How things grow !

This week the caterpillars have grown and are wiggling around their home. We also had delivery of some ladybirds and set them free at Forest school.

The children have been exploring air and its affect on different things – like egg whites –the children enjoyed watching egg whites turn into what they called “clouds”. Then when whisked the egg whites got bigger and whiter –until we could tip the bowl up over our heads!! The resulting meringues were delicious!

This week the children have been trying lots of experiments,  “what cleans coins?” Looking at decaying food and what happens when we put freshly planted seeds on the windowsill and in the fridge.  They all enjoyed 'Harry and the hazelnut' story sack too.

There has been loads happening outside .....tennis, den building, obstacle course, planting seeds and lots of mark making with chalks- the outside floor area is covered with a variety of lovely colours and shapes. The children have enjoyed playing in the ’hamster wheel ‘, hoola in hoops and using the cart together there too !

Some Dragons came to Forest School !!!–  there is a book about their arrival in Broadway and we are trying to look after them and see what adventures they will bring......................the baby Dragons escaped and turned up at Forest school – we rescued them and reunited them with their parents!

At Broadway Playschool, the little ones are getting very good at remembering the ‘Hungry Caterpillar’ story and playing ‘what’s in the box’. They had fun pulling each other up and down in the big cart outside in the sunshine.

 

OUT & ABOUT

Today we have been enjoying the glorious sunny weather by playing football on the school field. 

 

Whilst outside some of the children filled a few buckets of water up, then we discussed what things may sink and float and they made their prediction before trying.  They found out shells 'sink' and small round bark pieces 'float'

We watched the raisins dance in a glass of lemonade and discussed what was making them dance and why.  It was great seeing the dancing raisins experiment and hearing what the
children thought what might happen next!

Lastly we unwrapped our newly delivered caterpillars, took a sneaky peek at them and left them quietly to grow, whilst discussing what is going to happen to them over the coming weeks.

At Broadway Playschool the children are gradually getting used to being in a pre-school environment and away from their parents. They too are enjoying getting outside and playing in the sand and on the bikes.

 

WECLOME BACK TO THE SUMMER TERM !

Hope you all had a lovely Easter.

We started back to lovely spring weather – REMINDER that your child will need a sun hat each dayand sun screen on before they attend.

This term we are doing experiments, building dens and looking at mini beasts- the caterpillars are on order !

We have been busy painting pictures of daffodils and spring flowers and making our initials out of cress. The grass heads at home have grown well and the children report enjoying cutting their grass head’s hair !

The new children have settled well into Towerview Playschool – our rolling a ball to each other and saying our names game has supported this transition.

At Broadway Playschool the new children to the 2-3 group to seemed to settle well and we're all looking forward to getting to know them and their families.

It has been good to get outside with plenty of sand play- block building and whizzing around on the bikes and scooters.

HAPPY EASTER !

We all had a lovely last week - making Easter nests - chocolate ones !! and paper chicks and an Easter Egg hunt on the last Forest School session.  Jude thinks she saw the easter bunny hopping up to the Tower!

 Hopefully the grass heads will be growing well at home - they should be able to have a 'hair' cut soon.

         Have a lovely Easter everyone !

      Back on Monday 13th April

SPRING ECLIPSE!

At Broadway Playschool we are seeing some great role play from the children. The dolls house is extremely popular and is encouraging a lot of shared play. 

A lovely time was had in the water play, making boats out of junk modelling & finding objects that float or sink – this was all one child wanted to do all morning !

The children and staff enjoyed laughing at Jo, when she lost her balance and fell back off the logs of their "car" at Forest School....it was funny!   One child’s chuckles could be heard streets away !

Bug hunting revealed a lot of woodlice and it was lovely to feel the sun on our faces and hear the bird sing.

The children have enjoyed planting their carrot seed and thinking about what other things are needed to make them grow.

 

The partial eclipse was felt rather than viewed- even though we have our ‘pinhole’ cameras at the ready ....... – it went really cold for a short while and very quiet – then the sun came back out !

Our felt flower & spring paintings display is looking lovely and colourful – take a look when you are in !!

Last week Jo & Jude attended the SENdCo conference on special needs and bereavement and this Saturday Jude attended the Montessori conference in London – looking at ICT in Playschool.

PHOTO ORDERS NEED TO BE BACK IN START OF NEXT WEEK – THANKYOU!

 

Happy Mothering Sunday !

AT Broadway  Playschool the children really enjoyed creating their Mother's Day peppermint creams sweets this week...they had to knead the icing to mix the colour in and then shape the sweets, lots of concentrating. They were very creative!!

At Towerview we had a lovely, sunny walk to see the diggers at the road works on Tuesday morning.

 At Forest School the staff enjoyed supporting the children make their ‘mud medallions’.

We were all busy rolling out wool weft to make felt flowers and hand printing flowers for Mothering Sunday.

TRAINING-The staff team have been updating their training again. Alison, Jo and Becky went to a conference on ‘2 year old’s’ and Jude and Jo went to the SENd Conference. We all learnt a lot and revisited previous training. Amy & Charlotte are off to learn about how to use visuals to support children’s learning too.

SPRING HAS SPRUNG!

We have started our Spring theme with some excellent artwork being produced  including  fantastic paintings of the tulips.

At Towerview Playschool we have a nice big craft/collage table with lots of different things to use and try and the children have been very creative making flags, ‘a horse’, ‘pig’, fishing rods, ‘a house’ and flowers amongst other things.

It was a lovely sunny forest school session on Wednesday – making mud pies – climbing the climbing tree and digging for worms – then we all sat and said what our favourite thing had been that day while the birds sang to us over head!

All had fun trying out our obstacle course too.

Over in the school hall – the children are now good at finding a space and had fun balancing along the beams and crawling like spiders and hopping like rabbits – all great gross motor skills developing & in a REAL SCHOOL !!!

On Friday - we walked to se the lambs - we also saw 5 horse a lady walkingher dogs, daffodils, fir cones and some great tits in the tree !

At Broadway Playschool we have seen some beautiful artwork this week. Lots of colour mixing and sticking and gluing using different materials to create some great pieces! There has also been lots of role play happening. The children are enjoying building towers with the grey blocks and enjoying the dolls house too!