Sunday 25th September 2016 literacy links for all!

Sunday 25th September 2016 Literacy links for all!

If you would like some literacy based activities or ideas that you can do together with your child at home why not try this website.
Either google the National Literacy Trust and access the parents/families section or search
http://www.wordsforlife.org.uk

Have fun exploring!

Mrs. Johnson

This week...Autumn and shape

Hello everyone,


Hope you all had a lovely weekend. Last week we looked at shape by looking at shapes in our environment, printing with different sized circles, making a picture with different shapes and playing shape lotto. Also the children enjoyed doing an obstacle course with Alex in the hall. On Friday it was scoot to school day, it was lovely to see lots of children on their scooter. We had a scooter obstacle course outside which they all enjoyed. Pictures will be up on display this week.


Autumn and shape


This week we will continue our theme of shape along with starting to look at Autumn. We will be doing some Autumn crafts thinking about colour and shapes. We will be making an Autumn number line with conkers for our classroom. We will be sharing Autumn stories and talking about what happens in Autumn.


Home Learning

DON'T FORGET if you haven't had time to bring in a shape picture perhaps you could this week.


So why not look at pictures in magazines, papers etc and bring in a picture of some thing that your child has recognised the shape of, for example, car tyres-circle, houses- square, boxes-rectangles, sliced bread-square. Or take a photo of something your child has seen and bring that in.


Jigsaw


 This week we will be talking about kind hands and kind words. Remembering how important these things are when playing with friends. We will be making our own poster using our handprint for this.


Sounds and letters


This week we will be giving others a set of clues to guess an animal along with using our voice to make slow/fast quiet/loud and long/short sounds.


Books this week


Autumn stories along with continuing our stories with repeated refrains and rhyming ends


Physical development


A number of children of shown an interest in football and playing with balls. This week we will be developing our ball skills with Alex. we will be catching, throwing and kicking different sized balls.

Evening Everyone,


Please don't forget it is scoot to school day tomorrow (Friday 23rd September) Be lovely to see lots of children scoot to school tomorrow.


Thanks


Julia


P.s. Well done to all the children that have bought in some home learning about shapes in the environment. Be lovely to see some more.

Parent coffee/information morning

It was lovely to see some many parents this morning for the information session, I hope you found it useful. If you are unsure I anything from the talk this morning, please do come and see me.
Here is a brief outline of what we talked about this morning if you were unable to attend.


Library Bag


The children will have the opportunity to choose a library book from the library at pre-school to take home to share. On the library bags is a key ring with the child's name along with the 7 DASP citizenship caterpillars. We talked about these and to become familiar with them in preparation for going to school. Also there is one of Jennie Jigsaw which is our Personal, social and emotional development  programme we do. We are getting new library bags due to the old ones becoming worn out. There will be a deposit of £2.00 to get a library bag. This will be refunded when you return the library bag at the end of the year. As soon as the bags arrive we will let you know.


Changing Bags


In the next couple of days the children will come home with a changing bag which will need filling with a whole set of spare clothes. These bags will only come home if child has needed to be changed.


Blog


The blog is one of our main ways of keeping you informed about what we are learning about a school. It is really important you check the blog to see what's happening at pre-school on a weekly basis. If you are unsure about how to access it, please do come and see me. I generally update the blog on a Sunday in preparation for the week ahead. I talk about what we are going to do, Sounds and letters and Jennie Jigsaw along with some home learning.


Keyworkers


Over the last 2 weeks we have been getting to know the children and also them getting to know us. From this we have now given each child a keyworker. A letter about keyworkers  will come home in the next week along with who your child's key worker is. 


Stay and Play


Once a week on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday will be a stay and play session. This is an opportunity to come an play with your child in pre-school along with the opportunity to have chat with me. We open the door at 8.30 and siblings are very welcome to come to.


Labelling of clothes and shoes


Please could all your child's clothes and shoes be labelled as we have acquired some jumpers with no names in.


