Week beginning 8th September 2025
Starting our year together
We have loved welcoming everyone back to the playhouse following the summer break. Our term started with our new starters induction morning, meeting all of our new children and their families whilst enjoying lots of play together and learning all about what they like to get up to. The next day we opened the doors to everyone and the fun, learning and exploration began in earnest. As we got to know each other and friendships were rekindled and established we explored the all about me theme. We are all unique and enjoy different things and our families are diverse, so we spent time thinking about who makes up our families, the different housing we live in, the things we enjoy and also what makes us who we are. As usual there was lots of fun activities for everyone to explore. We had a fantastic week together and are all looking forward to lots more fun and exploration next week Our books of the week were For the Rising fives • Elephant me • Owl babies For the 2-3 year old • Goat goes to playgroup • Owl babies
Week beginning 15th September 2025
Emotions and Golden Rules
In our second week together we spent time thinking about emotions and our Playgroup Golden Rules. It’s so important that our children can talk about how they feel and also label their emotions and recognise the emotions of others. We also think it’s important that everyone feels happy, confident and respected so we have some golden rules that we all support each other to follow. Playgroups golden rules are • We are kind • We are helpful • We listen • We are good friends • We look after the toys To help us think and learn about these things we explored Emotions with the help of the colour monsters linking colours to the different emotions and thinking about how we might feel and what we might do if we are feeling certain emotions. Our daily planning also featured one of our golden rules each day so we made friendship bracelets and hanging love heart decorations to give to someone We created kindness potions and used our listening ears to play sound bingo. We even thought about what emotions the playgroup dinosaurs might have in our dino exploration tray…… And I can tell you there were lots of grumpy, angry T Rex’s stomping about! Our stories of the week were For the rising fives: The colour monsters and Giraffes Can't Dance For the 2-3 year olds: Little Monkey Calms Down Mr Panda's Feelings
Last week we created lots of things for our Owl Babies display board and it was finally dry so we were able to finally finish our Owl Babies board this week
