Harvest

Hello everyone,

 Last week the children have been enjoying autumn crafts, which are now up on our display in the classroom. We read the story of we're going on a leaf hunt and children decided they would like to do this. So after snack we acted the story out and when on a leaf hunt for different colours. We have been doing some shape printing on leaves. The children are doing really well with finding shapes in the environment and naming them. Well done preschool.
The children have enjoyed playing football and practising their ball skills with Alex.
We have been singing some Autumn songs this week which the children have enjoyed singing. I will upload them to the blog so you can get the words.


PLEASE don't forget your harvest donations of produce. the children really enjoy making parcels and packets to sell. please bring them in by Thursday.

This coming week we will talk about harvest and what it is, farms, food and tractors and continuing with Autumn.
We will be going to the school orchard to harvest some apples for our cooking for the Harvest café at school on Friday and of course some cooking to come home. We will be creating some art work for the school hall for Harvest Festival. 
On Wednesday morning we are going to join reception for the morning to join in with some Autumn and Harvest activities.
On Friday we will be going to the school harvest assembly, We will be taking the harvest donations boxes we have created to assembly.
We will be planting some onions, garlic and daffodils in the pre-school garden this week. We will talk about what bulbs need to grow.

 JIGSAW.  last week we talked about kind hands and made a poster with the children's thoughts about all the things kind, gentle hands can do. This week with the children we will be making a set of golden rules, that is the way the children think we should all behave in our pre school. We can refer to this in the future!

 SOUNDS AND LETTERS. we continue on from last week with our 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
We will be continuing our Autumn stories along with some Harvest stories

Home Learning

Can you find a picture, book or an object which is to do with Autumn or Harvest? 

Notes

Please don't forget it is Stay and play on Wednesday morning starting at 8.30, siblings very welcome to.
I would like to create an outside farm for the children to enjoy for Harvest week.  If you have a ride on tractor and happy for us to use it for the week please bring it in. They will be securely locked up over night in the classroom.

Thank you
Julia