Nursery
WITH MRS CLAMP AND MRS FORREST
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 Forrest
Please email any questions to ips.ducklings@gmail.com
MEET THE TEAM
Class Teachers :
Mrs Clamp
Mrs Forrest
Please meet our amazing team of support staff below :
Mrs Dalvi
Teaching Support Assistant
Miss Hajat
Teaching Support Assistant
Miss Mcdonough
Apprentice
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 2 : Bigger, Bigger and Bigger
Vocabulary we will focus on will be focused on gardening and growing.
Books we will be reading:
Jasper's Beanstalk By Mick Inkpen - Listen to the story here
Our Core Rhymes are :
Worm at the Bottom of the Garden - Listen to the rhyme here
Incy Wincy Spider - Listen to the rhyme here
We will focus lots of our time on singing nursery rhymes and learning actions for them. We listen to 5 stories or rhymes a day as part of our 5 a day.
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.
Heads, shoulders , knees and toes
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.
Personal, Social and Emotional
Our circle time sessions will be based on these themes.
Rights and Responsibilities
Looking after myself
Looking after others
Looking after my environment
We will be talking about keeping healthy - healthy eating and washing hands. Looking after others including baby dolls in the role play area. We will take part in litter picking with the litter pickers to keep our playground tidy. We will plant seeds this term and water them as we watch them grow.
Physical Development
Gross Motor
We will be all the equipment in the outdoor area each day. 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. Our focus skill is hopping.
Fine Motor
We 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.
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.
Literacy
Books we will enjoy during this half term
Fiction books - Superworm by Julia Donaldson, Errol's Garden
Non Fiction books - books about plants, growing and mini beasts
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.
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 - Autumn 2
Sounds INMD video - Spring 1
Sounds GOCK video - Spring 2
Example of Bertha the Bus game
Maths
Counting at every opportunity -Ideas for at home :
Everyday count in the daily routine. Snack time is a really good time to achieve this. Count out how many pieces of apple you would like or how many crackers you would like on the plate and so on. Count as you walk up or down the stairs. Count cars and other things on your daily walk.
Games to play together online
Numberblocks Teddy Numbers Picture Matching 5 Fat sausages
Links to stories that you can share together
The Hungry Caterpillar - Count the different foods together.
Big Bear, Small Mouse - Compare the sizes of the animals in the story.
Understanding of the world
As part of our topic work we will be exploring the Spring seasonal changes focusing on growing, planting and mini beasts. We will go on mini beast and bug walks in our forest school areas. We will set up mini beast investigation stations using bug catchers and learn to handle mini beasts with care.
Watch this video called What Mini beasts can you find?
Talk about mini beast that you might find in the garden or parks near to you.
EAD
We will be developing our collage skills. We will make a collaborative garden using lots of different materials.
Keeping ourSELVES fit and Healthy
Keep Active with these rhymes. Please click on the links.
Sticky Kids - How Does a Butterfly Go?
Danny Go - Millipede March
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.
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