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For general updates and information please see our Facebook page – Therfield Village Preschool

 

May 05

Owls Challenge – Sensory Bottles

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This week’s Owls Challenge has been to bring in Sensory Bottles from home to share with each other. Here are a selection from our talented Owls.

Georgia – “It’s from the woods. Leaves, sticks, and pinecones, and stones, and a shell. We went to the woods.”

Finn – “The rocks are the same colours as my clothes. They are blue and grey, and this one’s green. They’re special ones. If the rocks are buried deep down, they turn into skeletons. Look it’s got a skeleton in there.”

Sienna – “It’s got oil in it. Look what happens if you shake it. It’s got sparkles and look a bead at the bottom. It’s two colours.”

Thomas – “It’s got grass and soil from Daddy’s garden.”

 

Other sharing included an antler from Sienna (as we are learning about large animals). We even had chocolate with Mondrian art on it (our artist of the week).

Ophelia – “It’s from Mummy’s hotel.”

– Natasha

May 03

Owls Club

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One of the exciting things about the Summer Term is our Owls Club.  A weekly afternoon club just for our Summer Leavers.  Owls Club helps the children to adjust to the longer days of primary school whilst focusing on our next steps and development in the specific areas of learning.
Our first Owls Club was exciting and good fun with the children engaging at all 3 stations on offer, working on Literacy, Mathematics and fine motor skills in turn.  The children particularly enjoyed sharing their ideas and work with Miss Haxton, visiting us from Therfield First school.
After so much ‘thinking’ it was time for ‘movement’ and developing our gross motor skills, and what better way than washing tables and chairs, and sweeping the floors.  ERIC time (Everybody Reads In Class) was a favourite part of the session with the children exploring books and stories freely.  We are looking forward to our next Owls Club, and to providing some fun Owls challenges to complete at home.

– Tina

May 03

Calm Down Corner

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Welcome to our new Calm Down Corner. This is a cosy section of Pre-School to reflect and manage our feelings and emotions. We have been mapping and labelling our feelings using a feelings barometer. This is using a 5 point scale to introduce self-regulation. We have also introduced self-soothing techniques such as Magic Soup (imagine a bowl of soup, smell it, and cool it). We have also been making choices in our behaviour and deciding whether they are happy (green) or sad (red).

– Natasha Bailey

Apr 27

St George’s Day

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In celebration of St George’s Day, we introduced St George to the children with a wave of his flag and talked about how brave he was to defeat a dragon and keep us safe.  We designed and drew our own dragon and the children decided he could breathe fire and had bumpy wings and sharp claws.
We went on to think about the times when we have been brave, and the children recalled experiences such as having injections at the Doctors and seeing shadows on their bedroom wall, as well as using their imagination to tell us scary stories of monsters under the bed and real fire breathing dragons.

– Tina

Mar 31

Easter Egg Hunt

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Thank you to our families for joining us on our Easter Egg Hunt. We walked together through the village assembling at the local recreation ground. Despite the chill, we had lots of fun collecting plastic eggs to fill a giant nest. Lots of energy was expended, including by the staff, who had to keep redistributing the eggs! We exchanged our plastic eggs for a chocolate one (kindly donated by Tesco) on our return to Pre-School.

Mar 30

Baby Lambs

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On the 30th March, we were visited by some adorable lambs. The children had the very special opportunity to bottle feed them.

We would like to thank Aline for regularly bringing in her pets and Gemma for her amazing supply of animals! These visits really helped the children to use their senses and become excited about making sense of their world.

Mar 27

Sheepdog Puppies

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On the 27th March, Gemma brought in 3 sheepdog puppies who were very well behaved all morning. The children were shown a cuddly toy puppy at register, they named him Ben and cared for him throughout the week. When he wasn’t at Pre-School the children made missing posters and stuck them up in our entrance. A very kind member of the community found him and they were very pleased to see him returned safe and sound.

Mar 24

Mother’s Day Cake and Cuddles

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We were delighted to be joined by some of our mums and siblings who enjoyed a sing and sign along performance of ‘I have my mummy in my heart’. This was followed by refreshments of iced tea and a selection of cakes. Our VIPs had the chance to relax (briefly!) and get to know each other, whilst the children also tucked into some cakes we had prepared earlier in the session. The session closed with a snuggly story time with mummy’s kisses and bedtime wishes by Jonathan London, My Mum is fantastic by Nick Butterworth and My Mum by Anthony Brown. Although the children were re-energised by their cakes, the mummy’s wished they could stay for more cuddles and stories a little longer.
 A big thank you if you were able to join us and for your continued support. The Mothers Day Afternoon Tea Fundraiser on Saturday was also well attended.  We hope Mothers everywhere enjoyed Mothering Sunday in some way or another.

– Natasha Bailey

We are now using Tapestry to update parents and carers of the exciting things happening at preschool. Please let us know if you are unable to access your account.

For general updates and information please see our Facebook page – Therfield Village Preschool

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