Nursery Newsletter 27.2.17

Term: Spring 2                     Date: 27.2.2017

Dear Parents,

We had a great first week back in Nursery. The children loved re-telling the story of 'The Three Little Pigs' and were able to join in with all of the repeated phrases in the story. They also enjoyed using our new sandpit outside. This week we are developing the mud kitchen area with the children. We have a variety of mud recipes and resources ready for the children to explore. The story we are focusing on this week is 'Mr Wolf's Pancakes' and the children will be making pancakes in small groups throughout the week.

The children are invited to dress as a book character on Thursday to celebrate World Book Day.

You are invited to a stay and play session this Friday the 3rd of March. The focus of this will be on supporting your child to achieve Communication and Language goals. There will be a short talk with parents in one of the Nursery rooms, after this you will be able to join your child in the environment. This will start at 9.00 am for morning Nursery children and 1.00 pm for afternoon Nursery children.

This Newsletter can be seen on the Broadford Primary School Facebook Page and the EYFS Blog which you can reach from the school website. If you follow the school Facebook page you will see lots of blogs including photos of the children's time in Nursery.

Personal, Social and Emotional:

We are encouraging the children to talk to other children when playing and create their own games.
We are praising the children for sharing resources and modelling sharing.
                       

Communication and Language/Literacy:

We are encouraging the children to learn Nursery Rhymes and join in with actions to help them re-tell these. We are focusing on learning the rhymes ''Mix a Pancake'' and "The Hippopotamus Song - Mud Glorious Mud'" this week. (The words for these rhymes are listed at the bottom) They are encouraged to listen carefully to adults telling the rhymes and say the missing words. We are pointing our rhyming words in rhymes and stories and encouraging the children to hear how words rhyme.

The children are always encouraged to use the correct tenses and word endings when talking e.g. "I slid down the slide." "I found a pretty bead." "Soon it will be my Birthday." Please continue to model this at home. Encourage the children to talk to you in full sentences and share their ideas.

Physical Development:
The children are developing their catching and throwing skills with sponge balls. We have also been practicing balancing.

We are focusing on ensuring children are able to hold scissors correctly and are enjoying daily

'Dough Disco' sessions to develop the muscles in the children's fingers.

    

Mathematics:

We are focusing on the children's individual targets in play and moving them forward in this

way. This week we are focusing on shapes. The children will learn a shape song, have lots of opportunities to play games and spot shapes and hunt for shapes in the environment.

Expressive Art and Design
The children enjoyed creating houses for the pigs last week using different materials. This week we have left the materials for them to explore this independently.

Snack focus:

We are reading the story 'Mr Wolf's Pancakes' and the children will be making pancakes in small groups. We have pictures of the recipes they will be encouraged to order and follow.

Messages.

Learning Challenge

Thank you for the Learning Challenge's we received last half term. We have a new challenge for this half term listed below:

Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning. 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, famous person, 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.

Poem/Song to learn: 5 Little Ducks 

Five little ducks went swimming one day,
Over the hills and far away,
Mummy duck said quack, quack, quack, quack....
and four little ducks came swimming back.
(Repeat down to zero).

Painting: 
Talk to your children about the farm and animals you may find on a farm. It is important they can group animals such as jungle, under the sea, farm, insects. You could help your child create a painting of their favourite animal and find out some fun facts.

Nursery Rhyme	Author
1.      Learn it off by heart. 2.      Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme.	We have read some of Julia Donaldson's books to the children now. You could read the stories such as 'Monkey Puzzle', 'What the Lady Bird Heard' or 'Squash and a Squeeze'.  The children could draw/paint a picture of their favourite character or part of the story. You could even learn a story song, look at this website for ideas: http://www.juliadonaldson.co.uk/songs

Rhymes

Mud, mud, glorious mud
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood
So follow me follow, down to the hollow
And there let me wallow in glorious mud

Mix a pancake, Stir a pancake, Pop it in the pan. Fry a pancake, Toss a pancake, Catch it if you can!

If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address is eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Kind regards,

The Nursery Team