Happy Birthday Everly!
On Thursday 15th April, we celebrated the lovely Everly's 3rd Birthday! She chose a dinosaur-themed day of play & learning to celebrate with her friends. Everyone got stuck into a dinosaur egg hunt around the garden. We helped each other find the eggs, making sure everyone got one. We looked at the different colours of all the eggs & the type of dinosaur inside each of them. Later, we decorated dinosaur biscuits, sharing & taking turns to use the icing sugar, sprinkles & choc
Ready, Steady, Sport!
Each week we are joined by two sports coaches, who help us develop our sporting prowess. On Thursday, Will Bound led Pre-School in some tennis warm-ups & ball control exercises & the following Monday, Helen Troke helped us with our badminton skills. We love getting out into the garden with our friends & working as a team to learn new things. Playing different sports allows us to move in a range of different ways, building our muscles & developing our hand-eye co-ordination. W
Welcome to our Flower Shop!
To build on our learning around this month’s theme of 'spring', Pre-school put together a flower shop. We all worked as a team & discussed the different roles people might have in a shop, taking turns to be customers or workers. We continued our work on numbers, counting all the flowers in the shop & talking about their different colours & names. Also, we looked at money & some different currencies like euros & pound sterling. We looked at notes & discussed their differences,
Spring-ing into Action
With the arrival of spring evermore apparent, we’ve enjoyed some wonderful spring-themed activities. From baking Easter nests to finding baby animals in our messy trays, everyone has enjoyed celebrating the new season! At Talbot Woods everyone made yummy Easter nests from rice krispies, melted chocolate, marshmallows & mini eggs. We also enjoyed spring-themed messy trays, one full of baby animal toys, yellow feathers & sawdust & one full of soil & spring flowers. We practised