Spring Term Week 11
Colour explosions at pre-school this week! We have really enjoyed creating and mixing and choosing and learning new vocabulary for colours and learning about prime colours and which colours mix! The circle times have been really imaginative and exciting for the children and we hope we have created a new generation of artists!!
Star – this group have mixed colours and made handprints, mixed coloured water, made coloured mashed potato, matched objects by colour, mixed shaving foam and colours to make pictures and used the pipettes to drop colour onto cotton wool
Sun and Moon – these groups have mixed paint on a big scale on bubble wrap over tables, used shaving foam to make marble pictures, used the curly pipettes to add water to paint to make green and purple and orange and mixed colours in jars, learnt a colour magic trick and sorted colours and made their own mini rainbow book marks!
Our welcome tray has been full of beautiful transient art, we have loved dough disco on the sun table first thing and spring playdoh on the round table.
The sun table has been a hub for Science Week – lots of amazing experiments, learning together to follow the instructions on Pinterest, comparing our outcomes with the photos and videos and talking about the ingredients we have used, the vocabulary for the reactions and it has been a really popular activity.
Outside has also been very busy with the nice warm sunshine! We have set up a group of chairs and left the children to lead the play based on journeys – some lovely child led ideas with an adult there to support and extend – including a plane flight to the seaside, a bus to the beach, a bus to each other’s homes, a bus trip to Bear Town, a trip to Disneyland on a plane and a flight to Australia and even a rollercoaster! We will continue this next week inside with the whole sun room being used as a train – please send in photos of any trains you may have and books and trips and leaflets please!
The activity lead outside has also been having fun with the children playing playground games together – teaching them What’s the Time Mr Wolf and Duck, Duck, Goose – playing football and parachute games and hide and seek too.
Next week we will be enjoying Easter craft, learning about trains and journeys, 3D shapes and numbers, and unpacking our new big blocks that we have paid for with our fund raising efforts – thank you to our committee of parents!! We have our Bingo on Saturday night and our wonderful summer fete on the 28th June and a shopping list in draft form on my laptop ready to go!