HAPPY HALF TERM EVERYONE !

This week the children have been getting physical - using the climbing frame at the 2-3 group and an obstacle course at Towerview Playschool, using balancing, jumping, hopping and throwing skills.

Children enjoyed banana and custard in forest school, also watching the flame coming out the top of the Kelly kettle got some “wow's “

Children got stuck in making spider webs using glittered paint and string and have been really looking at the pumpkin and producing some amazing still life paintings.

Outside the children have been playing on the bikes, filling the ‘trunk’ up with leaves and taking them over to the other side of the area – very good turn taking.

At Broadway Playschool the little ones in the 2-3 group have produced some lovely spider web glitter pictures this week.  They are also beginning to involve themselves in role play now that we have introduced the home corner.  They sat and listened really well and joined in ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’.

Happy Half term !

– we are back on Monday 31^st October

ourselves !

This week the children have been looking at themselves in the mirror and drawing some fabulous portraits. They have been looking to see what colour eyes they have, what kind of hair and expressions.
They have made biscuit faces -decorated with various sweets to make the features - counting out how many eyes etc they need and selecting which colour to choose.


At Forest school they have been learning to saw sections of silver birch - standing behind the rope to watch when not actually sawing (with an adult). They are learning the rules of the Forest and how to keep themselves safe.


Back in Playschool they then took turns in drilling a hole into the sections of wood they had previously sawed. They were very proud of the results.


At Broadway Playschool there has been a lot of sifting and sorting of sand into sieves and buckets and transporting chalks and counting them out too. The children have been excellent at playing 'What's in the box ?' with one child leading while staff stand back. Their dancing has come on with some very good 'moves' to the tumble tots CD.

AUTUMN LEAVES !

This week at Broadway Playschool  2-3 group we have been climbing, using our muscles and strength to pull ourselves up on to the climbing frame, then whizzing down the slide!

On Monday, At Towerview Playschool,  we all enjoyed going for a short walk to collect leaves and conkers. It was fun to explore the textures and colours and to then sort by shape and size

We had a lovely time this week making hand print tree pictures at both settings.

There were some lovely drawings of family members. We have also been recording children’s height on our giraffe height chart.

 It has been great getting to know the new children, seeing how well they have all settled in and seeing how the older children have grown since last term.  

In forest school we went hunting for different leaves, finding a number of different ones we matched them to our identification charts.  Lots of great climbing took place too, using the climbing tree.