Weekly Nursery Newsletter 13.04.15

Term: Summer 1
Date: 13.04.15
We hope you had a wonderful Easter holiday and we can’t wait to commence our new topic of ‘People who help us’ We are looking forward to having visits from the Fire Brigade, The Lollypop lady, the farm and PC Wayne.

Some of the children asked for the role play to be turned into a Doctors Surgery and our story of the week is ‘The Doctor’. Our songs for this week will be Doctor Foster and Miss Polly had a Dolly.
We will commence our phonics with the grapheme ‘c’.

Personal, Social and Emotional
· Has a sense of own immediate family and relations. 
· Recognises and describes special times or events for family or friends.
· Expresses own preferences and interests.

Communication and Language
· Uses a variety of questions
· Understands use of objects
· Beginning to use more complex sentences to link thoughts

Literacy
· Understands that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects.
· Shows awareness of rhyme and alliteration. 
· Has some favourite stories, rhymes, songs, poems or jingles.

 Physical Development
· Uses one-handed tools and equipment, e.g. makes snips in paper with child scissors
· Turns pages in a book, sometimes several at once.
· Runs safely on whole foot

Mathematics
· Creates and experiments with symbols and marks representing ideas of number.
· Shows an interest in number problems.
· Beginning to represent numbers using fingers, marks on paper or pictures. 

Understanding of the World
· Remembers and talks about significant events in their own experience.
· Shows interest in the lives of people who are familiar to them.
· Has a sense of own immediate family and relations.
Expressive Arts and Design· Beginning to make-believe by pretending.
· Beginning to construct, stacking blocks vertically and horizontally, making enclosures and creating spaces.
· Understands that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects.

Nursery Learning Challenge Summer 1Each 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 fireman
Five little firemen standing in a row,
1 2 3 4 5 lets go.
Jump on the engine with a SHOUT,
As quick as a wink the fire is out.
Four little firemen standing in a row,
1 2 3 4 shhh lets go.
Jump on the engine with a Shout
As quick as a wink the fire is out.

(Repeat down to 0)

Person: People who help us

Painting: Janet Ahlberg (illustrator)

	Nursery Rhyme	Painting	Person
Basic	Learn it off by heart	To find out 2 facts about the illustrator	Read a story with the person in
Advanced	Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme	To draw a picture in a similar style	Draw a portrait of the person
Deep	Find out about fireman	Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator	Find out facts about the person

Messages
· We hope you all managed to receive your reports via email, please advise a member of staff if you have not.
· Thank you, to all of you who attended your parent consultations, we appreciate all of your comments. If you had to defer your appointment please approach a member of staff to reschedule this.

The Nursery Team