Dens

Hello everyone,

Last week we had a fantastic STEM week with lots of making and science experiments. During the week we made shooting rockets with straws, balancing robots, flyer's along with dancing raisins and an experiment with skittles. On Wednesday afternoon the children worked with Year 4 children making marble runs using junk modelling and marble run kits. Also they made a golf ball and water run outside using the large construction. They worked really well together and it was a fantastic afternoon. 
This week we have also enjoyed standing up and performing our own songs to our friends at group time. We have used the musical instruments to go with the song of 'I am the music man'. 

This week we will be making dens inside and outside using different resources along with putting a tent up. We will be visiting the roundhouse and talking about what it is made of and using it as a den as well. We will be reading some stories about camping out and making dens throughout the week. We will be having some picnic snacks outside as long as weather is fine. 

Notices:- 


On Monday we will be having our 'Bake off' competition to raise money for one of our parents who needs a life changing operation. I look forward to seeing lots of lovely cakes. To enter please make a donation. We will be selling them at the end of the day from the pre-school summer house.

Stay and Play is on Friday 30th June starting from8.30 till 9.00am.  It will be lovely to see you there.

The week of 3rd July we will be doing our sponsored bike/scooter ride. Within the next two weeks we will be letting you know which day your child will be taking part in this. If you have not received a sponsorship form, please come and see me. 


Please make sure children are sun creamed and have a sun hat. We will be reapplying suncream at lunch time for children staying all day. We will be encouraging the children to have regularly drinks of water throughout the day. 

If you would like to catch up about your child's progress before the end of term please come and see me to arrange a time. 

On Tuesday 27th June, Mr Gibson is holding a coffee morning for all our preschool parents to talk about reading. Please do come along. 

This week is Helen last week with us at pre-school. I and all the pre-school team would like to wish her Good Luck with her new venture as manager at the new pre-school in Cerne Abbas. It has been amazing having Helen as part of our team for the past 8 years. Helen has made every child's first experience of Prince of Wales Pre-school an exciting, safe and fun experience. She has made all our families very welcome and given them such a positive environment for their child's first experience of pre-school. We will all greatly miss Helen but we all wish her well in her new role.

Thanks

Julia and Pre-school team 

STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) Week

Hello everyone,

Hope you all had a lovely weekend, what fantastic weather we have had. 

Last week we painted with water colours a picture of a footballer or car for our Father's Day card. We were all amazing at holding our paintbrush and carefully painting within the line. We had excellent control of the paintbrush. We all enjoyed cooking flapjacks for our dad's. We followed the recipe, cut up dried fruit, mixing ingredients and watching what happens when you heat butter up. 
During group time we listened to some Father's day stories and talked about why our dad's are special to us. Small display up later in the week. 
We all did really well with writing our names on the back of our cards.  We have really enjoyed playing outside in the beautiful weather. We have been exploring our initial sounds pots and coming up with different words beginning with s,j, and h. 

This week we are having a science, technology, engineering and maths week. The school are also doing this theme for the week. 
We will be doing lot's of different activities involving science, technology and maths. Each day there will different activities and challenges. We will be talking about what we think might happen, whats happens and how we can adapt our ideas.

Jennie Jigsaw:- Over the next few weeks we will be talking about our new schools and sharing some stories about starting school.

Sounds and Letters:- A mixture of rhyming, initial sounds and musical instruments. 

Home Learning:- Can you make a bridge to hold 5 playmobil people? You can use any type of construction. It would be great to see some photos or models brought in.

Notices:-

On Monday the photography is coming in to take our class photo. If you do not usually attend on a Monday you are very welcome to come in for 9.00am for the photography. 

Stay and Play is on Thursday 22nd June starting from8.30 till 9.00am. We will be having some experiments and challenges for you to do. It will be lovely to see you there.

The week of 3rd July we will be doing our sponsored bike/scooter ride. Within the next two weeks we will be letting you know which day your child will be taking part in this. If you have not received a sponsorship form, please come and see me. 

This week the weather is fore casted to be very hot,  please make sure children are sun creamed and have a sun hat. We will be reapplying suncream at lunch time for children staying all day. We will be encouraging the children to have regularly drinks of water throughout the day. 

If you would like to catch up about your child's progress before the end of term please come and see me to arrange a time. 

On Tuesday 27th June, Mr Gibson is holding a coffee morning for all our preschool parents to talk about reading. Please do come along. 

