Hello everyone,
We hope you have all had a lovely weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all our amazing mum's.
Last week we had great fun with a variety of science experiments throughout the week. On Monday we did the dancing raisins experiment. We predicted what might happen when you add raisins, popcorn seeds, pasta to lemonade. We then found natural objects outside and added them to the lemonade. On Tuesday we experimented with food colouring and milk along with celery and coloured water. The next day we saw that the veins in the celery had changed coloured. On Wednesday we put our eggs in the incubator and talked about what the incubator does and how long it will take till the eggs hatch (21 days). On Thursday we learnt about how it rains through an experiment with shaving foam, blue food colouring and water. On Friday we did an experiment with bicarbonate of Soda and vinegar. We also made large bubbles over our friends using hoops. This was amazing fun.
On Tuesday we had PE with Mr Treble and we used a variety of benches to balance along and jumping off and landing on two feet. We also played the sleepy pirate game which we love to play.
Throughout the week we have enjoyed making our mummies a surprise for Mother's Day. We really enjoyed drawing a picture of our choice on the slices and then choosing which colour tissue paper to wrap it up in. We then wrapped up our gift and wrote our name on the tag and attached it. We hope you liked them. They make great coasters.
During the week we have enjoyed exploring the metal detectors in the sand and around pre-school and finding out how they worked. We discovered that they beep when they find metal.
In the messy area we have enjoyed exploring cornflour, shaving foam and cooked spaghetti with the scissors. We have enjoyed playing and creating with the wooden blocks with the frogs. We made them homes and habitats to live in. We had great fun playing with the Space small world play with space ships, astronauts, aliens and black grit/coloured pebbles. We sang the song of 5 little men in a flying saucer. We are continuing to enjoy playing in the supermarket role play area. We have continued to observe how the frog spawn is changing into tadpoles. We have been enjoying playing outside and have been using our imagination to make up our play. We enjoyed playing outside in the rain in our all in one suits and wellies. We used wet chalk to create pictures on the playground floor.
This week we will continue with settling back into preschool and exploring and find out all about dinosaurs. We have got lots of stories and non fiction books about dinosaurs which we will be sharing throughout the next two weeks. We will be sharing in particular the story of Stomp Chomp Big Roars Here come the dinosaurs by Nick Sharratt. We have also got lots of exciting activities to support the children's learning and knowledge further. We will also be continuing to observe our eggs in the incubator.
Home learning Challenges:-
Getting Dressed Challenge
Can you challenge yourself to get dressed and undressed?
FRED talk game:-
Body parts
Fred instructs children to touch their nose, hands on your head etc.
Say ‘Fred wants you to put your hands on your h-ea-d’.
Ask children to say ‘h-ea-d’. Pause to see if they can blend and put their hands on their
head.
Say ‘h-ea-d, head’. Ask children to repeat.
Dinosaur Challenge
Can you design and create your own dinosaur by making, painting, drawing?
Notices
On the whiteboard outside the classroom door is a pocket with Home Wow slips in, please help yourself to these. We love celebrating the children's home WOW'S.
We are collecting packaging from foods and house hold products for our role play supermarket. If you have any, please do bring them in. We will place them in isolation for 72 hours before we put them in the role play area.
The children will also be able to bring home, puzzles and games in their library books bags if they would like to.
Red Nose Day 19th March.
- Dress down day with a suggested donation to Comic Relief of £1
- Comedy Cake decorating competition (details attached) please make it clear that cakes are not to be brought into school due to Covid-19 restrictions
- Pupils will also be invited to 'share a joke' the funniest joke from each class will win a small prize. (Teachers and pupils can judge the funniest one) (details attached and forms included in your resource packs)
- Red noses will be available to buy from school from Monday.
We love seeing all the lovely home learning you are all doing so please do email it in to j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk and headteacher@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk
Here's to an exciting week of exploring and learning about dinosaurs..
Julia, Helen, Karen, Sharon and Colleen
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