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.

We say a sad goodbye to Sam from the Bumblebees this month who is leaving us to take a Deputy’s position in Camberley, her last day will be Friday 28^th September.

Snails

This week the snails will be concentrating on sensory exploration. The children will be playing with sensory bottles, exploring textured material, having water play with sponges, doing whole body painting, having wet sand play and cornflour play with paint.

Days off – Sarah Monday

Sarah is on Annual Leave on Thursday and Friday

Caterpillars

This week the Caterpillars will be looking at children’s interests; they will be table painting, having water play with boats and fish, playing with the trains and train track, painting using the toy trains to make marks, also puppet play, making sound and singing, heuristic play, feet painting, messy food play and exploring coloured water with our hands and tools.

Days off – Abi - Wednesday   Jamie – Friday

Ladybirds

This week the Ladybirds will be looking at people who help us. This will involve colouring in pictures of police officers, dentists and doctors as well as creating police hats using card, painting fire engines, role play doctors and nurses, recognising different professionals on flashcards and cleaning our teeth.

Please can all children bring in their toothbrush and toothpaste on Wednesday.

Days off – Emma – Monday    Benita – Friday

Bumblebees

This week the Bumblebees will be concentrating on doctors and nurses. They will be painting a picture of an ambulance, talking about our Mummy and Daddy’s jobs, making an ambulance using duplo and other construction toys, using the small world hospital and ambulance, talking about how doctors and nurses help us and role play being ambulances in the garden.

Days off – Jenni – Thursday    Krissi – Monday

Sam is on Annual Leave all week

Butterflies

This week the Butterflies will continue to look at living things, they will be cooking their harvested vegetables, using blocks to make animals and drawing pictures of our fish. They will also continue to watch our caterpillars grow and change, turn the block area into a zoo, have circle time with the bunnies and do rubbings in the garden where they will be exploring differences and similarities in the environment.

Days off –  Jo – Tuesday     

Claire is on Annual Leave all week

Lee is on training Wednesday AM

The First Aid for parents course will take place on Saturday 13^th October from 9:30-11:30 we still have 3 available places for any parents that are interested please be aware these will be given on a first come first served basis so if you would like a place please see myself or Michelle.

Can we please ask parents to be a little bit quieter outside the nursery on pick ups/drop offs at 1pm as the younger children at nursery are sleeping and with the hot weather we are having to keep all windows open.

We are holding an Early Years Foundations Stage info evening on September 27^th at 7-8pm this is to introduce you all to the changes in the curriculum from September 2012.

Zoo lab will be visiting the Bumblebees and Butterflies on Wednesday 19^th September 2:30-3:30.

Please may we ask parents to donate any empty jam or coffee jars to the nursery; please could these be given to Jo in Preschool.