16th

December

2016

Hello from Playtime Shepperton! We hope you’ve all had a great week and are looking forward to

the festive week ahead!

Shepperton

Little Gems & Mini Tots

This week Mini Tots have been

decorating salt dough

decorations for our Christmas

trees at home. Little Gems have

been making Christmas Reindeer

handprints and sticking

snowmen.

On Monday we had our

Christmas party, we played pass

the parcel and Santa came to

visit, everyone received a special

gift. We had lots of fun dancing

and eating yummy party food!

Today we are decorating

Christmas Jumpers for Christmas

Jumper day.

Little Boppers

This week in Little Boppers we have been:

Monday - we have been learning the letter “Z” and what

animal starts with this letter of the alphabet. Also, we have

making Christmas playdough.

Tuesday - we have been painting Love Hearts with stamps and

also producing yellow Christmas stars with our hands.

Wednesday - we decorated Santa heads with Black and Red

felt paper with cotton wool balls.

Thursday - we have been dinosaur painting with stamps, also

producing Christmas balls for trees using glitter and glue.

Friday - we have painted Reindeers with our feet.

Every day all our Little Boppers and Pre-Schoolers have been

practicing their Christmas songs and also talking to all the

children about what they would like for Christmas.

Pre – School

On Monday we worked in teams to see who could make the biggest tower with our lego blocks. This

helped to develop our social-making relationship skills. We then practiced all of our Christmas songs.

On Tuesday we used our letter moulds and sand to spell words and recognise our letters of the

alphabet.

On Wednesday we practiced our Christmas songs again in preparation for Friday. We also coloured in

pictures of Santa Claus.

On Thursday we did some name writing to work on our find motor movements and letter

recognition.

Friday, Show Day! We spent the morning practicing so we are ready for when the parent’s arrive.

Joining us in 2017 are:

Sherelle as Room Leader of Pre-School

Charlene as a Level 3 Practitioner

Kayleigh as a Level 3 Practitioner

French Lessons 2017

The projected dates for the 2017 French Lessons are:

Spring Term

11th January 2017 to 29th March 2017 (11 Weeks)

Half Term 15th February 2017 – No Lesson

Summer Term

26th April 2017 to 28th June 2017 (9 Weeks)

Half Term 31st May 2017 – No Lesson

French Lessons are held on a Wednesday.

Wednesday 14th December was the Shepperton

big tree night. Playtime Shepperton went along

with Nelly and saw lots a familiar faces! Thanks

to all those who came…what a brilliant night!

January 2017

3rd Re-Open – Normal Hours

11th French Lesson (Projected date)

December 2016

23rd End Of Term – Closing at 6.00pm

We would like to wish all our Playtime Shepperton families a very Merry Christmas and a

fantastic New Year!

Without you Playtime Shepperton wouldn’t be what it is and we thank you for all your

support in 2016!

Here’s to 2017!

Click, Click….

Christmas Tree

We are sure you have all seen and admired

Playtime Shepperton’s beautiful Christmas

Tree in the foyer.

This year’s tree was donated to us by

Longacres Garden Centre Shepperton.

If you haven’t got your tree yet or need some

more decorations take a trip to Longacres

Garden Centre Shepperton, Nutty Lane,

Shepperton TW17 0RQ.

Flowerpot snowmen are super easy to make!

All you need is:

1 x Small Flowerpot

1 x Small Glove (Stripy, spotty, patterned)

Ribbon

Paint (White, Black, Orange & Pink)

And then follow these 3 steps:

First: Paint your flower pot white, set it aside to dry

Second: Paint your snowman’s face, use black for the eyes and mouth,

orange for the nose and pink for his cheeks. Leave it aside to dry.

Third: Add your glove to the top, this creates his hat, tie some ribbon

around it to make a ‘bobble’. Take another piece of ribbon and tie it around

the base of your flowerpot, this is your snowman’s scarf.

Now you can put your finished snowman on your doorstep, windowsill or

anywhere else you’d like to display him. Why not make some more

snowmen with different size flowerpots and create a ‘Snow Family’!

Flowerpot

Snowman

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Candy Cane

Reindeer

At Christmas you might see some peoples Christmas Trees have Candy Cane’s

hanging from the branches. Well, why not make some special Reindeer Candy

Cane’s for your tree, not only are the different but they are little works of art

made by you!

You will need:

2 x Candy Canes

1 x Red Pom Pom

2 x Googly Eyes

Brown Wool (or ribbon)

Double Sided Tape

First: Take your Candy Canes and hold them back to back (so the long edges

are together)

Second: Wrap you wool or ribbon around both Candy Canes just under the

‘hook’, this is creating you reindeer so you can make him/her as big or small as

you like. Once done, secure the wool/ribbon with a little piece of tape.

Third: Stick your googly eyes and pom pom nose to your reindeer.

Now go and hang them on your tree for everyone to see, or give them to your

friends as presents!