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Taw Pre-School Spring Term 2025

17/01/25 

This week the topic is traditional tales and we have been reading ‘The Three Billy Goat Gruffs’.  

 

Activities this week at pre-school: 

  • Playdough- The children made trolls, goats and bridges on the playdough table.  

  • Story telling – The children retold the story in order by acting it out using puppets and props.  

  • Bridge experiment- The children tested making bridges using different materials. We placed the goat on top of the bridges to test if they were strong enough or the goat would fall into the water. 

  • Sensory tray – The children played with grass in the water tray and made links to the story.  

  •  Troll craft – The children made trolls using green colouring pens, pipe cleaners and tissue paper.  

  • Goat painting – The children painted a goat mask using water colours.  

  • Prepositional language – We read the story and talked about prepositional language such as, “The troll was under bridge”. The children practised putting the characters in the correct positions.  

  • Bridge building construction area – The children built their own bridges in the role play area. Then the children acted out the story using character masks.  

Next week we will be focusing on the story ‘Goldilocks and the three bears’.   

Phonics: Rythm and Rhyme   

To experience and appreciate rhythm and rhyme and to develop awareness of rhythm and rhyme in speech.  

We have been matching rhyming cards, listening to rhyming songs and reading rhyming books.  

Important information 

  • Please can we remind parents not to allow their children to play on the bikes and other play equipment in the early years garden at pick up time.  

10/01/25 

This week the topic is traditional tales and we have been reading ‘The Three Little Pigs’.  

 

Activities this week at pre-school: 

  • Three Little Pigs construction area role play – The children pretended to be the three little pigs and build their own houses. They played will real straw and pretend bricks.  

  • Sensory tray – The children build a ‘brick house’ using Duplo and shaving foam.  

  • Retelling the story – We acted out the story and the children pretended to be the different characters.  

  • Science experiment – We talked about why the wolf was able to blow away the straw and the sticks but not the bricks. An adult used a hairdryer to test out different materials to see if they would blow away or stay in the same place. The children guessed which materials would move or stay.  

  • Three little pigs playdough – The children made a house for the toy pigs using the playdough a variety of materials. For example, straw, lollypop sticks and bricks.  

  • Pig craft – The children made a pig face using pens and tissue paper.  

  • The children packed a suitcase for the three little pigs by cutting and sticking out different clothes and accessories.  

  • The children made a picture of their own house by cutting and sticking pictures of windows, doors and roofs etc.  

Next week we will be focusing on the story ‘Three Billy Goats Gruff’.   

Phonics: Rythm and Rhyme   

To experience and appreciate rhythm and rhyme and to develop awareness of rhythm and rhyme in speech.  

Important information 

  • The deadline to apply for a primary school place for September 2025 is 15th January 2025