Jack and the beanstalk

Hello everyone, 

Wow, what a great first week back from half term. The children have really enjoyed the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Whilst reading the story the children have been joining in with the giants repeated refrains and the missing words that the adult leaves out. On Tuesday we talked about what we had been doing in the half term holiday and then we drew some pictures of our memories of half term. Over the week we have begun playing the game Beans and throwing the bean bags into the bucket. We also recorded how many bean bags we could get in the bucket. On Wednesday morning we had a group photograph taken. We all really enjoyed having our photo taken and the photography made us smile lots. On Wednesday we found the Poundbury Florist lonely bouquet of flowers outside the fence. We collected them and on Thursday we drew pictures of the jar of flowers. Julia took our pictures to the florist to show. The copies will be up on display this week. On Wednesday afternoon a group of children went up to the vegetable patch to water our plants. We found some Rhubarb to pick. Henry had a great idea about making a rhubarb cake. We though about what ingredients we would need to make the cake and collected the eggs from the chickens. We washed and cut up the rhubarb using a knife and then made a cake mixture. We hope you liked the rhubarb cake. 
We have been planting our own magic beans to bring home. We talked about what a bean would need to be able to grow and designed a castle for the top of our stick. When your beanstalk begins to grow, we would love to see some photos. How tall will your beanstalk grow?
We have also been very busy with lot's of gardening over the week. On Friday afternoon we joined Reception and Year 1 and enjoyed playing and learning outside together. 
The children have really enjoyed retelling the story of Jack and the beanstalk in the small world area and also making their own beanstalk using hoops, green leaves and spaghetti on the Finger frenzy table. 

This week we will be continuing with our Jack and beanstalk stories as the children are really enjoying this. We will also be creating our Father's Day cards and making a yummy treat for our Dad's. We will be sharing some Dad stories and talking about our dad's during group time. 

Home learning
Have you got a story about a beanstalk?  We look forward to seeing some pictures of your beanstalk when they begin to grow.

Sounds and letters

A mixture of rhyming, initial sounds and musical instruments. 

Jennie Jigsaw

This term Jennie jigsaw is talking about changing me. We will be talking about how our bodies are changing as time moves forward and how they have already changed since we were a baby. It would be great if you could bring a baby photo. 

Notices

As the weather is sun and hot, 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.

The children who are attending the Prince of Wales School in September will begin their Tuesday transition afternoons. This week it is group B going to Reception. If you have any questions about these afternoons please come and see Julia. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 13th June from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

Every Friday at 3.30 POWSA are selling ice creams by the play trail. 50p each. 

On Friday 22nd June it is film night. More information to follow. 

On Saturday 23rd June is our Saturday stay and play morning from 10.00 till 11.30am. We welcome all our families to come and have a play. Younger and older siblings very welcome to.

The School Summer Fayre will be on Saturday 30th June 11am to 3pm. There are lots of exciting plans afoot so watch this space for further info. We are looking to include a market place so if you would like to have a stall please get in touch.

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