Nursery

Welcome back, we hope you have had a lovely Easter holiday.  I would like to say a big thank you to all the parents that sent money in or attended Easter bingo, it was a fantastic fun. 

We have been very busy planning a fantastic half term for your children.  This half term our topic will be ‘In the Garden’.  We will be looking at what lives in the garden, identifying different mini-beasts, watching caterpillars turn into butterflies and learning all about their lifecycles.  We will be having some caterpillars in class so we can watch them turn into butterflies. 

In Literacy – We will be looking at non-fiction books and how we can get information from them about mini-beasts.  The children will be listening to different stories including lots of different Eric Carle books and they will be encouraged to talk about them. We will be continuing to practise our pencil control and grip when using mark making tools.  There will be a variety of mark-making experiences on offer for the children where they will be encouraged to use the correct letter formation.  We will be reading common words and continuing with our phonics program.

In Numeracy – We will be counting different objects to 5/10/20 and finding the correct number to represent the amounts.  We will be finding 1 more /1 less from a group of objects to 5 or 10.  We will be ordering and sequencing familiar events such as the different life cycles of the caterpillar.  We will also be looking at the sizes of objects and how we use mathematical language associated with this.

In Understanding the World – We will be encouraging the children to talk about some of the things they have seen e.g. mini-beasts in the garden.  We are continuing to develop an understanding of growth and change and how to show care and concern for living things in the environment.

Things you can do at home:

• Look for signs of change in the environment, can you see any new life?
• Practise counting and recognising numbers (1-5, 1-10 and 1-20).
• Adding on 1 more and taking 1 away from numbers to 5/10 and 20.
• Practise writing your child’s name using the correct letter formation.
• Have a look in your garden and see what you can find.
• Practise sounds learnt – we will be sending letter activities home.
• Completing your child’s homework with comments, so that we can assess how well the children have completed the task.

Please remember to send your child in suitable clothing for outdoors as we will be going out in all weathers.

We are looking forward to an exciting half term ahead. Thank you for all your support.

Nursery team – Mrs Brown and Mrs Larnder-Cox