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 !