Christmas is coming....

Hello everyone,

Thank you to all the parents who attended the Communication & Language, Literacy and Maths information morning. If you were unable to make it please do come and see me and we can arranged a time to talk about it. I hope you found it useful.

Last week we enjoyed finding out all about hedgehog. On Wednesday and Thursday morning Helen bought in her hedgehog. In a small group Helen showed us her hedgehog and we fed it dried worms. We found out about what they eat, hibernation and lot's more. If we wanted to we could stroke it remembering to wash our hands afterwards. All of us show how to care and look after the hedgehog. 
We listened to the story of The helpful hedgehog and The prickly hedgehog. We learnt a new song called 

A hedgehog is very prickly
A hedgehog is very prickly
A hedgehog is very prickly
It couldn't be anything else

We played a number hedgehog game. We had to fill our hedgehogs with spikes. This involved counting out up to 6 wooden sticks from a larger group, recognising numerals 1-6.

We made our own hedgehog pictures using paints and forks, pasta and crayons. 

This week we are going to be starting to talk about Christmas and begin to make some decorations. 

We are taking part in the Christmas tree festival at St George's Church. The children will be making decorations to hang on our Christmas tree for the festival. Over the weekend the church will be open for visitors. I will put times in the notices below. We are making decorations for the song of 5 snowman on a sledge. 

We will be walking to the post box this week to post a surprise to our families. We will be talking about the role of the postman/lady and how the post is delivered. We will be writing the addresses on our envelopes and talking about where we live. On our way to the the post box we will be looking at the numbers and shapes we can spot in our environment. 

On Thursday we are having a joint Christmas activities morning with Reception. We will be spending the morning with the Reception children taking part in lots of Christmas activities inside and out. 

It's going to be a very exciting week.

Home learning: What reminds you of Christmas? It might be a picture, an object or something you have made. Please bring them in. 

Letters and Sounds:Animal sounds

Provide a variety of animal puppets or toys and a range of instruments. Encourage the children to play with the instruments and the animals. Discuss matching sounds to the animals. Give a choice of two instruments to represent a child’s chosen animal and ask the children to choose which sound is the better t: Which one sounds most like the mouse? What do you think, David? 

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 Thursday. This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 1st December 2017 from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Saturday 2nd December from 10.00-11.00 we are having a stay and play session with a christmas craft activity. It would be lovely to see you there. 

We are visiting Poundbury garden centre on 4,5,6th December in small groups to look at the christmas decorations and lights. Letters and permission slips have gone home for this trip. Please return permission slips. If you have question please do come and ask. 

The Christmas fair is on Friday 8th December from 3.30pm in the main school. There will be a special visit from Father Christmas. More information to follow. If you are able to help with the fair please come and see Julia.

Don't forget if you are doing your christmas online shopping, it would be great to go through the Easy fund-raising page as this raises money for the pre-school. Here is a link for more information.  https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk

BOO's toyshop at Poundbury and Brewery Square are giving back to the pre-school 10% on purchases when you mention Prince Of Wales School throughout November. 

Have a fabulous week.

Julia and Preschool Team