Dear Parents and Carers

Welcome to our weekly blog, we aim to send out an update of events, developments, news and activities throughout each month; this will replace our existing weekly email.

It has come to that time of year when we say goodbye to some of our pre-school children, we would like to wish Max R and Sebastian LV lots of luck at school and for the future.

Snails

This week is a quiet week in the snails and they will be joining with the caterpillars for the week.

Days off – Sarah -Friday

Caterpillars

This week the Caterpillars will be looking at our bodies. The children will enjoy activities such as feet painting, hand printing in coloured wet sand, soft play, looking at family books, mirror play- exploring our reflections and finding our facial features, role play washing feeding and patting babies and exploring messy food play with our hands.

Days off – Abi- Thursday, Jamie – Friday

Ladybirds

This week the Ladybirds will be continue to look at Families and Friends, they will be singing songs with their friends, eating a picnic tea with their friends and teddies, playing ball games to help learn their friends names, putting on finger puppet shows, turn taking games, and hand and foot print pictures.

The ladybirds would like to show the children some ultrasound pictures and would like to ask parents to bring one in so we could photocopy them.

Days off –Emma – Wednesday

Benita is on annual leave all week

Bumblebees

This week the Bumblebees will be concentrating on ourselves. They will be making our homes using boxes, selotape glue, paint and scissors, dancing with music to their favourite songs, talking about our sizes who is big and who is small, counting fingers, drawing self portraits and encouraging the children to point out their features.

The Bumblebees are having a princess and heroes party on Thursday so please feel free to dress up, we are try to raise money for the crackerjacks children’s trust so a small donation would be kindly appreciated.

Days off – Sam – Thursday    Krissi – Friday

Butterflies

This week the Butterflies will be looking at small world. They will be making a magical small world with princes and princesses, creating a book of small world adventures using photographs, creating a world in the block area using small bricks in a big space, exploring the super hero CD rom on the computer, making small world figures using felt and pegs and create accessories for our fire station.

The preschool are holding a heroes, prince and princess party on 30^th August to raise money for charity, they will do lots of prince/princess activities and ask all children to dress up for the day.

We are hoping to visit the Guildford museum on Friday afternoon please see Lee or Leanne if you would like your child to join us but do not usually attend on Friday afternoon.

Days off – Claire – Friday

Jo and Kay are on annual leave all week

The First Aid for parents course will take place on Saturday 13^th October from 9:30-11:30 we still have 4 available places for any parents that are interested please be aware these will be given on a first come first serve basis so if you would like a place please see myself or Michelle.

The nursery will close at 6pm on Friday 25^th August and reopen at 8am on Tuesday 28^th August.

We hope you all have a great bank holiday weekend.

Michelle, Leanne and the Markenfield team