Learning Challenge Reception

Learning Challenge

This half term's learning challenge will be:


Poem/Song to learn: A sailor went to sea

Piece of music: George Frideric Handel Water Music

Person: Captain Hook/Tinkerbell

Nursery Rhyme	Piece of music	Person
1. Learn it off by heart. 2. Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme. 3. Find out about the rhyme	1. Listen to the piece of music 2.Draw an illustration to represent their feelings      3. Able to name the piece of music when they hear it and create movements to it.	1. Draw a portrait of the character. 2. Find out information about the person. 3. Write 3 facts about the person.

Reception School Trip Information

          We are very excited to take the Reception children to  Cudmore Grove on Mersea Island on Friday 17th June. It is the perfect location for the children to experience the sights, sounds and smells of the seaside.

The coach will need to leave promptly at 8.30 am in order to ensure we arrive at Cudmore Grove in time to start our activities. The Reception doors will open from 8.10 am. Please ensure the children arrive in plenty of time to organise their belongings, take a trip to the toilet and for teachers to organise the children into small groups. 

The children will wear school uniform on the day. If the weather is wet please ensure children have a raincoat and wellies. If the weather is dry trainers or sensible walking shoes would be best. Sandals and open toed shoes will not be suitable for the activities we will be completing on the beach. 

If you have not ordered a school packed lunch please ensure the children have a lunch box packed for the day. Cudmore Grove have requested we try to be waste free so labelled re-usable containers would be best if this is possible.

The day will finish at 2.30pm. This will mean we will most likely arrive at Broadford at 3.30pm. Please check the Facebook page and we will keep you updated with information on our return time.  

 Activities we are completing on the day will include:

Building sandcastles – from the sand and pebble beach

Landscape variation – Compare the landscape to our local area.

Exploring habitats – Discovering the plants and animals that make their home by the water

Beachcombing art – Gathering shells, seaweed and driftwood to create huge land art pictures on the beach.

Treasure hunting.

We look forward to a fun-filled day!

Nursery Newsletter 06.06.16

Term:  Summer 1                          Date 06.06.16

 

Our final topic of the year is Traditional Tales.

We will be reading The Three Little pigs and we will be singing ‘This little piggy went to market’ and ‘Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall’.

Our phonemes this week will be  h, sh  and r .  We will continue to practise numeral writing or representing numbers

 

Personal, Social and Emotional

• Demonstrates friendly behaviour, initiating conversations and forming good relationships with peers and familiar adults.
• Enjoys responsibility of carrying out small tasks.
• Shows affection and concern for people who are special to them.

 

Communication and Language

• Beginning to understand 'why' and 'how' questions.
• Uses a range of tenses (e.g. play, playing, will play, played).
• Can retell a simple past event in correct order (e.g. went downslide, hurt finger).

 

Literacy

• Joins in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories.
• Uses intonation, rhythm and phrasing to make the meaning clear to others.
• Recognises rhythm in spoken words.

 

Physical Development:

• Realises tools can be used for a purpose.
• Can tell adults when hungry or tired or when they want to rest or play.
• Runs skilfully and negotiates space successfully, adjusting speed or direction to avoid obstacles.

Mathematics

• Shows an interest in number problems.
• Shows an interest in representing numbers.
• Realises not only objects, but anything can be counted, including steps, claps or jumps.

 

Understanding of the World

• Comments and asks questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place where they live or the natural world.
• Talks about why things happen and how things work.
• Builds stories around toys, e.g. farm animals needing rescue from an armchair 'cliff'.

 

Expressive Arts and Design

• Understands that they can use lines to enclose a space, and then begin to use these shapes to represent objects.
• Engages in imaginative role-play based on own first-hand experiences.

 

Nursery Learning Challenge Summer 1

 

Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning, this is in line with the rest of the school. 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, 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 however the table below details some ideas for the learning challenge.

Character: A pig

Piece of music: Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka

Poem/Song to learn:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,

All the king's horses and all the king's men,

Couldn't put Humpty together again.

                                           

                                       

	Nursery Rhyme	Piece of music	Character
Basic	Learn it off by heart	Find out 2 facts about the Musician	Read a story about pigs.
Advanced	Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme	Dance to the piece of music	Draw a portrait of a pig
Deep	Find out about the kings men	Make an instrument (e.g a shaker) and play along.	Find out about pigs

 

Messages.

Please ensure you have returned your child’s permission slip and voluntary contribution for the trip.  We are also now asking for the  final £1 snack contribution.

 

Please refrain from allowing your children to bring toys into school, unfortunately they get lost, broken or cause arguments.  Also we have a basket of small toys that have come in from home, which will be thrown away by the end of the week.  We will leave the basket out for you to peruse at the beginning of each session.

 

School Trip to Barleylands

Friday 1st  July 8.30-3pm

Stay and Play Picnic – All Parents and Carers welcome

(Please bring your own picnic!)

Tuesday 5^th July – 11.30-1.00pm

Sports Day - All Parents and Carers welcome

Monday 11^th July – 10.30am and 2.30

Graduation - All Parents and Carers welcome

Tuesday 12^th 10.30am and 2.30pm

Nursery Summer Closure –

All Children are invited to a final session Wednesday 13th July 8.30 - 11.30am

 

If you wish to contact a member of the EYFS staff please email them at eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Thank you for your continued support.

