Hello Again from Preschool – Wow what an amazing start to the new term – the children have been absorbed in activity since coming back after a lovely Spring break.

We are all getting older now and can do so much more with our busy hands and inquisitive minds.  Have a look at our photographs of the children working on the mat during independent choice. We can count, sort and build.   You can also take a look at our amazing gluing skills as we make our sound of the week ‘r’ rainbow and our fish for our Under the Sea display.

See you again soon with more lovely news and photographs.

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One sunny morning, Preschool all went out to the big playground to paint on the ground using a mixture of water and glitter.  They created some fantastic outdoor art.  As the children painted, they commented on what they could see… “look a circle, an aeroplane, a letter D, a cross, a house, a face, a girl, a train, a letter A, a caterpillar, a letter H, a triangle, a sad face and a car”. After a while, the water dried up and our playground was covered in glitter art.

The children adored the freedom of being able to paint with no restrictions.  They also enjoyed being able to choose to sit by themselves, quietly with a few others, or chatting in a group.  It was amazing to watch our little artists so absorbed in creativity.

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Today we started to explore water in our Science lessons using some ‘Magic Jungle Beans’.   We counted 8 tiny beans into a bowl of of cold water and took turns mixing them.  In the cold water the beans did not grow…. so we moved them into warm water and ‘POP’ the first magic jungle bean cracked open and a hippo-shaped sponge grew by absorbing the water, right before our eyes! It was so much fun watching the beans ‘grow’.  After they all the beans had opened, we counted and named the animals that had grown: 2 hippos, 2 monkeys, 2 crocodiles and 2 elephants! Tomorrow we will be exploring sinking and floating!

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Our little scientists in Preschool have been investigating magnetism, size and colour mixing. Take a look at our photographs and get an idea of what experiments we have been working on.

Look out for our next blog where we will discover what happens when we mix vinegar, food colouring and baking soda!

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WOW… what an amazing start to the Term, the Preschool children here at Provo Primary were so excited to return to school – just look at all the happy smiles and busy bodies. We have been back to school just two weeks and our skills are already increasing.  Take a look at our photo gallery below and see everyone engaged in all areas of the curriculum. All of the children are absorbed in language and communication – for every photograph the children vocalised what they were doing… “touching toes”, “painting”, “cutting”, “a big tower”, “car”, “reading-owls”, ”chalk”, “jumping”, “drawing caterpillar”, “puzzle”, “flying”, “looking”, “sailing”, “digging”, “bus”, “signing time”, “animals sick”, “teachers helper”, “get gas”, “dancing is fun”.  Look out next time for our little scientist blog.

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Seasons Greetings! What a fantastic first term in Preschool! Please have a look at our child lead display boards and see how busy the kids have been.

It’s Winter Season, a time when even though the temperature is in the 80s here in Provo, the idea of snow is on our minds…. so we made a big snowman family with many babies.

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To celebrate learning colours, Preschool had great fun this week making a giant outdoor painting. The children enjoyed choosing colour after colour to paint the ‘colour wall’ while having the freedom to get messy. One of the children said “look a rainbow” while she was looking at the beautiful art. Please have a look at our photo gallery and see our creative Preschool kids at work.

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Hi! This month in Preschool we are enjoying music and dance in preparation for our end of term show and our daily craft activities are helping our hand eye coordination skills. Last week we had a ‘big kid’ helper who loved being chased on the green field and he also helped us to learn how to skip.  During free play in class, we are very busy in construction – we have discovered how to build towers, funny faces, castles and ladders.  Have a look at our busy bee pictures and enjoy the fun!

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Over the past few weeks we have focused on movement, messy play and matching.  Our indoor/outdoor activities refine the children’s hand eye co-ordination, walking skills, language and sensory skills.  Take a look at our photographs and see how we have used  shapes and colours as a launch pad for learning these skills.  Preschool also loved indoor snack on a ‘cold’ rainy day and had a spontaneous child-initiated snuggly rest afterwards…. look at our colourful ‘beds’!

