Hello,

I hope everyone has had a good week. Pre School life is back to normal this week, well as normal as it can be!! There has been a lot less wet clothes and hot children – but I hear we have another heatwave on the way, although not as hot this time. We will put the gazebo up again and keep the children as cool as we can.

We have continued with our ice cream shop role play this week, the children have been using chocolate scented playdough to scoop ice cream into their cones and adding sequin sprinkles to them, along with colouring in ice pictures using the colours of their favourite flavour ice creams.

Outside we have been doing lots of football craft, marking up the football results on the board and seeing which teams have been knocked out. The giant sand pit has been a great success, we will be continuing this next week as well.

To go alongside the sand we will have babies and the home corner outside – we will be washing the babies and clothes and having picnics!

Inside we will be cooking in the morning and have sensory trays in the afternoon along with mark making trays.

On Wednesday we had a visit from Carol who came to do a story massage session with the children before lunch, it is a lovely calm activity and they remembered exactly what they needed to do.

On Thursday we had a football session with Harry, the Moons and Stars went out while the Suns were at Forest School. The Moons knew what to expect but it was the first time the Stars had been out and they did fantastically well – Harry was very impressed by them and how well they listened and followed the instructions. I’m hoping he might be available to come in again over the next few weeks.

We have been busy getting the graduation photos finished, there are a few transition documents to be finished and then signed by parents and the staff are working hard on getting the special books all finished in time for graduation. The children have also been busy practising songs for the graduation days!

We hope to see as many of you as possible at the fete tomorrow, if you can lend a hand on one of the stalls for a bit it would be much appreciated, but if not don’t worry. Please come and enjoy a lovely day here!

Thank you,
Louise

Hello,

We have had another great week at Pre School, despite a few bugs going around!

This week we have been learning all about our families. The star group have built houses and put their family members in them (we have a set of mini people), drawn their families, made family portraits and talked about their families and their pets.

The Suns and Moons have been doing similar activities, drawing their families, talking about brothers, sisters, cousins, Aunties/Uncles etc. and what they enjoy doing with them. They made paperchain families, and listened to stories about families. We also made postcards of days out and holidays – we are going to post the Moon cards to the Suns and vice versa as part of next weeks planning.

Alfie came again on Tuesday for the football session, the children and getting more confident with their ball skills and continued this during our free flow activities in the garden.

Forest School was a bit soggy this week but the all the groups still went out and enjoyed water play using the marble run and cleaning out the pond – they saw the 2 frogs again!

Outside we have had a coloured water tray, football, tennis and playground games and despite the rain and colder weather the children have been outside a lot.

Claire also did some gardening with the children, they did some weeding and planted the onions we had started off in pots and gave everything a good water. We are hoping that this will be a regular thing. If you have any spare seeds, especially sunflowers or lettuce, if you’d like to donate we would be very grateful – thank you.

In the sun room we have been looking at different styles of dancing – ballroom, tap dance, Bhangra, ballet and Irish dancing. We have watched and copied videos of the dancing, found out facts about the dances and coloured in pictures of the different styles. It has been lovely to see the concentration on their faces as they have mastered the moves. One of the children commented “how do they make their feet go so fast?” while watching the Irish dancing!

Next week we have a tennis session book in on Friday morning for the Suns and Moons.

Planning wise next week we are going to have a post office in the sun room which carries on from our circle times this week and speech and language activities – listening and attention, understanding, speaking, social communication and speech sounds – from our Launch into Language programme that some of the children are already part of.

I can’t believe that next week will be our last before half term, the term has gone so quickly!

Have a great weekend and see you all next week.

Louise