Nursery Newsletter

Term:  Summer 1                          Date 13.05.13

Last week all of the Nursery children had a visit from the local police, the morning children also had a visit from the Fire Brigade. Don’t worry, the Fire Brigade are returning to visit the afternoon children in June. 

This week our character of the week is ‘Bob the Builder’ we have a builder coming in to visit the children and we will be making our role play area into a builder’s yard.

Furthermore following on from the visit from the police, the local Lolly Pop Lady has kindly agreed to come in to talk to the children about her important job.

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Enjoys responsibility of carrying out small tasks.
• Confident to talk to other children when playing and will communicate freely about home and community.
• Keeps play going responding to what others are saying and doing. 

Communication and Language                                                    

• Listens to others one to one or in small groups, when conversation interests them.
• Listens to stories with increasing attention and recall.
• Builds up vocabulary that reflects the breadth of their experiences

 

Physical Development:

• Can usually manage washing and drying hands.
• Hold pencils with thumb and two fingers no longer using whole hand grasp
• Understands that equipment and tools have to be used safely.

Mathematics

• Compares two groups of objects, saying when they have the same number
• Shows interest in a number problem
• Beginning to talk about the shape of everyday objects e.g. round and tall

Understanding of the World

• Talks about why things happen and how things work.
• Shows interests in different occupations and ways of life.
• Shows an interest in technological toys with knobs or pulleys, or real objects such as sound movements or new image

 

Expressive Arts and Design

• Beginning to be interested in a describe the texture of things
• Uses various construction materials.
• Uses available resources to create props to support role play.

 

Literacy

• Taking part in letters and sounds.
• Learning about the sound ‘a’
• Recognises familiar words and signs such as own name and advertising logos

 

Messages.

 

A boy from the morning nursery lost his shoes last Wednesday, they may have been put into another child’s bag in error. If you find them please return them to the Nursery.

We will be learning the sound ‘a’ this week.  Please bring in something beginning with this letter.

Thank you for all the snack money contributions and for your continued support.