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Previously in Nursery - Week beginning 28/01/19
Our value this week is: Cooperation
Our song this week will be: Shape Songs
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
learning to be more independent and recapping on different ways we could help to put on our coats.
naming 2d shapes.
looking for 2d shapes in our nursery environment.
using magnetic 2d shapes to make arrangements and pictures.
playing a 2d snap game.
beginning to discuss the properties of 2d shapes, such as: how many sides? Are the sides straight or curved?
continuing to co-operate with each other and working as part of a teams, particularly during tidy up time
With your child at home this week you could:
Previously in Nursery - Week beginning 21/01/19
Our value this week is: Cooperation
Sesame Street: Big Bird sings "That's Cooperation"
Our song this week will be: Horsie, Horsie don't you stop!
Our story this week will continue to be:
Previously in Nursery - Week beginning 28/01/19
Our value this week is: Cooperation
Our song this week will be: Shape Songs
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
learning to be more independent and recapping on different ways we could help to put on our coats.
naming 2d shapes.
looking for 2d shapes in our nursery environment.
using magnetic 2d shapes to make arrangements and pictures.
playing a 2d snap game.
beginning to discuss the properties of 2d shapes, such as: how many sides? Are the sides straight or curved?
continuing to co-operate with each other and working as part of a teams, particularly during tidy up time
With your child at home this week you could:
Previously in Nursery - Week beginning 21/01/19
Our value this week is: Cooperation
Sesame Street: Big Bird sings "That's Cooperation"
Our song this week will be: Horsie, Horsie don't you stop!
Our story this week will continue to be:
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
Finding a large, mysterious egg in a box. We will describe the egg and talk about what could be inside it!
Making a Gingerbread Man as part of our Talk for Writing Story. We will be hoping that it wont jump out of the oven and run away on us.
Using a Sesame Street song (see above for the link) to learn about what cooperation means (very popular with the children).
Matching numbers and quantities using dragons and eggs.
Painting our own dragon.
With your child at home this week you could:
Use the internet to find a version of the Gingerbread Man. Does it have the same characters in it as the story we are reading in nursery?
Count a variety of different objects at home slowly and carefully taking your time. This is called 1:1 correspondence.
When we will be baking gingerbread men, the individual ingredients will all be mixed together and will change and become a dough. Can you think of anything that you make/eat at home where the process changes from beginning to end (for example weetabix - solid/crumbly at the beginning and then becomes a soft mixture once milk or water is added to it or pasta, rice, potatoes etc) Talk about these changes.
This week in Nursery - Week beginning 14/01/19
Our value this week is: Gratitude
Our poem this week will be: 'Pussy cat, pussy cat'
Our story this week will continue to be:
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
- learning a poem about a very famous cat who goes to visit the Queen in London
- looking at the phrase 'run, run as fast as you can, you cant catch me I'm the Gingerbread Man' from the story of the Gingerbread Man and we will introduce other action words (verbs) instead of run, such as jump, swim, hop, wiggle etc
- naming the characters from the story of the Gingerbread man and then ordering them from first to last.
- playing sharing games
- looking at pictures and answering 'why' questions about them
- following an instruction with 2 parts. For example: 'Pretend to sneeze and then touch your toes.'
With your child at home this week you could:
This week in Nursery - Week beginning 07/01/19
We are looking forward to starting the new term and hearing all about what you have been up to over the holidays. We have two new children starting this week (Airen and Finley) and we are sure they will be made very welcome as they settle in. The nursery staff would like to take this opportunity to thank our parents and children for the lovely cards and gifts we received at the end of last term. We were truly spoilt and you made us feel very special and appreciated, so thank you!
General Notices for this week
Our value this week is: Gratitude
Our songs this week will be: 'If you're thankful and you know it.....'
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
Welcome to Autumn Term 2 2018
Autumn Term 2 Curriculum Coverage Overview
Our Topic project for this half term is called:
'Is it Shiny?
Autumn 2 Topic Outline for Parents
Stay and Play Session
and
Christmas jumper Day!
