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