This week we have continued our new topic: Myself and my community

Activities this week have included:

• introducing key words and phrases in different European languages such as singing a colour song in Italian
• learning about how Britain is a part of Europe and decorating a British flag
• lots of listening games: environmental sounds, animal sounds and instrumental sounds
• playing a group game where we looked at photos at described them encouraging the use of prepositions and positional language
• learning about different European dances, we then interpreted a May Day dance with ribbons and used the staff as a maypole
• lots of splashing in puddles during this wet week
• looking at a powerpoint based on food around the world and discussing food we like and dislike and also the importance of healthy food
• sorting food pictures into healthy and unhealthy categories
• listening to the hungry caterpillar story, discussing food and making hungry caterpillar pictures
• 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
• 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
  

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.
Julia, Sharon, Lisa, Hannah and Jackie