Have a very Happy Christmas & peaceful New Year

A week full of Christmas preparations  - making Xmas bauble cards at Broadway Playschool – with plenty of glitter – meanwhile at Towerview the children have been finishing the Xmas calendars, making Satsuma pomanders – or ‘panandas’  as one child said- and making Xmas pudding cakes. We have had fake snow to play with – lovely and fluffy and warm!

We have had allot of children off with sickness & the other (!) – please remember the 48hour rule ( =48 hours from last bout)  so that we prevent the spread of this illness.

The cold weather has leant itself to frosty Forest School sessions – making footprints in the frost & finding frosty leaves. The mud kitchen has been very popular – mixing up pancakes and stews  !!!

On Thursday our Christmas Sing Song was very well attended by parents & carers – the children sang their hearts out and everyone sang   ‘we wish you a merry Xmas ‘  and we do !!!& a Happy New Year!

 

Last week this week–with Xmas party on Friday with a visit from Father Xmas !!!

 

Back on Monday 5^th January 2015 – have a great holiday everyone !

FROSTY MORNINGS – ‘IT’S RUSTY!’

= One child's response to seeing the frosty leaves !

At Broadway Playschool this week, it was a very sparkly week - potatoes were used to paint with, and topped off with plenty of glitter - the children's bauble cards were beautiful!

We have explored the ice on the pavements and grass & at forest school collected frost covered leaves.

Towerview children had a lovely walk down the village to see beautiful shop Christmas displays. 

Playschool Committee met and while checking everything was in order, they heard a report of last year’s events and achievements and the training completed by staff. The committee have also all completed their updated safeguarding training.

We enjoyed lots of lovely hand and feet painting going on to make a backdrop for our SING SONG on Thursday 11^th Dec 11am. The children are doing lovely singing to Mary's knitting and other Xmas songs in preparation- so it should be a treat !

Its begining to look alot like Christmas !

At Broadway Playschool

Some of the children have been busy with the blocks this week, creating tall towers and shapes.

 The fir cones Xmas tress decorations for our tree in the URC Xmas tree festival the children did are just beautiful – complete with the coloured ‘pompoms’.

They have been having a lovely time role playing, mark making and mixing paint.

The glitter is out of the cupboard !

Watch out for the Christmas decorations !!

 

At Towerview Playschool

We enjoyed selecting different objects and making different sounds to use to make our wind chime, and the children were excited to hear it working as the wind got up.

The sunshine face plates were made using collage and looked very effective.
We did whole group activity one afternoon making the reindeers with pine cones.

We has a couple of great sessions in forest school children enjoying the mud kitchen, catching raindrops on their fingers & climbing through the climbing tree and swinging off!

Thursday, we finished  decorating the cones to go on our Christmas tree. We then walked down to the United Reformed Church to decorate our  Christmas tree & it looks fab! 

Come and see it this Friday evening & next at the UR Church Broadway !

The children are practicing hard for our

SING SONG on Thursday 11th Dec 11am

& are sounding great singing ‘Marys knitting’– parents, carers, childminders, granny , aunts and friends welcome ! 

WIND & the weather !

This week we have been exploring the wind – the children have made a wind chimes that has been put up outside above the decking

– we have made paper aeroplanes and danced with ribbons – but there has been a severe lack of wind so we will try again net week !

At Forest School – we are now at the top coniferous site – and the children are loving the mud kitchen and natural den.  We go into Forest School on Wed’s and Friday’s whatever the weather          ( except high winds) so we all need to wrap up warm and wear the FS overalls and waterproof coats.

The Forest School experience gives children the chance to get in touch with nature and the elements    –      being there allows them ownership of their learning and it really helps with communication, self confidence and self regulation.  Getting ready in itself contains much learning – having to get shoes off and put coats and waterproofs on, finding hats and gloves and welly boots- all part of learning to be independent.

The decorations for the Playschool Christmas tree at The United Reformed Church (part of Broadway late night shopping for the next two Friday’s)  are going well

– Come and see them at the Church on Friday evenings! 

COLD WEATHER WARMERS !

