Welcome back! We hope you had a restful half term break. This week in Nursery has seen us start reading a new book – Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins. The illustrations are beautiful and it has inspired us to have a go at drawing some of our own farm animals!
We have enjoyed learning about some new vocabulary from this book – haycock, mill, beehive as well as practising using some of the positional language from the story, including over, under, through.
We have taken our maths learning out to the forest this week and created some ABAB patterns. The children know this means that it might be red, blue, red, blue or square, circle, square, circle. In the forest we used natural materials to create new patterns with our friends.
“it’s stick, stone, stick, stone!” “stick comes next in the pattern” “mine is leaf, stick, leaf, stick”
We also learned about different types of plants and know that some grow from seeds, whilst others grow from bulbs. We planted some daffodil bulbs in the school field. We are looking forward to watching them grow!
In between the rain, we enjoyed a fun PE lesson outside this week where we were working on teams to develop our co-ordination, balance and throwing skills! We had a lot of fun travelling in different ways and using apparatus to complete an obstacle course.
Sound of the Week
This week’s sound is ‘m’. Encourage your child to look for things around the home and outside that begin with ‘m’. Can they find it written in books that you share with them?
World Book Day
Next Thursday (6th March) is World Book Day. We would be delighted to welcome parents into Nursery to share a book with their child between 8.30 – 9.00am.
How you can help at home:
- Talk about shapes and patterns in the environment
- Create your own patterns with items around your house or garden e.g. fork, spoon, fork, spoon or red car, purple car, red car, purple car.
- Spend some time talking about how the weather is beginning to change and how the trees and plants will be growing and changing