After a very busy week of pizza making and planting runner beans and sunflower seeds, this weeks activities at Cheapside Preschool, will be focusing on our upcoming Toddle on Friday, for our charity, The Nest children's home. 

We will be practicing our balancing on scooters and vehicles, exercising (in the shade!) in our garden and learning about the children we are raising funds for.

Show and Tell
Ss, Tt, Uu

REMINDER
Thursday preschool is closed for elections.

Friday- no preschool in the morning as we are at The Toddle. French club will resume as normal at 12.30.
Break up Friday 3.00 pm return Monday 2 nd June

Please see the separate email with the details of the Toddle and updates on the May Ball and Summer Fun Day.

The children had great fun cleaning the boat and house in the garden at South Ascot  on Thursday ! Thank you to Miss Gofford and Miss Owen for being in charge of the hose and  the sweeping!

This week we will be making our own books as part of our mark making activities.

Parent/ carer rota is Thursday 22nd May. Do join us for INSTRUMENTALLY MUSIC 9.30am until 10.30am, if your child would be happy for you to do so. (E4 Queen’s Square, Ascot  Business Park.)

Show and tell is things beginning with Yy Zz.

FRIDAY 23rd May   Preschool term ends with our Annual Sponsored Toddle Event at Bracknell Track with Cheapside Preschool.

Meet at Bracknell track from 9am until 12.00pm to complete as many laps as you can! Run, ride or walk to raise money for The Nest. Bring a picnic too! There will be teas and cake on sale. Cake donations welcomed.

Preschool restarts on Monday 2nd June

Last week the children had a wonderful time exploring our local village. On their many walks they had great fun looking at what was growing (and testing the staff's knowledge on the names of plants!) spotting where many of them live and calling in on gardening Grandma and Grandad. 

Sadly, the Thursday morning turned out to be the worst for weather, so a quick visit to plant potatoes unfortunately meant that the rest of the pre-school planting at Grandma & Grandads wasn't accomplished. Because of this, we've now decided that the runner bean and sunflower seeds will be planted this Thursday when Grandma & Grandad come to pre-school.

We are also being joined this week by the lovely Mrs Clarke, who is going to make vegetable pizza's with the children, to continue our exploration of planting and growing.

Show & Tell
Pp, Qq, Rr

May Ball
Don't forget you still have one more day to book your ticket for the May Ball, so please try to join us! If you can't why don't you have a go at bidding on the auction items, you never know, you might be a winner!!!

“A great big thank you to Dexter’s Daddy for reading us a fabulous , fun story about a mole in German on Friday! We really enjoyed learning animal names in German.

We have had a great time this week with our mark making , especially using the ribbon sticks in the big hall and painting to different kinds of music including Handel’s water music which Little Mrs Shaw brought in for us.

We even made our own music  with  our milk bottle xylophones and with sand shakers!”

Last week at Cheapside we had great fun making our erupting volcanoes. Did the children tell you how we made them? 

This week, we will be out and about in the village looking at what is growing and recording what we see through photographs (taken by the children), drawings and labels, working towards creating a 'Growing Book of the Village' We hope you like it when it's complete!

Show and Tell
Mm, Nn, Oo

May Ball - Friday 16th May - Northcote House  
Don't forget it's not too late to come to the Ball, but hurry we need to know this week!!

The children at South Ascot have had a super time creating a carwash last Wednesday for all the Pre-school vehicles and bathing the babies on Thursday!

We enjoyed playing the drum kits at Instrumentally Music on Thursday too!

We hope you like our giant pictures on the fence and the ones around the tree too?

This week we will be exploring mark making to music, using a range of media including paints, chalks, pens. We will be exploring mark making with ribbon sticks too.

We will have a role play Post Office, with tills and computers and lots of letters and postcards to write and send.

Our letters and sounds this week are Ss Tt Uu.

Our parent/carer rolling play day is Tuesday this week. Do stay for a little play between 8.45 and 10am.