Spring Term Week 8

Welcome back after the half term break, we hope you all had a good week off.

Pre-school has been so fun this week, it is lovely to come back together after a nice break and see all our plans come alive. We are learning about animals for the next few weeks and our Sun table has been a hive of activity this week – we have seen some really fantastic creations and paintings which will come home with the children. It is always a really lovely moment when the children display real pride when they have finished a painting and have really thought about the colours and patterns that they plan to use.

Pancake is always great fun at preschool with lots of laughing and shrieking when we are flipping pancakes, we enjoyed a delicious snack and made our own pancakes using eggs from my chickens. Pancake races and deciding on our favourite toppings were all great fun activties.

We chose to celebrate World Book Day by bringing in favourite books and so many children brought in a book from home and were confident to talk to their group about they story and explain what happened in their favourite book. Seeing their confidence grow in group time is wonderful to see. We will be dressing up for Comic Relief in a couple of weeks to raise money – watch this space/emails/texts for the theme this year! We will make it something easy to ensure everyone can join in. The Moon group had a slightly damp walk to the library on Wednesday morning, thank you very much to the families that helped with walking there, it is so important to get out and about in our community and the children behaved beautifully, completing the food treasure hunt and reading stories and choosing books to bring back to pre-school for our animal theme.

Robot Reg came to visit the sun and moon groups on Thursday and as always they were greeted with cheers and big smiles. The children LOVE Robot Reg, they laugh and learn and dance and it is a brilliantly run session, we are thrilled with how well it has gone and will definitely be booking that in again for next Spring.

Circle times have been a mixture this week – lots of learning taking place before the children then move back into free flow.

Star – the children have been working on learning about size and being able to arrange items from big to small and have done some fantastic independent work, they have also sorted sea animals from farm animals, learning about the differences. The Stars have practised counting with animals, learnt about penguins and enjoyed “Kim’s game” using animals which is where you lay out a tray of items, cover them up and take one away and the group have to spot which one is missing!

The Sun and Moon groups have chatted about and drawn their favourite animal, made them out of playdoh, celebrated world book day and played World Book Day I Spy, practised counting and made tally charts too!

This has been a brilliant week, ending with a visit from a week old baby lamb called Tyson, the children absolutely fell in love with him and he was brilliant!

Next week we are continuing to teach our groups about animals, we will be making a safari park and looking at Longleat so please send us photo’s of your visits to the safari park if you have been!

We would love donations of fresh fruit and veg to use in our farm shop role play please and we will also be mixing and making mud cakes and potions in our mud kitchen outside as well.

Our sponsored bike ride will start on the 14th March and we are fundraising for new literacy and maths equipment and more garden items too!