Kirk Sandall Infant School Foundation Stage One (Nursery)

Themes of the Week

Over the next two weeks our focus in the Nursery will be Winter.  The children will explore what happens at Winter time and take part in various creative activities. Children will also explore animals that live in the cold.

From observations and children’s interests we have decided to set up a car garage in our role play area. The children will be involved in setting this up by deciding what props we need and making posters.

Song/rhyme of the week:

The wheels on the bus

 

We will also be learning a colour, shape and number of the week:

         Grey                             Triangle                                Seven

 

Other activities that we will be doing and how you could help at home are: 

 

Continuous activities and provision areas where children can initiate their own play include,

-Role play home corner and winter/Christmas theme

-Construction area

-Small world area (farm and jungle animals, dinosaurs, sea creatures, pets, puppets, trains, cars)

-Maths/games area

-Reading area

-Writing area

-Sand and Water area

-Play dough area

-Collage area

-Painting area

-Listening centre

-Outdoor play 

 

Other activities which are done on a regular basis are,

-Counting/counting rhymes

-Recognising numbers/shapes

-Circle games and rhymes

-Wake up Shake up (aerobics/dance once a week in the hall)

-Large book focus

-Phonics- listening to sounds- rhyming words 

 

Ideas for activities you could do at home over the next 3 weeks

-Sing songs, rhymes and read a variety of stories.

-Talk about and observe the signs of winter.

-Number recognition

-Touch counting 

 

Other important news and information for parents

Happy New Year to you all

Thank you from all the staff for all our cards and gifts.

From the week beginning 16th January we will be having a whole school story book week. Each day our theme will be a different well known story. On Wednesday 18th January our theme and focus will be ‘The three little pigs’ On this day children can get dressed up for the theme. Children can be one of the characters from the story. These are just some ideas of what the children can wear.

3 little pigs (jeans, shirt, mask)

Mummy pig (skirt, apron, mask)

Wolf (jeans, shirt, mask)

The children will be involved in acting and retelling the story with the staff.  

We have really enjoyed using our new canopy to its full potential. Each day we plan different  focused activities for the children to take part in outside along with all the continuous provision which is out on a daily basis.

The children are beginning to become more independent when putting on their own coats and  wellies. Please can you continue to encourage this at home.

Thank you for the voluntary contributions for baking and snack activities. The children really enjoy baking and preparing a snack. The children particularly enjoyed having hot chocolate after we had been on a walk round the school grounds.

Thank you for your continued support.