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Popular nursery rhymes have been our focus for a lot of our activities this week and will continue into next week also.  Nursery Rrymes are a wonderful way for the children to learn about sound, structure and sequence of stories, patterns of speech and rhyming.  The round table has been busy with children building walls...Continue reading→

This week we have been celebrating families and ones we love. The children have been making lovely collages of family and pets in the craft area and drawing people special to them at the busy fingers table. On the main carpet area, we have had the dolls houses out to play with and the children...Continue reading→

The bunting is up around preschool, as this week we have been celebrating Breakspeare Bears birthday and of course that means plenty of cake.  In the craft area the children have been making a collage and painting cakes, at the round table we have been making and baking playdough cakes and counting lots of candles. In...Continue reading→

Our transport theme has continued this week with the children enjoying painting with cars, making a busy collage of vehicles and using chalk to mark-make on vehicle silhouettes. At the round table the children have been building roads, garages and tall towers for the small cars.  At the small world carpet. happy street trains and...Continue reading→

This week transport and vehicles have been our focus for a variety of activities.  We have had painting with different patterned wheels on the easels along a road and creating different forms of transport using shape in maths and also at the craft table. Elsewhere the trains have been out on the small world carpet,...Continue reading→

Welcome to our preschool blog where we look back at what your children have been doing over the past week at preschool.  This first week has been all about getting to know each other, exploring the preschool for our new children and for our older returning children, reconnecting with their friends and the preschool ladies....Continue reading→

Yo-ho-ho, me hearties! All aboard the good ship Breakspeare for one of our favourite themes of the year – Pirate Week! We have been making maps, hunting through ribbons to find the jewels for the treasure chests, creating pirate headbands and enjoying the small world pirate toys. In the garden our mini pirates have been...Continue reading→

This week we have been learning all about dinosaurs.  The children have created dinosaur pictures at Busy Fingers, printed dinosaur skin at the craft table and made footprint pictures at the easels and outside. We have been sharing books, making stick puppets and the children have enjoyed the small world dinosaur play. Water activities have...Continue reading→

We’ve had stories week at preschool.  At Busy Fingers we’ve been using bubble wrap stamps to create bubbles in The Big Red Bath. Dear Zoo has been on our focused activity table and in the maths area we’ve taken inspiration from Aliens Wear Underpants for forming patterns and matching shapes. The children have loved having...Continue reading→