Wednesday 19th December 2018
This week in Nursery - Week beginning 17/12/18
Our value this week is: Hope
Our songs this week will be: Christmas Songs, such as Jingle Bells, I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
using a bath brush and paint to make a Christmas wreath
making a Christmas Tree decoration using lolly lop sticks
decorating biscuits
writing Christmas cards
watching the Stickman movie (whilst we eat popcorn)
pulling a cracker and finding out what is inside it
wearing our Christmas Jumpers
playing games and singing songs at our Stay and play session (with Annette from Toddler Time)
With your child at home this week you could:
Nursery opens again on Monday 7th January
This week in Nursery - Week beginning 03/12/18
Our value this week is: Thoughtfulness
Our song this week will be: Christmas Performance Songs
Our stories this week will be:
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
With your child at home this week you could:
Previously in Nursery - Week beginning26/11/18
Post Box Walk Wednesday 28th November Thank you in advance to the parents/family members who have volunteered to go on this walk with us. It is very much appreciated. Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for the weather (especially wet weather) - coat, gloves, hat and sensible footwear, with a spare change of clothes (in day bag to be kept in nursery) just in case! Doors will open at 9.15am as usual, send your child to the toilet if needed and then take your child to the carpet to to registered. Mrs Copeland will brief parents and then we will begin our walk as close to 9.30am as we can. We hope to be back in nursery for 10.30am at the latest. Any questions, please see Mrs Copeland. |
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Our value this week is: Thoughtfulness
Our song this week will be: Christmas Performance Songs
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
reading the story of 'How to Catch a Star', focusing on the illustrations and answering simple recall questions.
imitating movement in response to music - an Aerobic Fitness song for children about stars. Touch the Stars
using the song 'Twinkle Twinkle' to play a parachute game.
exploring different solutions to observe which one makes our pennies the most shiny.
- going on our walk around the block to look for shapes and numbers. We will also post our very important letters at the post box on the way back to nursery.
- learning that a group of things changes in quantity when something is added or taken away.
With your child at home this week you could:
Previously in Nursery - Week beginning 19/11/18
Our value this week is: Self-Control
Our song this week will be: Christmas Performance Songs
Our story this week will be:'Were going on a Bear Hunt'
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
retelling the story of the Bear Hunt using illustrations and story actions
painting a picture of a bear by using a fork to make marks.
looking at objects that create noise and then using our listening ears to say what noise is being made from inside the noisy box.
beginning to sing our Christmas Performance Songs (Song sheets to go home later in the week).
moving around in lots of different ways to keep ourselves warm when playing and exploring outside.
learning how to hold our hands and arms when catching a ball.
looking at advertising logos to see if we can recognise any.
writing our letters to Father Christmas (ready to go on our Post Box walk next Wednesday 28th November)
With your child at home this week you could:
Previously in Nursery - Week beginning 12/11/18
Our value this week is: Self-Control
Our song this week will be: 'My Teddy Bear has ..........'
Our story this week will be:'Were going on a Bear Hunt'
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
With your child at home this week you could:
This week in Nursery in Nursery - Week beginning 05/11/18
launch our new topic for this Half Term, a treasure chest arrived in the classroom. I wonder what is in it? The children all got a chance to have a guess.
Our value this week is: Kindness
Our song this week will be:Tommy Thumb
Our number of the week will be: number 1
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
sharing our half term news with each other.
learning about the importance of November 5th.
using bright colours of paint and every day objects to make fire work pictures
thinking about why people are wearing poppies at the moment. We will make our own paper plate poppies to put up on our class display.
With your child at home this week:
Ask an adult to take you outside when it is dark. What can you see? What can you hear?
What does the word shiny mean? Can you think of any other words we could use for the word shiny? Go on a hunt around your house looking for shiny objects. Can you name them?
- Look through photographs that you have taken on a fun family day out. Discuss the photograph together. What can you remember about your day out? What did you enjoy most about your day out? Can you bring the photograph in to nursery to talk to us about it together and then to add to our 'Special times' display.
Autumn Term 1 2018
Our Topic project for this half term is called:
'Why do you love me so much?'
Previously in Nursery - Week beginning 22/10/18
Our value this week is: Kindness
Our song this week will be:Autumn Leaves are falling down
Our stories this week will be:
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
With your child at home this week:
Previously in Nursery - Week beginning 15/10/18
Our value this week is: Honesty
Our song/rhyme this week will be:
Our stories this week will be:
Some of the children have come in to nursery and asked me had I seen the apple tree outside in the garden. They had noticed it when they were waiting to come into nursery. This week it will be all about apples!
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
- using descriptive words to talk about apples
- reading a story about the secret shape that is found in the middle of an apple. (please do not try this at home until after your child has told you - it is a wonderful secret for us to share and then they can share with you at home)
- counting to 5 and then learning a rhyme to count down to 0 from 5 (see above)
- celebrating National Chocolate Week by making something that uses an apple and chocolate
- printing using apples
- talking about our value of the week and why we should not tell lies, regardless of how small they are!
- making our charity Christmas card, organised by the Howe Park School Friends group. More information to follow about this in the coming weeks as these will be available for you to buy.
