The Preschool Fathers’ Day Bear Hunt was a huge success, with a great turn out of “daddies” for this interactive event!   They were all good sports, taking their shoes and socks off and joining their child in a tactile journey of fun… tracking through a playground scene recreating a grassy lane, river, mud swamp, forest, snow storm that lead to a bear cave!  I think the dads liked the cotton balls flying around in the snow storm the best!  Thanks again for great enthusiastic participation.  It was lovely to see.

The Preschoolers have been exploring, learning and having conversations about seeds, leaves, soil, flowers and thinking about “How things grow”.

They have been enjoying our sensory table working with real dirt using rakes, spades, and shovels.  The Science table has had an array of leaves, plants, seeds and books to explore. The children have made threaded bird feeders and have hung them around the school for the birds to eat.  They have also created their own flower and plant pictures.

The children are particularly excited to share with you their latest recipe for “Dirt cake”.  They made it together using chocolate pudding, gummy worms, marshmallows, and crumbled up wheat and dairy free chocolate cookies: – ).  After a thorough mixing, the “Dirt Cake” was shoveled into a pot and a beautiful flower planted in it.  Moments later, it was served up with a spade and enjoyed by all!  See the photos of our all of our fun activities.

The Preschool has been exploring a variety of sensory experiences that we like to call ‘Messy Play’  Together they have made ‘Clean Mud’, which is made from soap and tissue paper. They have also created ‘Wet Mud’ with soil and water.  Drawing in shaving cream sprayed onto a table top is also a favourite activity.

Through ‘Messy Play’ they have had experience and practise of small motor skills, language development and multi-sensory exploration.   Click here to see a slideshow of the children busily enjoying their ‘Messy Play’.

Welcome to the Dinosaur Dig!  A celebration for father’s day honoring all the important men in a child’s life.  We began our gathering by giving these special men a “dinosaur dig hat” and their own large toy dinosaur.  The children then sang and acted out “The Dinosaur March” song.  They also performed their friend’s song in English, Spanish and silently to incorporate sign language.  We then had a dinosaur hunt where the fathers and their child went looking for hidden dinosaurs in the playground.  We concluded our party by giving a handmade bookmark with sentiments of love written on it!  Oh yes and of course a pizza to share!   Miss Evieann

A great time was had by the preschool children and their mums at the “Smoochie Smoothie Mother’s Day” event!  They started off their lovely celebration with the children singing two songs…”Friends, Friends 1,2,3, and “Way Up in the Sky”.  Then Miss Evieann read the story “Oh Baby, My Little One” as each child nestled into their mother’s lap.

They continued their party offering strawberry and banana fruit smoothies that were shared with mother and child with two straws – delicious cookies were enjoyed as well!

After their tummies were full each child gave their mother a beach bag that they had decorated themselves as a gift for Mother’s Day.

A wonderful card was given to all the mums decorated with children’s “smooches” made with lipstick prints!

A very kissable and memorable time was had by all!

The Preschool children have been exploring the concept of food and learning about all its different varieties. Some of the questions we have focused on are… where does food come from… how do fruits and vegetables grow… what kinds of foods do we like, dislike, and how do we make food like cake, trail mix, soup etc…? The Pre-School has created a healthy foods cookbook which includes family recipes that each child enjoys to eat at home. These will be on sale at the school. Our food exploration was topped off with a Pancake Breakfast at Aqua restaurant. It was enjoyed by all – see us all in the photo above munching away! Many thanks to Joan and Clive for having us at their restaurant and also to all the parents who helped out to make this trip possible.

In Preschool this month, we have been experiencing and learning ways to keep ourselves healthy – this included exercising in preparation for our sports day events and learning about the importance of drinking water and eating fruits and vegetables. We involved parents and made links with the community which brought some furry fun into the preschool classroom….read on to find out more and to see the pictures!

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The preschoolers celebrated Father’s Day by inviting dads, brothers and grandfathers in for a special party. There was plenty to plan and prepare to get ready. With special shirt and tie snacks, cards, gifts and songs to entertain them, everyone had a great time. Read on to see more photos, and also photos of their Mothers’ Day party surprises, too.
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The Pre-schoolers came ‘springing’ back to class very excitedly after their Easter Holiday. Well, it’s Spring and they were pleased when they saw all the pretty colours of paint ready for handprints.

As if by magic, their handprints become a beautiful flower garden! Isn’t it amazing to see what these little hands can do? We have done several activities over the few weeks linked to out topic of ‘Growing Things’.

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The Pre-schoolers have enjoyed listening to many traditional stories during this term. They particularly loved the story of the Gingerbread Man.

Click on to see more photos of them decorating and eating their own gingerbread men cookies…

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Here is the September Newsletter for the Pre-school class.

pre-school-newsletter-september-2006.pdf