jingle bells !

Dear All,
The children enjoyed our story of the helpful hedgehog very much this past week, we read they story, talked about the meaning, and retold the story by looking at the pictures.
We have been voting for our favourite apple dish from the story, and this week we will be preparing and enjoying some of them at snack time, also finishing some activities from the past week.

Our theme for this week is the song 'jingle bells'. Every year we make Christmas decorations to decorate a tree at the St George's church Fordington Christmas tree festival. (details of opening times etc. next week).
The theme this year is Christmas music, so we have chosen jingle bells. The children will have the opportunity to make decorations, and we will be learning and singing the song.
We will also be thinking about sounds this week, b (bells), and s (snow), how many words can we think of that start with those sounds?
Number. We will be exploring number by matching quantity to numerals this week. For example taking the number 4 and finding the correct number of items to match it.

JIGSAW, houses and homes, can your child draw a picture of their home to bring in? We will be having a go at this in pre school as well, writing your house number on the front  and decorating the pictures with christmas trees and decorations.

NUTS. a few of the children in pre school have a nut allergy. One of our Mums puts a slip of paper in their child's lunch box saying 'NUTS'  We find this very helpful, so if you are putting nuts in your child's lunch box and could remember to do the same we would appreciate it. Thank you.
AG