The seaside

Hello Everyone,

Last Tuesday we had our Grandparents elevenses. It was lovely to see so many Grandparents enjoying their time with us and the children really enjoyed sharing their snack, giving a tour of their pre-school and playing with their favourite toys/games inside and outside. There are some great photographs are up in the corridor.
Last week we enjoyed learning about maps and sharing the maps of places we had been during group time. The children were able to identify the different colours and symbols on the map and what they represented.
The children had a go at making their own treasure maps by making their paper change colour using tea and then drawing their maps using felt tips.
On Thursday and Friday, Megan our student planned a treasure hunt for the children to do. They really enjoyed looking for treasure in the preschool playground.
We have been observing our beans grow in the classroom and we are pleased that they've finally  began to shoot. Have your magic beans begun to grow or even reached the castle yet? It would be lovely to see some photos.
Jennie Jigsaw has been talking to us this week about making friends. In letters and sounds we have been singing songs, rhyming, copying body sequence and initial sounds of words.

This week we will be doing Beebot as we ran out of time last week. The children will be programming him to go different places on maps and using Beebot on the iPads.
On Tuesday we will be doing an obstacle course in the hall.
From now until half term we will be exploring the seaside. We will be asking the children what they would like to find out about and activities they would to do.
We will be reading lots of seaside stories and learning some seaside songs.

Letters and Sounds:- Playing I spy with initial sounds of words.

Jennie Jigsaw:- Making friends

Home Learning:- Is there something you would like to share about the seaside maybe an object, picture, story or something you have made?

Notices:-

Stay and Play is on Friday 12th May from 8.30am till 9.00am. It would be lovely to see lots of you there.

As the weather is starting to warm, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. If you have applied suncream to your child before school please could you let a member of staff know. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure children have this when they come to pre-school ready for us to apply.

Thanks

Julia and Pre-School team