Let’s get ready to play!
Hello everyone!
We’ve been busy this week meeting some of our new children at their home visits. It’s been lovely finding out about you all and what you like to do. We’re looking forward to getting to know you more when we welcome you to Nursery next week.
We are looking forward to welcoming back our returning children. We can’t wait see see how much you have grown and to find out about your summer holidays. Remember your first day back at Nursery will be for a half day session.
Nursery is now ready for the new school year. Have a look at the photos to see what you might like to play with next week. We’ve tried to make sure that there’s something for everyone to enjoy, including some of your favourite things that you told us about on home visits. We’ve got Paw Patrol, fairies, diggers, The Gruffalo and lots more ready for you to come and play.
Where will you play?
A few reminders from home visits: what your child will need every day…
- A waterproof coat (named)
- A pair of wellies (named)
- A change of clothes (top, trousers/ leggings, underwear, socks)
- A filled water bottle (named)
See you on Monday !
Pirates Love Underpants
Our pirate adventure has continued this week, and the children have had a fantastic time! They loved listening to the story “Pirates Love Underpants” and enjoyed retelling the story independently in our story corner. In our creative area, the children have been busy making their own pirate ships from dough, while in the maths area they have been counting gold coins and developing their early number skills. They also used their fantastic mark-making skills to create colourful pirate flags for their ships.
The pirate theme continued outside as the children used treasure maps in the Nursery garden to search for hidden treasure. As they explored, they used lots of positional language to describe where the treasure was hidden. We heard wonderful vocabulary such as next to the sandpit, underneath the bridge, behind the planter and on top of the tyre. It was lovely to see the children working together, following clues and building their language skills.
Our oldest children have also enjoyed visiting their new classrooms in preparation for September. They visited while the classrooms were quiet, accompanied by a member of the Nursery team, and had the opportunity to explore the learning environment, look around and begin getting to know their new teachers. These visits help to build confidence and support a smooth transition into their new class.
Reminders
The weather is expected to remain very warm until the end of term. Please remember to place your child’s sun cream in their group basket each morning. If it is there, we will know that you would like us to apply it at lunchtime.
As we look forward to our final week together, we would like to thank all of our families for your continued support throughout the year.
On your child’s final day in Nursery, please remember to collect:
- Changing bag
- Wellies
- Coat
- Lunchbox (if applicable)
- Water bottle
We look forward to a wonderful final week of fun and learning together!
Keeping cool.
With the high temperatures last week, we made the most of the cooler early morning sunshine by enjoying lots of fun, water-based activities.
The children loved washing the bikes and did a fantastic job of taking turns with their friends. They also strengthened their fine motor skills using water sprays to wash away the patterns on the tuff tray and had lots of imaginative fun mixing and blending at our very popular milkshake stand.
We made sure everyone took plenty of important hydration breaks throughout the day—just like the footballers!
When it got too warm outside, we headed indoors, where the children used their fine motor skills to fold their own paper fans. They were very proud of their creations, and they certainly helped to keep us cool!
Well done everyone for coping so well in the warm weather.
Our older children also enjoyed the exciting experience of having lunch in the school hall. They wore their dinner bands, collected their own knives and forks, carried their trays carefully to their tables, and enjoyed eating in a new environment.
We are incredibly proud of how independent, sensible, and confident they were. They are becoming so ready for their next exciting step!
This week learning
Focus book
Pirates love underpants by Claire Freedman & Ben Corty
Nursery Rhyme of the week
A sailor went to sea, sea, sea.
During maths group times this week, we’re learning about positional language.
Help at home: Try to use positional language in your day to day conversations and during play. For example -Can you put your teddy underneath the box? The car is behind the garage. The monkey is on top of the tree. Put your shoes next to the cupboard. As you look at illustrations in a story, ask questions such as ‘Where is the cat hiding?’ or ‘What can you see in front of the fence?’
Reminders
If your child is returning to Nursery in September can you please ensure that your child’s returners paperwork is handed into the school office by Monday 06 July.
End of year events
Please refer to the letter in your child’s going home folder.
