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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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