At Towerview Playschool this week the children have been finishing their Diwali tea lights in gold and silver – very beautiful they are too!

A giant firework picture was made by everyone; using cut card tubes as a mono print tool – to great effect – see the big painting up on the windows!

We were quiet for 1 minute on Tuesday and printed some screen print poppies to take home.

 The children enjoyed ‘Goldilocks and the three bears’ - which was instigated by our student Emily.  She has been reading the story sack to them during the week, then on Thursday they helped make porridge with her then tasted it with different flavour toppings.

She had her assessment for Early Years Teacher and we wish her every success.

On Friday – due to the blustery weather – we stayed in the setting – still getting outside but also making chocolate bread – it did look and smell very yummy!

At Broadway Playschool the little ones had a great time exploring the shaving foam.  Our 'Dear Zoo' book has promoted lots of animal role play - all of the children suddenly became pretend animals, playing together wonderfully. It was brilliant!

REMEMBER, REMEMBER THE 5TH OF NOVEMBER!

The bonfire cake was amazing! everyone had a go at breaking up the chocolate and stirring in the krispies – the mix was then poured over the mould and apricot bits and bits of red liquorice were added so we had fire.  Then at Forest School on November the 5th - we lit sparklers on the cake to celebrate bonfire night.

Firework pictures were being made – by splatting tea bags over stencils and the children have learnt about fire – hot and how to be safe during the week

They also did two very good fire drills!

The Diwali lamps the children have made from clay are now drying and we will be painting them next week – they do look lovely – we had a power point of the story of Rama and Sita on show so the children could see the story of Diwali -The Festival of Lights.

At Broadway Playschool -the 2-3 year old children have made some really beautiful firework pictures. We have been practising "Mr. Tongue" and doing really well

A few of the children were engaged in a lovely moment, where they were sharing their family pictures and showing each other their families -using the Home -Playschool photo albums. 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!

At Broadway Playschool

We have been pumpkin mad this week- everything orange !!! .....we enjoyed scooping out the pumpkin, ..made collage pumpkins, and biscuit pumpkins- biscuits with orange icing and sweets for eyes and teeth !!!

We are also still enjoying the zoo story with our own story sack

 

At Towerview Playschool

The children have also scooped out a pumpkin & painted pumpkins.

We have also been making biscuit faces – furthering exploration of our faces and what is on them

We have been measuring who is the tallest.  

 

We have also introduced a new pirate game !!! listen to hear about it from your child !!!

 

HALF TERM NEXT WEEK – WE RETURN ON MON 3^RD Nov 2014

 

SHOPS & AUTUMN TREES !

BROADWAY PLAYSCHOOL

We’ve been playing shops at Broadway this week.

 

 There has been some lovely role play from the children this week, with the children mark making their shopping lists and then taking turns to choose and pay for their items from the 'shop'. The children were great at identifying the fruit and vegetables in the play.

 

They have also been doing lots of colour mixing when painting and enjoying looking at our photos from home.

 

At Towerview Playschool

Lots of portrait done loads of hand prints made for the ‘autumn tree’. They enjoyed cutting them out later and gluing them on the tree shape. 

 

 Many of the children have enjoying the musical instruments and making their own boxes up of things for what's in the box getting peers to join in.

Some great faces were drawn from looking at ourselves in the mirror this week (watch out for the display). 

A very muddy time was had in forest school too, with lots of mud pies being made, puddle jumping and mud painting.  Some great animal homes were made too.

feed the birds !

This week the children have been busy making handprints to make an autumn tree display and  mixing lard, bird seed into plastic cups to make bird feeders to take down to forest school to support the birds over the winter months.

There is much mark making going on – with some children beginning to form letters , describe their pictures and doing the ’register’ with Jude.

The blustery weather has meant we had to stay indoor Monday morning - but we got out as soon as it was safe and we couldn’t get blown away. The children enjoyed feel the noise – ‘whooshy’ and thinking about why it was windy!    The umbrellas have also come in useful this week !!

The evening about forest school and communication was well attended by parents who said they enjoyed the evening - meeting other parents and chatting to staff. It was lovely to see everyone relaxed and making new connections.

