Summer Term Week 5

We have celebrated the Jubilee a week early as we are not open next week for half term!

The children have had a wonderful week getting ready for the party on Thursday and Friday, making decorations and learning our song, baking biscuits and exploring our sensory trays and the whole pre-school has been red, white and blue!

Next week is half term and when we come back in June we will be learning about life cycles and our caterpillars will arrive ready for us to care for and then we will have our annual Hungry Caterpillar week ending with a super party in the back garden where we release the butterflies.

The week was full of Jubilee activities, we made crowns, tiara’s, dressed up, made crown biscuits and had a stage outside for our own concerts over the week – mainly Disney songs were sung! Inside we had a focus on numbers and mark making in lovely trays that Andrea creates and the circle times also had a Jubilee theme with all groups making bunting at the start of the week! We read our new book which celebrates the Queen’s reign and we have all written our names in it so that we can keep it as a souvenir of our celebrations. Other activities during circle included planting out our seeds that we sowed the previous week – lots of loud gasps as the children spotted how much their seed had grown. There was some Jubilee counting work, drawings of our families and pin the tail on the Corgi.

Our week ended with two wonderful Jubilee parties, the children dressed up and so did the ladies, we had a delicious afternoon tea street party and sang the song we had made up for the Queen. We decorated the pathway with bunting and laid out the special party tea. The children loved the change of scene and the decorations and we hope we have given them all really happy memories of the Jubilee.

We hope you all have a really wonderful half term, celebrating the Jubilee and time with your family and we will look forward to welcoming you all back on the 6th June for the last 6 weeks of this year! Lots of amazing plans for those 6 weeks including a trip to the Walronds, Robot Reg is back for the Friday children this time, an animal experience has been booked and trips to school and stay and play sessions for the new starters as well.