Weekly Nursery Newsletter 23.02.15

Term: Spring 2
Date: 23.02.15

 

Nursery Newsletter

We hope you all had a wonderful half term. We will be commencing our new topic of ‘Amazing Animals.’ We have some wonderful activities lined up. The children have requested that we make the role play into a Jungle and some of the boys have also asked for a small dinosaur world. The children can help develop the Jungle role play as the week progresses. 

 

Our book of the week is ‘One day in the Jungle’ and we will be singing the songs ‘Down in the Jungle where nobody goes’ and ‘Elephants have wrinkles’.

We will continue with the phonics, we are now on the grapheme’ n’’.

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

• Understands that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects.
• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.       
• Shows interest in play with sounds, songs and rhymes.

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

• Uses positional language.
• Shows understanding of prepositions such as 'under', 'on top', 'behind' by carrying out an action or selecting correct picture.
• Listens to others one to one or in small groups, when conversation interests them. Recites numbers in order to 10.

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.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Beginning to make-believe by pretending
• Notices what adults do, imitating what is observed and then doing it spontaneously when the adult is not there.
• Engages in imaginative role-play based on own first-hand experiences.

Learning Challenge

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: Grey Squirrel
Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel! (bounce up and down on the words) Swish your bushy tail! (shake it)

Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel! Swish your bushy tail! Put an nut between your toes (touch your toes) Wrinkle up your little nose! (poke your nose)

Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel! Swish your bushy tail!

Piece of music: Camille Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals

Person: Animal/Pet of choice

	Nursery Rhyme	Piece of music	Person
Basic	Learn it off by heart	Listen to the piece of music	Draw a portrait of the pet/animal of choice
Advanced	Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme	Create some movements to the music	Find and read a story with the chosen animal in
Deep	Find out about squirrels	Draw an illustration to represent their feelings	Find out about the animal

Messages

• Thank you for all your support and kind words with the stay and play sessions. It was requested by a number of you that we organise some more; we will definitely do that once the weather begins to warm up.
• Please continue to borrow books and complete reviews. When returning the books please ensure that you place the books in the box outside and don t let the children bring them into class.

Down in the jungle

Where nobody goes

There's a great big gorilla

Washing his clothes

With a rub-a-dub here

A rub-a-dub there

That's the way he washes his clothes

Diddle-I-Dee, a boogie boogie woogie

Diddle-I-Dee, a boogie boogie woogie

Diddle-I-Dee, a boogie boogie woogie

That's the way he washes his clothes

Elephants have wrinkles, wrinkles, wrinkles.

Elephants have wrinkles, wrinkles everywhere.

On their toes, (echo) No one knows, (echo) why yi yi yi yiih.

The Nursery Team