The whole Playschool team would like to wish all our leavers a very happy time at 'big' school.
Have a great summer and we will see all our 'little ones' again,
starting back the week of Monday 9th September.
Monday 22 July 2013
Tuesday 16 July 2013
HEAT WAVE ADVICE FOR YOU
BROADWAY&TOWERVIEW
PLAYSCHOOL
HOT WEATHER & HEAT WAVE ADVICE
Top
advice for being sun safe:
· Try
to keep out of the sun between 11am and 3pm
· Wear
sunscreen
· Wear
loose cotton clothing
· Drink
lots of cool drinks
· Seek
shade
· Wear
sunglasses and a hat
· Look
out for others especially vulnerable groups such as the elderly, young children
and babies and those with serious illnesses
· Never
leave anyone in a closed, parked vehicle, especially infants, young children or
animals
Friday 12 July 2013
summer is here !
This week our experiments continued with ice cream making - using cream - strawberries and sugar - the children all had a go at sieving and whisking - and then we had to put the timer on so we remembered to stir it every 20 minutes during the sessions- it was yummy !!
Colour mixing involving food colouring -water - syringes and mixing dishes enabled the children to select and mix colours - they created a simple tally chart to log their finds.
We continue to have reception teachers popping in to talk about the children going up to their schools and for us to share information about each child's development and needs. It is good for the teachers to see the children in the playschool and to watch them at work.
Our end of term trip to Sand field Farm, nr Sedgeberrow was fabulous ! Emma who manages and runs the site took us pond dipping -we found water boat men , newts and dragon flies amongst many insects. We saw calves, pigs and chickens and tractors and milk floats. By shaking a jar of cream and passing it around the children found they had made some butter ! We then all had a picnic lunch in the forest area, where we lit the Kelly-kettle and made banana custard.
The journey back in the mini buses saw 2 children fall asleep - the children &staff team were brilliant and we had a lovely day !
NOTICE - soon on the web site there will be a link for parents about digital /e-safety - how to protect your child with all the technology they come into contact with- check this out ;-
Digital Parenting Magazine A Great Guide for Parents
with questions on keeping their Children Safe Online
http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/parents.html
Colour mixing involving food colouring -water - syringes and mixing dishes enabled the children to select and mix colours - they created a simple tally chart to log their finds.
We continue to have reception teachers popping in to talk about the children going up to their schools and for us to share information about each child's development and needs. It is good for the teachers to see the children in the playschool and to watch them at work.
Our end of term trip to Sand field Farm, nr Sedgeberrow was fabulous ! Emma who manages and runs the site took us pond dipping -we found water boat men , newts and dragon flies amongst many insects. We saw calves, pigs and chickens and tractors and milk floats. By shaking a jar of cream and passing it around the children found they had made some butter ! We then all had a picnic lunch in the forest area, where we lit the Kelly-kettle and made banana custard.
The journey back in the mini buses saw 2 children fall asleep - the children &staff team were brilliant and we had a lovely day !
NOTICE - soon on the web site there will be a link for parents about digital /e-safety - how to protect your child with all the technology they come into contact with- check this out ;-
Digital Parenting Magazine A Great Guide for Parents
with questions on keeping their Children Safe Online
http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/parents.html
Tuesday 9 July 2013
the caterpillars became butterflies this week!!
All our butterflies hatch this week - we actually saw one coming out of the
cocoons while we were eating our lunch! Then on Friday in forest school, we released
them.
They took a while to fly away but nice to think they were playing in the forest with us.
One of the bean plants is growing up one of the outside pillars and the children have got very interested in the story of 'Jack and the bean stalk'. They have been drawing bean stalks - measuring the plants progress and role playing the story. We have also been block printing butterflies and caterpillars printing
The school transition days have been successful with one of the children over heard saying to another;- "I think I am excited about going to big school now". They have also been looking in the schools photo album and trying on school uniforms in the role play.
REMINDER = your child needs a high factor sunscreen put on before playschool ( we top it up at lunch time).
Also for forest school your child needs long sleeve t-shirt, leggings/trousers and a sun hat- they also need socks to go inside their welly boots.
One of the bean plants is growing up one of the outside pillars and the children have got very interested in the story of 'Jack and the bean stalk'. They have been drawing bean stalks - measuring the plants progress and role playing the story. We have also been block printing butterflies and caterpillars printing
The sour dough worked well and all the children helped with every stage -resulting in a lovely loaf of bread - they then toasted and had with Alison's jam at snack time.
The school transition days have been successful with one of the children over heard saying to another;- "I think I am excited about going to big school now". They have also been looking in the schools photo album and trying on school uniforms in the role play.
Also for forest school your child needs long sleeve t-shirt, leggings/trousers and a sun hat- they also need socks to go inside their welly boots.
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