Nursery Newsletter 11.05.15

Term:  Summer 1                          Date 11.05.15

The children enjoyed VE day anniversary Celebrations on Friday, look out for the photos on our page of our street party.  Mrs Chisholm enjoyed telling the children about the War and rationing. 

We have another busy week ahead, the farm will be with us on Monday. We will be holding our stay and play sessions on Thursday, with a Mathematical focus.  The afternoon children also have a Fire Brigade visit on Friday afternoon. We will be reading many texts this week including the ‘Teacher’.  Our songs of the week will be ‘The Shape Song’ and ‘Five Little Aliens’.

We will also continue to learn our phonics, we are now learning ‘b’.  However we will continue with all of our literacy games which include rhyming and alliteration activities, along with our shape and number activities.

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Demonstrates friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults.
• Initiates play, offering cues to peers to join them.
• Keeps play going by responding to what others are saying or doing.

Communication and Language

• Can retell a simple past event in correct order (e.g. went downslide, hurt finger).
• Uses talk to connect ideas, explain what is happening and anticipate what might happen next, recall and relive past experiences.
• Builds up vocabulary that reflects the breadth of their experiences.

Literacy

• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.
• Shows interest in play with sounds, songs and rhymes.
• Repeats words or phrases from familiar stories.

Physical Development:

• Develops likes and dislikes for food.
• Willing to try new food.
• Shows control in holding and using jugs, hammers, books and mark making tools.

Mathematics

• Uses some number names and number language spontaneously.
• Uses some number names accurately in play.
• Recites numbers in order to 10

Understanding of the World

• Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects.
• Shows care and concern for living things and the environment.
• Comments and asks questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place where they live or the natural world.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Uses talk in pretending that objects stand for something else in play, e.g. 'This box is my castle.'

Nursery Learning Challenge Summer 1

Each 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: 5 Little fireman
Five little firemen standing in a row,
1 2 3 4 5 lets go.
Jump on the engine with a SHOUT,
As quick as a wink the fire is out.

Four little firemen standing in a row,
1 2 3 4 shhh lets go.
Jump on the engine with a Shout
As quick as a wink the fire is out.
(Repeat down to 0)

 Person: People who help us
 Painting: Janet Ahlberg (illustrator)

	Nursery Rhyme	Painting	Person
Basic	Learn it off by heart	To find out 2 facts about the illustrator	Read a story with the person in
Advanced	Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme	To draw a picture in a similar style	Draw a portrait of the person
Deep	Find out about fireman	Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator	Find out facts about the person

Messages.

We look forward to seeing you at the stay and play workshops on Thursday 14^th May:

AM: 10.30 am

PM:. 2.15 pm

The Shape Song

First there is a circle round as can be,

then there is a square 4 equal sides has he,

A triangle has three sides no matter what the lengths,

A rectangle has 2 long sides but short on each end.

Five little men in a flying saucer
Flew round the earth one day
They looked left and right
But they didn’t like the sight
So one man flew away.

Thank you for your continued support.

The Nursery Team