Welcome back – hopefully everyone had a lovely mid-term break and are all energised, as it’s all go this week in The Children’s House!! We will be resuming our group project on the timeline of the eras, so after learning all about the Big Bang, this week we will be unrolling our timeline and learning about the Azoic Era, when earth was newly formed and no life existed; the children will be making pictures to represent the era. Following that, during the week we will be making volcanoes and carrying out an experiment using baking soda, vinegar and red food colouring to simulate the volcano exploding!

As well as this, we will be having Pet Visit Day on Friday- this is a VERY exciting day, where children are invited to bring their pets into school – under their parents’ supervision! We have previously had all sorts of animal visitors, from dogs to hens to lambs to lizards…!!! The children who don’t have a pet visiting can bring in their favourite animal teddy, and at circle time each child can tell us about their pet or teddy. This is a really wonderful day, and everyone gets such enjoyment out of it, so we’re really looking forward to it!

Monsieur Pouce (Fingerplay)

Toc toc toc, Monsieur Pouce, es-tu la?          Knock knock knock, Mr Thumb, are you there?
Sshhh, je dors!                                                    Sshhh, I’m sleeping!
Toc toc toc, Monsieur Pouce, es-tu la?          Knock knock knock, Mr Thumb, are you there?
Sshhh, je mange!                                                Sshhh, I’m eating!
Toc toc toc, Monsieur Pouce, es-tu la?          Knock knock knock, Mr Thumb, are you there?
Sshhh, je bois!                                                    Sshhh, I’m drinking!
Toc toc toc, Monsieur Pouce, es-tu la?          Knock knock knock, Mr Thumb, are you there?
Oui, je sors! Bonjour tout le monde!!             Yes, I’m coming! Hello everyone!!