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