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.