The Elves and the Shoe Maker

Hello everyone,

Last week we enjoyed listening to the story of The elves and the shoemaker. It has been great to read different versions of the story. The children have noticed the similarities and differences in the story. We have been drawing around our own feet and guessing how many cubes would fit inside our foot outline. We then filled our foot outline with cubes and counted how many would fit. We really liked our welly throwing game and we used the metre rulers to measure how far we could throw a welly. We have also been using different textured materials to design a shoe. These are up on on display. We have also enjoyed colouring in and painting shoes. We have used the scissors to cut out our shoes. These are also up on display. On Tuesday morning Molly's mum who is a dancer came in with her different dance shoes. We found out all about latin and ballroom shoes, costumes and dancing. We even had a go at dancing and tapping out rhythms. We have also enjoyed playing in the shoe shop role play area. We have also been writing letters to the elves and posting them in our postbox at pre-school.  We had our weekly PE session with Mr Treble on Tuesday morning and we practiced our ball skills and running around games. On Monday afternoon we planted some bulbs in our garden. On Friday afternoon we got the guinea pigs out and held them on our laps. It has been a great week.

This week we will be continuing the story of The elves and the shoemaker story.  On Monday morning we will be joining Reception to watch the Ballet of The elves and the shoemaker. On Tuesday afternoon we have got a visitor coming in to talk about sport shoes. On Tuesday morning we have our PE session with Mr Treble. On Thursday morning we have another visitor coming in to show us their shoes for ballet and tap. We will also be making some shoes this week. We will be doing some gardening and lots more fun learning. 

Home learning

Can you take a picture of your favourite pair of shoes and bring a picture into school?

Letters and sounds:- 

We will continue with our rhyming door by adding new rhyming words and playing rhyming games. We will continue to learn the Read Write Inc Pictures. We will also start with some alliteration. 

Jennie Jigsaw
Last week we talked about challenges and what challenges  could we set ourselves. We came up with some great ideas. 
This week Jennie Jigsaw will be asking us what we are good at.

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. 

On Tuesday 22nd January we are having a day of wearing your favourite shoes to school. 

On Thursday 24th January at 3.10pm we have got our story session. Please come and join us. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Wednesday. This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday 24th January  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 26th January from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

On Wednesday we should be swimming as long as the pool is back up and running. 

Parent's evening sign up sheets are up in the corridor. If these dates and times are unsuitable please do come and see me to arranged a time more convenient for yourselves. 

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

Here to another exciting week.

Julia and Pre-school team