The tiger who came to schoolFor the next two weeks we are going to be listening to the story of The tiger who came to tea with lots of exciting activities and experiences. We will be introducing the story through a joint morning with Reception on Monday morning. First thing we will be acting out the story in the hall to the cd followed by lots of activities with Reception. Throughout the two week we will be listening to the story, making tiger masks, making plates of food for the tiger, role ply area based on the story, facts about tigers and lots more. At the end of the two weeks we have the finale of a joint tea party on Friday afternoon with Reception and all our parents. Please see letter with all details in pigeon holes regarding this event.

Hello everyone,

Wow, what an amazing week with the story of The tiger who came to tea. The children have really enjoyed the story and have continued their learning throughout the week with lots of fun activities. On Monday we started our morning in Reception. We listened to the drama of the tiger who came to tea and joined in with the acting and singing. The children have really enjoyed the CD and have learnt the songs. Then we went into Reception and did lots of activities including collaging a large tiger, weighing tiger food against food, play dough tigers, role play cafe and a tiger hunt outside. The pictures from this morning are up on display.  

Some of the children have painted their own tigers at the painting easel. The children have made their own tigers using orange and black striped paper. On Wednesday morning we had a tiger outline with orange and black paint. The children used cotton buds to paint their tigers. The children have used scissors to cut out their own tiger mask and then painted them. The children have become really good at knowing the story and are beginning to retell the story using the pictures. We have been thinking of words beginning with Tt.

This week we will be continuing the story of The tiger who came to tea. We will be making plates of food for the tiger. We will be talking about our favourite sandwiches and making them which involves the children using knives to spread and cut. We will also be making cakes for our tiger who came to tea party. We will also be learning about where tigers like to live and their habitats. On Wednesday we will be face painting tigers. Throughout the week when the children arrive at pre-school there maybe a few surprises!!!

Home learning

Can you bring an object or picture of something beginning with Tt?

Letters and Sounds

The children are becoming really good at rhyming words. We will be making our rhyming door. (We ran out of times this week to start this.)

Jennie Jigsaw

This week Jennie Jigsaw will continue to ask us what we are good at and we will be displaying our answers on our jigsaw board.

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 26th January from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

It was lovely to see lots of our families at our stay and play on Saturday. We hope you had a great time. Look out for the next one next half term. 

On Wednesday 24th January we will be face painting the children as tigers if they would like to be tiger. Please return the permission slip for face painting. 

On Friday 26th January from 2.30-3.30pm we are having our Tiger who came to tea party. Please have a look at the letter which has gone into pigeon holes. Any questions please do come and see me. Children can come to school on this day as one of the characters from the book.  If anyone has some cake stands we could borrow for this event, please could you let me know. 

If you have not returned your session request for next half term, please could you bring them in as soon as possible to enable us to plan staffing.

Don't forget it is a staff training day on Friday 9th February so the last day of term will be Thursday 8th February. 

Julia and Pre-school Team