Nursery Newsletter 07.03.16

Term:  Spring 2                          Date 07.03.16

 World Book Day was a great success thank you to everyone for taking part.  As a school we raised approximately £200 for Great Ormond Street Hospital and look forward to donating that.  We hope you had the opportunity to look at the photos. 

This week we are looking forward to a visit from PC Hopkins. Look out for those photos.

We will be reading  ‘The Fireman’ and singing ‘5 Little Firemen’ and ‘here we go around the Mulberry bush’.

We will continue with the teaching of phonics, we will teach ‘g’ 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

• Shows confidence in asking adults for help
• Expresses own preferences and interests.
• Plays alongside others. 

Communication and Language

• Focusing attention - still listen or do, but can shift own attention.
• 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.

 Literacy

• Beginning to be aware of the way stories are structured.
• Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint.
• Imitates drawing simple shapes such as circles and lines.

Physical Development:

• Moves freely and with pleasure and confidence in a range of ways, such as slithering, shuffling, rolling, crawling, walking, running, jumping, skipping, sliding and hopping.
• Mounts stairs, steps or climbing equipment using alternate feet. 
• Can usually manage washing and drying hands.

Mathematics

• Anticipates specific time-based events such as mealtimes or home time.
• Understands some talk about immediate past and future, e.g. 'before', 'later' or 'soon'.
• Creates and experiments with symbols and marks representing ideas of number.

 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

• Sings a few familiar songs.
• Sometimes gives meaning to marks as they draw and paint.
• Notices and is interested in the effects of making movements which leave marks.

Nursery Learning Challenge Spring 2

 

Nursery Rhyme: 5 Little Firemen

 

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

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Thank you for your continued support.

 

 

Five little firemen sitting in a row
One, two, three, four, five they go
Hop on the engine with a shout
Quicker than a wink
The fire's out

Continue with 4,3,2,and 1

 

Here we go round the mulberry bush,

 The mulberry bush,

 The mulberry bush.

 Here we go round the mulberry bush

 So early in the morning.