Hello Everyone,

We have been really had a lot of fun with activities involving ‘Stickman’ the children have been great at re telling the story and remembering what happens next. We talked a lot about the colour of the branches and how colours change throughout the year. 

This week we will be moving on to a new story of ‘Rainbow Fish’ and linking this to colours and shapes. We will be making masks, paper plate fish and doing some display work. We also hope to have a new feature in our room very soon which is a fish tank. Fish will be very therapeutic for the children to watch, the children will be having feeding duties each day. 

Letters and Sounds

Sound shaker activities have been going well and the children have quickly identified which bottle and matched the contents with the sound. The children are going to be helping to make their own sound shakers to add to our collection.

The children really enjoyed the ‘Tappy sticks’ they have picked up the new songs really well and have had lots of fun singing together.

 This week we will repeat the ‘Smelly socks’ activity. Adding extra items. We will  have a band to see if the children can identify each of the instruments and start to learn some of the names.

Jigsaw

We will continue our Jigsaw theme this week with helping other to feel welcome. We will have talk times about our families and who is in our family. This is to help reinforce Personal, Social and Emotional Development and help them to make life choices. If you could bring in some family photo’s this would be great and we can add them to our display board.

Home Learning 

If when you are out and about you could help your child with shopping skills. We have been modelling this in the role play area and they have been very good at being the shop assistants and handing over the money etc.

Looking forward to a great week.

Zoe and Preschool Team

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. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Wednesday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday 18th January from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Saturday January 20th is our stay and play Saturday morning from 10.00-11.30. Hope to see lots of you there. 

On Saturday January 20th we have got our community make over afternoon from 2pm till 5pm working on the wildlife garden. It would be great to see you there.

Zoe and Pre-school Team