Christmas is coming

Hello everyone,

Last week we went to the Poundbury garden centre to look at the Christmas decorations. The children really enjoyed riding in Bobs taxis and on the way there the children  pointed out different places they recognised. We looked at all the Christmas decorations and talked about the colours, shapes, nativity and decorations we liked. We watched the trains go around the track upstairs in the garden centre. The children tried on a Christmas hat and we took a photo. Have a look at the photos and the children's recall of the trip on the board.
We have been busy making our Christmas decorations to bring home this week. On Friday the children decided they would like to make paper chains. We have decorated the room with the paper chains they made. They independently made them.

This week is our last week before we break up for Christmas on Friday 16th December. On Monday we went and watched key stage 1 Christmas performance of the Sleepy shepherd which is based on the nativity story.
On Wednesday it is the Christmas traditional hot lunch. On Friday it is our Christmas party in the morning from 9-11.45. If your child does not attend on Friday and would like to join us for the Christmas party please let a member of staff know. There's a party food list in the corridor if you haven't already signed up.
We will be finishing off all our Christmas decorations and decorating our cakes we made to bring home on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.


Notices

Stay and play is on Wednesday starting at 8.30 till 9.15ish, be lovely to see you there.

Next term's invoices and this terms lunch club invoices are now in pigeons holes.

We would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

The Pre-school team

 

All things sparkly...

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Hello everyone

 

Last week we all enjoyed reading the story of the Christmas Robin by David Hatley.  We made the Christmas tree decorations from the story for the Christmas tree festival at St Georges Church. The children really enjoyed the story about the robin.

The Christmas baking has started with lovely smells filling the pre-school, with some children having had a go at weighing out the ingredients for their cooking. There are some photos of our Christmas baking on display.

We have been talking about the initial sounds of our names along with our friends name during sounds and letters.

It was lovely to see lots of our families join us for our family breakfast last week, and I hope you agree that it was a great success.

 

This week we are going out in the taxi’s to the garden centre to see the Christmas decorations. We will be talking about the colours and shapes of the decorations along with different textures and smells. We will be taking some photo’s using the ipad of our favourite decorations.

Also this week we will be continuing to make some lovely Christmas decorations to bring home next week.

This week we will also be talking about and sharing stories of the nativity story. We will be learning lots of Christmas songs and reading different Christmas stories throughout the week.

 

Notices

 

Stay and play is on Friday this week starting from 8.30am till about 9.15am. It would be lovely to see you there.

 

Next Friday 16^th December is our Christmas party in the morning. All children are invited to attend. If your child does not attend normally please can you sign the slip to say they will be attending the Christmas party.  There is a party food list on the wall in the corridor for parents to sign up.

 

 

 

Christmas tree festival

Evening everyone,

This week we have read the story of the Christmas robin and have made the decorations in the story for the Christmas tree festival at St Georges church. Below is the information of when you can and see the Christmas tree display.

🎄🎄🎄🎄 Carols on the Green 🎄🎄🎄🎄

Friday 2nd Dec 6pm, Fordington Green

Get into the Christmas spirit. Join us for carol singing outside on the green. Then afterwards for the Christmas tree festival in St Georges Church. Stories and sweeties for the children. Hot soup for the adults. FREE EVENT

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Christmas is coming...

 

Hello everyone,

 

Last week we read the story of the owl babies, the children made owl puppets to bring home and retold the story with their families. If your child retold the story of owl babies it would be lovely to have it on a Wow. For our snack we made edible owls using crackers, raisins and oranges. Some children have made textured owls which are on display in the number area. We talked about the different textures of materials. We have learnt some owl number songs which the children really enjoyed singing. Jennie Jigsaw talked to us about families and who is in our families. It was lovely to see pictures of the children's families. Please do still bring them in if you would like. The children have become very good and finding the matching rhyming word during different stories we have read.

 

This week we will be starting our theme of Christmas by starting with the story of 'The Christmas Robin.' I have chosen this story for the St Georges Church Christmas tree festival which we take part in each year. We will be making robins, bird feed, stars, baubles and crackers to display on the Christmas tree at the church. We will be talking about why it's important to feed the birds during winter. On Friday evening at St Georges church it is the "Carols on the green" and the opening of the Christmas tree festival. Over the weekend the church is open for the festival. I will post more information about this on Thursday evening.

 

We will also be starting our Christmas baking this week. The children will be following a recipe and the instructions for our Christmas bake. We will be using scales to measure our ingredients out.

 

Jennie Jigsaw

 

This week we will be talking about homes and houses and where we live.  

 

Letters and Sounds

 

We will be talking about who has a name beginning with a given letter.

 

Home Learning

 

There's still plenty of time if you would like to bring in your family photography to share with us at pre-school. This week we are talking about our homes and houses. Maybe you would like to draw a picture of your house to share with your friends.

 

Notices

 

The Christmas cards have arrived back from the printers and look fantastic. We will be handing these out to you this week.

