What's Happening at Pre-School w/c 29.01.24

 Hi Everyone,

This is our second week of our 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' topic. We will be setting up a 'Bear hunt' themed obstacle course in the physical area. We will be using maps, binoculars and bear masks while completing the course, acting out our very own 'Bear Hunt' story. Will we find the Bear hiding in the cave?.

The children will be taking part in lots of activities that promote our fine manipulative skills and pencil control development. This will be our focus of the week. We will be doing our playdough finger gym for our ring game this week. On creative we will be using a variety of different tools to draw and paint with. We will be tracing patterns and letters in the mark making tray outdoors. We will be hunting for bugs in the investigation unit, using the tweezers to catch them. In the water tray we will be using our fishing nets to catch the fish as well as using the pipettes to fill small containers. Our compare Bears will be stuck in the mud (cornflour), what tools can we use to rescue them?

During singing time, we will be singing lots of our favourite finger rhymes. For example, two little dicky birds, 1,2,3,4,5 and Tommy thumb as well as our new grizzly bear song that the children have loved taking part in so far. 

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'The Ladies'

What's Happening at Pre-School w/c 22.01.24

 Hi Everyone,

Our new topic over the next two weeks will be based on the Story 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. We will be reading the story, acting it out and creating our own props. The children will get the chance to hear the story in different ways, reading, using the CD story and watching it on TV too! 

This week on creative we will be making large pictures of grass, water, mud, a snowstorm and forest. We will be putting these up in our physical area, so that the children can go on their very own Bear Hunt while taking part in imaginative play. Will we find the cave with the Bear hiding inside? 

Our focus of the week will be on the children's gross motor development. We will be constructing with junk modelling, playing with balloons using the fly swatters as bats, jumping on the trampoline, crawling through tunnels, balancing along a bench, throwing, kicking and catching balls and moving in a variety of different ways. 

We will be doing the Hokey Cokey for our ring game and aerobics during our movement time. 

We are all looking forward to going on our own Bear Hunt adventure 🐻

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'The Ladies'

What's Happening at Pre-School w/c 15.01.24

 Hi Everyone,

This week our Winter topic continues and our focus of the week will be Numbers. We will be sorting objects into groups, counting objects, reciting numbers, practicing number recognition, number lining and much, much more. 

Our physical area will be turned into 'Springfield carpark'. We will have the cars and bikes, numbered parking bays and a ticket office. 

We will be making 'Snowflake Soup' in the water tray. We will have snowflake number cards, magnetic numbers, water, peppermint essence, snowflake sequins, kitchen utensils and containers.

For messy play we will be using pipettes and coloured water to decorate a snowflake shape made from cotton pads. I wonder what will happen when the colours mix?

We will be singing 'Ten little monkeys jumping on the bed' for ring game and playing with the parachute and snowballs for our movement activity. 

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'The Ladies'

What's Happening at Pre-school w/c 08.01.24

Hi Everyone,

We hope you have all had a lovely Christmas and New Year. We are looking forward to welcoming all our children back to pre-school this week. 

Please remember that Monday 8^th January pre-school will be closed for inset day. 

Our topic to start the term off will be Winter Time. We will be learning all about what happens outdoors during the winter season and what clothes we may need to wear to keep us warm. We will also be learning all about different arctic animals. 

The focus of the week will be on Shape. We will be playing with shapes, fitting shapes into different spaces (jigsaws/shape sorters), and constructing with them too. We will be exploring both 2D and 3D shapes. Can we match them, recognise and name them? 

We will be building shape snowmen on the maths table. We will be getting messy in the shaving foam, experimenting with the marks different tools make. I wonder what shapes can we draw? We will be playing with arctic animals in the water tray and using the shape cutters in our snow themed playdough. 

We will be singing some of our favourite winter songs and sharing some winter themed stories. During our movement time we will be moving like arctic animals in a variety of different ways. 

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'The Ladies'

Christmas Tree Festival

All the children have worked hard to make all of our decorations for our Christmas tree, which is part of the Christmas tree festival at St Giles church this weekend. Friday 1st December - Sunday 3rd December. Hope you can all pop along to see all the lovely trees decorated by different community groups in Sandiacre. 

What's Happening at pre-school w/c 27.11.23

 Hi Everyone,

Our Autumn topic continues this week and our focus will be on Scissor control including promoting our fine manipulative development. We will be using scissors to cut up different natural objects, in the water we will be making potions using herbs, small containers and pipettes and we will be creating lots of Autumn themed pictures on the creative table. 

During our movement time we will be using the parachute with real leaves and Autumn coloured scarves. We will continue to sing some of our favourite Autumn songs and we will be sharing lots of Autumn themed stories. 

Outdoors in the sand tray we will be using the scissor scoops with conkers and sieves, and we will be hunting for bugs in the investigation unit using the tweezers. 

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'The Ladies'

What's Happening at Pre-school w/c 20.11.23

 Hi Everyone,

This week we start our new topic which will be all about Autumn. We will be talking about what happens outdoors during Autumn time, we will be exploring different Autumn objects and learning about Autumn animals too. On creative we will be printing with leaves, making hedgehogs, conker rolling and much, much more. 

Our focus of the week will be on length/height and weight/capacity. To support our focus our story of the week will be 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. For our messy play this week we will be using different sized bowls and spoons to fill and empty with porridge oats. We will be exploring capacity in the water tray too by filling and emptying different sized containers.  We will be weighing different autumn objects using our bucket scales and we will be exploring measure by using, tape measures, rulers, measuring worms and counting cubes. 

We will also be singing some of our favourite Autumn songs and experimenting moving like different Autumn animals during our movement time. 

Thursday afternoon we will be having a visit from the Police, who will be coming to talk with the children and show us around a Police van. 

A fun packed week ahead!

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'The Ladies'