Nursery w.c. 15/4/13

Phonics

This week we will recap the letter <i> & continue developing our oral segmenting skills.

Segmenting

Choose one of your child’s soft toy with your child to name as Toy Talk. Use the soft toy and ask your child to talk the toy in sound-talk, for example just before dinner time:

Let’s tell the toy what we eat our dinner with: eg a f-or-k

Let’s tell the toy what we drink out of:eg a c-u-p

Encourage scenarios which they could tell the toy or let them give him instructions. Then model the sound-talk for them to repeat. This is teaching them to segment words into their separate sounds. They will soon start the segmenting themselves. Leave the sound-talk toy freely available for them to practise and experiment with.

Say the sounds

When your child is used to hearing the toy say words in sound-talk and blending the individual sounds to make words, you may like this game.

Choose some objects with three sound/phoneme names that your child knows hide them in a box or bag. Let them pick an object out, and then ask them to try to say the separate sounds in the name of the object, just like the toy does (e.g. d-u-ck). Then blend the sounds back together to make the word duck.

* New letter *

Next week we will be learning to recognise, write & say the sound for the letter <l>.

Maths

This week we will be continuing our learning of numbers, recognising & ordering numbers 1 to 5, then 1 to 9.

Understanding the World

We will be talking about seasons again & looking at Spring. Look at the natural environment with your child and talk about what happens at this time of the year. 

We will also be looking at similarities and differences between different people, e.g comparing hair, eye or skin colour, height, etc. Talk to your child about some of the similarities and differences in relation to friends and family.

Here is an old post that Miss Atkinson prepared which I hope will be very useful to Nursery now!

Here is an old post that Miss Atkinson prepared which I hope will be very useful to Nursery now!

Meet The Characters....

Here is some background information I thought you might like about the characters......

 

 

Kipper is five years old and the baby of the family. He is very mischievous and is always getting into scrapes. He has a good imagination and loves the world of make believe. He takes his teddy bear 'Teddy' everywhere with him.

Biff is seven years old, like her twin brother Chip. She has good ideas but is sometimes bossy. She is an action girl but can be very clumsy; if there is a hole to fall into, she will fall into it!

Chip is seven and Biff's twin brother. He is quieter and more cautious than the others but is good at stopping their quarrels. Chip likes to take time to think about a problem. He is artistic and funny.

 Mum is the practical one of the family; if something needs fixing she is the one to do it whether it's unblocking the sink or building a new shed. She is patient and kind and can tell if any of the children are unhappy. Mum can often sense trouble coming before it happens!

Mum calls Dad the 'fourth child of the family'. He's always messing about and loves practical jokes.
Things often go wrong for Dad and he's a bit of a bodger around the house, but he's great at telling stories and organising games.

Floppy is a clever dog. He is called Floppy because he looks floppy and flops down to sleep when tired. He often gets muddy and likes to chase cats. Floppy carries 'The Magic Key' on his collar but would rather be burying a bone or having a nice snooze than going on adventures; he knows there will always be trouble, with a capital T!

Gran is an energetic, eccentric and wacky grandmother and can be a bit of a rebel. She lives in a cottage in the country and the children like to stay with her. She can be a worry to Mum and is sometimes embarrassing; she often acts as if she is a child herself!

Wilma is eight and the oldest of the children. She is very determined and likes to boss the gang around. Wilma is practical with bright ideas and common sense, but she always thinks that she is right. She likes to try to do things in the neatest possible way.

Wilf is seven years old. He is clever, in fact he is a walking encyclopaedia of facts! - but not a know-it-all. Wilf has a good imagination and likes to perform; this can be useful if the children find themselves in a difficult situation!

Hope this helps :-)

Nursery

Hi everyone,

Welcome back. I hope you had a great Easter. 

Just a quick update on the chicks:
They spent their Easter holidays at Mrs Smiths house. She looked after them well & they came back over double the size (and also very smelly!). Tomorrow, their new home is being constructed, and I am sure they will love the bigger space.

Last week we settled back in to the routine. In maths we were digit dancing & digit doodling. We looked at the number 3. Check out Shonette Bason's Digit Dance clip! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh7whodf3RA#
In phonics we continued to practice segmenting by playing 'Clapping Sounds' & we learned to recognise, write & say the sound for the letter <i>. Ask your children to tell you about my pet mouse 'Inky Mouse'!