A sailor went to sea sea....

Hello everyone,

Last week we enjoyed sharing lots of seaside stories and poems. It was lovely to read some of the stories which the children have bought in about the seaside.
On Monday we talked about different flavoured ice creams and our favourite flavours of ice cream. We made a picture graph of our favourite ice creams on purple mash. The children were able to use the graph to tell us which was the most popular and the least popular.
On Tuesday a group of children made strawberry ice cream which involved cutting up all the strawberries using knives, mixing all the ingredients and pouring it into the ice cream maker. The children enjoyed watching the changes thats took place to the mixture once we put it in the ice cream maker.
On Wednesday Isaac's daddy came into pre-school to talk to us about scuba diving. He bought in all his scuba diving kit. We got to try on the flippers, mask and breathing tubes. We looked at lot's of pictures of people scuba diving and animals which live under the sea. The children came up with some fantastic questions to ask about scuba diving. We tried the strawberry ice cream for snack which was very yummy.  Another group of children made banana ice cream using the same process as on Tuesday.
On Thursday we tried banana ice cream and also made peach ice cream. We made our own scuba diving pictures which are up on display.
On Friday we tried the peach ice cream which was delicious. We have also water coloured our favourite ice cream flavours. The children were fantastic at painting their favourite flavours and carefully painted within the lines. From this activity lot's of children then went to the drawing table and created their own ice creams using different techniques.
The children have been finishing their salt dough underwater creatures and painted them. Some great creativity has taken place in making them. They look fantastic. The children have been bringing them home. We have also been gardening and continuing with digger land.

This week we will be continuing our seaside theme with lots more seaside stories, poems and songs. We have got a couple of visitors coming into school this week. On Tuesday we have got the beach lifeguards coming in to do a talk about beach safety. On Wednesday we have got the mobile rock pool from the sealife centre coming in. We will also be gardening in our new veg patch in the wild life garden. We will be planting some seeds.

Sounds and Letters
 We will be doing lots of singing with our cd songs, rhyming door and initial sounds.


Jennie Jigsaw
We will be continuing with our topic of family and friends

Home learning

Can you find a picture of the royal wedding?

Notices

As the weather is starting to warm, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. If you have applied suncream to your child before school please could you let a member of staff know. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure children have this when they come to pre-school ready for us to apply.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Wednesday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday 24th May from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Tuesday 22nd May at 7.30pm in the Year 4 classroom (the hut) is a POWSA meeting to discuss further fundraising events. If you would like more information please come and see Julia.

We break up for half term this Friday (25th May) and return back to school on Tuesday 5th May. 

The summer bingo on Friday evening raised an amazing amount of £211.24. It was a great evening with some fab prizes. 

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. 

Looking forward to a great week.

Julia and Pre-school team

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside....

Hello everyone,

Last week we have been enjoying lot's of seaside stories. On Monday Arthur bought in some lovely books about the seaside including one about a digger rescuing a whale. We read the story at group time and after the story I asked the children what props we would need to make our small world play. The children came up with all the different props and then we went and found all the props for the story. The children then used the props to act out the story.  

On the drawing table this week we have had some green and blue foil out along with some sea creature outlines. The children have been creating some fantastic underwater pictures. 

On Thursday morning we went to the beach. It was a fantastic trip and we all had lots of fun. We were all so proud of the children as they were amazing. We did 4 different activities at the beach including painting pebbles, collecting objects e.g. shells, stones, sea weed, making pictures using seaside objects and digging and making sandcastles. We sang some seaside songs on the beach and had a snack. After snack we climbed the rocks, made dames, played in the sand and dodged the waves. In the afternoon when we came back we talked about what we liked doing on our beach trip. In the afternoons last week the children have been making salt dough underwater creatures. The children have been using different tools and techniques to create their underwater creatures. We will be painting these and bringing them home. 

On Friday we visited Harold the giraffe in the Life Education Van. The lady talked about different parts of our bodies and what each part does. We then met Harold who showed us how to keep clean. We helped to make Harold clean by washing him, brushing his hair and teeth. We sang head, shoulders, knees and toes. We learnt about why it is important to sleep at night and we pretended to go to sleep under the twinkle stars. We watched a video of Harold going to pre-school and the things he enjoys doing at Pre-school. When we got back to pre-school we talked about all the things we learnt about our bodies. We coloured in some pictures of Harold and recalled our learning about how to look after our bodies. 

We have been doing some gardening this week and continuing to look after our chickens. 

