ambulance and paramedic at playschool - to visit !

Monday saw an ambulance at Playschool – thank you very much to the lovely Paramedic who drove all over the county to get the ambulance to us !  The children were very well behaved and asked lots of interesting questions – One of the staff team had gas and air and one child sat on the stretcher – they all enjoyed sitting in the drivers seat too !

There has been lots of fun and laughter in the role play area, with the hats and mirror!  The children are using brilliant amounts of language and negotiation skills while interacting with each other.

 

At Forest School Wednesday we had a fantastic fire, with lovely pancakes baked on the fire, which the children and adults enjoying them immensely!

Our Uni student froze some mini beasts in water and we watched them melt and come out again ! Some lovely problem solving and language and comprehension heard.

The school had some extra fruit this week so we made banana smoothies for snack time and banana bread for lunch -which Jude nearly burnt – but luckily was still edible – the children wrote recipes and took turns in weighing and sieving the ingredients.

We found lots of snail on Thursday and put them in a tuff tray with leaves outside – there was lots of interest in the snails - collecting and putting in tuff tray- counting them and trying to look after creatures!

When we had a storm the children loved the hail and put various containers out to try to catch it!

HALF TERM ALL NEXT WEEK - BACK MONDAY 2ND JUNE

PEOPLE WHO HELP US !

This week we started our theme about ‘people who help us’. The children looked at Marcus' ( our puppets) travel book and saw him in hospital – the children role played doctors and made nurses hats.

It has been lovely to be outside all day without needing coats and the sand play and big construction areas have been really popular.

At Broadway Playschool there has been  lots of snail and mini beast hunting and making sand castles then knocking them down.

In Forest School we found a snail halfway up a tree !!!   It has been great watching all the children looking for bugs etc and Friday topped the week with Hide & Seek in the big forest school, children & adults alike had lots of fun!    1,2,3 where are you ? 1,2,3 we’re over here !

 

• REMINDER – your child needs socks, sunhat and LONG SLEEVED T-SHIRT for forest school  WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS – or they can get scratched by the brambles.
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• DON'T FORGET TO PICK UP YOUR NEWSLETTER- out next week !

• Parent afternoons – if you wish to discuss your child’s progress further – please sign list at Towerview Playschool.

 

Goldilocks and the three Bears !

At Broadway Playschool (2-3 group) they loved the big box ! after a while they all wanted to hide in it, we put a cushion and a blanket inside to make it cosy ! and just before we tidied the paints away one little girl decided it would be lovely to paint the box !!! beautiful- child initiated, child led play at its best !!!

 

Meanwhile at Towerview –the whole ‘Goldilocks and the three bears ‘ theme was in all their play – on the headphones& reading the story, in the role play, in the sand - & they liked making and then eating the porridge for snack!   The flapjacks were very yummy too.

As part of the transition work we are doing, the reception teacher came to read a story and was shown the school dressing up clothes by two boys –  she was very impressed at their counting skills & how well they listened to the story.

At Forest School the children really enjoyed the overgrown forest this week, looking for bugs, slugs, and snails. listening and looking out for Mr Robin !! – there are at least 2 down there and they come to get the dropped biscuits form our snack time!

Excellent conversations and team work, looking at the bluebells, and making mud pies – and when asked what they were making, one child said  "i am using a ‘recipe’!"   They found worms and used the reference books to see which kind they had found.

 

HAPPY EASTER !

Broadway Playschool (The 2-3 group) enjoyed making choc Easter nests and they made some beautiful collage eggs by scrunching and tearing tissue paper.

Thursday we had a egg hunt and all enjoyed eating the bunny ! 

There is some lovely role play and conversations taking place.

At Forest school - The children had fun cooking marshmallows over an open fire. They also had crumpets and pancakes!  On Friday the Easter egg hunters left 5 eggs unfound – some creature will have a yummy treat !

At Towerview Playschool – the pasta role play continued and the children made some lovely egg collages. The tasty Easter chocolate shredded wheat cakes –complete with eggs and chicks -  the children made were excellent – they followed instructions to make them really well- & they said were yummy!

The pre-school children went to reception again for a story – they were so well behaved the supply teacher commented on them and gave them all a sticker!  We were so proud of them!

Tuesday - we had a nice spring walk seeing the lambs.

Football on the school field on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons was great fun - one girl said “I loved it you know how many goals I got? 57” !! Then we took them round the field on the ‘train’ stopping off to let the children off and lie down on the grass to listen to all the spring sounds in the spring sun.

The tadpoles should have limbs developing by the time we return !!

Have a happy Easter all

& see you the week starting Monday 28^{th April.}

SIGHTS SOUNDS SMELLS & TASTES !

At Broadway Playschool,  the 2-3year olds have been  learning "who's got the glasses on" game- doing really well.

We have witnessed lots of role play,  copying adults roles - for example -a member of staff was doing observations – suddenly there was a whole row of children with pads and pens, mark-making/writing, copying her making observations !!

There have been some lovely fine motor skills developing when filling up bottles and ice cube trays with dried pasta,

And excellent singing and dancing at circle time!

Towerview Playschool

On Wednesday at Forest School all the children had a fabulous time making hedgehogs out of clay, they were all keen to have a go and the hedgehogs are drying out on a plank ready to go home.

This week our ‘Tap Tap’ Art seemed to be very popular – creating some excellent pictures from wood pieces and nails on cork mats and there has been some excellent mark making outside with big chalks.

At circle time one day – we go into little groups and did our syllable clapping and ‘sounds like’ games – the children are getting good at hearing letter sounds. We also practiced matching up instruments from behind a screen which takes a lot of listening skills.

Thursday – we all made pizzas – from scratch – it took until 1pm but the children worked hard making the dough – letting it prove then rolling and putting their choice of toppings on- yum yum!

Before forest school on Friday – because the children had seen a flapjack recipe in our cookbook – we quickly made some flapjack before we set off- we went to the bottom site – which we haven’t been in since before Xmas  - where we found lots of daffodils and twigs and branches that had fallen from the trees over the winter.

 

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.