Fun with Bubbles & Phonics!

Over the last couple of weeks, the Pre school children have continued to practise their literacy skills including taking part in small group phonics sessions. Some of the older pre schoolers have been on an adventure to find objects in the environment beginning with the letter of the week ‘U’. Joshua had noticed an umbrella on one of the children’s  pegs and excitedly called Jasper over, “Look Jasper, it’s an umbrella, u, umbrella”. Jasper and Joshua were then repeatedly going through words beginning with U. This caught the attention of Margot who quickly joined in and they were calling out words such as up, under and umbrella. Some of the younger pre schoolers have also been very keen to learn about the letter and number of the week, particularly enjoying number songs with 3 little monkeys and 5,4,3,2,1 blast off. All of the pre schoolers have also enjoyed a number hunt using the wicker hanging numbers which have been dotted in different places each day.

Outside in the garden, the children really enjoyed ball and car rolling play using the blocks and guttering. Freddie was very keen to get this going, asking around the garden, “Who wants to help me make a tall tower for the balls?”. Freddie very quickly got Edward, Arlo, Ava and Phoebe all working together to make the ramps. Freddie explained to his friends, “First we need to make the tallest tower where the ball starts” and the children collected the blocks, placing the ramped block at the top. They moved on to the next tower, Freddie instructing, “This one needs be a bit shorter”. All the way until the towers went completely down in height. Sebastian and Otto came over at this point and collected the guttering to place on top before all enjoying rolling the balls and cars down, really laughing and counting down each time they let go of the ball or car.