Nursery Newsletter 19.05.15

Term:  Summer 1                          Date 19.05.15

Another amazing week in the Nursery, a visit from the farm on Monday and then the Fire Brigade came to see the afternoon Nursery on Friday, please look out for all the photos on Facebook.  In between these visits the children have been very busy with activities such as weaving and building junk model rockets.

This week we will be rounding up our current topic.  We will be reading many texts this including the ‘The Builder’.  Our songs of the week will be ‘Bob the Builder’ and ‘Ten Green Bottles’. ‘We will also continue to learn our phonics, we are now learning ‘e’. 

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Demonstrates friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults.
• Initiates play, offering cues to peers to join them.
• Keeps play going by responding to what others are saying or doing.

Communication and Language

• Beginning to use more complex sentences to link thoughts (e.g. using and, because).
• Uses a variety of questions (e.g. what, where, who)
• Can retell a simple past event in correct order (e.g. went downslide, hurt finger).

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

• Shows interest in shapes in the environment.

• Uses some number names and number language spontaneously.
• Uses some number names accurately in play.
• Recites numbers in order to 10. 

Understanding of the World

• Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time
• Knows how to operate simple equipment, e.g. turns on CD player and uses remote control.
• Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Uses talk in pretending that objects stand for something else in play, e.g. 'This box is my castle.'

Nursery Learning Challenge Summer 1

 

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 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

Don’t forget we are closed for INSET days on Friday 22nd May and Monday 1st June. Therefore the children will return to school after half term on Tuesday 2nd June.

 

Thank you for the wonderful turn out at the stay and play sessions. We hope you got some ideas for Maths through play. If you didn’t get the Maths activity ideas sheet, please ask a member of staff for one. We appreciate your feedback and kind words and will endeavor to action your requests. We do not usually send out worksheets in the Nursery as it is good practice for the children to learn through play and not in a formal way, however there will be some activity sheets available at the end of the summer term to prepare your child for reception, if you want them.

 

Ten Green Bottles

Ten green bottles, hanging on the wall,

Ten green bottles, hanging on the wall.

And if one green bottle,

Should accidently fall.

There'll be, nine green bottles, hanging on the wall.

Nine green bottles, hanging on the wall.

And if one green bottle,

Should accidently fall.

There'll be, eight green bottles, hanging on the wall.

There'll be one green bottle, hanging on the wall,

One green bottle, hanging on the wall.

And if that green bottle,

Should accidently fall,

There'll be no green bottles, hanging on the wall.

 

Thank you for your continued support.
The Nursery Team