Christmas

Hello Everyone,

Last week we have had a fun, busy week, we have continued with our Christmas themed activities which the children have really enjoyed. Our bags are nearly completed.  We worked on colours in the sand tray and recognition of shapes.

The Santa sledge was created and provoked much Christmas conversations with the children extending their questioning skills.

Exploring the textures of all the Christmas decorations was interesting and the children were matching these to the things they have in their own houses which was good to make the link between the two. It’s been lovely that some of the children have brought in their own Christmas stories to share with their friends.

This week we are looking forward to a fun filled time with the Big Breakfast, Christmas Lunch and Christmas party and finally the Carol Service over at school.

We will be exploring artificial snow in the texture tray. Creating snow men from shaving foam. Finger Frenzy will be using tweezers to decorate cut out snowmen.

Letters and Sounds

We started the smelly socks activity, identifying different smells. The children found this quiet a challenge and could not link the smell to the object when it was in the sock. We will continue with having smelling containers in the Role Play area so they can investigate and start making the link between them.

Home Learning – Please could you continue to 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.

Over Christmas we will be working on making the Role Play area have more ‘Real items’ so if you are planning to have clear out over the Christmas period and think we may be able to use it please bring them in when we start back.

If you would like to share any Christmas pictures then please bring some in as we would like to do a display after Christmas to help the children with their recall skills.

Notices-

Our family Christmas breakfast is on Monday at 8.30 till 9.15am in the school hall. Look forward to seeing lots of our families 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 Wednesday. This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday  14th December from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

Thank you to everyone who supported the school fair on Friday. It was fantastic to see so many of our families there and the donation of cakes for refreshment. I will update you soon with how much was raised. 

On Thursday 14th December it is our Christmas class party. If your child doesn't usually attend please return slips so we can organise staffing. Food sign up sheet is in the cloakroom. 

We return to pre-school on Tuesday 2nd January 2018. 

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. 

Finally we would like to wish you all a very happy and fun Christmas. We look forward to hearing all about it when we start back in January.

Zoe and Pre-school team