Nursery Weekly Newsletter 05.01.15

Term: Spring 1
Date: 05.01.15

It is great to see everyone back in school. We are going to begin our new topic of Traditional Tales. The children requested that the role play area is turned into a castle and that they would like a Pirate theme in our small world. Our story of the week is ‘The three little Pigs’. There will be lots of opportunity to retell the story and act it out. Our songs of the week will be ‘This Little Piggy’ and ‘There was a Princess long ago’.

We are going to begin to introduce the phonics, the first sound that we are going to introduce is ‘m’. However we will continue with all of our literacy games which include rhyming and alliteration activities, along with our shape and number activities.

Personal, Social and Emotional

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

Communication and Language

• Understands 'who', 'what', 'where' in simple questions(e.g. Who's that/can? What's that? Where is.?).
• Developing understanding of simple concepts (e.g. big/little).
• Identifies action words by pointing to the right picture e.g. “Who's jumping?

Literacy

• Shows interest in play with sounds, songs and rhymes.
• Repeats words or phrases from familiar stories.
• Fills in the missing word or phrase in a known rhyme, story or game, e.g. 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a …'.

Physical Development:

• Shows control in holding and using jugs, hammers, books and mark making tools.
• Makes connections between their movement and the marks they make
• Beginning to use three fingers (tripod grip) to hold writing tools

Mathematics

• Notices simple shapes and patterns in pictures
• 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'.

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

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: 5 Little Speckled Frogs
Five little speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious grubs - yum, yum
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Now there are four green speckled frogs - glub, glub.
(Repeat down to 0)

Painting: Illustrations by Rod Campbell

Person: Traditional tale character

Nursery Rhyme	Painting	Person
1. Learn it off by heart. 2. Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme. 3. Find out about frogs.	1. To find out 2 facts about the painting. 2. Produce a collage of illustrations by the illustrator. 3. To draw a picture in a similar style.	1. Draw a portrait of the traditional tale character. 2. Find out facts about the traditional tale character. 3. Read a story with the traditional tale character in.

Messages

• We have put some new books in box for borrowing, please help yourself and record the book you have borrowed. It would be great to see some more book reviews to put on our display.

Thank you for your continued support.

The Nursery Team