Nursery Newsletter 18.01.16

Term:  Spring 1                          Date 18.01.16

 

We had a busy week last week, what with the author visit, making cookies, creating dinosaur shape pictures and completing our junk modelling animals.  We will continue with the exploration of dinosaurs.   Our songs of the week will be ‘Alice the camel’ and ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’.

We will continue with the teaching of phonics, we will teach ‘s’ next.  We will also continue with all of our literacy games which include rhyming and alliteration activities, along with our shape and number activities.

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.
• Responds to the feelings and wishes of others.

Communication and Language

• Developing understanding of simple concepts (e.g. big/little).
• Beginning to ask simple questions.
• Beginning to understand 'why' and 'how' questions.

 

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:

• Drinks well without spilling.
• Can kick a large ball.
• Develops likes and dislikes for food.

Mathematics

• Begins to use the language of size.
• Notices simple shapes and patterns in pictures.
• Selects a small number of objects from a group when asked, for example, 'please give me one', 'please give me two'.

Understanding of the World

• Operates mechanical toys, e.g. turns the knob on a wind-up toy or pulls back on a friction car.
• Enjoys playing with small world models, such as farms.
• Seeks to acquire basic skills in turning on and operating some ICT equipment

 

Expressive Arts and Design

• 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	Painting	Painter
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.

Please ensure your child is dressed suitable for the cold weather, Also Riley in the afternoon, has lost his grey striped hat.  We have a very similar one left in the Nursery, so if your child has taken it home in error we would appreciate its safe return. Please name scarves, gloves and hats where possible.

We have received some of your photos from the Christmas Holidays, if you haven’t already done so please bring in or  email us a couple of photographs for your child to share and talk about.

We regularly update our EYFS blog. Please ‘ like’ our Broadford Primary Facebook page every time you see an EYFS blog. Feel free to make a comment on the children’s experiences.

If you wish to contact a member of the EYFS staff please email them at eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Thank you for your continued support.

The Nursery Team

 

Alice the Camel

Alice the camel has 5 humps, 5 humps, 5 humps

Aliice the camel has 5 humps

So go Alice go

Boom boom boom

Repeat with repeat 4,3,2,1,0

Because Alice is a horse

 

Hickory Dickory Dock

The mouse ran up the clock

The clock struck 1

The mouse ran down

Hickory Dickory Dock

Tick tock tick tock