With your child at home this week:
bake or make something together that has chocolate in the recipe
look for objects at home that your child can compare using the words big and small. For example:
sing a new nursery rhyme together. Use the BBC nursery rhymes website to help you. Click on the following link. BBC Nursery Rhymes
Previously in Nursery - Week beginning 08/10/18
Our value this week is: Honesty
Our songs this week will be: 1 2 3 4 5 once I caught a Fish Alive and Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
Our story this week will be:
This story is about the most beautiful fish in the ocean who is asked to share one of his shining scales with a little blue fish, and to which he refuses. All the other fish in the sea leave him alone, and he wondered why. He goes to the wise octopus for advice, and she tells him to give away/share his scales. Rainbow Fish reluctantly does so, except for one. In the end, he is less beautiful then he was before, but he has new friends and is now the happiest fish in the sea
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
exploring what is means to be a good sharer when we are in nursery (some of us are struggling to share at the moment.)
decorating our own rainbow fish and sharing out the special silver scales with each other. All fish will then be displayed on our display in the cloakroom area.
drawing pictures to represent the idea of numbers
reciting to 10 by singing a fish counting song
With your child at home this week:
Previously in Nursery - Week beginning 01/10/18
General Notice for this week
- coats
- outside of backpack/bag
- all spare clothes inside the backpack/bag
- lunch bag/boxes
- water bottles
Our value this week is: Trust
Our songs this week will be:
Wake up dance - This is our morning song that we have been learning the words and actions to. We sing this just before we either go off to adult led time or off to explore and play. This helps us to be fully wake and ready to go off and learn.
Our story of the week continues to be:
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
With your child at home this week:
Previously in Nursery - Week beginning 17/09/18
The children have now completed their settling in sessions and they are beginning to make friends and explore and play in the nursery environment, both inside and outside. I am really proud of how they are coping so far and it is so lovely already to hear the chatter as the children are getting to know each other.
This week we will be continue to learn our nursery routines - using our listening ears, looking eyes, thinking heads, speaking lips and concentrating hands, washing our hands before snack, eating snack, walking instead of running and tidying up!
Our songs this week will be: familiar nursery rhymes such as: Incy Wincy Spider, When I was 1 I sucked my thumb, Miss Polly had a dolly.
You can find the songs we will song this week on the BBC schools radio website. Click on the following link which will take you to the homepage. BBC early years nursery rhymes
Our value this week is: Friendship
Our story of the week is:
Some of our learning opportunities this week will include:
With your child at home this week:
practise putting on and taking off their coat
ask your child who she/he is playing with in nursery. Have any friends been made already?
discuss what the name of our class is - can you find out any facts about rabbits?
Previously in Nursery - Week beginning 10/09/18
The Plan for this week is as follows:
Monday - settling session with a parent(s) - 1 hour
Tuesday - settling session without a parent - 1 hour. Enter and leave the nursery via the nursery gates, not main reception.
Wednesday - settling session without a parent - 2 hours (9.15am - 11.15am). Enter and leave the nursery via the nursery gates, not main reception.
Thursday - children will attend for the full session - 9.15am-12.15pm. Some children will also attend the breakfast club, afternoon session and after school club.
Friday - children will attend for the full session - 9.15am-12.15pm.Some children will also attend the breakfast club, afternoon session and after school club.
Please remember to:
This week we will:
At home you could:
Tidy up time, tidy up time
everyone, everyone,
put it all away now, put it all away now,
till its done, till its done.
Tune: Frere Jacques
Put your fingers on your lips on your lips,
Put your fingers on your lips on your lips,
Put your fingers on your lips on your lips,
Put your finger on your lips and seal it like a zip,
Put your fingers on your lips on your lips.
Tune: If you're happy and you know it
Please do not hesitate to speak to me if you have any questions - big or small!
Mrs Copeland
Previously in Nursery - Week beginning 03/09/18
Hello to our new children and their families!
We are very busy putting the final touches in getting the nursery ready to welcome you all! This is always a very exciting, calm time at the beginning of the year as everything is all sprarkly clean and tidy and all set up ready for the new children to arrive.
I am looking forward to meeting you all this week when I come out on home visits. The nursery TA's will help to keep me right as we navigate our way around the area!
If you haven't done so already, have a walk to nursery or drive by this week and stop and have a look at your child's new environment! This will hopefully help to ease any little moments of anxiety that may be building up.
Remember to pack a backpack with 2 complete changes of clothing (including socks and pants, with everything named) and remember your child will also need a named water bottle as well.
Looking forward to meeting and chatting with you at some stage this week.
Mrs Copeland