Farm Animals

I apologise if your children have been coming home mimicking all of our animal sounds this week, we have had a few cows, horses and dogs in our class, acting out farm scenes and naming the animals during play. 

The children are all speaking so much more English in class recently, telling stories from home and even when playing together,  and we are delighted! 

As always, we have begun making various animals for our farm scene coming up shortly.

We had very colourful chickens

Stripy farm cats

And we used shapes to make our dogs

We went out to the garden to collect and count the twigs, but then we got a bit distracted and decided to use the outdoor kitchen to make some pies

Then made some beautiful structures with the junk modelling

Next week we will be continuing with our farm animals with lots of activities for counting and recognising our letters. We now have three Read Write Inc groups. A few of the children are now blend the letters sounds and beginning to read. Group 2 are also blending the letters to make words and the third group are doing well recognising the letters and just beginning to blend. The children who need more support are also receiving this on an individual basis.

We continue with our maths activities on a daily basis but of course in nursery this is cross curricular and can also be maintained through creative, patio and group activities as well as specific structured lessons.

A very big part of Nursery education is learning social and self help skills, We encourage the children to do as much as possible independently e.g. putting on and taking off their babi's and shoes. Being able to clean themselves adequately when using the bathroom, we encourage the children to try but are always on hand to assist when required. We also encourage the children to call us if using the bathroom in order for us to help.

Have a great weekend

Miss Jackie

Farm Animals

We have come to the end of our mini topic on wild animals. I hope you have all had a chance to see our display featuring all of the children's hard work. They love to look at it and identify their own masterpiece and have the chance to tell mummies and daddies about it.

The children are really trying hard with their pencil control and some of them are even writing their own names without prompts! Please be aware however that it is quite normal for the children to still be practising holding their pencil correctly at this stage, rather than writing recognisable letters or their name. We do practice pencil control in class regularly but it is so important to remember that all of our children have special skills, not always the same ones. 

             

The children also try very hard during their Read Write Inc sessions and you can help your child at home by practising the letter sounds with them. If you need further information on this please let me know.

Each day we are doing math's activities, this can be recognising, matching numbers and counting objects.  Again you can help your child by looking at numbers in your home and counting familiar objects.

Enjoying the interactive whiteboard to count the cakes for the teddy.

We used our large motor skills to practice writing the letters during RWI

We drew around each other on patio using mathematical language, tall/small, long/short

And copied writing our numbers too!

Beginning our mini topic on Farm animals with some woolly sheep

And some cows too!

Then some relaxing time

Next week we will be continuing with our farm animals. We will also be organising our school trip to the farm very soon, I will send emails next week with all the information.

Important Reminders:

As the weather is getting warmer we ask please that children do not bring chocolate or yogurt snack to school as we do not have facilities to keep them cool.

Also with the warm weather could you please check your child's spare clothes bags and put in appropriate clothing in case of accidents in class.

Thank you and have a great weekend.

Miss Jackie

Animals, Wild Animals

Wild Animals

This week was a very short one so has been a very busy few days! We have been busy finishing off our activities for our mini topic on Wild Animals, learning lots of new language and facts about the animals we might find in the jungle or zoo. Using our stories and books the children enjoy joining in with familiar refrains and guessing what might happen next. As always it surprises me to realise just how much our little learners have learned about our environment.

We are also talking about how we can help the environment by not wasting water when we wash our hands and using less paper towels.

 

This week we had another special birthday....

Happy 4th Birthday Maria!

 

 

We ripped paper to make the tiger's stripes

 

Stuck the body pats together and folded the paper legs to make our monkeys

 

 

And then we had elephants

And of course we had some special gifts to make

Next week we will be continuing on our Animal topic but we will be moving on to look at animals we might find on the farm. We will be reading Old MacDonald had a Farm and also We went to visit a Farm One Day. If the children have any photos or books with farm animals it would be lovely for them to share with us during carpet time.

With RWI we are again changing the groups a little as the children naturally progress at different rates and it is important to involve them and keep them all interested.

We also continue with activities helping to recognise numbers and counting objects in class.

 

This week we have also begun practising for our summer show which will be Pirates v's Mermaids. After a lot of trials we have decided on the song for our Nursery dance, this will be Boogie Beebies Ocean Motion and can be found on Youtube. We will be dressing as sea creatures/animals.

 

Finally I hope all our lovely mummies have a wonderful Happy Mother's Day and enjoy spending time with your special little people!

Have a great weekend

 

Miss Jackie