Brown Bear Brown Bear

Brown Bear Brown Bear

We have had so much fun this week reading our story of Brown Bear Brown Bear. We have been decorating and looking at the colours of all the animals and the children love retelling the story over again repeating all the familiar refrains and being able to name the characters before we turn the page!

We are learning all about colour and using different media to decorate the animals from painting, cutting and sticking and using lots of language describing and naming them.

You can find the book on Youtube, by Eric Carle. Please read this with your child, encouraging him/her to recite the story along with you.

 

 

 

We used the number tiles on patio to sequence and name the numbers....and to jump onto the correct tile. 

 

 

We are learning to hold the pencil correctly and to trace the letters of our name.

 

Thank you so much to the parents who sent in some more photos of our Halloween dance. Don't they all look fantastic?

 

Next week we will be finishing off on our topic of colour with our Brown Bear book.  We will be practising mark making using our fingers and pencils to write in sand, helping to develop  our muscles to enable us to write in the future.

We continue to work with our numbers throughout the year, reinforcing sequencing and number recognition. We will also be following pattern using coloured beads on string.

This week for P:E the children participated in our yoga class and really enjoyed it, being able to follow instructions to complete it successfully.

We will also be practising for our Christmas show...yes it's that time already!

This year the nursery class will be performing as STARS in our play, I will be sending out letters next week with examples of costumes to be worn and final details of where and when we will be performing.

 

Important reminders:

Can I please ask that parents put their child's name on everything they bring to school, including water bottles and snack boxes as it is sometimes difficult for the children to identify their belongings.

We ask that if the children have grapes for snack to please cut them length wise to prevent them being a choking hazard.

Also please be aware that the school has a 'Breakfast Club' situated in the dining room. If you are short of time in the morning your child is welcome to take advantage of this service until 8.30am when Nursery patio will be staffed until school registration at 8.45am. It is important that the children are present in class for 8.45am which is when we have our register and morning routines where the children get so much input in English and learn what we are going to be doing in class each day.

 

Thank you for your continued support,

Have a great weekend

Miss Jackie





 



 



Colours

Colours, Colours Everywhere!

We have started our new topic on Colours, the children have been doing lots of activities to reinforce their knowledge of the colour and colour names in English.

We have been reading the book Brown Bear Brown Bear and they are already repeating the familiar refrains and anticipating the next animal....and colour before we turn the page. It's becoming quite a competition on carpet time.

This week we looked at Red, Yellow and Blue with our Red Bird, Blue Horse and Yellow Duck collages. 

We have been using the tablet this week to reinforce our numbers and everyone is trying so hard and are very proud when they can name the correct numbers.

We have also been using the child scissors to cut magazines, helping to reinforce the muscles in our hands to help get ready for writing and mark making in class.

We have been learning how to form the numbers correctly, using our fingers on the tablet.

We have also been learning about the importance of friends, helping each other, sharing and being kind to each other.

We love creative activities and different ways of mark making.

Then we had Yoga for P.E. and they did so well!

And fun times in our mud kitchen!

Next week we will be continuing with our topic on Colour and with our Brown Bear Book.

For Phonics we will be doing our Phonic Songs and Phase one sounds.

Maths, we will be continuing with our number recognition and learning that we can count objects to match the numeral.

We will be looking at colours green, purple, and orange, making our collage animals and finding objects in the class to match the colour.

You may have noticed we have been moving classrooms recently, we are now in the 'old' Nursery Creative room and will be staying there. The other room across the hall will still be used for Music and Movement, P.E, siesta and also for one-one support for the children among other things.

We will now have free access to the outside classroom and also to the bathrooms to encourage independence for the children. I apologise for all the upheaval in the past few weeks!

I hope you all have a great weekend,

Miss Jackie

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween

The children al had a fantastic day celebrating Halloween with their friends in school. They all really enjoyed our dance and spooky parade! It is so intimidating for the little ones to go out there in front of all those people and I'm super proud of how well they all did!

I have used this weeks blog to post some photos of them all, (we will be back to normal service next week).

I didn't manage to get any photographs of the actual dance or parade so if any the mummies and daddies have anything I would love you to share.

 

One or two of our little ones were a bit afraid of the costumes but had a great time once the parade was over when we had lots of fun activities to do in class.

 

 

 

Next week we will be starting our new topic of Colour. We will be doing so many activities enabling us to recognise and name colours in our environment. You can help your child by reinforcing this at home, pointing out objects in your home or while outside and asking the colours and repeating the colour names in English. We will be using one of our favourite stories to help. Brown Bear Brown Bear by Eric Carle, helping the children to join in with repeated refrains and anticipating key events and phrases. This can also be found on Yutube.

We also use lots of songs about colour for example on Youtube:  Dream English Kids, Super Simple and Kids TV123.

Of course each week we continue with our maths activities and literacy which we do on a daily basis. The children have been doing so well recognising sounds in the environment and also letter sounds. We are continuing with activities to recognise and name numbers 1-5 but some of our more confident children are already recognising numbers to 20. For this reason we adapt all our lessons to include more challenging outcomes to ensure we enable all of our children to fly at their own pace.

 

I hope you have all had a happy and relaxing holiday and we look forward to seeing everyone back on Monday.

Miss Jackie