Autumn 2 half term learning

Our topic this past half term was ‘Journeys’ and the children enjoyed learning what a journey is through books and out and about sessions. Our two key texts, ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ and ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ were very popular and lots of the children now know both books off by heart! The children have started to learn and use lots of new vocabulary for geographical features such as hills, rivers, fields, caves, sea and have been introduced to maps. Learning all about and playing with farm animals has been very popular too. In phonics we have started the new Little Wandle Foundations scheme for Nursery and introduced the sounds s,a,t,p,i and n and focussed on learning to write our names.  The children have been introduced to one number every week, we have been practising counting, understanding ‘same and different’ and learning the names of basic 2D shapes.

We have also been learning all about the seasons and the signs of Autumn and winter. We noticed the colours of the leaves change then fall off the trees on our out and about walks. Thank you for bringing in bulbs. We have planted them in our Forest School and we cannot wait to see them grow into beautiful flowers in the Spring.  Art was also our focus to help us learn about Bonfire night and Remembrance Day as we painted fireworks and poppies as well as making clay ladybirds. Thank you to the parents who came in to help us celebrate multi-cultural day and the different festivals including Christmas, Hanukkah and Diwali.  Finally, we have been celebrating Christmas by singing, making cards and crafts and learning about how Christians celebrate it as well as practising the songs for the Christmas concerts.

Overview of next half term

Term begins on 9th anuary. Our topic is ‘Marvellous Making’. The table above gives you an overview of the learning and activities we will be focussing on in the 3 year old Nursery. The 2yos will focus on a simplified version of this plan.  We will be making music, making dens, making a picnic, making Chinese arts and crafts and making wintery art! In addition to this all children have a Music session with Mrs Williamson every week, an Out and About session, maths, circle time and phonics session. Our phonics focus is to continue with learning the phonemes with the Little Wandle scheme. We also have story time every day and learn songs, rhymes and dances every week. The children learn a new Makaton sign each week, a number of the week and we will focus on counting and understanding number. The children of course have the opportunity to do Forest School once a week and choose their own learning and play inside and outside throughout the term.

Rhyme Time Challenge

Next term we also start our Rhyme Time Challenge! This is when we send home a weekly Nursery rhyme for the children to learn with their families! We also practise it in Nursery but it would be great to see videos and pictures of you singing it at home on Tapestry! At the end of term there will be a concert in the Nursery before the Easter holidays.

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