*STARS OF THE WEEK*

From now on 'Stars of the Week' will be included in the private email to parents.

Dear Parents,

The first week back has been a lively one.  We have had 4 new children join the Pebbles family.  It has mainly been a settling-in/back in week, with the added element of challenging weather.  We managed to get out a few times.  Our walk on Monday was with 10 happy children and 6 miserable ones.  I guess we would class that as mainly successful and the happy children who walked and played brilliantly did earn themselves stickers.

We have made sure the children have been physical this week so we had a lovely P.E. with all of the children (previously the children that started with us last term stayed in the Pebbles area).  All of the children were amazing.  The newer children listened brilliantly and copied the older children in a simple version of our spot game.  As the children love jumping off of the footstool on to the mat in the classroom we deceded to do the same in P.E.  The older children were brilliantly at thinking of different ways to jump off of the benches.  They did forward, backwards, sideways, pencil, twisting and landing on knees jumps. 

To make sure we have been active in the classroom we have played the 'Floor is Lava Game' and danced the dinosaur stomp.  To develop the Lava game we put two of the soft building brick on the floor for each children to stand on, then we gradually took them away and ended up with three winners.

Next week, we will start our theme on space, rockets and planets.  We will learn why the moon changes shape and learn the names of the different shapes, we have purchased a Peppa Pig rocket which we will use as a focus for making our own junk model rockets.  We will do lots of counting up to 10 and back to 0 for blast off and we will listen to and act out the story 'Whatever Next' with props.

Have a lovely weekend and stay warm. 

The Pebbles team.