WELCOME BACK TO THE SUMMER TERM !

It was nice to see all the children settled, happy and re-kindling their friendships after their long Easter break.

We have enjoyed seeing the children doing the ‘tap tap’ art and seeing all of their amazing pictures that they have made.

At Broadway Playschool the little ones are beginning to get involved in their role play and have loved wearing the hats, they have been firemen, policemen, painters and builders.

Children really enjoyed going back into the bottom forest school and seeing the transformation over the past couple of months.  A particular interest was the hunt for worms, and many children were confident to hold these and discuss the size difference between them. It has become quite over grown in the area and one child remarked     "Wow ! Lots of carrots growing ! " 

The children really enjoyed getting really muddy from head to toe and  then getting to roll on the grass on the way back to Playschool – to get all the mud off their overalls !

 REMINDER - your child needs a coat everyday - whatever the weather - as we are always outside- every session. Thank you.

EASTER GREETINGS !

We have been doing lots of Easter preparations these last weeks.

The children enjoyed making various patterns onto egg shaped paper, they had to spend time thinking about how to make their patterns and we even had one egg that was decorate with the first letter of the child's name.

They were busy making their ‘Easter crown’ hats was that they got to decorate them with loads of different things. They liked choosing between the different stickers and decorations that were provided to stick on the crowns. It was interesting to hear why they chose what they did!

As a whole group we made iced rabbit biscuits – some children found it was hard to resist licking fingers!

 At Broadway Playschool -

The little ones have been getting  physical outside, helping each other as they balance along planks and jump into tyres. They have made Easter nests complete with chicks together as a group.

This week it was lovely using our Forest school at the bottom of school field, searching for Easter eggs that the Easter bunny had left. The children had so much fun running around looking for the eggs and telling the staff about the Easter bunny coming and leaving eggs and that he will be coming to their own houses soon!

WE ALL WISH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A VERY HAPPY EASTER BREAK!

          PLAYSCHOOL RETURNS MONDAY 11TH APRIL 2016

PHOTOS ARE BACK !

Photos are back in Playschool where you can view them  - Please note payment must be received before you take the photos.
Thankyou.

CHINESE NEW YEAR - PANCAKE DAY- VALENTINES !!!!

We have been very busy this week chopping veg for our stir fry and all sitting together to eat it.
Making pancake mix and flipping pancakes & eating them !
......and block printing our valentines cards.

.......and to top it all we have been busy role playing, mark making, counting, singing and working with our friends !

Forest School was excellent as we had fire as we used the 'kelly kettle' to heat the water to make banana custard.

Happy half term break !
see you all week staring the 22nd Feb

ROLE PLAY GALORE !

At Broadway Playschool 2-3 group

The little ones have been enjoying the water play, challenging themselves with jigsaw puzzles, and lovely outdoor role play beginning- fixing and building with the tools.

At Towerview Playschool

What a busy week!  Building ..'robot stage', 'Power Ranger Charging Station', 'lectric shockers to catch the baddies', 'landing fingy for the ship'.  Role playing.....Star Wars - "fixing the space ship where it's been shoot-ed"... 'Dance class "Warm ups", 'Riding on the dinosaur train',  .....as well as.....Playing tennis, PE in the school hall, bean bag dance and action songs,......and junk modelling - making a trumpet, ‘a castle for Rapunzel’ with a "secret passage'.......and lots of tidying up in between!  

Outside the children have been role playing spaceships and building them up out of the construction materials.

Then the whole group came together on Tuesday afternoon making a stage with foam blocks around the edge, put together with nails (lolly pop sticks) and using the toy tools. The children then self selected the play microphones to do their performance. Tickets (building blocks) were also given out to the audience. 

The children have enjoyed categorising the coloured dinosaurs into pots, and also forming patterns with them too!

At Forest School this week thick and thin, long and short worms were dug up; lots of wriggling but some children were happy to pick them up.  This was followed by a relaxing lie down whilst we all listened to what was going on all around us; lots of birds, chirping, lorries and traffic and the wind rustling the trees, oh and not forgetting the monkey in the tree!

 

LIGHT & DARK ......

At Towerview Playschool this week fun was had moving and grooving on the outside  ‘dance floor’ – the children constructed a dance floor using the outdoor construction materials; all child initiated – complete with guitars made from oars and tennis racquets and plastic bottle microphones! The ‘audience’ even got instruments so we could all join in.

Some children have been producing some great artwork, using confident cutting and drawing.

The children warmed up whilst exercising to our ‘bean bag raps’- ‘good listening guys!’

Due to high winds we were not able to do Forest School this week but we did make sure we were outside building, on the bikes and doing some digging work on the outdoor space – tidying up and sweeping.

During circle time using the microphones to sing in to and then listen back some lovely nursery rhymes were heard being sung and even a little song from ‘Frozen’. The children's faces while listening back to themselves singing was a picture!  

We also read 'Whatever Next' which lead to a great group discussion about the moon “....what it might be like....why it was boring...(because no one was there)...... Could there be aliens?....if so ..would they they be scary or friendly.....what they might look like.....how many eyes.....what colour?.......do they wear clothes....." They wear underpants"... Linking to "Aliens Love Underpants". Some great thinking, imagination and language.

At Broadway Playschool water play was very popular this week– squirting using the puffer fish and making the water wheels whizz around. They also enjoyed pretend bubble play with the bubble wands!

They have been sticking and gluing and mark making while on the ‘phone’.

The children have also been enjoying ‘Goldilocks and the 3 Bears’ story and are beginning to remember the refrain.

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!