April 2022

In April, the children in Pre-School were so excited to see their classroom transform into outer Space! We had a space station and a spaceship that allowed us to explore all the planets in the solar system. The children decided that Earth is the best place to live as the other planets were either too hot or too cold.
We looked at some non-fiction books that had lots of information about space and enjoyed reading stories such as The Smeds and The Smoos, The Way Back Home and Aliens Love Underpants.
We read The Colour Monster and found out how to talk about our feelings and how we can help others to be happy by being kind.
In Maths we have been looking at 2D and 3D shapes, we made space pictures with shapes and large 2D and 3D models outside using natural materials.
PE in the hall twice a week has been one of our favourite activities, and we are doing very well practicing our fundemental skills. Our PE lessons have been spaced themed and we have enjoyed walking, jumping, hopping, and skipping on the moon!
During our music lessons we have been looking at finding the beat in music and playing musical instruments, we love the welcome and goodbye songs as we get to sing our friends names.
We have spent a lot of time becoming more independent, we have been practicing putting on our own coats, cutting our food at lunch by using a knife and fork and putting on our own pumps for PE.
We have been practicing our fine motor skills with activities such as playdough, threading, and finger gym. This is helping us to begin writing our names.
Kandinsky was the name of the Artist we looked at this month, we learnt all about how he uses shapes to make his pictures look like other things, we made our own Kandinsky style pictures to look like rocket ships in Space.
We have had so much fun in Pre-School in April, bring on May!