Hemingbrough Pre-School

🎄🎅🏻✨ M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S. ✨🎅🏻🌲

We have had a wonderful last week, we’ve made lots of fun Christmas craft, baked gingerbread shapes and went on a festive walk round the village.

Today we had a fabulous Christmas party lots of dancing, party games and lovely party food. The children have all been very good and so were rewarded with a very special visitor from The North Pole.

Finally we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your continued support and for the wonderful thoughtful gifts we have received. All that’s left to say is ‘we hope you all have a simply wonderful Christmas time’ 🎵and can’t wait to hear all about in January.

3 sleeps to go 🎁🎅🏻🌲✨

🌲🎁🎅🏻✨. C H R I S T M A S F U N. 🎁🌲🎅🏻✨

We had another wonderful week enjoying lots of Christmas fun activities!

The glitter has been everywhere…. Fabulous Christmas trees were made, Christmas stockings decorated and Christmas puddings looking almost good to eat!

Our Christmas songs are still being practiced and fingers crossed the children sing and do all their actions on Wednesday & Thursday 🎶

One more week left till we break up, lots more fun to fill in more glittery craft to create and maybe a visit from Santa 🎅🏻

Our fabulous colouring competition winners from our craft fair in the three different age categories 😍 your prize will be on its way.
Huge thank you to all that came and enjoyed an hour of fun Christmas crafting!

🌲🎅🏻⛄️✨. C H R I S T M A S F U N 🌲🎅🏻⛄️✨

Last week we started our Christmas celebrations, the children decorated our Christmas tree 🌲 (I had to make a few small changes to it 😉) they also explored our tinsel sensory tray and made snowmen from the white play dough ⛄️

We had a wonderful snowy village scene complete with train track for Santa to visit 🎅🏻 this was paired with the nativity figures and animals.

In the large tuff tray we had Christmas tree placements and lots of different things to decorate them with and even some small presents 🎁

The children will have lots of opportunities to make and create different Christmas crafts. We’ve also been busy learning our fab Christmas songs and loving the Christmas stories in the book corner! It really is the most magical time of year ✨✨

We would love to see lots of you come and join us for a fun filled hour of getting very creative and having some Christmas fun 🌲✨

🐶🐾🐈🐇🐟🐢 P E T W E E K 🐶🐾🐈🐇🐟🐢

What a fun packed week we have had at Pre School. We have enjoyed a vets surgery as our role play area and have seen lots of caring and looking after poorly animals.

The children have all shared with us what pets they have at home and what type of pets they would like … a few unicorns were mentioned 🦄

We’ve read some fab pet stories and sang pet related songs and nursery rhythms (we’ve also started learning Christmas songs too)

For our craft we’ve made fish using celery sticks and paint to create fish scales they looked fab. Then we used different types of collage and glue to make some dogs and cats.

Next week Christmas arrives ✨🌲🎅🏻⛄️ (I can’t wait to get all glittertastic)

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🤲👀👅👂👃 S E N S E S W E E K 👂👀👅👃

We’ve had another fabulous fun filled week learning all about our five senses.

Our play dough table had lots of different herbs to smell and mix into the dough.
We used our sight to look at lots of different fruits, pink grapefruit, limes, pineapple lemons and oranges. We touched them and used fab words like smooth, rough, bumpy and soft. The fruit was cut up and the children tasted them using words sweet, sour and yuck!

We had lots of fun playing a guess the sound game and learnt a new song all about our senses.

To finish off the week the children got the chance to use all their senses to bake and decorate their own buns 🧁😍

C H I L D R E N I N. N E E D

As promised we’ve celebrated children in need day in style, from wearing our pj’s to creating fabulous Pudsey bears. A wonderful way to finish off a busy fun filled week.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!
Wonder what fab fun learning adventures we will have next week?

N U R S E R Y R H Y M E W E E K

This week we have been exploring nursery rhymes. We’ve enjoyed learning new rhymes and singing along with actions we’ve also been reading books with rhyming words in them.

Fun craft activities have been set up to bring the nursery rhymes to life. The children have enjoyed making finger mice and boats along with doing their own self portraits and we’ve seen some fab creations out of the magnetic building shapes.

Tomorrow is all about Children In Need so we will be making our own Pudsey bears.

To commemorate Remembrance Day the children made poppies. We learnt the difference between the red poppy and the purple poppy ❤️💜

🔥🎇🎆. BONFIRE NIGHT 🎆🎇🔥

Sparks flew high this week as we explored some cracking activities for bonfire night.