 

We have a new and exciting role play area for the children to enjoy in Room 2 for our Christmas themed weeks. I am sure the children will really enjoy role playing in this area. B&Q and Dorchester Timber have very kindly supported this project by donating and providing discounts for the different materials. A huge thank you goes to them. Along with a big thank you to my family for building it.

 

On Tuesday it is our family breakfast starting at 8.30am,please let me know if you are coming if you have not already done so. Just to make sure we cater for everyone.

 

Stay and play is on Thursday this week, starting from 8.30am till 9.15am ish.

 

Our trips to the garden centre are the following week (w/o 5/12/16) please return permission slips if not already done so.

 

 

 

Owl Babies

Hello everyone,

Hope you have all had a good weekend.

Last week we had some stories about rockets including Whatever next, Qpottle 5 and Whoops it wasn't me. The children really enjoyed listening to these stories. The children made their own rockets out of junk modelling and these are hanging in the classroom. We made our own breadstick sparklers and explored what happens when you heat up chocolate. The children finished their firework pictures adding glitter to them. In the garden this week the children have planted some garlic. we have been making sounds with our bodies and putting them into a sequence. Jennie jigsaw shared a story about Barry the fish with fingers and we talked about how we are all special.

This week we will be looking at the story of owl babies along with other owl stories. The children are interested to find out about owls as a child bought a poster in about owls and they wanted to find out more. We will be making our own owl puppets so the children can retell the story to you at home, owl number game recognising numerals upto 6, talking about what we know about owls, collaging owls with different textures and lots more. We will be also exploring torches and the dark.

Jennie Jigsaw

We will be looking at our families and who in our families, this goes very well with the story of the owl babies.

Letters and Sounds

The children have really enjoyed finding words that rhyme last week so will be continuing with this. We will also be singing some owl songs.

Home learning

As we are talking about families this week, it would be lovely if the children could bring in a family photo to go on our Jennie Jigsaw board along with the children talking about their family during circle time.
If you would like to bring something in to do with our learning of owls, please do. It could be a picture, something you made or a story about owls.


Notices

Stay and play is on Wednesday this week, it is lovely to see so many families coming to this. Stay and play starts at 8.30 till about 9.15am. See you all there.

Please check pigeon holes for letters as there is a permission slip letter for the garden centre trip and a letter inviting you to family breakfast and we need to know numbers for this event so we make sure we have plenty of breakfast foods!!

It's lovely to see so many WOW'S coming in with lovely achievements your child has done. Keep them coming in.

Thank you

Preschool


 

Fireworks/ Friday (Children in need)

Hello everyone,

Hope you all have had a nice weekend.

Last week we talked about the sound of fireworks and then found musical instruments to match the could we thought of. From doing this we learnt some of the names for different musical instruments. We talked about our experiences from firework night. We used different coloured paints to explore what happens when you mix them through strawing blowing and finger painting on foil. On Monday we had a bonfire snack including peppers, oranges and hot-dogs outside around a pretend fire the children made. It was a little chilly but the children enjoyed it very much. We have been recognising and finding our own name and decorating the letters with stars. Some of us knew the sound of the letter our name began with. Also it was world nursery rhyme week and we sang some of our favourite nursery rhymes in the roundhouse and outside in the school playground.

This week we will be finishing off our firework paint pictures with glitter. We will start making our own rockets using junk modelling, if you have any resources that may help with this please bring them in. We will be reading some rockets stories like whatever next. We will be making some breadstick sparklers and exploring what happens to chocolate when you melt it. In the hall we will be playing some running around games which involves negotiates spaces successfully adjusting speed and direction to avoid obstacles.
On Friday it is children in need day and we will be doing lots activities involving spots. Children may come in dressed with spots.

Jennie Jigsaw:-

This week we will be looking at how special we are and what makes us special.

Letters and Sounds:-

This week we will be copying a sequence of body sounds. Can you think of some different body sounds?

Home learning:-

Over the week it would be fantastic if your child could find advertising logos they recognise in their environment. For example the Lidi sign or the McDonald sign. You may like to take a photo of it, drew it or cut out a picture.

Notices:

Tomorrow (Monday 14th November) is the last day for photo orders as the order is being picked up on Tuesday.
This week stay and play is on Friday 18th November 8.30 onwards. Be lovely to see you there.
On Friday it is Children in Need day so the children may come dressed in something spotty. 

Fireworks

Hello everyone,

We have had a great week back from half term. It has been lovely to see what the children have been up to in half term and pictures of the children's cress seeds they have grown.

Last Week we read they story of Spinderella which the children really enjoyed. We did lots of counting and looking a group of objects with the same number. The children made their own spiders and webs to go with them which are now on display in room2.
Jennie Jigsaw has been asking the children about what they are good at and the children have given some lovely ideas which are on the jigsaw display. On Thursday morning we look at the month of November in the book of One year with Kipper. It was all about the cold frosty nights and blowing warm air into cold air. We went on our own adventure to look at the frost and blow our warm air out into cold air to see what happens. The children were really interested to see what happens. Pictures will be on display in the next couple of days.

