Hello Everyone,

Last week we have really been enjoying the story of Jack and the beanstalk. We have read different versions of the story and the children have been amazing at telling us the similarties and differences. We have also enjoyed the story of Jack and the baked beanstalk and Jack and the meanstalk. On Monday afternoon we played the beans game outside and also how many beanbag we could throw into the buckets. We also enjoyed going to see the horses on the school field. 

On Tuesday afternoon we had great fun making a castle outside around the tree house. Following on from this on Wednesday we painted our castle and made a beanstalk and flag. Throughout the week we have been planting our own magic beans and making a castle for it to grow up to. We talked about what a bean needs to be able to grow. Please do bring in pictures of your growing beanstalk. 

On Thursday afternoon we had great fun acting out the story of Jack and the beanstalk in the outside area using trees, slides and the wooden house. We have enjoyed using the puppet theatre to retell the story using the puppets with our friends. On Tuesday afternoon the children enjoyed listening to and learning about the different musical instruments used by the Durnorvaria Silver Band. On Wednesday morning we went to watch the performance of 'I am Turtle'. It was performed by a theatre company and the story was based around about the dangers of plastics in the sea to the animals. The children really enjoyed the production and understood the key message from the show. On Friday the children enjoyed their swimming session. 

This week we are going to continue to enjoy the story of Jack and the beanstalk. We will be making our own castles using junk modelling.  We will be planting different types of beans and watching them grow.  We may have a surprise letter from the giant and lots more fun activities. We will also be looking through our learning journeys and talking about what we have enjoyed doing this term, what we have learned to do and what we would like to do next. We will also continue to look after our vegetable plants in the nature garden and meet our new chickens that arrived at the weekend. 

Home learning

Well done to Poppy for creating a great poster of how to keep your teeth clean. We have a prize for you. 

Have you got a story of Jack and the beanstalk at home you would like to share?

Letters and sounds:- 

We will continue with our rhyming door by adding new rhyming words and playing rhyming games. We will continue to revisit the Read Write Inc Pictures and lots of FRED talk activities  We will also continue with some alliteration by playing I spy. Julia's group have been learning the sound m, a, s, d, t, I  n, p, g and o. Karen and Helen group will be learning the sound m, a, s and d this week.

Notices

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you hang up coats in the mornings, all important post will be there.

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. 

As the weather is starting to get 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 22nd May  from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Wednesday 22nd May we have our story time at 3.10pm. Please come and join us. 

On Friday 24th May we break up for May Half Term. We return back to preschool on Monday 3rd June. Have a fabulous week. 

 Thank you for all the support and sponsorship money. We have raised an amazing £619.00. If you still have sponsorship money to bring in, please give it to Julia.

On Thursday 13th June 2019 we have got the Happy Circus coming to school for an evening circus performance. Tickets can be purchased now  at a great price of £10.50 each. Tickets can be purchased from the Main school office. 

Our swimming day this term will be Friday.  Each child who attends on a Friday morning session will get to swim every other week. Please check letter for your child's date for swimming.

Please bring in any cardboard boxes, big and small for our castle making. 

Here's to a great week.

Julia and Pre-school team