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Apr 17

Ready for the Summer Term

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What a lovely first week of our Summer Term. Welcoming back old friends and making new friends, introducing additional adult guided learning in the routine for our older children which they engaged in fully, and enjoying the sunshine with lots of outdoor play and in particular lots of bug hunting.

  • Working together on a phonics puzzle before our adult guided activity.
  • Snails, slugs and worms have been well looked after this week.
Mar 31

Celebrating Easter 2021

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Keeping the children safe is our number 1 priority, so our annual Easter Egg hunt with families was this year replaced with fun and exciting Easter themed activities throughout the week , including finding the eggs hidden around the setting.

We also enjoyed preparing for and taking part in our own Carnival, as celebrated in many cultures, usually before Lent, involving public celebrations, parades and street parties. We made homemade masks and provided the children chance to dress up before we had a parade around pre-school to ‘chase away the winter and welcome spring’. We finished off our busy morning with a yummy doughnut.

    • Thinking about pattern and colour as we began on our Easter creative activities.
    • Using boiled eggs to think about gentle hands, if we hurt the egg we can’t take it back.
    • We were excited to try using stickers and dye to decorate our hard boiled eggs.
    • We couldn’t wait to take the stickers off of the eggs when they dried to see the resulting patterns.
    • We had a lonely egg visiting pre-school, the children decided the most important things to provide were a bed, food, things to play with and friends that they eagerly created.
    • Sharing and taking turns with new toys and resources
    • Carefully looking after our egg characters.
    • An invitation to create masks for our CArnival parade.
    • Dressing up provided on the final day of term proved very popular.
    • Where are those eggs?
    • Parachute fun to finish our busy term.
    Mar 13

    Responsibility for our setting and our play.

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    We have been encouraging the children to engage in risk-taking whilst considering their own and others safety. We have also been positiviely reinforcing their wishes and choices to look after each other and their pre-school this week.

    • We stepped back allowing the children to work together creating their own play area.
    • Testing the bridge they decided to make, to see if it is safe.
    • The children decided our garden needed a clean.
    • Taking ownership of our display boards
    • Creating the first part of our display….
    • …deciding where we would like our work,
    • -and proudly showing off our efforts.
    Mar 07

    World Book Day.

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    The children were invited to dress as their favourite characters for a morning filled with familiar stories, active story telling, story creating and opportunities for reading and enjoying books throughout the setting.

    • Exploring the oats in our Goldilocks Role-play area.
    Mar 05

    Friendship week.

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    For our first week of the half term, with increasing numbers of children joining us we wanted to focus on friendship and kindness.

    We have thought about and named our own emotions, as well as thinking about the feelings of others and what it means to be kind.

    • Mixing our colours to see what happens when we work together.
    • Making cards for friends, adding our names before putting them in envelopes, adding stamps and ‘posting’ them.
    Nov 14

    Celebrations, festivals and special events.

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    During difficult times we have based our planning on the children’s happiness and wellbeing. We have therefore been focusing on what is important to them, what they like, want and need, and we have particularly enjoyed learning about and celebrating festivals and special events.

    • Harvesting our own vegetables as we thought about the harvest festival
    • We worked together to design and make this amazing scarecrow
    • Our Halloween home corner
    • Every witch and wizard needs a stock cupboard
    • We painted, poured and scratched in the paint to make these beautiful pumpkin carriages.
    • Bugs in jelly discovery play
    • Pre-teaching experimenting with ingredients before providing potion making opportunities.
    • Pouring, combining, mixing colours.
    • Developing fine motor skills as we used pipettes to help with our potion making
    • Extending with various ‘ingrediants and measuring scales.
    • Creating and then using our own pumpkin cauldrons.
    • Introducing a space theme in support of our learning about Bonfire night.
    • 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…….
    • What would we see from our spaceship window?
    • What is inside these moon rocks?
    • We thought about being safe with fireworks whilst making our rocket pictures
    • Thanking people who keep us safe, on Remembrance day.
    • Proudly displaying our poppies
    • Colour and pattern in our discovery play as we introduce Diwali
    • Making Diya lamps
    • Creating our own Mehndi designs
    • Bright and spotty play for Children in Need
    • Making our own Pudsey Bears as we think about helping others.
    Jul 25

    Growth and change

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    As we think about moving on we worked together on activities that made us think about growth and change. We started with plants including lifecycles and growing cress, beans and flowers, before exploring fruit and vegetables as we began to think about our own health and our own growth.

    • Can we sequence the lifecycle stages in the right order
    • Now that we know the lifecycle we can grow our own plants.
    • Planting our own seeds
    • Watering our seeds
    • Exploring fruit and vegetables in play
    • Colouring our Cress Trees
    • Laminating our trees
    • Adding our cotton wool
    • Adding cress seeds
    • Watering the cress seeds
    • The patient bit – how long until the Cress grows.
    Jul 01

    Sensory play

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    • An invitation to create potions, the children decided they were making food for the bees.
    • Our spaghetti clock, can the children recreate numbers with spaghetti?
    • Water play to cool down in the hot weather
    • combining cornflour and conditioner
    • exploring texture and change
    • the children were very proud of their individual dough balls.

    Exploring sensory play both inside and out.

    Jun 19

    Another science experiment as requested by the children.

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    The children were still talking about our ‘fun science lesson’ so we thought we should try the ‘skittles’ experiment with them in support of our colour theme this week. We were very impressed with their interest, focus and their patience as they waited for the exciting results, initially watching how to create a skittle rainbow, before having a turn to try independantly. The highlight for the children turned out to be mixing the colours at the end, and finding out what happened to the bottom of the skittles.

    • “wow”, “it’s a rainbow”
    • Carefully positioning our skittles around the plate
    • One of the children asked “will the colour come off the bottom?” so all of the children decided to find out.

    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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