Upton Priory Pre-School

Children have already started to enjoy meeting Kirsty Duncan - the author of the Bear and the Bat. Kirsty is visiting every class throughout the day and reading her story or reading the children's own versions!

In preparation for our author visit the staff have done a mystery reader of the Bear and the Bat - can you guess who everyone is?
https://youtu.be/xjiiW3T7_DI?si=hYq7V6JASk1QZZy3

To mark the Queen’s Jubilee our Pre-School children had a special Jubilee lunch followed by an afternoon of crafts. We decorated biscuits and crowns and made jewellery fit for a Queen.

There's still time to get your jubilee tea towel! Info below.

This week at Upton Priory School the children have been raising money for the British Bee Charity who look after the welfare of bees. To help the bee community in Cheshire, our Pre-School children enjoyed planting bee loving flowers around Pre-School.

After listening to Eric Carle read his story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the children became the caterpillar from the story and tasted all the food from the story. They talked about the flavours and smells of the food, using words like sweet, juicy, bitter, soft, crunchy and yummy. Mr Hughes came to visit and tasted some of the food for himself.

GREEN FINGERS
After talking to the children, they told us that they would like to learn about seeds and plants. We read the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and then gave each child a bean to grow.

The children started by getting their bean to sprout in a pot. After the roots and shoot started to grow the children transferred their bean into a mini-propagator. We will watch to see how the roots and shoot develop over the next couple of weeks.

When the plants are big enough the children will then put them into large pots to take home.

After playing with our pirate ship the children found a pirate king/queen crown. As there was only one some the children asked if they could make a crown for themselves. The children used the resources in the workshop to make crowns to play with. After talking about pirates the children decided to make treasure maps. As a group we talked about the areas around Pre-School which the children then drew.

After drawing their maps the children went on a treasure hunt. They were encouraged to use the prepositions on, under, behind, next to and above to describe where they had found their treasure.

The children experienced a welly walk in the snow. We looked for the different footprints in the snow and listened to the snow crunching under our feet. We even found lots of frosty spiders web on the fence.

This week the children and staff were able to enjoy the potatoes we have grown in our garden. They were delicious!

Pre-school have harvested their potatoes today. Tomorrow we are going to cook them and taste them at snack time!

Pre-school have enjoyed creating their artwork on a larger scale outdoors.