Summer Term Week 11

Another exciting week at pre-school as we head towards the end of term, visits from primary school teachers and the lovely Marie from Animals 2 U came on Thursday and Friday mornings for the Sun and Moon groups. She brought some wonderful animals with her and the children were amazing and listened really carefully to her facts about each animal and to her instructions on how to be gentle and touch the animals. We were really proud of our group who all sat beautifully for the sessions. We had chinchillas, a tree frog and bearded dragon, a snake, black tailed gerbils and a giant snail.

We have packed a lot of learning into the last week, our focus been on creating a lovely display ready for our celebrations next week and we have chosen a jungle theme to work alongside our visits from Marie so we have been creating some beautiful artwork in free flow and in our circle times and have had our vet surgery out as well for role play.

Our circles times have been great fun this week as we prepare the children for their transitions.

Star circle have been learning about expressing feelings through drawing and movement and drawing and singing and about sequencing and following instructions and enjoying a fun obstacle course, cheering on friends and understanding that it is hard to lose sometimes and still be pleased for the friends that won.

Sun and Moon circle times have played emotion bingo, feelings charades, looked at lots of our emotions resources too. We have practised our pen grip and worked hard to write names.

We have had the bikes out a lot this week, transporting things around and taking turns with lots of water play.

Next week is another busy week with a Teddy Bears Picnic for the Sun and Moon group and the Stars will have one here so please bring a teddy in, more school visits for parent to take children to and our graduation celebration from 2.30pm on Thursday and Friday.

We will be emptying the baskets next week of all the bits and pieces that are in there for you to take home and a reminder that our last day is Monday 15th July.