Year: Nursery

Week beginning: 19th October 2020

This week in teaching time we have :

Continued practising counting at snack time, making sure the number of cups matches the number of children!

Learnt about ‘whole body listening’ and what that looks like- we have our eyes facing forwards, our ears and brains working, our mouth quiet and our feet and hands still. The children are doing it so well!

Learnt the words ‘wool’ and ‘full’ as part of ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’. We learnt the Makaton signs for these two words.

Read books with rhyming words in such as ‘Monsters love Colours’.

Continued to practise putting our own coats on using the ‘flip’ method.

Next week we will:

Continue to Investigate number 3 in many different ways

Sing Hickory Dickory Dock and learn the concepts ‘up’ and ‘down’

Continue to listen carefully to sounds that are familiar to us and differentiate between the sounds of different instruments. This is an essential pre reading skill

Other nursery learning as part of our continuous provision :

We have, amongst other things…..

Made collages with different textures, explored using paintbrushes with chalks, been creative on the touch board, had fun doing Cosmic Yoga, worked as a team to sweep up leaves outside, caught the rain drops from the shelter in different sized containers, made creative pictures with placement and arrangement objects, washed babies in the water tray, made pizzas in the mud kitchen, and  parked toy cars in numbered parking bays. We have 3 new balance bikes to play with which is very exciting for the children

Reminders

• Please make sure all your child’s coat is named
• Please ensure NO NUT products are in your child’s lunch
• If your child has a yoghurt please include a spoon
• Please check that you can access updates from Tapestry as we are sending out photos of your children learning in Nursery. The school office has sent you another log in reminder this week.

Dates for your diary:

• Parent consultations about how your child has settled into nursery will take place in the week beginning 19^th October. Please sign up for a telephone appointments on Parentmail.  The school office has sent out reminders of how to join Parentmail. You must be signed up or unfortunately, a telephone appointment can’t be booked.
• Tapestry in now live. Please make sure you can access this from your device as we will be sending out photos of your child regularly.
• Half term is 26^th October-30^th October
• Monday 2^nd November is an Inset day. Nursery and school will be closed that day.