Christmas

Hello Everyone,

Last week we enjoyed making the ‘Stickman’ we also enjoyed watching the film and loved ‘Stickman’ coming home to the family tree.

We continued with our Christmas crafts and surprises to take home at the end of this week. Our independent Christmas activity ‘snowflakes’ went really well.  The group have loved singing Christmas songs before lunch and now know a good selection. If your child has any special Christmas stories then please do bring them in for us to share at story time. On Thursday morning we had a lovely singing time with the Opportunity group which was great.

Thank you to everyone that came to the Christmas breakfast it was lovely to see you all.

This week we will make shaving foam tress and trying to decorate them to look very festive!

We will continue to make our Christmas surprises to take home at your Childs last session of the year.

Jennie Jigsaw

We will be talking about ways to solve problems without getting frustrated or upset with others. Helping  the children to set themselves little challenges to work through a task, rather than say they can’t do it.

Letters and Sounds 

This week we will continue to describing the Christmas items laid out to see if the children can identify the correct one from a group. We will also get the children to describe it to others in the group if they are able to do this next step.

Home Learning 

Some lovely Christmas family photos were brought in so please continue this. These may be photos of family members you don’t see very often.

We will discuss where we have been and what we have been doing at group times this week. 

Christmas party this week please remember to sign up on the food list on the door by the coat hooks.

Friday remember packed lunches if you usually have a hot lunch.

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. 

On Thursday at 3.10pm we have got our story session. Please come and join us. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Wednesday. This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday 20th December  from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you hang up coats in the mornings, all important post will be there. 

Thank you for all the donations for the Christmas Fair on Friday. Lots of fun was had by all. 

We would all like to Wish you a very very Christmas and a Happy New Year. It has been a fantastic term and we all look forward to the many adventures in learning next term. 

 

Looking forward to lots of fun and laughter this week!

Zoe and Chloe

Hello Everyone,

We will continue with the ‘Stickman’ theme as we need to complete making our own little ‘stickman’ family. This will be a very creative activity and we hope to see lots of variations on the real ‘Stickman.’

We also hope to do some stickman painting this week.

We will continue with our Christmas crafts this week making Christmas cards. Our independent Christmas activity will be making snowflakes.  The group have loved singing Christmas songs before lunch and now know a good selection. In the role play area we will add a Christmas shop so the children can practice their wrapping up skills before helping you all at home!

Jennie Jigsaw

This week we will be talking about challenging our learning and helping other if they need an extra pair of eyes.

We will be talking about ways to solve problems without getting frustrated or upset with others. 

Letters and Sounds 

This week we will be describing the Christmas items laid out to see if the children can identify the correct one from a group. We will also get the children to describe it to others in the group if they are able to do this next step.

Home Learning 

Please bring in any pictures of places you may have been to visit leading up to Christmas. These may be photos of family members you don’t see very often.

We will discuss where we have been and what we have been doing at group times this week. 

Story time on Friday evening was lovely and thank you for those families that managed to come. We will have another evening one in the New Year.

Look forward to seeing you all at the Christmas breakfast this Thursday morning.

Notices

If you haven’t already please arrange your child’s Christmas hot lunch with Caroline by this Tuesday 11 December.

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. 

On Tuesday we have got our story sharing session which starts at 3.10pm. Please come to your child's pick up door if you would like to join us. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday. This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 12th December  from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you hang up coats in the mornings, all important post will be there. 

Our Pre-school Christmas family breakfast will be on Thursday 13th December from 8.30am. 

Christmas Fair donations: Please bring a jam jar full of children's objects e.g sweets, craft materials, bouncy balls etc by Friday 14th December. These will be used for a Children raffle game. 

The POWSA Christmas Fair will be on Friday 14th December from 3.30pm-5.00pm. Please see poster for more details. If you are able to help out at the fair please let Zoe or Julia know.

The children in Year 1 pre-school have not got an active part in the Carol service this year but you are all welcome to join us at the carol service. 

Looking forward to another sparkly filled week!

Zoe and Chloe

Stickman

Hello Everyone,

We had a lovely week talking about winter and what happens during this time.