There is a sickness bug going around – remember it is 48 hours at home from last bout of sickness before they can return to Playschool.

CONKERS !!

The children really enjoyed going on a walk to find some conkers - although not many were left!  It was lovely to go out collecting and then sorting them into big –small and very tiny!! and playing with them. We then thought of ways to use them- including rolling them down guttering and painting with them.

We also painted leaves and made prints form them – which look really good.

They really enjoyed mixing mud and water and then making welly mud prints at Forest school. In the afternoon this activity was extended to use the children’s feet - " it's squishy" was one of the reactions heard.

It was great to see some of children playing together all day, some have made lovely connections and are sharing some great communication –  real friendships in the making!

 

Remember to bring in some photos for our CLOCK  display !

 

OURSELVES !

BROADWAY PLAYSCHOOL- the 2-3 group, are all settling in so well !

Lots of role play and conversations witnessed. Helping each other along the crates and planks, balancing and holding hands.

 

The play house has been very busy this week with the children initiating the popular idea of it being an ice cream stall! 

We are also enjoying new stories =’Kippers toy box’ and ‘I wrote to the zoo’- the children are really enjoying joining in with the stories.

AT TOWERVIEW PLAYSCHOOL

Jo & Jude saw Warwick Castle constructed twice this week, as they were building – one child told us, " we're building Warwick Castle but it's not like Warwick Castle"

Jo had some helpers making the height chart, and one child made her own giraffe one and it was brilliant, we think she's named it ‘Rose’!

It was great to see some of the group working together, helping each other on logs and planks and really taking care of one another. 

 

On Friday  morning we popped into the MacMillan Coffee morning and bought a cake each to eat at Forest school   - yum !!

 

 

!!!! REMEMBER YOUR CHILD NEEDS THEIR WELLIES ON WEDS OR FRI MORNINGS FOR FOREST SCHOOL !!!!!

 

SETTLING - AUTUMN & COOKING !!!

Been a great 2nd week back, seeing new friendships form. It is amazing how well all the new children from Broadway Playschool seem to have settled in at Towerview Playschool this year!

The children have had fun getting to know each other and the staff team -  we've been "rolling the ball" to each other and playing the "empty chair" game

Fun was had at our first Forest School session, with climbing, digging and exploring all taking place. We had a lovely morning, then in the afternoon went for a little walk to collect conkers. When we got back some lovely role play was witnessed.

Some of the children have enjoyed making scones and getting messy while learning about quantities –‘ full’ / and ‘not full’

All the children at Broadway Playschool have been enjoying our lovely new water play – thanks to donations from our ‘leaver ‘ families – THANKYOU !

 

WELCOME TO THE AUTUMN TERM

Welcome to all our families new and old!

The children have come in and mostly settled quickly some needing a bit more time and reassurance.

The 'roll the ball and say your name game' has been fun - and we are all beginning to get to know each other.

We have been making some hedgerow muffins today for the Food Festival Sunday and have entries from last term for the Horticultural Show on Saturday.   Both on the village green.
The children really enjoyed using the electric cake mixer and putting in the blackberries they had picked the previous day.

Forest school sessions will start next week - Weds & Fridays

Our theme this half term will be 'all about ourselves ' - learning about each other too !

HAVE A VERY HAPPY SUMMER FROM US ALL !

Our walk from Broadway Tower back to Playschool took place this week. It was fabulous how well the children all walked and it was fun watching them enjoy Tracy B’s Billy Goats Gruff performance at snack time – some walkers stopped to listen too !!!.  Sarah & Angie noticed that the children all behaved so well and loved looking out for sheep poo !!

Jo reported that she has loved watching a few of the children reading their favourite stories to the rest of the group, and they have all sat and listened so well! Tracy B noted that one boy told everyone the 3 little pig’s story on Monday afternoon ! He was brilliant!

At Broadway Playschool the ‘little ones’ have enjoyed water play , transporting water, filling up , and LOTS of splashing !!! 

At Towerview Playschool lots of children have enjoyed playing and getting wet in the water play, then drying off in the hot weather we've had during our last week.