The children shared their experiences from last weekend watching fireworks and going to see bonfires. We made some gorgeous firework paintings and explored coloured sand and rice in our tuff trays to create more fireworks. We also made our own bonfire pictures too.
The small world area had a huge play bonfire set up for the happy people to watch, along with the emergency services on hand 🚒🧯🚓👮🚑

Wonder what next week will bring 🕰️🐁🛶🕷️🚎

Information for our rising 5’s parents for their children starting big school next September!

Hope everyone has a wonderful half term and enjoys celebrating Halloween 🎃👻🕸️

We’ve had a lovely fun filled spooktastic week!
The children have loved listening to lots of different Halloween books including of course ‘Room on the broom’ .
Pumpkins were decorated using paint rollers, witches hats were covered in lots of sparkles and glitter and the fun Halloween stencils were used to create lots of different pictures,
Spaghetti was turned into wiggly worms for the children to explore. Witches potions were made both inside and outside 🧙‍♀️
We certainly ended the half term with lots and lots of fun!
See you on November 6th!

Our book of the week last week was ‘The very helpful Hedgehog’ we learnt all about sharing and being kind.

We decided to make our own Hedgehog by using some of the fab leaves we’ve all been collecting 🦔🍃🍂🍁🦔

At the end of the week we created some lovely pictures using apple printing!

Lots of fun learning through our play 😍

Next week Pre-School will be very spooky as we celebrate all things ‘Halloween’ 👻🕷️🕸️🎃

Last week we continued our Autumn theme 🍁🍂☘️🍃 with our book of the week The Leaf Thief.

The children went on a walk around the village to find Autumn treasures. We used the leaves in our creative tuff tray to make fab pictures and we enjoyed conker rolling outside!

Wonder what fun adventures we will have this week ……. 🦔🦔🦔🦕🦖

We are holding a Halloween party 🎃👻🕸️🧙‍♀️to help raise funds for Pre School.
There will be fun spooky games taking place along with lots of tricks and treats too.
You can get your tickets from Pre-School, the Londis shop or Gemma Howard.
Looking forward to seeing you all there 😍

Our book of the week has been ‘The little red hen’ The children have made their own little red hens and had a go at making some bread 🍞 we also danced and sang to a song all about vegetables 🥦🥕🧅🥔
We’ve learnt all about the word ‘harvest’ and explored our tuff tray with lots of different vegetables and soil.

This week has been all about ‘colour’ 🌈
The children have enjoyed lots of colour matching activities, jigsaws, singing the rainbow song and our fab book of the week ‘Wow said the Owl’

We are enjoying meeting all our new starters and welcoming back our children to Pre-School. They are all doing extremely well settling in and we’ve loved hearing about their adventures during the summer.
Thought I’d share some photos of our fab new construction areas outside which the children are all enjoying 🚧👷‍♀️🚜🚚🏗️🪨

Hope everyone has had a wonderful summer.

We re-open tomorrow at 9am and are looking forward to welcoming our new starters and catching up with our returning children.

Today we held a leavers party for our amazing children who will be going to big school in September.

We all got to spin plates, do some limbo dancing and play lots of fun party games with prizes 🎁

Then after some fab party food we got to sit down and enjoy a brilliantly funny puppet show, there were lots of smiles and laughter 😍

It’s been a pleasure to watch the children grow and be ready to thrive in their next big learning adventure. We are sad to say goodbye but send all our love and good wishes for the future # # #

Huge thanks for all the wonderful cards and gifts we are truly overwhelmed. We will miss the children so much and all our lovely families. Have a fantastic summer # # #

We would like to say huge thanks for all our wonderful cards and presents we’ve received today 💕
Angie is leaving to take early retirement 😥 and she is overwhelmed from all the kind wishes, cards and presents she has received,
Together we will miss all the amazing children that are leaving us to go to big school, we wish them lots of luck in their next learning adventure and hope they remember to wave as they pass us on their way to big school # # #
Happy summer everyone ☀️😎😍 # # #

REMINDER

Pre-School is closed tomorrow (Thursday 20th July) for polling day. We will see you Friday for the last day of term!

Welcome to the very last week of the school year, can’t quite believe we break up on Friday.

