Nursery Newsletter 01.02.16

Term:  Spring 1                          Date 01.02.16

 The children have had great fun exploring farm animals, they have been talking about the names of baby animals, please continue to talk to your child about this at home.  We still have so many animal genres to cover, with so little time!  The children made home-made chips this week and some of them were amazed to discover that the chips actually came from potatoes on a farm, I must say they were delicious! Photos were on our Facebook page and blog.

We will continue with farm animals this week.   We will be reading ‘Hungry Hen’ and singing ‘The Farmers in the den’ and ‘This little Piggy went to Market’.

We will continue with the teaching of phonics, we will teach ‘T’ next.  As always we are playing all kinds of phonological awareness games, to promote the teaching of phonics in an appropriate way for children of this young age.  There are opportunities for the children to write their letters, and we guide the children to the correct pencil grip and formation, however at this young age it is not good practise to write with the children if they are not ready to.

 Personal, Social and Emotional

• Plays alongside others.
• Is aware of others' feelings, for example, looks concerned if hears crying or looks excited if hears a familiar happy voice.

 
Communication and Language

• Shows interest in play with sounds, songs and rhymes.
• Joins in with singing favourite songs.
• Developing understanding of simple concepts (e.g. big/little).

Literacy

• Imitates drawing simple shapes such as circles and lines.
• 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:

• Runs safely on whole foot.
• Squats with steadiness to rest or play with object on the ground, and rises to feet without using hands.

 Mathematics

• Begins to make comparisons between quantities.
• Recites some number names in sequence.
• Creates and experiments with symbols and marks representing ideas of number.

Understanding of the World

• Notices detailed features of objects in their environment.
• Explores objects by linking together different approaches: shaking, hitting, looking, feeling, tasting, mouthing, pulling, turning and poking

Expressive Arts and Design

• Notices and is interested in the effects of making movements which leave marks.
• Begins to move to music, listen to or join in rhymes or songs.
• Joins in singing favourite songs.
• Notices and is interested in the effects of making movements which leave marks.

 Nursery Learning Challenge Spring 1

Poem/Song to learn: 5 Little Speckled Frogs

Five little speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious grubs - yum, yum
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Now there are four green speckled frogs - glub, glub.
(Repeat down to 0)

 
Painting: Illustrations by Rod Campbell

Person:  Traditional tale character

                                                     Nursery Rhyme               Illustrations          Person         

Basic	Learn it off by heart	To find out 2 facts about the illustrator	Read a story with the traditional tale character in
Advanced	Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme	To draw a picture in a similar style	Draw a portrait of the traditional tale character
Deep	Find out about frogs	Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator	Find out facts about the traditional tale character

 

Messages.

Thank you to all of the parents who have sent in photos so we can talk to your children about what they do in the free time, if you would like to email in any photos please do to the address below.

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Thank you for your continued support.

 

The farmer's in his den,

The farmer's in his den,

E -AH – A – DE- OH

The farmer's in his den.

 (with one child in the centre of a circle)

The farmer wants a wife,

The farmer wants a wife,

E -AH – A – DE- OH

The farmer wants a wife.

 Repeat with child, nurse and dog

  

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 went wee wee wee all the way home