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Review - February 2007 |
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We started the year with very sad news – Helens illness and untimely death was a shock for everyone who knew her. It has been a difficult time for us all. Helen touched so many people, and this has been shown in the wonderful support that has been given to Helen’s family and to the Playgroup staff. Thank you to everyone who has helped us all to get through the start of term. Being with the children has really helped the staff and we hope to be able to keep Playgroup the way Helen would have wanted. We have a book of condolence at Playgroup which will be passed on to Helen’s family. We would also like to keep a book at Playgroup to fill with happy memories of Helen. If anyone would like to contribute please ask a member of staff for a card to go in the book. We started the term looking at bears – where they lived, stories about bears and maths for bears. The ice for the polar bears proved very popular. The role play area became a wildlife area with cardboard boxes for bear caves. We made big pictures of bears, smaller colourful bear pictures, delicious ginger bear biscuits, bears with parachutes and bear faces. We had great fun going on the bear hunt, finding out about Paddington and having a Teddy Bears picnic with honey sandwiches. The “maths for bears” topic included making a height chart of the children which is now on display in the Quiet Room, finding out how to share sweets and sandwiches fairly, sorting bears into groups, and counting bears forwards and backwards. The role play area was turned into a maths corner and the children had lots of fun with clipboards and tape measures. We had a lovely frosty morning where the children saw lots and lots of beautiful spider webs in the garden. The children were asked if they wanted to draw what they had seen - poor rota mum was deluged by so many budding artists! The snow arrived in Kineton this year. Playgroup was open on the Thursday but only one brave Mum ventured out with her two children, so the decision was taken to close early. Playgroup will always try to remain open in all weathers, but we will try to let you know as early as possible if we have to close for any reason. Staff have been busy attending training courses and looking at other settings for ideas for the new building and outside play area. It is really exciting and we look forward to the building work starting soon. The story time at the library has now changed to wiggle and jiggle, we were able to take a few children last month and they had a great time. Hopefully if we have enough parent helpers we can take all of the Thursday afternoon children on February 22nd. This next half term we will be looking at changes – science and experiments, growth, art and recycling and seasons |
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