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