Wow, what a week! We have hit the ground running. We have now started to learn our letter sounds. This week we have introduced m, a, s, t, d. More information on how we say and write the sounds can be found here, please take five minutes to find our more. Resist the temptation to race a head we will be taking it slow and steady and will not move on in haste. We will be sending home two sound mats this week for you to reinforce the sounds we are learning at home.
Here are a few short videos to work through over the next couple of weeks:
‘m’ click here
‘a’ click here
‘s’ click here
‘t’ click here
‘d’ click here
If you keep going back to the videos and spot objects around your environment it will help your child to remember! Also using your sound mat have a go at practising writing the sounds. Remember to say the rhyme as you write and to use duck fingers! Good luck everyone!
Meet Zero the Hero
We have started our Maths Mastery learning too! We met Zero the Hero.Ask you child how many ‘0’ is! Click here to watch.
We learnt that 0 means nothing…not even 1!
0 has no blocks…no blocks at all!
0 is one less than 1!
I have sent home a picture to colour in. When your child has finished send it back to nursery so that we can celebrate! Which brings me nicely on to this half terms My Happy Mind!
Why not ask your child if they can write this number the rhyme goes like this…‘round in a loop like an empty hoop’. Don't forget those duck fingers!
My Happy Mind
This half term we will be exploring our Character Strengths. Click on the button below to find out more and how you can support your child at home.
We will be creating a celebration board to documents everyone’s strengths. Watch this space!
Emma’s blog
Welcome back everyone, I hope you all had a fantastic break.
We have been very busy at nursery growing our brains and having lots of fun too!
It has been lovely seeing how the children have got right back into nursery life, learning, playing, helping and caring for each other, and most importantly, being kind to one another.
As it’s a new half term we are finding out about our bodies. Did you know, we all have a skeleton which is made up of 206 bones!!? We have been learning about our major organs, how to look after them by eating healthy foods and doing lots of exercise.
We played a game where the children worked their brains to sort which foods were healthy or unhealthy. Healthy foods got the 'thumbs up' group, and unhealthy foods got the 'thumbs down' group. The children agreed that they have unhealthy foods on their treat days.
To continue with the thread everyone had fun dancing to the skeleton song. We learnt how our skeletons bones are connected to another bone! Here is the song to enjoy at home. Click here.
Have a lovely weekend everyone. See you all on Monday for more brain growing.
Emma
Michelle’s blog
Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog.
I hope you all had a wonderful relaxing half-term.
We have jumped head first back into our learning this week. This week we have started learning our first letter sounds. We are also making sure we work those muscles in our hands and fingers that will enable us to be fantastic writers. Both Emma and I have been sending home activities to do at home to get our funky fingers strong. Please do look out for these activities in your child's book bag and please send it back for your child's next nursery session.
We have also had lots of fun learning about our bodies, starting will h our skeletons. The children needed some convincing that they all had a skeleton but we have learnt that we have 206 bones in our skeletons. We sang this song click here.
We were all fantastic on our trip to the library for story time. The librarian was impressed with how well everyone sat and listened to the the stories.
Our learning continues as we have started to learn about numbers, starting with zero the hero.
Have a look lovely weekend everyone
Michelle
Our trip to the library
On Wednesday we all went to St Annes Library for story time. It was quite a long way to walk but we did it!! We were all a bit tired when we got back though!
The Librarian read some spooky stories…oooooh!! The children sat so beautifully and did excellent listening. I was so very proud of them.
Click here to listen to one of the stories we read.
Fireworks
On Wednesday we started our fire work pictures. We started by making a HUGE splatter painting in the garden….sorry is everyone went home splattered, I know I did. We intend to do some ICT splatter pictures next, these shouldn’t be so messy!
Such fun! We are going to see how many colours we know the names of! Click here for the colour song! See how many colours your child can name…
Next week we are going to make a colour investigation table…we can’t wait!
If you are having fireworks at home or going to a bonfire remember to stay safe. We have been talking about the dangers of bonfires and fireworks. Click here for short video.
Worship
This week we read the parable of the Good Samaritan. Click here to watch and discuss at home. We have been trying to be even more kind and to love our neighbour as we would love ourselves…that’s what Jesus would want us to do.
Purple Mash
Purple Mash is an award-winning cross curricular website for nursery and primary school children, enabling them to explore and enhance their knowledge in a fun and creative way. Hosted online and compatible with all tablets and computers, it delivers an exciting mash-up of curriculum focused activities, creative tools, programs and games.
This we we will be sending home instructions on how to access the the website and also your childs unique login code. Keep a look our for work that is set from your childs key person too. Enjoy!!
Phew, I think that some of what we have been doing at nursery this week…we have achieved so much more!!! I think a well earned rest is in order thei weekend.
Have a lovely weekend everyone I will see you on Monday for another busy week!
Stay safe and God Bless
Barbara