Celebrating Chinese New Year in Nursery

The morning children watched the story of Chinese New Year. We like to explore all different cultures and beliefs within the EYFS.  This helps the children develop an understanding of similarities and differences. They have been making lanterns and they found out about different foods the Chinese eat when celebrating. The children all got the opportunity to taste a vegetable stir fry, some children enjoyed this whilst others did not.

Nursery Newsletter 080216

Term:  Spring 1                          Date 08.02.16

 

Wow, we can’t believe we are nearly at the end of this half term, it has gone so quickly.  The children have had great fun exploring the animal topic, we will look at Jungle animals this week and we have decided to extend the topic and carry it on for another few weeks after half term.  We will be reading ‘Arnie the Accidental hero’ and singing ‘Five Little Monkeys’ and ‘Down in the Jungle’.

It is also Chinese New Year this week, therefore the children will be taking part in various multicultural Activities including cooking Chinese food and making Chinese Lanterns.

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

• Recognises and responds to many familiar sounds, e.g. turning to a knock on the door, looking at or going to the door.
• Shows interest in play with sounds, songs and rhymes.
• Joins in with singing favourite songs.

Literacy

• Imitates drawing simple shapes such as circles and lines.
• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.
• Shows interest in play with sounds, songs and rhymes.

Physical Development:

• 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.
• Runs safely on whole foot.

Mathematics

• Begins to make comparisons between quantities.
• Recites some number names in sequence.
• 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

• 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 1

Poem/Song to learn: 5 Little Speckled Frogs

Five little speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious grubs - yum, yum
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Now there are four green speckled frogs - glub, glub.
(Repeat down to 0)

 

Painting: Illustrations by Rod Campbell

Person:  Traditional tale character

                                                      Nursery Rhyme               Piece of music          Person         

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

 

Messages.

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Thank you for your continued support.

Five little monkeys jumping on the bed

One fell off and bumped his head
Mama called the doctor,
And the doctor said
No more monkeys jumping on the bed
Continue with 4,3,2, and 1

 

Down in the jungle where nobody goes,

There’s a big fat elephant washing his toes,
With a rub-a-dub here, and a rub-a-dub there,
That’s the way he washes his toes!

(chorus)

With a rub,  dub, rub-a dub-a-rub-a-dub,

Rub,  dub, rub-a-dub-a-rub-a-dub,
Rub,  dub, rub-a-dub-a-rub-a-dub,
That’s the way he washes his toes!

 

Tips for Talking to Children Age 4 +

Language-learning can be a life-long journey, but the bulk of that journey takes place in our earliest years. In the first five years of life, when brain development is most rapid, children are more open to learning and more receptive to enriching experiences than they will ever be. Studies have shown that during this critical period, children learn language by participating in back-and-forth interactions with the important adults in their lives. 

Here are some tips on how you can support your child's communication skills:

Charlie's Reading Skills

Thank you to Charlie's parents for sending in this photo from our recent Stay and Play. Great segmenting and blending skills Charlie! 

Reception Newsletter 8.2.16

Reception Newsletter 08.02.16

Thank you to all the parents and carers that attended the Reading Stay and Play last week. We hope you found the information useful. If you were unable to attend or would like more information there are lots of videos available for parents on the RWI website: www.ruthmiskin.com/en/parents. 

If you have any requests for a particular focus to base our next Stay and Play on please talk to a member of the Reception team.  

This week we will focus our learning around Chinese New Year. We will be listening to Chinese Music and creating our own dragon dances!

Personal, Social and Emotional:
Practicing resilience - The children will be encouraged to keep trying when tasks may be hard and beginning to overcome difficulties themselves.
Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.

Communication and Language:
We are focusing on teaching the children what a question is and how to ask one - using question stems such as Who? What? Why? How? Where?
Encouraging children to ask ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions in their play.

Physical Development:
Experimenting with different ways of moving when creating our Chinese Dance.
Adjusting Speed and changing direction.

Literacy:
Read, Write, Inc. sessions will continue and the children will be re-assessed this week.
Sharing multi-cultural stories with the children and talking about the different pictures and places we can see in the texts.
Acting out the story of the animal race that led to Chinese New Year.
Encouraging the children to use their phonics in their play and write simple captions.


Mathematics:
The children really enjoyed learning about money last week. The activities will be available for them to access in their play this week. If you go to the shops with your child please let them pay for small items to help them to appreciate the value of money.
This week we are developing our estimating and counting skills.

Understanding of the World:
Miss Poulter created a QR treasure hunt last week that the children really enjoyed. They had to use the ipad to scan the different codes and then use their phonics to write down what they could see.
This week we will have a QR code treasure hunt related to the animals of Chinese New Year.
 Shows interest in different ways of life - Chinese New Year.

Expressive Arts and Design:
Using scissors correctly to make collages, paper dragons and butterflies.


Messages:
Thursday 11th February will be the last day of this half term as we have an inset day for staff on Friday. 

Read Write Inc DVD

In Read, Write Inc we are using pure sounds, (‘m’ not’ muh’, ’s’ not ‘suh’, etc) so that your child will be able to blend the sounds into words more easily.

The Read Write Inc sound pronunciation guide DVD  costs £5.00. If you would like a copy please see a member of the Reception team.

Frankies Road Map

Frankie from the afternoon nursery, made a very long road map at home with mummy for his cars to go along.  Frankie told us that the map has some shops, trees, a big tower and a cat in the road, who is called 'Hot Cross Bun'.  "Mummy's gonna play with me", said Frankie.  They are going to have so much fun.   What a fantastic idea to encourage Frankie to mark make, we love to hear about what you have been doing at home with your children.