We have been really busy over the last few weeks at nursery and we wanted to share the children’s learning with you. We are  currently focusing on.

Health and Wellbeing                 

• supporting children to become familiar with the setting           
• establishing snack and lunch routines 
• developing sharing skills
• talking about rules that we need to follow
• continuing with signalong for returning children
• introducing signalong to new children,  the first two signs will be for hello and toilet

Literacy

• listening to stories, texts and other media 
• encouraging children to  share what they like or dislike about a story
• singing songs and rhymes
• experimenting with mark making
• opportunities for mark making and explaining what the writing means

Numeracy and Mathematics

• introducing name cards and supporting children to recognise their own name
• matching and sorting
• recognition of numbers
• saying forward and backward number sequences

PE

• introducing brief gymtime within the nursery room
•  learning about what happens to our bodies when we exercise

As a result of the children’s interests we now have:

•  an ice cream shop and a McDonald’s Drive Thru (Wed/Thurs)
• a variety of materials and resources  to extend children’s role play
• different loose parts/materials to allow for the development of schematic play (lots of interest in transporting)
• farm small world ( the children are particularly interested in animals, tractors and harvest Mon/Tues)
• a refurbished bug hotel  in the garden called Hotel Transylvania

Songs we are singing

• Old MacDonald Had A  Farm
• Baa Baa Black Sheep
• Down By The Station
• Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed
• Wind The Bobbin Up

Books we are reading and looking at:

                                                 Elephants and Giraffes

Monkeys and Tigers

It is  fantastic to see children back in nursery, filling it with smiles, laughter and activity.  Our returning children are coping so well  with all the changes we have had to implement in our setting  and we are extremely proud of them all.

A big thank you to our new families who braved the wind and the rain last Friday for their enrolment visit . We were so pleased to meet you all.