Nursery News Spring Term, April 2014 Did You Know? The Weston Hall at Pre-Prep is available for hire for parties or other events. Please contact the Pre-Prep office (01284 385412) for more details.
LEARNING FOCUSES THIS HALF-TERM
Birthdays Lilly Bomberg Charlotte Anderson Antonia Mendola
Stars of the Week Jonathan Zagni Kitty Cooper Sam Hall Max Carter
Reminders Don’t forget – summer uniform for the summer term and white PE kit. We do hope we have lovely weather, so please make sure your child brings in a hat and sun cream.
STORIES We explored stories that inspired the children most. We re-enacted Room on the Broom, and looked at sequencing and rhyming. We also made daffodils to celebrate St David’s Day. BOOK CHARACTERS We looked at more of Julia Donaldson stories including The Gruffalo, (which recently celebrated its 15th Anniversary) and A Squash and a Squeeze. Such wonderful stories are perfect for Early Years as they are non-gender specific, which is an area that is currently under discussion in the world of children’s books. We celebrated World Book Day with the children dressing as their favourite character. We made a collaborative Gruffalo which we now proudly display on the wall! We also managed to squeeze in making and eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. Yum!
Thank You We would like to say a big thank you to Mrs Tattersall for doing the fantastic puppet show ‘The Gruffalo’ at our Nursery Open Morning.
Here is a picture of us making shamrocks in celebration of St Patrick’s Day
MUSIC We explored musical instruments including our new wind chimes outside, and some new tapping sticks, tapping out simple rhythms and rhymes. We were very proud of how all the children performed at our Music Morning.