This week we are going to be talking about fireworks and the sounds they make. We will be using the musical instruments to represent these sounds. we will also be exploring colours and mixing colours using paint to make our own firework pictures, making our own rockets using junk modelling and recognising our name and the letter sounds and decorating the letters using stars. On Monday we will be having our firework snack outside on logs around a pretend fire the children are going to make. We will be having hotdogs and fire coloured fruit.

World Nursery Rhyme week

This week it is world nursery rhyme week and we would like to take part. We have decided that on Tuesday and Friday we will be singing a range of our favourite nursery rhymes in different environments around the school grounds. If you and your child have a favourite nursery rhyme pop it on a piece of paper and post it in the nursery rhyme box.
Letters and sounds:- This week we will be playing a game of rhyming soup as a group. We will be finding words that rhyme together for our soup e.g. rat and bat.

Home learning:-

 This week we will be doing some activities involving recognising our name. Over the week it would be fantastic if your child could find advertising logos they recognise in their environment. For example the Lidi sign or the McDonald sign. You may like to take a photo of it, drew it or cut out a picture.

Notices:-

On Thursday it is our stay and play morning starting at 8.30 and finishing at 9.00ish. It would be lovely to see you there.
Our library book bags are here and ready to go home. If you would like one please give your £2 deposit to myself or Caroline and then Sharon will ask your child to come and choose a book to take home. If there a problem with purchasing a book bag, please do come and see me.
On Monday morning if you would like Christmas cards, terry (George's mum) will be here to help you order them as the online system has crashed. 
On Wednesday morning I am holding a coffee morning sharing our ideas about literacy and maths within pre-school and things you can do at home. Please do come along as it also an opportunity to ask me any questions you may have about this.
This Thursday is the last day to return photography orders. 













Letters and sounds:- This week we will be playing a game of rhyming soup as a group. We will be finding words that rhyme together for our soup e.g. rat and bat.

Home learning:-

Next week we will be doing some activities involving recognising our name. Over the week it would be fantastic if your child could find advertising logos they recognise in their environment. For example the Lidi sign or the McDonald sign. You may like to take a photo of it, drew it or cut out a picture

All Years - Christmas Cards - 2nd November 2016

Christmas card orders

We received communication today that the online ordering for the xmas cards has now failed completely. The company are reverting to paper orders and a pack is being sent to school. As far as we are aware any successful online orders are still valid but all others will need to complete paper order forms and bring money to school. This is not an ideal situation however POWSA are at hand to help you solve any issues and can take cash or cheques.

So, on Friday 4 th November and Monday 7 th November before and after school POWSA will be manning a table in the foyer where you can fill in the order forms and hand over cash or cheques.  We apologise for this inconvenience, however this is out of our control and are working hard to make the process successful!

Welcome back from half term

Hello everyone,

We all hope you had a good half term break. It would be lovely to see some photos or information about what you did over the half term, maybe you saw the queen, days out, we would love to hear all about it.

Last week at pre-school we read the story of pumpkin soup and delicious soup. The children really enjoyed listening to the story and we then made our own pumpkin soup which some children tried. On the last day of term the children decorated spider cakes with our student. We also were very busy making our Christmas card design to bring home for half term.

The children also planted some cress seeds before the holiday which they are responsible for looking after the cress. It would be lovely to see some pictures of your child's cress and what they have made with their cress. This was part of Jennie Jigsaw and talking about responsibility.

This week we are going to be looking at spiders. We will be sharing the story of Spinderella by Julia Donaldson and Sebastian Braun  and making our own spiders for our number display. While making our spiders we will be talking about how many legs spiders have and how many on each side.
We will also be making our own spiders web as a group weaving wool onto a frame.
Also we will be playing some parachute games this week in small groups. We will also be playing some number games.

Letters and sounds:- This week we will be playing a game of rhyming soup as a group. We will be finding words that rhyme together for our soup e.g. rat and bat.

Home learning:-

Next week we will be doing some activities involving recognising our name. Over the week it would be fantastic if your child could find advertising logos they recognise in their environment. For example the Lidi sign or the McDonald sign. You may like to take a photo of it, drew it or cut out a picture.

Notices
Tomorrow (Tuesday 1st November) the photography will be coming in the morning to take photos of the children. If you would like siblings to be in the photo please come at 9.15. If you are not in tomorrow and would like your child's photography taken please also come at 9.15.

Also tomorrow by midnight is the last opportunity to order your child's Christmas cards. If you have order some please return your child's artwork so we can send it off to APFS. If any one is unsure on how to order these, please do come and see me.

Tomorrow night POWSA are meeting at the Poet Laurette at Poundbury to discuss the Christmas Fair. I will be going to this meeting. It would be great to see you there. It starts at 7.30pm.

Chloe Hirst our new member of staff is starting tomorrow and we look forward to her being part of our team.

On Wednesday is our stay and play morning this week. Doors open at 8.30, be lovely to see you there.

Our new school library bags have now arrived and a letter will follow with information about how to get one for your child.

Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

Julia and the pre-school team