Nursery Newsletter 06.05.13

Term:  Summer 1                          Date 06.05.13

We had a lovely week last week, with the ‘Stay and Play sessions’ proving to be a great success.  We were also privileged to a have a visit from the Mayor who officially opened the EYFS building and garden.

We will be starting a new topic this week, ‘Oh what a character’.  This week our focus is ‘Fireman Sam’.  We will be reading various stories about him and looking into how real Fire stations work.

The morning children will be getting a visit from the Fire Brigade on Thursday at 10.30am, the afternoon children will be seeing them in a few weeks’ time, details to follow.

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Confident to talk to other children when playing and will communicate freely about home and community.
• Keeps play going responding to what others are saying and doing.
• Can usually tolerate a delay when needs are not immediately met, and understands wishes may not always be met.

Communication and Language                                                    

• Uses talk in pretending that objects stands for something else in play e.g. this box is my castle
• Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall.
• Shows understanding of prepositions such as under, on top, behind by carrying out an action or selecting a correct picture.

Physical Development:

• Can tell adults when they are tired or hungry, when they want to rest or play
• Hold pencils with thumb and two fingers no longer using whole hand grasp
• Understands that equipment and tools have to be used safely.

Mathematics

• Compares two groups of objects, saying when they have the same number
• Consolidating place value.
• Shows interest in a number problem

Understanding of the World

• Shows interests in different occupations and ways of life
• Shows care and concern for living things and the environment.
• Shows an interest in technological toys with knobs or pulleys, or real objects such as sound movements or new image

Expressive Arts and Design

• Uses various construction materials.
• Uses available resources to create props to support role play.

Literacy

• Taking part in letters and sounds.
• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events.
• Uses talk in pretending that objects stand for something else in play.

Messages.

Please take the time to have a look in our lost property box.  We have a large number of unnamed items.

Also please make sure you put sun cream on your children before they come to Nursery, if it is very hot they will also need a hat with their name in.

Thank you for your continued support.