Nursery Newsletter 22.04.13

Term:  Summer 1                          Date 22.04.13

We are all well rested and ready to learn in the Nursery after the Easter Break.  The children have had a fantastic time using our new outdoor area and we are in the process of arranging a Parent and Carer stay and play session to give all of you the opportunity to try out our wonderful new equipment.

We will continue our Jungle theme this week, as the children have expressed an interest in continuing to do so.  Our stories for the week are ‘Walking through the Jungle’ and ‘Rumble in the Jungle’. We will also continue to explore various related non-fiction texts.

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Demonstrates friendly behavior and forms good relationships with peers and familiar adults.
• Keeps play going responding to what others are saying and doing.
• Begins to accept the needs of others and can take turns and share resources, sometimes with support from others.

Communication and Language                                                    

• Understands use of objects (e.g. “What do we use to cut things?’).
• Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall.
• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.

Physical Development:

• Uses one-handed tools and equipment, e.g. makes snips in paper with child scissors.
• Understands that equipment and tools have to be used safely.

Mathematics

• Reciting numbers in order to 10.
• Consolidating place value.
• Sometimes matches numeral and quantity correctly.

 

Understanding of the World

• Talks about why things happen and how things work.
• Shows care and concern for living things and the environment.
• Shows an interest in technological toys with knobs or pulleys, or real objects such as sound movements or new image

 

Expressive Arts and Design

• Uses various construction materials.
• Uses available resources to create props to support role play.
• Using movement to express feeling.

 

Literacy

• Taking part in letters and sounds.
• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events.
• Describes main story setting, events and principles of characters.

Messages.

Just a reminder that the snack money contribution of £1 is due, thank you to all those who have already paid it. 

Also don’t forget to keep borrowing books and writing those book reviews.

Thank you for your continued support.