This week we took the opportunity to go and have a look at the roadworks outside pre-school. As I’m sure you’ll agree, Plymouth seems to be overrun by roadworks at the moment, so we thought we would try to make the best of it!
For our Christmas craft we made some salt dough decorations. Mixing the dough, rolling it out and cutting it to shape is good motor skill practise and also leads to lots of language as the children talk to us about what they are doing.
Mr David began to put up our decorations, which was very exciting!
We were very grateful to our grandparent volunteer this week, as she made some lovely cakes with the children. It’s so nice to welcome visitors and the children like meeting new people and talking about different things. Such activities really develop links to our families and the community.
This week we welcomed two therapists from the speech and language service who offered us some valuable training on recognising and addressing speech development issues. It was a really interesting session and we gained a lot from it. They have offered another visit next term, so we are in the process of arranging a date for this.
This week we updated our outings policy. A link to it is here:
OUTINGS AND LOST CHILDREN POLICIES
A small request now! We have found ourselves very short of socks (especially boys socks), so if you have any spare pairs at home, we would be very grateful for any donations. Thanks! 👍
Harry told me all about the workmen in the street and has been singing the nativity sings everyday. Just now in the car he was introducing the whole of the Christmas story (saying all the adult lines from your show as well!) Thank you for looking after him so well, it means a lot!
Maybe he can take Wendy’s part this year- I’m sure she wouldn’t mind! 😂 He’s a fantastic king though!
Love the fairy dress/baking apron combo!
😂 Always a good look- baking in style!
Megan’s cake smelt gorgeous and she was kind enough to let me have a bite. I may need to get the recipe off you! It was lovely. She was also very keen to see the decorations up. “It’s beginning to look a lot like…..”!
Glad you liked it! I shall ask for the recipe and try to blog it next week.😀
Hello everyone – Here is the cake recipe
Ingredients:
500g of Sultanas or Raisins
4oz Butter
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of Boiling water
1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
2 heaped tsp of Mixed Spice
2 Eggs
2 Cups of Self Raising Flour
Method:
1. Cover the raisins/sultanas with the cup of boiling water, mix in the sugar and bicarbonate of soda and leave it to cool.
2. Mix in the butter
3. Mix in the eggs
4. Mix in the mixed spice
5. Mix in the flour
Put in an overproof dish and into a preheated oven.
150 degrees for around an hour – But keep checking until it is cooked
Thanks for the recipe! They were lovely and they also made the preschool smell amazing. 😁