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