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Provo Primary Preschool Education Programme is off to a fun, action-packed start.  Indoor time is busy.  We all love playing dress up, cooking and completing puzzles and table top activities.   We all enjoy lots of arts and crafts.  Our favourite thing so far is…painting!  In the playground, the children love swinging on the new swing, playing in the new playhouse, climbing our fort and mixing up pretend food during water play.  We are also feeling very sporty this year and have already started practising our kicking and throwing skills on the giant green field!  Please browse our pictures to see what fun we have been having so far in September 2012 as we embark on a lifelong journey of discovery!

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Celebrations across the school took place to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.   The Turks and Caicos is a UK Overseas Territory and so the queen is our Head of State.  Well, she did look fancy as she posed for a photo opportunity with our youngest children, all dressed up in their red, white and blue and donning the royal crown.  Thank you,  for letting them sit in your throne,  your majesty!  Click on to enjoy more photos of our royal princes and princesses.

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We are excited to begin the Summer term in Preschool and have started off with sowing seeds.  We planted some sunflower seeds on Tuesday.  The children enjoyed mixing the soil and pushing in their seeds – it was lots of messy fun! By Thursday we already had some shoots and now, a week later,  they are growing very strong… amazing! Each day we are very carefully checking the soil to see if they require water.

To celebrate our planting, we made a beautiful painting to display on our classroom wall. Click on ‘Read more…’ to see some photos of us doing our planting and of our wonderful painting.

If you have any old pots (even old boots) you would like to donate to the school, our preschoolers would be overjoyed and will take great pleasure in planting some flowers and herbs in them!

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Spring fever arrived in Preschool!  We have had a fantastic term playing outdoors in the gorgeous Spring time weather and have adored jumping in giant puddles and looking at our wet footprints. Indoor play is full of fun too, especially with our hide and seek game….Miss Claire Marie is preparing us for our ‘Egg Hunt’ this Friday.  Sports Day was a big success – we have been practicing running at school and were very proud to show off how speedy we are to our parents on Sports Day!  Our biggest highlight so far this term was our Preschool Open Morning where our parents came in to class to decorate eggs and play together with us.  It was lots of fun!  We love school! [Read more…]

In the Preschool class, we have thoroughly enjoyed playing in our hospital role-play area, pretending to be doctors, nurses and receptionists and looking after our ‘patients’ and baby dolls with great care.  Our hospital then went on to include a hair salon!

Building and construction have played a big part of classroom life and the children have been busy finding new ways of using our construction toys.  We have also explored the topic ‘On The Farm’, and the children have adored painting and sticking to create farm animals and machinery.  All their art work is making our classroom extremely bright and colourful.

As well as all of these indoor activities, the children have been very busy outside.  Playing with balls on our school soccer field is definitely a firm favourite!

Please read on to see a selection of photos of our Preschool’s enjoying their activities.

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Every day the Preschoolers play outdoors, some of them love running on the soccer field and others love the sand and water play in the garden. They have also enjoyed baking every week this term and the latest yummy treats were Pink Triple Berry Muffins. Preschool received some new resources and one of their favourites is the ‘Marble Run’. They have also been learning about magnets and shape matching.  The new ‘Pete the Cat’ book has been teaching us all about colours. Read on to see photographs of all the wonderful experiences our children are having in Preschool.

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Our Preschool Class has had a wonderful first few weeks at school.  The children adore their new class room which is filled with lots of fun and educational activities. They love to dress up, play with cars, paint, glue, sing and do puzzles!  Soft play is just the best for bouncing around and letting loose! Our new swing set is great fun and lots of water play has helped us to cool down in this HOT September weather. Nursery Rhymes is our first topic this term and as we learn them we are developing our vocabulary skills. Our class aim is to bake or cook once a week……Mmmm, we have already made sugar cookies and muffins.  Last week the class also went on a mini school trip around every classroom delivering them.  Read on to see lots and lots of photos of us in busy at school. [Read more…]