Health and Wellbeing
- learning about friendship and emotions
- developing the ability to share, take turns and be patient
- thinking and talking about rules that we need in nursery
- continue learning signalong, the signs for this fortnight will be waiting and gentle
Literacy
- listening to stories, texts and other media
- looking at books independently
- learning about the different parts of a book
- opportunities for mark making and explaining what the writing means
Numeracy and Mathematics
- continue learning to recognise and identify name cards
- matching and sorting
- recognition of numbers
- sequencing numerals
As a result of the children’s interests we will have:
- a continuation of our McDonald’s Drive Thru (Wed/Thurs)
- a variety of resources linked to dinosaurs and volcanoes
- interactive Autumn display
- discussions about different types of weather
Songs we are singing
Books we are going to be reading and looking at:
Elephants
Monkeys
Tigers
Giraffes
The Elephant and Giraffe Groups
The Monkey and Tiger Groups
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
Books we are reading and looking at:
Elephants and Giraffes
Monkeys and Tigers
St Mary’s RC Primary School, Haddington Joint Campus, Haddington, EH41 4DN
