Nursery Newsletter 8.5.17

Dear Parents,

      The children enjoyed sharing the story of 'The Very Busy Spider' last week. We created our own webs, used tweezers to collect spiders stuck in slime and learnt some new spider facts! This week we are reading the story of 'The Crunching, Munching, Caterpillar'.

                                                       

                                       DATES: Stay and Play - Friday 12th Morning: 9.00 Afternoon 12.45
                                             Polling Day: School Closed Thursday 8th June
                                              INSET Day: School closed on the 23rd June. 

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.
                       

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 ''The Farmer in the Dell" and "Mary had a Little Lamb" this week. They are encouraged to listen carefully to adults telling the rhymes and say the missing words.
This week we are focusing on rhyming and are playing lots of games to encourage the children to match rhyming words and begin to continue a rhyming string.

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 have lots of threading activities on our Finger Gym this week to support the children to develop hand eye co-ordination and strengthen their finger muscles.

    

Mathematics:

The children will learn about the formation and recognition of numbers through the Ten Town number stories. This week we will focus on four and five. We are supporting the children to match quantity to numeral and ensure that they are able to count correctly.
You will receive more information on Mathematics at the Stay and Play this Friday.

Expressive Art and Design
The children are exploring colours and mixing by creating butterfly prints this week.


Snack
This week we have a selection of crackers and snack a jacks. The children will be able to spread butter/soft cheese on top and will be able to wash up their resources after this.

Note: To ensure all children are safe and happy whilst waiting to enter please make sure children 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

Well done to everyone who completed a learning challenge last half term. We have had to extend the display board as we had so many lovely pieces of work to display!

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: 
A Little Seed
A little seed for me to sow,
A little soil to make it grow,
A little hold, a little pat,
A little wish, and that is that.
A little sun, a little shower.
A little while -
And then a flower!
Painting: 

Van Gough's Sunflower 

Nursery Rhyme	Painting
1.      Learn it off by heart. 2.      Draw a picture to illustrate the rhyme. 3. Why not grow your own plant from a seed and send in photographs of how it grows.	Create your own flower picture. You can be as creative as you like try using paint, crayon, printing or even forks!

We will also be learning about mini-beasts such as spiders and bumblebees over the half term. If your child is interested in this you could help them to create a poster/picture and share the facts they have found out. 

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

Guess who?

As you all know our topic this term is, growing and changing.  This is a fantastic topic which the children are thoroughly enjoying.  They have had the opportunity to explore growth and changes with creatures, plants and of course themselves.  All of the Reception children were asked to bring in a baby photo at the start of this term, as detailed in the newsletter for the last few weeks.  Thank you to all of the parents that have sent them in.  These photos have been a great tool for the children to identify, how they have been affected by change and growth and why this has occurred. Furthermore looking at baby photos has triggered conversations about past and present events.  

Amelia said "I think that is Sophia, she has dark hair"

Livi guessed "That must be Adrian there are two of them!"

You still have time to get the photos in to school.  If you have originals, we can copy them straight away and return them or email them directly to eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk.

You will have an opportunity to find out more about our topic during our Sharing Assembly on Wednesday 17th May, we look forward to seeing you there. 

Nursery Stay and Play

Nursery Stay and Play

You are invited to a stay and play session on Friday 12th May. The focus of this will be on supporting your child to achieve in Mathematics. 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 12.45 pm for afternoon Nursery children. 

The Very Busy Spider

Nursery children have enjoyed reading the story of 'The Very Busy Spider' this week. They have explored the green Jelly Baff and used tweezers to free the trapped spiders, carefully spun their own webs around paper plates, added legs to the numbered spider and retold the story using stick puppets. It has certainly been a very popular book choice and the children have found out lots of interesting spider facts too!

"Ahh look there's a scary spider in my web!" Oliver
"Help, free the spider... he's trapped!" Bella-Leigh

3...2...1...Play Dough Workstation

Last week, we opened the make your own play dough station for the children in Aspen class. All the children in Reception now have the opportunity to make their own play dough following the simple 3,2,1 written and picture instructions. 

The tactile properties of play dough make it super fun and enjoyable for all the children to explore as they find these resources easy to manipulate in different ways and a sense of achievement that they have made their own play dough. We endeavor to provide the right resources which challenge the children and develop their fine motor and language skills.  This is a skill we develop throughout the year so that by the summer term the children are independently completing this task therefore demonstrating progression.

Working as a team to make the play dough and following the instructions together. "We're making play dough." said Sophia.

"We need 2 squirts of paint." Tiren told Livi as they made their pink play dough together. 

Livi loved kneeling the mixture to make the play dough. "It's so soft." 

Reception Newsletter 02.05.17

Term: Summer 1                      Date: 02.0517

Dear Parents,

The children enjoyed reading the story of Jasper’s Beanstalk last week and we have been tracking the progress of our own beans.  We have also began to plant the vegetable garden, starting with turnips.

This week we will be reading  The Hungry Caterpillar  and completing linked activities, including caring for caterpillars and exploring the life cycle of a butterfly.  We also have a caterpillar workshop to look forward to next week.  

Our Learning Objectives for this term are:-

Personal, Social and Emotional:

Confident to speak to others about own needs, wants, interests and opinions.

To work as part of a group.

Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.

                       

Communication and Language:

Able to follow a story without pictures.

ELG: To answer how and why questions.

Listens and responds to ideas expressed by others in conversation or discussion.

Physical Development:

ELG: To move confidently in a range of ways.

Practices some appropriate safety measures without direct supervision.

Uses simple tools to effect changes to materials.

Literacy:

Uses vocabulary and forms of speech that are increasingly influenced by their experiences of books.

ELG: To read some common irregular words (red words).

Uses phonetic knowledge to write simple cvc words.

Mathematics:

ELG: They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.

To add single digit numbers.

To solve problems including doubling.

Expressive Art and Design:

Create simple representations of events, people and objects.

ELG: To use media and materials in original ways.

Experiment with changing songs.

Understanding the World:

They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.

Children know about similarities and  differences in relation to living things.  

Comments and asks questions about aspects of their familiar world such as the place where they live or the natural world.

Messages.

Well done again to all of the pupils who have been walking down the slope independently, as we have previously mentioned, this is in preparation for next year, when you will be leaving them at the main door.  Please be advised any messages you have for us in the mornings can be given to the staff on the main door who will pass them on.

Also thank you to all of you who have sent in your children's baby photos.  We look forward to receiving the rest of them, we can photocopy originals or you can email them to us directly.

Please remember the homework expectation in Reception is to read every day and learn the red words.  If you would like further homework please complete the Learning Challenge.

Reception’s Sharing Assembly - Wednesday 17th May

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, 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.

 Person:  Mr Bloom

 Piece of Art: Eric Carle - illustrator

  

Illustration by Eric Carle	Person: Mr Bloom
1.  To find out facts about the illustrator. 2. To make a collage of one of his illustrations. 3. To choose a favourite illustration and talk/write about why you like it.	Draw a portrait of the person. Find out facts about the person. Watch the person in action.

      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 Reception Team

                                       

Reception Star Readers!

Congratulations to our star readers this week! Kezia has now read 50 books to receive her silver star reader award and £5 book voucher. Ellie has read 75 books and has chosen 'The Book with no Pictures" to take home. Saarah has read 100 books gaining her gold star reader award. Well done!