Activites - Cobham Community Pre-school

Music	to encourage creativity, rhythm, imagination, and to introduce music and instruments from different cultures. Listening to CDs i.e. 'the boat song' everyone gets on 'the boat' which stops at lots of islands - the land of giants, fairies, bouncy balls, monsters, clowns and lots more.
Singing and action nursery rhymes	to gain self confidence and help with language.
Computer time	this helps with hand eye co-ordination, listening skills.
Circle time	learning to take turns, listening to others, re-telling expriences outside of the pre-school.
Story time	introducing the children to non-fiction and fiction, learning to listen.
Parachute canopy	using gross motor skills, waving the parachute up and down, bouncing balls on it, running under and sitting underneath.
Role play	our newly refurbished indoor playhouse encourages creativitiy and helps to bring in the outside world to the pre-school by setting up 'the doctor's surgery, hospital, hairdressers, vets, school.
Team games	for example skittles helps with behaviour and self-control, counting, and hand eye control.
Craft activities	enables the children to use various mediums and textures, to choose for themselves and develop their own imaginations.
Construction toys	these include duplo, stickle bricks, workshop, popiods, coloured bricks and many more.
Outside play	our garden is being extensively refurbished this will include a larger soft play area, new large playhouse, seating, raised planters for vegetables and flowers, wooden play equipment. This will be surrounded by a new secure fence. This will enable the children to use their gross motor skills to the full i.e. running, climbing, pedalling, scooting, balancing.
Water play	helps understand quantities and movement such as using the waterwheel; washing dolls, blowing bubbles.
Dry and wet sand	using fine and gross motor skills - pouring, making patterns, imaginative play.
Adult led activities	these include yoga, cooking. It also includes lotto games and board games - these helps with counting, colours, taking turns, learning to lose or win.

cooking	craft	construction toys
outside	computer time	yoga
singing and action	role play	parachute games
team games	dry and wet sand	visitors

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