Summer

Summer Term 1

Celebrations And Festivals

Responding to the seasons and the calendar gives a ‘shape’ to the children’s year in Nursery and provides special, one-off opportunities for exploration and learning such as festivals that are celebrated by groups of people emphasising togetherness and participation with one another.

Week Beginning:  Monday 18th April

St. George’s Day

Personal, Social And Emotional Development:

We are learning to think about our own needs and show sensitivity to the feelings of others. We will continue to learn about different cultures and the need to treat beliefs and views with respect. We are developing our confidence to try new experiences, to talk clearly to others and to cooperate and be honest with one another.

Physical Development:

We will be developing our ability to move with control and co-ordination using the small and large apparatus both inside and outside. We will be learning about how to be healthy; looking at the foods we eat and how we need to exercise. We will create models using a variety of materials including; big bricks, junk and water chutes. We will continue to practise fine motor skills to help with writing, drawing and using scissors.

Communication And Language:

We will be continuing to build on ability to talk to others and take turns in conversations. We will be learning to express ourselves clearly by speaking in complete sentences. We will be listening to others and participating in conversations about our learning during Key Group time. We will be joining in with the repeated refrains and phrases from our favourite rhymes and stories.

Literacy:

We will be developing our phonic knowledge and understanding by learning the sounds of the letters of the alphabet in Read Write Inc.

We will be reading and discussing a variety of books including ‘The Tiger who came to Tea’ and ‘the Three Little Pigs. We will be sequencing and retelling these stories using Story Sacks and puppets.

We will look at non–fiction books to retrieve information when finding out about plants and growing.

Mathematics:

We will be meeting the next characters in ‘Ten Town’: Seal Six, Sir Seven and Eric Eight.

We will be learning to represent numbers using our fingers, marks on paper or pictures and taking part in number problems.

We will be looking at similarities of shapes in the environment.

Understanding The World:

Week Beginning Monday 25th April is Science Week in Nursery

Nursery Acorns will be learning to ‘predict, observe, compare and discuss’

Through a wide range of exciting and unusual scientific activities in Nursery e.g.

• Giant Bubble making
• Bubble painting
• Magic Meringues
• Making moving puppets
• Exploring ice and ‘snow’
• Growing cress and pea shoots and planting carrots
• And many, many more!

Expressive Arts And Design

We will be using instruments and objects to identify changes in sounds. We will develop our imagination through music, dance, drama and stories.

Nursery Acorns will be taking part in weekly movement and music and ‘Write Dance’ sessions in the main school hall.

The Main Stories We Will Be Learning And Exploring About Will Be:

‘’The Three Little Pigs’ a traditional tale

‘St. George and the Dragon’

Non-fiction texts about life cycles of plants and gardening and people that help us in our community

How You Can Help Your Child:

• Please ensure that your child takes part in our ‘Read With Me’ Library Scheme – this will be starting in October
• When sharing a book with your child, please talk about the book, the pictures and what they can see happening. Encourage your child to tell a story using the pictures.
• Please encourage your child to count objects carefully, one by one, to at least ten and beyond
• Please encourage your child to talk about their learning at school
• Please help your child to learn a wide range of simple Nursery Rhymes – please speak to a member of the Nursery Team if you would like support with this
• Please make sure your child is wearing a named waterproof coat and suitable footwear every day. We go outside even when it is cold and raining!
• Please remember to take your child’s artwork home, out of their art work folder in Nursery, at least on a weekly basis.

Thursdays are ‘Movement and Music’ Days in Nursery

Please ensure that you send your child in socks, NOT tights, wearing NO jewellery and footwear that is easy for them to take off and put back on.