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