Taw Pre-school Summer Term 2023

This week we have been learning all about Minibeasts

This week the children have:

• Worked together with an adult to make a wormery. The children then searched in the forest school area for worms to put in their wormery. They enjoyed watching the worms wriggle and move around in the bottle.
• Painted pasta shells to look like bumble bees. The children really enjoyed using yellow and black paint to paint the pasta. They worked really hard to delicately paint the stripes.
• The children then enjoyed a sensory activity where they mixed the pretend bee’s with honey.
• Used chalk to make a butterfly picture. They put a butterfly template onto a coloured piece of card and drew chalk over the top to make an outline.
• Painted colourful pictures by printing butterfly shaped pasta.
• Been on a lovely trip to Rosemoor. The children had a great day exploring rosemoor and learning all about bees, plants and minibeasts. They also loved playing in the park.

19^th May 2023

This week we have been learning all about Minibeasts

This week the children have:

• Read ‘What the Ladybird heard’ and ‘Let’s find Superworm’.
• Painted Caterpillars using different coloured paint and circular sponges. The children also painted eyes, mouth, ears and feet.
• Decorated a ‘Ladybird’ using red/black icing and chocolate buttons.
• Built the farm scene from ‘What the Ladybird heard’ using farm animals, wooden bricks, fake grass cut outs, farmhouse etc. The children worked together to find all the pieces from the story. We then read and acted out the story using the farm scene on the tuff tray.
• Played a game of ‘Guess the Minibeasts’. The children listened to five clues and had to guess the Minibeast it was describing.
• Played with pretend minibeasts in the water tray and sand pit. They tried to fish out and find them.
• Played with a minibeast sensory tray. The children mixed together and explored red pasta, mud, sand and pretend Minibeasts.
• Gone on a minibeast hunt in the top field and forest school area.

This week the children have:

• Read ‘Mad about Minibeasts’ and ‘Superworm’.
• Painted Ladybirds using different colours. The children painted one side and then printed the paint onto the other.
• Cut out and painted a butterfly. The children tried to cut out their own butterfly and stick it on a lollypop stick so it could ‘fly’.
• Looked at different pictures of minibeasts in the ‘The very hungry caterpillars big bug hunt’ and tried to name them.
• Played with pretend minibeasts in the water tray and sand pit. They tried to fish out and find them.
• Gone on a minibeast hunt in the top field and forest school area.
• Tried to move like different minibeasts. For example, “Can you wiggle like a worm?” or “Can you hop like a grasshopper?”
• Made different Minibeasts out of the playdough. They used the playdough mats with either a web, the mud etc. on them. They added different features to their minibeasts such as pretend eyes, ears, wings etc.

This week we have been learning all about royal things and the King’s coronation.

This week the children have:

• Read ‘The king’s cook’ and ‘Zog and the flying doctors’
• Made a collage of the kings face silhouette. They cut out different London/royal themed pictures and glued them onto the silhouette.
• Made their own sandwich to have at snack time. They tried to butter the bread themselves and they picked their filling.
• Brought in homemade cakes to have a tea party afternoon at pre-school.
• Made crowns to wear at the tea party afternoon.
• Painted a piece of bunting to decorate the pre-school. The children used red and blue paint, copying the flag.
• Played with a small world London scene. The children played with taxi cabs, a double decker bus, train station etc.
• Played with a Buckingham palace/castle scene. The children used different knight and princess characters for their role play.

This week we have been learning all about royal things and the King’s coronation.

This week the children have:

• Read ‘King Charles colourful Coronation’ and ‘Where’s Mr King?’
• Painted a flag for the coronation. They used red/blue paints and tried to copy the picture of the flag. Some of the children tried to cut them out independently as well.
• Cut out crowns with numbers on them. The children then lined themselves in order from 1-10 with their crowns on.
• Looked at self-portraits of the king. The children then painted their own self portrait. They looked in the mirror and talked about their different facial features.
• Played a sensory touch and feel game. The children had to try and match the texture on the game board to one they could feel in the bag.
• Used the numicon to build a royal castle. The children counted numicon 1-10.
• Played with a small world London scene. The children played with taxi cabs, a double decker bus, train station etc.
• Played with a Buckingham palace/castle scene. The children used different knight and princess characters for their role play.