18.09.26
Our topic this week is ‘All About Me!’. The children have been getting to know each other and exploring pre-school.
Books we have read this week:
- I’m Starting Nursery
- The Colour Monster
- This is The Way We Go To School
- The Smeds and The Smoos
- You Choose
Activities/provision this week:
- ‘What I like’ collage – The children decorated a heart shape and glued on pictures of things they like. For example, their favourite food, games, animals.
- ‘My house’ craft – The children created a picture of their house using cut out 2D shapes e.g. square windows, triangle roof. They drew who lived in their house and people in their family.
- Decorating gingerbread biscuits – The children decorated their own gingerbread biscuit to look like them using colourful icing.
- Family photographs - The children shared their family pictures from home, talking about who is in their family.
- Labelling my body activity - We drew around one of the children on a large piece of paper. The children then labelled the different parts of the body by placing pictures on the outline e.g. hands, eyes, mouth, feet.
- ‘How tall am I?’ activity – We measured the children using string and the chalk board. We compared the children’s heights using mathematical language e.g. tall, short.
- Mud kitchen – The children have been practising putting on mud suits and boots to explore our mud kitchen/digging area. They have enjoyed water play with herbs from our pre-school garden.
- Home corner – The children have enjoyed playing in the home corner, pretending to cook and play families
- Dolls house – The children have been playing with miniature people and our dolls house/furniture.
- Small world – The children have been playing with familiar characters such as, Bluey, Peppa pig and Hey Duggee.
- Fine motor doll game – The children played with magnetic dolls, putting on different outfits and dressing them.
- Craft – The children have made their own colour monster using different craft materials.
- Construction – The children have been building with different size blocks and Duplo.
- Reading den – The children have been listening to lots of familiar stories and fairytales.
Phonics: Instrumental sounds
This term our phonics focus is instrumental sounds! We will be experimenting playing with a variety of instruments. We will practice playing the instruments loud, quiet, fast, slow etc.
Maths: Sorting
We have been learning to sort objects into different groups and describe them e.g. sort by shape, colour or size.
Nursery rhymes:
This term we will be learning the nursery rhymes:
- Old MacDonald had a farm
- Twinkle Twinkle little star
- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
- Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
- See the sleeping bunnies
- Hickory Dickory dock
- Wind the bobbin up
- If you’re happy and you know it
- The wheels on the bus
- I’m a little tea pot
- Five little monkeys
Next week the topic is: Harvest!
Important information
- Please can children bring in any books from home about farming or farm animals.
- Please can parents/carers send in family photographs for our family tree.
- Send in any WOW moments for the children or photos of experiences to
pre-school@bishopstawton-primary.org.
11.09.26
Our topic this week is ‘All About Me!’. This week we have welcomed lots of new children to pre-school. The children have been getting to know each other and exploring pre-school.
Books we have read this week:
- I’m Starting Nursery
- The Colour Monster
- This is The Way We Go To School
- The Smeds and The Smoos
- You Choose
Activities/provision this week:
- All about me collage – The children decorated a paper doll to look like themselves. They used colouring pens/crayons and craft paper. We talked about our facial features e.g. eyes, nose, mouth, hair.
- Painting with sponges – The children painted on large pieces of paper using different shape sponges.
- Mud kitchen – The children have been practising putting on mud suits and boots to explore our mud kitchen/digging area. They have enjoyed water play with herbs from our pre-school garden.
- Home corner – The children have enjoyed playing in the home corner, pretending to cook and play families
- Dolls house – The children have been playing with miniature people and our dolls house/furniture.
- Small world – The children have been playing with familiar characters such as, Bluey, Peppa pig and Hey Duggee.
- Playdough – The children have been playing with miniature people, pets and houses.
- Craft – The children have made their own colour monster using different craft materials.
- Construction – The children have been building with different size blocks and Duplo.
- Reading den – The children have been listening to lots of familiar stories and fairytales.
Next week the topic is: All About Me!
Important information
- Please can parents/carers send in family photographs for our family tree.
- Send in any WOW moments for the children or photos of experiences to
pre-school@bishopstawton-primary.org.
04.09.26
Our topic this week is ‘All About Me!’. This week we have welcomed lots of new children to pre-school. The children have been getting to know each other and exploring pre-school.
Activities/provision this week:
- Home corner – The children have enjoyed playing in the home corner, pretending to cook and play families
- Dolls house – The children have been playing with miniature people and our dolls house/furniture.
- Small world – The children have been playing with familiar characters such as, Bluey, Peppa pig and Hey Duggee.
- Playdough – The children have been playing with miniature people, pets and houses.
- Craft – The children have made their own colour monster using different craft materials.
- Construction – The children have been building with different size blocks and Duplo.
- Reading den – The children have been listening to lots of familiar stories and fairytales.
Next week the topic is: All About Me!
Important information
- Please can parents/carers send in family photographs for our family tree.
- Send in any WOW moments for the children or photos of experiences to
pre-school@bishopstawton-primary.org.