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.

one week until christmas!

we have a busy week this week filled with parties, activities, songs and stories.
We start the week going to watch the key stage 1 nativity play, the children have been very interested in the story of the nativity, so it will be nice for them to see the story on stage.

The children will also be making crowns this week, which they have chosen to do after talking about the three kings. The children have also enjoyed voting for their favourite picture from the garden centre and making it into a Christmas card, they have chosen the colours and decorations too.
We have lots more crafts to do with lots more glitter and sparkles!

Thank you to all those children who wore a Christmas jumper on Friday, we enjoyed a Christmas sing song, using the jumper pictures as our inspiration, the 2 favourite songs were 'Rudolph the red nose reindeer' and 'when santa got stuck up the chimney' which we will continue to sing next week. Do you know them? ask the children if they can teach one of them to you!

Parties Wednesday and Thursday and for those who attend Friday afternoon a lively Christmas sing song in the school hall to finish off the term.

Amanda

the breakfast

A big THANK YOU to all of you who attended our family breakfast, it was so well attended, I know the children enjoyed it and talked about it all morning.

We also enjoyed the Christmas lunch today we sat  with reception and year 4, all the children did well and ate well, food events are always popular!

The Dorchester library are running some activity sessions in the Christmas holidays, including a reading challenge.

Also don't forget the Christmas tree festival at St Georges church, do let us know (on a wow) if you manage to see it.

SOME IDEAS FOR WOWS.
Something your child has enjoyed at pre school
Something new they have discovered
A book you have enjoyed
A fantastic achievement at swimming, gym, ballet etc
riding a bike
baking a cake
counting
recognising sounds
going to the beach
enjoying an outing
has your child been talking about the nativity?
as you can see the list is endless, and I could go on and on, so why not fill out a wow circle to share at pre school.
    Amanda

Christmas activities!

I do hope all the children enjoyed the trip to the garden centre, we all did, and the children have been doing some lovely pictures with adults scribing for them about the decorations they liked best. These have been done on leaf shapes and are hanging on our learning tree, do have a look.
This coming week we have a picture board of the favourite decorations, which we will be using to help us choose the design of our Christmas card. (CEL, thinking critically)

We will also be looking and learning about the nativity story, you could ask your child if they can tell you about the story of baby Jesus. We will be cutting out pictures to make our own nativity pictures to bring home. (PD- using tools, CL recall of stories)
Some of the children enjoyed seeing the crowns at the garden centre, so we thought it would be fun to make crowns as well next week.

Last week we made a learning picture, when we asked the children how we could look after the birds in the winter, they came up with some lovely ideas, so in the afternoons we will be making some bird food and tying up apples for the birds to eat. (UW)

Looking forward to seeing you at our annual family breakfast on Tuesday.

Don't forget to sign up for the parent consultations.
If you have time do go and look at the Christmas tree festival at St Georges church, last week the children made some lovely decorations for a pre school tree and it looks super .Our theme is birds.

the Garden Centre

Last week the children had great fun exploring in  the sensory bus that we have had at pre school all week, there were so many sensory experiences to explore from lights, textures, moving patterns and sounds. The children had lots to say about what they explored with lots of lovely language.


This week we hope that all the children will be able to take part in our trips to the Poundbury Garden Centre to see the Christmas decorations, so if you have not returned your child's permission slip please do so as soon as possible, or ask for another slip to sign.

We will be looking at the decorations and displays, the children will take photographs of the decorations and displays they like and back at pre school we will decide which decorations we would like to make and how we can make them. (this will encourage the children to be involved in their planning and to create and think critically)

We also have a number activity, sorting Christmas socks and everyday socks into sizes and pegging them onto our washing line. (MD SSM)
Some of the children spent a lot of time with clipboards and pencils role playing and mark making 'being waiters' so we have a role play café this week (CL, L writing).

Amanda