The Three Little Pigs

Hello everyone, 

Last week we talked about what we did in the Christmas holidays in circle time. We then draw a picture related to the Christmas holidays and recalled what we did with our key workers. These are now on display in the classroom. 

We read the story of The Gingerbread Man which the children really enjoyed and were joining in with the repeated refrain "run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I am a gingerbread man." Some children have made their own gingerbread men to bring home. We have also sequenced the order the people and animals chased the Gingerbread man. We had an experiment to see whether the gingerbread man would sink or float. The children predicted what would happen and then we talked about what happened. They really enjoyed this. We have played the gingerbread man game on the interactive whiteboard which involved matching quantity to numeral. 

The children have also used the puppets from the story in the puppet theatre to act out the story. 

We have set ourselves a challenge of using our good listening ears during circle time for next. We have been talking about names that begin with different letters. 

This week we will be finishing off our Christmas holiday writing and the story of the Gingerbread man on Monday. From Tuesday we will be doing the story of The Three Little pigs as some of the children like Pigs. In the role play area we will be having the three little pigs building site. The children will be organising what they need to make a building site and collecting the resources for this. Some children will be making some piggy biscuits to bring home to share.  We will be reading the story of The three little pigs and the children will be joining in with the repeated refrains and talking about the characters, setting and storyline. We will be sequencing the order of the story of The Three Little Pigs. We will be making predictions about which objects the wind would be able to blow and lots more. 

Jennie Jigsaw

We will be continuing to set ourselves some challenges to achieve at Pre-school.

Letters and Sounds

We will be using repetitive story phases and suggesting a person who has a name beginning with a given letter and playing some sound and letter games on the interactive whiteboard. 

Home Learning

It has been lovely to see all the lovely things our families have been doing during the Christmas holidays. If your child made a gingerbread man last week and decorated, it would be lovely to see some photos. 

If your child has a story about pigs or a version of The three little pigs, it would be lovely to bring these into pre-school.

Notices

Stay and play is on Wednesday 11th January from 8.30 till 9.00 ish. It would be lovely to see you there and don't forget siblings are very welcome to come and play to. 

We have two students this term called Valerie and Ellie who are from The Thomas Hardye School studying a course in Childcare. They will be at pre-school on a Thursday and Friday.  

We have a volunteer called Colleen who is also studying a course in Childcare and she will be at pre-school on a Friday.

If you have a WOW you would like to share with us at pre-school, please fill on in and hand to one of the pre-school staff. We love to hear about your child's achievements and what they have been doing at home. 

Have a great week.

Julia and the Pre-school team