our 'joined up day'

Thank you to Mr Gibson, Mrs Collis, Mrs Howell and all the reception children for helping us all at pre school to have such a lovely fun day, I hope the children enjoyed themselves, we certainly did!
We made dragons, lanterns and cookies for our lucky envelopes and we worked together to create some big art.
The displays and photos will be up soon.
 We are going to finish the week completing our Chinese new year activities, and start something new next week.




So thank you to Harry Norman and his family who have brought in some lovely photographs of a family trip to the Aquarium with pictures of some sea turtles. That's a little clue to what we are doing next week, another clue is, it will make a nice change to do a beach theme in the winter, so if you are off to the beach soon, or even this weekend (weather permitting!!!) can you bring something interesting into pre school, we will use it.

joint day with reception

To help us celebrate Chinese new year we will be having a joint day with reception.


We will be divided into 4 groups and the children will have the opportunity to take part in 4 activities with the children from reception.
1 making cookies to put in their red envelopes they have been making.
2 making Chinese lanterns
3 making dragons
4 working together to create some big art.


we are all looking forward to the day, which I am sure the children will enjoy.


look out for the photographs and displays.

Chinese New Year

We have a very exciting week coming up, celebrating Chinese New Year.
We have lots of crafts, activities and food to enjoy.
We will be using our activities to look at patterns and shape, making decorations and red envelopes for fortune cookies.
The children will have lots of opportunities to explore music and colour, dragons and dance.


The first group will be visiting the library on Tuesday, so please make sure you have returned your permission slip.
At the Library the children will be choosing a book to put in the book corner, and also looking for books about Chinese new year.                 

chinese new year

Next week we will be celebrating  Chinese  new year. If you have any pictures, or anything Chinese you would like to share please bring it in.
We are starting Friday with the story of  'The Magic Paint brush, and continuing on the following week.
                                             Do not forget to return your library slip.

RSPB bird count

Last week the children really enjoyed making bird food, which they will all be bringing home to hang in the garden. Each child will also have a bird count sheet, do have a go at counting the birds you see, either on just one day or over the week, its up  to you.


we are continuing on with our bird topic this week, with lots of different activities. Last week lots of the children contributed to the robin number line, do have a look at it, some of the children have had a go at writing their numbers too!


The children loved singing 5 cheeky robins last week, so this week we are going to sing 2 little dicky birds, with lots more verses, and make some finger puppets as props.


We are also going to be playing lots of games in the hall and obstacle courses to practice positional language such as in front, behind and next too.

RSPB Bird watch

This week we are going to use all the children's ideas to improve our nature area and think about how we can look after the birds in this wintery weather.


We will also be taking part in the RSPB bird  count. The children will be bringing home a counting sheet and some bird food to hang in the garden, do have a go at recording the information with the children they will enjoy it and I am sure there will be some amazing WOW's t bring in.


This week we will also be exploring and learning about positional language such as next too, behind, in front etc. we will be playing games, obstacle courses, puzzles and stories (MD shape space and measure)
We start the week with the poem '5 cheeky robins' this will be the starting point to make a number line, helping the children to recognise numeral and count past 10. (MD numbers)


The children will be enjoying crafts,  making robins and lots of different birds for a display.

Happy New Year

Welcome back to the Spring term 2014. We hope you all had a lovely Christmas holiday.


We will start this week by wishing each other a Happy new Year and talk about our family celebrations this past holiday. We will continue to talk about celebrations for the rest of the year, so if there is a family celebration you would like to share with us we would love to know.

We are also going to be thinking about birds and taking care of them in this winter weather, before the holidays some of the children made a thinking picture with lots of their own ideas about how we can help birds in the winter, we will be continuing with that and also taking  part in the RSPB bird count later on in the month, more information to follow.