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October Newsletter

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 04:47:05 GMT

Butterfly Room (Babies)

This month the babies have been looking at autumn animals, squirrel and fox. They have enjoyed colouring autumn wreath, hedgehog and squirrel and they have been very creative this month making foxes and owl out of their junk modelling and identifying key features like eyes, nose, and feathers. They have enjoyed soft play, building towers, laughing with friends and practicing counting. We have also been enjoying musical instruments, hearing different sounds and using their touch to create different sounds. They have enjoyed stacking rings to help with our hand–eye coordination, learning new words like big, small and colours of the rings.

Watch out for the butterflies next month…

As they will be exploring various physical activities and enjoying a lot of water play. They will also be engaging in transport role play experimenting with different sounds and buttons. They will also engage in activities that will support the use of their finger grips.

Bumblebee Room (Toddlers)

The bumblebee children have been looking at their sense of smell and touch and have explored the various textures (soft hard, rough, slimy)of different objects and were able to express what they feel. We have been able to express our preferences while smelling mint, pineapple, ginger and orange. They have enjoyed messy play with shaving foam as they explored different sea animals and they have learned the name of each animal (penguin, whale, polar bear) and have also been counting how many the animals are to support the development of our mathematics skills.

Next month in bumblebee room, the toddlers will be…

The children will be exploring various physical development activities such as balancing as it helps us to have better coordination and body awareness and helps to develop their core strength which is required for healthy posture. It also helps us develop better concentration for sitting and paying attention in class. Watch out!

Ladybird Room (Pre-school)

This month the preschoolers have been our learning about on the sense of sound and we’ve explored sound by playing with various instruments like drums, tambourines, trumpets, maracas, castanets as well as making our own shakers using cardboard tubes. They decorated it by sticking tissue paper and filling it with dry broken spaghetti. This has helped them to learn turn taking, collaborate and express themselves through music. They have been looking at how they can be superheroes at home or at school by talking about their very own super power of being caring, kind, strong, nice, polite, funny, sharing and tidy. We’ve been creative and have enjoyed decorating our own superhero puppet stick using different arts and crafts materials. We have been number threading to learn our numbers as well as strengthening our fine motor muscle skills as we pick up and manipulate the numbers. They have enjoyed jolly phonics this month as we focusing on phonic letters ‘p’ 'i' and 'n'.

Next month the Ladybirds will be…

Exploring numbers and quantities during circle time talking about more than and less then by trying to see if they can identify more and less when a group of objects is given to them. They will also continue developing their gross motor skills by practising catching large balls in the big garden and lots more.

Upcoming Events & Reminders

General Information

Wellies & Rain coats

As the weather is getting wet and cold now, we implore parents to please endeavour to make welly boots and rain coats available in their children's bags to protect them from the rain when they go outside in the big garden.

Coronavirus - If Children Are Worried

Please see the link below from the Government with advice on how to explain Coronavirus if children are worried.

https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/publication/childrens-guide-to-coronavirus/

Also, Bexley has launched a new helpline for local vulnerable people. Many vulnerable people will have friends, family, neighbours and other support networks to help, but the Council is there if help is needed. Whether it is someone to get shopping, pick up other essentials, or provide information, guidance and advice, please call. The helpline is open from 8am to 8pm. The number to call is apply for help online 020 3045 5398.

Lost Item

We have had something handed in from the car park. If you think you have lost something, please let management know and they will return it to you.

Thank you all for your continuing support. From the Family Tree team.

September Newsletter

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 04:32:25 GMT

Butterfly Room (Babies)

This month the babies have enjoyed musical instruments, responding to music. We’ve been getting lots of practice crawling and running outside in the garden. We have also been very creative by making leaf printing pictures, learning the colours red, yellow and orange. We've been colouring fruits and repeating single words after our teachers. We’ve enjoyed looking at books, listening to teachers’ different tones during story time outside in the castle. We have enjoyed role-play with happy land people, animals and small world, sharing toys and using our imagination. We continued looking at autumn using red, orange and brown colours, creating and collecting leaves.

Watch out for the butterflies next month…

As they will be doing a lot of junk modelling around the autumn theme. They will be looking at autumn animals like squirrel, hedgehog and fox. They will be exploring with different musical instruments as they sing their favourite nursery rhymes.

Bumblebee Room (Toddlers)

The bumblebee children have been learning about the five senses and they focused mainly on the sense of touch, sight, taste, smell and hearing. They have enjoyed a fruit tasting session to extend their knowledge on the sense of taste. They have learned their numbers as they counted how many fingers they have and have enjoyed painting for finger co-ordination to develop fine motor skills. We have listened and danced to our favourite nursery rhymes this week to enhance their communication and social development skills. They have enjoyed making binoculars using tissue and paper rolls. They have explored a range of outdoor activities like climbing, balancing, throwing and catching to support our physical development.

