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Taw Pre-school Summer Term 2025

25/04/25 

This week the children have started learning about Minibeasts! We have read books such as, ‘A good place’, ‘Superworm’ and ‘Mad about Minibeasts’.    

 Activities this week at pre-school: 

  • Making butterflies using different craft materials such as, paint, pipe cleaners, googly eyes, tissue paper.  

  • Sorting Minibeasts – Do they fly or crawl? 

  • Ladybird biscuits – decorating a biscuit using red/black icing and chocolate buttons 

  • Messy Superworm tray – The children played with kinetic sand and pretend worms  

  • Minibeast playdough – The children made minibeasts out of playdough using plastic ears, legs etc.  

  • Bug hotel and Minibeast cafe role play – The children played with pretend bugs and toy food  

  • Small world Minibeast play – The children made their own ‘Bug hotel’ using the dolls house and toy bugs.  

Phonics: Oral blending and segmenting  

To develop oral blending and segmenting of sounds in words.  

We will be playing games that involve asking the children to blend and segment sounds in word e.g. c-a-t or p-e-n.  

Important information: 

  • Please send in any photographs from the children's Easter holidays to share at circle time.  

  • Please can we ask parents to bring in a named sunhat and suncream. These can be kept at pre-school if more convenient.