Christmas :-)

Hello everyone,

Last week we had a great week making the decorations for the Christmas tree Festival at St Georges Church. We listened to the story of the 12 days of Christmas and talked about the different objects in the song. We then all had a go at making a decoration for the tree. 
We have now all been to post box and posted our Christmas Breakfast invitation to you. We really enjoyed going to the post box and we hope you liked your invitation. On Friday afternoon we had a special visitor. Albert's dad who is a postman came and visited us We looked at his post van. 
We have enjoyed making marble runs and building with the wood blocks this week. Some great models created. 
We have enjoyed listening to different rhyming stories and we are becoming confident with rhyming. We love to hear the children's rhyming words.
On Wednesday we had PE with Mr Treble and we did a variety of games in the hall. 
On Thursday a group went swimming and we are becoming more confident at collecting hoops from the bottom of the pool. 
On Friday morning a group of children went to watch Year 1 assembly. We did some brilliant listening and watching. We have been out on the balance bikes and have started learning some Christmas songs in preparation for our carol service. 

This week we are going to the garden centre in small groups and will be visiting the cafe for a drink. We will be looking at all the decorations and talking about colour, shape, texture and the story of Christmas. 
We are also going to be cooking and making a yummy surprise to bring home at Christmas. We will  start making some Christmas decorations to bring home at the end of term. We are going to be reading lots of Christmas stories and singing lots of carols and Christmas songs. On Wednesday we have got PE and Thursday there is swimming. We will be sharing the story of The Nativity this week. We have lots of Christmas activities to challenge our learning. 

Letters and Sounds

We will be using the signs from Read write inc which are "my turn, your turn" "talk to your partner". Looking at stories with rhyming endings. We have got a rhyming door in our classroom and we will be adding our rhyming words to the door. This week we will be learning the Read Write Inc picture names: Girl, Orange, caterpillar, net, pirate, tower, insect dinosaur, snake Maisie next to the mountain and apple. We will be using Fred the Frog. 

Home Learning

When you are out and about can you recognise different logos e.g. the Tesco sign or car make signs? Can you make a poster of ones you have found?

If you have a favourite Christmas story or song, please bring into pre-school so we can share at group time.

Notices

On Tuesday 3rd December  we have our story time at 3.10pm. Please come and join us. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. If you are able to arrive as close to 3:10pm as possible that would be fantastic, if you do not make it until after 3:15 we would politely request that you wait to collect your child at the normal pick up time as, I am sure you will appreciate, it is quite disturbing for the children and also getting ready for the end of the day is a busy time. Many thanks for your support and cooperation on this matter. 

On Friday 6th December is non-school uniform day. Please bring in a  tombola prizes for the Christmas Fayre - teddies, bottles, chocolates and general tombola all very welcome! 

  It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday. This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 6th December from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

On Thursday a group of children will be swimming. 

On Tuesday 3rd December is the next POWSA meeting in the staff room at 7.30pm. Please do come and join us. 

In each child's post pockets is a brown envelope for ordering the Christmas cards they have made. The preview and orders can be seen at https://www.myschoolart.co.uk/product-category/prince-of-wales/. Orders needs to be placed by 9th December or in the brown envelopes by 25th November. 

On Thursday 12th December is our family Christmas breakfast from 8.30-9.15am. Please return slip to help us cater for the event. 

On Friday 13th December is the Christmas Fair from 3.00-5.30pm. Father Christmas is at the event and a slot can be booked at the main school office. 
If your child would like a Christmas lunch, please see myself or Caroline for a Hot lunch code. These need to ordered by Monday 9th December.

Here's to another great week.

Julia and Pre-school Team