Nursery
WITH MRS CLAMP AND MRS DALVI
Hello Ducklings,
Please check this page regularly for messages and lots of activities to help support your child at home with their learning.
Mrs Clamp and Mrs Dalvi
Please email any questions to ips.ducklings@gmail.com
MEET THE TEAM
Class Teachers :
Mrs Clamp
Mrs Dalvi
CONtact Details
Here is our email address should you wish to contact us about your child or our nursery. Please note that this email address is only checked weekly, should you have anything urgent or important to discuss, please contact the school office:
ips.ducklings@gmail.com
Office email : office@intack.blackburn.sch.uk
Office phone number : 01254 52815
OUR CURRICULUM
Our curriculum is designed around the needs of our young children and is organised into seven areas of
Learning and Development.
Communication and Language experiences are about:
Listening, attention and Understanding
Speaking
Personal, Social and Emotional experiences are about:
Self Regulation
Managing Self
Building Relationships
Physical Development experiences are about:
Gross Motor Skills
Fine Motor Skills
Literacy experiences are about:
Comprehension
Word Reading
Writing
Mathematics experiences are about:
Number
Numerical Patterns
Understanding the World experiences are about:
Past and Present
People, Cultures and Communities
Expressive Arts & Design experiences are about:
Creating with Materials
Being Imaginative and Expressive
SPRING Term - What we be learning
Topic for Spring 1: We're Going on a Bear Hunt
This term our Topic is We're Going on a Bear Hunt. We will be reading and learning the story using props, masks and story maps. We will be using our investigation skills to learn about where bears like to live and using our senses to learn about the settings in the story.
Our key vocabulary is :
scared, wavy, over, under, through, swishy swashy, river, splash, splosh, mud, oozy, squelch, squerch, forest, stumble, trip, snowstorm, swirling, whirling, narrow, gloomy, tiptoe, shiny, furry, goggly and cave
Nursery Rhymes we are learning:
Grand Old Duke of York
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Round and Round the Garden
We focus lots of our time on singing nursery rhymes and learning actions for them.
You can watch and join in with We're Going on a Bear Hunt:
Literacy
Books we will enjoy during this half term
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Brown Bear Brown Bear
Getting ready to write
Squiggle Time. We enjoy squiggle time at nursery. In the videos you will be able to explore how we use dance to encourage mark making.
Using old wallpaper or lining paper and crayons explore some of the different movements that we have been exploring.
Use the videos in the phonics section of the learning platform to see videos of each of the different letter formations phrases.
Maths
Counting activities to try at home - counting the number of steps on the stairs, looking out for numbers on a walk, pairing up two socks, counting claps, hops and jumps.
Games to play together online
Numberblocks Teddy Numbers Picture Matching 5 Fat sausages
Links to stories that you can share together
Phonics
We follow Little Wandle Phonics in Nursery.
We play fun games with sounds daily. Please see the videos below that focus on the sounds in our scheme.
Sounds SATP video - Recap the sounds Autumn
Sounds INMD video - Recap the sounds Spring
Sounds GOCK video - Recap the sounds Spring
Sounds VWYZ - Recap the sounds Summer
Here are examples of some of the listening games we play at nursery.
Example of Bertha the Bus game
Communication and Language
In Nursery we listen to 5 stories or rhymes a day.
Please click here to listen to lots of songs and nursery rhymes.
Here are the links to our core rhymes this term. Please click the title and this will take you the video clip.
We set up different role play and small world areas that help children extend their vocabulary and use language . We have a home corner this term in our classroom.
We also have small world areas to help children learn and play. We will have a dolls house with family dolls. We also have small world vehicles to play with and explore things that are familiar to us.
We add enhancements weekly linked to topic and children's interests.
Children take part in language activities through the day .
Grown ups - you can send in a video of your child to the email address and we will share them with the class for a special rhyme time.
EAD
Music is part of everyday and incorporated into our routines, circle times and adult led activities.
We will add favourite songs to this page each week.
Routine song - www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6xQqjd649s
Scarves and movement songs www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTIx4AqP8FY
Children will be learning to use their imagination to make models in the construction area.
We will be developing our painting skills this half term. We will explore thick and thin brushes. We will explore brushes making firework pictures and splatter pictures.
Keeping ourSELVES fit and Healthy
Keep Active with these rhymes. Please click on the links.
Sticky Kids - Now it is Autumn
Learn about ways to keep fit and healthy with these clips.
Dental Health - Learn the Brush your teeth song
Cosmic Kids - keeping our bodies and minds well.
Toothbrushing has started with the 30 Hours children each day.
Personal, Social and Emotional
We follow the SCARF scheme for PSED. This terms theme is Marvellous Me!
Our circle time sessions will be based on the theme - Valuing Difference.
Our sessions will include :
Me and my friends
Friends and family
Including everyone
Understanding of the world
We will be learning about ourselves. Learning the names of our body parts and exploring our 5 senses.
We will be talking about our families and carers and the people that are special to us.
You could watch clips on cbeebies - Our Family. This is a cbeebies series that explores different types of families.
Seasonal changes - each term we will look at seasonal changes. This half term we will be looking at Winter. Objects of interest such as ice will be explored in our investigation trays.
Physical Development
Gross Motor
We use our outdoor area. We will be using the balancing and climbing equipment. Using the pedal bikes, balance bikes and scooters. Setting up obstacle courses that allow us to move and travel in different ways.
Fine Motor
Children - will be taking part in dough disco to develop our fine motor skills. At the start of each session fine motor activities will be available for all the children to take part in. We will have cutting activities with scissors, tweezers to pick up different objects, lacing and threading activities just to name a few.
Children are encourage to mark make inn our mark making area and outdoors.
Video of Dough Disco basic moves.
Dough Disco - use these video clips develop the muscles in your fingers ready for writing.
Make your own play dough at home by following this recipe.
Finger rhymes are also good ways to develop our fine motor skills -
Grandma's Glasses , Garden Workout
PENCIL READY SONG
If your child is ready to hold a pencil, here is a song to help get them to this.
Activity File Share
USEFUL WEBSITES
Cbeebies
IPS Home page
Phonic Games
Cosmic Kids