12.09.25
Our topic this week is ‘All about me!’. We have welcomed lots of new children to pre-school who have been settling in. This week we have read books such as ‘You Choose’, ‘I’m starting nursery’ and ‘This is the way we go to school’.
Activities/provision this week:
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All about me playdough – The children helped to make playdough this week. They played with Mini people and houses.
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Small world dolls house– The children played with familiar characters such as, Peppa pig, hey duggee, Disney princesses etc.
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Construction – The children played with Duplo and made their own house.
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Home corner role play – The children pretended to cook with our toy kitchen and look after the babies.
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Craft area – The children made pictures of their house using cut out shapes.
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Mark making – The children painted self-portraits and painted using different sponges.
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We decorated pancakes using a variety of fruit toppings to make a face.
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Colour mixing – The children experimented with colour mixing using pipette and coloured water.
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Playing with shapes – We drew around 2D shapes and matched the shapes to the outline.
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The children practised recognising their names. They tried to find the magnetic letters to make their own name.
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Sharing family photos – At circle time the children shared their family photos and talked about who they live with.
Phonics: Instrumental sounds
This term our phonics focus is instrumental sounds! We will be experimenting playing with a variety of instruments. We will practice playing the instruments loud, quiet, fast, slow etc.
Maths: Sorting
We have been learning to sort objects into different groups and describe them e.g. sort by shape, colour or size.
Important information
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Send in any WOW moments for the children or photos of experiences to
pre-school@bishopstawton-primary.org.
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Blog photos will be uploaded every two weeks for parents/carers to view.
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Please can parents/carers bring in/email baby photos of the children for a circle time activity next week.
05.09.25
Our topic this week is ‘All about me!’. We have welcomed lots of new children to pre-school who have been settling in. This week we have read books such as ‘You Choose’, ‘I’m starting nursery’ and ‘This is the way we go to school’.
Activities/provision this week:
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All about me playdough – The children helped to make playdough this week. They played with Mini people and houses.
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Small world dolls house– The children played with familiar characters such as, Peppa pig, hey duggee, Disney princesses etc.
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Construction – The children played with Duplo and made their own house.
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Home corner role play – The children pretended to cook with our toy kitchen and look after the babies.
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Craft area – The children made paper dolls of themselves. The coloured faces and used tissue paper to make clothing.
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‘You Choose’ - The children made a self-portrait and added pictures from the ‘You Choose’ book to show their interests.
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Magnetic dress up – The children dressed people in different clothes using magnetic clothes.
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Sharing family photos – At circle time the children shared their family photos and talked about who they live with.
Phonics: Instrumental sounds
This term our phonics focus is instrumental sounds! We will be experimenting playing with a variety of instruments. We will practice playing the instruments loud, quiet, fast, slow etc.
Important information
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Please can we ask parents to send in a family photograph to pre-school@bishopstawton-primary.org. We will make a family tree with the photographs.
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Send in any WOW moments for the children or photos of experiences to
pre-school@bishopstawton-primary.org.
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Blog photos will be uploaded every two weeks for parents/carers to view.