A supermarket is set out in the role play area, it’s stocked full of things to browse and buy, put in the baskets and then take to the checkout area 🛍️🛒

For weighing and measuring fun we have pasta and lentil’s with measuring spoons, pots to fill and weighting scales

The creative trays and picture frames are in the middle tuff tray. We have lots of natural items for the children to use to creative fab pictures.

On the floor mat we have the eco house to build with the construction cranes and workmen.

Finally our small world is a happy people zoo with lots of different animals to see and explore with.

We’ve been very busy at Pre School this week, we have been continuing our at the seaside theme and our fab display is looking awesome 😎 ☀️⛱️🐚🪣🧜‍♀️

A campsite with tent, bbq’s and picnic blanket is out in the role play area 🍗🍔⛺️

For exploration of all different types of bugs we have a wonderful tuff tray full of them, complete with bug finders and magnifying glasses! There’s lots of naturals for them to hide in. 🐞🦟🪲🐜🕷️🪳

Our construction mat has the large box duplo, we’ve seen lots of fab creations!

In the tuff tray we have our brand new building magnet shapes. The children have used their imagination and amazing building skills to build houses, churches, towers and even some buses and cars 😍

Finally our small world table has a selection of houses and even a village pond!

Another wonderful week learning through play 😍

Our role play this week is a fabulous florist 🌼🌷🌻🌸🌹💐 with lots of flowers and plants to look after and sell to customers!

The children have been having fun using the magnets to explore the room as well as all the items in the tuff tray to see what things are magnetic and which are not 🧲

On the small world table we have large and small rockets 🚀 and spacecrafts complete with astronauts, space dogs and fun aliens 👽 ready for lots of outer space missions and adventures!

For construction we have stickle bricks in the tuff tray and the brio wooden train track on the floor.

Lots of different train tracks have been built with tunnels, bridges and turntables! Whilst the stickle bricks have been made into towers, boats, cars, houses and various other structures! All showcasing the children’s fab construction skills!

What a lovely Monday we have had continuing our ‘at the seaside’ theme 🏖️☀️🌊🐚🏝️

We talked lots about we you see and do when you visit the seaside and even read a fabulous book all about Kipper and a beach ball!

The painting easels have been set up outside and the children were very excited to paint some seaside pictures 😍

As we spoke about ice creams we decided to make our own using our pencil skills with a ruler to make the cornets then added cotton wool, dripping red paint and finally a ‘chocolate flake’ . They look fab!

This week we have been continuing to learn about sun safety and how we keep ourselves safe while playing outside in the wonderful sunshine ☀️

We’ve started doing some fun craft all related to things you see at the seaside. We have made some fab seagulls and today we designed sun hats!
Our seaside themed display board also has a beautiful sparkly mermaid and some jelly fish on it!

The role play area is a ‘garage’ we have a broken down tractor in need of repair. There’s bookings to be taken for car services and repairs along with all the tools required to fix then.

On the large floor mat there is a safari with track and every type of animal you can think of, all living together, swimming in the water hole or exploring the terrain! 🐘🦁🐅🦒🐒🦍🦧🦜🐊🦛🦘

To encourage the children to use their fine motor skills as well as good hand eye coordination is the threading. We have big and small threading as well as the different threading boards.

In the middle tuff tray we have the wonderful small world fairies, unicorns and elves with their amazing fairy house!

We’ve made some mint smelling play dough for the children to mould, cut, and roll with.

Finally we have some wooden jigsaw puzzles!

All makes for Lots of continued learning through play 😍😍

This week at Pre-School we have a wonderful ‘Tea Room’ selling lots of yummy cakes and treats along with a fab selection of ice creams 🍰🧁🥮🍦🍨🍧 with cups of tea and coffee to be served or a drink of juice from our ‘juicer’,

On our small world table we have Fireman Sam, his Fire station and engines alongside the village of Greendale where you can find Postman Pat and all his friends!

We asked some of the children what they would like on the colourful mat and they wanted the babies 👶🍼 so we’ve created a little crèche.

In the tuff tray we’ve created ‘at the seaside’ there is a beach and some sea. The children have enjoyed playing with the sand and the happy people who are on holiday there. We have been having lots of discussions about what we see and do when we visit the seaside and in the coming weeks we are going to be doing lots of seaside craft!

Finally in the construction tuff tray we have Knex for lots of fun building either by following the creative cards or just using their own imagination to create fab designs 😍

We still have places available 😍

Hope everyone has had a lovely half term break.
Pre-School is back Monday 5th June, looking forward to seeing everyone!

