Pumpkins......

Hello everyone,

We all hope you had a lovely half term. What beautiful weather we had. We looking forward to hearing about all the children's adventures during group time this week.
This week we will be sharing the story of Pumpkin soup along with some other pumpkins stories. This book is all about some animals sharing and taking turns to cook pumpkin soup. We will also be singing some pumpkin and spider songs this week. We will also be making pumpkin soup when we harvest our pumpkins from the poly tunnel. The children will be collecting the pumpkins in their wheelbarrows. We will be exploring what's inside the pumpkin and using different tools to scoop the inside out and cutting it up. On Thursday we are having a PANTS day. The children can wear their pants over their clothes if they wish. It is to promote awareness of saying ‘no’ and what’s in your pants belongs to you. During the day we will be doing some creative craft activities and showing the official NSPCC video. 
It's going to be another fantastic week. 


Home learning

Can you find different logos and signs in your environment? Can you recognise what they are? Bring them in and show your friends during group time.

Letters and sounds:- 

This week we will be playing a game of rhyming soup as a group. We will be finding words that rhyme together for our soup e.g. rat and bat.

Jennie Jigsaw

 

This week we will be talking about homes and houses and where we live.  

 

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 great to talk to everyone at parents evening and show you all the progress your children have been making over the last few weeks. 

If you were not able to sign up please just let Zoe know when will be a suitable time and we can arrange this. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday. This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 31st October  from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

Our next Saturday Stay and Play is on Saturday 24th November from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you hang up coats in the mornings, all important post will be there. 

On Tuesday 6th Novemebr at 7.30pm in the main school staff room is the POWSA AGM.  For those who have never attended a PTA session before the thought can be intimidating but we are all friendly parents who want to help the school offer the best of opportunities to all the pupils who pass through it's doors, whilst having a little fun along the way. We give up a little bit of time every now and then to help provide some of those extras that help make our school such a fantastic place and if you would like to learn more we would love to see you. It would be lovely to see you there. If you unable to attend the meeting but would like more information please do come and see me.

Julia and Pre-school team

Autumn and hedgehogs

Hello everyone,

Last week we started our week off talking about what we knew about Autumn. The children talk about some of the changes that happen in Autumn. They were very keen to find out about hedgehogs. We shared some autumn poems, stories and songs. We read the story of we're going on a leaf hunt and afterwards we went on a leaf hunt around the school grounds finding different coloured leaves. We have enjoyed creating our own textured leaves with cellophane, tissue paper and using cotton buds and Autumn coloured paints. We have begun making our Kind hands poster and talking about how we can be kind at school, home and play. We had a great gym session on Tuesday morning playing fruit salad, moving in different ways and jumping from hoop to hoop. We are getting really good at putting our own shoes on. We have been looking after the chickens and guinea pigs. We bought the guinea pigs down to the playground for some lap time. The children really enjoyed this. We have been playing number bingo in small groups on Thursday afternoon and went and played in soft play. We have also been looking at our learning journeys with our key workers and have been talking about what we have enjoyed doing this term, what we have learnt to do and what we like to do next. These are on display in the classroom near the construction area. 

This week we will continue our learning about Autumn and hedgehogs through some different activities including a hedgehog number game, a trip to the woods on Thursday with Reception and lots more fun activities, stories and songs.
We will also be making our Christmas cards to send of to the publisher. You will be able to order these. More information to follow on how to order them soon. This is organised by POWSA. 
We will also be finishing of our kind hands poster. 

Home learning

Can you find a picture or an object which reminds you of Autumn to bring in for our interest table.


Jennie Jigsaw
We will continue talking about kind hands and kind words. Remembering how important these things are when playing with friends. We will be finishing off our poster. 

Letters and Sounds

 Fred frog from Read write inc

Joining in with repeated refrains and rhyming ends of stories

Notices

It's great to see so many WOW'S. We loved to share them at group time. Spare WOW slips are in the hall way. 

