Spring Term Week 6
Our pre-school world has been full of mini beasts this week! We have been learning about a different one each day on the sun table, making factsheets and have had lots of lovely new books to go alongside – books that focus on snails and slugs and worms and we have made our own wormery with 10 real worms! Our stick insect babies are growing well and they are off for a holiday with one of our families for half term.
Outside we have been tidying and gardening and planning what we will plant for the next half term, we have also been playing lots of fun games, washing all our mud kitchen items and sorting our sand boxes together to promote taking care of the kit we have. We have also planted a builders tray full of grass seed so are hoping when we return after half term that we will have a lovely mini meadow of grass that we can use for play!
Inside we have also been looking at flowers and plants and used fragrant herbs in the playdoh.
We have loved the physical challenges and exercise of the last couple of weeks and this week we have moved onto fine motor strength based activities in circle times.
Sun and Moon – have used tweezers to pick up lots of little items such as pom poms, practised cutting skills and played lots of arm and hand games such as a version of hungry hippos (hopefully you will work out what this is from the photos on the gallery!) tiddlywinks, lollipop stick building for accuracy and sorting games and playdough monster games!
Stars – have had a brilliant week enjoying fine motor trays, using little tweezers, painting over chalk shapes with tiny brushes, making crowns with little gems, making bird feeders by threading cheerios onto a pipe cleaner and finger gym and snipping activities.
We are so looking forward to coming back after a nice half term rest – lots going on in the next half term! Grandparents afternoon tea, Robot Reg is coming back to visit to support phonics work, Alfie is coming back to run a couple of football sessions for the children, we also have Tiny Travels coming in for a session to support our work on learning about the world and our families and where we all come from!
We also have our sponsored bike ride in March and a library trip for World Book Day and we would love volunteers to help us on this trip please – parents and grandparents are very welcome!
Forest School have enjoyed their sessions, Thursday was cold but dry and Friday was really wet but very fun – exploring natural crafts and flower crowns, enjoying their snack outside around the fire with Sophie and Louise C.
We hope you all have a wonderful half term break and that all the bugs that are around disappear and every can come back healthy and well.