WELCOME BACK TO SPRING TERM 2016 !

‘Happy new year’ and welcome back to the spring term! Our theme this half term is ‘light and dark’; why? Shadows and what makes them, nocturnal/diurnal animals.  Lots of language opportunities both at playschool and home. The activities on offer to the children are always up on the hallway notice board.

 

At Towerview Playschool there has been some lovely Christmas role play "....Ho Ho Ho!!....." .A group of children have been playing, having a "big sleep" and waking up to find " Santa's been", and he has been busy in the junk modelling area wrapping presents for everyone with adult help. Its is great practice for  learning to speak and write for a purpose for children to recreate scenes from real life - to share them with others and to begin to make sense of their world.

 

There has been some lovely "cats" role play too. We have been listening to their interactions and it has been great to see children leading that have not been with us long and wonder at how much their confidence has grown. 

The light box theatre has been popular, some children have been involved using the animals and figures to act out and create their own stories....really imaginative.

 

FOREST SCHOOL
Having now moved to our smaller forest school area,( to give the other one a rest), the children really enjoyed making 'cornflake cup cakes' and baked bean pie in the mud kitchen and 'chocolate pudding with cheese' for added flavour in the digging area! Some had fun using their bare hands to scrape the soil up rather than use an implement! We have really enjoyed observing the children exploring the new forest area. Not one child came away clean - lots of fun was had !!
On Friday a group made their own party at forest school complete with singing and presents. 

2-3S GROUP AT BROADWAY PLAYSCHOOL are beginning to gel now with new children coming in and older ones gone onto the bigger group. It has been great to see new friendships develop and hear their communication skills grow.

WATCH OUT THOUGH because this week two of the little pigs from our story sack have gone missing, the big bad wolf has blown down their houses and they have ran away!!!!   Our mission next week will be to search everywhere in playschool to find out where they are be hiding!