Happy New Year

Hello everyone,

We would like to say a big thank you for all the lovely gifts you gave us for Christmas which we have have all enjoyed. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and we wish you a very Happy New Year.

This week we will be talking about our families Christmas celebrations. We will be talking about all the things we have done at Christmas in small groups. Then with our Key Workers we will be drawing a picture from the Christmas holidays and recalling what we did. 
We will be reading the story of the gingerbread man which we saw at the garden centre on our school trip. We will be talking about the story setting, events and principal characters and joining in with repeated refrains. We will be cooking our own gingerbread man to bring home, acting out the story of the gingerbread man and moving in different ways. We will also be using the wooden blocks to make a bridge for the gingerbread man to cross.

Jennie Jigsaw:- 

This week with Jennie Jigsaw we will be talking and setting ourselves challenges. What challenges have you done at home?

Letters and Sounds:- 

We will be using repetitive story phases and suggesting a person who has a name beginning with a given letter. 

Home learning:-

It would be lovely to hear all about what you have been doing during the Christmas Holidays, so please do share with us what you have been doing. Also you may have a WOW from the Christmas holidays you would like to share. 

If you have a story of the Gingerbread man you are very welcome to bring it in and we will share it with the group as there are lots of variations of the story. 

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 5th January from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Saturday January 20th is our stay and play Saturday morning from 10.00-11.30. Hope to see lots of you there. 

Heres to a great first week back.

Julia and Pre-school Team