Shared Books


Over the year we will send a group of books out which we have shared at pre-school and think you might like to share at home. We have started this already with Shark in the park. When you have read the story at home, it would be lovely to have a comment by your child's name of what they thought of the book and please return it to preschool so the next child can share it at home.


Parent meetings


In October there will be an opportunity to come and talk to me about your child's learning and settling in year 2. Dates of this is to follow. Please feel free always to come and catch me at anytime if you have a question or would like discuss something.


If you have any further question please do come and see me.

This week at Pre-school!

Hello everyone,

We have had a great second week back. The children have really enjoyed listening to the collection of Shark in the Park books. We have made telescopes and been out on walks around the school playground and have also made some sharks which I displayed in the classroom.

Shapes

This week we are going to be looking at shapes in our environment and having a week all about shapes. We have got lots exciting activities all about shapes names and creating with shapes along with going on a shape walk.

We are going to make a poster of all the different shapes we can find in our environment.

Home Learning

So why not look at pictures in magazines, papers etc and bring in a picture of some thing that your child has recognised the shape of, for example, car tyres-circle, houses- square, boxes-rectangles, sliced bread-square. Or take a photo of something your child has seen and bring that in.

Jigsaw

This week we will be talking about how we can look after our classroom with the help from Jennie.

Sound and letters

We will all be playing a game of sound lotto using sounds we hear at home.

Books this week

We will be listening to stories that have repeated refrains for the children to join in with.

Notices

Please don’t forget the coffee morning/information session this Wednesday at 9.00am in the hall. Will be lovely to see you all there.

When your child comes in with their lunch box, please can they be placed on the lunch box trolley and not pegs. We place the lunch boxes in the fridge to keep them chilled. If you’re not sure where the trolley is, please ask a member of staff.

Also could all children’s shoes have their names in to avoid any mix up of shoes!!

On Friday 23^rd September it is scoot to school day. It would be lovely to see as many children that can scoot or bike to school on this day. 

Shark in the Park!

Hello Everyone,

We have had a great first week back and all the children have really settled in well into year 2 of preschool. Last week we painted pictures of ourselves which are now up in the classroom on display. We met Jennie Jigsaw and she learnt all our names and we told her our favourite toy and what we like to play with. We also read the story of shark in the park which the children really enjoyed, so this week our them will be shark in the park.

This week we will continue with our Jigsaw topic of ‘who am I?’ and ‘what do I like?’ We will be talking about different emotions and how are we feeling. Along with this we will be singing If your happy and you know it and reading the story of Topsy and Tim new friend.

At home Why not talk about what makes you happy and sad.

From reading the story of shark in the park we are going to make our own telescopes to retell the story using them outside on a walk, making sharks to practice our scissor skills, and a shark/duck water game with lots more planned.

Don’t forget if you have any WOW’S at home please bring them into share with us at pre-school.

A letter has gone home about popping along for a coffee and information session about Year 2 of preschool on Wednesday 21st September.  It would be lovely to see you all there.

Julia and Pre-school Team

Welcome back!

Hello everyone and welcome back to the new school year with lots of fun and exciting exploring and learning.

This week we will be focusing on settling back into preschool in year 2 and will be a time for the children and yourselves to get to know us and most importantly the children getting to know us.

We will also be talking about what you have all been doing in the holidays and if you have any pictures or writing you would like to bring in, please do.

For our SOUNDS AND LETTERS PHASE 1 we will be listening to sounds you can hear indoors through different games.

Our JIGSAW them this half term is ‘Who am I?’. This week we will be introducing Jennie Jigsaw and the chime bar. Also telling each other our names and talking about what we like to play with along with our favourite toy. If the children have a picture of their favourite toy, please bring it in for our display. We will also be painting pictures of ourselves for our class board.

Please bring any WOW for our WOW board you have and if you need some WOW slips, please come and ask one of the staff.