Weeks Theme - Funny Bones!

Monday 18th January - 22nd January.

Key Vocabulary: Doctor, Nurse, hospital, ward, bed, bandage, named body parts

Skills:take part in role play and creative play, discussing ideas with adults and peers, involving others in their play, using all available props to enhance their play. Have the time to think about and become aware of how others in our environment help us and how they too could also help others. Show care and concern for others and accept the needs of others sometimes with adult support. To explore, investigate and be curious about themselves as living things and observe carefully features of their bodies.

Attitudes: be caring and helpful towards each other. To develop responsible attitudes and to take on a role with responsibility. To gain confidence and self-esteem and build relationships with other children and adults.

  • Staff will: encourage children to respond with enthusiasm to what they are seeing or doing. Articulate feelings with children in an articulate, expressive and imaginative way. Help children take turns and build respect for each others. help children deal with conflict situations by negotiating and reasoning without resorting to anti-social behaviour.
  • Parent and carers can: talk to children about being helpful and caring. If they have a teddy or dolly at home, ask them to be especially nice to it from now on by caring for it and looking after it. Set up lots of situations where you can praise your children for being caring and loving within your family environment.

Activities - Knowledge and Concepts.

  • The Hospital - Creative Development - Role play - we are doctors and nurses, dressing up and caring for our teddies and dollies, each other and the adults in the setting.
  • We are a skeleton - Knowledge and Understanding of the World - How we are made - construct a skeleton using all of the relevant parts. Discussing what we use those body parts for during everyday living.
  • People who help us jigsaw - Mathematical Development - Shape, Space and Measures - look at the different people in the jigsaw and talk about what role they play within our community.
  • Playdough skeletons - Communication, Language and Literacy - Language for thinking - make a playdough skeleton

ICT Suite

On Monday mornings we will be taking small groups of pre-school children into the ICT suite in school to do specific tasks on the computers. This will be 1:1 or 1:2 depending on your child’s ability. A theme relevant programme will be practiced by the children for 15 minutes at a time and they will either bring their print outs home or they will go into their profiles. The programme they have followed will be written in the cloakroom area notice board. Two members of staff will accompany the children to the ICT suite and plan activities for the children using the computers at that time.

Library

On Wednesday mornings we will be taking small groups of children into the library in school to make books, read books, make scrapbooks and create their own stories. This will not clash with Jo Jingles. The group dynamics will change each time we use the library ensuring all children take part. Two members of staff will supervise and plan activities for the library session. If your child has favourite stories or books please let us know.

The Hall

The pre-school will use the main hall in the school every Friday morning for an hour to play large group games such as the parachute, counting games and friendship games. The activities we do will reflect the theme of the week and will be child initiated. If there are any games you know your child loves to play please let us know.

Jo Jingles

On every other Wednesday morning Jo Jingles attends pre-school. This is available to all children that attend on Wednesday morning sessions and is differentiated to suit all children’s ages. Children have the opportunity to sing, dance, move, play musical instruments, and improve physical development and co-ordination. Sessions with Jo Jingles correspond with our theme and reinforce the learning within the pre-school.

Baking and Cookery

Every Tuesday and Thursday we have baking or cookery sessions. This is theme orientated and helps to reinforce the theme of the week. Risk assessments are carried out before any baking or cooking activity and safety is paramount at all times. Children do not have access to the kitchen and do not taste food as it is being prepared unless it is part of the activity. 2 members of staff supervise this activity and plan around the weekly theme. All children that want to take part are able to as many times as they want to and if your lucky they might even save it to eat at home!

Spanish

We have a new Spanish Volunteer working with us for the next year so we have decided to teach your children basic Spanish every day during circle time. Issabella will plan activities for a short period of time each day for all children to join in with.

All activities are child initiated, child led and differentiated to suit all stages of development. If you would like to discuss an activity please feel free to ask any member of staff at any time.

  • Belinda - floating
  • Nici -
  • Bryony - nurse jigsaw
  • Jane - funny bones
  • Izzy - hospital role play
  • Tracy - baking
  • Sarah - play dough