Can you help?

Next week we are looking at people around the world.  We were wondering if any parents  could spare some time to talk or show the children about somewhere else in the world that they may have lived looking at perhaps language, music or stories. This is part of the Early Years curriculum which encourages us to look at diversity within our community and the world as well as covering lots of other areas of learning. If you can spare a few minutes please let us know.

***REMINDER INSET DAY on Monday 29th Nov in line with the village school** 

We’ve been caring for the dolls, washing them, putting nappies on and finding out what babies need to make them happy.

Some of us were drawn around and created our own super heroes or named where are feet, hands and head were. 

We created a wreath for Remembrance Day. We talked about remembering brave people who look after us. 

Looking at numerals and value.

Finding items with a certain colour.

At least once a week we have toast, crackers or rice cakes and practice spreading our own butter.

At Forest school we talked about animals that hibernate, we lit the fire, sang songs, watched the popcorn grow on the fire and created hedgehogs from pinecones and sticks. 

We used our new scales to compare weight and talk about which is heavier and lighter using bricks, dinosaurs or whatever else we were interested in. 

We read our friends stories.

We talked about fire and how to be careful around fires.  We sang songs around our campfire, using our speaker we listened to the noise that fireworks can make.  After listening and watching fireworks some of us wanted to paint firework pictures. We had a fire drill which everyone was very good at listening and walking up to big school. We also looked at the sound that some letters make and tried to find them around preschool. 

We use Jolly Phonics songs to help with learning letter sounds first rather than the letter names.  There are videos available on places like You Tube showing Jolly Phonics https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zvJKc0Ord1g.  The BBC also have Alphablocks and their app these also look at letter sounds in a fun way.

We will be going to the woods again on Monday 15th November.  We’ll meet as before at 8.45 at Pickeridge Farm, if parents could arrive promptly so that we can get everyone down to the woods. If you are unable to make it on the day please text or call to let us know on 07375 783059.  Please don’t leave a voicemail message on this phone.