Rockets and Trips

Hope you enjoyed making the rockets on Thursday. if you missed out here is what we did...
I printed out a rocket template from DLTK (I did have to adjust it slightly) and then use lots of different shapes of pasta to stick on with LOTS of PVA glue.

This activity is aimed at 18 month + and is *child lead*. This means there is lots of scope for your child to do what they want without too much help from you. Things you can do to help them is to asking questions like...

"Which pasta is straight/wiggly/round/bumpy?"...this helps your child to begin to recognise different shapes.
"What shapes would make good windows etc?"

Children love gluing and having the *bumpy* nature of pasta on their picture. Why not find some other pictures to stick pasta onto or you could cut out a shape like a butterfly, a flower or a car.

Other things that are fun to stick are lentils (red or green), split peas (yellow) or rice. Rice can also be coloured by adding a tiny bit of food colouring to it.

Go on let your child have fun expresssing themselves without you doing it for them!

NEWS
Half term is the 31st May so there will be no Sunbeams that day.

Becky will be taking her maternity leave from the Sunbeams Team from after half term. This means there will be one less person to help set up and clear away. If you can help even just once or twice please let me know as it is SO much easier if there are more people. We generally start setting up at 9:30.

Thursday 7th May is our trip to Finkley Down Farm (we will not meet this week at the Leisure Centre) If you bring the money on the 24th June (this week) I can get a group discount and we will also buy a bag of food for each child in the group. Adults are £5.50 Children 2-14 are £4.50. (non group rates are Adult £6 and children 2-14 £5) Feel free to invite other members of your family as well and we can include them in the group booking too.

We will be meeting at 10:15 am at Finkley Down Farm. We have to go in as a whole group so if you are going to be late please text me. I will give out contact details this week.
Hopefully it will be really nice weather like last year because we all had a lovely time.

Apologies...

to all those people who have been logging in and finding no new updates!! I have struggled to find time to get the blogging done over the last few weeks due to family staying and then recovering from family staying. Also the camera is not down loading my photos which is frustrating as I love posting the photos of you all ...and I have loads of good ones!

lets fly away...

How many of you are planning a holiday? Well we thought we would get in on the idea and plan all our craft activities around the theme of 'travel'. We hope you enjoy this term.

It was so busy on Thursday which was lovely! There were four new faces this week, so if you have been coming awhile, look out for the new people and make them feel welcome. (thank you for all those who did do this!) This is a wonderful characteristic of our group and I am so grateful for your contribution to it.

if you did miss out this week we were making these fantastic planes....all you need is a VERY long straw. (These straws are so much fun!! I got them from 'Snip' in Fleet, a bargain at £1 for the whole packet. There are so many things you could do with them.

Ok what else, string and an aeroplane template from DLTK. I copied and pasted and made it slightly larger and printed it on paper. Allow the children to decorate it and tie the string to the plane and the other end to the straw. If you can't find a straw then use what I was going to use...a garden cane.

The children will LOVE whizzing this around... other alternatives are butterflies, birds, rockets, fairies, any thing with wings. Go on have some... fun get creating...it is a nice easy and clean activity!!!

By the way our little blog here caught the eye of someone on California and they were so impressed that they gave us an honorary mention on their blog called 'Gatherings'!!!

welcome back!!!

Hope you all had a lovely Easter holiday...lots of chocolate!!!

This term our theme is 'Travel'. So if you have any good stories or songs about cars, planes, diggers, trains etc... please let us know!

For your diary...Yateley Community Pre-school is holding an excellent 'Nearly New' sale this Saturday (21st April) 10-12.

twinkle twinkle little star...

Hope you enjoyed today. Did you get a chance to do the craft? Don't worry because if you didn't here is how we made it.

We bought some star tags or you could cut out your own. Put lots of glue on them and decorated them with glitter. Then we stuck a lolly stick on the back.

If you want to sing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' I have put a link with Cbeebies website (for those who don't know about it) so you can sing along!!

A big thank you to Bev and Vanessa for doing the tea and coffee today. You did a great job. Both ladies are from the Beacon Church in Camberley which runs this toddler group. If you want to find out more then click on the link.

Book review ...

A new Maisy book. I love these stories because they are so bright and colourful. Why not have a peak here. I found it on mumsnet.com also worth looking at! Lots of parenting advice and chatrooms for parents and carers.

Sorry for lack of posts!!

I do apologise for the lack of posts in March. Both myself and Becky have been suffering with flu which seems to be taking ages to go away!! Hopefully we will be back to normal now.

this is what we did last week. Carolyn did this fantastic nursery rhyme bus...if you missed it it is very easy and the children love it.