawing from nature too. They have listened to lots of different musical instruments and tried to spot which is which in a listening game.
The Sun and Moon groups have enjoyed many mini beast themed group activities, talking, learning, exploring, searching, making and creating their own mini beasts to take home! They have done stick insect yoga and made spider webs! The groups have practised putting on their own coats and shoes as quickly as they can, injecting a race into the activity! The children also really loved a skittles game using letters and their sounds and they were fantastic at spotting which skittle had the right letter on it for the object they had chosen.
Forest School has been another great success this week and the children have acted out the Bear Hunt Story -moving through mud and water and cotton wool for snow, then creating wonderful pictures to take home with the different textures. More hot chocolate and snacks by the fire and a teddy bear hide a seek with cuddly toys.
We have had a wonderful week here at pre-school, we had a great staff meeting on Monday where we discussed our Ethos and wrote a list of things that are important to us :- “We work as a team, we care for the whole family, …
Welcome back to all our families, we have so enjoyed seeing everyone this week and hearing about your Easter holidays and how many eggs the Easter Bunny brought – one little chap had 100 apparently!! We have had a fantastic first week back with lots …
Another busy week here at pre-school with so much going on in the gorgeous spring sunshine! We ahve loved spending time this week learning about Easter and Holi (Hindu festival that celebrates Spring) and for those children in my circle time early in the week I hope the powder paint came out of your hair! The ladies have done a wonderful job as always teaching and playing and nurturing and taking care of all the children and we are all looking forward to some lovely days next week before we break up for the Easter holidays.
We have enjoyed role play in the sun room and there are some fantastic photos of the children taking great care of the babies and some wonderful observations too.
The Star group have been drawing and learning about emotions, they have been practising drawing circles and lines which is a great start for faces! They have learnt to take off their shoes and socks and put them on again, acted out the Bear Hunt story, drawn their families and had Easter egg hunts with patterned eggs and numbered eggs too!
The Sun group have learnt about Holi, learnt about our world and what we know about it, practised initial sounds in words and matched tricky Easter egg patterns too, organising and sorting them.
The Moon group have also talked about the world and the different countries, looking at maps and the globe, chatting about families that have family across the world and where we have been on holiday. The Moons have replanted their tomato seeds into bigger pots and taken them home, they have learnt initial sounds by finding hidden letters.
Mini Forest School has been a treat this week and the Thursday group cleared out the pond and saw our resident hedgehog too! The Friday group enjoyed an Easter chick hunt and rolling down the mini hills and the mud kitchen.
Next week we will be celebrating Holi on Monday 29th March, and more Easter cooking and craft too. For home learning a good idea would be look up the Earth on your phones or tablets, chat about what makes up the different colours and the names of some countries and the differences between weather and landscapes and animals as we will be learning about the Earth in our group times.
Our week has been full of play and learning, with some gardening, more planting, learning about growth, learning about numbers, exploring real food and cooking, learning about being kind and we are still settling back into a busy pre-school life post lockdown for schools! The …