Nursery Learning this week...

What's on this week in Nursery.................... Letters and Sounds: The children will continue to practice their rhyming skills and will be reading and variety of rhyming stories. We will be asking the children to spot the rhyming words and see if they can think of anymore..... We will be recapping the sounds s-a-t-p-i-n and learning two new sounds 'g' and 'o'. Number: This week we will be counting and ordering numbers to 20 and matching quantities all the way to 20, making sure we are counting accuratly. We will be finding different ways to split a number of objects in to two groups, for example - 5 objects (4+1) (3+2) etc... We will also be making sure we can recite numbers 1-10 in order and say which number comes next... In number this week we will be introducing a new number song 'The Biscuit Tin'...........The words are as follows.... 10 big biscuits in the biscuit tin...one little hand went driving in.....gobble gobble munch munch....gobble gobble CRUNCH.....now there's 9 big biscuits in the buscuit tin. The song continue until there are no biscuits left.... 'no big biscuits in the biscuit tin.....then my mum came walking in.....gobble gobble munch munch....gobble gobble CRUNCH.....now we're banned from biscuits in the biscuit tin!! Ask your child to sing you the tune - or come and ask us!! Thank you The Nursery Team

Witches, Wizards and Potions.....

Follwing the success of Science week and exploring our senses, the children have really enjoying making potions and mixing different ingredients together. This has led us on to our new theme of 'Witches, Wizards and Potions'! During last week the children began role playing being witches and wizards so we though we would enhance this further by creating a whole theme around this topic. The children this week will continue mixing and making potions and they will begin to write their own spells which we will collect and put in a class book of spells. We will be reading stories about witches and wizards and enjoying all things magical. If your child has any stories about Witches and spells etc, they are very welcome to bring them in and we can share them with the group. They can also bring in any witches/wizards hats/cloaks that will help enhance our role play. Looking forward to another great week! See you all tomorrow The Foundation Team

Nursery Learning this week.....

Our teaching sessions will focus on the following this week: Letter and Sounds: We will be sharing the story Each Peach Pear Plum and focusing on rhyming words. We will also be recapping the letters s-a-t-p and learning two new sounds 'i' and 'n'. Some children will be practicing spelling simple words that we can sound out and working really hard to form the letters correctly. Number: We will be introducing the word 'estimate' as we make really good guesses as to how many objects there are and then checking by accurately counting. We will also be matching quantities to numbers and thinking about who has more and who has less. We are also continuing with our Squiggle Whilst you Wiggle program and dancing at the 'Dough Disco'! You could have a Dough Disco at home......grab some playdough and turn up the music and let your fingers have a dance - have a look at this video for some inspiration. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-IfzeG1aC4 See you all tomorrow :0)

Whats on this week.....

This week in Early Years we will be continuing with our science theme. The children really enjoyed exploring their senses last week and will continue to do so throughout this week. We are setting up a Potion Lab outside, where the children will be mixing together all sorts of different smells. We would still really appreciate any donations of herbs and spices and anything smelly!! White shirts would also be great, so the children can really get into the scientist role. The children will also continue to experience the 'Dark Den' both inside and out. We have introduced stories for them to share using torch lights. We are trying to encourage the children to use a wider vocabulary when decribing textures, smells and sounds. You can help at home by introducing your children to interesting describing words such as, spiky, bumpy, stretchy, bendy, stinky, jingle etc. This week would like to children to either bring something in that is smelly or an interesting object that we can touch and feel. Please help us make the blog the really good, by sharing your comments below... Many Thanks The Foundation Team

Number rhymes

These are the number rhymes that we have been using in school Correct number formation is as important as letter formation, so you can use these at home to help your child..

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Science Week

This week across school is Science week. In early years we are going to use Nina and the Neurons as our stimulus. The children will be learning about all the five senses and exploring and investigating these through a range of exciting activities. We will become expert scientists and experiment with mixing potions, making smelly perfumes, experience the dark, investigate temperature, tantalise our taste buds and make beautiful music with our own instruments! These are to name but a few of the exciting activities we have planned!

If your child would like to bring something in that is connected to the senses, we would love to share these during key worker time.

We would also welcome any donations of the following;

• Old white shirts that we can us as lab coats
• Old dark material that we can use to make dark dens
• Eye masks that we can use as blindfolds
• Herbs from your garden that we can use to make smell pots and perfume
• Any textured objects that we can use feel and describe

Thank you in advance for your help. :0)

See you all on Monday.

The Foundation Team