Pumpkins

Hello everyone,

We hope you all had a wonderful half term and look forward to hearing all about what you have been doing during half term.

This week we will be reading some pumpkin stories including Pumpkin Soup By Helen Copper. We will be making our own pumpkin soup to try at pre-school. We will be using our children knives to cut the pumpkin up for our soup. We have got some pumpkins to cut up and carve and explore whats inside the pumpkin. We will using different tools to do the including knives, spoons and tweezers. 
We will be playing some number board games this week in small groups. 

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.

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.

Jennie Jigsaw

 

This week we will be talking about homes and houses and where we live.  

 

Notices:-

Don't forget to bring in your child's WOW moments. We love to share and celebrate these with everyone. There are spare WOW's by the WOW board in the corridor. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday. This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday 2nd  November from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

Thank you to everyone who came to parents evening. It was great to share your child's learning. If you were unable to attend please do come and see me and we will arranged a time to meet up to discuss your child's learning. 

On Tuesday 7th Novemebr at 7.30pm in the main school is the POWSA AGM.  For those who have never attended a PTA session before the thought can be intimidating but we are all friendly parents who want to help the school offer the best of opportunities to all the pupils who pass through it's doors, whilst having a little fun along the way. We give up a little bit of time every now and then to help provide some of those extras that help make our school such a fantastic place and if you would like to learn more we would love to see you. It would be lovely to see you there. If you unable to attend the meeting but would like more information please do come and see me.

On Friday 10th November it is our Family Bingo evening. This is a great family event with lots of prizes to be won. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down for 6.00pm. It finishes about 7.30pm. Be lovely to see some of our preschool families there. Please do come and see if you would like more information. 

Any question please do come and see me.

Thanks

Julia and Pre-school team

Bee's and Honey

Hello everyone,

Last week we had great fun finding out all about shapes. We listened to some shape stories and found the different shapes in the picture. We went on a shape walk around the school grounds and spotted lots of different shapes in our environment. We used the camera to take a picture of the shape we found. We will be using our photos to make a shape book this week. We did some shape printing on different shapes. These will be up on display this week. We played the game Guess the shape. We are getting really good at naming different shapes so much so we are learning some 3D shape names like cone, cylinder. At snack time we have had different shaped snack and made our snack into different shapes. We have been to soft play this week and found different shapes to build with.
On Friday we cut our gardening pictures out and have started our Nature Diary.

This week we will be continuing our shape work but also talking about bees and honey. One of children noticed that the honeycomb is Hexagon shapes and Amelia was talking about her Grandad who is a bee keeper. We all decided we would like to find out more about bees and hexagons.
We will be reading some bee stories, making hexagon shaped biscuits, playing with BEEBOT and lots more.

Home Learning

So why not look at pictures in magazines, papers etc and bring in a picture of some thing that your child has recognised the shape of, for example, car tyres-circle, houses- square, boxes-rectangles, sliced bread-square. Or take a photo of something your child has seen and bring that in.

OR

Maybe you could bring something in about Hexagons or Bees. 

Letters and Sounds

This week we are going to play: 

Teddy is lost in the jungle 
One child (the rescuer) is taken aside while a teddy bear is hidden somewhere in the room. Tell the other children they are going to guide the rescuer to the teddy by singing louder as the rescuer gets closer to, or quietly as the rescuer moves further away from the teddy. Alternatively lead the children in singing a familiar song, rhyme or jingle, speeding up and slowing down to guide the rescuer. 

Mrs Browning has a box

Turn a box on its side with the opening facing away from the children. One by one place between four and six familiar noisy items (e.g. a set of keys, crisp packet, squeaky toy) into the box, pausing to name them and demonstrate the sound each one makes.

Sing to the tune of ‘Old MacDonald’ but using your own name or one of the children’s:

Mrs...has a box ee i ee i o
And in that box she has a...
Stop. Gesture and ask the children to listen.

Handle one of the objects in the box, out of sight, to make a noise. The children take it in turns to guess what is making the sound. Continue the song but imitating the sound using your voice.

With a zzz zzz here and a zzz zzz there...

Allow the children to take a turn at making a noise from inside the box and use their names as you sing.

Notices 

Don't forget to bring in your child's WOW moments. We love to share and celebrate these with everyone. There are spare WOW's by the WOW board in the corridor. 

Thank you to everyone who came and helped at the community gardening afternoon on Saturday. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday. This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 18th October from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Tuesday morning it is the open morning at the school. It starts at 9.00am. 

On Tuesday 17th October (5pm till 8pm) and Thursday 19th October (4pm-6pm) it is parents evening.  There is a signing up sheet in the corridor with time slots. If these times are not convenient please come and see me to arrange a date and time that is convenient. If there are no spaces please do come and see me and we will sort out a convenient time. 

On Friday 20th October we break up for half term. We return back to pre-school on Tuesday 31st October.

We hope you all have a wonderful half term. 

Thanks

Julia and Pre-school Team

Shape

Hello Everyone,

Lat week we started our week of doing reception on Monday morning for an autumn themed activity morning. The children adapted well to the change to our normal routines. During the morning, the children took part in sponge printing around an Autumn poem, going on scavenge hunt around the school grounds, conker marbling and making stickman out of sticks. Also the children got to explore inside and outside of Reception during free play. Pictures will be up this week.

During the week we learnt some Autumn songs and listened to some Autumn stories and poems. On Friday the children used the Autumn picture book to talk about what happens during the Autumn. Lots of children talked about what they could see happening in the pictures. 

We went on a leaf hunt look for different coloured leaves and sorting them into the correct coloured basket. We were rally good at our sorting skills. 

We found the sycamore seeds and really enjoyed playing helicopters with the seeds. The children loved throwing them in the air and watching them twirl and float down to the ground. We even caught some of them before they touched the ground. 