Thanks

Julia and Pre-school team 

This week will be talking about Our Dad's

Hello everyone,

We had a great first week back after half term. At the beginning of the week we talked about what we had been doing in half term during group time and then drawing a picture of our favourite thing we did in half term. It was lovely that so many children bought in pictures and leaflets of what they had been doing. 
We have been making strawberry ice cream and mango fruit lollies and tasting out what we have made. We really enjoyed making them and tasting them. Yummy!!! 
In group time we talked about our favourite flavour and made a tally. Chocolate ice cream was the most popular. 
 We have collaged or water coloured our choice of an ice cream in a cone or a bowl with our favourite flavour. We thought about the colours of our favourite ice cream and cone. We were all amazing at carefully painting within the lines and having good control of the paintbrush. (Our ice cream display will go up this week.)
The children have really enjoyed playing in the ice cream parlour role play shop. The have been the customer and the shop keeper. In Group time we have been looking at different coins and notes we may use in the shops and the value of each of the coins. They have been very interested in this and then have put it into practice in the role play shop. 
On Thursday afternoon we had a surprise visitor... Tara from the Dorchester Opportunity Group bought in her corn snakes. The children really enjoyed looking at the snakes and finding out all about them. (Pictures will be up soon).

This week we will be making a surprise in the kitchens for Father's Day. We will also be making cards and talking about our dads and why they are special to us and how they help us. Will be putting all our words we come up with into a Tagxedo. We will be sharing lots of stories about Our dads. If you have any special dad's books please do bring them in. 

Letter and Sounds:- A mixture of rhyming, initial sounds and musical instruments. 

Home learning:- Have you got a favourite photo of your dad you would like to show your friends?

Notices:- 

Thank you to everyone that came to the school fair on Saturday and to all the parents that helped with setting up, running a stall and tidying away at the end. It was lovely to see so many of our pre-school families there to support POWSA in fundraising for the Pre-school and the school. I will blog how much we raised later on in the week. Once again A BIG THANK YOU.

I hope you have all received your tea towel order form, if not do come and see me. We need to know by Tuesday 13th June of how many you would like. There is a template up in the window of the classroom. The ink colour will be green. Any questions please come and ask me or Terri Wilson (George W mum).

Stay and play will be on Wednesday 14th June starting from 8.30 till 9.00. Be lovely to see lots of you there.

The class photography will be on Monday 19th June at 9.00am. If your child does not usually attend preschool on this day you are very welcome to bring them in for the photography at 9.00am. 

Hopefully we will get some beautiful sunny weather over the next 6 weeks so please make sure children are sun creamed and have a sun hat.

Its lovely to see so many wows coming in. The children really enjoy sharing their news and achievements.

Please do come and see the pre-school team if you have any questions.
Thanks
Julia and Pre-school team. 

Preschool photograph session

Hello everyone,

The group photography will be taking place on Monday 19th June. If your child does not usually attend on a Monday you are very welcome to bring them in for the photography at 9.00 on this day.
Any question, please do come and ask.

Many Thanks

Julia and Pre-school team

Ice creams

Hello everyone,

We hope you all had a wonderful half term and enjoyed the lovely weather we had.

This week we will be sharing our news about what we have been doing in the half term. Please do bring in pictures, objects etc of what you have been up to in the holidays. We will be drawing some pictures of what we have been doing in the holidays. Also this week we will be making ice cream and fruit lollies, talking about our favourite flavours of ice cream and making it into a graph. We will also be painting and collaging ice creams.We have got some ice creams songs and rhymes to sing. In the maths area this week we have got an ice cream parlour role play area encouraging the children to role play shops using money. In classroom 2 we have got a shoe shop which the children are really enjoying. If you have any old shoes you could add to our collection please do bring them in.

Home Learning:- When you go to the shops, can you recognise the different coins you may use?

Notices:-

Stay and play is on Friday 9th June starting at 8.30 till 9.00. It will be lovely to see lots of our families there.

Pre-school photographs has been cancelled tomorrow and I will put the new date in the blog next week.

On Friday after school from this week till the end of term, POWSA will be selling ice lolly and ice creams at the end of the school day (3.30) from the pre-school summer house.

This coming Saturday is the school fair starting from 11.00 till 2.00pm. Pre-school are running the refreshments and it would be great if you can donate some cakes for the stall. Please bring them in by Friday. The summer fair is a lovely family event and would be great to see lots of our families there.

Hopefully we will get some beautiful sunny weather over the next 6 weeks so please make sure children are sun creamed and have a sun hat.

The children have drawn a picture of themselves which has been made into a Pre-school class tea towel. There will be a letter coming home within the next week with all the details along with an order form. There is a template of the tea towel up in the window. It will be in the colour of green.

Its lovely to see so many wows coming in. The children really enjoy sharing their news and achievements.

Please do come and see the pre-school team if you have any questions.

Thanks

Julia and Pre-school team.