Healthy Eating

Hello Everyone,

We have had a busy week, our Butterfly eggs have now moved into the hatching net. 

They are now hung in the room so the children can watch the growing progress.

The children enjoyed the ‘Music’ Theme and enjoyed making their own musical instruments to share. 

We will play the musical water instruments this week as we ran out of time.

This week we will be focussing on ‘Healthy Eating’ we will be helping to prepare the Healthy snacks looking at how much sugar is in foods.

We will also be talking about doing lots of exercise and listening to changes of our Heart when we do some exercise.

Letters and Sounds

This week we will be playing describe and find. We will set up the farm, we describe an animal and the children have to guess which one it is. The children will also have a job at describing the animals to see how they use the descriptive words.

We will also have an activity of Favourite Sounds and record these, talking about them. 

Jigsaw

This week we will be talking about our half term plans and what we would like to do with our families. It’s really nice to see how confident the children are becoming at talking in a small group.

This is to help reinforce Personal, Social and Emotional Development and help them to make life choices. 

Home Learning 

Wows are coming in with some great achievements, this is great to see. Please record any holiday achievements to display when we get back.

Have a lovely week off and hopefully we can all enjoy some sunny days.

Looking forward to seeing if the cocoons hatch and we will let you know as soon as we see anything.

Notices 

As the weather is starting to warm, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. If you have applied suncream to your child before school please could you let a member of staff know. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure children have this when they come to pre-school ready for us to apply.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Wednesday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday 24th May from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Tuesday 22nd May at 7.30pm in the Year 4 classroom (the hut) is a POWSA meeting to discuss further fundraising events. If you would like more information please come and see Julia.

We break up for half term this Friday (25th May) and return back to school on Tuesday 5th May. 

The summer bingo on Friday evening raised an amazing amount of £211.24. It was a great evening with some fab prizes. 

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. 

Looking forward to a great week.

Zoe and Pre-school team

Music

Hello Everyone,

We have all been amazed at how quick our Butterfly eggs have grown. The children have enjoyed watching them eat their way through all of their food.

This week we will be focusing on ‘Music.’

We will be painting to music and seeing what marks different tunes make us make on the paper. We will make our own water instruments and sound shakers.

We will look at how music is written down for Musicians and seeing if the children can mark make their own songs. 

Letters and Sounds

This week we will continue ‘Mrs Browning has a box’ it is to the tune of old McDonald has a farm. We will also return to our puzzle pass the parcel

The children will be saying what their favourite instrument is and we will listen to different styles of music throughout the week. This is to really get the children to think about what they have heard. Also start to think about what they may like something different to one of their peers and this is how people vary in their character and tastes.

Jigsaw

This week we will be talking about our close family members. Can they play any instruments and what they like to do in their spare time? We will draw some pictures of all the instruments that they may mention.

This is to help reinforce Personal, Social and Emotional Development and help them to make life choices. 

Home Learning 

Wows are coming in with some great achievements, this is great to see. We have two new girls to welcome to the class this week. We are looking forward to them settling in and having lots of fun learning with us.

Looking forward to seeing if the cocoons are made this week and what changes have taken place. 

Notices 

As the weather is starting to warm, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. If you have applied suncream to your child before school please could you let a member of staff know. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure children have this when they come to pre-school ready for us to apply.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 16th May 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 your support and sponsorship for the bike and scooter rides. The children were fantastic at using their bikes and scooters and were able to complete a number of laps. If you have any remaining sponsorship money please bring it into pre-school next week. 

On Friday 18th May it is the POWSA Summer bingo evening. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down for 6.00pm. It's a great family evening. 

On Saturday 19th May from 2-5pm we have got a community make over afternoon in the wildlife area. We will be working on getting the raised beds up and running. 

On Tuesday 22nd May at 7.30pm in the main school staff room is a POWSA meeting to discuss further fundraising events. If you would like more information please come and see Julia.

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. 

Looking forward to a great week.

Zoe and Pre-school team

Farms

Hello Everyone,

We have had a great week, our Butterfly eggs have arrived and we have been watching them move around and eat for the last part of the week.

This week we will continue with our topic of ‘The Farm’ 

We will be working on fine motor skills and co-ordination with some farm threading cards. We will also be playing a matching game to match the adult animal to the baby one's to see if the children can link up the main features. We will continue with our weighing and balancing which is going very well. The children have soon picked up which things are heavier and lighter. The children also have enjoyed finding their own things to weigh during the activity.  

Letters and Sounds

This week we will be playing ‘Mrs Browning has a box’ it is to the tune of old McDonald has a farm. We have a box with six familiar sounds and the children have to see if they can guess which one the adult is playing from the closed box.

We will also make a display so the children can record what their favourite sound is. This is to really get the children to think about what they have heard.

Jigsaw

It was something really special to see all the Grandparent’s come in and spend some time with us. The children had so much to tell them and it was lovely to see what strong relationships they had together. All the children joined in together and some Grandparents had a little group with some extra friends that tagged along.

This week we will talk about what we did over the bank holiday and who we spent our time with. 

This is to help reinforce Personal, Social and Emotional Development and help them to make life choices. 

Home Learning 

Thank you for all the lovely Wow’s you have shared with us so far this term. They have been lovely to read and show how far your children’s learning has come.

The Toilet training is going well, please keep this great work going. We are very happy to let your child wear our pants at Pre-School if you would prefer while you are getting started. They love going to the toilet with their friends and it gets them to develop socially and learning from others.

Lets have a great week and hope we can look forward to many sunny days to come.

Notices

As the weather is starting to warm, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. If you have applied suncream to your child before school please could you let a member of staff know. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure children have this when they come to pre-school ready for us to apply.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 11th May 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 your support and sponsorship for the bike and scooter rides. The children were fantastic at using their bikes and scooters and were able to complete a number of laps. If you have any remaining sponsorship money please bring it into pre-school next week. 

On Friday 18th May it is the POWSA Summer bingo evening. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down for 6.00pm. It's a great family evening. 

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. 

Looking forward to a great week.

Zoe and Pre-school team