Mark-making is not about creating the perfect picture that looks like a tree, animals or letters. Drawing ‘scribbles’ or certain shapes, is the beginning of writing and literacy! Each achievement is always celebrated at Chesil Bank Pre-school. Activities at the allotments this week included balancing on tyres and feeding the birds. Children enjoyed using the […]
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Christmas party day was here at last and the children took part in Pass the parcel, hiding under the blanket and guessing which friend was missing, and lots more arts and crafts to fill up their Christmas box. After a fantastic performance by the children acting out the story ‘Is it Christmas yet?’ and singing
Christmas inspired pretend play was the feature of this weeks choice of activities for the children. Using their imagination they ‘drove the sleigh high across the roof tops and delivered presents to sleeping girls and boys’. The enthusiasm for learning new Christmas songs has been great this week, and so has their participation in making
After a well attended AGM it was time for a lovely walk around Abbotsbury Sub Tropical Gardens. The children enjoyed following the paths, and the adults enjoyed sharing their exciting ideas on how to promote and fund raise for the Pre-school. For the rest of the week we started some Christmas activities and decorated the
Using blankets to build dens the children then had great fun playing hide and seek. A nice day at the allotments this week allowed the children to hammer golf tees into a marrow and pumpkin, then cut it up to explore the insides. Other activities included making playdough ice creams, cutting and sticking, and making
A week full of fun activities based on nursery rhymes encouraged the children to develop three key areas. These are: Vocabulary, language, and literacy skills, Numeracy skills, and Social, physical, and emotional skills. They searched for numbers hidden in the sand, played a fishing game, acted out 5 little speckled frogs, held letters up for the
To help convey the notion of Remembrance in a way that would resonate with the children we watched the CBeebies short animation film and made poppies using paper plates, cupcake wrappers, lolly sticks, playdough and more. After scooping out the flesh of a pumpkin the children placed pieces into water to see if they would
From witches brew to fairy potions, the children made wands to mix their fizzing, foaming, bubbling and bewitching magic potions. More spooky fun and Halloween crafts included sorting Halloween shaped pasta, creating ghost pictures, cutting up peppers, a Halloween hunt and releasing trapped spiders. Using paint and tissue paper the children also designed their own
In preparation for All Hallow’s Eve this week the children participated in lots of Autumn themed crafts. Cutting, sticking and stamping shapes onto paper plates, painting pumpkins & marrows, and hammering golf tees into satsumas, are just some of the activities they engaged in. Fascinated to see all the cones and traffic lights set up
Using shreddies breakfast cereal to represent gravel/bricks/mud/stones/timber for the small world play scenes the children used dumper trucks, diggers and bull dozers to move, spread and pile around the table. Recycled coffee grounds added to playdough mixture inspired the children to create their own dinosaur fossils, dinosaur eggs and wrap dough around dinosaurs to excavate
