Staff photos are now on the fence! I will put up the pictures each day to show which staff are in and you can chat to the children about which lady is their key person and which other ladies are special to them! All staff know all the children because we are a free flow setting so it is lovely to watch all the relationships growing and the children came in this week saying “I saw your photo Amelia!”.
Our last week before half term has been a sunny one and a happy one, we have enjoyed making bread on the sun table and eating it for snack and we have been dressing up all week in the Sun room, promoting turn taking (it is hard to wait to be Spiderman or have the best Elsa dress!) and independence in getting changed yourself. We are collecting info on the children’s interests at home as well to use for planning next half term. We are going to learn about the circus and the fairground for the first two weeks and would love to invite you in to talk about your job or let us know what jobs you do so that we can learn about them and role play that in our free flow time.
We have enjoyed a trip to make milkshakes which was brilliant on Thursday afternoon but sadly the Friday afternoon trip was postponed due to staff illness. Thank you to my Dad for donating the money for the milkshakes! The children had a brilliant trip with Michelle and Sophie and our helpers.
There have been lots of love hearts around pre-school this week as we move towards Valentines Day and we have been practising our sounds of letters. More farmer role play outside and mud kitchen play has kept everyone busy!
Circle times have been based on life cycles and have covered frogs and snails and caterpillars! All groups have explored these ideas. The Star group have explored different materials and textures and made some wonderful collages.
We wish all of our families a very happy half term and look forward to welcoming you back from Monday 20th February!
