Nursery Newsletter 25.01.16

Term:  Spring 1                          Date 25.01.16

The children had a wonderful time at the Circus Skills Workshop last week, photos have been put on our Early Years Page please take a look at them and like them.   We will continue with our animal topic and this week we will start to look at farm animals.   We will be reading and singing ‘Old McDonald’ and ‘Five little ducks’.

We will continue with the teaching of phonics, we will teach ‘d’ next.  The children have picked up the phonics really well and are enjoying all of the phonics related games.

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
• Developing understanding of simple concepts (e.g. big/little).
• Beginning to ask simple 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

• Recites some number names in sequence.
• Creates and experiments with symbols and marks representing ideas of number.
• Begins to use the language of size.

 Understanding of the World

• Explores objects by linking together different approaches: shaking, hitting, looking, feeling, tasting, mouthing, pulling, turning and poking
• Learns that they have similarities and differences that connect them to, and distinguish them from, others.
• Enjoys playing with small world models, such as farms.

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               Piece of music          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.

 

Please ensure your child is dressed suitable for the cold weather,   Also please ensure all removable items are named, if the children remove their jumper  and it is not named it is very difficult to return it to them.

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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

 

Old Macdonald had a farm

E I E I O
And on that farm he had cow
E I E I O
With a Moo Moo here and a Moo moo there
Here a Moo there a Moo
Everywhere a Moo Moo
Old Mcdonald had a farm E I E O U

Repeat with Pig, Sheep, Horse, Hen

 

5 Little Ducks went swimming one day

Over the hills and far away
Mother Duck said Quack Quack Quack
 and only 4 little ducks came back
Repeat with 4,3,2 and 1