Happy New Year and welcome back to Nursery! We hope that you all had a great Christmas and enjoyed a break over the festive period. We were expecting to welcome everyone back on Monday morning but the weather had other ideas ! It was lovely, however, to see everyone on Tuesday morning and hear about your holiday adventures and presents from Santa. Thank you for sending in your photos of your Christmas celebrations.
This week, we’ve been reading ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and children have been retelling the story in our small world area. If you have a copy of the story at home, please enjoy reading it together. If not, you might like to listen to Mr Tumble reading it.
We have enjoyed joining in with the repeated refrain “Run, run, as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man.”
This week we have been learning our new sound is ‘m’ for mouse. We pronounce it as ‘mmmmm’.
Help at home: In group time, our sound bag had lots of ‘m’ objects including a marble, a mouse, a map and a mirror. What can you find around the house that begins with the ‘m’ sound? What other ‘m’ objects could we have put in our sound bag?
As the snow froze solid in our Nursery garden it was too dangerous for us to play outside. This led to lots of discussions about keeping safe.
” We could slip and fall”
” I might bump my head”
“We can’t run on the snow, like we can’t run inside”
Well done everyone!
We couldn’t to go out in the snow, but we could bring the snow inside to explore.
We added snow to our water tray to create an arctic landscape.
The snow and ice felt
” very cold” “wet” “freezing”
We painted the snow and it looked amazing!
We used frozen paint to create our pictures.
Next week – 13 January 2025
We look forward to welcoming our new families and children to Nursery for their first sessions on Tuesday 14 January. Our new ‘yellow group’ children will join red group as they come into Nursery through the main door each morning so it may feel a little bit busier than usual. Please be patient as we help to settle the new children into Nursery. We’re looking forward to getting to know everybody and making some new friends.
Next week’s learning:
‘Dinosaur Roar’ by Paul and Henrietta Stickland is our story next week. If you don’t have a copy of the book at home, you might enjoy watching the first 3 minutes of this clip together.
Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog (it’s along the play bar) and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip
Letter next week – ‘d’ for duck
Nursery rhyme next week – The Grand Old Duke of York
Have a happy and healthy weekend and thank you as always for your support.
The Nursery Team