Nursery
Hello, Nursery!
As we enter our final half term in Nursery, we are excited to tell you about our learning journey!
Mrs Williams, Mrs Carr-Colliver and Mrs Hall.
What We're Learning This Half-Term
Our learning this half-term will centre around this Topic and question:
Once upon a time… Can you tell me a story? (Traditional Tales)
COMMUNICATIONS AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Through our new topic, children will continue to learn new vocabulary and develop their conversational skills during group discussions, taking turns to speak.
Children will be developing appropriate ways of being assertive, talking with other to solve conflicts and problems.
We will be using traditional tales as a stimulus to talk and discuss different characters. Children will explore and talk about different story settings and events that happen in our text.
Physical Development
Through daily activities, children will continue to develop and use a comfortable grip with good control when holding pens and pencils as they practise name writing and enjoy other fine motor activities such as drawing and colouring.
Children will continue to develop their large-scale movement by balancing, riding (scooters, trikes and bikes) and ball skills in daily outdoor provision.
Through our Sports Day, children will practise key gross motor skills from running to balancing as well as having so much fun!
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Children will develop their understanding of how others might be feeling. Adults will be helping children to find solutions to problems and any conflicts that arise. For example, accepting that we need to take turns and share equipment and suggest ways we can do this.
Through our role play area ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ children will develop social skills such as taking turns and engaging in conversations based on familiar stories.
Literacy (Reading and Writing)
During this half term we will be exploring a range of traditional tales. Through daily literacy, story sessions and our reading area, children will continue to understand the five key concepts about print:
- print has meaning
- print can have different purposes - we read English text from left to right and from top to bottom
- the names of the different parts of a book
-Page sequencing
Children will use some of their print and letter knowledge in their early writing. For example: writing a pretend shopping list that starts at the top of the page; writing ‘m’ for mummy.
Some children will be able to write their first name in preparation for moving to Reception in September and others will continue to explore a variety of mark making activities.
Older children will continue daily Read Write Inc for their phonics and the younger children will continue to develop their listening and attention through our ‘Super Sounds’ programme.
Maths
Children will understand position through words alone – for example, “The bag is under the table,” – with no pointing. Children will begin to describe a sequence of events, real or fictional, using words such as ‘first’, ‘then...’ This will be developed through stories and discussions about typical life situations such as daily routines.
We will also be learning to describe a familiar route. Discuss routes and locations, using words like ‘in front of’ and ‘behind’.
Children will consolidate previous learning around size through stories such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears e.g. comparing the different sized bowls, spoons, chairs etc and using the relevant language.
Understanding the world
While exploring our topic on traditional tales children will continue to develop positive attitudes about the differences between people.
We will discuss characters from these familiar stories and talk about similarities and differences.
Expressive Arts and Design
Children will continue to draw with increasing complexity and detail, such as representing a face with a circle and including details. Children will also use drawing to their own represent ideas.
In the writing area, children will have opportunities to draw and colour characters and settings from the different traditional stories we will be learning. In the creative area, explore a variety of forms from collages to paintings.
We're looking forward to a terrific half-term filled with learning, exploration, and adventure.
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