Nursery Weekly Newsletter 17.11.14

Term: Autumn 2

Date: 17.11.14

 We will continue with our colour topic. Our colour of the week will be blue. Our story of the week is ‘Hello Red Fox’, we will be singing our Christmas Songs.

This will be our last week of the bakery. We will be talking to the children about what they would like to see in the role play corner next. Mrs Chisholm will be setting up a tent as we want the children to explore torches and shadows and Mrs Light is going to make toast with the children with the option of various spreads.

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Expresses own preferences and interests.
• Develops own likes and dislikes in food and drink.
• Growing sense of will and determination.

Communication and Language

• Beginning to talk about people and things that are not present.
• Learns new words very rapidly and is able to use them in communicating.
• Beginning to ask simple questions.

Literacy

• Makes connections between their movement and the marks they make
• May be beginning to show preference for dominant hand.
• Imitates drawing simple shapes such as circles and lines.

Physical Development

• Shows control in holding and using jugs to pour, hammers, books and mark-making tools.
• May be beginning to show preference for dominant hand.
• Makes connections between their movement and the marks they make.

Mathematics

• Enjoys filling and emptying containers.
• Knows that things exist, even when out of sight.
• Beginning to organise and categories objects, e.g. putting all the teddy bears together or teddies and cars in separate piles.

Understanding of the World

• Learns that they have similarities and differences that connect them to, and distinguish them from, others.
• Is curious about people and shows interest in stories about themselves and their family.
• Enjoys pictures and stories about themselves, their families and other people.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Makes connections between movements and the marks they make.
• Explores and experiments with a range of media through sensory exploration, and using whole body.
• Expresses self through physical action and sound.

Learning Challenge

 As mentioned last week, 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.

 Poem/Song to learn: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are!

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are!

Composer/Piece of music: Elmer Bernstein- The Great Escape Theme Tune

Person: Mr Tumble

Nursery Rhyme	Piece of music	Person
1.    Learn it off by heart. 2.      Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme. 3.    Find out about stars.	Listen to the piece of music. Create some movements to the music. Draw an illustration to represent their feelings.	1. Draw a portrait of the person. 2. Find out facts about the person. 3. Watch the person in action.

Messages

• Thank you to all of the parents who have returned their child’s dietary questionnaire. This will help us accommodate their needs and likes.
• We will be talking about our families this week, please make sure your child brings in a photo so that they can join in.
• We will continue to develop the 'I can put my coat on' display Once the children demonstrate that they can put their own coats on we will put their photo on the board. Once this has been achieved by all of the children we will change the objective.
• 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

Thank you for your continued support.

The Nursery Team