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We provided the children with individual bowls of cornflour, along with water and food colouring for them to combine, explore and play with freely. The children decided to find out what would happen if they also added soap.
We were very pleased to welcome some of our children back to pre-school this week. The children as always made us very proud as they tried hard to follow unfamiliar guidelines and routines. Our focus this week was the children’s wellbeing as we settled back in, and they were clearly pleased to be back enjoying interaction with each other and the staff team. We are looking forward to continuing our journey next week.
We finished this half term by removing pre-made and plastic toys, providing instead boxes, materials, natural and heuristic resources and the time and space needed for the children to explore the resources freely, creating, constructing and developing imaginative play.
Just some of the creativity we saw this week:
“I made a see-saw” – Amber sitting on a cardboard tube.
“I’m collecting the eggs” – Annie with a basket of stones.
“This is going to be a bed” – Larissa with a box and blanket.
“We’re opening a treasure chest” – Max making holes in a box with scissors.
“I am a robot” – Annie, Jack, Patrick, Larissa, Lacey and Lydia taking turns to move around in a large cardboard box.
“This is a birthday present for the mayor” – Sam and Annie sellotaping play dough inside a box.
Our screens became a spaceship, boxes in the garden became a train, smaller boxes became a book, a pumpkin, a tractor, a dinosaur, a caterpillar and a combine harvester.
We can’t wait to see where the children’s imagination will take us during our final half term.
We finished our busy Spring term with an Easter party. The highlight was our Easter Egg Hunt at Therfield Recreation Ground with the help and support of our families.
Thank you to everyone who helped to plan, organise and supported our very successful Pancake Party in celebration of Shrove Tuesday. Not only children from pre-school but also from Therfield First School and the wider community joined us to decorate their own Chef’s hat as well as make, decorate and enjoy their pancakes, whilst the grown ups had opportunity for a catch up, a cup of tea/coffee and a slice of cake. It may have been the sugar but the children certainly enjoyed the whole event.
The children were disappointed to find a limited number of bugs in the garden, so we decided to get our own.
Our first task was to give our new pets a more comfortable home. We then thought about what they might like to eat, and how to give them water without risking their safety.
The children throughout the week have been keen to watch and study them, count them, feed them, give them fresh water, and learn all about them. The children have decided they are a family, giving them roles and names.
Harvest time was a great time for us to get hands on in our learning. The children enjoyed exploring real and play food, growing and tasting, buying, selling and cooking. A particular highlight of the week was a visit from a real tractor.
We of course used the opportunity to include ‘Supertato’ in our learning, as well as digging, collecting and ‘harvesting’ potatoes from the soil and carrots we had made.
Thanks to our generous families we finished off the week with a ‘harvest collection’ which was donated to the local food bank.
Our first priority in a new school year is getting to know the children, and supporting them as they get to know each other. We used our circle time to encourage the children to share details about life outside of pre-school.
The children enjoyed using our whiteboards to create a representation of their homes, which led to the use of lots of mathematical language linked to shape and number – although the best bit was of course wiping out the pictures and starting again!
We then used our small sorting toys to add members of our family, pets, vehicles at home, favourite food etc.
Bella “My daddy and mummy and my baby”
Constance “This is my daddy, this is me, this is my mummy”
Raf “I got a cat and a baby and a mummy and a daddy and Reggie and I got a grandma”
Annie “Daddy, mumma, granny, grandpa, we’ve been on 2 boats”
Max “My daddy flies an aeroplane, mummy, daddy, nanny, Izzy, me”
Sam “I’ve got a doggy, I live at my new house now”
Orson “My daddy drives a car, it’s outside my house, this is my mummy, that’s my daddy, I want to pretend this is my dog Jarvis”
In order to promote an inclusive and caring community, we held a Friendship Friday. We also learned values such as mutual respect. We created a Friendship Tree with kind words. The children identified, sorted, and categorised actions of a good friend and not a good friend. We went on a kindness scavenger hunt within Pre-School and the children also took home kindness scavenger hunt sheets. We worked in pairs to play collaboratively. The children created a friendship wreath with handprints. We investigated mixing colours with friendly high-fives. The children were spotted demonstrating and naming friendly behaviour independently throughout the rest of the session. Parents were invited in on collection to share in what the children have learned.
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