Hi everyone!
This week the lovely weather is back so we’ve been spending lots of time out on the path, in the garden and going for walks.
This week we are learning about how plants grow. We have talked about the things they need to grow like soil, water and sunshine.
We've looked at the different parts of the plants.
We are starting to plant some runner beans! We can't wait to see how they sprout and grow. At summer, we will take them home and carry on growing them in our gardens!
(For our friends on holiday, don't worry, we have started a bean for you to water when you get back!)
 
We have been looking at the different things we can make from shapes. For example, if we put a triangle on a square it looks like a house with a roof! One child noticed that 3 triangles arranged in the right way looked like half a hexagon!

For our mark making we have been using the paintbrushes in water outside. We can make all sorts of pictures and watch them vanish again as the water dries!

On Wednesday we did some amazing team work to put together some tricky floor puzzles. We kept going back for more and were so excited when we had a new one completed to show our friends.
 
On Thursday we build some amazing enclosures with the duplo. Lots of children did this and by the time it was tidy up time we had made a village on the carpet!

On Friday we played with the cars and garage, watching them zoom off the garage and land at the bottom.
 
For snacks this week we have been enjoying hot cross bun, strawberries, yogurt and cream cheese and breadsticks.

One more week until half term!
Amber and Paula 😊

Hi everyone!
This week we’ve really been enjoying the role play kitchen, the dolls and the barbies and fairies. It’s been so nice to watch all the children playing alongside each other in similar games. We’ve used lots of vocabulary and helped each other to expand on the game narrative.
This week we started practicing for our Sports Day.
On Tuesday we went up to the big field at the park and practiced running, jumping, and skipping to the finish line. We will let you know a date for Sports Day and a few other things that are happening soon.
On Wednesday Cheryl came to play with us and it was great. She showed us how to make finger puppets and we got really creative on the crafty table. We were inspired by a Jack and Jill storybook.
On Thursday we went on a walk around the village and ended up having a quick go on the park.
We also looked at writing the big letters on our names on a whiteboard all together on the carpet.
On Friday we played with the animals, blocks and cars. We also enjoyed playing a game together called Knickerbocker Glory where we had to roll the dice and match up the numbers to the toppings on our ice cream! Group games like this are brilliant for encouraging turn taking and being patient.
For snack this week we have been enjoying toast, apples, and banana.
See you next week!
Amber and Paula 😊

​Hi everyone!
This week we have done lots of playing outside on our path in the sand. The sand has gone really dry and we are so interested in watching it run quickly through the sieves. It moves so differently when it is dry! We said it felt really soft.
On Tuesday we went to visit our local shop because we had a milk emergency! It’s lovely to get out into our community. We saw lots of people around the village and they were always so happy to see us walking nicely!
We’ve focused on looking at some numbers this week. Looking at numerals and seeing if we can clap that many times because we are learning that things other than objects can be counted. On Thursday we had a great number activity led by Paula where ‘Miss Poppy the troll’ needed help getting the right number of students into her schoolhouse each day.
We’ve still loved playing with the cars and garage this week.
We’ve also been making lots of enclosures with the blocks and lego – one child made Jurassic park!
On Thursday we visited our pre-school garden and had a good run around. We played on the climbing equipment and even played bat and ball. We looked at the beautiful blossom growing on the conker tree. We also saw the Big School PE teacher. She came to say hello to us and introduce herself ready for September.

More garden fun to finish off our week on Friday. We're going to be spending more time in the garden to help us get used to being in the big school grounds. Plus - it's super fun! We saw a few of our friends from last year! We made lovely salad. We laid the table with a flower for everyone.
We made letters using lots of different equipment. A L out of sticks, a B and an A out of stickle bricks! So clever.
For snacks this week we have enjoyed yogurt, rice crispies and waffles.
Amber and Paula 😊

Summary for Week Ending 29th April 2022
Hi everyone!
Welcome back to preschool. We hope you had a wonderful Easter break. We cannot believe it is already the final term of the school year.
We will be focusing on school readiness for our leavers this term. This means things like using the toilet independently, writing some of the letters in our name, putting our own coats and shoes on, and sitting nicely on the carpet to enjoy a story.

This week we have had great fun playing in the corn flour goo. On Monday we did lots of scooping and pouring with it. On Wednesday we used paintbrushes to make marks in it and added yellow food colouring.
On Tuesday we got the tunnel out and hunted for numbers at the other end.
We’ve focused on making the sounds of some of our jolly phonics by really getting silly and making our mouths make the sounds for S, A and T. It was funny!
We have been enjoying playing picnics and journeys in our role play this week. We’ve had lots of aeroplane rides and bus trips!
We’ve loved playing with the cars and garage this week after a donation of cars from one of our friends. It was so lovely to have some new toys to play with and we really enjoyed them!

