Nursery Weekly Newsletter 3.11.14

Term: Autumn 2
Date: 03.11.14

 

We hope you are feeling well rested after the break. We have some exciting activities planned for the next half term. The children have requested that the role play corner becomes a Bakers shop, so that will develop over the next few days. Our story of the week is ‘Colour me Happy’, our songs are ‘4 and 20 Blackbirds’ and ‘Humpy Dumpty’.

 

Our new topic is ‘Light and Dark’, we bring many aspects into this such as colours, nocturnal animals and celebrations. This week we will focus on the colours black and white.

 

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Willing to try new food textures and tastes
• Developing the ability to follow others body language, including pointing and gesture
• Growing sense do will and determination.

Communication and Language

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

Literacy

• Interest in books and rhymes and may have favourites.
• Early mark making through sensory activities ‘Dough Disco’ and ‘Finger Gym’.
• Has some favourite stories, rhymes, songs, poems or jingles.

Physical Development

• Develops own likes and dislikes in food and drink
• Makes connections between their movement and the marks they make.
• Beginning to balance blocks to build a small tower.

Mathematics

• Beginning to categorise objects according to properties such as shape or size.
• Knows that some things exist, even when out of sight.
• Says some counting words randomly particularly during counting songs.

Understanding of the World

• In pretend play, imitates everyday actions and events from own family and cultural background, e.g. making and drinking tea.
• Anticipates repeated sounds, sights and actions, e.g when an adult demonstrates an action toy several times.
• Shows interest in toys with button, flaps and simple mechanisms and beginning to learn to operate them.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Beginning to use representation to communicate, e.g. drawing a line and saying 'That's me.'
• Makes connections between movements and the marks they make.
• Explores and experiments with a range of media through sensory exploration, and using whole body.

Messages

• We have noticed an improvement with less of the children bringing in toys from home, thank you for your support with this.
• As the children have now settled so well, we will be issuing monthly certificates for all of the children that are always on the ‘Happy Face’. We want to ensure that we reward the children who are always listening and doing the right thing. Therefore on a monthly basis, if your child has constantly been on the happy face, they will receive an ‘I have made my teacher happy’ certificate.
• We have a story telling workshop called ‘A story hunt-colour’ on Wednesday 5th November. This links into our topic. We have managed to book a morning and afternoon session, so your child’s session will continue as usual. Make sure you look out for the photos on Facebook.
• 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

The Nursery Team

 

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

All the king's horses and all the King's men

Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again

 

 

 

Sing a song of sixpence,

A pocket full of rye.

Four and twenty blackbirds,

Baked in a pie.

When the pie was opened,

The birds began to sing;

Wasn't that a dainty dish,

To set before the king?

The king was in his counting house,

Counting out his money;

The queen was in the parlour,

Eating bread and honey.

The maid was in the garden,

Hanging out the clothes,

When down came a blackbird

And pecked off her nose.