Weekly Blog: 3rd May 2019
This week we have continued our new topic: Myself and my community
Activities this week have included:
- talking about where playgroup is in the world
- discussing the village of Chesterton and creating a map of the village
- having a circle time discussion about what there is in Bicester and then building a model Bicester town out of bricks
- looking at pictures of different types of houses, learning about what houses can be made from and drawing a picture of our home *learning about our local community and being kind and thoughtful to other people
- blow painting outside in the garden
- investigating shapes and the differences of 2d and 3d shapes
- matching a quantity of objects to a numeral and also developing the skill of naming one more than a given number
- naming and recognising baby animals born in Springtime
- chalk drawing and water painting on the front playground
- lots of water and sand play in the garden
- listening to our initial sounds CD and linking the sounds to letters
- lots of mark making for the younger children and name practice for the older children
- dancing with ribbons outside
- choosing art materials from the drawers for independent free art:
- sticking resources, paint dabbers, paper, ink stampers, crayons, chalk, whiteboards and marker pens
- learning new songs and actions
- listening to stories
- playing phonics rhyming games (the older children)
PLEASE NOTE:
Please make sure your child has a named sunhat and has suncream applied before they come to playgroup. For those children staying all day we will reapply suncream at lunchtime.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
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