The main views of the children was that it was going to be very cold and it might snow?!

The children also wanted to go out and experience what it was like to play in the rain.

This week we will be focusing on the story of ‘Stickman’ this book is a real favourite for the children and we will create our own stickmen during the week. It also has a lovely Christmas feel and a family theme which links in with Jennie Jigsaw.

We will start our Christmas crafts and be having lots of creative fun with the glitter over the coming weeks.

Jennie Jigsaw

This week we will be continuing talk about our houses and where we live.

What is near by and how we get to places each day.

Letters and Sounds 

This week we will play describe the animal from a group of animals to see if the children can identify the correct one from a group. 

Home Learning 

Please continue to add to the Wow board. If you could bring in any photos of your house so the children can share these during group times, that would be great.

Children are really growing in confidence which is great to see and are quite confident to speak out at group times in front of each other.

Notices

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. 

On Tuesday 4th December we have got our POWSA meeting in the main school staff room at 7.30pm.

On Friday 7th December at 5.00pm.  If you would like to join us please come to pre-school pickup door an adult will direct you to our story session. Children can come in PJ's and bring their teddy. We will be having hot chocolate and biscuits. Look forward to seeing you there.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday. This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 7th December  from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you hang up coats in the mornings, all important post will be there. 

On Friday 7th December there is a POWSA Christmas film night. Film starts at 5.45pm in the main school hall. Tickets can be purchased from the school office.

Our Pre-school Christmas family breakfast will be on Thursday 13th December from 8.30am. 

The POWSA Christmas Fair will be on Friday 14th December from 3.30pm-5.00pm. Please see poster for more details.

The children in Year 1 pre-school have not got an active part in the Carol service this year but you are all welcome to join us at the carol service. 

Can’t wait for the Christmas glitter fun to start!

Zoe and Chloe

Hello Everyone,

We had a great week continuing with our shape topic. We built lots of 3D structures with the wooden blocks and found out lots of things about using shapes in our construction play. The children really enjoyed making their shape biscuits and started to look for numbers on the scales. They also made predictions about what was going to happen next.

This week we will learn all about winter, what happens during winter time, the changes that take place. How we prepare ourselves for the cold and also look at some animals and how they adapt to the conditions.

We have some fun activities planned playing games, painting winter scenes, and looking at which animals like cold conditions.

During the afternoon’s we will be helping to make lanterns for the event in Poundbury on Friday evening. 

Jennie Jigsaw

This week we will be continuing building up the piece of Families – making relationships, self confidence and self awareness and behaviour. What makes us happy and what things we like to do.

Letters and Sounds 

We will continue to play ‘Teddy lost in the Jungle’ the children hide a bear while some one is out of the room. They come back in and if the drum is playing loud they are close to the bear, if it’s quiet they are far away from saving the bear. The children found this quite tricky to listen out for the drum and if it was playing loud or soft.

We will also play describe the animal and see if the children can point out the correct animal from a set of clues.

Home Learning 

Please continue to add to the Wow board. If your child spots any changes in the weather when they come to Pre-School in the mornings such as ice, rain, windy or sunny. It would be lovely to record this on a wow.

Notices 

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. 

On Friday we should have our story time at 5.00pm but we are going to reschedule this to Friday 7th December at 5.00pm. Sorry to change the date but it is the Poundbury Buttermarket Christmas night. If you would like to join us please come to pre-school pickup door an adult will direct you to our story session. Look forward to seeing you there.

On Friday 30th November come and join use for the big Christmas with on at  Buttermarket Square. We are meeting at the Duchy farmhouse at 5.30 for a lantern parade to Buttermarket Square for Christmas carol singing and light switch on. Please see poster.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Wednesday. This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday 29th November  from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

Thank you for all the help at our community make over weekend. It was a very successful weekend. Look out for the next community make over day. 

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you hang up coats in the mornings, all important post will be there. 

On Friday 23rd November it was POWSA Bingo night. We raised an amazing £209.00.

On Friday 7th December there is a POWSA Christmas film night. More information to follow. 

