Weekly Nursery Newsletter 08.06.15

Term:  Summer 1                          Date 08.06.15

 

The children have enjoyed exploring the Ice Cream Parlour and small worlds.

 

We will be reading many texts this  week including  ‘The Rainbow Fish’.  Our songs of the week will be ‘There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden’ and ‘1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive’. We will also continue to learn our phonics, we are now learning ‘h’. 

 

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Welcomes and values praise for what they have done
• Enjoys responsibility of carrying out small tasks
• Demonstrates friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults. 

Communication and Language

• Listens to others one to one or in small groups, when conversation interests them.
• 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).

Literacy

• Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured.
• Shows awareness of rhyme and alliteration.
• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.

 

Mathematics

• Shows an interest in shape and space by playing with shapes or making arrangements with objects.
• Shows interest in shapes in the environment.
• Uses some number names and number language spontaneously.
  

Physical Development

• Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no longer using whole-hand grasp.
• Develops likes and dislikes for food.
• Willing to try new food.
  

Understanding of the World

• Shows interest in the lives of people who are familiar to them
• 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.

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

Thank you to all of you who have paid your £1 snack donation.  We appreciate your support.

There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden

There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden,

And his name is wiggly Woo.

There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden

And all that he can do

Is wiggle all day and wiggle all night

The neighbours say what a terrible fright!

There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden,

And his name is Wiggly,

Wig, Wig, Wiggly

Wig, Wig, Wiggly, Woo!

Five little ice cream
Cones standing in a row, each has a scoop and an ice cream cone, out came the sun and it shown all day,

One little ice cream cone melted away... and so on with 4-3-2-1

 

Thank you.

The Nursery Team