*STARS OF THE WEEK*

From now on 'Stars of the Week' will be included in the private email to parents.

Dear Parents,

We have had such a busy week.  The Christmas display has turned into a scene from 'Whatever Next' with a very large full moon, an owl, an aeroplane, rain drops and the teddy with a colander on his head and his picnic.  All created by Stevie and the children who impressed her with their cutting and drawing abilities.  We had the best time at Forest School on Monday.  I don't think our suits have ever been so dirty.  There was lots of sliding down the slopes on bottoms, rather a lot of walking in muddy pubbles and some falling in them! 

This week saw Rebecca's first ever attempt at making playdough.  The children helped to make it and it represented the moon rather well, as long as we kept adding flour, so it didn't get stuck to our hands.  Mandy is the real playdough expert, so thank goodness she is back.  But it was a good activitiy for teaching the children the different shapes of the moon as was eating rich tea biscuits.  When doing both lots of the children can now make and name a full, half and crescent moon (especially if you remind them it rhymes with present)

The children helped with preparing scrambled egg for snack this week, which went down well.  We are working towards gaining an award named 'Nurturing our future' this is very much about developing a positive attitude towards food in children of a young age.  It will link in brillaintly with us developing our new veggie patch/garden and the introduction of cooking once we have a kitchen in the new building.  For now we will focus on involving the children in preparing snack and identifying different types of foods. 

Next week, we will link space to dinosaurs. Learning about the meteor shower.  Using our dinosaur and space stamps to create pictures, gain information about dinosaurs from books and the internet, sort them into herbivores and carnivores (older children) , sort them by size or similar features (younger children).  I think our dinosaur egg may well hatch to.  

Have a lovely weekend, 

The Pebbles team.