Butterflies Pre-school Didcot

What an extremely emotional day!!!! The tissues have definitely been needed. 🥲
Yesterday we had our School Leavers Graduation and today we said goodbye to all those spreading their wings and moving on to school 🦋
We will truly miss each and every one of you and are so proud of how far you’ve come in the time you’ve been at Butterflies. Good luck to all those moving on, you will all be amazing!
We’d also like to say have a fab summer to those coming back to us in September and we look forward to seeing you then.
In September we will be welcoming lots of new Butterflies who have been having their settling in visits the last few weeks.

Yesterday we had both our morning and afternoon sports day events. This year it was dinosaur themed 🦖 🦕
Thank you to all the parents, grandparents and family that came along to support the children.
Everyone had an amazing time and the children have spent time today in the garden continuing with the activities.

Thank you to all the Daddy’s, Grandad’s and Brothers that joined us today for the children’s Fathers Day event. The children loved spending time with you and playing in the garden. There were lots of activities going on all over the garden such as construction, badminton, football, bug spotting, hula hooping, play dough, drawing, playing in the mud kitchen, etc.
The weather was brilliant and we hope you all had a good time.

The weather has been so up and down this week the children clearly thought the monkey needed every type of clothing!! 🤣🤣 🙈 🧥 👖 👕 🩳 🩲 🧦 👞 🧣 🧢

The children have loved having their very own Train Station in the Pre-school this week. They have taken it in turns to work in the ticket office, selling train tickets and giving out timetables and others have been buying tickets and going on the train. They’ve been heading to the beach, Peppa Pig World, London, to the park, etc! 🚂

The children have enjoyed reading our term book “The Train ride” this week and exploring lots of train resources too 🚂
Next week we are going to create our very own Role Play Train Station!

The children have had a lovely time exploring the garden this week in the beautiful weather we’ve had ☀️☀️
When we have been inside we’ve been using some great Maths resources such as Numicon and our new Froggy weighing scales ⚖️ 🐸

Our first week back of the term and the children have been busy exploring some new updates in the garden and mud kitchen. Hopefully we will continue with the nicer weather and be able to spend more time outside. ☀️
We’ve had some new butterflies starting this week who have had a great week and started to settle in well. And well done to our older Butterflies who have helped the children to settle and welcomed them into the pre-school, we are very proud of you 🦋

We’ve been exploring our Term Book this week. “The Dot” by Peter.H.Reynolds.
The children have really enjoyed the story but not only that have created some amazing artwork from dots.
At the writing table we started with just a simple dot on the paper and using their imagination the children have changed that dot into something completely different.
We’ve used some great motor skills to create paintings with paint dabbers and different tools at the easel.
Outside they’ve been using balls and paint to create large art pieces full of dots. The children learnt how pushing hard could create a big dot and being gentle could create a small dot.