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 would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

We will be closed from Tuesday 25^th December and re-open on Wednesday 02^nd January 2013. We would also like to thank those attending Christmas Eve in advance for early pickups.

Snails & Caterpillars

The children will continue to look at Winter, they will be feet painting to make winter pictures, exploring ice in the garden and feeling and exploring baby rice.

Days off    Jamie – Friday    Sarah – Wednesday   Jenni – Thursday

Ladybirds

The children will centre their activities around music and movement, they will be reading the animal bop book, making music with instruments and singing songs, painting and colouring in templates of different musical instruments, moving and dancing to different types of music and running ball games i the garden.

Days off  Abi – Thursday  Julie – Thursday

Bumblebees & Butterflies

The children will be looking at seasons, creating handprint flowers, duplo painting to represent snow, cutting snowflakes, creating a season display, reading books about seasons, role play being at the beach pretend to apply suncream ad splashing in water.

Days off – Krissi – thursday   Claire – Friday

Jo is on Annual leave all week

 The Butterflies will be joining with the Bumblebees whilst their room is redecorated, we have decided to carry out the redecoration this week as term does not start until Monday 7^th January so both rooms will be very quiet. We thank you in advance for your understanding and hope you all like the new look of our Preschool room!

Please may we remind parents to replenish their children’s nappies and wipes on a regular basis, we are finding a lot of children without either nappies or wipes for weeks at a time. Please see your child’s communication book or room door for a reminder when they need replenishing.

We unfortunately say goodbye to Sarah from Snails who leaves us on the 05^th January.

Jenni will take over from Sarah in the Snails from 02^nd January. Please see Krissi if Jenni is your childs keyworker.

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 where the weather is changing and it is starting to get a bit chilly, please can you make sure your children are well equipped with warm clothes, a coat, hat, gloves and some wellies.   

Snails & Caterpillars

The children will continue to look at Winter and Christmas, they will be Making Christmas Angels, Winter pictures for our display, exploring leaves in the garden and exploring baby rice.

Days off    Abi – Wednesday and Thursday    Jamie – Wednesday and Friday    Sarah – Friday

Ladybirds

The children will continue to centre their activities on winter they will be  Role-playing with bears in the role play area using baby clothes to dress up, reading The Snow Bear book, Coloured Ice cube pay in the garden, Christmas stamp pictures, making snow and ice pictures using blue tissue paper, role play with hats and scarves inside and outside.

Days off   Julie – Thursday and Friday    Ellen – Tuesday

Bumblebees

The children will be looking at Christmas, they will be singing Christmas songs, making paper snowflakes, putting on their own coats for the garden, looking at stories of Christmas around the world, colouring in Christmas trees, making presents for our tree using card and wrapping paper, reading the Nativity story, decorating biscuits and welly boot painting.

 Days off – Krissi – Mon and Wedneday    Jenni – Thursday

Tash is on annual leave Monday and Tuesday

Butterflies

The children will be looking at Christmas and room re-decoration, they will be constructing Father Christmas’s sleigh using blocks and blankets, making Christmas decorations to take home, making a Christmas scene with junk modelling, cooking Christmas shaped biscuits and cakes, singing Christmas carols/songs, using big paper draw a room plan for the butterflies what new toys we would like in the new year and set out our new room using small world toys.

  Days off – Jo – Tuesday     Claire – Monday and Thursday

The first week back after Christmas the Butterflies will be joining with the Bumblebees whilst their room is redecorated, we have decided to carry out the redecoration this week as term does not start until Monday 7^th January so both rooms will be very quiet. We thank you in advance for your understanding and hope you all like the new look of our Preschool room!

Please may we remind parents to replenish their children’s nappies and wipes on a regular basis, we are finding a lot of children without either nappies or wipes for weeks at a time. Please see your child’s communication book or room door for a reminder when they need replenishing.

December Dates for your Diary

Nursery Christmas lunch – Wednesday 19^th December (for those children which attend on Wednesdays)

We would like to remind all parents we will close on Christmas eve and not reopen until Wednesday 02^nd January 2013

We would also like to congratulate Abi who will be moving to the Ladybirds as room leader as of 02^nd January 2013. Interviews are taking place for Abi’s replacement so we will advise you of the new Caterpillar’s room leader in the next few weeks.

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 where the weather is changing and it is starting to get a bit chilly, please can you make sure your children are well equipped with warm clothes, a coat and some wellies.   

Snails & Caterpillars

The children will continue to look at Winter, they will be decorating boxes for Christmas presents, Making and decorating snowballs, exploring ice with our hands, singing Christmas and winter songs, feeling and exploring cold textures and making Christmas tree decorations.

Days off    Abi – Monday     Jamie – Friday   Sarah – Friday

Tarnia is on annual leave Monday

Ladybirds

The children will be centring their activities around Winter, colouring snowflakes, reading winter books, exploring snow and ice, making snowflakes out of stickle bricks and interstars, making winter pictures using paint and sparkles, and exploring the garden in their hats, coats, gloves and scarf’s and talking about the weather outside.

Julie is on annual leave all week

Bumblebees

The children will be looking at Christmas, they will be singing Christmas songs, making paper snowflakes, putting on their own coats for the garden, looking at stories of Christmas around the world, colouring in Christmas trees, making presents for our tree using card and wrapping paper, reading the Nativity story, decorating biscuits and welly boot painting.

 Days off – Krissi – Mon    Jenni – Thursday

Tash is on annual leave on Friday

Butterflies

The children will be looking at water and ice, they will be freezing natural objects into ice, reading our oceans book, setting up a seascape in the water tray, exploring the sea habitat, looking at ice and what happens when it melts, exploring the texture and what they can see, placing buckets of water outside to see what happens and continue to make our Christmas crafts,

 Days off – Jo – Tuesday, Claire – Thursday

Please may we remind parents to replenish their children’s nappies and wipes on a regular basis, we are finding a lot of children without either nappies or wipes for weeks at a time. Please see your child’s communication book or room door for a reminder when they need replenishing.

December Dates for your Diary

Friday 07^th December Pre School Nativity 10am

Monday 10^th December 2-3’s Xmas Party 3-5

Wednesday 12^th December 0-18 months Xmas Party 3-5

Thursday 13^th December 18-24’s Xmas Party 3-5

Friday 14^th December 3-5’s Xmas Party 3-5

We would like to remind all parents we will close on Christmas eve and not reopen until Wednesday 02^nd January 2013