Nursery School Newsletter 26

Hi All

Last week we focused on ‘pirates’, the children used and created their own maps, they went on treasure hunts and constructed pirate ships. They enjoyed learning about different flags / countries around the world and some made their own flags. The children made pirate props and went on to use them imaginatively in their play.

 

This week’s Nursery School highlights:

Forest School – Groups A & B did forest school last week and Groups C & D will be participating this coming week. The children had fun making mud pies for the mini beasts and enjoyed painting with mud using sticks as mark making tools. We also enjoyed a chocolate milk and a biscuit.

 

Maths – We have been focusing on shapes, the children have been identifying 2D shapes and comparing properties, they have also been making pictures using the different shapes. We will continue to explore shape this coming week.

Phonics – We have continued to focus on oral blending and segmenting, where we have been listening to phonemes (sounds) within words and remembering them in the order in which they occur. The children also enjoyed a game of ‘I spy’ on Friday where they had to identify only pictures beginning with ‘p’.

This week’s poem – Thunderstorm

Boom. Bang. Boom. Bang
Rumpety, lumpety, bump.
Zoom. Zam. Zoom. Zam.
Clipperty, clapperty, clump.
Rustles and bustles, and swishes and zings.
What wonderful noises a thunderstorm brings.

 

Reminders / Information

• Snack – Thank you for all the snack contributions, remember you can bring your donation on any day of the week if you are able – any fruit, veg or savoury option such as crackers, rice cakes, bread sticks is very much appreciated
• Sun Cream / Hats – Please remember to apply sun cream to your child before nursery, children who stay all day please provide a named sun cream to stay at school. We will help support your child to apply their cream but we will encourage them to apply it as independently as they can. The sponge style applicators (refillable) have proven to be the most successful – https://www.boots.com/solar-buddies-sun-cream-applicator-blue-10327374 along with the roll on sun creams. Please also bring in a named hat in for your child.
• Water Bottles – Please try to remember to put your child’s water bottle in the water caddies provided, these will then be used within session and then taken over to lunch and brought back again for those staying for lunch / all day.
• Wednesday the 5th of June – we will be having a visit from zoo lab as part of our big experience programme (morning and afternoon), if your child does not normally attend on a Wednesday but you would like them to attend please do let us know.

I hope you have all had a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you for the last week of term.

Kind regards

Zoe 😊