Nursery Newsletter 20.3.17

Dear Parents,

      This week we will be reading the story 'The Enormous Turnip'. The children have enjoyed planting herbs, flowers and bulbs in our Nursery garden and we will be teaching them how to look after the plants and looking at the changes over time.
        

Personal, Social and Emotional:

We are encouraging the children to talk to other children when playing and create their own games. We are encouraging the children to identify the feelings of characters in stories and talk about their own feelings. We will also be making Mother's Day cards and talking about things they do to help their Mums/Nannys at home.
                       

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 ''Two Little Dickie Birds'' and "Little Bo Peep" this week. They are encouraged to listen carefully to adults telling the rhymes and say the missing words.
As well as continuing to point out rhymes and play games with rhyming words the children are being encouraged to hear the initial sounds in words. We have been playing lots of games to encourage them to identify words that start with the same sound e.g. 'ball' 'banana' 'beach' and they have been encouraged to listen out for the initial sound in their names.

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 continuing to develop their throwing and catching skills.

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:

This week we are focusing on the children's number recognition. They will be encouraged to match numbers using egg boxes and sparkly eggs.

Expressive Art and Design
The children will be encouraged to use felt tip pens on blotting paper. They will be able to add a little water and watch what happens to the colours as this spreads.

Note: To ensure all children are safe and happy whilst waiting to enter please make sure they are safely standing with parents/carers and continue to follow the school rules at all times; kind words, hands and feet.


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.



Messages.

Learning Challenge

Thank you for all the Learning Challenges we have received so far. The children have two weeks left to complete challenges and will receive a special certificate for this.

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

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