Summer Term Week 4

The sunshine has arrived! Preschool has been really great fun and full of the summer buzz in the air! Lots of lovely forest school sessions for the Star children through the week led by Sophie. They found a hedgehog in our little hedgehog home! We have had a hairdressing and nail salon inside which has been brilliant fun and we have worked hard to restore the hair on our models! Lots of children have had their nails painted in the salon and have had a lovely calm and fun experience, a few of our parents are beauticians and lots of great vocab in the salon. The ladies have enjoyed having a pamper in the salon as well!

Outside we been playing castles and knights and princess role play – with dragons and witches and all sorts of brilliant stories to enjoy. We absolutely love our garden, it can be transformed into any stage for the children’s play and learning and role play. We move equipment around all the time to generate interest and change the lay out to keep the children busy and engaged.

Inside we have been working on our scissor skills and having a go at lots of different kinds of mark making and drawing as we have literacy as a theme for the next two weeks.

Our circle times have been based on literacy and the group leaders have used the role play and other planning to tie the learning together – for example we have drawn pictures on shields for the role play outside, we have written stories about castles and drawn illustrations for go alongside, we have drawn caterpillars after looking at the cocoons that they have now created, we have played letter bingo and loved the Robot Reg sessions this week.

Next week we will be continuing with our literacy theme, playing castles again outside, learning about shapes on the sun table and exploring ideas about countries as well.