Nursery Weekly Newsletter 09.03.15

Term: Spring 2
Date: 09.03.15

 

We continue our Amazing Animal Topic, the children have been involved with making the most wonderful Jungle display, they have enjoyed exploring and mixing paint to create snakes, lions and an enormous crocodile.

 

We were also lucky enough to have a visit from an author Chris Wormell, this week to celebrate National Book week, as well as the children getting the opportunity to dress as a book character, we hope you got an opportunity to look at the photos on our EYFS page.

 

Our book of the week is ‘Giraffes can’t dance’’ and we will be singing the songs ‘Mary, Mary’ and ‘Pussycat’.

 

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

 

Personal, Social and Emotional

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

 Communication and Language

• Uses talk to connect ideas, explain what is happening and anticipate what might happen next, recall and relive past experiences.
• Focusing attention - still listen or do, but can shift own attention
• 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

• Shows awareness of rhyme and alliteration
• 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

•  Knows that numbers identify how many objects are in a set
•  Uses some number names accurately in play.
•  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 be interested in and describe the texture of things.
•  Explores colour and how colours can be changed.
•  Understands that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects.

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 with the World Book Day, there were some wonderful costumes.
• We have the Wiggly Wild Show coming in on Monday please look out for the photos.

Kind regards

The Nursery Team

Mary had a little lamb

Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.
It followed her to school one day, which was against the rule;
It made the children laugh and play, to see a lamb at school.
And so the teacher turned it out, but still it lingered near,
And waited patiently about till Mary did appear.
"Why does the lamb love Mary so?" the eager children cry;
"Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know" the teacher did reply.

Pussycat Pussycat poem
"Pussycat pussycat, where have you been?"
"I've been up to London to visit the Queen."
"Pussycat pussycat, what did you there?"
"I frightened a little mouse under her chair""MEOWW!"