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The Nursery team are:
We are so proud of how all of the children have settled in to the Nursery. Below is what we are working on this term!
We will be working with the children to:
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Listen to adults and peers in all contexts of nursery environment.
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Have opportunities to talk to friends, partners, whole class, and circle time.
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To express their ideas, thoughts and emotions using words.
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Become familiar with seasonal language related to Autumn.
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Join in with songs and rhymes, copying sounds, rhythms, tunes and tempo.
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Weekly Nursery Rhyme focus beginning with – Baa Baa Black sheep and following weeks will include, Humpty Dumpty, Incy Wincy Spider, The Grand Old Duke of York, Hickory Dickory Dock.
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Encourage children to join in with songs, known texts and repeated refrains.
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Use Expresso
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Name card recognition
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Model rhyming words and encourage children to notice these in stories, rhymes and songs.
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Enjoy sharing books with an adult.
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Have favourite books and seek them out to share with an adult, with another child or to look at alone.
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Opportunities to access to a wide variety of writing tools, materials and resources.
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Add some marks to their drawings which they give meaning to.
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Make marks on their picture to stand for their name.
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Encourage children to label their work and write captions.
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Opportunities for independent book making activities.
This first term our RE topic is titled ‘Creation and Covenant’.
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We will be learning about Gods Love for us all, how we are special to God, our families, our school and our communities.
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We will learn about the Holy Bible and listen to some stories from the Bible, beginning with the story of Creation.
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We will be listening to and learning these stories using pictures, props and role play.
In the second part of the term our RE topic will be ‘Prophecy and Promise’
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We will learn the significance of the colour purple within the church’s year.
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The children will hear the Christmas story and think about how we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
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We will continue with our daily acts of worship and experience praying with others as a celebration..
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We will continue with our daily acts of worship and experience praying with others as a celebration.
Working with number - number songs, rhymes and stories.
Introduce ‘Subitise’- to recognise quantities without counting up to 5.
Show finger numbers up to 5.
Join in with counting songs and rhymes.
Sequence numbers, match numbers to quantities and count out objects with one to one correspondence.
Shape
Talk about and explore 2D shapes
Numerical Patterns
Experiment with their own symbols and marks as well as numerals.
We will be working with the children to:
Autumn - explore and recognise the changes in weather and what clothes to wear.
Come to know about Autumn, look at the changes to the leaves. Think about what clothes to wear and how to keep warm.
We will work on our senses of taste, sight, listening and touch to describe objects etc.
We will be working with the children to:
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Continue to develop fine motor skills using a variety of resources - pens, chalk, paints, scissors etc.
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Draw, paint characters and favourite parts of Nursery Rhymes and stories.
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Make different colours by mixing primary colours of paint.
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Work with a variety of collage materials.
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Assume a role in home corner.
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Assume a role of a character from different stories to act out.
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Use resources to create own models.
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Join in with songs and rhymes.
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Explore musical instruments.
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Encourage independent creativity.
We will be working with the children to:
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The children will have access to a variety of large equipment- caterpillar tunnel, bikes, scooters, parachute, slide and tyres.
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Develop further locomotive skills - skipping, hopping, balancing.
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Develop fine motor skills - gipping a pencil, using scissors.
We will be working with the children to:
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Being able to separate from carer
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Encourage play in a group by extending and elaborating play ideas.
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Making friends.
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Developing their decision making and show an awareness of taking turns at activities.
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Encourage independence during class day. Model how to use the art area, writing area, maths area etc. Resources to be easily accessible and clearly labelled.