Ladybirds
The Ladybirds favourite activity of the week.
Messy Rainbow Icing sugar play. Wow! What a mess!
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Personal Social Emotional Development (PSED) Playing alongside others
Physical Development (PD) Using tools to create marks
Communication and Language (CL) Listening and Attention
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Why not decorate biscuits with different coloured icing at home.
Butterflies
The Butterflies favourite activity of the week.
The Hungry Caterpillar Tuff Tray
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Literacy (L) Reading the story as a group
Expressive Arts and Design (EAD) Exploring textures
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Extending and improvising story times using toys, puppets and role play resources
Bumblebee’s
The bumblebee’s favourite activity of the week.
Our theme for this week is dinosaurs and we made up a dinosaur tuff tray with flash cards to identify the different dinosaurs
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
Understanding the World (UTW) Learning about a different age in our Planets history
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
To find similarities between toys and outside objects and identifying the concept of ‘big’ and ‘small’
What our Preschool Bee’s have been up too?
We used the smartboard to look at dinosaur body parts and did some dinosaur foot printing too.
Number of the week: 18
Shape of the week: Rectangle
Colour of the week: Bronze
Letter of the week: Bb
Phonic song is ‘B’
Bring your bat and bring your ball, b,b,
Bring your bat and bring your ball to the park to play!
Dragonflies
The dragonflies favourite activity of the week.
Our favourite activity this week was a science experiment involving placing folded paper and card flowers in some water and watching the petals unfold. Some unfolded straight away and some more slowly
What areas of development did this activity focus on?
This experiment was to talk about absorption and for the children to predict what might happen to the flowers when they went into the water. A few children predicted that the petals would unfold, others said it would sink, some did not what would happen
Characteristics of Effective Learning (COEL) Making links, making predictions, testing their ideas
Activities parents could do at home to extend their child’s development further?
Have a tray of different objects and a large bowl of water. Ask your child to predict then test which objects sink and which objects float
Number of the week: 11
Shape of the week: Square
Colour of the week: Brown
Letter of the week: Mm
The Jolly Phonics song for our letter of the week goes like this, why not try singing it at home… (M.m)
The mums and dad’s make many meals mmmm mmmm
The mum’s and dad’s make many meals for the hungry children