Our week has been a lovely return to normal! We have been full most days and the children have coped brilliantly with the increasing numbers of friends and the need to take turns and share equipment. We are really pleased to see everyone back and hope that a return to normal for you all school wise has gone well and that your children are not too exhausted!
This has been a busy week full of play and learning, we are learning about transport and our garden club has started for the year and these are our two main themes. Thank you for the wonderful donations that we have had this week, it was a joy to see parents carrying a bag of compost or gro bags up the path for me! We were also luck to have a lovely lady called Tiffany and her helper deliver some top soil for our raised beds.
The Sun table has been a work station this week for developing skills in using tools safely and we have been getting stronger using hammers and screwdrivers, hand whisks and tweezers too. The Moon room has been open during free flow as a play cafe and it has been a delight to over hear the chattering and menu ideas. Outside we have focused on transport and played with the cars and made a car wash, used planks and guttering to make ramps for the small cars, we have played “airports” – not that anyone has been near one for a while!
The Sun group had a day learning about bees, they learnt about the life cycle and then made craft in the afternoon, they have explored seeds and bulbs and look at the garden catalogues as well producing some lovely drawings and chat about what grows in our gardens. The children LOVED looking at their baby pics and were able to recognise some of their friends so please keep sending them in as the children without a pic yet are a bit sad! The group also learnt about vehicles and transport.
The Moon group also loved the baby photos and learning about growth and change and were super pleased with their cress heads which look fantastic! The Moons also learnt how to use knives to chop up their own snack, worked on their counting skills and drew pictures of themselves doing something they are really good at. One little girl drew a bunny “I am really good at drawing bunnies” and she is! Another said “I am good at writing” and then wrote her name, spelling it out – fantastic!
The Stars have been kept busy too with lots of work on transport, listening to the different sounds vehicles make, looking at transport on the ipad and enjoying an explore in the back natural garden too. The stars have also drawn some lovely pictures of things that grow in the garden.
Next week we will be making mini worlds in the Moon room and we would love it if you could make your house out of a cardboard box – maybe you could draw the house on plain paper and stick it to a box or perhaps you can print a picture of your house and stick it to a box. We will be making Cullompton on the floor with lots of photos the children took during lockdown and any additions would be great!
We hope you will all enter of Easter Egg competition and it would be great to raise some much needed funds for the pre-school.
We will also be dressing up as superheroes to celebrate Comic Relief next Friday for one day only – if you would like to donate £1 please pop it into the box in reception but you can dress up anyway and we will have lots of spare dressing up clothes.