Emotional last, but exciting, day for Amanda!
She’s been spoilt with lots of fabulous well wishes gifts and hugs! We also got to have a fabulous afternoon tea at lunchtime (thanks to the committee). 🧁
As a fitting goodbye I wanted to share some photos of all us ladies she’s worked with over the last 16 plus years!

Lots of luck in your new job Amanda we will all miss you 🥰

Welcome to the final week before we break up for half term and also sadly Amanda’s last week 😢

We have a wonderful under the sea tuff tray with lots of fab sea creatures to explore 🐠🐬🐳🐙🦑🦀🦈

The ever popular cars and garages with fun wooden ramps are on the large floor mat. We have racing cars, trucks, buses and all types of small cars to zoom along the floor, build fun traffic jams and race down the garage tracks. 🏎️🚕🚓🚗🚚🚛🚎

In our role play area the vet surgery is open to care for lots of different poorly animals 🏥🐶🐈🐕🐇🐀🐹

Finally the rhyming tubes are in the other tuff tray. The children are learning how things rhyme and therefore which tub they belong it. We have also been discussing other things that rhyme around the room!

Baby lamb Aurora came to spend the day with us today!

The children loved her being in the garden while they played, she was incredibly calm and loved being stroked. We learnt all about lambs and how they like to drink milk, eat grass and also how you must wash your hands after touching them.

Everyone enjoyed Aurora’s visit and hopefully she can come again soon 💕

We have just received this from the charity we supported. A huge thank you to everyone that came to Pre-School wearing their pj’s and for your donations.

We have created a new role play, it’s a fantastic ‘Garden Centre’ 💐🌸🌼🪴 There’s lots of flowers to look after along with bulbs to plant and water. All this has been made possible using the money we raised from the bun sale at the Easter Egg. Thank you so much!

The children will be learning all about planting and growing this week and we have a few activities planned to support this. We are also going to press some flowers to make sun catchers, the children have been busy collecting lots of daisies from the garden today 😍

Happy Coronation Day 🇬🇧👑

The children and grown ups have worked hard on a large collage to commemorate King Charles III

It is now in place on the stage (thanks to Sharon and Dan) ready for the family fun in The Crown garden.

Hope everyone has a wonderful bank holiday weekend!!

The children have had lots of fun decorating their own crowns and using paints and felt tips to colour some fab coronation pictures!
We’ve been learning all about the King, from the names of the two crowns he will wear at his coronation and what he will carry to the names of his two rescue dogs!
The children have also been working on a large collage picture of King Charles III ready for display at the coronation family day on Saturday 😍

This week we are talking and learning all about the Kings Coronation. We have lots of activities planned and photos will be shared throughout the week 👑🇬🇧

We have a royal tuff tray with the King and Queen along with the royal coach, church, castle and a London bus. Lots more things will be added to this as the week goes on 😍

On the large table is the emergency vehicles with wooden Fire Station, fire engines and fire fighters 🧯🚒🔥 the wooden Police Station, police cars, police officers and a few ‘baddies’ complete the set up for lots of fun imagination play👮‍♀️👮🚓🚨

For construction we have the road to build around a fab working farm with lots of tractors, farm buildings and escaping farm animals 🚜🐖🐄🐑🐓

Our role play is a takeaway shop with pizzas, burgers, chicken, fries and salad to cook and serve the many customers 🍕🍔🍗🥬🍟

Finally in the mathematical tuff tray we have the matching pegs and numbers, this helps promote counting as well as number recognition!

Looking forward to a fun filled royal celebration week while learning through play 😍

This week at Pre-School we have created a fabulous ‘African Watering Hole’ with lots of different animals coming together to have a dip in the water or just have a drink.
The children can use their existing knowledge to identify some of the wild animals and also learn some new animals too 🦏🐊🦓🐘🦛🦒

On the large floor mat for small world play, we have a mixture of different sizes castles. From a very large medieval castle guarded by knights from the dragons to a royal castle with kings, queens, princesses, thrones, horses and carriages! Lots of opportunities for fab imagination play.

Our role play area is a crèche with lots of babies to look after. We have a play gym, baby cots, car seats and carriers, as well as lots of feeding dishes and bottles. The basket is full of different outfits to dress them in and lovely blankets to wrap the babies up in too.

The mathematical cubes and boards are in the middle tuff tray for lots pattern work, counting and creative building.

Finally we have lots of different jigsaws to help promote the children’s problem solving skills both independently and working with each other!

A fun filled week of learning through play 😍