Autumn Term Week 4
Our pre-school has been full of awe and wonder this week – we love to inspire the children and create really exciting experiences for them during their time with us. The group leaders plan their circle times to support learning and discovery and build skills needed for school and the children have been amazing this week. Some fantastic turn taking and waiting, lots of brilliant chat about the items and activities.
We welcomed Alfie on Monday morning from the Football Fun Factory and he ran two brilliant football sessions for our Sun and Moon children and he was super impressed with them –
“This morning I had such a great time with your little superstars and I was very impressed with their listening, engagement and effort. A big well done to them all! Also a big thank you to you, Amelia and all of your team for making me feel so welcome. I can’t wait to come back next week.”
Sun and Moon – have learnt about gravity and the moon, holding a light up moon model and looking through the telescope, they have made rain clouds in a jar, investigated technology, make fairy foam with an electric whisk and mixed colours, they loved the plasma ball and light up astronaut, making fizzy water with the soda stream and puff paint in a microwave and little caterpillars from tissue! What an imaginative and wonderful set of circle times.
Star – the younger children have also had a fun filled week of circles – exploring technology with phones and cameras, using the electric whisk for making fairy foam, rain clouds in a jar, exploring nature using conkers, magnets and volcanoes!
During free flow we have been supporting creativity this week with a lovely collage tray available and lots of glue! Puzzles out in the morning and an animal rescue in Andrea’s tray!
On our sun table we have had a maths theme with a focus on shape this week – some wonderful activities have been very popular – making shape rockets and other pictures, making a monster shape game, sorting shapes, drawing shapes on chalk boards and in foam.
The photos from the week are so lovely to look through – a happy week in some lovely sunshine outside!
Forest School has been a delight and the children have loved being in the back garden, enjoying the different style of learning – have a look at Tapestry for some photos of the Moon group last Friday.
Thank you to all the families and staff who joined our AGM on Monday – we are pleased to welcome some new committee members and will be working on new fundraising events with Naomi Cook – the Fundraising Lead
We would love some donations to support our planning next week please – we are a charity so money is very tight!
Items we would like:- frozen fruit, fresh lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruits, pumpkins, plain flour, cake sprinkles – thank you!
Our planning next week is for food exploration on the sun table, baking and cooking, learning about Autumn and Harvest time and we will be going to the Church on a trip on Thursday and Friday am. Outside we are working on our physical development and we will be making potions in our mud kitchen!