You’ll have no doubt found a few conkers in your child’s pockets this week! We’ve enjoyed talking about Autumn time and exploring all of the different Autumn treasures that you can find whilst out and about on a walk at the moment.
In our maths area, we have a selection of open ended resources including apples, conkers, acorns and sticks. Children enjoyed weighing the apples, ordering the sticks by length and counting conkers. There were lots of great opportunities to develop and extend children’s vocabulary.
We also enjoyed rolling conkers down tubes and through paint! Children loved dipping the conkers in paint and getting their fingers messy.
And here are a few other highlights from the week…
- Re-telling ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’ and looking for the bear outside and listening to the ‘Owl Babies’ story.
- Lots of singing, dancing and playing musical instruments.
- Playing with our new small world playground and jumping along a hopscotch track.
- Drawing ‘big’ pictures on the floor (and hiding inside giant boxes!), building train tracks and creating Duplo safari parks and peg patterns. What a busy week!
EYFS – Communication and Language
You may wonder what children are ‘learning’ at Nursery each day. We learn through play in Early Years and there are lots of areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) that we focus on during the Autumn term. One of our main focuses at the moment, is the ‘Communication and Language’ area of the curriculum. This is a Prime area and is divided into 3 important strands which includes listening and attention, speaking and understanding. Every child’s development is different, but listed below are some of the typical things that we’d expect to see in a child aged between 22-36 months. If you’d like to find out more, the ‘What to Expect When‘ document may be of interest to you.
Listening and attention
- I join in with singing songs and rhymes.
- I stop what I am doing, look at you and listen to you when you say my name.
- I listen to stories when you make different noises or use different voices as you read to me.
Speaking
- I can use simple sentences with 3-4 words to talk about what I am doing or what is happening.
- When I am talking with you, I talk about lots of different things – what I am doing, what I like or what I have done.
- I can ask questions such as “what”, “where” and “who” when I am sharing a book or playing with toys.
- I am beginning to use word endings, such as “I am going” instead of “I go” and plurals, such as “babies” when talking about more than one object or person.
Understanding
- I understand longer instructions or questions such as “Put the bricks away and then we’ll read a book”.
- I can show you that I understand “who”, “what” and “where” when you use short questions such as “Who’s that?”, “What’s that?” or “Where is?” as we look at pictures in a book or play with toys.
Reminders
- All children have an extra snack time (eg toast) each morning. As this snack is in addition to the free fruit that the government provides, there is a charge for each child. If you would like your child to enjoy this snack and haven’t paid yet, please send payment to the office this week.
- Everyone should have received an email with details about Nursery Parent/Carer consultation appointments. Please book your slot and contact the office if you haven’t received the email.