Learning Journey drop ins
Come and look through your child’s Learning Journey and celebrate their achievements.
- Tuesday 7 July – 2:30 pm–3:00 pm
- Thursday 9 July – 9:00 am–9:30 am
- Monday 13 July – 2.30pm – 3.00pm
Nursery Summer Party
Friday 17 July
Children who do not usually attend Nursery on Friday mornings are invited to join us from 10:00am – 11:15am. Please let a member of staff know
Commotion in the Ocean
“There’s a curious commotion
At the bottom of the ocean
I think we ought to go and take a look…….”
So we did!
The children thoroughly enjoyed reading this rhyming story and learning about a variety of sea creatures, including dolphins, whales, jellyfish, and sharks.
The children retold the story using props, helping to develop their language and storytelling skills.
They also created their own sea creatures using playdough and used their observational skills to draw a range of spiral-shaped shells.
To support their early maths development, the children played a magnetic fishing game to practise counting to five. They used a five-frame to help them check and represent how many fish they had caught
We will continue to read this story this week, printing fish, counting shells, and finding out more about the creatures that live under the sea.
In our maths work, we have been exploring the language of capacity in the sand and water areas. The children have been learning to describe containers as full, empty, or half full. Why not encourage your child to practise this at home by filling different containers with water during bath time or helping in the kitchen?
Nursery Rhyme of the Week
This week we will be learning the rhyme Row, row, row your boat.
Reminders
It is going to be very hot this week!
To help keep your child safe in the sun at Nursery, please ensure they bring the following:
- Named sun cream for staff to apply at lunchtime (please place this in the group basket with your child’s water bottle).
- A sunhat.
- A water bottle.
Class Photographs
Class photographs will take place on Wednesday 23rd June. If your child does not usually attend Nursery on a Wednesday and you would like them to be included in the photograph, please contact the school office.
Starting school: Tips to try at home
Starting school: Tips to try at home
Week Two – The Train Ride
We have continued to enjoy this story this week thinking about the rhyming words that we hear.
Focus Book
The Train Ride by June Crebbin
We have been on our own journey’s by building our own trains from the crates and bricks. We made tickets for the journey too.
Our ramps became more complex this week and much longer. The children enjoyed finding out how far their cars could go.
Our cars and trucks got really muddy so the water tray became a car wash.
Children loved using the remote controlled cars this week and were able to move them backwards and forwards between the obstacles. It was lots of fun!
We talked about the differences between the seaside and the country side in the small world area.
Next week’s learning
We will be thinking about under the sea with another rhyming book.
Commotion in the Ocean
Focus Book
Nursery Rhyme of the Week
1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught a fish alive
In Maths, we will be learning about capacity. We will be using the mathematical vocabulary of capacity full, empty, half-full
Help at Home
Can you use the language of capacity at home ? Is the cup half-full yet? My cup is full ? Can you empty the box?
Reminders
If your child is joining Reception at Scholes ( Elmet) Primary School please do not forget to return the paperwork your were given at the welcome meeting to the school office.
Green group parents please return your paperwork to the school office too.
Thank you for your continued support. If you have any questions about your child’s learning, please speak to a member of the Nursery team.
Starting school: Tips to try at home
A busy week
We have really enjoyed reading our story this week. When we read it we noticed that the rhythm sounds like a train moving down the tracks. We used our props to re tell the story, listening to the rhythm and rhyme.
We made a map too.
In the paint we looked at the tracks on the wheels of our toy cars. Some of them had very different patterns on them some stripey, some zig zagged. We used them to create printings. This helped to develop our arm strength for writing.
We also did some investigation into force. We made our own ramp from wooden planks to send our trucks down. We found out that the higher the planks went the faster the truck moved.
Thank you to all of the parents from Red, Blue and Yellow Group who attended the New Parents meeting on Wednesday. If you didn’t manage to attend, don’t worry, please collect your information pack from the office as it contains your child’s start date and transition into school.
We will be starting our transition soon as the Reception teachers will be visiting Nursery to share a story and then we will visit the classrooms. Exciting times ahead.
We hope that you all have a happy and healthy weekend.
Let’s make a splash
