This week at Cheapside, we will be exploring dinosaurs. 

As so many of our chaps love dinosaurs, we thought we would introduce them to some fun activities and experiences. 

It will be interesting to hear your feedback on what the children tell you!

A big thank you must go to Mr.Flynn (Miss Daniels other half!) for making our new water exploration tubes. 

The children are having great fun pouring and watching and waiting for the water to emerge. 

This is a great resource to add to our water play.

At the last rugby session before half term, 4 of our Mum's came in to see what we get up to. They volunteered (!!) to have a go at kicking a penalty and as can be seen by their wonderful Johnny Wilkinson wiggles, they were all fabulous and nearly knocked our poor rugby coach out with their kicks!

Show and TellSs, Tt, Uu.

Please remind the children that show and tell is throughout the session and not at register time. 

Thank you.

We hope everyone enjoyed the half term break?

This week we will be celebrating St David’s day and all things Welsh!
Our role play area will become a castle and we will be watching out for dragons!

We will be chitting our potatoes from the Potato Council too.

Our sounds and letters for show and tell are Yy and Zz.

Last week the children thoroughly enjoyed exploring ice, especially trying to excavate dinosaurs and vehicles frozen inside large blocks!

This week we have named 'Winter Fest', as we would like to invite you in to join us for our activities, so you can see all the fun we get up to. There will be painting and model making, trays of shaving foam and water trays full of water and bubbles, so if you are able to pop in, we'd love to see you!

Please remember that the usual music session will be on Monday 9.15-10.15 and rugby on Friday 9.15 - 10.00. You are welcome to join us at these sessions.

Show and Tell Pp, Qq, Rr

We break up for Half Term this Friday, 14th February. Have a lovely break. 

“Let’s get building” this week explores tools and machines in the water tray and vehicles used for construction in the outside areas.

We will be exploring magnetism in the small tray.

To celebrate St Valentine’s Day we will be baking and also exploring tools for making transport biscuits!

Our show and tell focus letters and sounds are Vv Ww Xx.

Join us on Friday morning for our parent/carer stay and play from 8.45 to 10am.

Half term begins Friday 14th Feb.12.30pm .We return on Monday 24th February, 8.45am.

Happy holidays!

We will be having a chilly time at Cheapside this week, as we will be having a science investigation week using ice. Large blocks of ice will be sprinkled with salt and different food colouring, then as they melt, coloured tracks and tunnels will be revealed. We will be charting the progress of melting ice, both inside and outside and may even attempt to make simple graphs to note our observations! 

We will also be dancing and 'freezing' to music; using movements needed when skiing, building snowmen, throwing snowballs or any other winter activity the children can think of!

Show and Tell:  Mm, Nn, Oo


Don't forget next week is 'Winter Fest' week. If you would like to come in and join in some wintry craft activities with the children, please let us know. We may even treat you to a cuppa and a cake!

Children enjoyed dressing up and playing in our World Village last week, which included a special Chinese Restaurant and "Sari" House, pictured here with 3 enthusiastic children in fancy dress.
 
Our Let’s get building theme will be exploring tools and machines for building this week.

We will explore blocks for building in the sand tray, using trowels and “cement”. We will be building using different methods and resources with recycled materials. Our toolsets and big builder contain lots of tape measures, screwdrivers, nuts and bolts to explore. We will be using construction vehicles through our mini world resources and playmobil sets.

We are sharing things beginning with Ss Tt Uu during show and tell.

Our Parent/carer rota is THURSDAY 5th Feb.  Join us for INSTRUMENTALLY MUSIC til 10.30am. We walk to Ascot Business park unit E4 at 9.05am for our 1 hour music session. (Please consider if your child would be happy for you to join us!)
We are still hoping to visit Hyns.

Sept 2014 School Leavers please see separate note re: booklets.

Finally some exciting staff news...
We are delighted to announce that following a very romantic surprise proposal, Miss Kerri Gofford is engaged to her fiancé, Pete. Congratulations to the happy couple.