Alison and Jo supported the children to do some excellent painting pebble animals for the village Horticultural show ( Sept 6^th ).  Hope we win the cup again !!!

The slide show proved popular – parents and family enjoying and celebrating the children’s successes over the last two terms.

We said ‘goodbye’ & thank you to our students Katie and Katherine this week – we wish them all the best in their future careers.

Goodbye and good luck to all our children leaving us to begin their school journey, it has been lots of fun getting to know you at Playschool and we will miss you !

Love from all the Playschool Team.

     WE START BACK ON MONDAY  8^TH SEPTEMBER

Forest school trip to Sandfield Farm

We all really enjoyed the farm trip, was lovely seeing all the children have so much fun playing in the mud - even though they lost their wellies and were rolling in it like little piglets!  

 

 We saw real pigs, farm dogs and chickens - including a huge cockerel - there was a cow about to calf !

 The children enjoyed loosing their wellies in the squelchy mud whilst exploring what the forest had to offer. 

They loved walking round the forest and acted out 'going on a bear hunt' with some of the children making the noises like in the mud ‘squelch squelch’ etc!

 

We all gathered around the camp fire  cooking and eating, twice – pancakes at snack time and then toasting marshmallows after lunch.

 

Two children fell asleep on the coach on the way home !

An excellent trip ! The children behaved really well and all took more mud home with them as a souvenir !! 

 

A big thank you to Emma for allowing us to use the farm

 

 

ROAD SAFETY & VISIT TO THE DOCTORS SURGERY

The visit to doctors surgery was fantastic all the children were really good . They sat brilliantly and listened well while Dr Hughes spoke to them. They were all enthusiastic to volunteer to have temperature use the stethoscope to listen to each other's heartbeats.  He put glitter glue  on hands to show them how germs spread. He showed them models of  how the heart looks and your feet. All children were fantastic great walking and practising crossing using the pedestrian crossing in the village. 

There has been masses of excellent communication and interaction going on this week with building things with different materials and listening to each others ideas.  Some great team work going on and one boy said ‘wow this has been the best day ever!’ once finished building a huge ‘palace’ role play in the whole outdoor area with a few peers.

 

We have been looking at how to cross the road safely, making traffic light biscuits and have made a stop /go sign for the bikes !

SUNFLOWERS,NURSES, FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE DOG HANDLERS !

The children have done some lovely sunflower pictures this week – we shall make them into a book !

A real nurse came into playschool on Thursday and talked to the children and let them hear their heart beats and put bandages on our dolls. She really enjoyed the children’s enthusiasm!

The visit to the Fire station by the two Playschools  was a huge success – the two fire fighters were great showing the children how everything worked and bringing fire safety into every conversation. The children clambered on board the fire engine, tried on equipment and explored the station. We all had a great time and the best bit was when the children got to have a go with the water hose ! 

Even the little ones seemed to really enjoy it all and the siren didn’t scare them at all- 'yay for Fireman Sam' (tv). When one fireman got big object off the back of the engine and asked the children if anyone knew what it was, several quickly answered with "Jaws of life" !!

We then had a picnic snack on the grass while they put the fire engine way.  The children got stickers, books and colouring sheets to take away. 

Later in the week we had two Police vans and sniffer dogs into playschool. The dogs were kept safely in the vans but the children enjoyed seeing them, trying on police uniform and pretending to drive the police cars and setting the sirens off. Everyone enjoyed the visit by the police dog handlers today.  The children loved trying on the different police hats and clothes and meeting ‘Murphy’ the small sniffer dog.

Later some of the school children came to have a talk with the police as well. It was a fabulous opportunity for all of us !   Some excellent reflective stickers were given to all the children.

We would like to thank all our Emergency Services very much for helping us to educate our children about ‘People who help us’.

HEROES

This week one of our student’s brother's came to Playschool  in his army medic gear – the children, listen really well and tried on his army mask and helmet. They learnt about how the British Forces help people by rescuing them in floods and protecting people in danger. They also saw his dried food ration and tried some reconstituted apple juice – some children said it was nice some said it tasted “disgusting”!

