Continuing with Easter...

Hello everyone, 

On Monday we had great fun playing in the snow. We had snow in the water tray with rakes and spades. We observed what happened to the snow over the day. We went outside and made a snow octopus with lots of legs using sticks. we used the diggers and wheelbarrows to transport the snow. We enjoyed throwing snowball at the adults. In the afternoon we used powder paint and predicted what would happen. We observed what happened when Colleen sprinted it on the snow. We made our own snow pictures using paint and other resources. 
On Tuesday in small groups we talked about what happens at Easter and Spring. We then talked about what activities they would like to do e.g. Easter egg hunts etc. Their ideas are up on display.  We have enjoyed listening to some Easter poems this week. We have continued with our ticking of the days till the eggs hatch. We are all very excited. The children and I candled the eggs to see if there were chicks in them. We should have 3 eggs hatch. On Thursday some of us went to the library on the bus. We had a fantastic time learning all about the library from the librarian Mary. Mary read us a story, showed us around the library and we chose a book to bring back to Pre-school. All the books we choose from the library are in our book corner. On the way back from the library the bus driver took us through town, then through Victoria park, up to Maiden castle and then back to the Pre-school. Along the way the children pointed out lots of shops, houses and places to us. On Wednesday and Thursday afternoon, the children went outside with their clipboards to look at the new chicken run and have a go at drawing what the children will need and may like e.g. house, water, swing. This lovely ideas will be up on display this week. 
On Friday we joined in with Sports Relief. We listened to the story of Spinderella. Can the children tell you about the story? We then played ball games and did an obstacle course in the playground. After lunch we joined in with the whole school activities. First we do an exercise workout to music. We then did the daily mile route around the school. The  children were fantastic and actively took part in all of it.  Afterwards the children enjoyed watching the staff take part in a variety of races. They cheered the pre-school staff on during the space hopper races. 

This week we will be continuing with our Easter stories and songs. Hopefully on Tuesday/Wednesday the eggs will be hatching. Look out for the live web cam starting on Monday. The children are very excited. We will be drawing pictures of the chicks, looking after them when they hatch and have a go at holding them if they would like to. 
We will be designing Easter egg hunts for other children to do and doing an Easter egg hunt around the pre-school garden. We fill be finishing our Easter craft to bring home. It's going to be an eggciting week. 

Jennie Jigsaw

 Healthy bodies-looking after ourselves.

Home learning

Can you find some different numerals in your environment over the Easter holidays and bring at picture of them into school?  Can you bring in a picture of something you enjoyed doing during the Easter Holidays. 

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 29th March from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

We break up for the Easter holidays on Thursday 29th March and we return on Monday 16th April for the summer term.

Julia and Pre-school team

Easter

Hello everyone, 

Hope you had fun in the snow on Sunday. We look forward to hearing all about it. 

Last week we talked about Spring and the changes which are taking place. We shared some Spring stories and poems. Isaac bought in a lovely poem and story book for different times during the year. We shared the Spring poems. Our learning wall is looking fantastic, these are displayed by the interactive whiteboard. We having be using different objects to explore the context of separating 3 or 4 objects and realising the total is still the same. At register the children have been representing how many children are here today by mark making the numeral. The children have enjoyed exploring the green slime with the frogs. On Friday afternoon we predicted what would happen when we added some salt to the slime. On Thursday morning we went over to the school hall and used the gym apparatus. We did lots of climbing, balancing and jumping off objects. The children really enjoyed this and enjoyed showing us what they could do. The adults really enjoyed observing the children's gross motor skills. The children really challenged themselves on different apparatus. On Friday morning we went to Year 1 school assembly. The children enjoyed watching their friends and siblings talk about their learning of space.  On Tuesday afternoon the children enjoyed playing number bingo. The children recognised the numeral and then found the matching number of dots. On Thursday afternoon the children asked if we could do some cooking. We made some flapjack to bring home. 
We having been marking off our count down till the chicks will hatch. The children have really enjoyed our junk modelling corner making their own models. We have seen some fantastic models which the children have created.  

