Friday 12 June 2015

Weekly Nursery Newsletter 15.06.15

Term: Summer 2
Date: 15.06.15

We will be reading many texts this week including ‘The Fish Who Could Wish’. Our songs of the week will be ‘The Farmers in the den’ and ‘Oranges and Lemons’. We will also continue to learn our phonics, we are revisiting ‘h’ this week.

Personal, Social and Emotional
  • Expresses own preferences and interests. 
  • Can tell adults when hungry or tired or when they want to rest or play Enjoys responsibility of carrying out small tasks. 
  • Demonstrates friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults. 
Communication and Language
  • Focusing attention - still listen or do, but can shift own attention. 
  • Listens to others one to one or in small groups, when conversation interests them. 
  • Uses a range of tenses (e.g. play, playing, will play, played)


Literacy
  • Imitates drawing simple shapes such as circles and lines. Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured. 
  • Shows awareness of rhyme and alliteration. 
  • Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.
Mathematics
  • Knows that numbers identify how many objects are in a set.
  • Shows interest in shapes in the environment.
  • Uses some number names and number language spontaneously.
Physical Development
  • Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no longer using whole-hand grasp. 
  • Develops likes and dislikes for food. 
  • Willing to try new food 


Understanding of the World
  • Shows interest in the lives of people who are familiar to them 
  • 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
Expressive Arts and Design
  • Beginning to be interested in and describe the texture of things. 
  • Imitates movement in response to music. 
  • Uses talk in pretending that objects stand for something else in play, e.g. 'This box is my castle.' 

Nursery Learning Challenge Summer 2
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.

Person: A Pirate/Princes of own choice
Painting: Janet Ahlberg (illustrator)
Poem/Song to learn: Row, row, row the boat.


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 boats
Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator
Find out facts about the person



Messages
  • Please make sure you return your reply slip for the trip and contribution this week, as we are unable to organise the adults until we know how many children will be attending. 


Oranges and lemons" say the Bells of St. Clement's
"You owe me five farthings" say the Bells of St. Martin's
"When will you pay me?" say the Bells of Old Bailey
"When I grow rich" say the Bells of Shoreditch
"When will that be?" say the Bells of Stepney
"I do not know" say the Great Bells of Bow
"Here comes a Candle to light you to Bed
Here comes a Chopper to Chop off your Head
Chip chop chip chop - the Last Man's Dead."


The farmer's in his den,
The farmer's in his den,
E I E I O - The farmer's in his den.
(with one child in the centre of a circle).

The farmer wants a wife.
The wife wants a child,
The child wants a nurse,
The nurse wants a dog,
The dog wants a bone,
We all pat the bone,
We all pat the bone,
E I E I O - We all pat the bone.


Thank you.

The Nursery Team

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