We have had a wonderful week in our theatre/cinema role play – please do look at the videos on tapestry as they are so lovely, full of fun and confidence and music and dancing and we really hope this will build confidence ahead of our …
We had a very exciting SNOW DAY on Thursday this week – we were able to get outside and enjoy the snow while it fell and then come in to warm ourselves up. It was our first ever Forest School session in the snow, we …
We have continued with our space theme this week and have expanded our space control command centre in the garden and made our own moon buggy after learning about the International Space Station last week and lunar landings. We have supported the role play with lots of craft and learning in circle times. Outside we have been using our throwing skills in an asteroid tossing game, we have made space exploration boxes and enjoyed role play with walkie talkies and rocket back packs.
We have also had a focus on sand play this week with lots of new ideas and a different set up each morning and afternoon in our sand tray with an adult there to support language development, to listen to ideas and to move play forward. We will be collecting photos of this each day next week and sharing those via a gallery on Tapestry.
Our literacy focus continues with lots of mark making and letter sounds this week, lots of space based literacy work.
Circle times this week:-
Star group – we have new children who have started this week which is really exciting and we have been welcoming them and supporting them to learn the routines here at pre-school and to learn names of friends. The group have had some great space stories and learnt space songs, looked for space numbers in shaving foam and watched a space rocket video, built rockets and enjoyed a Pudsey dance party on Friday!
Sun and Moon group – more focus on letters and their sounds within a space theme, making space silly soup, searching for letters in a space rocket, writing labels for aliens from a space story, looking at non fiction space books, a planet letter game and drawing and colouring planets using our new planet balls!
Forest School has continued this week outside in the fresh autumn air, the children are wrapped up warm, they enjoy the learning outside and the hot chocolate!!
The end of our week brings our Pudsey and Peppa Pig Party raising money for Children in Need! Thanks to all those families who have dressed up and donated, we know Children in Need is a charity that makes a huge difference to children.
Next week we are moving towards Christmas! We are starting a theatre outside to support the children to grow in confidence to perform with friends ahead of our Nativity on the 11th December at the Church.
Welcome back after the half term break – we hope you all had a happy and healthy week off. We are back into preschool life – full of Bonfire Night chat, stories from home and learning about space. We use the themes or subject as …
This is our last week before we all have a week off for Half Term and we have had a lovely time surrounded by pumpkins and dressing up and face paint and autumnal trays with all of the items that you have been collecting for …
We have had a focus on healthy habits this week and this will continue into next week as well and the children have really loved our farm shop outside. We managed to buy some of the wonderful wooden grocery sets from Aldi and these have been brilliant along with some wooden eggs and a few packets with different languages and different grocery items. It has been a really popular role play area and we have also had a lovely cafe and pizza restaurant going on in the sun room too. The wooden sets from Aldi are really lovely and the doughnuts and cup cakes were very popular along with the mini coffee barista machine!
Forest School sessions have been bathed in sun this week after the rain earlier in the week and we have put some photos of the Thursday Sun group on Tapestry for you. No trips out this week but we will be welcoming Alfie back for another football session next Monday 21st October.
Next week is our last week before we have a week off for half term, and we will be exploring Halloween dressing up, craft and sensory pumpkin trays, along with a literacy focus and more movement. We started Disco Thursday which is a dance session instead of story time just before lunch – any song requests would be great! We have had a few requests from “Sing” movies! Please pop us a message on Tapestry if your child loves a particular song from a movie or the radio!
Our circle times have been focused on being healthy and have covered a wide range of topics such as sleep, healthy food and treats, lots of exercise – fitness and yoga, dancing and aerobics! Lots of sorting food and working on independence too – finding our own shoes from a big pile and putting them on without help, learning about keeping our teeth clean, and healthy lunchboxes.
Have a lovely weekend and please do take a pumpkin to colour or decorate to win a prize!
Our theme this week has been exploring Autumn and learning about where our food comes from and cooking and baking and creating and tasting! Outside we have been working on our physical development with good balance needed for the obstacle courses we have been building …
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 …
All of the children are settling in so well, moving through the third week has been getting easier for those who feel a little upset at drop off as the routines are becoming familiar, names are being learnt and friendships made with peers and relationships growing with key ladies. We had a key person meeting on Monday to talk about how everyone has settled and to make a start on checking where children are developmentally and will be sharing that info with you. We are really good at supporting all children here to make fantastic progress whatever their starting point and we pride ourselves on working with each child as an individual and with their family. We will be sharing ideas for home learning in a couple of weeks via our Tapestry app and will share if we think your child will benefit from a little nurture time in their emotional development and feeling happy and safe here or in any of the areas of learning.
We follow the Early Years Framework and design our own planning and curriculum based on that and Birth 2 Five and Development Matters – all links are below.
A parents guide to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) | Family Corner
Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
foundationyears.org.uk/files/2021/09/What-to-expect-in-the-EYFS-complete-FINAL-16.09-compressed.pdf
Development Matters – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please do not hesitate to ask any questions either by email or chatting to any of our team. We will be adding lots of useful info to the documents section of the Tapestry app.
We plan activities to really grab the children’s interests and to teach them, we use fascinating ideas, awe inspiring activities and games, resources and adult led group times to ensure there is learning throughout the pre-school to stumble across and enjoy.
Our focus for the week has been to develop listening and attention skills and to explore what the children can do within the area of Maths with fun activities. We have enjoyed large scale construction on the carpet in the sun room during free flow with some incredible creations! Outside we have played with a lot of mud to make potions and cakes and spiced them up with cinnamon, ginger and herbs. The ladies outside have played skittles and hook a duck and parachute games as well.
Life is never dull for a moment here!
Circle time this week – Sun and Moon have been working hard on listening, taking turns to talk and building attention and focus skills. We have matched lots of different sounds, listened to instructions to learn how to draw a flower, counted and sorted, played a listening game to match cards to environmental sounds, enjoyed a listening walk outside, an animal guessing game and a matching instrument sound games.
Stars have been listening to stories using story sacks which really help with props, matching instrument sounds, we’ve been rolling balls to each other and using instruments to match sounds. Lovely building up of communication and attention and our little circle times are going really well.
Next week we are creating a garage outside and the circle theme will be “Fascinations!” – the group leaders will be creating awe and wonder in their circle times with exciting objects and sensory trays and in our free flow garage and office will inspire role play.
We have had a wonderful week creating our own Disney land! Lots of dressing up, chatter, singing and dancing, games and crafts and our own Disney castle outside in our garden. The children have really enjoyed talking to us about their favourite films and characters. …