Monday 29 January 2018

SINGING IN THE RAIN ! what a wonderful feeling !


The children at Broadway Playschool are enjoying ‘The Three Little Pigs’ story sack and are joining in with the refrains.
They've also been introduced to a new game, called "who's got the glasses on?" , which involves taking turns and learning  their peers' names.

With the heavy rain on Wednesday some of the children at Towerview Playschool wanted to go out and explore with umbrellas. One child noticed that on the steps by the gate that the water was coming down so fast it looked like a waterfall – he got very excited showing peers. He had already made a waterfall in the water play inside and so was transferring his knowledge from one scenario to another.  Many children have enjoyed the inside water play – experimenting with flow, ‘full’ and ‘empty’.

All the children have enjoyed a variety of music activities in our ‘Music Magic’ theme, including dance to the ‘Trolls’ soundtrack, exploring musical instruments, getting involved in listening games and singing. We have some very confident children who loved showing us their musical talents.

Some groups of children enjoying building ‘vehicles’ outside. They used the crates and mats to represent the‘fire engine’ in their role play. They repeated that twice during the week by also building smaller cars outside.

Monday 22 January 2018

GETTING STUCK IN !


We have observed many children showing a real sense of achievement whilst enjoying their selected activities. This has been seen when they have completed puzzles, when they have made some beautiful art work with the paints or when they have made a waterfall from spades a bucket and a shell in the water play!  The children have really enjoyed the indoor water play this week, especially been able to use the running taps!!


During the afternoon sessions, some children have enjoyed playing table top games such as  matching pairs in the ‘Thomas the Tank’ game, supporting one another if they can remember where they saw the card last. Heard quite a few  "YES I GOT IT !" once a pair was found. 



At Broadway Playschool the new children are beginning to settle and find their way around the activities and equipment – many have enjoyed playing with water outside and putting balls in to see if they float and water painting. They have also enjoyed whizzing around with buggies and bikes in the winter sunshine.

Sunday 14 January 2018

HAPPY NEW YEAR ONE AND ALL !


Happy New Year & Welcome to the spring term.

Our theme this term is ‘music magic’!

It's been lovely to see how well the younger children from the ‘little ones’ group ( Broadway Playschool)  have settled into Towerview Playschool this week.

There has been a lot of interest in the indoor water play this week (usually outside – just inside for this term). One of the boys got some of the little bits of plastic tubing and fixed them together. He then  put them on the tap turned it on and the joy on his face seeing it come out the end of the tube was brilliant !

We have loved watching the children’s faces when they were singing through the microphone and then playing their singing talents back to listen to!!    They have been exploring the percussion instruments and singing Christmas songs..

Father Christmas has been sent a letter to see if the two Elves who visited before Christmas could come back – the children really enjoyed looking after them and ‘keeping them safe’!

REMINDER – SNOW CLOSURES WILL BE ON BBC HEREFORD AND WORCESTER as soon as we can

 – we will also be on the schools list alongside 'Broadway First School'  

and a notice on the doors at both the Playschools. Thankyou