Monday 23 March 2015

Weekly Nursery Newsletter 23.03.15

Term: Spring 2 Date: 23.03.15

Our story of the week is ‘Pig in the Pond’. We are coming to the end of our Amazing Animal Topic. Our new topic is people who help us. This week we will be talking about the names of baby animals and the significance of Easter and New life.

Our songs of the week will be ‘Hot Cross Buns” and ‘This little piggy’.

We will continue with the phonics, we are spending the week revisiting the sounds we have already covered.

Personal, Social and Emotional
● Responds to the feelings and wishes of others.
● Remembers where objects belong.
● Expresses own preferences and interests.

Communication and Language
● Uses a variety of questions
● Understands use of objects
● Beginning to use more complex sentences to link thoughts

Literacy
● Understands that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects.
● Shows awareness of rhyme and alliteration.
● Has some favourite stories, rhymes, songs, poems or jingles.

Physical Development
● Uses one-handed tools and equipment, e.g. makes snips in paper with child scissors
● Turns pages in a book, sometimes several at once.
● Runs safely on whole foot

Mathematics
● Recites numbers in order to 10.
● Sometimes matches numeral and quantity correctly.
● Knows that a group of things changes in quantity when something is added or taken away.

Understanding of the World
● Has a sense of own immediate family and relations.
● Learns that they have similarities and differences that connect them to, and distinguish them from, others.
● Shows interest in the lives of people who are familiar to them.
 
Expressive Arts and Design
● Beginning to be interested in and describe the texture of things
● Explores colour and how colours can be changed.
● Creates sounds by banging, shaking, tapping or blowing.

Nursery Learning Challenge Spring 2Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning, this is in line with the rest of the school. We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how their children's learning can be extended at home.

The learning challenge will include either a nursery rhyme, illustration or a piece of music. Please talk to your child about the challenge and help them to engage in their learning. The children can choose how they present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class however the table below details some ideas for the learning challenge.

Poem/Song to learn: Grey Squirrel
Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel!
(bounce up and down on the words)
Swish your bushy tail!
(shake it)
Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel!
Swish your bushy tail!
Put an nut between your toes
(touch your toes)
Wrinkle up your little nose!
(poke your nose)
Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel!
Swish your bushy tail!

Piece of music: Camille Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals

Person: Pet/animal of choice

Nursery Rhyme
Piece of music
Person
1.    Learn it off by heart
2.    Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme
3.    Find out about squirrels
1. Listen to the piece of music
2. Create some movements to the music
3. Draw an illustration to represent their feelings
1. Draw a portrait of the pet/animal of choice
2. Find out about the animal
3. Find and read a story with the chosen animal in

Messages
We will be making chocolate nests and Easter cards this week.
We would just like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your kind words and support for Mrs Chisholm during her sad time.

The Nursery Team

Hot cross buns!
Hot cross buns!
one a penny, two a penny,
Hot cross buns!

This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed home,
This little piggy had roast beef,
This little piggy had none,
And this little piggy cried wee wee wee all the way home






























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