Construction

This week is all about construction and encouraging the children to use their imagination to join pieces together to build and balance (EAD).

There will be a plenty of opportunities to build with a variety of differing construction pieces, big and small.

We'll be looking at fine motor skills with smaller pieces (PD) and observing the children using tools for a purpose at the workbenches (EAD). Hard hats will be provided!

Every child will take part in junk modelling this week, creating whatever they like, on an individual basis, with lots of different discarded resources. On completion they'll be taken home to show off!

Book we'll be enjoying are I Can Build a House, Toolbox Trouble and Move It Builders.


                                                     

Rainbows

This week is all about looking and identifying  the colours we see in rainbows.

All the children will be making their own rainbows doing sticking and colouring in activities.

We'll be discussing when you might see a rainbow using a lovely book, What Makes A Rainbow by Betty Schwartz, as a visual guide, it includes real different coloured ribbons on each page to make a perfect rainbow.

As always we'll be recording your children's comments or recollections of rainbows, which you can do too on a wow slip.

Other activities will include colour matching and sorting games, in addition to fun games such as finding certain coloured items all around the room.

Just a reminder to please feel free to look through your child's learning journeys to see what they've been up to. We can always free up a room for you to sit and look at them in quiet!
As our newer children reach the end of their first four weeks with us, I'll be arranging dates to look through your child's learning journey with you and discuss their progress, Thank-You,
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Kipper's Birthday

Continuing our Kipper theme, we'll be reading the book Kipper's Birthday throughout the week.

This book is  always one of the favourites from the series, as birthdays are always a much talked about subject at pre-school !

We'll be asking what we need to get for a party like Kippers eg banners, ballons, invites etc and then we'll set about collecting them too (UW).

We'll also be making invitations, setting up and acting out a party in the role play room (EAD).

At the playdough table the children will be making their own cakes, and be asked to put the right amount of candles in them to match their age (M). Following this we'll be having real fairy cakes to enjoy at snacktime!

Finally we'll be asking the children to recall or talk about their individual birthday experiences or plans, to record in their learning journeys. On that note, we always love hearing about birthdays on the wow slips, which are also put in their books.

As the weather has become so cold recently, please do remember to provide your child with named hats and gloves. Thank you.


                                                   

                                                         

                                                       

Kipper's Little Friends

The Kipper series of books are always popular with children, so this week we'll be concentrating on one entitled Kippers Little Friends.

This book gives a super introduction to the names of baby animals. It also encourages discussion about size, retrieving information from computers and relations.

Using soft toys we'll look at animals and their babies ie sheep and lambs etc. At the drawing table children will be encouraged to copy the toys or draw a picture of themselves as Kipper does.( PD and UW )

As Kipper also uses a computer to search for baby animal names, we'll also discuss their use and take turns having a go on ours.( Understanding The World ).

We will focus on recall and anticipate what might happen next as well ( Literacy ).

Just a small reminder to all parents to ask that all your children's items are clearly labelled including lunchboxes, school t-shirts and jumpers, to avoid confusion. Beakers are provided for children at snack time so drink bottles are not required, unless needed at lunch club. Many Thanks!


                                                               

Happy New Year !

Welcome back everyone and Happy New Year ! Here's hoping that you had a wonderful Xmas surrounded by food and wrapping paper!

We always love hearing the children telling us about what Santa brought them, and please also let us know what you did on a wow slip, to put in your child's learning journeys.

During this, and forthcoming weeks, we'll be welcoming new children and parents to pre -school, so do feel free to approach us if you have any unanswered questions. It's always amazing how quickly the children settle into the new routines.

This term we'll be joined by two students from Weymouth College and Thomas Hardye on differing days.

We'll start this term by talking about Winter, the weather,  how to keep warm and what to wear, including where wool comes from.

As ever we'll be doing arts and crafts to back this topic up ie sponge painting, hand and stamp printing. We always like to fill the walls again after all the Xmas decs and arts are taken down!

Finally, a big thank you for the lovely Xmas cards and presents we received, we really did appreciate it.