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WITH MRS BOARDMAN AND MRS DALVI
WITH MRS BOARDMAN AND MRS DALVI
Hello Ducklings,
We are so excited to welcome you and your children to a brand-new school year. We are so proud of the amazing curiosity, courage and perseverance the children have shown throughout this week. This week has been full of new faces, new routines, and lots of learning through play. Starting a new school year is a big milestone and we are so proud of them. Throughout this year we will celebrate their growth, discoveries and the wonderful memories that will be created in their learning journeys.
Please check this page regularly for messages and lots of activities to help support your child at home with their learning.
Mrs Boardman and Mrs Dalvi
Please email any questions to ips.ducklings@gmail.com
MEET THE TEAM
MEET THE TEAM
Class Teachers :
Mrs Boardman
Mrs Dalvi
oUR FIRST WEEK IN DUCKLINGS CLASS
oUR FIRST WEEK IN DUCKLINGS CLASS
CONtact Details
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. Each half term we have a key topic that children will explore with their adults and friends, both inside and outside the classroom. Our seven areas of learning are:
Communication and Language
Listening, attention and understanding
Speaking
Personal, Social and Emotional Development:
Self Regulation
Managing Self
Building Relationships
Physical Development:
Gross Motor Skills
Fine Motor Skills
Literacy:
Comprehension
Word Reading
Writing
Mathematics:
Number
Numerical Patterns
Understanding of the World:
Past and Present
People, Cultures and Communities
The Natural World
Expressive Arts & Design:
Creating with Materials
Being Imaginative and Expressive
Autumn term - What we be learning
Autumn term - What we be learning
Topic for Autumn 1:
This term we will be focusing on getting to know each other, establishing routines, following rules, exploring our classroom areas and beginning our school journey.
Our first nursery rhymes that we have started to learn are 'heads, shoulders, knees and toes' and 'five little ducks'.
Our topic this term is 'All about me'.
Literacy
Literacy
Getting ready to write
Our writing focus this half term include :
Use print a letter knowledge in early writing. For example: writing a pretend shopping list that starts at the top of the page; writing ‘m’ for mummy. At home you could write a shopping list together or write a celebration card together.
Write some or all of name. You could build your name with bottle tops. Simple put the letters on the plastic bottle tops and mix the letters. Ask your child to put them in the correct order. Encourage your child to have a go at writing their name using different pencils and pens to make the activity exciting.
Write some letters accurately. Encourage children to write letters on their pictures and creations made at home.
Early writing
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
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
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
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
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 creative skills this half term. We will painting and junk modelling to make props to help us retell the story.
Keeping ourSELVES fit and Healthy
Keeping ourSELVES fit and Healthy
Keep Active with these rhymes. Please click on the links.
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
Personal, Social and Emotional
We follow the SCARF scheme for PSED. This terms theme is Growing and Changing
Our sessions will include :
Growing and changing
When I was a baby
Girls, boys and families
The children that are getting ready to go to school in September will be taking part in transitional activities to prepare themselves for their new journey ahead.
Understanding of the world
Understanding of the world
Children will be talking about space linked to the story Whatever Next by Jill Murphy.
Please explore the BBC cbeebies website as their is lots of information all about space to explore. Click on the link which will take you to some interesting videos all about space.
Seasonal changes - each term we will look at seasonal changes. This half term we will be looking at Summer.
Activity File Share
Activity File Share
USEFUL WEBSITES
Cbeebies
IPS Home page
Phonic Games
Cosmic Kids
Google Sites
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