Weekly Nursery Newsletter 5.05.15

Term: Summer 1
Date: 05.05.15

We hope you all enjoyed the long weekend. We had a surprise visit last week from an author. That children enjoyed hearing her tales about how she became an author and even helped her to design a new character.

We continue to read many texts each week, however our focus text will be ‘Dentist’. Our songs of the week are ‘Down at the station’ and ‘The bear went around the mountain’.

We continue to teach phonics and number skills each day during a short directed session, most of the children are really enjoying it. We will be focussing on the grapheme ‘b’ this week.

Personal, Social and Emotional
● Shows confidence in asking adults for help.
● Remembers and talks about significant events in their own experience.
● Has a sense of own immediate family and relations.

Communication and Language
● Remembers and talks about significant events in their own experience
● Responds to simple instructions, e.g. to get or put away an object.
● Questions why things happen and gives explanations. Asks e.g. who, what, when, how.

Literacy
● Describes main story settings, events and principal
● Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no longer using whole-hand grasp
● Recognises familiar words and signs such as own name and advertising logos.

Physical Development
● Realises tools can be used for a purpose.
● Draws lines and circles using gross motor movements.
● Uses one-handed tools and equipment, e.g. makes snips in paper with child scissors

Mathematics● Shows curiosity about numbers by offering comments or asking questions.
● Uses some number names accurately in play.
● Creates and experiments with symbols and marks representing ideas of number.

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● Uses various construction materials.
● Understands that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects.
● Beginning to make-believe by pretending.

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
We will be taking the pictures off the register names this week, this is to encourage the children to recognise their name. We will also be collected the £1 snack donation.


The Nursery Team




Down at the station
Down at the station, early in the morning,
See the little
puffer trains, all in a row.
Here comes the driver to start up the engine,
PUFF
! PUFF! PEEP! PEEP! Off we go!
PUFF
! PUFF! PEEP! PEEP! Off we go!
PUFF
! PUFF! PEEP! PEEP! Off we go!

 

The bear went over the mountain
(To the tune of ‘For he
‛s a jolly good fellow‛)
Oh the bear went over the mountain,
The bear went over the mountain,
The bear went over the mountain,
To see what he could see.
But all that he could see,
But all that he could see,
Was the other side of the mountain,
The other side of the mountain,
The other side of the mountain,
Was all that he could see.
So he went back over the mountain,
He went back over the mountain,
He went back over the mountain,
To see what he could see.