Hi everyone

Hi everyone,

It's been amazing to see all the fantastic home learning the children are doing. It's lovely to receive  their emails. Keep sending all the wonderful things you are up to by emailing them to j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk. 

This week our chicks are going to be hatching. I have got the incubator at home and will be live streaming the hatching on the school Facebook page and You tube page from when the process starts. Keep an eye out for this. It is amazing to watch and very addictive!!

Everyday Mr Spracklen has Good morning POW at 9.30, 11.20 virtual assembly and 4.00pm Evening POW. This can be accessed on Facebook and you tube and is a great way of seeing what everyone is up to. It's really interactive and guarantee to make you smile. 

We have thought of some challenges you might like to do throughout the week. Please don't feel you need to undertake these as they are intended just to give you ideas.

Physical Challenge:-

Can you make an obstacle course in the garden which involves climbing over, under and balancing? 
Don't forget Mr Treble's PE daily video to take part in.


Fine motor skills:-Can you make a pasta necklace? Can you thread your pasta onto the string/wool? How many pieces of pasta can you thread? Maybe you could paint your necklace.



Maths Challenge:-

Play hide and seek with the numbers 1-10 around the house or garden. Can you recognise the numerals? Could you put the numbers in order?

Experessive Art and design:- 

Can you make a model out of a variety of materials? Which tools could you use to join and balance the materials? How could you join pieces together? 


Can you sing your favourite song and tap out the rhythm with a stick? 

Literacy:- 

Can you act out one of your favourite stories as a family?
Join in with a Read write inc session Speed sounds Set 1 at 9.30am @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR21oy-9u0FghZxWgWdM4PGP8alai35ZbUA1E7AsPEsGCS-uUsjhJgfHPx8
Take it in turns to FRED talk the objects inside your house.
Can you draw a picture of something in your garden?

Understanding of the  world

Can you use your purple mash login to colour a picture in. (if you need any help accessing purple mash, please give me an email.




Tomorrow Zoe will be phoning all of our families to see how you all are and if there's anything we can do to help. Also please feel free to give us an email if you have any questions or need anything.

Missing you all and hope you have a happy week playing and learning together. We can't wait to see your photo’s of your adventure’s.

From

Julia and Pre-school team

Hello everyone...

Hello everyone,

Hope you are all keeping well and enjoying the sunshine.

It has been amazing to receive all your lovely home learning emails and to see all the wonderful things you have been up to. Keep sending them in.

Here is a couple of midweek challenges you might like to do....

1. With the lovely sunshine at the moment, can you find a shadow and do some shadow drawing. You could use your own shadow, your favourite toy or object.

2. Can you pick up a ball without using your hands?

3. Can you make the letters in your name out of objects you can find?

4. Can you make a model out of construction?

Please feel free to email or contact us if there is anything we can do to help.




Julia and Pre-school team

Hello everyone

Hello everyone,

We wish all our mum's a very Happy Mothers Day. Last week the children really enjoyed making wrapping paper for the daffodil's they had grown along with the threading of flowers and hearts for their mum's. 

The weather this weekend has been beautfiul, a perfect opportunity to get out in to the garden for some fresh air and see all the wonderful spring bulbs flowering. 

We are all thinking of our families and community  at this difficult time and are always around for support. 

We have thought of some challenges you might like to do throughout the week and we would love to see some photos of what you have been up to. Please email them to j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk. 

Physical challenge- Cooling Rack Weaving- can you  weave pipe cleaners, wool, shoe laces, string, ribbon back and forth through cooling racks.

Can you join in with Mr Treble's Pe session online. Check out the school Facebook page for link or maybe you could practice catching a ball. Can you catch a large ball? Can you try catching a smaller ball?

Maths challenge - When outside can you collect different objects e.g. daisies, stones, sticks etc and sort them into groups? How many have you got in each group? Can you write the numeral using chalk? If you put two groups together how many would have

then?

Expressive art and design - Explore mixing colours with a salad spinner- Add paper and various colours of paint to an old salad spinner and can you spin the handle to mix the colours. What effects can you create?

Go Kids Music online club (https://www.facebook.com/gokidmusic) - Can you join in with the live music session on Tuesday at 1.30pm or Thursday at 10.00am?

Literacy - Enjoy sharing a story with people in your family. Can you tell the story using the pictures? Join in with a Read write inc session Speed sounds Set 1 at 9.30am @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR21oy-9u0FghZxWgWdM4PGP8alai35ZbUA1E7AsPEsGCS-uUsjhJgfHPx8

Understanding of the  world - The weather is beautiful this week, what different bugs can you find? Can you name and describe them? Could you draw, paint or make a model of your favourite bug?

Every morning at 11:20am each school day, Mr Spracklen will be hosting a virtual whole-school assembly. 

We will be making contact with you each day this week to see how you are and if there's anything we can do to help you.

Missing you all and hope you have a sunny week playing and learning together. We can't wait to see your photo’s of your adventure’s.