We talked in a group about all the changes at this time of year and then made our own Autumn picture using paint and different tools and techniques. We worked as a team. This picture is up in the messy area. 

We went and collected some flat leaves and did some leaf printing with paint outside. The children really enjoyed painting the leaves and then pressing them onto paper. 

We have made our own number line for the classroom using conkers. We printed onto the numbers and then threaded conkers onto string. 

On Friday we helped to get ready for Autumn Fest. We took the logs in the trolley to the Roundhouse and helped Mr Bascombe unload the trolley of logs ready for our campfire. We enjoyed pretending to sit round the campfire on the logs. 

Shapes

This week we are going to be looking at shapes in our environment and having a week all about shapes. We have got lots exciting activities all about shapes names and creating with shapes along with going on a shape walk. 

We are going to make a poster of all the different shapes we can find in our environment. 

Home Learning

So why not look at pictures in magazines, papers etc and bring in a picture of some thing that your child has recognised the shape of, for example, car tyres-circle, houses- square, boxes-rectangles, sliced bread-square. Or take a photo of something your child has seen and bring that in.

Letters and Sounds

This week we are going to play: 

Teddy is lost in the jungle
One child (the rescuer) is taken aside while a teddy bear is hidden somewhere in the room. Tell the other children they are going to guide the rescuer to the teddy by singing louder as the rescuer gets closer to, or quietly as the rescuer moves further away from the teddy. Alternatively lead the children in singing a familiar song, rhyme or jingle, speeding up and slowing down to guide the rescuer. 

Describe and nd it
Set up a model farmyard. Describe one of the animals but do not tell the children its name. Say, for example: This animal has horns, four legs and a tail. Ask them to say which animal it is. Ask them to make the noise the animal might make. When they are familiar with the game let individual children take the part of the adult and describe the animal for the others to name. 

Notices 

Don't forget to bring in your child's WOW moments. We love to share and celebrate these with everyone. There are spare WOW's by the WOW board in the corridor. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday. This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 13th October from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

 The next community gardening day is on Saturday 14th October from1pm-4pm meeting in the school orchard. 

Thank you to everyone that came and supported Autumn Fest on Friday evening. It was a lovely evening and great to see so many of our families. We raised £409.00. Thank you to all the parents that were able to help during the evening. 

There will be a letter going home this week about parents evening which is happening on Tuesday 17th October (5pm till 8pm) and Thursday 19th October (4pm-6pm).  There will be a signing up sheet in the corridor with time slots. If these times are not convenient please come and see me to arrange a date and time that is convenient. 

Julia and Pre-school team 

Autumn

Hello everyone,

Last week we had a fantastic time celebrating Harvest. Throughout the week we were cooking in the kitchen with the pears we collected from the school orchard. Our pear cupcakes were very yummy. We also made some pear cakes for the Harvest cafe on Friday.  On Tuesday Supertato arrived in our classroom. We read the story and we played with Supertato, his friends and the evil peas in the small world area. We even found some evil peas in the freeze in the school kitchen.  We made a scarecrow for the preschool garden. We thought about what we would need to make a scarecrow. After this we collected stars in our wheelbarrow and made a scarecrow.  We also made our own scarecrows using different shapes of paper. We named the shapes we were using. Our amazing scarecrows were displayed in the school wall as a Harvest display. These will be back up in the classroom this week. 

At snack time we had lots of different foods e.g. cereal, bread and we talked about where these food come from. On Friday we went to Harvest assembly and joined the school in celebrating harvest. Pre-school and Reception shared their Harvest poem to the rest of the school and parents. Pre-school were amazing at remembering the harvest poem. Well done Pre-school.

Last week Jennie Jigsaw asked us how we can be kind at pre-school. The children came up with some lovely ideas which are making into a poster with our handprints. 

This week we will be talking about Autumn and the changes that are happening outside. Some of the children have noticed some of the changes happening already.  We will be sharing some lovely Autumn stories, poems and songs along with lots of exploring our school grounds to find out about Autumn. We will be making a conker number line and making some Autumn crafts along with lots more. 

On Monday we will be starting the week of by joining Reception for a joint Autumn morning. We will be all going to Reception for the morning and taking part in lots of lovely Autumn activities inside and outside. 

Jennie Jigsaw

We will be finishing of our kind hands poster and talking about some good Golden Rules to have at pre-school.

Letters and sounds

We will continue on from last week with our we will be giving others a set of clues to guess an animal along with using our voice to make slow/fast quiet/loud and long/short sounds.

Home learning:- Can you bring in something that reminds you of Autumn? It can be an object, craft, book etc. 

Notices:-

Don't forget to bring in your child's WOW moments. We love to share and celebrate these with everyone. There are spare WOW's by the WOW board in the corridor. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Wednesday. This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday 5th October from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

Thank you to every that came to the Community gardening day at the roundhouse on Saturday. We all did an amazing job and the roundhouse area is looking so much better. The next community gardening day is on Saturday 14th October from1pm-4pm. 

Thank you for the harvest donations. These have all gone to Dorset Food bank. We raised an amazing amount of over £200. 

On Friday 6th October it is Autumn Fest  starting from 5.00pm till 7.30pm. There are lot's of Autumn activities going on including conker championships, autumn crafts, apple bobbing, camp fire and lots more. Tickets can be purchased from the Main school office. £5.00 for a family of 4 and £1.00 for additional children. There will be hot dogs and refreshments on sale as well. See poster on school website or Facebook. 

Also on Friday 6th October it is Wacky Hair day in Aid of Weldmar Hospice care. Recommended donation is £1.00. Look forward to seeing some Wacky hair styles. 

Any questions please do come and see me or any of the pre-school staff.

Julia and Pre-school team