Weekly Nursery Newsletter 15.12.14

Term: Autumn 2

Date: 15.12.14

 

We will be concluding our colour topic this week. Our colour of the week will be gold. Our story of the week is ‘The Jolly Christmas Postman’, we will continue to sing Christmas Songs of the children’s choice. We will be carrying out discussions with the children this week to determine the themes for the role play and small world, as we endeavour to teach skills through the children’s interests. Furthermore our topic for next term will be traditional tales.

The children will be completing various Christmas art activities this week and towards the end of the week we will begin to send home the cards, decorations and calendars.

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Responds to the feelings and wishes of others.
• Remembers where objects belong.
• Expresses own preferences and interests.

Communication and Language

• Shows an interest in play with sounds, songs and rhymes.
• Repeats words or phrases from familiar stories.
• Holds a conversation, jumping from topic to topic.

Literacy

• Distinguishes between the different marks they make.
• Beginning to use representation to communicate, e.g. drawing a line and saying 'That's me.'
• Repeats words or phrases from familiar stories.

Physical Development:

• Turns pages in a book sometimes several at once.
• Climbs confidently and is beginning to pull themselves up on nursery play climbing equipment
• Runs safely on whole foot.

Mathematics

• Uses some language of quantities such as ‘more’ or ‘alot’.
• Selects a small number of objects from a group when asked, for example, 'please give me one', 'please give me two'.
• Creates and experiments with symbols and marks representing ideas of number.

Understanding of the World

• Enjoys playing with small world models, such as farms.
• Seeks to acquire basic skills in turning on and operating some ICT equipment
• Learns that they have similarities and differences that connect them to, and distinguish them from, others.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Joins in singing favourite songs.
• Notices and is interested in the effects of making movements which leave marks.
• Experiments with blocks, colours and marks

Messages

Thank you to all of you for your support with the Nativity costumes. It was great to see so many of you in the audience.

 

We will be holding a Christmas party for the children on Wednesday. You do not have to do anything different. The children will come in their usual time. We will provide the food and music. They need to come in their uniform and they will wear a Christmas hat that they have made in school.

We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year and we look forward to seeing you back at school on Monday 5th January 2015.

 

Thank you for your continued support.

The Nursery Team