Autumn Term Week 12

Not long until our Christmas party and performance and we look forward to welcoming you to St Andrew’s Church next Wednesday – don’t forget that pre-school will be CLOSED for the whole day and all staff will be at the Community Centre so please telephone 07927057415 or text if you have any questions – we won’t have wraparound care available that day either as we will be moving scenery into and then out of the church for the performances.

We have had quite a quiet week due to lots of illnesses so we hope everyone gets better soon.

The sun room has been smelling amazing this week as we have had some wonderful sensory trays filled with ginger and hot chocolate and our festive cafe was selling salt dough donuts that we had made and lots of yummy little wooden cakes and macarons! We have had Christmas supermarket magazines out as well, reading the recipes together and deciding what looked yummy.

We have enjoyed a few dough disco sessions on the sun table to help build arm and hand strength and the children have loved playing with the small world set of our Happy Land toys. We will keep those out for next week as well.

Circle times have had a festive theme with lots of games of Christmas Bingo, chatting about Elves on a shelf and counting games, decorating gingerbread men, a card matching games, decoration making, cutting snowflakes, making snow man pictures and following a pattern of lights with pom poms. For the children who are in the performance we have been dressing up and taking some photos for the slideshow that we have in the Church while you are all coming in to be seated.

We will also take photos of the children before the performance at the party and when they are dressed up to share on the parent gallery. Quite a few children have been off this week so have missed having their pictures taken.

We are having a week of cooking next week with some things to bring home hopefully, we will be making ice sensory trays and outside we are planning to have lots of active fun with balloons and bubbles and our mud kitchen.

Have a lovely weekend and we will look forward to sharing our special Christmas party day with the families and children who are attending.