This week we will continue our learning of the seaside. We will be sharing lot's more stories, poems and songs. We will continue our salt dough underwater creatures and paint them. The children asked to make ice cream so this week we will be making different ice cream flavours and making a tally of our favourite flavours using purple mash. In the number area this week we have got an ice cream parlour role play. In the water tray this week we have got underwater creatures and boats. Also lot's more seaside activities based on the children's interest. 

Letters and Sounds

Last week we played the game I spy my little eye someone name beginning with..

By the end of the week the children were really good at playing this game. 

This week we will be playing...

Musical corners

Put a chair in each corner of the room, or outdoors. Collect four sets of objects, each set containing objects with names that start with the same sound. (Four different initial sounds are represented.) Keep back one object from each set and place the remaining sets on each of the four chairs. 

 The children sit in a circle or facing you. Name each of the four sets of objects, giving emphasis to the initial sound. 
Explain that now there will be music to move around or dance to and that when the music stops the children are to listen. You will show them an object and they should go to the corner where they think it belongs. 

Jennie Jigsaw
We will continue to talk about families and friends.

Home Learning

Can you make a seaside picture using objects from the seaside?

Notices 

As the weather is starting to warm, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. If you have applied suncream to your child before school please could you let a member of staff know. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure children have this when they come to pre-school ready for us to apply.

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

Thank you for all your support and sponsorship for the bike and scooter rides. The children were fantastic at using their bikes and scooters and were able to complete a number of laps. If you have any remaining sponsorship money please bring it into pre-school next week. 

On Friday 18th May it is the POWSA Summer bingo evening. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down for 6.00pm. It's a great family evening. 

On Saturday 19th May from 2-5pm we have got a community make over afternoon in the wildlife area. We will be working on getting the raised beds up and running. 

On Tuesday 22nd May at 7.30pm in the main school staff room is a POWSA meeting to discuss further fundraising events. If you would like more information please come and see Julia.

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. 

Looking forward to a great week.

Julia and Pre-school team

The seaside

Hello everyone,

Last week on Monday we continue with mixing colours and making our butterflies. The children have independently explored mixing colours throughout the week on the tuff spot and have taken their own prints from their mixing of colours.
On Tuesday morning our grandparents joined us for snack. The children really enjoyed having snack with them and then taking them on a tour around their learning environments including inside and outside. It was lovely to see different games being played involving grandparents. The pictures of this event is up on the corridor display.
On Wednesday another group made sandwiches for our friends. They made a tally of each of their friends choice of sandwich and then went to the kitchen to make them.
On Wednesday we talked about what we knew about the seaside and what activities we would like to do. The children came up with some wonderful ideas.
On Thursday we talked about how to keep safe in the sun. In a group the children came up with how to stay safe in the sun. We then made posters about staying safe in the sun. This our now displayed in the pre-school playground to remind the children.
On Friday a small group of children went to Year 4 class assembly which they enjoyed.
We have spent some great time learning outside this week and have been busy digging out the soil in the borders ready to make digger world!! We have also been unto the wildlife garden to look after the chickens but also digging over the beds.

This week we be continuing our theme of the seaside. We have our trip with Reception this week to the beach. We will be doing different activities at the beach e.g. digging/sandcastles, collecting objects etc. We will sharing lots of stories and poems about the seaside. We will be doing lot's of the activity ideas the children came up with. We will also continue with our digger world and gardening.

Letters and Sounds
Musical corners

Put a chair in each corner of the room, or outdoors. Collect four sets of objects, each set containing objects with names that start with the same sound. (Four different initial sounds are represented.) Keep back one object from each set and place the remaining sets on each of the four chairs.
At rst, the children sit in a circle or facing you. Name each of the four sets of objects, giving emphasis to the initial sound.
Explain that now there will be music to move around or dance to and that when the music stops the children are to listen. You will show them an object and they should go to the corner where they think it belongs. 

I Spy... Names- Children to take turns playing I spy with children names in the class.

Jennie Jigsaw
We will continue to talk about families and friends.

Home Learning
Can you bring an object you have found at the seaside?

Notices

As the weather is starting to warm, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. If you have applied suncream to your child before school please could you tick the names list on the notice board. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure children have this when they come to pre-school ready for us to apply.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 11th May from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

Thank you for all your support and sponsorship for the bike and scooter rides. The children were fantastic at using their bikes and scooters and were able to complete a number of laps. If you have any remaining sponsorship money please bring it into pre-school next week. 

On Friday 18th May it is the POWSA Summer bingo evening. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down for 6.00pm. It's a great family evening. 

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. 

Julia and Pre-school team

Munchkins Play Cafe

Hi everyone,

Munchkins cafe are offering some School Meet up sessions for all the schools in Dorchester. Below is the poster with all the dates for different schools.
These events are free.

Thanks

Julia