Happy New Year to all our families! We hope you enjoyed the festive period and are recharged ready for a new term in Nursery!
We had a very exciting start to the new year with the visit of snow! This prompted much excitement and conversation from all the children. We suited ourselves up and went straight outside for some fun in the snow – we even had to add a new picture to our ‘weather window’ chart! Here we are exploring during our morning exercise.
Later in the week we went to the forest and loved exploring how the snow and weather had changed and affected things in there. We thought it looked very pretty!
Welcome to our new starters. The nursery children have been wonderful at welcoming their new friends and have been taking on the job of being excellent role models very seriously! They have been great at teaching the rules of nursery, reminding everybody how to play in all our areas. We have had a big focus on the golden rules and particularly listening out for good manners – using ‘thank you’.
Phonics
We started our new term with phonics lessons this week. Previously we have been playing listening games and rhyming games but we are now getting ready to start learning the first few sounds we need to help us with our reading! This week we have learned the sound S. We know this is a stretchy sound – ask your children how we say this sound. Can they remember anything that starts with this sound? Can you play a sorting game at home – which items start with S, which ones start with another sound?
How you can help at home:
- Talk to your children about things happening at home or changes in the weather – encourage them to ask questions and speak in full sentences. Repeat their sentence back to them with an extension e.g child- “It is cold”. Adult – “Yes, it is cold and there is frost on the ground.”
- Bring maths into your everyday routines – counting the stairs, checking the clock for bed time or dinner time, laying the table
- Read with your child everyday, discussing the story and feelings of the characters
- Check all clothes, hats, gloves, wellies etc are labelled with your child’s name
- Practise listening games such as I hear something that ticks….
- Look for items around your home or on the way to school that link to our sound of the week