Nursery

Nursery

Welcome to Lavender (am) and Tulip (pm) Nursery!

Your nursery team members are:

Mrs Dhillon, Mrs Cooling, Ms Jackson, Mrs Shaw and Miss King (Fridays)

We are also very fortunate to have Miss Khalid helping us in Nursery on Fridays

Summer 2 2023

This half term our topic is 'Toys'.

Our 'Big Question' is: 'Is everything what it appears to be?'

We will be learning about toys old and new and about what makes them move. We will be building and inventing our own simple toys using a range of materials, including robots!

Please have a look at the Medium Term Plan to find out what we will be covering and how it aims to meet the objectives of the Early Years curriculum framework.

This half term will also, for many of our children, be their final half term in Nursery before they move up into Reception in September. We will be working closely with the children and with yourselves to ensure that children are fully supported and prepared to progress to the next important stage in their learning and ae ready for the changes this will entail.

Medium Term Plan summer 2.docx

Each week you will receive a knowledge organiser which will show you everything your child will be learning that week so that you can share this learning at home. This is very powerful in strengthening your child's learning.

Week 1: Just Like Jasper

Week 2: Duck in a Truck

Week 3: Harry and the Robots

Week 4: Peace at Last

Week 5: Lulu and the Noisy Baby

Week 6: Rainbow Fish

Below are links to the stories we will be reading throughout the half term. Each of the stories will be accompanied by a story map which you will be given at the start of each week to share with your child.

Just Like Jasper Jasper goes to the toyshop with his Birthday money. What will he choose?

Duck in the Truck This is a wonderfully funny story about a duck who drives a truck. He gets stuck in some mud along the track and needs his animal friends to help him get his truck out. The story has lots of rhyming words which is our focus for our story of the week. Please explore the rhyming words in this book and also explore other rhyming words you may know. Make it into a fun game throughout the day, perhaps when yiu are out on a walk or in the shop. What rhymes with the many things you will see along the way?

HOME LEARNING

Please use the resources below if you cannot attend nursery.

Download our free nursery app; https://www.easypeasyapp.com/parents/1b0069

Communication and Language Development The BBC has produced an outstanding resource for professionals, but most importantly for parents. It provides lots of resources to support parents of children with children aged 0 to 5 with the development of vital communication and language skills. it includes easy to access videos for parents showing a range of activities which they can share with their child everyday which will support the development of your child's vocabulary. Communication and Language skills development from a very early stage are strongly linked with school attainment across all subjects, particularly English, Reading and Maths. The Nursery Rhymes section is extremely helpful and many of the rhymes have been translated into other languages - remember, home languages other than English are just as important for children in developing good communication and language skills so please do not see this as a barrier.

Tiny Happy People Website Get going with these fabulous, free resources!

Roy the Zebra This website provides lots of lovely resources to support your child's development of reading. There are lots of resources that you can print off and use with your child and also interactive games t develop their reading skills - many of which however are targeted at Year 1 children so may be a little too advanced for your child in Nursery. However, the stories of Roy's adventures are lovely t read with your child and each one comes with resources for you to support your discussions with your child about what you have read. It also provides a model for how you can approach shared reading of other books and stories. The stories come as flip pages and there is a sound button so that the children can hear the book read to them page by page, which would be a lovely thing for them to do after they have shared it with yourself. Encourage your child to re-tell the stories to you in their own words, and in any language, and encourage your child to actively integrate any new and unfamiliar vocabulary into their everyday spoken word - maybe have a word of the day for your child to focus upon using each day and in different ways - but please be sure they fully understand what the meaning of new words are before they use them!!! Have fun!

Young child benefit from some routine and dedicated time to them alone, where you can;