HORNS DROVE PRE-SCHOOL NEWSLETTER FOR SPRING TERM 2017
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Dear Parents
These next six weeks will see us through to our Easter break in April and over
these next coming weeks we will be looking at numbers. As you will see when you
read through there will be requests of items from parents and carers.
PLEASE REMEMBER THE PARENTS HELPER ROTA, ALL PARENTS ARE
WELCOME AND GRANDPARENTS TOO! COME AND WATCH YOUR CHILDREN
PLAY.
We are now collecting the Sainsburys active kids vouchers. There is a collection
box in our entrance hall for them.
We will be holding a Mothers Day afternoon tea party on Wednesday 22nd
and Thursday 23rd March, invites to come home soon!
Easter service will be at St John’s church on Monday 3rd April
at 9.30am. Please see the separate letter to be sent out shortly for the
full details.
THE THEME FOR THIS TERM IS “NUMBERS
Week 1 (27TH Feb) NUMBER HUNT
We will be….Going on a number detecting walk,
finding different and matching numbers from
a number display around the pre-school.
Matching numbers of objects to the right
number and number recognition. Drawing and
cutting out numbers to colour in, also asking the children how old they are and
to make that number. Sing number rhymes songs
Key vocabulary: next to, beside, in front, behind, odd, even.
Parents Don’t forget its World Book day on Thursday 2nd March, children to
come dressed as their favourite book character on the day.
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Week 2 (6th March)
MUSICAL NUMBERS.
This week we are going to have lots of singing, dancing and clapping to musical
and favourite nursey rhymes and acting out some of our favourites like ‘Five
speckled frogs’. We will be making our very own musical instruments too.
Parent request-Small bottles with lids, kitchen roll and pringle tubes please
Week 3 (13th March)
NUMBERS ARE EVERYWHERE
Lots of things this week! We will be making an age and
height chart with the children. Looking at shoe sizes,
number mobiles, counting and threading pasta shapes,
playing games with the numbered bean bags, clapping number songs, digging for
numbers, making a tape measure and asking the children about numbers around
them on Houses, buses and everywhere around us.
The children will be posting a Postcard home, writing on the house number, a
little note and putting on the stamp.
Key vocabulary: height, number games, size, bean bags, number puzzle, iPad.
Parent request- can all the children please bring in a 2nd class stamp in a
sealed envelope with their name on it please. We will also need a
few parent helpers please on Wednesday 15th March to help us
walk the children to the post box.
Week 4 (20th March)
ARTY NUMBERS
Another busy week! With a Selection of resources like
beads, feathers, shiny sequins, bendy straws we will be
encouraging the children to use them independently to
create a creature from the number planet. And as it is
art week we will be Blow painting on arty numbers, walking
bare feet to make a number snake on the floor ,play
dough numbers, painting with numbers, activities sheets
with numbers, action rhymes, puppets with numbers, stories with numbers, dice
games using numbers, tray game using numbers,
Key vocabulary: numbers, large, sacks, painting, musical piano.
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Week 5 (27TH March) SHOPPING WITH NUMBERS
Its shopping time, turning Home corner into a shop, pricing up
toys with numbers on them, playing Memory games, I went
shopping and I brought a ………. Using more or less with money in
the tills, making five current buns with numbers on, using
numbers outside and our new spider numbers game. Making a
shopping list and playing games which relate to number order.
Key vocabulary: shopping list, spider game, five current buns, treasure chest
Week 6 (3rd April)
COOKING WITH NUMBERS
We will be cooking from different Countries! Using our
more or less words, numbers cutters, weighing, reading the
numbers on the scales and making our own numbers biscuits.
The children will be weighing out the ingredients and
counting out how many cake cases they will need to make
some delicious fairy cakes. Outside we will have the new water/sand trays
placing numbers in the water to find.
Key vocabulary: bread/baking, biscuits, weighting, scales, fairy cakes
Parents would you like to come in and show us something that you all like to
eat?
REMINDER PLEASE:SNACKS: not to send in chocolate, sweets and crisps or too much for your
child’s snack. We encourage healthy eating at pre-school. Please be aware that
we have children with nut allergies so we ask that you bear this in mind when
sending in snacks. Can snack boxes and lunch bags have your child’s name on
them please?
CLOTHING: Please ensure that your child has weather appropriate clothing, a
warm outdoor coat, gloves and hat as we try to encourage outdoor play
throughout the year. Please make sure that your child’s name is inside all of
their clothing.
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SUPERVISION A reminder to all parents and carers that the children must be
supervised whilst they play outside in the mornings prior to the start of preschool, which starts at 9.00am. Please do not leave your children unattended or
allow them on the climbing frame at this time.
SICKNESS Can you please let us know if your child is unwell and will not be
attending preschool with a quick telephone call thank you.
We welcome all donations but above all we welcome your time, please do come in
and share something with the children.
AND FINALLY
Are you handy or do you know a person who is? We
are looking for someone, that can carry out small DIY
and repair jobs for us on an ad hoc basis. Please see
Rosemary or Karen if interested or if you know of any
local tradesmen that you can recommend.
Thank you. Best wishes from all the staff at Horns Drove Rosemary, Karen,
Julia, David, Donna, Stefania, Gerri, Lisa and Sarah, Penny and Amelia