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

 

SHOPS & AUTUMN TREES !

BROADWAY PLAYSCHOOL

We’ve been playing shops at Broadway this week.

 

 There has been some lovely role play from the children this week, with the children mark making their shopping lists and then taking turns to choose and pay for their items from the 'shop'. The children were great at identifying the fruit and vegetables in the play.

 

They have also been doing lots of colour mixing when painting and enjoying looking at our photos from home.

 

At Towerview Playschool

Lots of portrait done loads of hand prints made for the ‘autumn tree’. They enjoyed cutting them out later and gluing them on the tree shape. 

 

 Many of the children have enjoying the musical instruments and making their own boxes up of things for what's in the box getting peers to join in.

Some great faces were drawn from looking at ourselves in the mirror this week (watch out for the display). 

A very muddy time was had in forest school too, with lots of mud pies being made, puddle jumping and mud painting.  Some great animal homes were made too.

feed the birds !

This week the children have been busy making handprints to make an autumn tree display and  mixing lard, bird seed into plastic cups to make bird feeders to take down to forest school to support the birds over the winter months.

There is much mark making going on – with some children beginning to form letters , describe their pictures and doing the ’register’ with Jude.

The blustery weather has meant we had to stay indoor Monday morning - but we got out as soon as it was safe and we couldn’t get blown away. The children enjoyed feel the noise – ‘whooshy’ and thinking about why it was windy!    The umbrellas have also come in useful this week !!

The evening about forest school and communication was well attended by parents who said they enjoyed the evening - meeting other parents and chatting to staff. It was lovely to see everyone relaxed and making new connections.

There is a sickness bug going around – remember it is 48 hours at home from last bout of sickness before they can return to Playschool.

CONKERS !!

The children really enjoyed going on a walk to find some conkers - although not many were left!  It was lovely to go out collecting and then sorting them into big –small and very tiny!! and playing with them. We then thought of ways to use them- including rolling them down guttering and painting with them.

We also painted leaves and made prints form them – which look really good.

They really enjoyed mixing mud and water and then making welly mud prints at Forest school. In the afternoon this activity was extended to use the children’s feet - " it's squishy" was one of the reactions heard.

It was great to see some of children playing together all day, some have made lovely connections and are sharing some great communication –  real friendships in the making!

 

Remember to bring in some photos for our CLOCK  display !