NURSERY
SPRING TERM 1, 2024
The topic for Nursery this half term is ‘If you go down to the Woods today’. The story at the beginning of term is ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ and in our inside role play, ‘The Three Bears’ Cottage’, children can enjoy retelling and acting out the story. We will be making porridge and using our senses to describe it and notice changes. Our small world tables are based on Michael Rosen’s ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’ and also polar bears and other animals from cold lands. Our outside role play area will be a teddy bears picnic. At story time the children will meet lots of new characters, such as ‘Old Bear’ by Jane Hissey, ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ by A. A. Milne and ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear’ by Eric Carle. We will also explore rhyme through stories such as Jez Alborough’s ‘Where’s my Teddy?’
In our Science we will be learning about different bears, their features and habitats. We will also be looking for signs of winter and describing the changes we see in nature and the weather. The children always enjoy our science ice investigation and generate lots of ideas and questions.
Our PE sessions will be based on the Bear Hunt story.
The children will continue working on writing their name using a correct pencil grip and letter formation. We will begin our Bug Club phonics this half term, building on the listening games we took part in during the first term.
In maths we will be focussing on representing numbers in different ways and using language of measurement.
During this half term we will be celebrating Chinese New Year through dance and art.
SPRING TERM 2, 2024
Our topic for the second half of this term is ‘People who help us’. Our role play area will be transformed into a Vet's Clinic and the role play shed will be a Fire Station. Our small world tables are a Baby Clinic and a road with emergency vehicles.
If possible, we will begin by meeting the people who help us in school including our site manager, office staff, kitchen and teaching staff. We will be looking at where they are in school and thinking about how they help us. We will have a visit from the local Lollipop Man, David who will teach us about being safe on the road and how he helps our school community to stay safe. In our construction areas we will be building fire engines and police cars.
In Maths we will be learning about repeating patterns, sequencing and number bonds to 5. Children can continue practising writing their name correctly to earn a writing rosette.
Our art areas encourage the children to paint their own fire engine and police car pictures. As we begin to look for signs of Spring, the children will do observational drawings of daffodils and other Spring flowers. This will link to our science learning about the seasons. Later in the term we will be reading the Easter story and also making some Easter baskets ready for a visit from the Easter Bunny.
We will celebrate World Book Day by sharing our favourite books.
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