Nursery Newsletter 14.03.16

Term:  Spring 2                          Date 14.03.16

 It was great to have a visit from PC Hopkins last week; we hope you had a chance to look at the photos.  This week we are looking forward to a visit from a paramedic, we will keep you posted.  We will be reading ‘The Doctor’ and singing ‘Doctor Foster’ and ‘Miss Polly had a dolly’.

 We will continue with the teaching of phonics, we will teach ‘o’ 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.  However we love to see the way the children are using the role play areas and small worlds.  The benefits of these areas are endless.  These areas give the children an opportunity to use their imagination, and opportunities to figure out how the world works and then create their own worlds.  Pretend play also allows them to take on different roles, get creative and express themselves.

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Shows confidence in asking adults for help
• Expresses own preferences and interests.
• Plays alongside others. 

Communication and Language

• Responds to simple instructions, e.g. to get or put away an object.
• Uses positional language.
• Focusing attention - still listen or do, but can shift own attention.

Literacy

• Suggests how the story might end.
• Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint.
• Imitates drawing simple shapes such as circles and lines.

Physical Development:

• Moves freely and with pleasure and confidence in a range of ways, such as slithering, shuffling, rolling, crawling, walking, running, jumping, skipping, sliding and hopping.
• Mounts stairs, steps or climbing equipment using alternate feet. 
• Can usually manage washing and drying hands.

Mathematics

• Shows understanding of prepositions such as 'under', 'on top', 'behind' by carrying out an action or selecting correct picture.
• Anticipates specific time-based events such as mealtimes or home time.
• Understands some talk about immediate past and future, e.g. 'before', 'later' or 'soon'.
• Creates and experiments with symbols and marks representing ideas of number.

Understanding of the World

• Remembers and talks about significant events in their own experience.
• 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

• Sings a few familiar songs.
• Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint.
• Notices and is interested in the effects of making movements which leave marks.

Nursery Learning Challenge Spring 2

 Nursery Rhyme: 5 Little Firemen

Painting: A picture by the illustrator Ahlberg

Person:  Postman Pat

 

                                                         Nursery Rhyme               Piece of music          Person         

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

 

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Thank you for your continued support.

 

Doctor Foster
Went to Gloucester
In a shower of rain.
He stepped in a puddle
Right up to his middle
And never went there again!

 

Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick, sick, sick.
 So she phoned for the doctor to be quick, quick, quick.
 The doctor came with his bag and his hat
 And he knocked at the door with a rat-a-tat-tat.
 He looked at the dolly and he shook his head
 And he said “Miss Polly, put her straight to bed!”
 He wrote on a paper for a pill, pill, pill
 “I’ll be back in the morning yes I will, will, will.”