Keep smiling


Julia and Pre-school team

Keep smiling

On Friday we will be ending term with a non-uniform day with the children invited to wear bright clothes to bring us some cheer and a donation for our local food bank!  We would also like to bring a smile to all of our faces by having a joke to share as well.  Put your thinking caps on and bring along your favourite joke to tell and share. You can join in at home as well, just email them in in the usual way and wear your brightest clothes for the day.  

Spring...

Hello everyone,

Last week had great fun learning all about the life cycle of a frog. Throughout the week we have enjoyed a variety of fiction and information books about frogs. On Monday morning we continued to enjoy making puppets including some frog puppets. we have enjoyed visiting the school pond to see the frog spawn and to explore what else we could find in the pond including water snails. We enjoyed standing on the new pond platform. On Tuesday morning, Helen bought in her two exotic frogs from home. We asked Helen some fantastic questions to find out information about her pet frogs. These are on display in the classroom. In the afternoon we used tight with a variety of fillings including rice and lentils to make balls at the end of the tight. We dipped them into paint and then used are arms to throw and swing them onto paper. We loved doing this and it was great for our gross motor skills. Colleen then cut them out into tadpole shapes and drew a face on them. On Wednesday and Thursday morning in small groups we talked about the life cycle of a chicken. We put the eggs in the incubator and talked about what happens during the time in the incubator. We are very excited about the chicks hatching. 

We have enjoyed singing the song of 5 speckled frogs in group time and with the frogs in the gelli baff. On Thursday, one of the children bought in their pet African snail for us to learn about. We had some brilliant questions to ask about the snail and enjoyed watching his movements. On Thursday afternoon we planted our potatoes and picked our garlic bulbs from the garden. We are drying our garlic out and then we would like to make some garlic bread. On Friday morning a group went swimming and showed Helen their amazing swimming skills. One group went to watch Year 2 class assembly at school which was all about sailors. A group made pizza for our snack which was very yummy. In the afternoon following on from our orange juice making the week before we made some fruit smoothies with strawberries and bananas. It was delicious. We have enjoyed representing frog spawn using bubble wrap and paint. The children have then go onto independently use the bubble wrap as a technique in the painting area. We have enjoyed playing a variety of games during the week including the game of what's the time Mr Chick. Felix came up with this brilliant game. 

This week we are going to continue to our learning about eggs and look at different eggs as we ran out of time last week to do this. We will be talking about what it looks like inside the eggs in the incubator. We will be making some frogs for our life cycle on the wall. We will be doing some gardening this week. We will continue to enjoy and share some spring stories and information books. Please do bring in any books you may like to share about spring. We will also be making some surprises for our mum's to bring home towards the end of the week.  

Home learning

Can you find out something new about the season of spring? Can you make a picture of Spring? 

Letters and sounds:- 

Last week Karen/Helen and Sharon's groups have done the sound m,a,s and this week will be doing the sound d. Last week Julia's group have done the sounds m, a, s, d and this week will be doing the sound t. We have been doing lots of games with Fred frog which involves oral blending and segmenting  We will have also been doing some alliteration. We have been thinking of words beginning with different sounds. There is an information session on Tuesday 17th March at 9.00am. 

Notices

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you come in the mornings.

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

We apologise for postponing our stay and play on Saturday due to a drains problem which is now been sorted. Our next Saturday Stay and Play is this Saturday 21st March from 10.-11.30. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Wednesday 18th March at 3.10pm we have got our story session. Please come and join us. 

On Tuesday 17th March there is an information session at 9.00am to share the Read Write Inc Nursery programme and accessing Purple Mash at home. 

The  POWSA Easter Bingo this Friday has been cancelled. 

Here's to an exciting week.

Julia and Pre-school Team

frogs and eggs

Hello everyone,

Last week we had a great week celebrating World Book Week. If was great children bringing in their favourite books to share at group time. Children always welcome to bring in books from home to share. On Monday we listened to the story of The Gruffalo.   We had designed our own Gruffalo creatures and made gruffalo crumble for afternoon snack. The children were great at cutting up the apples and making the crumble topping. On Tuesday we shared the story of The tiger who came to tea. We created our own tigers with orange and black stripes of paper and wrote invitations. We made some cakes and decorated them in the afternoon. We also made some sandwiches and had afternoon tea and a tiger came along to join us. We had a great time visiting the library on Wednesday and Thursday. The children enjoyed going on the bus and having a tour of the library. The children all choose a book to bring back to pre-school. These are in the book corner to share over the next few weeks. On Thursday we had great fun dressing up as our favourite book character and telling which character we were at group time and the story we came from. On Friday we shared the story of The gingerbread man with stick puppets. Afterwards the children had great fun making their own stick puppets to use a the puppet theatre. We will be continuing with our stick puppets on Monday. On Wednesday morning a group of children had PE with Mr Treble and they continued with their catching and throwing skills. On Thursday afternoon a group of children enjoyed listening to a shortened version of the BFG. This interest came from a group of children last week. We then made talking telephones from the BFG with cups and wool. The children really enjoyed finding out how these work.

On Friday afternoon we made orange juice using fresh oranges and a juicer. We enjoyed having the juice for snack. This idea came from a child who had enjoyed pretending to make orange juice at the water play. 

