Nursery Newsletter 22.02.16

Term:  Spring 2                          Date 22.02.16

Welcome back everyone!  We will have one final week to consolidate our Amazing Animal Topic, we have a visitor coming on Friday with an array of unusual animals, so look out for those photos on our blog.

We will be reading ‘The Ravenous Beast’ and singing ‘Five Little Speckled Frogs’ and ‘Walking Through the Jungle’.

We will continue with the teaching of phonics, we will teach ‘n’ next.  As always we are playing all kinds of phonological awareness games, to promote the teaching of phonics in an appropriate way for children of this young age.  There are opportunities for the children to write their letters, and we guide the children to use the correct pencil grip and formation, however at this young age it is not good practise to write with the children if they are not ready to.

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Expresses own preferences and interests.
• Plays alongside others.
• Is aware of others' feelings, for example, looks concerned if hears crying or looks excited if hears a familiar happy voice.

Communication and Language

• Is able to follow directions (if not intently focused on own choice of activity).
• Listens to others one to one or in small groups, when conversation interests them.
• Recognises and responds to many familiar sounds, e.g. turning to a knock on the door, looking at or going to the door.

Literacy

• Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint.
• Imitates drawing simple shapes such as circles and lines.
• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.

Physical Development:

• Holds pencil between thumb and two fingers, no longer using whole-hand grasp.
• Climbs confidently and is beginning to pull themselves up on nursery play climbing equipment.
• Shows control in holding and using jugs to pour, hammers, books and mark-making tools.

Mathematics

• Beginning to categorise objects according to properties such as shape or size.
• Begins to make comparisons between quantities.
• Recites some number names in sequence.

Understanding of the World

• Notices detailed features of objects in their environment.
• Explores objects by linking together different approaches: shaking, hitting, looking, feeling, tasting, mouthing, pulling, turning and poking

Expressive Arts and Design

• Notices and is interested in the effects of making movements which leave marks.
• Begins to move to music, listen to or join in rhymes or songs.
• Joins in singing favourite songs.
• Notices and is interested in the effects of making movements which leave marks.

Nursery Learning Challenge Spring 2

Nursery Rhyme: 5 Little Fireman

Painting: A picture by the illustrator Ahlberg
Person:  Postman Pat

                                                          Nursery Rhyme               Piece of music          Person         

          

Basic	Learn it off by heart	To find out 2 facts about the illustrator	Read a story with Postman Pat in.
Advanced	Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme	To draw a picture in a similar style	Draw a portrait of Postman Pat
Deep	Find out about squirrels	Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator	Find out facts about Postman Pat

 

Messages.

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Walking through the jungle,
Walking through the jungle,
What do you see?.
What do you see?.
Thought l heard a noise.
Shh, Shh, Shh,
What could it be?.
What could it be?.

Oh well, l thought it was a (snake),
ssss, ssss,
Thought it was a (snake),
ssss, ssss,
Thought it was a (snake),
ssss, ssss,
Looking for his tea.
Looking for his tea.

FIVE little speckled frogs,

Sat on a speckled log,
Eating some most delicious bugs - yum, yum!
One jumped into the pool,
Where it was nice and cool,
Then there were FOUR speckled frogs - glug, glug!