Nursery Weekly Newsletter

Term: Spring 1 Date 20.01.14

The children enjoyed their snack last week and have asked to make chocolate rice crispy cakes this week.
This week we will be singing ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ and ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’. Our book of the week is, ‘The Three Little Pigs’.


Personal, Social and Emotional
Interested in others play and starting to join in.
Shows understanding and cooperates with some boundaries and routines.
Washing and drying hands. 

Communication and Language
Joining in with the Nursery Rhymes.
Responds to simple instructions.
Can retell a simple past even in the correct order. 

Physical Development:
Understands that equipment and tools need to be used safely.
Play dough manipulation to music.
Threading laces through templates. 

Mathematics
Notices simple patterns and shapes in pictures.
Recap on all of the number songs.
Anticipate specific time based events, such as snack time or home time. 

Understanding of the World
Notices detailed features
Seeks to acquire basic skills in turning on and off operating some ICT equipment.
Notices detailed features of objects in their environment. 

Expressive Arts and Design
Making Humpty Dumpty puppets.
Role playing the story of Goldilocks and the three bears.
Beginning to make believe by pretending.

Literacy
Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured.
Practise copying name.
Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers no longer whole hand grasp. 

Messages.
Don’t forget our ‘The Love of Reading’ Stay and Play that will take place on Friday 24th January. The children should attend their usual session. The morning parents are invited to stay from 9.00 – 9.45 and the afternoon parents can attend the 2.30 – 3.15. 

Also we would like to advise you that there will be a ‘Whole School Challenge Afternoon’ taking place on Thursday 30th January. This is an afternoon event, therefore as always the morning children are welcome to attend the afternoon session, if you would like to be involved. The afternoon session is from 12.30 – 3.30. The actual challenge talk starts at 1.30. So the afternoon children can be dropped off just before 1.30 or alternatively you can drop your child off at the usual time of 12.30 and return at 1.30 for the talk.

Thank you to all of you, who have donated £1 for the children’s snack, we appreciate your cooperation. Furthermore we would love to see you at our ‘Parent in Partnership Events’.

Kind Regards

 
The Nursery Team

  

Hey Diddle Diddle

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon.

The little dog laughed to see such fun

And the dish ran away with the spoon!

 
Baa Baa Black Sheep

Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!
One for the master, one for the dame,
And one for the little boy who lives down the lane.