We have enjoyed the small world of Whatever next and The tiger who came to tea area. We have used the props to act out the stories. 

This week we are going to be finding out all about frogs, frog spawn, tadpoles and eggs. We are going to be doing a variety of activities including visiting the school pond to find out about the life cycle of a frog. We have got a visitor (frog) coming in on Tuesday who is a different type of frog to what we find in our gardens. On Wednesday morning we will be putting the eggs in the incubator for 21 days. They will hatch on the last week of term. We will be learning about different types of eggs e.g. duck, hen, wild birds etc. 

Over the week we will be sharing lots of stories about frogs and eggs and learning a few new songs. 

Home learning

Can you find out something new about the season of spring?

Letters and sounds:- 

Last week Karen/Helen and Sharon's groups have done the sound m,a and this week will be doing the sound s. Last week Julia's group have done the sounds m, a, s and this week will be doing the sound d. We have been doing lots of games with Fred frog which involves oral blending and segmenting  We will have also been doing some alliteration. We have been thinking of words beginning with different sounds. There is an information session on Tuesday 17th March at 9.00am. 

Notices

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you come in the mornings.

 This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday11th March 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 14th March from 10.-11.30. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Tuesday 10th March at 3.10pm we have got our story session. Please come and join us. 

On Tuesday 17th March there is an information session at 9.00am to share the Read Write Inc Nursery programme and accessing Purple Mash at home.

On Friday 20th March is POWSA Easter Bingo. A great family evening of bingo. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down at 6pm. 

Here's to an exciting week.

Julia and Pre-school Team

Book week....

Hello everyone,

Last week we really enjoyed listening to the story of Mr Wolf's pancakes on Monday and Tuesday. We also enjoyed listening to the audio version of the story.  We had a go at writing a shopping list of ingredients Julia needed to get from the supermarket. We also practiced our scissors skills by cutting out pancakes and toppings to stick on the top. On Tuesday morning at group time we learnt how to make pancakes. At snack time we enjoyed eating pancakes with a variety of our favourite toppings. In the afternoon we had pancakes races in the hall due to the rain!! For the rest of the week we have enjoyed sharing the story of The three little pigs. The children have been great at joining in with the repeated refrains in the story and retelling the story. We also enjoyed listening to a different version called the three little wolves and the big bad pig. We have used the three little pigs small world area to retell the story with our friends. On Wednesday morning we had PE with Mr Treble and we practiced our catching and throwing skills using beanbags. On Wednesday afternoon we collected a variety of materials around the school grounds to make a house and then used the hairdryer to see if the material would blow away. The children really enjoyed this activity and using the hairdryer. On Thursday and Friday morning a group of children helped Karen think of words which rhyme with pig, stick, pot and straw. On Thursday afternoon we acted out the story of The Three little pigs outside using the roundhouse, wood area etc. We also enjoyed playing on the playtrail and carried on the game with our friends. On Friday afternoon we played number bingo in groups and played outside with our wellies on. On Friday morning, Helen made an obstacle course and we practiced our balancing, climbing and jumping skills.
We have enjoyed the vets role play and being the vet and making the animals better. 

This week we are going to be celebrating World Book Week with a variety of activities around books. We have got our trip to the library this week to explore and learn what is available at the library.   We will be exploring a different book each day and have a variety of activities to go with the book including cooking, drama, drawing/painting, science and lots more. We will be looking at different types of books e.g. Fiction and non fiction. 
On Thursday we are dressing up as our favourite book character. We would love to read the children's favourite books, so it would be great if the children would like to bring these in over the week. 
If you would like to come and share your favourite story with the children, please come and speak to a member of staff to arrange a time during the week.
On Tuesday afternoon Year 3 children will be coming to read to pre-school and this will continue on a weekly basis.

Home learning

It has been lovely to see all the amazing number hunt posters come in. Can you bring in a picture of you reading your favourite story in an interesting place? We sent home last week a story challenge. Please do bring them in when completed to receive a certificate

Letters and sounds:- 

Last week Karen/Helen and Sharon's groups have done the sound m and this week will be doing the sound a. Last week Julia's group have done the sounds m, a and this week will be doing the sound s. We have been doing lots of games with Fred frog which involves oral blending and segmenting  We will have also been doing some alliteration. We have been thinking of words beginning with different sounds. There is an information session on Tuesday 17th March at 9.00am. 

Notices

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you come in the mornings.

On Friday 6th March February at 5.00pm we have got our story session. Please come and join us. Children very welcome to come in pyjamas and bring a teddy. We have changed our story time dates list. Please take a look at the poster for future dates.

 This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 6th March 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 14th March from 10.-11.30. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Tuesday 3rd March POWSA meeting in School staff room at 7.30pm. All welcome.

On Thursday 5th March is World Book Day, children can come dressed as their favourite book character. Children also to bring their favourite story to school. 

On Tuesday 17th March there is an information session at 9.00am to share the Read Write Inc Nursery programme and accessing Purple Mash at home.

Here's to an exciting book week.

Julia and Pre-school Team