We have launch Marvellous  Me in Pre-school. Please check pigeon holes for login details and return permission slips as soon as possible. If you have any questions please come and see Julia. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday. This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 19th October  from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

A letter has gone home about Parents evening which is on Tuesday 16th and Thursday 18th October. The sign up sheet is in the corridor by the pigeon holes. If these dates are not convenient please do come and see me for an alternative date and time. 

We have got our trip to the woods on Thursday. If possible please could the children  wear Pre-school tops, have a coat depending on the weather - if they wear trainers but  bring wellies if it is wet. (We have been to carry out our risk assessment and it wasn't muddy, but who knows what the week will bring!) We will not be swimming on Thursday. 

On Friday we have got our teddy bears picnic from 2.30pm. Please see letter for more details. If you would like to attend please return slips to enable us to cater for everyone. This is a joint activity with Reception. Children can come dressed as a bear for the day on Friday. 

Our next Saturday Stay and Play is on Saturday 20th October from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

On Saturday 20th October we have got a community make over day from 2-5pm. We will be working on the wildlife garden. If you would like more information please come and see Julia.

On Monday 29th October it is a staff training day so the pre-school will be closed. We return to school on Tuesday 30th October

We would like to wish you all a wonderful half term. We have had a fantastic half term. There has been lots of exploring, fun leaning taking place. 

Please do come and see me if you have any questions. 

Here's to another fun and exciting week.

Julia and pre-school team

Autumn

Hello everyone,

Last week we talked about harvest. Some of us went to the orchard to harvest apples and pears. In small groups this week we have made apple muffins with the apples we collected. We practiced using knives to cut the apple into small pieces. For snack we had different breads, porridge and cereal and talk about where they come from. On Monday morning some of us made salt dough. On Monday afternoon we went to Reception for a joint afternoon. We made snails out of salt dough and conkers, leaf rubbings, tasting bread and exploring Reception classroom.  Pictures of our afternoon will be up in the corridor this week.  We have also been doing some threading of apple and pears shapes. We challenged ourselves to thread 10 fruits.  This will be up on display this week.  We have taken our beanstalk down this week and have enjoyed taking the beans out of the pods and looking at the diff rent sizes and colours. On Friday morning we went to harvest assembly and sang dingle dangle scarecrow and old MacDonald farm. We were all very confident at doing this. We have also made our own scarecrow for the garden which the children really enjoyed making. 

This week we will be exploring Autumn and the animals that like to hibernate in Autumn. We will be sharing lots of stories, poems and songs about Autumn. We will be asking the children what they would like to find out about Autumn. We will be going on a leaf hunt around the school grounds along with lots more fun activities. 

Home learning

Can you find a picture or an object which reminds you of Autumn to bring in for our interest table. 


Jennie Jigsaw
This week we will be talking about kind hands and kind words. Remembering how important these things are when playing with friends. We will be making our own poster using our hand print for this.

Letters and Sounds

 Fred frog from Read write inc

Joining in with repeated refrains and rhyming ends of stories

Notices

It's great to see so many WOW'S. We loved to share them at group time. Spare WOW slips are in the hall way. 

We have launch Marvellous  Me in Pre-school. Please check pigeon holes for login details and return permission slips as soon as possible. If you have any questions please come and see Julia. 

There is a POWSA AGM meeting on Tuesday 9th October at 7.30pm in the school staff room.  Please come and see Julia if you would like more information.

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

We had a lovely evening at Autumn fest with all our families. We raised an amazing £820.00. 

On Thursday 11th October it is Wacky Hair day in Aid of Weldmar Hospice care. Recommended donation is £1.00. Look forward to seeing some Wacky hair styles. 

Friday 12th October is a staff training day. Pre-school will be closed on this day. 

A letter has gone home about Parents evening which is on Tuesday 16th and Thursday 18th October. The sign up sheet is in the corridor by the pigeon holes. If these dates are not convenient please do come and see me for an alternative date and time. 

Our next Saturday Stay and Play is on Saturday 20th October from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

If you wild to join us with our family trip to see the Enormous Turnip, please returns slips by Thursday 11th October 2018. 

Please do come and see me if you have any questions. 

Here's to another fun and exciting week.

Julia and pre-school team