Another fantastic week at pre-school and we have welcomed all of our new star group through the week and all of the session visits have been a great success. It is lovely to meet you all and we hope you have enjoyed the visits and they help to prepare your little one when they start next week. The Stars will be dropped off at the main reception and we will welcome and care for each child as they come in and take them to the ladies waiting in the star room. We have 3 staff in that room and the Stars have a bit of quiet time in there to settle without all the older children, they then have snack and head off outside to play and can then access the full free flow ethos of the setting. We aim to have them all settled in by half term and happy in the busy pre-school so that they can access full free flow with all the children from around October half term.
We turned the new outdoor playhouse into a fire station this week which has been a great success! We have put out pretend fires in Costa and McDonalds – rescuing the customers and putting out the fires, I have had lots of willing firefighters to play with and we built a fire engine outside as well and we will carry on our role play next week.
Inside we have been making radios and walkie talkies and fire extinguishers and breathing packs to support the play outside. We have also had some wonderful activities inside for free play such as loose parts/transient art trays for exploration of different materials, we have had lots of small worlds set up – farm, fairies, under the sea, we have had maths and literacy activities and robot trays and playdoh and we picked blackberries and apples from our own garden and then we made a wonderful fruit compote for our snack!
Our circle times are going so well and all the children come and take part, this week we have learnt about and drawn sunflowers following a donation via fairshare of 4 bunches from Tesco, we have enjoyed story sacks and made houses for the 3 Little Pigs, we have made a height chart which we will update in a few months to see how everyone has grown! The children also enjoyed a matching game where we took off all our shoes and put them into a big bag! We took the shoes out one by one and looked at the pattern and style and they were amazing at recalling which shoe belonged to which friend!
Next week we will be learning about bread and how to make it and it’s ingredients and we will be eating it for our snack too. We are also going to plan our nurture groups which help children to make friends and settle in and give them some quiet time in the setting. We hope you are all happy with your first two weeks and that our returning children are also enjoying preschool in our Sun and Moon groups! Any worries please do get in touch.