We did a bit of football on Friday to finish off our week, burn off some energy and make some big movements whilst practicing our kicking AND team work skills! We went up to our lovely park and enjoyed the big open space there! We had the whole field all to ourselves!
For snacks this week we have enjoyed banana, apple and toast.
See you on Tuesday 2rd after the bank holiday! Have lovely long weekend.
Amber and Paula 😊

We are still looking at spring this week but beginning to talk about Easter too.  
We have been making some lovely Easter cards using circles to create chicken shapes! We love how they turned out. We had to cut the circles out ourselves which was quite tricky to go round and round.
On Tuesday we made some rice crispy cakes and decorated them with a baby chick and a spring flower. They were really yummy. We had to break the chocolate up and melt it before using our strong mixing arms to turn the rice crispies from white to brown. We made enough to give one to all our pre-school friends.
We have been loving the lego again this week. On Thursday we worked as a team and made a huge 3 part structure!
We’ve also been looking at shapes. Amber threw us a beanbag and we had to catch it. The beanbags were all different shapes and we had to work out what shape we had before we threw it back.  
We have done some pom pom sorting. We put the pom poms into the tuff spot with lots of different spoons, pincers and plastic scissors. We added different sized containers too.
It was fab to see how we sorted the pom poms by size and colour.
Outside we added the shells into the sand and had fun burying them and digging them up again.
 
On Friday afternoon we had a little visit to the village park because there weren’t many children and it was such a lovely afternoon! We had great fun on the pirate ship and made friends with some other children who were visiting too!
 
Remember that the next two weeks are half term. We will see you back at pre-school for more fun on Monday 25th April. Have a lovely break.
Amber and Paula 😊

Hi everyone!
Spring has sprung and we are looking at all the baby animals that are being born. We are looking at the changes in the flowers and trees too.
We have been making some fluffy spring lambs on the craft table for a new wall display.
We’ve been playing with the farm in our small world area and playing with the farm fuzzy felts, the trees in different seasons and the mothers and babies puzzle on the puzzle table.
On Tuesday we went on a walk around our village to see all the spring flowers blooming. We listened to the different birds we could hear singing too!
We have been loving the lego this week and have been making some amazing structures with them. Some even had different levels.
We’ve been looking at the letters that are in our names, not just the letter that our names start with.
On Wednesday and Thursday we made some spring daffodils after being inspired by the ones we saw on our walk.
On Friday we looked at the life cycles of lots of different things like frogs, butterflies, trees and ducks! We also made some beautiful creations with the textures box and talked about how things felt soft or looked shiny.
 
See you next week for one more week of fun before half term!
Amber and Paula 😊
 
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Hi everyone!
This week at pre-school we have continued to enjoy the train track. We love the small world villages we can build with it to go on journeys.
We have been busy making some special cards for a special day on Sunday… keep your eyes peeled for those in bookbags!
We looked at numbers and counting this week. We’ve been identifying numerals and matching them with the right number of objects.
We’ve played outside LOADS. We’ve had an outdoor restaurant, made a chalk road, and played bowling with the balls and cones.
We used the whiteboards and markers again to practice our pen control. We love how this slightly different resources has inspired more reluctant children to really explore their mark marking.
Some children got really inspired to make some monsters on the craft table. We used triangles to make hair, ears and hands.
On Thursday we did some threading. We made really long chains using the bobbins. This was great for developing our fine motor hand movements.
On Friday we made the most of a sunny day and went to the park in the afternoon. We’re really lucky to have such a fab local park to make use of! We can make big movements on the equipment which is really fun.
See you next week!
Amber and Paula 😊

P.S- remember 30 hours funding codes for the Summer Term have to be applied for by March 31st!!!

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Summary for Week Ending - 18th March 2022
Hi everyone!
We’ve had such a fun packed week at pre-school. We celebrated British science week by looking at the life cycles of small creatures, playing with magnets and talking about how they push, pull and ‘stick’, and experimenting with ice and talking about melting. We really enjoyed the ice the most and want to play in it again even though it was freezing!
We celebrated St. Patrick’s day on Thursday by making some shamrock wands.
In our small world play we have played with the fairies, ponies and barbies. We also loved having some new dolls out of the shed and playing families. We’ve also really been enjoying the train track.
We visited our pre-school garden and had a good climb on the equipment there.
We’ve also spent lots of time outside on the path in the sand, making the most of the lovely weather.
We used the whiteboards and markers to practice our pen control and look at writing our names ready for big school.
See you next week!
Amber and Paula 😊
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Welcome back to the Pre-School Weekly Blog!
Here you can keep up to date with what we've been learning each week at pre-school!
Starting Friday 18th March... watch this space! 

Our Monday session will be spent in the garden, enjoying a "Mucky Monday" and all the learning we can experience through outside play.

This week in pre-school we will be baking. This will help us develop our gross motor skills and will help us start to develop an interest in ordering by weight or capacity.

Role play is very exciting as we are going to look at our Nativity. We will be learning the songs and becoming familiar with the story. 

We are looking ay number recognition and starting to enjoy our numbers by matching them to quantity, We will be opening a baker's in the home corner which will also help us. 

Literacy is all around in pre-school. A selection of pens and paper and some magic tracing paper will be available to encourage an interest in writing our name. 

Snack this week will be apples, bananas, cheese and biscuits and yogurts. 

Stories for this week will includes a selection chosen by the children. 

Please keep you diary free for the following dates:
10th December 2018 at 11am Pre-school Nativity
17th December 2018 Children's Christmas Party