Our Pre-school Christmas family breakfast will be on Thursday 13th December from 8.30am. Letter to follow soon.

The POWSA Christmas Fair will be on Friday 14th December from 3.30pm-5.00pm. Please see poster for more details.

Zoe and Chloe

Size and Shape

Hello Everyone,

We had good week learning all about size. We did some naming of shapes and had to recognise if they were large or small. We ordered the compare bears in size during a game, and then counted them to see if they had the same numbers in each group.

We also did a shape hunt and put them into size order.

This week we will be continuing with our size and shape topic.

We have some good activities planned playing games, painting size shapes, and some cooking.

Jennie Jigsaw

This week we will be building up the piece of Families – making relationships, self confidence and self awareness and behaviour.

Letters and Sounds 

Last week we played sound lotto. We will repeat this as the children found this quite a challenge.

We will play ‘Teddy lost in the Jungle’ the children hide a bear while some one is out of the room. They come back in and if the drum is playing loud they are close to the bear, if it’s quiet they are far away from saving the bear.

We will also continue with using the instruments and see if the children can follow simple instructions.

Home Learning 

Please continue to add to the Wow board. If your child spots any size, shape objects around the house this would be great to record on a WOW.

Notices

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. 

On Thursday at 3.10pm we have got our third story time session. If you would like to join us please come to pre-school pickup door an adult will direct you to our story session. Look forward to seeing you there.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday. This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 21st November  from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

Our next Saturday Stay and Play is on Saturday 24th November from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

We have also got our community makeover weekend on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th November from 9-4.00pm. Please see poster for more details or speak to Julia.

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you hang up coats in the mornings, all important post will be there. 

On Friday 23rd November it is POWSA Bingo night. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down for 6.00pm in the main school hall. 

On Friday 7th December there is a POWSA Christmas film night. More information to follow. 

Our Pre-school Christmas family breakfast will be on Thursday 13th December from 8.30am. Letter to follow soon.

The POWSA Christmas Fair will be on Friday 14th December from 3.30pm-5.00pm. Please see poster for more details.

Zoe and Chloe

Sizes and shape

Hello Everyone,

We had a very fun week learning all about Bonfire Night. We enjoyed having a real open fire up at the round houses area on Monday with a campfire snack with Reception. We also toasted marshmallow with help and made them into biscuit sandwiches. Very yummy and sticky they were too!

The children enjoyed making their rocket sticking pictures and did lots of recall about the colours they had seen while watching fireworks.

For the next two weeks we will be learning about size, big, little and recapping shapes.

We have some fun activities planned playing games, hunting for objects, craft and cooking activities.

Jennie Jigsaw

My Turn/ Your turn we will be continuing this in the group times. We will also be talking about what makes us special with understanding boundaries and routines.

Letters and Sounds 

This week we will continue to add to ‘Mrs Browning has a box.’ Six noisy things in a box, we sing to the tune of ‘Old McDonald’ the children have to guess what the noise is without being able to see it from inside the box. We will see if any of the children have any items they could think of which make a noise.

We will also use the instruments and see if the children can follow simple instructions.

Home Learning 

Please continue to add to the Wow board. If your child spots any size, shape objects around the house this would be great to record on a WOW.

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you hang up coats in the mornings, all important post will be there. 

Notices

On Tuesday at 3.10pm we have got our second story time session. If you would like to join us please come to pre-school pickup door an adult will direct you to our story session. Look forward to seeing you there.

On Friday 16th November it is Children in Need Day. Children can dress up in stripes and spots and bring a donation in towards Children in Need.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday. This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 16th November  from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

Our next Saturday Stay and Play is on Saturday 24th November from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

On Friday 23rd November it is POWSA Bingo night. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down for 6.00pm in the main school hall. 

On Friday 7th December there is a POWSA Christmas film night. More information to follow. 

Our Pre-school Christmas family breakfast will be on Thursday 13th December from 8.30am. Letter to follow soon.

The POWSA Christmas Fair will be on Friday 14th December from 3.30pm-5.00pm. Please see poster for more details.

Many fun times and memories to make over the next few weeks, we can’t wait.

Zoe and Chloe