Hi Everyone,
We hope you have all had a great bank holiday weekend despite the ranges of weather! It was lovely to see all the children back from the Easter hols and to hear all about their wonderful adventures.
Last week we had a great week back settling into pre-school. We enjoyed sharing our Easter Holiday News with our key worker group adults.We mark make amazing pictures of our Easter hols on Monday and Tuesday. A group of children also had PE with Mr Treble and played some great games outside on the school field. We were fantastic at listening and following instructions.
On Tuesday Afternoon we walked to Maiden Castle Farm to see all the changes taking place in the season of Spring on the Farm. We were Brillant at walking all the way to the farm. We met Farmer Hazel and found some very cute lambs. We got to bottle feed the lambs and learn all about the sheep and wool. We also saw some cows, pigs, piglets, horses and chickens. We watched the farm machinery in action. We collected the eggs from the chickens. It was an amazing trip and we all had lots of fun.
On Wednesday morning we had a visit from the Life Ed Van. We met Harold the giraffe who talked about our body parts and how to look after ourselves. In the afternoon we did the hand washing experiment. We learnt all about how to wash our hands. We put baby oil and glitter (germs) on our hands. First we just put them in water and observed that very little glitter came off our hands. Then we put soap on our hands and washed them. The glitter then came off and we could see the bits we hadn't washed properly.
On Thursday we drew a picture of ourselves for the end of class tea towel. We looked in the mirror to help us with our drawing. We talked about the different parts of our body. A letter will be coming home soon about how to order the tea towels.
On Friday we made pasta salad. We talked about all the healthy things we could put in our pasta salad. We tried new foods. We used a knife to cut up the vegetables for our salad and used a grater. They looked very yummy. If your child bought home a pasta salad please can you return the container.
Throughout the week we have loved our new role play area which is Dinosaur world. We have been exploring dinosaur Skeltons and fossils in the sand by discovering them with brushes. We have been explorers and have loved camping out in the tent. We have really enjoyed the water tray this week which had tea in. We have been making cups of tea with the teapots, spoons, funnels and sieves. We have used lots of mathematical language. We have been busy sorting different foods into unhealthy and healthy groups. We have been talking about these foods. On the playdough table we have enjoyed making people using the different body parts. We have enjoyed threading the wooden fruits onto the string. We have been making repeating patterns with our threadings.
Throughout the week we have enjoyed a variety of stories and songs.
In our Read write Inc groups with have been learning the following sounds:-
Julia's and Karen's group- m,a,s
Lauren's group- m,a
Sharon and Colleen's group- m
Here are some Read write inc videos to support the letter sounds above:
Here are some pictures of from the last week of term....
This week we will be continuing finding out all about how to be heathy, how to look after ourselves and people who help us. If you have a family member or friend who has a role as a person who help us and they would like to come in and talk about their job please come and let us know. On Thursday we have a special visitor coming in to talk about their role as a doctor. We are going to use the Now Press Play headsets for some drama based on the theme of people who help us.
Home learning:-
Fred Frog game-
Pointing
Fred asks the children to point to various things in the classroom or outdoors.
Say ‘Fred wants you to point to the ‘c-l-o-ck’.
Ask children to say ‘c-l-o-ck’. Pause to see if they can blend and point to the clock.
Say ‘c-l-o-ck, clock’. Ask children to repeat.
Can you make a healthy snack or dinner following a recipe?
Notices:
As the weather is starting to warm, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. Please apply suncream to your child before school and tick your child's name off on the list which will be on the green table by the pre-school door. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure either it is in their bags or a spare is kept at pre-school.
On Friday 6th May we have got stay and play from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.
On Monday 2nd May it is Bank Holiday Monday, we are closed on this day and are back open on the Tuesday 3rd May.
Can you this weblink https://whatimreading.org/ to make a poster of your families favourite book this week? We are going to display them in the window for everyone to see. If you need your poster printing please email it to me.
This week we will continue to send home our play library. If you have one at home please bring it back when you are next in. Please see link for video for information about this. https://www.facebook.com/POWFS/videos/1039096813302955
POWSA Events coming up and notices
POWSA Meeting this Wednesday at 7.30pm in the main school hall. Everyone Welcome.
Spring Fest is on Friday 6th May from 5.00pm-7.30pm. Tickets can be purchased for the event from the main school office along with hog roast tickets.
Your School Lottery are giving you the chance to win a £500 bicycle voucher.
To be in with a chance of winning you just need to buy one or more tickets before Saturday 3rd April 2022. Each ticket gives you a chance to win. So more tickets mean more chances to win!
Tickets for the lottery cost just £1 per week. There is a guaranteed cash winner for your school every week and the chance to win the £25,000 jackpot.
Please do come and see myself or a member of team if you have any questions.
Here's to a great first week back.
Julia, Sharon, Colleen, Karen, Lauren, Zoe, Chloe, Ebony
