Weekly Nursery Newsletter 29.06.15

Term: Summer 2

Date: 29.06.15

We will be reading many texts this week including ‘Spot at the seaside’. We will be singing various songs in preparation for our Graduation Ceremony. Furthermore we have decided to revisit all of the phonics that we have covered for the next few weeks and focus on orally blending simply cvc words.

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Enjoys responsibility of carrying out small tasks.
• Can usually tolerate delay when needs are not immediately met, and understands wishes may not always be met.
• Demonstrates friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults.

Communication and Language

• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.
• Is able to follow directions (if not intently focused on own choice of activity).
• Focusing attention - still listen or do, but can shift own attention.

Literacy

• Enjoys rhyming and rhythmic activities
• 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.

Mathematics

• Begins to use the language of size.
• Knows that numbers identify how many objects are in a set.
• Shows interest in shapes in the environment.

Physical Development

• Mounts stairs, steps or climbing equipment using alternate feet.
• Can tell adults when hungry or tired or when they want to rest or play.
• Feeds self competently with spoon.

Understanding of the World

• Shows interest in the lives of people who are familiar to them.
• Shows interest in the lives of people who are familiar to them.
• Developing an understanding of growth, decay and changes over time.

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.

Row, row, row your boat,

Gently down the stream.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,

Life is but a dream.

	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

 

Thank you to all of you who attended the picnic on Friday, I hope you will agree it was a success and we were very lucky with the Weather.

 

All of the dates for forth coming events were on the list you were given and are also stuck on the Nursery window.

 

If your child will be attending the reception class with us in September, please see Mrs King or Miss Taylor if you have not received you letter advising you of the start date and class that your child will be in.

 

Thank you.

 

The Nursery Team