The babies had a trip to Redland Park on the Wednesday 3rd March. They loved exploring the sandpit, the swings and the slide. It was great to be out in the fresh air having fun!
Daffodils
Last week the children showed interest in our daffodils growing in the room, so we got them down to have a closer look. We introduced words such as petals, stalk, stem, leaf, soil and we discussed what flowers need to grow. To extend their interest we then painted pictures of the daffodils focussing on their …
Chinese New Year in The Court House 2’s Room
The younger children explored paint with their hands and the animals mixing together yellow and red paint, while the older children explored the noodles and tried to use chop sticks. Both groups of children used stamps to create pictures and decorated masks for our race. We told all the children about the race that the …
Chinese New Year – The Year of the Ox
Some of our families in Preschool are from China, so it was lovely being able to celebrate their New Year. Sally read the story of how the years came to be named after animals and the children found out that they were born either in the Year of the Rooster or the Year of the …
Choo…….Choo
What can you make with a giant box? We have made a train with ours.
In the Moment Planning in action at Mornington House
Felix has been talking about a new programme he’s been watching – ‘Tractor Ted’. He sang the song lots of times in the morning and said “I want to make a tractor”. Gemma asked him “what would we need?” and Felix found some big plastic reels, “these are the wheels!”. Louise gave him some boxes …
Campfire
Yesterday evening at The Court House we made a campfire in the garden with the two’s. We all sang nursery rhymes and drank warm milk. Some of the children even asked when we were lightening the fire.
Wow!
Look at our Pre School Cinema we had Wednesday afternoon at The Priory which soon turned into a Talent Contest! We had popcorn using shredded paper followed by episodes of Postman Pat, Shimmer and Shine, Bob the Builder and Peppa Pig. Our Talent Contest brought out great talent with lots of singing and dancing… Happy …
Finished product!
The Priory children are enjoying their Peppa Pig house now it is finished. ‘ It’s Peppa’s House’ said A The children pointed to each character and named them all.
Box Fun!
The children at The Priory had lots of fun painting a very large box on Friday. This took quite a while and is ‘work in progress’. Later this week we will be sending the final photo of our Peppa Pig House.