Nursery Weekly Newsletter 26.1.15

Term: Spring 1
Date: 26.01.15

Our story of the week is ‘The Magic Porridge Pot’. The children have really enjoyed retelling all of the traditional tales the last few weeks and we have noticed their language skills improving. Our songs of the week will be ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’ and ‘Jack and Jill’.

We will continue with the phonics, we are now on the grapheme ‘d’. We also will be carrying out counting activities this week as our focus on developing the children's counting skills continues, please continue to practise counting with your child at home.
 Personal, Social and Emotional
  ●Responds to the feelings and wishes of others
● Remembers where objects belong.
● Expresses own preferences and interests.

Communication and Language
● Beginning to understand 'why' and 'how' questions
● Beginning to understand 'why' and 'how' questions.
● Understands 'who', 'what', 'where' in simple questions (e.g. Who's that/can? What's that? Where is.?).

Literacy
● Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.
● Shows interest in play with sounds, songs and rhymes.
● Repeats words or phrases from familiar stories.
 Physical Development
● Develops likes and dislikes for food.
● Willing to try new food.
● Shows control in holding and using jugs, hammers, books and mark making tools.
 Mathematics
● Recites numbers in order to 10.
● Sometimes matches numeral and quantity correctly.
●Knows that a group of things changes in quantity when something is added or taken away.

 Understanding of the World
● Seeks to acquire basic skills in turning on and operating some ICT equipment.
● Operates mechanical toys, e.g. turns the knob on a wind-up toy or pulls back on a friction car.
● Has a sense of own immediate family and relations(22-36)

 Expressive Arts and Design
● Creates sounds by banging, shaking, tapping or blowing.
● Shows an interest in the way musical instruments sound.
● Joins in singing favourite songs.

Nursery Learning Challenge Spring 1
Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning. 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.

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
Basic	Learn it off by heart	To find out 2 facts about the illustrator	Read a story with the traditional tale character in
Advanced	Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme	To draw a picture in a similar style	Draw a portrait of the traditional tale character
Deep	Find out about frogs	Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator	Find out facts about the traditional tale character

Messages●Could you please ensure your child has a set of clothes to change into in school. We still have children having accidents or simply falling over in a puddle outside and when we go to change them they have no spare clothes. 
●Just some advance notice that we will be running a parental stay and play session on 12.2.15 both in the morning and afternoon. This will give you an opportunity to play with your child in the Nursery session, we will also demonstrate reading a story and how this can be made into a fun learning activity. Also Miss Morris (The Early Years Leader and ICT coordinator) has kindly agreed to pop in and demonstrate how to navigate around the school facebook page etc.

AM 10.30 - 11.30

PM 2.30 - 3.15

Hey diddle diddle,
The Cat and the fiddle,
The Cow jumped over the moon.
The little Dog laughed,
To see such sport,
And the Dish ran away with the Spoon]
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.

Thank you for your continued support.

The Nursery Team