It’s been another busy week in nursery! The children have been busy learning all of the songs and practicing for their upcoming nativity performance. During their adult direction time, nursery have been learning the story ‘Dear Zoo’ and have been thinking about describing words for the characters in the story. They have also enjoyed exploring the frost in the natural environment and thinking about freezing and melting.

KEY INFORMATION FOR NEXT WEEK

The ‘Favourite Five’ story next week will be ‘Sharing a Shell’ by Julia Donaldson which links to Personal, Social and Emotional Development as the children think about sharing.

Key Vocabulary to share with your child:

• shell
• share
• gull
• empty
• scuttle
• safe
• blob
• anemone
• tentacle
• grown

Nursery will continue to practice their Nativity songs next week.

For their adult directed learning, nursery will be learning to find ‘how many?’ using the story The Magic Little Sleigh by Anna Claybourne. Below is some key vocabulary to support your child’s learning:

• same
• how many?
• sort
• number
• amount
• numeral
• match
• count
• accurately.

SOS WINNERS

The Secrets of Success award this week was for Concentrate – well done to Fauja, Esme, Sophia and Chloe who have shown they can really focus on their learning.

LEARNING JOURNEY SHARING

This week, it was orange group’s turn to take their learning journeys home to share all of their hard work with their families. Please remember to return on Monday.

key dates

4th December – Bedtime Stories

14th December – EYFS Nativity

What a great week in nursery! The children have been busy learning all of the songs and practicing for their upcoming nativity performance. During their adult direction time, nursery have been learning about 2-dimenional shapes and their properties and thinking about selecting appropriate shapes to make pictures.

key information for next week

The ‘Favourite Five’ story next week will be ‘One Snowy Night’ by Nick Butterworth which links to our learning about seasonal change as we move into the winter months and approach Christmas.

Key Vocabulary to share with your child:

• warm
• hut
• cosy
• blanket
• hot cocoa
• miserable
• shivering
• shoved

Nursery will continue to practice their Nativity songs next week.

For Nursery’s adult-directed learning, the children will be learning the story ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell thinking about adjectives to describe the animals in the story. They will be representing their ideas through mark-making and role play.

Key Vocabulary:

• adjective
• wrote
• fierce
• danger
• grumpy
• naughty
• perfect

sos winners

The Secrets of Success award this week was for Try New Things – the winning children have shown that they are brave and willing to try things that they haven’t done before! So, a huge well done to Roniel, Emilia, Oliver and Tillie.

learning journey sharing

This week, it was green group’s turn to take their learning journeys home to share all of their hard work with their families. Please remember to return on Monday.

It has been a very busy week in nursery!

This week, nursery children have been identifying rhyming words in the story ‘Oi Frog!’ by Kes Gray. They have acted out parts of the story and have used mark-making to represent their ideas. During project learning time, children have responded to the provocation “What’s inside a spiral?” and have studied different artists and then have selected different media to represent their ideas.

phonics stay aND learn

During Nursery’s phonics and Maths time, parents were invited in to see their children’s learning this week. Thank you to all of those that were able to attend.

attingham park trip

EYFS went to Attingham Park to explore seasonal change in the natural environment. Thank you to everyone that was able to support the trip.

key information for next week

The ‘Favourite Five’ story next week will be ‘Binny’s Dawili’ to consolidate the children’s learning about Diwali.

Key Vocabulary to share with your child:

• festival of lights
• sari – dress
• jalebis – orange discs
• pedas- milk
• diyas – oil lamps
• Hindu

For Nursery’s adult-directed learning, the children will be learning about 2-Dimensional shapes – circles, triangle, squares and rectangles. They will be thinking about their properties and identifying shapes in the EYFS environment.

Key Vocabulary:

• 2D shapes
• circle
• square
• triangle
• rectangle
• sides
• face
• vertices

sos winners

The Secrets of Success award this week was for Working Hard – the winning children have shown that they are willing to work hard and not give up. Well done to Harry, Esmae, Shernice and Roman.

Nursery have had a great third week! They have spent time as ‘Nature Detectives’ in Forest School and have discovered caterpillars, butterflies, ladybirds, crane flies and have been investigating the wildlife in the pond area.

In their adult-directed time, the children have been using the equipment for physical development – riding scooters, balancing on the trim trail and practising their throwing and catching skills.

key information for next week

Our focus story will be ‘Don’t Touch my Hair’ by Sharee Miller. This story links to our focus work around ourselves, our communities, respecting each other’s differences and how we follow our Golden Rules in order to keep each other safe. This is also good in preparation for the whole school focus of Black History Week (WB 3.10).

Here is a link to the story to share with your child. Don’t forget to go and visit the library, if you can, to attempt to find a copy of the story too!

Key vocabulary:

• bouncy
• styled
• wild
• free
• compliments
• curious
• permission
• lonely

Our focus song this week is ‘Gonna Build a House’, this links to our project learning where we are learning about human features in the local environment, as part of our learning in Geography.

Please share the key vocabulary with your child.

Sos winners

This week the Secrets of Success this week was for ‘Trying New Things’, all of our winners have shown that they are brave and are willing to put themselves out of their comfort zones, a huge well done to Roniel, Angela-Jayne, Charlie and Chloe.

books with breakfast

On Friday 29th September, EYFS will be hosting ‘Books with Breakfast’ where the grown ups are invited into the setting before school to share stories and breakfast with their children. If you would like to attend, please ensure you return the slip to your child’s teacher.