Spring Term Week 9
World Book day is such a lovely celebration of the world of books, we read all the time here at pre-school and reading to your child at bedtime every night is a really good way of supporting their learning, nice quite time together snuggled up and talking about the book as well as reading the story really helps children to settle down for a nice sleep. There is a brilliant website called Tiny, Happy People from the BBC with loads of advice on all sorts of topics and worries and activities.
Baby and toddler bedtime routine: Top tips for parents – BBC Tiny Happy People
The Moon group had a trip to the library on Thursday afternoon and loved reading books there before coming back to pre-school to play. We have had our story sacks out each morning and the children have been acting out the Billy Goats Gruff story on our own wobbly bridge!
Circle times have had a focus for learning about jobs, people who keep us safe and people who help us and we have welcomed Pauline in for a visit who is the lollipop lady from St Andrews. She is very good to us and pops down with her lollipop stick and hats and coats for the children to dress up in and stays for a while for a play in the garden, directing the children on the bikes and talking about road safety. We are also hoping to welcome a parent in the Royal Navy to talk about his work and the ship he works on, the local community police, Lisa from Tesco and a fire fighter. If anyone reading this has any contacts or would like to come in and share their work we would love to hear from you – any kind of work is interesting to us, not just the high profile high vis 999 professions.
We have been looking at the vehicles people need for their work, talking about jobs and work our families do, using posters and mini figures, toys and videos as well.
The Star children have used lots of different hats to learn about jobs, looked at emergency vehicles, watched a video of lots of different vehicles at work and matched equipment to jobs as well.
We have enjoyed vet role play inside, had lots of different transport toys out and outside we have been playing shops, using the role play to talk about size and pattern and money and counting and turn taking. Our fossil area has been popular too and we will leave this out for the children to now explore on their own having modelled the play and drawn maps, hunted for frozen dino eggs, used hammers, made fossils and bones, we are now leaving that as a child led area with all the equipment they need to enjoy the play with their new vocabulary.
Forest School has been a delight again this week as always, really wonderful sessions in the back garden with Sophie and Jackie.