What's Happening at Pre-School w/c 26.02.24

 Hi Everyone,

We are starting our new term off with a focus on the EAD (Expressive arts and Design) area of the EYFS. This is a huge area to focus on so we will run our observations over two weeks. 

EAD is a fun and creative area and we are looking forward to taking part in many activities that support this. 

The children will have access to a variety of our dressing up clothes and props in our physical area. This is to promote their imagination, their ability to build up stories and to join in role play with others. We will also be den making and providing different open-ended resources that the children can use to extend their play. 

We will have free art available on the creative table where the children can experiment with different materials, textures and colours. Incorporating junk modelling too! 

Our small world play and messy play will be combined this week as we create an under the sea themed tuff spot. We will also be colour sorting a range of different textured objects and materials to see if we can create our very own rainbow on the investigation table. 

We will be exploring and building with a mix of different construction materials this week, to see what we can join together and build. We will have wooden blocks, pegs, sticks, cups, bamboo logs and much, much more. 

We will be playing musical instruments along to the rhythm of our favourite nursery rhymes and for our movement time we will be dancing to different types of music using ribbons. 

Outdoors we will be mark making onto rocks with chalk and we will be using a variety of natural and home items and recycled objects to make musical instruments.  

A reminder that our AGM is on Thursday night at 7.00pm if you wish to join us. 

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Many Thanks

'The Ladies'

  

What's Happening at Pre-School w/c 12.02.24

 Hi Everyone, 

This week we will be celebrating Chinese New Year. It's the year of the dragon 🐉. We will be turning the home corner into a Chinese restaurant. In the messy play tray we will be playing with noodles, chopsticks, tweezers and bowls. We will be seeing if we can copy and draw Chinese numbers in red, yellow and orange rice using a variety of different tools. During our movement time we will being doing our dragon dance, dancing along to Chinese music and marching with the musical instruments. Each child will be making an Ang Po envelope to take home too. 

Tuesday day is Pancake day! We will be flipping pancakes, pancake racing and of course having pancakes for snack too. Yum!🥞

Wednesday is Valentines day so we will be doing some Valentines themed craft and decorating biscuits. 💕

🍰Don't forget it is Cake Sale week. All donations of cakes will be gratefully received. Cakes will be on sale at the end of each session. 🍰

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'The Ladies'

What's Happening at Pre-School w/c 2.02.24

 Hi Everyone, 

This week will be all about Literacy, Communication and Language, which will be our topic and focus. 

The children have enjoyed our Bear Hunt topic so much over the last two weeks. 

So, we will continue to have the Bear Hunt Obstacle course set out in our Physical area. The children have been experimenting moving in different ways, while using the props they have made to act out the story and follow the maps to navigate the course. 

We will be sharing some of our other favourite stories too this week. On creative we will be painting, sticking and using a variety of different tools to make lots of our favourite characters. 

Our home corner will be turned into a Literacy Den, where we will have stories to share, our favourite story sacks, rhyming cards, letter/pattern cards with drawing boards, alphabet jigsaws and much, much more. 

We will be doing lots of singing to promote speech development while playing in the water. Using the nets to fish out some of our favourite characters from our nursery rhymes. We will be hunting for letters in our messy play tray with construction trucks and cereal. We will be moving to some of our favourite action songs and rhymes at movement time, and we will be putting our listening skills to the test using our sound tapes. 

We will continue to promote our fine motor skills throughout many of our activities this week which will help to promote early writing skills for all of our children. 

Another fun filled week ahead 😀📚

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'The Ladies'

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'