What we’ve been up to this month…

What an amazing and busy month we have had with Pancake Day, World Book Day and sharing all our wonderful flowers and cards for Mother’s Day. We have also been exploring types of weather and how this affects our seasons from sun, rain, snow, wind to blossom, flowers, trees and clothing.

What’s happening next month…

April – Gardening and New Life
Looking at Spring and new life. Celebrations for Easter, St George’s day and the start of Ramadan. We will also be celebrating International Children’s Book Day 2nd April and World Art Day 15th April.

Planned activities include:

• Growing cress heads and seedlings
• Creating our own picture books
• Creating our own easter egg patterns and shapes
• Marbled eggs
• Easter bunny paper plates
• Flower petal painting
• Spring tuff tray
• Juicing fruits and exploring seeds
• Butterfly life cycle with live butterflies
• Lifecycles

April’s Preschool focus:

Focusing on Rhyming, initial sounds and speech sounds. Children will engage in playing silly soup and matching games learning new rhymes and songs. Children will develop phonological awareness e.g. beginning to recognise what syllables are/ count and clap them. Supporting pronunciation of multisyllabic words. Exploring books such as Pete the Cat and Hairy Maclary

Some ideas to do at home:

• Plant a small garden with easy-to-grow flowers or vegetables.
• Have a picnic in the park.
• Go on a nature scavenger hunt.
• Blow bubbles and chase them around.
• Visit a farm or petting zoo.
• Play with sidewalk chalk and draw colourful pictures on the pavement.
• Have a tea party with stuffed animals.
• Fly a kite in an open field.
• Make a bird feeder and watch the birds in the garden.