Summer Term Week 10

We have been welcoming our new children into our setting this week for their session visits, it doesn’t seem long ago that we were welcoming the children who are now off to school! We have taken the St. Andrew’s children for a stay and play session this week which went really well and we have shared lots of information with the team at all of the schools to support all of the children.

There are a couple of stay and play sessions at Willowbank w/c 10th July which are for parents to take the children along to.

This week we have been focusing on numbers and shapes, we have had all our junk modelling out and have made some brilliant creations using lots of different ways to join and combine and fix and build our ideas. We would love donations of the following items to replenish our cupboards :- sellotape, string, treasury tags, split pins, and bull dog clips too please!

Our circle times have had a shape and rhyming focus in the sun and moon group – we have lots of different and engaging activities to make sure circles are fun and interaction and promote a love of learning. The groups have made great progress in number recognition and have made shape pictures and described shapes using the language of points and edges and sides.

The Star group have had a music and movement focus and have been singing and dancing all week! Taking part in exercise action songs, singing, reading stories with rhymes and playing instruments and following instructions.

We have been practising our songs for the graduation celebration and we may sing a song together at the fete if there are a few children present that are feeling confident to join me on the steps!

We love Disco Thursday! Before lunch on the other days we have a lovely story together but on a Thursday we dance! Do mention it to your child if they attend and it is always a great laugh and a really fun part of our week and if you and your family have a favourite pop song please let us know so we can include it. We had a request for “Paradise City” this week!!

We are setting up a real home corner next week with lots of heavy plates and cups and will be working on how important it is to take care of items here at pre-school. The whole of the sun room will be set up as a home corner during free flow with a kitchen and sitting room and a table to eat at and a TV and we would love donations to help us please – old kettles and pans and plates and mugs and table mats and table cloths and fake flowers and anything else you can think of that you may have in a shed that we could use! Thank you and have a lovely weekend