Writing Skills, Football & Music!

Over the last couple of weeks, the preschool children have been joining in with lots of activities to build on their literacy skills. In the tuff tray, Cooper and India were so excited to discover as many hidden letters as they could possibly find, with Cooper very quickly identifying, “Look, a C for Cooper! That’s for my name!”. This followed quickly by India calling out excitedly, “I found my name too! I for India!”. Freddie was keen to get involved in all of the excitement and after finding the letter F, he went on to find the letters E and D before arranging the letters in a sequence that represented his name. Isla practiced writing her name on the white board, carefully looking at each letter on her name card and then concentrating really hard to make sure she had all of the letters correctly written down. When she had finished, she was eager to show her friends that she was able to write her name and said, “My mummy and Daddy will be so proud”.

Outside in the garden, the preschool children have been practicing their football skills and have loved teaming up to play a football game. After taking it in turns to be the goalkeeper and shooting the ball in to the goal, they were ready to go. Ollie challenged Tilly, “I bet I can shoot the ball into the goal!”, whilst Tilly spread her arms out wide, ready to catch the ball. The ball bounced off Tilly’s legs which made everyone cheer, before Ollie was able to get a second kick and score a goal and the cheers grew louder. The children worked well as teams, celebrating each other with their goals and saves. 

The children have also been creative and set up their own music station in the mud kitchen. Using as many different materials as possible to make a variety of sounds, Esme, Marlow and Margaux used the wooden spoons, forks and ladles to make their music and were keen to make as much noise as they could!