Weekly Nursery Newsletter 02.06.15

Term:  Summer 1                          Date 02.06.15

We hope you had a fantastic half term and we look forward to the final half term of fun and learning.

Our new topic will be commencing this half term ‘Fun in the Sun’.  The children have requested an Ice Cream Parlour, in the role play.  We have also created mini-beast  and ocean small worlds. 

We will be reading many texts this including the ‘Tiddler’.  Our songs of the week will be ‘We do like to be beside the seaside’ and ‘Ladybird Ladybird’. We will also continue to learn our phonics, we are now learning ‘l’. 

 Personal, Social and Emotional

• Enjoys responsibility of carrying out small tasks
• Demonstrates friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults.
• Initiates play, offering cues to peers to join them.

Communication and Language

• Uses a range of tenses (e.g. play, playing, will play, played).
• Beginning to use more complex sentences to link thoughts (e.g. using and, because).
• Uses a variety of questions (e.g. what, where, who)

Literacy

• Shows awareness of rhyme and alliteration.
• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.
• Shows interest in play with sounds, songs and rhymes.

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.

Understanding of the World

• Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time
• Knows how to operate simple equipment, e.g. turns on CD player and uses remote control.
• Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Imitates movement in response to music.
• Uses talk in pretending that objects stand for something else in play, e.g. 'This box is my castle.'
• Taps out simple repeated rhythms.

Nursery Learning Challenge Summer 2

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.

Person: A Pirate/Princes of own choice

Piece of music: Johann Strauss Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka
Poem/Song to learn: Row, row, row the boat.  

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.

 

	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 boats	Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator	Find out facts about the person

Messages

We will be collecting a £1 snack donation this term again, thank you to all of you who have donated in the past.

As part of your child’s transition to reception, we would appreciate it if you could encourage your child to walk through to the Early Years setting (as appose to being carried), we are aware that most of you do this already. 

Furthermore you will receive your child’s bag back (which they had their spare clothes in).  We have of course kept the spare clothes they are in a named carrier bag, but our space is very limited and the bags were becoming too bulky.

I do like to be beside the seaside

Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside
I do like to be beside the sea!
I do like to stroll along the Prom, Prom, Prom!
Where the brass bands play:
"Tiddely-om-pom-pom!"
So just let me be beside the seaside
I'll be beside myself with glee
And there's lots of girls beside,
I should like to be beside
Beside the seaside!

Ladybird, Ladybird
Ladybird, ladybird fly away home,

Your house is on fire and your children are gone,
All except one, And her name is Ann,
And she hid under the baking pan.de the sea!

Thank you for your continued support.

The Nursery Team