Summer Term Week 8

The week has flown past and we have had a really lovely time! Thank you goes to Costa Cullompton who via social media donated a brilliant set of resources for our role play – thank you very much. The photos of the mini barista’s here are very sweet and the role play area has grown using lots of the children’s ideas.

We have continued with our brilliant Fairy Tale theme and we have loads of amazing creations across pre-school. There is a full scale growing operation in action, lots of magic beans being planted, pretend beanstalks have been made, lots of play and acting out the fairy tales we have been reading and pink noses and pig craft! The children have been really imaginative and excited by repeating the stories and have really learnt them well and can re-tell them perfectly with lots of enthusiasm.

Circle times :-

Star – have read Jack and the Beanstalk again and the 3 Little Pigs. They have counted out magic beans, practiced their understanding of prepositions by placing magic beans, read Goldilocks and looks at the sizes of the bears and counted bricks to match the height. They acted out the story and learnt a new song, sequenced the story and made little pig faces, planted beans and build bridges for the Billy Goats Gruff! What a week full of learning!

Sun and Moon – Lots of similar activities as above but with added maths and literacy and more complicated work to stretch them and to ensure progress. These two groups have also planted magic beans – in pots and in zip lock bags on the window! Designed castles, sorted items from different fairy tales, build houses for the little pigs and bridges to help the gingerbread man escape! They have ordered beanstalks in size order and drawn Jack, used a hair dryer to blow lots of different materials across the room to see what would be the strongest for a house. Painting and craft and sings and more stories all add up to a very busy week and it has been a really connecting theme across pre-school.

Outside we have also been singing along and using instruments outside and dancing away.

On the sun table we have been baking and cooking (all vegan recipes which are suitable for all the allergies here too) and making smoothies.

The Forest School sessions have been fantastic with Sophie and they children explored the wind on Thursday and Friday.

Next week we will start to talk about school and moving groups – we will be looking at uniforms and photos of the teachers. We know some of the children have had home visits this week and there are stay and play sessions at Willowbank and we are taking a group to St. Andrew’s too. We will be sharing the transition documents with you over the coming week and then finishing the special learning journey for you to keep when your child leaves us.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend