Pre School-The Three Little Pigs wind experiment and house building at forest school
Pre school have been exploring the effect of forces, looking particularly at wind. The children had to predict whether or not the big bad wolf (the hairdyer) could blow down specific objects. Their predictions were great! They said "the block is too strong, he won't be able to blow it over, just…
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Pre School- The Polar Bear and the Snow Cloud
Last week Pre School read a story all about a Polar Bear and a Snow cloud, they used the book to learn about winter. The children practised retelling the story, using a story map and some small world toys. They were excellent at remembering repeated phrases from the story. The children then took…
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Pre school- Forrest school bird feeders
Pre School had so much fun on their return to Woodland Wednesday. They have been learning all about Winter and how animals, particularly birds find it hard to find food. They decided to create some bird feeders to hang on the trees, we may have just added a little bit of mud in there too! #embrace…
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Pre School- Our first week back
This week we have welcomed another 5 little Delphsiders into our school family, they have settled really well and we are so proud of you all! What a busy week it has been, lots of lovely friendships being formed! We finished our week with a very eventful winter wonderland. The weather took us by…
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Pre School- Arts and Culture Day
Pre school enjoyed exploring an element of art, which was different types of lines. They became really engaged when creating their design and learnt lots of new vocabulary such as bumpy, zig zag, curved, straight etc. We practised first using a large piece of paper and used a range of materials…
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Pre School Christmas fun 2021!
The children have enjoyed their last couple of days at Pre school before the christmas holidays. We have been looking at how Christmas is celebrated around the world. We have made some lovely marshmallow snowmen and created some amazing Christmas crafts. Mostly importantly, we had a great day at…
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Pre School- Christmas Crafts
Pre School have enjoyed creating their very own christmas tree decoration. We used lots of different sequins and glitter to decorate it. The children can't wait to hang them on their christmas tree. #enjoy #embrace
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Pre School- Teddy bear picnic
Pre school have been learning through stories all about bears, we have read stories such as We're going on a bear hunt, Where's my teddy? and Peace at last. To celebrate our learning we had our very own Teddy bears picnic, but first we had to make our own sandwiches following instructions. The…
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Pre School- Wheres my Teddy?
Pre School have been reading the book 'Where's My Teddy?'. We received a letter from Eddy saying how upset he was that he had lost Freddie his teddy. He said the last place he had him was at our Pre school, he left us rhyming clues as to where he had been. We worked together to solve the rhyming…
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Pre School- One kind word and Children In Need
Pre School #embraced kindness day. We spoke about the importance of being a kind friend and wrote some kind words on our balloons. We used puppets to act out different scenarios and decided whether they were being kind to each other or not. We then went on a Pudsey hunt, we found a clue which led…
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Pre school-- exploring 2D shapes and categorising objects by colour
We have been learning all about 2D shapes, we had to give each shaped bear the correct shape, we also went on a shape walk in our environment using our special 2D shape finders.We did a fantastic job talking about the shapes and how many sides each one has. We have also categorised lots of…
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Pre School- We're going on a bear hunt!
The children have really enjoyed reading the story 'We're going on a bear hunt'. They have been retelling the story in lots of different ways such as using masks within role-play, sequencing the story using pictures and drawings and hands on sensory experiences to represent each part of the story.…
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