Hello everyone....

 

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a fantastic weekend with your families and friends. 

Last week we explored our country of Great Britain and the London the capital city. At group time we shared some stories about London including The queens handbag, The queens hat and Charlie and Lola visit London. Emma bought in a great story called Ron the royal guard. We also looked at maps of Great Britain and our home town of Dorchester. We also enjoyed watching Peppa pig goes to London and Go Jetters visit London Bridge. 

On Monday we had great fun painting our own London bus for our role play area which we have loved playing in throughout the week and visiting diffrent places on the bus. We had tickets, bus times for our journeys on the bus. We looked at the Great Britain flag and painted our own flag. In the afternoon we looked at a map of Dorchester and found out where we all lived and how to get to each others houses. We labeled the map.

On Tuesday a group of children had PE with Mr Treble and used the climbing frame equipment with ladders. The children became really confident at climbing the equipment and challenging themselves to see how high they could climb. In the afternoon we celebrated the start of Fitness February and did the daily mile track at school. We were all did really well with running. 

Afterwards the Queen(Julia) made an appearance at the Preschool door and had come to see us all and cross the London Bridge we had made outside using crates and planks of wood. We also made her some afternoon tea in the mud kitchen. We made our own crowns and tiara using paper plates and a variety of media including sequins, colouring pens etc.

On Wednesday and Thursday we have been busy junk modelling and making carriages for the queen to travel in. We had amazing ideas how to make carriages. 

On Friday it was NSPCC Maths day and we made some Numicon biscuits which we decorated with smarties in the afternoon. We counted out the correct number of smarties to match our numicon piece. We also made shape jam or cheese sandwiches for snack. In the afternoon we ate our delicious English afternoon tea. We also sang a variety of number songs at group time and read some lovely number stories. Great dressing up everyone. 

Throughout the week the children have really enjoyed playing the fishing game in the water tray. They have been using rods and nets to catch the magnetic fish. Some great sharing and turn taking with the rods. We have been busy exploring the different English coins in the sand and sorting them into groups. The finger frenzy table this week was threading beads onto spaghetti. This was tricky but some great pincer grips and resilient. We have been working with friends and creating marble runs. We have made crowns out of play dough and decorated them using gems and jewels. We are amazing at making train tracks and have really enjoyed playing trains with our friends. Also we have spent lots of time in our new book area enjoying books with friends. We love the new cushions, armchairs and rug. Thank you POWSA for supporting this. 

We have learnt the picture names for the Read write inc cards M-Maisie next to the moutain,A-Apple,S-Snake, d-dinosaur, t-tower, I-insect, n-net, p-pirate, g-girl, o-orange, C-caterpillar, K-kangroo, u-umbrella, b-boot, F-flower, E-egg.

Our Jennie Jigsaw group time last week- 

Ask Jigsaw Jenie to try and build a tower but it collapses. Jigsaw Jenie gives up and leaves the bricks saying things like, ‘I can’t do it, it’s too hard’.

Help Me Learn

Ask the children if this is what they would do. What should Jigsaw Jenie do? Explain to the children how we all find something tricky but we should never give up and keep trying until we can do it.

Questions: What would you do? How can you achieve your goal?

Let’s Think. Ask the children to think of things that they find tricky. Explain to them that this is going to become their goal, and they will practise

Here are some pictures of the week....

This week we are going to be travelling out of our country and our first place to visit is Germany on Monday and then we will be travelling to some other countries over the week. Please let me know if you have a country that you have a link too and would like to come in and share with the children. 

Home learning:- 

Can you cook a recipe from another country? You make like to make Pizza/Pasta from Italy or Mussels from France etc

Notices:-

On Tuesday and Thursday evenings it is parent consultations. These will be held face to face in the pre-school. Please come to drop off door for these. If you are unable to make these days and times, please email Julia to arrange a convenient time and date.

On Friday evening it is POWSA  family Bingo. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down 6.00pm. Please see letter or ask Julia for more details. A great family fun evening. Hope to see you there.

We are collecting empty 2 litres lemonade, coke bottles etc for a project after half term. If you have any please do bring them in. We are also looking out for astronaut dressing up costumes. 

FITNESS FEBRUARY - To help combat the winter blues and to inspire your household this February to get fit...Here at the Prince of Wales School we are challenging all children to increase their fitness throughout February - and beyond.   You could try something new everyday like: trampolining, stretching, yoga, ball skills, Joe Wicks or dancing.    To help motivate your child to walk, run, cycle or scoot we are challenging the school to record how many KMs we can travel in the month.    Our first mission is to get to Berlin - fill in the form below every time you do some exercise and help us to reach our target -   https://tinyurl.com/POWFitness2022    There will also be competitions between each class to see which year group travels the furthest.       Please share any photos and videos of anything that gets your child moving.

Due to the current Covid situation there will be NO STAY and PLAY SESSIONS at the moment. Play and Stay session will resume after half term.

Please do come and see myself or a member of team if you have any questions.

Here's to a great week.

Julia, Sharon, Colleen, Karen, Lauren, Zoe, Chloe