Nursery Newsletter 11.04.16

Term:  Summer 1                       Date 11.04.16

We hope you all managed to have a lovely break and thank you for all of your photos of your holiday activities.  Our new topic is Fun in the Sun, and the children have asked to look at Pirates.  Mrs Chisholm has been busy turning the role play corner into a Pirate haven; we look forward to developing language and social skills in there!

We will be reading Gilbert the Hero and singing 5 Little Fish and a Sailor went to Sea Sea Sea.

We have decided to spend the next few weeks recapping the phoneme which we have already covered, therefore this week we will be recapping s, a and m. 

Personal, Social and Emotional

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

Communication and Language

• Identifies action words by pointing to the right picture e.g. 'Who's jumping?'
• Uses talk to connect ideas, explain what is happening and anticipate what might happen next, recall and relive past experiences.
• Responds to simple instructions, e.g. to get or put away an object.

Literacy

• Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured.
• Knows information can be relayed in the form of print.
• Listens to and joins in with stories and poems, one-to-one and also in small groups. 

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

• Knows that a group of things changes in quantity when something is added or taken away.
• Selects a small number of objects from a group when asked, for example, 'please give me one', 'please give me two'.
• Shows understanding of prepositions such as 'under', 'on top', 'behind' by carrying out an action or selecting correct picture.

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

• Engages in imaginative role-play based on own first-hand experiences.
• Uses various construction materials.
• Enjoys joining in with dancing and ring games.

Nursery Learning Challenge Summer 1

 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

Painting: Axel Scheffler (illustrator)

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 Pirate/Princess in.
Advanced	Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme	To draw a picture in a similar style	Draw a portrait of a Pirate/Princess
Deep	Find out about boats	Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator	Find out facts about a Pirate/Princess

Messages.

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

When we return we will be collecting the termly, voluntary £1 snack money.  We will also have taken the pictures off the children’s register names; this will help the children identify their name without a picture prompt.

 Thank you for your continued support.

The Nursery Team

 

5 Little Fish Swimming in the Sea

Singing “Hey Mr Shark you can’t catch me!”
Along came Mr Shark, hungry for his tea,
And he snapped one fish up…Oh dear me!
Repeat with 4,3,2,1

A sailor went to sea sea sea
To See what he could see see see
And all that he could see sees see
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea sea sea