Nursery
With Mrs Forrest & Mrs Naylor
Hello Nursery,
We are looking forward to learning and exploring this half term with you.
Please email any questions to ips.ducklings@gmail.com
Children have access to the outdoors daily so will need to wear clothes appropriate for the weather. Our forest school day is Wednesday. Please send your child in old clothes every Wednesday (we will provide the wellies) as we will be doing some outdoor activities in our forest school area and it can get very muddy!
Take care and Stay safe, Mrs Forrest, Mrs Naylor
Mrs Dalvi, Mrs Hajat, Miss Barton
Mrs Forrest
Ducklings Teacher
Mrs Naylor
Ducklings Teacher
Mrs Dalvi
Teaching Support Assistant
Miss Hajat
Teaching Support Assistant
Miss Barton
Apprentice
CONtact Details
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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
Summer term What we be learning
Come Outside
This half term we are going to be exploring the theme Come Outside. Our key question is "I wonder what is outside of our classroom?"
Children will be learning about the world around them. The children will be exploring the things they can see from our windows, playgrounds and field. Children will be encouraged to use their 5 senses to explore their environment. We will then look at other places that interest the children.
Weekly forest school will continue to take place on a Wednesday with Mrs Hackett. Children will be using this area to explore their natural environment. We will be using the mud slip and slide, rope tyres and mud kitchen as well as exploring free play in the areas.
Our key texts are Shark in the Park - By Nick Sharrett and Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
Our key vocabulary is : 5 senses , discover, investigate, look and find.
Vocabulary will be extended further as we explore what we discover.
SCHOOL READINESS
We will also be focusing on transtion to school with our older nursery children. We have sent the BwD School Readiness to all parents and carers. A text has been to send to parents containing a link to the document.
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.
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 focus this half term is Growing and Changing
Children will be learning to :
Describe seasonal changes
Use key vocabulary relating to natural change, e.g. weather, seasons, cold, hot
Describe the life cycle of an animal
Children will be learning to:
Talk about how babies change as they grow
Explain what babies need and how this changes as they grow
Share their own experiences and listen to those of the other
Children will be able to:
Talk about the similarities and differences between their friends
Begin to play inclusively with their friends
Think differently and more openly about what a family may look like.
Physical Development
Gross Motor
Playing games as part of a team
Parachute games
Fine Motor
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
Shark in the Park By Nick Sharrett
Videos of our key rhymes
Nursery 2 Children (starting school in September)
Learn to write own name. We are focusing on this for the children that are ready ready for Reception.
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 we are learning about weight, capacity and using positional language.
Our key vocabulary works :
Weight
Light and heavy and comparison
Capacity
Full, half full, empty and comparison
Positional language
Using language related to position and direction
Can you spot where monkey is? Watch this video to see.
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.
Numberblocks Teddy Numbers Underwater Counting Picture Matching
Understanding of the world
Growing - Make a cress head funny face pot. You will need a yogurt pot, cotton wool, kitchen roll, cress seeds, water, paints or markers. Watch the video to find out how to do this.
Watch the video together and talk about what happens in the video.
EAD
Collect and paint pebbles. Hide them in your local area for others to find.
Keeping our Bodies and minds fit and Healthy
Forest School
Here is a link to some fantastic gardening Ideas to try at home.
Activity File Share
Cbeebies
IPS Home page
Phase 1 Phonic Games
Cosmic Kids