Poppets Pre-School

Chinese New Year

February 1, 2014
 We celebrate the year of the horse making horse crafts,  a dragon for a dragon dance, and lanterns and red money envelopes as we learn about  Chinese traditions.

We shall also be thinking about the celebrations that Poppets children enjoy such as birthdays!

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If you had 3 wishes..........

January 26, 2014
This week we are asking the children what they would wish for if they had 3 wishes?
Some of our Poppets children have seen Aladdin and all are keen to go travelling on our magic carpet to faraway lands!!

I wonder what we shall see? I suspect there will be lots of things beginning with the letter A.. our letter of the week!

Our number work  focuses on the number 3,  making sets of 3  with cars/ blocks etc then adding one more to cause change and relate to both our 3 and 4 year olds! We shall be r...
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Parent's meetings

January 19, 2014
Thank you for sharing your children's wow's with us at parent/ key worker meetings. If you haven't had a chance to pop in yet please speak with your child's key worker or myself to arrange an appointment.

The children had great fun last week thinking of Cc ( curly c) words and sounds, painting the letter C with cars dipped into paint and making magic letters from playdough. 
We shall follow the Jolly Phonics books looking at a different letter each week  S A T P I N are all in book 1.

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Toffee the Cat

January 12, 2014
We hope your children have been telling you about Toffee the cat!
These lovely stories help us think about friendships, sharing and being kind to each other.
The children have been busy making cat masks and pictures to show you. Next week we shall be thinking about the letter C making cats from dough so we can measure their tails, and starting to make own own Toffee the cat adventure story book.
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Marie Curie.......... Grow a daffodil

November 24, 2013
We invite you to join us in growing daffodils in support of the wonderful work Marie Curie carries out.

I am aware that currently two of our Poppets families are touched by Cancer within their families. Our thoughts are with these families as they cope with the turmoil this diagnosis inevitably brings.

Please collect a daffodil planting kit from us along with a sponsorship form, help your child to plant their bulb and care for it as it grows. We hope you agree there are some lovely learning opp...
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We are going on a Bear hunt !

November 16, 2013
This lovely story by Michael Rosen will be the basis of our topic work for the next two weeks. We start off preparing ourselves for the exciting journey,  designing a strong bag,  making our binoculars ( we need kitchen roll tubes please) packing our bags with supplies for the journey and singing our bear hunt song to keep our spirits up!

Please read the story to your children at home if you can, it really is a lovely book with lots of scope for children to use their imagination. We hope they ...
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Christmas Shoe Box Appeal

November 16, 2013
Thank you to those of you who have already donated items for the Christmas shoe box appeal. Still chance to donate on MONDAY 18th
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Children In Need Week

November 10, 2013
All our Poppets children are superheroes to us  but why not dress up as a superhero this week and donate £1 to Children In Need!?

On WED THURS and FRI at 11.30a.m ( for morning collect children) and 2.30 p.m ( for p.m collect children) the Poppets children will be running a juice bar.  The learning leads on from our Pumpkin shop where we were pretending to be shop keepers to learn our numbers, now we invite you to be our customers and come and taste a juice that the children will make fresh f...
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New half term

November 3, 2013
Lots of fun activities planned for this half term, some of course are TOP secret!

We start back finding out about the children's adventures over half term. Be  prepared for glittery pictures as we recreate fireworks, orange paintings representing pumpkins and lots of number work as we open the Poppets pumpkin shop!
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PHOTO SHOOT

October 13, 2013
Monday 14th is PHOTO DAY at Poppets

if it is not your child's day and you would like their photo taken by a professional photographer please call in at 12 noon

siblings welcome

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