Welcome to Nursery
In Nursery we are trying to be independent learners.
We are teaching the children how to put on their coats by themselves, wash and dry their hands, place their finished pictures in the going home box, tidying up after themselves, collecting their snack and brushing their teeth.
We would really appreciate if you could help us with these things at home.
Below are some links to hand washing, putting coats on, brushing teeth and helping themselves. Please look at the links and talk about how they can help themselves at home.
Click to view our Facebook page to see what activities Nursery children have engaged in recently.
Autumn 1
Welcome to all of our new Nursery children and parents.
Welcome back to all of our old Nursery children and parents.
This half term we will be learning 'all about me!'
We will be exploring ourselves, what we look like, how we have similar features to our friends but how we are all unique and individuals. We will look at similarities and difference between ourselves and our friends.
Please have a look at the links below with your children to enhance our learning at school.
This story helps us to think about growing up, we were shocked to learn that our grown ups used to be little like us!
Sometimes it feels like we will be small forever! Listen to this story, 'Titch, you'll soon grow into them'.
We will be reading stories such as 'Titch' (CLICK FOR STORY),
'I'm special I'm me' (CLICK HERE),
the large family stories and learning lots of new songs and rhymes.
We have enjoyed learning about the different celebrations and here you can see us making Rangoli patterns using paint and coloured rice.
Autumn 2
This half term we have been looking at 'Celebrations' and we have managed to explore a large variety of celebrations for ourselves and started to understand celebrations that other people have.
We have looked at Bonfire night -Woolly and Tigg firework day
Remembrance day - Remembrance video
Diwali - My Diwali celebration
Birthdays - Happy birthday story
and Christmas - The Christmas story
Please what the videos above with your children so that you can see what they have been learning.
Phonics in Nursery
We will be introducing the children to the Essential letters and sounds system that we use in school.
They have been learning phase 1 phonics which is about listening and attention. This is essential for children in Nursery as it helps our children to understand what they hear and react to what they hear.
Below are the 7 areas we look at in phase 1 phonics. Please take a look with your children to help them develop these skills.
Phase 1 environmental sounds
Phase 2 is now being taught to the children that are ready for this phase. If this is your child we will let you know. Please look at this link to help with their pronunciation of each sound. Jolly phonics
Please click here to see the poster showing why Essential letters and sounds is important.
To best support us in teaching your child to read, we ask that you spend at least 10 minutes a day reading with your child. This will hugely support them on their journey to becoming an independent reader.
We will be changing children’s books once a week on Thursday's. This will allow your child to re-read each text several times, building their confidence and fluency. Remember that children who can not recognise sounds yet can still tell a story using the pictures for clues.
For children, re-reading words and sentences that they can decode (sound out) until they are fluent (read with ease and precision) is a key part of learning to read. By reading texts several times, children have the greatest opportunity to achieve this fluency.
The texts sent home are carefully matched to the teaching taking place in school. Your child will be practising what they have been taught in school with you at home. We will only ask children to read books independently when they can decode these by themselves. These books will only be sent home when your child is ready. Most children will have story books which you can read to them and let them retell the story to you.
Any books that are not yet decodable for the children will be sent home as a sharing book. These books will be sent home for you to read with your child, helping us to instill a love of reading from the very beginning of their reading journey. These could be read together with your child reading the words they are able to decode or could be read to your child.
If you have any further questions or queries, please do not hesitate to ask.
Mrs Holroyd-Nunn has recorded a number of different stories for you to watch and enjoy while you are at home. Enjoy!
Here are a few websites I would like you to visit while you are at home and help the children to continue to develop their learning.
Click here to access Maths and English activities - ICT games
Click here for phonic activities - PhonicsPlay
Click here for support with Letters and Sounds
Click here for activities - free reading resources
Click here for free educational games - CBeebies
Click here for free educational games - Top Marks
Click here for free educational activities and on-line stories - Oxford Owl
Click here for Joe Wicks daily workout video's on YouTube. Live at 9.00am every day
Click here for 100 things to do indoors
Click here for Cross-Curricular Activities -Starters for STEM1
Nursery - I would like to hear about all the fabulous things you have been getting up to over the last few weeks. Send me a comment with help from you parents to let me know what you are enjoying or to ask a question if you are stuck with anything.
Keep in touch, Mrs Holroyd-Nunn
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