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 ! 

 

VALENTINES & FIRST WEEK BACK

The children's footprint hearts were really lovely - our student worked hard to support the children to achieve heart shaped footprints. We also made heart print cards and  twisted bread in heart shapes.

Lovely valentine heart collages were made with the 2-3 group who really got 'stuck ' in !

 

Our student made a  black and white cake with the children which turned out really dark - she did a very good job and the children responded very well.

It looked fantastic ! Well done to our student who did a fantastic job with the activity. 

 

Great experiment done today with liquids in a glass - to look at density and thinness of different liquids and what floats and sinks - all the children were captured by the process and concentrated for over 20 minutes!

 

After sorting out the dressing up and refreshing our role play area - there was lots of discussions, and fantastic 'doctors & nurse' role play with great language!  - one of the staff was given a check over, a diagnosis and  lots of bandages were used on everyone.

 

During bug hunting at forest school (Wednesday) -we found lots of large, green, juicy slugs!  It was  funny watching the children trying to pick them up. On Friday in forest school - despite the rain - we managed a fire and made pop corn - the children had a glittery 'krispie' cake and sang 'happy  birthday ' to Jude.

 

 

 

 

 

heavy & light !

 

When doing the floating and sinking of objects in the water tank all the children seemed to really enjoy it and found it really interesting & didn't they do well predicting the out come -such clever children !!

 

On Friday we all had was fun doing PE over at ‘ big school’, they all got very excited, hot and tired too!!

 

With all the rain Forest school has been very wet - but this hasn't dampened the children's spirits - they jumped in and out of the digging areas = ‘Mud glorious mud’ !  The newly coppiced climbing tree is proving very popular (with an adult stood next to it to ensure safe use).

 

We are  very proud the way the children have welcomed the new children into the group - looking after them and helping them to settle -   one child said    "Bill said his first words !"  - like a proud parent !

BLACK & WHITE

This week we were doing black and white and even the playdough managed to stay in separate black and white piles !!

 

Shredded paper a huge hit with the 2-3 group !lots of laughter! giggling! squealing ! and conversations too. We hid animals in the paper and stuffed it into tubes and buckets. Lots of snipping with scissors and making striking black and white pictures.

 

It was great to see the Thursday children doing yoga and we used the PE spots to get our heart rates up on Tuesday

The children enjoyed a visit to the library this week, there was 'good sitting' and 'good listening' as a story about an owl who stayed awake in the day to find out what it was like, ' "WOW!" Said the owl' it was called. Then a quick march back to playschool for some music and dance.....Becky does walk fast!
At forest school lots of children enjoyed helping to make mud today in forest school, we used it to do stencil leaf prints.