Nursery

This half term’s topic is “Once Upon a Time”. We will be focusing on the story of the Three Little Pigs. During this topic we will be becoming familiar with traditional tale vocabulary such as “Once upon a time” and will be investigating themes such as testing the strength of houses that we will build. We will be walking around our local area talking about the differences in houses we can see.

In English we will be retelling the story using actions and the repeated phrases such as “I’ll huff and I’ll puff”. Children will continue to learn about letter sounds and how to write them during our Read, Write Inc sessions. Staff will support to hear and say the initial sound in simple words.

In Maths, the children will be developing counting skills and will begin to carry out simple adding and taking away problems using physical objects. Children will record their answers in a variety of ways. Weights of objects will be compared using simple scales. Children will supported to use the vocabulary of heavier/lighter.

Our role play area will be transforming into the “Trotter Brother’s Building Yard”. Where children will have the opportunity to act out our class story or build their own house model.

Our topic in Nursery this half term is “You’ve got a friend in me!”. We will be exploring the themes of toys and feelings through the text “Thank you for being my friend” by Peter Bently and watching clips from the Toy Story series. During the next few weeks we will be discovering how toys work and what makes them unique. We will be designing and making our own toys and displaying them in our Toy Story themed Role Play area. In Maths we will be practising our counting skills, recognising numbers in our environment and beginning to write numbers independently. Children will begin to bring books home to share with family. Children are being encouraged to recognise and write sounds they have learnt through our RWI sessions. We will be learning about the Chinese New Year festival and how it is celebrated around the world. Parents will be invited in to join us.