Down on the farm

Friday 27 September 2024

We’ve had another busy week in nursery, continuing to explore the provision and making friends. Our new small world area, the farm, has sparked a lot of interest. We talked about the different animals that we see on a farm and the sounds that they make. The children enjoyed adding the animal sound effects whilst playing.

As part of our early phonics learning, we encourage children to listen to the sounds that they can hear around them, such as an aeroplane flying above or birds singing in the trees. We also explore the different noises that animals make.

Help at home:  If you visit a farm or see some animals in a field, remember to use the animal names and talk about the noises that they make.  You might like to play a game where you use some farm animal toys and choose an animal to describe. For example: It has 4 legs, a curly tail and a snout. Can they guess which animal you are describing and make the animal noise? Can they give you some clues?  This is a great way to add new words to your child’s vocabulary and to develop their listening skills.

The children have enjoyed retelling this weeks focus story ‘The Three Little Pigs’ joining in with the repeated refrains “I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down”.

As the children continue to explore the provision lots of different interests have been emerging, rolling cars down ramps being a big favourite. We experimented with other things that roll in the paint this week and tried our hand at painting with rollers. This up and down motion will help us later when it comes to developing our skills as a writer.

Here are some of the other activities from this week

Next week, we’ll talk about the changes that we are noticing outside.  Look out for a brown bag in your child’s folder – we’d like you to fill it with autumn treasure that you find and return it to Nursery.

Our focus story  is the popular story “We’re Going on a bear Hunt” We will be exploring this story using our own puppets and props.

Our Nursery rhyme of the week will be   Row, row, row your boat  Can you sing along with the rhyme at home?

Reminders: