We had another great week in pre-school last week, here are some of the things we have been doing.
The Rainbows have continued to change their library books and we sent a challenge home in their books bags to take a photo of the exciting places where they have read their book and share it with us on Tapestry, thank you to all of the parents who have done this, it is lovely to see.
We have been doing a “Squiggle while you wriggle” programme – we dance to music making shapes with our arms and hands and then repeat the shapes with crayons on paper. We have been practising lots of finger rhymes too to get the fingers moving. Both of these activities help strengthen the fingers and large muscles they will need to start writing.
The children have frozen items in water and then the next day used hammers to get the ite
ms out of the frozen blocks. We have also used magnifying glasses to explore aco
rns and conkers. Both of these activities encourage children to share and talk about their knowledge of the world around them.
We have created a theatre which the children have loved performing their favourite songs and dances in, using microphones and musical instruments to keep time.
Our pirates this week have made maps to help them find pirate treasure and in the dough this week they have been making pretend knickerbocker ice creams, yum yum!
As a fun activity to keep fit the staff and children have been running round the garden with the children counting as we go to help us all meet the challenge of increasing our daily activity, some of the children have been hard task masters!
It’s been a busy week!