Next month in bumblebee room, the toddlers will be…

The children will be exploring the sense of smell as they continue to learn about their five senses.They will also be exploring different sea animals learning the animal names as well as counting how many animals they can see to support their mathematics skills.

Ladybird Room (Pre-school)

This month the preschoolers have been creative as they have made bee with tissue roll cardboard and have been mimicking the sound that bees make. We have been painting nails and talking about the phonic sounds focusing on letter “s”. They have explored the 5 different senses and learned more about what we use to see, touch, hear, taste and smell. They have enjoyed counting and writing numbers 1-5 and sticking on shapes to improve their maths skills. They have used paper to make an image of themselves and have been identifying the hair, eyes, nose and mouth. They have explored different materials and objects with various textures; hard, soft, fluffy, rough and smooth and also spent a lot of time exploring in the big garden with loads of physical activities.

Next month the Ladybirds will be…

Be getting creative making their own shakers as thy continue to explore the sense of sound. They will be playing with various instruments like drums, tambourines and maracas. They will also be spending a lot time on jolly phonics to learn their phase 1 letter name and sound as well as other activities to develop their literacy skills.

Upcoming Events & Reminders

General Information

Wellies & Rain coats

As the weather is getting really hot now, we implore parents to please endeavour to apply suncream on your child /children or make it available and also put a hat in their bags to protect them from the hot sun when they go outside in the big garden

Coronavirus - If Children Are Worried

Please see the link below from the Government with advice on how to explain Coronavirus if children are worried.

https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/publication/childrens-guide-to-coronavirus/

Lost Item

We have had something handed in from the car park. If you think you have lost something, please let management know and they will return it to you.

Thank you all for your continuing support. From the Family Tree team.

August Newsletter

Thu, 21 May 2020 14:52:05 GMT

Butterfly Room (Babies)

The butterflies have been playing with transport cars and garage, experimenting with different sounds and buttons. They have enjoyed water play with coloured balls as they learn to say new words like, blue, orange, green and yellow . They have had fun playing with push along cars and trike in the big garden, they have been developing their skills of climbing through as well as climbing on and off equipment.

They have been creative as they enjoyed painting tractors using balls. We’ve been using our fine gross motor skills to pick it up & roll it over the paper. We have enjoyed playing with the soft balls, rolling it our friends. In the garden, we’ve been playing with animals in the water, building with popoids and playing on the sea-saw using our balance to climb and get on the sea-saw.

Watch out for the butterflies next month…

As they explore more messy play with water splashing in the paddling pool as we sing our favourite nursery rhymes. They will also continue using their finger grip to hold glue sticks and crayons to colour as they explore different autumn season animals developing their confidence in textured play whilst hand painting.

Bumblebee Room (Toddlers)

This month the toddlers have focused on creativity a lot as they have been making flower plant using different colours of cutout paper shapes. They have also been learning their colours and numbers as they engaged in number stamping. We have spent a lot of time outdoors engaging in various activities like riding, sliding, climbing, jumping, and hopping. We have had fun doing role play with train tracks, doll house and the small world people. They have had their construction resources like stickle bricks and wooden block out to support their independent thinking and decision making.

Next month in bumblebee room, the toddlers will be…

The children will be spending a lot of time outside enjoying water play with balls developing their motor skills as well as hand-eye coordination as they scoop, pour and squeeze. They will have great experience exploring with colours and numbers as well. Watch this space!

Ladybird Room (Pre-school)

This month, the preschoolers have been working on the very hungry caterpillar-counting sheet for their maths activity. They have been improving on their fine motor skills they enjoyed picture tracing, painting and colouring as well as using scissors to cut pictures and sticking it on paper. They have been outdoors engaging in various physical activities such as climbing, jumping, hopping, throwing and catching balls as well as riding bikes to support their muscle and bone development. They have enjoyed water play with ducks and they have had their lego, pipe connect, cars & garage out to support their. They have spent time on letters of the alphabets this week using their letter linkers. They have had their train tracks out this week and have enjoyed water play with floating and sinking objects.

Next month the Ladybirds will be…

Exploring numbers counting with ducks as well as frogs. There will be messy play with ice packs and finding hidden sea creatures in the ice using their hammers to support their handling skills.

Upcoming Events & Reminders

General Information

Wellies & Rain coats

As the weather is getting wet and cold now, we implore parents to please endeavour to make welly boots and rain coats available in the children's bags to protect them from the rain when they go outside in the big garden.

Coronavirus - If Children Are Worried

Please see the link below from the Government with advice on how to explain Coronavirus if children are worried.

https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/publication/childrens-guide-to-coronavirus/

Lost Item

We have had something handed in from the car park. If you think you have lost something, please let management know and they will return it to you.

Thank you all for your continuing support. From the Family Tree team.