This week we will be talking about Easter. On Monday we will be talking about what we know about Easter and what we would like to find out along with things we might like to do e.g. Easter egg hunt.
On Thursday the children who did not attend the library trip will be going on the bus to the library in Dorchester. We will be sharing lots of Easter stories and poems. We will start our Easter crafts based on the children's ideas.

Jennie Jigsaw

 Healthy bodies-looking after ourselves.

Letters and Sounds:

Rhyming soup
Ask a small group to sit in a circle so they can see a selection of rhyming objects (e.g.
rat, hat, cat) placed on the door. Use a bowl and spoon as props to act out the song. Invite the children, in turn, to choose an object to put into the soup and place it in the bowl. After each turn, stir the soup and sing the following song to recite the growing list of things that end up in the soup.
Sing the first part of the song to the tune of ‘Pop Goes the Weasel’:
I’m making lots of silly soup
I’m making soup that’s silly
I’m going to cook it in the fridge
To make it nice and chilly
In goes... a fox... a box... some socks... 

Home learning

Can you find some different numerals in your environment and bring at picture of them into school? Maybe you would like to bring some snow pictures or videos in to show your friends from the weekend. 

Notices

Due to the weather forecast for tonight, please do check the school website, Facebook page and Dorset for You for school updates and closures regarding snow.

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 Wednesday 21st March from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Thursday 22nd March the children who did not go to the library due to the snow will be visiting the library on this morning. A letter has gone home to confirm this. 

On Friday 23rd March, POWSA have organised a film night. Tickets can be bought  from the school office.  

Julia and Pre-school team

Spring

Hello everyone,

Last week we began our week talking in small groups about what we got up to in the snow. We talked about the pictures we bought in from home. We made some snowy day pictures and painting. We also  played in the flour with polar bears, penguins, blocks, cars and people.  We then read they story of 'My Mum'. We talked about what was special about our mum's. We hope you all enjoyed your breakfast cereal and threading. The children really enjoyed making the cereal. They used knives and scissors to cut up the dried fruit and used spoons to spoon it into the bags. The children were fantastic at threading the hearts and flowers onto wool using a needle. The children all had a go at writing their names onto the tags. 
On Wednesday we had a surprise inside an egg box. We had some eggs which needed to go into the special machine (the incubator). We talked about an incubator is and what is does. We then read the story of egg to chick. We found out what happens at each stage inside the egg and how the chick is born. We are very excited for our chicks to hatch on the last week of term. It takes 21 days for the eggs to hatch. The children have drawn some pictures of the eggs in the incubator. 
On Thursday afternoon we went up to the school pond in the nature area. We had a lovely surprise of Frog spawn. We bought some back to our classroom to go into a tank so we can watch it turn into tadpoles.  We read some stories about the frog cycle. The children have been using magnifying glasses to look at the frog spawn and have drawn some pictures of it. 
On Monday when we came into school we had a leak in the classroom. On Wednesday we were able to go back into the classroom. Julia pretended that someone had changed our book corner around and we had some police tape up. We wore policemen hats and recorded on our crime reports what we thought had happened and who might had done it. The children really enjoyed this and came up with some fantastic ideas. 
On Friday morning we went to the Year 4 assembly. The children enjoyed watching the Year 4 children acting out a story of Macbeth. In the afternoon we played number and letter bingo which the children really enjoyed doing and wanted to keep playing. 

This week we will be continuing to talk about Spring and about the changes from Winter to Spring e.g. frogs, chicks, plant growing, leaves on the trees and weather etc. 
We will be sharing lots of Spring stories and poems. We will also be learning how to separate 3 or 4 objects into different groups realising the total is still the same. We will doing this with lots of different objects. 
We will be continuing to add to our learning wall. Please have a look, it is by the interactive whiteboard. The children will be doing this with their key worker.  There is some lovely learning, ideas of new learning and what they have enjoyed doing. 

Jennie Jigsaw

 Healthy bodies-looking after ourselves.

Letters and Sounds:

Clapping sounds 
Think of words using the letters ‘s, a, t, p, i, n’ (e.g. sat, pin, nip, pat, tap, pit, pip) and sound them out, clapping each phoneme with the children in unison, then blend the phonemes to make the whole word orally.

