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

sensory bus

We have a very exciting week ahead of us this coming week. We have booked a sensory bus for the week, which will stay at pre school, so that we can do lots of exploring and discovering, taking  part in lots of sensory activities.
This will be from Tuesday until 3rd December so all the children will be able to have lots of exploration time.
 We will be planning our activities for the week from how we see the children using the bus, giving them more opportunities to be involved in their planning. (CL, UW, EAD)

On Monday we are going to spend some time in our nature area thinking about how we can look after birds and wildlife this winter, we will put lots of pictures, drawings and work in our nature diary.(UW)

We continue to explore sounds this week by singing songs with actions, and sounds, do ask your child if they can remember the words to 'a slinky snake' (CL, L)

We will also be discovering lots of different ways of counting for example by clapping, jumping, tapping, can you think of a different way to count? (MD) Amanda

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This week the children have lots of different activities using the sound s.

We have a S sound bingo game, a scissors activity, making sandwiches, creating a shop, a collage to make and more.(CL, L)

Outside we will be planting bulbs in the nature area, beds and pots. (UW )

We also have some number challenges this week. For example, what can you make with ten cubes?

 

why not fill in a WOW this week telling us of a WOW moment that your child has done at home,

 or look around the house or outside and tell us of all the things you can see that start with S (remember when sounding you say sssssssssssss(like a snake! not sssssrrrrr!)

 

Cooking with the children was great fun last week, we all enjoyed ourselves, there is still another group to cook which will be Wednesday.

 

     Amanda

 

fundraising news!

We have some lovely new toys and activities in Pre school thanks to the hard work of the fundraising committee and all our families who support them.
We have some new role play toys
number games
construction activities
a small world table
small world hospital
small world caravan
and lots more.
SO if you would like to get involved there is a meeting on Tuesday 19th November at 9.15 at the pre school all welcome.

Also don't forget the bingo evening   Friday 15th November the main school hall
                                                            doors open 5.30pm
                                                           eyes down 6pm
                                                           £2 per book -15 games
                                         COFFEE, TEA, SQUASH AND CAKE!
                                         ALL WELCOME