Playlanders Playgroup and Pre-School

This month we celebrated Christmas with lots of various art work. To finish the Christmas celebration, we had a party and a very special visit from Santa.

Today we had the pleasure of welcoming Megson . We sang songs, danced and was learning about the instruments which they bought along to show the children. Below is a link to their you tube page which has the song we were singing today, the children will hopefully remember the actions

https://youtu.be/7AKYdak3DIg?feature=shared

In one of the photos I have added the leaflet with details of Megson.

This week we have celebrated Halloween with the children. They made Halloween rice cakes, scraped a pumpkin and played with the Halloween toys.

This week, in the afternoon the children have been weighing objects to see what is heavier. They chose two objects to weigh and put them in the scales. They cut out pictures of the objects and stuck them on their paper to record their findings. Some of the children even predicted what felt heavier before they weighed them. They recorded their findings which was sent home with them.

This week we started our autumn topic. One of our activities was to make autumn hanging mobiles. It was a good activity to get the children out, collecting objects and making mobiles with the objects they had found. It’s something to do in the half term too, easy, free and can encourage children to talk about what they find and how the seasons change.

Just before we broke up for the summer, the children planted a few strawberry plants. We went into the garden this week to see what fruit we could find, our plants had strawberries!! The children picked, washed and ate them. Growing fruit and vegetables is a great learning activity to try at home. It teaches children how to grow their own fruit and vegetables, how to care for plants and encourages them to try new things, for example cress is great for children to grow as it’s easy, cheap and great for them to try.

Below is a link to Cambridge city council website, listing free events and activities in Cambridge for the summer holidays.

Free events and activities in Cambridge for the summer holidays with something for everyone There is something on offer to entertain all ages this summer thanks to a programme of free activities and events being coordinated by Cambridge City Council.

Today we had the pleasure of Chloe reading to us her story. All week we have been busy making various art work which related to the story. The link below is to Chloe’s story book which is available to buy on Amazon.

Mole on Patrol https://amzn.eu/d/cETbvl6

Thank you again Xinni Cao for showing the children your amazing talent.