winter weather and looking after the birds during the winter

Last week we read the story of  penguins in the fridge which the children really enjoyed listening to. The children then cut out their own penguins which you can see these on display in classroom 2. Once down from our display, the children can take them home and put them in their fridge ! The children were very good at using the scissors.  We talked about where penguins and polar bears live and what they can do, and have learnt some penguin songs. We used the programme purple mash on the computers to colour in our own hats, gloves and boots. We filled up different sized containers with water and placed them outside to see if Jack Frost would come overnight and then when they came to preschool the next day we explored what had happened to the water which had turned into ice.

This week we will be continuing to talk about the winter weather and how we can care for birds during the winter. We will be making bird food for the pre-school and birds in our gardens at home. The children will be bringing home some bird food to hang in the garden or a family members garden. We will also be making jelly this week. We will be making some winter pictures using different materials.

Jennie Jigsaw

This week Jennie Jigsaw will be asking us what we are good at and we will be displaying our answers on our jigsaw board.

Letters and Sounds

We will be looking at body percussion with activities including copying a sequence of body sounds, identifying body sounds, our voices-quiet, loud, fast,slow.

Home learning:- Children will be bringing home a bird feeder and garden bird watch tally sheet to count how many different types of birds in your garden. The big bird watch can also be done in an open space e.g. local park. Please fill them in and return to pre-school. We will showing our friends what birds we have in our gardens or open spaces.

Notices

Stay and play this week will be on Friday 27th January from 8.30 till 9.00ish. Hope to see you there.

Thanks

Julia