This week  we were all busy making Father’s day bookmarks at forest school , and love cards– these were stencil printed bulldozer cards and the children also attempted writing their names inside.

The sunshine meant that water play was in big demand – and lots of thought went into working out how to make the water flow down the guttering and back to the bowls – it was “good fun”.

STAFF TRAINING - Jude & Tracy B attended the Forest school Learning Initiatives’ conference down near Slimbridge – it was a fab day where we revisited using saws and drills, made a pot holder – learnt about free food from the forest, how to sustain you forest school area, and leant allot of new ideas to bring back for our children in playschool.

PARENTS FOREST SCHOOL EVENING - On Wednesday evening some of the parents joined playschool staff in a forest school cookout evening – they had a tour of the FS area, sat around the fire chatting, made bread to go with their veggie bean chilli and toasted marshmallows. One of the team’s yummy banana bread finished the evening off – all the parents reported what a lovely evening they’d had!    

HEALTHY TEETH

We had a lovely week brushing teeth and each making a paper mouth with 20 teeth - which we then held up in front of our faces and laughed at each other.

On the walk to visit the dentist it was lovely and sunny - we would like to thank Broadway Dental Surgery for their great reception and for providing the children with a tour of the dentist and a chat with dentist and dental nurses. The children really enjoyed their experience and marched back to playschool full of the visit.

REMINDER - your child needs a coat every day - so that they can access the outdoors even when it is raining - thankyou

ambulance and paramedic at playschool - to visit !

Monday saw an ambulance at Playschool – thank you very much to the lovely Paramedic who drove all over the county to get the ambulance to us !  The children were very well behaved and asked lots of interesting questions – One of the staff team had gas and air and one child sat on the stretcher – they all enjoyed sitting in the drivers seat too !

There has been lots of fun and laughter in the role play area, with the hats and mirror!  The children are using brilliant amounts of language and negotiation skills while interacting with each other.

 

At Forest School Wednesday we had a fantastic fire, with lovely pancakes baked on the fire, which the children and adults enjoying them immensely!

Our Uni student froze some mini beasts in water and we watched them melt and come out again ! Some lovely problem solving and language and comprehension heard.

The school had some extra fruit this week so we made banana smoothies for snack time and banana bread for lunch -which Jude nearly burnt – but luckily was still edible – the children wrote recipes and took turns in weighing and sieving the ingredients.

We found lots of snail on Thursday and put them in a tuff tray with leaves outside – there was lots of interest in the snails - collecting and putting in tuff tray- counting them and trying to look after creatures!

When we had a storm the children loved the hail and put various containers out to try to catch it!

HALF TERM ALL NEXT WEEK - BACK MONDAY 2ND JUNE

PEOPLE WHO HELP US !

This week we started our theme about ‘people who help us’. The children looked at Marcus' ( our puppets) travel book and saw him in hospital – the children role played doctors and made nurses hats.

It has been lovely to be outside all day without needing coats and the sand play and big construction areas have been really popular.

At Broadway Playschool there has been  lots of snail and mini beast hunting and making sand castles then knocking them down.

In Forest School we found a snail halfway up a tree !!!   It has been great watching all the children looking for bugs etc and Friday topped the week with Hide & Seek in the big forest school, children & adults alike had lots of fun!    1,2,3 where are you ? 1,2,3 we’re over here !

 

• REMINDER – your child needs socks, sunhat and LONG SLEEVED T-SHIRT for forest school  WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS – or they can get scratched by the brambles.
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• DON'T FORGET TO PICK UP YOUR NEWSLETTER- out next week !

• Parent afternoons – if you wish to discuss your child’s progress further – please sign list at Towerview Playschool.

 

Goldilocks and the three Bears !

At Broadway Playschool (2-3 group) they loved the big box ! after a while they all wanted to hide in it, we put a cushion and a blanket inside to make it cosy ! and just before we tidied the paints away one little girl decided it would be lovely to paint the box !!! beautiful- child initiated, child led play at its best !!!

 

Meanwhile at Towerview –the whole ‘Goldilocks and the three bears ‘ theme was in all their play – on the headphones& reading the story, in the role play, in the sand - & they liked making and then eating the porridge for snack!   The flapjacks were very yummy too.

