Hello everyone.....
We hope you have all had a wonderful weekend in the beautiful sunshine. We hope you all had a wondeful Mother's Day.
On Monday we had PE in the main school hall and practiced our balls skills in particular throwing and catching a ball. We also had a special visitor who was Reuben's Dad who work on the Air ambulance. The children really enjoyed finding out all about the air ambulance.
On Tuesday we had our kickboxing session and we went on a monkey adventure which involved jumping with two feet and balancing. Also we had to dodge the swinging snakes. We practiced our foot work. We also had to climb through the cave. We also had our play and learn session in the hall. In the afternoon we did a science experiment with skittles and another one with Coke. The children were great at making predictions using previous learning. Great scientific vocabulary used.
On Wednesday morning a group of children visited the local care home for a singsong, story and cake. The other group of children had PE in the school hall and practiced our balls skills in particular throwing and catching a ball. In the afternoon we had Relax kids.
Throughout the week we have enjoyed listening to stories about our mummy's and talking about what is special about our mum's. We enjoyed making some special cards and presents to bring home. The children watercoloured their flowers and thought about all the specials things our mum's do for us. We made beautiful flower bookmarks to bring home.
Throughout the week we have enjoyed constructing with the octagons, wooden transparent shapes and pebbles. In the number area we have been playing the shape game. We are great at taking turns. We have also enjoyed exploring the playdough with spring cutters, rolling pins, gems and buttons. In the small world area we have been playing with the small wooden constructions toys and wooden blocks. On our finger frenzy table this week we have been playing with the tap a shape. We have enjoyed mark making in the flour. Also we are getting really good at rhyming and completing the rhyming game. We have really enjoyed playing outside in the beautiful sunshine.
We have now learnt all the Read Write Inc pictures and we are now focusing on Fred Frog. Fred Frog can only say sounds and no words. We have been playing lots of games with Fred. We have been doing lots of rhyming games and stories.
During group time this week we talked about Reggie the Resilient tortoise friend Rose the Resourceful Spider.
Resourcefulness is all about being an independent and imaginative learner, being ready to learn in
different ways and using all of the resources available to help you. The skills for life long learning
that we are aiming to instil are those of Questioning - being curious, going deeper; Making
Links - looking for ideas and concepts that connect together and are meaningful; Imagining - using your minds eye to help you learn; Reasoning - thinking methodically and Capitalising - making the best of resources available.
You can do this through play and day to day activities at home by:
•Encourage questions.
•Demonstrate making links between different ideas.
•Keep imagination alive and celebrate and value a love of adventure. •Help children to find ways of using resources such as reference books, dictionaries, the Internet.
Some pictures from the week..
Home Learning
Animal noises
Fred names an animal and the children make the noise of that animal.
'Fred wants you to make the noise of a h-or-se’. 'Fred says make the noise of a sh-ee-p.' 'Fred says make the noise of a d-o-g.'
Uniform
To order uniform for Pre-school please see link below. We also have some second hand uniform available.
DEP School wear shop
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