Each year the children design lantern bags to celebrate the Name day of St Catherine of Alexandria. On Sunday 24th November the lantern bags are placed onto St Catherine’s Hill. It is a wonderful sight to see. For more details here is the link: https://www.abbotsbury.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/COST-2024-LR.pdf Enjoying the dry weather the children fed the birds at […]
It was an action packed week for the children at Pre-school. We started off cutting up pumpkins and marrows left over from Halloween to make soup. Quickly moving on to Guy Fawkes night children glued sticks onto paper for bonfires, and added tissue and cellophane to make flames. We finished the week colouring and cutting
Lots of Halloween activities this week for the children to take part in. Trying to release spiders and bats from a web with tongs proved quite tricky. Exploring the tuff tray with lit up ghosts, lanterns, cauldrons and sparkly Halloween shapes was irresistible. Using clipboards and pens the children ticked the box on their Halloween
Using a skewer the children made a rainbow kebab by collecting fallen leaves. It soon became quite competitive between the adults to collect all the colours. We also collected sticks to make a ‘bonfire’ and used our gross and fine motor skills playing with large and small balls. In the afternoon children pressed leaves into
Some children have been challenging themselves to push and roll tyres. Utilising their upper and lower body strength and core muscles to push, roll and lift the tyres, the children’s gross motor skills are tested. Trying different strategies to push the tyre and keep it upright, some pushed it from behind while others pushed it
Collecting feathers as we walked around Abbotsbury Swannery, the children then used them to push into the holes they had made in cardboard boxes. There was a lot of banging going on as they used hammers to tap in golf tees. Going on a conker hunt the children wore our new high visibility vests. Thanks
Noticing the leaves of trees changing colour as we walked to the allotments inspired us to paint with autumn colours. Using green, red, orange, yellow and brown paint and tissue paper the children created beautiful paintings. Whilst at the allotments the children were influenced by Posy bringing in her collection of snails, and went to
Repetition is a key part of early childhood development, helping children learn and develop new skills. There was lots of repetition this week whilst picking blackberries, pick, eat, repeat. At the allotments using left over blackberries the children used hammers to make patterns on material. On the way back we stopped to stroke Hayley’s horse.
Engaging activities were set up to help children reconnect with their friends and ease them back into the preschool routine and environment this week. The main theme was based on tomatoes. Finding lots to pick at the allotments the children cut them up to explore the inside, tasted them, squashed them, and painted with them.
Wow, what can I say. We definitely finished the year on a high note. Sports day proved a fun day for all family members. Siblings, parents and grandparents helped in the welly throwing, egg and spoon, sack race, wheelbarrow race, lawnmower race, horse race, dressing up race, sprint race and tug of war. Abbotsbury Explorers