As part of the transition work we are doing, the reception teacher came to read a story and was shown the school dressing up clothes by two boys –  she was very impressed at their counting skills & how well they listened to the story.

At Forest School the children really enjoyed the overgrown forest this week, looking for bugs, slugs, and snails. listening and looking out for Mr Robin !! – there are at least 2 down there and they come to get the dropped biscuits form our snack time!

Excellent conversations and team work, looking at the bluebells, and making mud pies – and when asked what they were making, one child said  "i am using a ‘recipe’!"   They found worms and used the reference books to see which kind they had found.

 

HAPPY EASTER !

Broadway Playschool (The 2-3 group) enjoyed making choc Easter nests and they made some beautiful collage eggs by scrunching and tearing tissue paper.

Thursday we had a egg hunt and all enjoyed eating the bunny ! 

There is some lovely role play and conversations taking place.

At Forest school - The children had fun cooking marshmallows over an open fire. They also had crumpets and pancakes!  On Friday the Easter egg hunters left 5 eggs unfound – some creature will have a yummy treat !

At Towerview Playschool – the pasta role play continued and the children made some lovely egg collages. The tasty Easter chocolate shredded wheat cakes –complete with eggs and chicks -  the children made were excellent – they followed instructions to make them really well- & they said were yummy!

The pre-school children went to reception again for a story – they were so well behaved the supply teacher commented on them and gave them all a sticker!  We were so proud of them!

Tuesday - we had a nice spring walk seeing the lambs.

Football on the school field on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons was great fun - one girl said “I loved it you know how many goals I got? 57” !! Then we took them round the field on the ‘train’ stopping off to let the children off and lie down on the grass to listen to all the spring sounds in the spring sun.

The tadpoles should have limbs developing by the time we return !!

Have a happy Easter all

& see you the week starting Monday 28^{th April.}

SIGHTS SOUNDS SMELLS & TASTES !

At Broadway Playschool,  the 2-3year olds have been  learning "who's got the glasses on" game- doing really well.

We have witnessed lots of role play,  copying adults roles - for example -a member of staff was doing observations – suddenly there was a whole row of children with pads and pens, mark-making/writing, copying her making observations !!

There have been some lovely fine motor skills developing when filling up bottles and ice cube trays with dried pasta,

And excellent singing and dancing at circle time!

Towerview Playschool

On Wednesday at Forest School all the children had a fabulous time making hedgehogs out of clay, they were all keen to have a go and the hedgehogs are drying out on a plank ready to go home.

This week our ‘Tap Tap’ Art seemed to be very popular – creating some excellent pictures from wood pieces and nails on cork mats and there has been some excellent mark making outside with big chalks.

At circle time one day – we go into little groups and did our syllable clapping and ‘sounds like’ games – the children are getting good at hearing letter sounds. We also practiced matching up instruments from behind a screen which takes a lot of listening skills.

Thursday – we all made pizzas – from scratch – it took until 1pm but the children worked hard making the dough – letting it prove then rolling and putting their choice of toppings on- yum yum!

Before forest school on Friday – because the children had seen a flapjack recipe in our cookbook – we quickly made some flapjack before we set off- we went to the bottom site – which we haven’t been in since before Xmas  - where we found lots of daffodils and twigs and branches that had fallen from the trees over the winter.

 

Happy Mothering Sunday

This week has seen the children busy making cinnamon biscuit dough (following our food theme) - writing recipes - following the list - weighing - mixing and moulding - then after time in fridge - we rolled - cut and finally scooped the 'Mothering Sunday' heart biscuits onto a tray with a fish slice.!   They loved this and reminded us to make holes in top for the ribbon.  One of the staff burnt a batch and was in serious trouble!

At Broadway Playschool they concentrated on making magnetic flowers - the children all enjoyed following the sequence to make these - and i think you will agree they look pretty good!

The Mothering Sunday tulip cards made at Towerview Playschool- were made using a block printing method - all the children attempted mark making their names & they seemed very pleased with the results.