The Nursery Team

 

This little piggy went to market,

This little piggy stayed at home,

This little piggy had roast beef,

This little piggy had none.

And this little piggy went...

"Wee wee wee" all the way home...

New friends in the Nursery

The Nursery children were very lucky to have some special visitors.  Year 2 children had been caring for some chicks, they had watched as they hatched and then they got to look after them for a week.  The Nursery children took great delight in holding and stroking the chicks and most of the children demonstrated care and concern for living things in the environment. 

 

Kezia said “The girls are more yellow” after a discussion involving the difference between male and female chicks. 

 

Kyriq said “There not all near the light now”.  When Kyriq had seen the chicks previously they had only just hatched and they were all huddled under the lamp.

It was fantastic that the children were able to observe the chicks and talk about them. We wish the chicks luck back at the farm.

Gruffalo sightings at Broadford!

On Monday afternoon the reception children arrived back to their classrooms to find they had missed a visitor. The visitor had left some large clawed footprints in both Apple and Aspen class. The children quickly decided that these footprints were left by the Gruffalo and this was a great hook into our story of the week.

The children spent the afternoon comparing and discussing the size of the Gruffalo and mouse footprints. Temilola decided to use a ruler and measured the length of the footprints where as Freddie Sheppard chose to use the multilink cubes. Lots of children decided to make a poster describing what the Gruffalo looked like so others could look out for him. Later in the week the children designed and wrote about their own monster. 

On Wednesday it was time for a Gruffalo workshop, the children planted story seeds and helped to re-tell the story. Acting out a story and getting into role as different characters enables the children to structure their ideas before they put them on paper. The children throughly enjoyed the workshop, "I loved hiding in the gruffalo's cave" said Kaley.  

Reception Newsletter 23.5.16

Term:  Summer 1                          Date 23.5.16

This week our story is 'The Gruffalo' by Julia Donaldson. On Wednesday the Freshwater theatre company are visiting for a workshop based around 'The Gruffalo'.

We will be encouraging the children to walk down to the Reception classes by themselves this term and ask for their own choice of dinner. This is to increase their independence and give them the responsibility of looking after their belongings in the mornings in preparation for Year 1.

Your child will be taking part in the following activities within the seven areas of development (activities are subject to change, depending on the children’s interests; however, the skills remain the same):

Personal, Social and Emotional:

• Encouraging children to negotiate and solve problems without aggression e.g. when someone has taken their toy.
• Talking about friendship and how to be a good friend. 

Communication and Language:

• Extending vocabulary, especially by grouping and naming, exploring the meaning and sounds of new words.
• Re-telling the story of 'Lost and Found' using props in the small world area. 

Physical Development

• Children show good control and co-ordination in large and small movements.
• Playing a range of running and chasing games. 
• Fine manipulative skills set up daily to improve children’s pencil control.

Literacy

• We will be continuing with our daily Read, Write Inc. groups.
• The children need to be bringing in their reading books on their reading day. Books can also be changed on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  We praise the children who regularly read at home to an adult and have a reward system in place.
• Descriptions of the Gruffalo.
• Letters to the Gruffalo

Mathematics

• Revising the formation of 11-20,
• Subtracting two one digit numbers using either objects or number lines. 

Understanding of the World

• Talking about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.

Expressive Arts and Design

• Children safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function. 
• Sea themed pictures in the art area using salt and paint.
• Creating clay Gruffalo figures in the malleable area.

Due to of the volume of drink money being collected, distributed and organising the change for drinks is beginning to take away valuable teaching time.  We kindly request that if you would like your child to purchase a drink (30p each) that they bring in the correct money daily in a labelled purse, envelope or wallet, which can be kept in your child's tray.

Learning Challenge
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, 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: Teddy bear, Teddy bear

Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Turn around!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Touch the ground!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Jump up high!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Touch the sky!

Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Bend down low!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Touch you toes!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Turn out the light!
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Say good night!

Painting: Illustrations Axel Scheffler (illustrator)

Person: Famous Disney character

	Nursery Rhyme	Painting	Person
Basic	Learn it off by heart	To find out 3 facts about the illustrator	Draw a portrait of the Disney character.
Advanced	Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme	To draw a picture in a similar style	Accompany your portrait with a caption about the Disney character.
Deep		Produce a collage of other pictures by the illustrator	Put your Disney character in a short story.

Green Fingers in the Nursery...

We had such a lot to do this week with our flower bed. The children dug up the daffodil bulbs, trimmed the leaves and carefully placed the bulbs in boxes so that they could be replanted in time for next spring. The children developed an understanding of the world around them, they were involved in conversations about roots and the purpose of them. Amelia said "They suck up the water". Iyinope said "They look like hairs".  The children talked about how the daffodils had previously looked. Lilly said "They had yellow flowers", many of the children were noticing the similarities and differences. Ife reflected about how the daffodils will look again. "They will grow tall and yellow" .

The children have asked to grow strawberry plants, we also have potatoes, tomatoes and a courgette plant. We look forward to doing some cooking with the produce. The children have already been talking about how they can care for the plants.  The children demonstrated resilience as they carried out the gardening, it was hard work but they persevered! 

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