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.