Our Worcs Uni student completed the 'Handa's Surprise' project by making a lovely wall display of the children's recipes and photos from the week -  PLEASE FEEL FREE TO TAKE A LOOK WHEN YOU ARE PICKING UP OR DROPPING OFF!

Forest school this week saw the Kelly kettle being lit to boil water and everyone enjoying some banana custard in the spring sunshine .......the children were excellent at sitting and watching Jude get smoked out and made us proud by following every one of the safety rules - WELL DONE GUYS!

A restful Mothering Sunday to all our playschool Mums- you are doing fab job !

HANDA'S SUPRISE !

Excellent work went on this week when our present student introduced ‘Handa’s suprise’ – story based in Africa about a girl taking fruits to her friend – the animals that she past eat Handa’s fruit.

The children enjoyed playing with the story sack – they wrote shopping lists – drawing fruit and mark making the words -   playing with real and pretend tropical fruit in the role play area.

We then went down to the village Deil to buy fruit – the staff there were so helpful and printed off labels for the children to see the weight and prices.

Once back at playschool – fruit salad was made and parents invited to come into sample the mix!

One of our other ex-students popped in with a lovely ‘Going on a bear hunt’ jigsaw for the children - & they presented her with a card and some choccies.

The children going to school in September this year did another ‘tour’ of the school and were invited in to reception to see the plastic bottle igloo they have been making – we also  returned a story book the reception teacher lent us and gave them some of our used milk containers to contribute to the creation.

 

POTATOES

We all peeled potatoes on Monday to make chips in the oven- the children really persevered at using the peelers and soon the floor outside was covered with peelings – the chips were yummy!

We also used potatoes to make repeat prints – this was really jolly – lots of bright spring colours.

Forest school involved the children climbing climbing tree   they loved being taller than the staff!!  This showed lots of upper strength and strong legs. Our student observed that one child could possibly be a monkey looking at  how well she climbs ?!

One day aeroplane role play developed. The children decided that they wanted to go to ‘Peppa Pig world’, Army Land and ‘Picnic world’. One girl asked to go to the moon, but one of the boys said “we can’t go to space as we would run out of fuel!​”

Frog spawn was discovered out on the path!! So we brought it in and it is now in a tank .........waiting to see what happens next ?

One child told me (a staff member) that their hair was too long, because " it goes over your eyes"......thought that was cheeky! - but a good observation ....but she had only had it cut a couple of weeks ago! And anyway his hair needed cutting too – how we all laughed !

Some of the children played 'Kim's game' this week....and we were all really impressed how good they were at it.

The photographer – was in on Thursday and Friday – the children were excellent at coping with all the comings and goings – with only a few tears and lots of smiles – we had a fab group photo at Towerview!

 

PANCAKE DAY !

Think the weather really made a difference this week, the little ones at the 2-3 group really enjoyed being outside in the sunshine.

Great time was had making pancakes (with 2-3 year group) on Monday.

All the children helped to make pancake batter and had  had a mix and a whisk 

We tried them at snack but most were not keen !! 
It was lovely to see 2 children using story sacks working together to tell their friends the story

On Tuesday at Towerview playschool  - the children wrote their recipes and then made the mixture - we weighed and measured the ingredients. Then while staff cooked and tossed the pancakes, the children had small cold pancakes for use in the frying pans in the home role play area - there were allot of laughs as they tossed their own pancakes!

 

As part of our topic on food and to continue the watching the drive being put in at one of the staff houses - the children and staff walked to house. Here we had a look at the shrub clearance before the digger comes to clear the mud.

We then had a look at the back garden - learnt how to be respectful in some one else's house - and had a look in the fridge - where there were 'krispie cakes' - which were enjoyed sitting in the sunshine outside.
 

We tried to make bubble mixture on Wednesday which was a complete disaster, one child even commented on how rubbish it was! We will try again !

Forest school - Children had a fab time at making straw creatures - out of wool, straw and found sticks. We found wood lice, butterflies, spiders and made nests for them 

 

It was lovely to see them all taking part in the food tasting on Monday and the expressions on their faces to the different flavours and encouraging them to even try- just a taste !