Home learning

Can you find some different numerals in your environment and bring at picture of them into school? 

Notices

On Tuesday 13th March at 9.00am in the Pre-school hall, I will be holding a coffee and information session on ICT at home. I will be sharing some top tips for E-safety and some resources which can be used at home. Also giving you the Login details for Purple Mash to use at home. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 16th March from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

ON Thursday 22nd March the children who did not go to the library due to the snow will be visiting the library on this morning. A letter has gone home to confirm this. 

It was lovely to see some of our families at Bingo on Friday night. Thank you for the donations of cakes for the refreshments. The total raised was £320.00. 

On Tuesday 13th March at 7.30pm in the main school staff room POWSA are having a meeting about future fund raising events. If you would like to get involved, please do come along. If you have any questions come and see Julia. 

Due to the weather this weekend we decided to cancel our garden makeover afternoon. We will put up a new date very soon.

On Friday 23rd March, POWSA have organised a film night. Tickets will be able to buy from the school office soon. Look out for more information. 

Julia and Pre-school team

Preschool Community Make over Day Cancelled

Hello everyone,

Due to the wet weather today and the forecast for tomorrow, we have decided to cancel our Pre-school garden make over. We were going to paint the sheds and they are now to wet to paint. Look out for the new date.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you next week.

Thanks

Julia

This week we are...

Hello everyone,

I hope you all had a fantastic couple of days in the snow. It was great to see so many of you come into school on Thursday all dressed up for World Book Day. There were lots of brilliant characters from some of our favourite stories. We enjoyed sharing the children favourite stories. We also played out in the snow, which we all really enjoyed especially throwing snowballs. We have made some great snow pictures and paintings. On Wednesday some of the children went to the library of the bus. The children really enjoyed going on the big yellow bus. We learnt all about the library and what you do at the library. We choose some books to bring back to pre-school. The librarian read us a story and we sang some songs. This week we also read stories in different places like the roundhouse and soft play. 

This week we are going to start talking about Spring and the changes that are taking place. We are also going to be making some very special surprises for the weekend. We will be using our fine motor skills. 

Home Learning: 

Have you got a snowy day picture you would like to show your friends?

Jennie Jigsaw:

We will be talking about what happens to our bodies when we do exercise. 

Letters and Sounds:

Clapping sounds
Think of words using the letters ‘s, a, t, p, i, n’ (e.g. sat, pin, nip, pat, tap, pit, pip) and sound them out, clapping each phoneme with the children in unison, then blend the phonemes to make the whole word orally.

Notices 

Sorry we had to cancel the parents evening on the Thursday, I would like to reschedule it to this Thursday with the same times as before. Please come and see me if this is not convenient. 

As we had to cancel the Library trip on Thursday due to the weather, we will be rescheduling this trip and a new letter will come out soon. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Wednesday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday 8th March from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

Our Saturday Stay and Play morning is on the 10th March from 10.00-11.30am. After this we are having a community make over afternoon on the pre-school garden. It would be great to see all you. If you are able to come along and help, please let Julia know.

On Tuesday 13th March at 9.00am in the pre-school hall I will be holding a coffee morning talking about ICT in the early years and resources that you can access at home including Purple Mash. Hope to see lots of you there. 

On Friday 9th March POWSA are running an Easter Bingo evening. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down for 6.00pm. POWSA will be sending home a plate this week for donations of cakes for the refreshments for the evening. 

On Tuesday 13th March there is a POWSA meeting to discuss future events. This is in the school staff room at 7.30pm. Please ask Julia if you would like more information.

Thanks

Julia and Pre-school Team

Pre-school Closed on Friday 2nd March

Dear Parents

SPECIAL NOTICE - Due to the inclement weather, PRE-SCHOOL WILL BE CLOSED TOMORROW. 

The main school remains unaffected at this stage.

Please look on the facebook page and Dorset for You for regular updates regarding the Main school.

Thank you for all your support.

Julia and Pre-School Team