Preschool
Week commencing 25th November 2024!
This week the children have been learning about the important role of a post person and that they don't only deliver letters but also parcels. In the tuff tray the children have enjoyed being 'Postman Pat' delivering all the letters and parcels to the people in the village. On the creative table this week the children have been busy making candy canes ready to be hung in the hall and the front cover of their Christmas cards. On the maths table the children have been learning to identify numbers on letters then match them to the number on the post box. Mark making this week has been all about learning the sound 'p', colouring different colouring sheets and sounding out the sound.
Week commencing 18th November 2024!
Carrying on with this terms topic 'People who help us' the children have been learning about Policemen and Police ladies and how they not only keep the community safe but also help us if we get lost. In the tuff tray this week the children have enjoyed playing with the police station, developing their imagination skills. On the maths table the children have been working on their detective skills and putting people who help us puzzle pieces together to make a whole person. Mark making this week the children have created their own police badges and been practising their phonics using colouring sheets that start with that sound ie 'a'.
In the water tray the children have been having boat races, helping the boats to get into the water quickly to rescue the people just like real police boats.
Week commencing 11th November 2024!
What another fun and busy week here in Preschool, we are continuing our topic 'people who help us' and doing many fun and exciting activities. This week we are looking at the important role Farmers have in serving our community, what they grow and harvest and how importantly they look after their animals. For activities this week on mark marking we coloured in farm animal pictures, asking questions 'where do they live?" "what do chickens give us?". On the creative table we have been making reindeers, working on our fine motor skills and hand eye coordination to stick the facial features and antlers in the correct places. On maths this week we have been matching animals to their shadows this was a very fun activity. And in the tuff tray this week we have enjoyed playing with the farm role play, naming animals, exploring the texture of grass and sawdust and singing 'Old Mcdonald had a farm.'
Week commencing 4th November 2024!
Welcome back to all our Preschool children you have all settled back into routine amazingly. This terms topic is 'People who help us', we will be looking at different occupations from farmers to dentists and how each one serves our community. This week we have been looking at Firefighters. On the creative table we have been busy painting a paper plate which we turned into a firefighters helmet. On mark making we have coloured in the badge for the helmet and worked on our fine motor skills doing dot to dots pictures.
In the tuff tray we enjoyed using our senses to explore red and orange cooked pasta, we named the colours we saw, explored the texture and what it smelt like. On maths we worked on our repeating pattern skills and enjoyed building houses with duplo.
Week commencing 14th October 2024!
This week the children have enjoyed looking at the book 'Room on the broom'. They have done many activities revolving around the story from making magic potions in the water tray to making mushrooms on the creative table. In the tuff tray the children have been playing a game of 'I spy' using props from the story.
On mark making we have been using gross motor movements to chalk in the big tuff tray and on the maths table we used multilink cubes to measure broomsticks. Also on maths to help develop our prewriting skills we have been pushing vehicles around shapes drawn on the table, helping to strengthen our gross and fine motor skills.
Outside the children have enjoyed using the space available to play hide and seek and jump up and down in the leaves listening to the sound they make.
Week commencing 30th September 2024!
This week has been a busy week, we have been making amazing creations for our new display for in the hall. As the season has now changed to Autumn we made pumpkins on the creative table using orange tissue paper and glue to make our creations. On mark making we coloured some Autumn creatures from Hedgehogs to squirrels and learned where they live.
Outside we have noticed a change in the insets as the weather as become wet and colder, we are now getting visited by snails, bugs and flies.
We have enjoyed making hedgehogs using brown playdough which was actually coloured using coco powder it smelt yummy!.
For maths this week we have been learning the names of 2d shapes and trying to match them to their outlines on the bus.
Week commencing 23rd September 2024!
We have had another fun and busy week here in Preschool, learning all about each other and talking about our families.
On the creative table we have been making Autumn trees and you do you know what we used to make the leaves... Broccoli dipped in Autumn coloured paint; they came out fantastic.
On mark making we have enjoyed doing colouring in sheets, talking about our favourite colour, what characters we were colouring and working on our pencil control.
In the tuff tray we have been making people using Mr. Potato head, some wore hats, others had big smiles and some even wore shoes with a heel.
In the water tray we have been working on our fine motor skills, using tweezers to pick up bottle caps then placing them in the large bowl.
Week commencing 16th September 2024!
The children have done amazing settling into their new environment, we are all so proud of you. The children have been busy getting to know their key person, identifying their name cards and getting use to the classroom rules and expectations. We have seen some beautiful friendships be created and have enjoyed watching them play together.
Our topic this term is 'All about me', we have been busy talking about what makes us 'us', what we like and who lives with us at home.
On maths this week we have been enjoying exploring different inset puzzles working on our fine motor skills, lifting the pieces out and placing them back in.
We have really enjoyed exploring the outside garden, playing on the slide, driving the cars around the road and digging in the soil.
Next week we will continue to make friendships, work on our fine and gross motor skills and doing some lovely art for our classroom displays.
