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