Andreamay

if you send me a private message with your email will send you what i have

oh bless

thanks inge it will be very useful im sure

let the children take a photograph with a digi camera at different stages aswell as drawing we also put ours in a cupboard to see what happened and took photos we made a concentina book

happy Birtday Sue

yes peggy i am just the same however very often my birthday falls in the whit hol

we go on an easter egg hunt

let the children decorate 10 largiish cardboard eggs and number them 1-10 then we have a check list and have to find the 1st number then the 2nd inorder and ofcourse number 10 is a basket of choc eggs behind it!

you could shorten it to 5 depending on where your children are at

where can we find the words to joh browns baby then please?

I have looked again and it is from literacy matters so im sure you will of had it(speech bubbles for the story)

becky ann - I have found something I had saved will work out how to attach it unless you want to send me your email

andrea

oh yes nocturnal animals is a good one

also sense of time

i havent any plans as they are kept at school sorry

it is a lovely topic to do Do you know why she has changed it at such short notice?We would only change or extend a topic if the children had iniated it!

Never mind chin up we have done the following

sounds in the day/night (theres a lovely story about mr bear who cant sleep cos of the noise cant remeber it at mo)

peoples different jobs day/night

sun/moon (whatever next or catch me the moon daddy)

space/stars

routines day/night

bedtime stories etc

dark/light

tents/torches

growing cress experimenting putting it in a cupboard and in the light

will keep thinking for you

Andrea

well done !keep it up!

oh yes sue ofcourse the star apple wonderful story!no i havent seen it can i access it from the web?Also the one about the painting of the monkeys mummy love it

I went to a storytelling session run by her nd I was hooked from them on Mrs Wiggle is mine and the childrens favourite whats yours Sue?

hi Emma,

the story is from the mary medlicot booklet unfortunatly it is at school but know it well so will tell you

are you sitting comfortably?

There was once two frogs named Sun Frog and Moon Frog and they lived by a pool and they sat on lilly pods all day

Jumping (move elbows up and down)

Blinking (blink your eyes)

licking (stick tongue out to catch flies)

ribbiting(sorry cant remeber last one but the children do this anyhow)somebody might know it and tell you

Encourage all the childrento join in with you

One day it started to rain (patting on the knees gently)

then it got heavier (pat a little louder)

and heavier (louder)

When suddennly a beautiful bird with a tail of beautiful colours flew down called the Tikka-tikka bird(cross your wrists and wriggle your fingers when you introduce the tikka tikka bird and whisper tikka tikka tikka tikka

she told them she had come to warn them that the rain would not stop and there would be a flood they must follow her and she would show them to asafe place

but they were very rude and wouldnt listen to her and told her to go awayand they continued to sit there

jumping blinking licking and ribbiting(do the sounds and actions)

so she flew away(tikka tikka dont forget hand movements)

but the rain came down even harder (lots of loud patting)

and the floods came up the frogs were so scared they climbed a tree and the floods came higher and higher the follish frogs were very scared by now

when suddenly they saw the tikka tikka bird(tikka tikka)coming back

she told them to climb on her back and she would take them to a safe place to live so that is waht they did and she flew away (tikka tikka) and put them gentlydown in a safe place where they lived from that day

jumping blinking licking and ribbiting

they said thank you to the tikka tikka bird(tikka tikka)as she flew away and told her they would miss her she told them that whenever they saw the sun and the rain to look into the sky and they would see her tail of beautiful coloured feathers!(a rainbow ofcourse)

you can add anything you want elabourate on the sounds i usally have 2 plastic frogs to start the story to get their attention and we do use drums and rainsticks for sound efect sometimes you will have to have a clear sign to ask them to stop tho!!!

hope it is of any good i think the other is flicking actually flick with your fingers but I say ribbiting aswell cos the children love going ribbit ribbit

dont worry telling it word for word write it out in pointers and as long as you get the dirft of the story it will be fine

I know the sunfrog moon frog story that i tell to my pre-schoolers I dont know how you can get writing out of it but it involves lots of wonderful interaction with the children using lots of different vocab and sounds if its of any help

that wasone of my many jobs this half term to add the outcomes to my 14 nat standards for our op dont know wether to bother now then!

good luck soon be over

hi Sue,

there is no reason why you cannot specify age on a session we have 5 sessions just for our children in the last year before school and 5 for younger children but the older children do also attend these sessions.

If you are committee run obviusly pass it with them have it stated clearly in your prospectus/policy doc and be ready with a clear valid reason when asked by parents why.

We are able to do so much more with our 3-4yr olds on the older sessions,building up their concentration,sitting etc linking with reception as well which our 2.5 yr olds would not beable to do.

We may have to do more mixed sessions in the future to tip the balance of children but we will keep some sessions just for older children.

ofcourse it depends on your numbers wether this will wok.

nobody deserves to be smacked Rea(unless your into that sort of thing ofcourse!)

you deserve a pat on the back for admitting you were wrong

for staying to lunch you will have to be full day care and ofsted will have to reinspect to see if you meet the requirements it will also put app £1oo pound on your annual bill ad you will have to let your insurance company know.

If you are thinking of just providing 2 extra sessions but not the same children you only have to be closed 10-15 mins before you can open again which you could do with new staff in the afternoon perhaps and then reopen 12 til 2.45 giving your staff time to tidy up obviously the children wil have to have had an early lunch

our boys seem to be really invovoed in role paly at the mo it is all about weddings but cinderella and princesses

what did you paint the pans with and what are the long instruments made from? thanks looks great fun

GOOD LUCK in your new job princess lu

Hiya the course was actually about speech and language but they brought the sheep method in when refering to BTTM!

I do our operational plan as you do Allison.

Basically working thruogh the standards showing how we meet each one I will alos be grouping them to the new outcomes this holiday!!