Spring Term Week 10

What a beautiful couple of days of Spring sunshine! The children have loved being outside and the sun has warmed up over the week!

We started in a little bit of a chilly drizzle on Monday for the annual sponsored bike ride, the children complete 10 laps of the garden path circuit on bikes and scooters and tractors with support from staff and parent helpers! Thank you to everyone who came along to help us. Certificates are being handed out from the office and we are absolutely thrilled with the total that has been pledged so far – should get us what we need to buy a new wobbly bridge we hope!

We have had a brilliant time out at Forest School in the warm sunshine and the photos will be on our Tapestry app for parents on Monday once we have the Friday pics downloaded!

In the Sun room this week we have been enjoying our hairdressers and nail salon, some wonderful imaginative play, and the children are so kind when they are brushing and styling their friends hair and our hair! In the morning on the table we have been looking at numbers and jobs that people do around us which will lead into more learning in this area next week too.

Our circle theme has been shapes for the Star children and they are amazing! We have some brilliant observations and well planned circle and just the right level for the children in the group. Looking for shapes around the room, matching shapes, a shape hunt and shape splat same.

In Sun and Moon we have had a focus on our maths area of learning – talking about routes and where we live, how we get there and distance and describing our homes using shapes and size and that they are next to each other, near-by or behind. We have used Google earth to look at Cullompton and our roads and see how close we may be to friends at pre-school, we went out for a walk and took photos of what we could see and draw a map of our route, lots of other maps and drawings were done in our circle times and making our own houses and learning our addresses too.

Outside we have been practising ball skills all week, playing football and catching, tennis and egg and spoon races to learn co-ordination along with making maps of the garden and following instructions and directions too.

Next week we would love donations of empty fabric softener bottles or power boxes for our role play launderette and if anyone has a mini ironing board to lend us that would be lovely please.

Next week we have a trip to the Church for Easter, last Robot Reg sessions and a week full of circus games outside too.