Dear Wilkins Friends and Families,
For some children this is their last holiday session in the
Wilkins class before they move up with Miss Gilbert and Mr Ty and for
others they have just began. The bigger children have been a great help by
welcoming our new friends and showing them around our class. We are going to
miss all of the beautiful faces moving to Cooper but they are all very excited
and ready to start their new level of learning.
This week we have been working on further developing the
children's fine and gross motor skills. We have enjoyed working on our fine
motor skills by cutting and pasting, making cupcakes and pizzas out
of playdoh and done some beautiful paintings. We explored an Epsom salt
experiment with water colours which made the paint crystalize as it dried. The
paintings look beautiful and is a fun activity to try at home!
Due to the wet weather we spent lots of time in the workshop which
enabled us to work on our gross motor skills so we changed up our
balancing and climbing obstacles. The children helped each other balance and
tried very hard to push themselves. Gross motor skills are important to enable
children to perform every day functions, such as walking, running, skipping, as
well as playground skills (e.g. climbing) and sporting skills (e.g. catching,
throwing and hitting a ball with a bat). These are crucial for everyday self
care skills like dressing (where you need to be able to stand on one leg to put
your leg into a pant leg without falling over).
We hope you all have wonderful weekends, please check the
programme for upcoming events during our holidays. We have a pajama day coming
up and a police car visit in week 3!
Teddy Bears Picnic- Monday 11th July
Bring your favourite teddy bear to school for a picnic
(please make sure they're labelled)
Friday 22nd July- Pyjama day
(gold coin donation)
From Mrs Jess Miss Kim, Mrs Nicole, Miss Georgia and Miss Jen
