Thursday, 26 January 2012

Children Number Line

All in a line now - in order 1 to 10 please




Army Style Exercises

A grown up casually sat or lay on either side of this blue blanket to anchor it to the floor while the children crawled through one at a time. After the first child was courageous enough to attempt this, most of the children were keen to try.This created many new wave hair styles which we all found most amusing!









Saturday, 14 January 2012

Let's Make an Aquarium

Today the challenge was to create a realistic aquatic environment. This is the sequence of guidelines that were given to the childen:

  1. What needs to go on the bottom? Look in the store rooom to see if you can find them. (bottle of small white stones)
  2.  Can you find the underwater plants and put them in? Why is it good to have them there?
  3.  Choose everything that belongs in water from this large selection of animals and put them into the aquarium.
  4. Which animals and/or fish of those you have chosen also like to be out of the water?
As soon as the sun came out, we moved the activity to the larger water tray outside. More children then joined in.







Hopscotch

These tiles are especially made to fit together into a hopscotch format - if the numbers are followed correctly. The children worked together to figure it out and then enjoyed doing the activity.This combines maths with physical challenge and fun.



Could we do this again please?

What!!! Blue margarine!!! Toasted!!! Covered in sprinkles!!! How revolutionary!!!

...... next time could we please have a choice of colours to prove that whatever food colour we use - red, green, orange, red or even black - the taste stays the same?

Doesn't buttering bread require some skill and concentration!

Maisie
Bailey


Logan
Summer


Chloe
Leah


Scarlett

Sunday, 8 January 2012

Christmas Songs at the Fair

Some committee members came in and did sorting, wrapping and marking of stuff for the Christmas Fair. The children were really excited about people they know visiting the Pre-School and so were happy to help in the preparation. They made things that would be sold on the morning and they practised singing Christmas songs and carols, having decided that the people supporting them would join in.







            





Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Father Christmas Visits

Father Christmas came to visit on the day of the Christmas Fair. He was a most welcome visitor! Father Christmas was accompanied by one of his elves who helped him to deliver all the presents. Thanks for coming!














Christmas Display Boards 2011

The children got into the zone and created some wonderful art which we used to update our display boards to make them festive. We feel that it is important for the children do as much as possible themselves.