Nursery Class Spring 2

Our theme this term has been 'Transport'. We began this half term by looking at the front cover of a book and discussing wat we thought it would be about.

After reading the story 'The Naughty Bus' by Jan and Jerry Oke, and learning all about his adventures, there was a knock on our door! The postman had brought us out very own parcel, I wonder what it could be?

What a shock! It was our very own Naughty Bus! I do hope that he behaves in our class...

The Naughty Bus reminded us to always brush our teeth before bed. This led to a discussion around dental hygiene and why it is important to look after our teeth.

We need to brush our teeth or we will have cavities.

They will get mucky and yellow.

Throughout the term we used the books The Naughty Bus, and The Train Ride to inspire us in Drawing Club. The Children were full of so many wonderful and imaginative ideas! Engaging in drawing club helps children to develop their imagination, fine motor and speaking skills. Nursery class thoroughly enjoy participating in Drawing Club and letting their imagination go wild.

Continuing to develop our shoulder and elbow pivot the children in nursery have been making marks using vehicles, creating their own 'magic wands' by wrapping ribbon around sticks, and taking part in daily Squiggle While you Wiggle sessions.

Below is a snapshot of some of the maths that has been taking place throughout this half term. The children have been exploring different ways of making amounts up to 5, counting out the correct amount of objects to match numerals to 5, recognising 2D and 3D shapes, and much much more!

We celebrated World Book Day 2024 by dressing up as our favourite book characters and sharing many books together throughout the session. We were also lucky to receive a visit from Mrs Padfield, Mr Garrood and Miss Dakin, who all came into nursery to read stories to our children.

The N2 children are making great progress at writing letters from their first name. They are working hard to master the correct formation of each letter.

The N1 children have been making pre writing marks which will help them to write their name in the future.

We've had a mixed bag of weather this half term with our fair share of rain. Not to worry though as this doesn't stop Nursery class enjoying spending time outside.

Transporting water on a large scale requires communication and teamwork. The children help each other fill up different containers to transport the water, and work together to problem solve, making sure that they don't loose any water in the process.

Nursery children have also been busy working away in the mud kitchen. Here you can try "rainbow unicorn pie", "Let it go pie", or "mud sausages", all of which are truly delicious.

It is very important to get each order correct so the children used their communication skills to ask their customers what they would like to order before writing it down for the chef.

This term the children noticed that the playdough is now a plain cream colour, they then realised that felt tip pens have been added into the dough area continuous provision. Colouring the dough is now the children's responsibility by using felt tip pens. Using the felt tip pens to make marks in the dough gives the children the chance to add further details and imagination to their work.

Or key text this half term was 'We all go travelling by'. The children in nursery have enjoyed listening to this story and can now independently retell it using the story map.

We finished this half term by participating in an Easter egg competition, I am sure you will agree that each and every one of these eggs are just fantastic. Well done everybody.

Summer term 1

In Summer term 1 our theme for learning will be based around Geography. Here are some of the books that we will be sharing together:

The key story that we will be retelling using a text map is 'We're going on a Bear hunt'.

Phonics

In phonics next half term the N2 children will be:

This half term there will be a focus around oral blending and segmenting of 1 syllable words.
Continuing to be introduced to 2 new phonemes per week.
Revisiting and embedding continuing rhyming strings and alliterative phrases.
Embedding hearing and saying initial sounds in words.

The N1 children will be engaging in rhythmic and body percussion activities that develop their listening skills and ability to remember simple patterns.

Maths

In maths over the next half term children in nursery will be:

Recognising numerals to 5 and beyond
Subitise amounts up to 3 accurately and begin to subitise amounts up to 5.
Recite numbers past 5 forwards and backwards.
Use 2d and 3d shapes when building and describe them using taught vocabulary.
Create and continue ABAB patterns.
Order and make comparisons between objects according to size and use vocabulary to describe them such as longer, longest, shorter, shortest.

Communication and Language

To further develop your child's communication and language development over the next half term they will be:

Encouraged to communicate using longer sentences.
Continue to build a wider range of vocabulary by sharing books with familiar adults.
Sing a variety of songs and recite poems from Poetry Basket.
Continuing to embed the ability of engaging in back and forth conversation.

Physical development

To further develop your child's fine motor skills over the next half term they will be:

Continue to participate in daily Dough Disco sessions.
Embed the ability to safely hold and use scissors.
Continuing to fasten and unfasten buttons and zips.
When mark making children will be encouraged to use a tripod grip if developmentally appropriate.

To further develop your child's gross motor skills over then next half term they will be:

Continue to participate in daily Squiggle While you Wiggle sessions.
Embed the ability to remember and copy a sequences of movement.
Begin to develop group activities which they have made up themselves.
Begin to co-operate with others during group activities.

Personal, Social and Emotional development.

To further support children in their Personal, Social and Emotional Development adults in nursery will:

Encourage them how others might be feeling during play.
Continue to develop children's emotional literacy by discussing feelings and what makes us feel this way.
Help children to talk through any conflicts that may occur.

Literacy

All children will engage in activities that promote pre writing marks. N2 children will continue to learn how to correctly form letters from their name.

Children will also:

- Be encouraged to engage in extended conversations around stories, characters and settings.

- Learn to name the different parts of a book, front cover, back cover, title, author, blurb, picture, writing.