Christmas....

 

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a wonderful weekend. 

Last week we have all enjoyed listening to the story of Stickman and joining in with the repeated refrains and rhyming ends. We are becoming amazing at rhyming words and have really enjoyed singing jingle bells, when Santa got stuck up the chimney and on a starry night. 

On Monday we really enjoyed the Christmas winter wonderland surprise at Pre-school and had great fun exploring the different areas. We also enjoyed going over to school to see the Winter Wonderland scene in the main school hall. We also made our own stickman out of cardboard tubes and a variety of different materials. In the afternoon we made large baubles using a salad spinner with marbles and paint. It was great fun finding out what happened. 

On Tuesday we had PE with Mr Treble and we played some great games. We had a challenge of finding different natural objects and picking up as many as we could in 10 seconds. At the end we had the challenge of creating a smiley face. We also played a game of toilet tag, which was great fun. We continued making our stickman. In the afternoon we went on a stick hunt and made our sticks into stickman and put them in water, We then placed the water and stickman in the freeze to see what might happen.

On Wednesday we discovered the frozen stickman and exploring ways of freeing stickman. We had a great idea of using warm water to melt the ice. We went on a stick hunt around the school grounds finding different sticks like long, short, curvy etc and recording them on or tally chart. We also found a hedgehog. At group time we watched the film of stickman which we really enjoyed watching. In the afternoon we found a stick to make a wand. We wrapped our sticks in our chosen colour of wool and then decorated a star to put on the end. We had great fun using our wands. 

On Thursday we made some more wands and drew our candy canes for the schools display in Dorchester town.  We discovered the frozen stickman and exploring ways of freeing stickman.

On Friday we had a great day outside in the pre-school garden and did a great job sweeping up the leaves and going to the compost with the wheelbarrows. 

Throughout the week we have really all the Christmas winter wonderland role play area including wrapping/unwrapping presents, making cards, dressing up, playing in the sleigh. We have also enjoyed experimenting with ice and stickman. The children have liked the threading pens and boards and creating all sorts of patterns. We have been busy making stickman in the play dough and making bugs out of k'nex. 

This week we are going to be sharing lot's of Christmas stories in particular The Nativity Story. We will continue to be singing lots of Christmas songs and rhymes. We are going to be busy in the kitchen making our very own Christmas cakes along with lot's of Christmas crafts to bring home at the end of term. 

Our learning this week in pictures...

Letters and Sounds

We will continue with our rhyming games. This week will introduce Maisie next to the mountain, apple and snake from the read write inc cards. We will also begin Fred talk with Fred the frog. 

Home Learning

Can you go on a shape hunt and find as many different shapes as you can? Can you name the shapes? Can you describe the shape? 

Notices

Please bring any WOW's for our WOW board you have. If you would like some WOW slips, these can be found on the outside notice board in a wallet.

On Wednesday 2nd December there is a POWSA meeting in the school staff room at 7.30pm. If you would like more information please let me know.

If you would like breakfast/after school club next half term, please returns forms by this Friday and payment if applicable. 

Here is the information from the Dorchester primary schools of some virtual look arounds and videos. Here are the details for Damers First school 

There is a virtual video tour of St Marys Catholic First school. Here is the link for this:- 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6SwMyVJNjY&feature=youtu.be

If you would like your child to have a Christmas Dinner on Wednesday 16th December and they don't normally have a hot lunch, please email Caroline @ preschool@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk for a code to login to the Local food links page. Please see letter for more details.

You can order your child's Christmas cards they have made at https://www.myschoolart.co.uk

This has been kindly organised by POWSA as a fundraising event. 

Please always remember you can  call or email  us anytime if you have a question or need anything.

My email is: j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk

Here's to another magical week.

Julia, Helen, Colleen, Sharon and Karen