Welcome to Nursery

Welcome to Nursery

#proud

Meet the team

Teacher: Miss Edwards

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Szmyt

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Dixon

Weekly Timetable

PE Day - Monday

What have we done this term to make ourselves proud?

We are so proud of the children becoming more independent, making choices and some children are getting ready to move to Reception. The children are improving their listening skills and are enjoying longer stories.

We are also proud of the children learning their letter sounds and lots of children are now able to write their names. Some children have even started blending simple words.

In June, the children learnt all about VE day and thought about the brave soldiers that fought in the war. We are also super proud of the children that took part in the races during sports day.

Earlier this term we have been learning about cooking and growing. We learnt all about planting a seed and what it needs to grow. We then moved onto learning about the lifecycle of a caterpillar and enjoyed reading ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ We have taken advantage of the sunny weather and taken lots of our learning and snack times outside.

During the later part of the term, we were very excited to learn all about the beach and different sea creatures. We read a story called ‘Billy’s Bucket’ and discovered lots of different sea creatures living in there. We created our own buckets and practised cutting and sticking skills with to add our own sea creatures. We also loved reading the ‘Rainbow Fish’ and doing lots of creative activities based on the story.

During this half term we also thought about being a good friend and make friendship stones and sold them at the summer fete.

What we will be learning about in the Autumn Term.

Reading

In the Autumn term the children will be focussing on their listening skills and sitting on the carpet for short stories with their new friends. We will be paying attention to pictures and words and looking at books in the book corner. We will also use props to help us to tell stories and begin to repeat familiar phrases with our teacher. The books we will read during Family Time include; What I like About Me, The Colour Monster, We are Going on a Bear Hunt and The leaf Thief.

Writing

Theis half term we will enjoy drawing freely and making marks in lots of different ways including paint, coloured sand and messy play! It is very important for us to strengthen our gross and fine motor skills before we can write, so we will take part in lots of large movement activities as well as strengthening our fingers with play dough, tweezers and other fine motor activities.

Maths

At the beginning of Nursery we will be singing number rhymes using props and our fingers to help us count as well as using words like 'lots', 'more' and the 'same' to describe amounts of objects. We will be using lots of construction materials to build and be creative with shapes, comparing sizes and using large construction outside to experiment with how we can climb and squeeze into different spaces. We will count every day to help us know the day of the week and how many children are in Nursery.

Mini Adventures

Autumn 1 - All About Me

During this mini adventure we will:

2-3 years

*Know features of my own body.

*Know how to calm myself down.

*Know what I like and don’t like.

*Know the emotion happy and sad.

3-4 years

*Know the features of myself and my family.

*Know what makes me special.

*Know 3 different emotions.