Hello Everyone,
Last week we have had a great week and we have started to
get ready for Christmas activities. The children have created a fire place in
the Role Play area so please pop in and have a look if they have not already
showed you. This created lots of number
language as well as good use of their imaginations talking about when Father
Christmas comes to their houses.
We have been making lots of things for Christmas which will
all become apparent in due course. Lots of children have done painting and
artwork which is displayed on our boards so make sure you have a look when your
child off as they are very proud of what they have created.
This week we will be continuing our Christmas work in the
Role Play area, we will be adding a home made Santa sledge and decorating our
own special tree.
Exploring the textures of all the Christmas decorations and
seeing if we can describe them. We are counting down to Christmas with Advent
books, each child gets to open a different wrapped book each morning so they
can see Christmas becoming closer. This is lovely as children have a great love
of books and each one is a magical Christmas story.
Letters and Sounds
Environmental sounds have been very interesting for the
children they have really enjoyed listening during this time. It has been
amazing how quickly they have been picking up and recalling new sounds, linking
them to pictures. This week we will be starting a smelly socks activity where
they will be identifying different smells. (Not smelling each other’s feet!)
Home Learning – Please could you save any packets that may
have a smell that we could use in our Role Play area. This will help reinforce
the letters and sounds activity. If your child is able to identify any cooking
smells without being prompted then please record this on a star to bring in and
display on our board.
Notices
It was so lovely to see so many of you come to the
stay and play session on Saturday 2.12.17. We were so pleased that we are
hoping to make this a regular event during the term. More details to follow
soon. It was great for me to get to talk to you all and meet the other siblings
in your families.
Our family Christmas Breakfast is on next Monday 11th December from 8.30-9.15am. Please return slips if you would like to join us so we know numbers. Hope to see lots of you there.
Don't forget to bring in your child's WOW moments. We love to share and celebrate these with everyone. There are spare WOW's by the WOW board in the corridor.
It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday. This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 6th December from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.
The Christmas fair is on Friday 8th December from 3.30pm in the main school. There will be a special visit from Father Christmas. More information to follow. If you are able to help at the Christmas fair, please let Julia know. Please bring in cakes Thursday or Friday for the preschool refreshment stall.
On Thursday 14th December it is our Christmas class party. If your child docent usually attend please return slips so we can organise staffing. Food sign up sheet is in the cloakroom.
Don't forget if you are doing your christmas online shopping, it would be great to go through the Easy fund-raising page as this raises money for the pre-school. Here is a link for more information. https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk
BOO's toyshop at Poundbury and Brewery Square are giving back to the pre-school 10% on purchases when you mention Prince Of Wales School throughout November.
Thank you for your continued support.
Zoe and Pre-school Team
