Nursery
WITH MRS CLAMP
Hello Ducklings,
This term our topic is Shimmer and Sparkle. We will be learning about lots of exciting events and festivals, such as, Bonfire Night and Christmas.
Welly Wednesdays still take place on a Wednesday with Mrs Forest. You will use this time to explore our Forest School area of the school with a mud kitchen, rope tyres and outside free play.
Please remember to bring your library books back every Thursday so you can borrow a new book each week!
Mrs Clamp
Please email any questions to ips.ducklings@gmail.com
MEET THE TEAM
Mrs Clamp
Hello, I am Mrs Clamp, Ducklings class teacher.
Meet my amazing team below.
Mrs Dalvi
Teaching Support Assistant
Miss Hajat
Teaching Support Assistant
Miss Barton
EYFS Apprentice
CONtact Details
Here is our email address should you wish to contact us about your child or our nursery:
ips.ducklings@gmail.com
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
AUTUMN term What we be learning
Shimmer and Sparkle
Vocabulary we will focus on: Light/Dark, Day/Night, shimmer, sparkle, shine, firework, rocket, bang , explode, lights
Books we will be reading:
Where is Spot? - Eric Hill
Rosie's Glasses - David Whamond
My World, Your World - Melanie Walsh
We All Have Different Families - Melissa Higgins
We will focus lots of our time on singing nursery rhymes and learning actions for them. We will also learn Christmas/Winter themed songs to perform at our 'Christmas Sing and Stay' which will take place in December.
Communication and Language
In Nursery we listen to 5 stories or rhymes a day.
Click here to listen to lots of songs and nursery rhymes.
Here are the links to our core rhymes this term.
Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes - please click here
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.
Me & My Relationships
-Marvellous Me!
-I’m Special
-People Who are Special to Me
Growing & Changing
-Growing & Changing in Nature
-When I was a baby
-Girls, boys & families
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 obstical courses that allow us to move and travel in different ways.
Fine Motor
We will be taking part in dough disco to develop our fine motor skills.
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
Our core texts
Our Little Wandle focus storybook this term is
Where's Lenny? - click here to listen to the story.
We will be listening to story and focusing on the new vocabulary in the book. We will add actions to the story as we explore new words such as sniffing, wagging and giggling.
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.
This term we are focusing on blending words from the box, playing Bertha the Bus which lets us focus on initial sounds and playing with the intial sounds in our names in the game name play.
We will share some videos over the half term of the games.
Maths
This half term (Autumn 2) we are learning to use the language of size, counting principles and comparing amounts of objects.
Our key vocabulary words :
Size : Notice, big, large, small, little
The ______ is smaller/larger than the _______.
Counting: count, how many, total, altogether, cardinal number
The cardinal number is _______.
Comparing: compare, more, fewer, same, equal
There are more _________ than ________ / there are fewer _________ than __________.
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. Compare the size of things within the home and when out abd about.
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 - Comare the sizes of the animals in the story.
Understanding of the world
We will be exploring celebrations and festivals including bonfire night and Christmas.
Listen to the story Sparks in the Sky to help introduce bonfire night to your child.
Learning about families.
Cbeebies Our Families have lots of clips exploring different families. Watch these together to help talk together about the clips.
Click the link to watch the clips.
Exploring how things work - toys – Exploring wind-up toys, pulleys, cogs with pegs and boards.
Cbeebies Maddie's Do you know have lots of clips exploring different types of toys and how the work. Watch these clips together to help talk about toys.
Click the link to watch the clips
EAD
We will be learning lots of new songs for our Christmas Sing and Stay. We will add a song each week so you can listen.
Make a firework print picture. Watch the video for ideas.
Keeping ourSELVES fit and Healthy
Keep Active with these Autumn rhymes.
Sticky Kids - Bonfire Night Rhyme
Sticky Kids - Now it is Autumn
Sticky Kids - Let's go walking
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.
Activity File Share
USEFUL WEBSITES
Cbeebies
IPS Home page
Phonic Games
Cosmic Kids