Have a very Happy Christmas & peaceful New Year

A week full of Christmas preparations  - making Xmas bauble cards at Broadway Playschool – with plenty of glitter – meanwhile at Towerview the children have been finishing the Xmas calendars, making Satsuma pomanders – or ‘panandas’  as one child said- and making Xmas pudding cakes. We have had fake snow to play with – lovely and fluffy and warm!

We have had allot of children off with sickness & the other (!) – please remember the 48hour rule ( =48 hours from last bout)  so that we prevent the spread of this illness.

The cold weather has leant itself to frosty Forest School sessions – making footprints in the frost & finding frosty leaves. The mud kitchen has been very popular – mixing up pancakes and stews  !!!

On Thursday our Christmas Sing Song was very well attended by parents & carers – the children sang their hearts out and everyone sang   ‘we wish you a merry Xmas ‘  and we do !!!& a Happy New Year!

 

Last week this week–with Xmas party on Friday with a visit from Father Xmas !!!

 

Back on Monday 5^th January 2015 – have a great holiday everyone !

FROSTY MORNINGS – ‘IT’S RUSTY!’

= One child's response to seeing the frosty leaves !

At Broadway Playschool this week, it was a very sparkly week - potatoes were used to paint with, and topped off with plenty of glitter - the children's bauble cards were beautiful!

We have explored the ice on the pavements and grass & at forest school collected frost covered leaves.

Towerview children had a lovely walk down the village to see beautiful shop Christmas displays. 

Playschool Committee met and while checking everything was in order, they heard a report of last year’s events and achievements and the training completed by staff. The committee have also all completed their updated safeguarding training.

We enjoyed lots of lovely hand and feet painting going on to make a backdrop for our SING SONG on Thursday 11^th Dec 11am. The children are doing lovely singing to Mary's knitting and other Xmas songs in preparation- so it should be a treat !

Its begining to look alot like Christmas !

At Broadway Playschool

Some of the children have been busy with the blocks this week, creating tall towers and shapes.

 The fir cones Xmas tress decorations for our tree in the URC Xmas tree festival the children did are just beautiful – complete with the coloured ‘pompoms’.

They have been having a lovely time role playing, mark making and mixing paint.

The glitter is out of the cupboard !

Watch out for the Christmas decorations !!

 

At Towerview Playschool

We enjoyed selecting different objects and making different sounds to use to make our wind chime, and the children were excited to hear it working as the wind got up.

The sunshine face plates were made using collage and looked very effective.
We did whole group activity one afternoon making the reindeers with pine cones.

We has a couple of great sessions in forest school children enjoying the mud kitchen, catching raindrops on their fingers & climbing through the climbing tree and swinging off!

Thursday, we finished  decorating the cones to go on our Christmas tree. We then walked down to the United Reformed Church to decorate our  Christmas tree & it looks fab! 

Come and see it this Friday evening & next at the UR Church Broadway !

The children are practicing hard for our

SING SONG on Thursday 11th Dec 11am

& are sounding great singing ‘Marys knitting’– parents, carers, childminders, granny , aunts and friends welcome ! 

WIND & the weather !

This week we have been exploring the wind – the children have made a wind chimes that has been put up outside above the decking

– we have made paper aeroplanes and danced with ribbons – but there has been a severe lack of wind so we will try again net week !

At Forest School – we are now at the top coniferous site – and the children are loving the mud kitchen and natural den.  We go into Forest School on Wed’s and Friday’s whatever the weather          ( except high winds) so we all need to wrap up warm and wear the FS overalls and waterproof coats.

The Forest School experience gives children the chance to get in touch with nature and the elements    –      being there allows them ownership of their learning and it really helps with communication, self confidence and self regulation.  Getting ready in itself contains much learning – having to get shoes off and put coats and waterproofs on, finding hats and gloves and welly boots- all part of learning to be independent.

The decorations for the Playschool Christmas tree at The United Reformed Church (part of Broadway late night shopping for the next two Friday’s)  are going well

– Come and see them at the Church on Friday evenings! 

COLD WEATHER WARMERS !

At Towerview Playschool this week the children have been finishing their Diwali tea lights in gold and silver – very beautiful they are too!

A giant firework picture was made by everyone; using cut card tubes as a mono print tool – to great effect – see the big painting up on the windows!

We were quiet for 1 minute on Tuesday and printed some screen print poppies to take home.

 The children enjoyed ‘Goldilocks and the three bears’ - which was instigated by our student Emily.  She has been reading the story sack to them during the week, then on Thursday they helped make porridge with her then tasted it with different flavour toppings.

She had her assessment for Early Years Teacher and we wish her every success.

On Friday – due to the blustery weather – we stayed in the setting – still getting outside but also making chocolate bread – it did look and smell very yummy!

At Broadway Playschool the little ones had a great time exploring the shaving foam.  Our 'Dear Zoo' book has promoted lots of animal role play - all of the children suddenly became pretend animals, playing together wonderfully. It was brilliant!

REMEMBER, REMEMBER THE 5TH OF NOVEMBER!

The bonfire cake was amazing! everyone had a go at breaking up the chocolate and stirring in the krispies – the mix was then poured over the mould and apricot bits and bits of red liquorice were added so we had fire.  Then at Forest School on November the 5th - we lit sparklers on the cake to celebrate bonfire night.

Firework pictures were being made – by splatting tea bags over stencils and the children have learnt about fire – hot and how to be safe during the week

They also did two very good fire drills!

The Diwali lamps the children have made from clay are now drying and we will be painting them next week – they do look lovely – we had a power point of the story of Rama and Sita on show so the children could see the story of Diwali -The Festival of Lights.

At Broadway Playschool -the 2-3 year old children have made some really beautiful firework pictures. We have been practising "Mr. Tongue" and doing really well

A few of the children were engaged in a lovely moment, where they were sharing their family pictures and showing each other their families -using the Home -Playschool photo albums. 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!

At Broadway Playschool

We have been pumpkin mad this week- everything orange !!! .....we enjoyed scooping out the pumpkin, ..made collage pumpkins, and biscuit pumpkins- biscuits with orange icing and sweets for eyes and teeth !!!

We are also still enjoying the zoo story with our own story sack

 

At Towerview Playschool

The children have also scooped out a pumpkin & painted pumpkins.

We have also been making biscuit faces – furthering exploration of our faces and what is on them

We have been measuring who is the tallest.  

 

We have also introduced a new pirate game !!! listen to hear about it from your child !!!

 

HALF TERM NEXT WEEK – WE RETURN ON MON 3^RD Nov 2014