Welcome to the Nursery
Young children will have had a wide range of experiences and will have a wide range of skills and interests when they join school at the age of three, four or five. They need a well planned and resourced The curriculum for the Foundation Stage underpins all future learning by fostering and developing children's: Our theme for this half term (Autumn 2) is………. Picture That...! Each week we will be using a different picture by a different artist as a starting point to base all of our Nursery activities. Below you will find a week by week snap shot of our learning experiences and the picture we will be using as our starting point. For more detailed weekly planning please see the notice board in the cloakroom.
Week 1: Firework by Steve Holcroft.
This week we will be learning all about Guy Fawkes and the Gun powder plot and why we celebrate with fireworks on the 5th November. We will be building bonfires with wood and fabrics, making sparkler biscuits with 100s and 1000s! As well as creating our own firework pictures to classical music and singing 10 fat sausages sizzling in a pan!
Week 2: Feelings by Dana Schutz.
This week we will be talking more about our feelings. The children will be working in small groups to talk about their past experiences of feeling happy or sad using our Puppet Jake. We will be using paints to create feeling portraits and reading the stories, ‘Guess how much I love you?’ And ‘Is that what friends do?’ Week 3:
This week is the whole schools culture week. In Nursery we will be looking at
Week 4: The Family
This week we will be using a picture of a family as our starting point. We will be inviting the children to bring in photographs of their own family to share with their friends, giving them the opportunity to talk about their siblings, cousins, Mums and Dads or even pets! We will be drawing family portraits and ordering family members into age and height order.
Week 5: Winter Wonderland by John Stoa
This week we will be learning about the season of Winter. We will be wrapping up warm and adventuring into the
Week 6 & 7: Nativity by Jennifer Diane Smith
The last two weeks of term will be spent learning about Christmas. The children will listen to the real meaning of Christmas through a lovely interactive story, as well as having the opportunity to get stuck into lots of festive arts and crafts. We will also be performing our Christmas production and enjoying the Nursery Christmas Party! (more details to follow)
curriculum to take their learning forward and to provide opportunities for all children to succeed in an atmosphere of care and feeling valued.
Number & counting activities:
1. Talk to your child about numbers you may see in the environment, for example house numbers or bus numbers.
2. Sing nursery & number rhymes together, for example 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 once I caught a fish alive or 5 little men in a flying saucer.
3. Bake cakes. Measure out the ingredients together & talk at the numbers on the scales. Talk about the weight of the ingredients, is the sugar heavy or light? Will all the flour fit into the container etc?
4. Lay the table together & count out the right number of plates, bowls, knifes & forks etc for the whole family. Encourage your child to touch each object as they same the number name.
5. Count the number of buttons on your child’s coat as you help them get dressed. Or count the number of pegs when hanging out the washing.
6. Play games such as dominoes, snakes & ladders & other board games using a dice.
7. Collect & sort objects like shells, toys or stamps.
8. Complete jigsaw puzzles together.
9. Talk about the colours of things around you. Talk about the shapes of things in the environment.
10. Play with fillers & containers of water in the bath. Talk about how full, empty or half full they may be.
Communication & literacy activities:
1. Join the library & visit as often as you can.
2. Read stories with your child & talk about the pictures, characters & main events.
3. Make up your own stories using teddies, pictures or costumes as props!
4. Look out for print you may see in the environment, for example on road signs, advertisements or at the supermarket.
5. Encourage your child to draw, scribble & make marks on paper. These early marks are your child’s first forms of writing.
6. Visit some of the websites on the front page & enjoy some interactive texts.
7. Sing nursery rhymes together. Make up actions to go with them!
8. Make up nonsense words & silly rhyming strings of words.
9. Make shopping lists or things to do lists together. Tick them off when they are completed.
10. Ask your child about their session at Nursery, let them talk about their day.
Below is a list of useful websites for the foundation stage: For literacy