Teachers -Mrs Gill & Ms Akhtar 

TA- Miss Gregory 

Spring Term 2024:

Communication and language and literacy

Although this has been a shorter half term, it has been full of wonderful experiences for Nursery. We have enjoyed exploring our focused texts Farmer Duck and Growing Frogs. We celebrated World Book Day dressed up as a character from and Eric Carle text. We have been practicing listening carefully and following instructions. In Phonics, Nursery have been distinguishing between differences in vocal sounds, practicing alliteration and have begun oral blending and segmenting.

Maths

In Maths we have continued to learn through Mastering the Curriculum, with a focus on 5 and 6 as well as height and length, mass and capacity. We are becoming brilliant at subitising and being able to show numbers in different ways.

Understanding the World

We have learned all about Spring and have been finding out about the life cycles of different animals such as hens and frogs as well as learning which animals come from eggs. We know the names of lots of different animals and their young and we had a brilliant time at Smithills Farm meeting all of the different animals such as donkey’s, llama’s and alpaca’s and finding out some interesting facts about them.

Expressive Art and Design

The children had another super experience when we had an artist in our class, teaching the children how to use sponges and stencils to print. We have some budding artists on our hands! We also created some effective prints using different media including pompoms, hands and fingers and natural resources.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Children have continued learning through Think Equal and understand that everyone has feelings and they might be different to their feelings and feelings can change throughout the day. They have been learning how to connect their emotions and emotion words to colour (linked to Colour Monster). They have also continued their daily practices of mindfulness and meditation to help them to be calm and happy learners.

Physical Development

This half term we have continued with Write Dance and Dough Disco to focus on strengthening our fine motor skills, as well as continuing to develop our gross motor skills through outdoor play and also making patterns of movement to music.

TOPIC NAMES Understanding the World EAD (Expressive Arts and Design PSED RE Physical Development Literacy (Reading and Writing) Maths
Nursery

SPRING

 

Bears

(Teddy Bears Picnic)

(ART24,27)

 

 

Spring has Sprung (ART 29)

 

 

ICT ARTICLE- 17

Food changes and decay

Chinese New Year

Spring and Seasonal Change

 

Farm animals

Lifecycles

Mothers’ Day

Easter

 

(IWB activities and skills continued, Moving Toys, remote controls, Introduce CD player, E-safety focus)

Textiles- Spr 1

Printing – Spr 2

 

Music and movement

Bear Hunt dance

Chinese new year dragon dance

Singing songs

Making rhythms independently

Changing sounds

Write dance

Dough Disco

 

Role play- explorers, toy shop, Three Bears House, Bear hunt/cave, farm.

Heartsmart – Too much selfie isn’t healthy (I love others)

 

Heartsmart – Don’t rub it in, rub it out! (I am a good friend)

 

Begin to understand and talk about how others might be feeling and the reasons why, and talk to resolve conflicts.

Settle at activities, increasing independence.

Begin to share and take turns with others and to extend and elaborate play ideas with others 

 

 

The Stories Jesus Heard (The Bible)

The Stories Jesus Told

(Parables)

Easter

 

Holi (Hindu festival)

 

Values- Forgiveness, compassion and Love

Gross Motor- Continue to develop movement of walking and running, climbing skills, balancing skills, riding skills 

Continue to develop ball skills, use large muscle movement

Learn to hop 

Begin to learn to skip, remember some sequences and patterns of movement related to music and rhythm 

Begin to take part in some group team activities, match developing physical skills to tasks and activities in setting

Choose the right resource to carry out chosen plan

Begin to collaborate with others to manage large items 

 

Fine motor– Write Dance and Dough Disco

Show preference a for a dominant hand 

Continue to learn to use a knife and fork

Increase independence getting dressed and undressed

Use a range of one-handed tools and equipment

Continue to develop a comfortable grip with good control when holding pens and pencils.

Reading– Continue to develop phonological awareness, join in with P1 activities, aspects 1 to 7, tune into alliterative words, begin to identify / hear some initial phonemes in words,

Begin to participate in oral blending/segmenting activities 

Clap syllables in own name.

Begin to engage in conversations about stories and non-fiction texts, learning new vocabulary

Continue to develop an understand the five key concepts about

print:  Handle books carefully & correctly, Name some book parts …. title / blub, Print has meaning – recognise some new logos, Begin to understand what a word / letter is … letter / word, Follow print left to right and begin to use 1:1 correspondence ,Know where to start reading … first 

Read own name without visual support

Writing- Begin to use some print / letter knowledge in writing. Symbols- lines/circles, recognisable letters, left to right, top to bottom.

Begin to engage in purposeful mark marking 

Attempt to write name, using name card, with some recognisable letters, some correctly formed  

 

Number & Place Value Understanding Number 1 -6, Number 1-4

 Counting to 1

Finding 1 object, 1 being the first number, its position on a number line, ordinal numbers, Numicon 1, Dice 1, Subitising 1

Representing 1 on a 5 frame

A circle – 1 sides shape (including in the environment, 1 action e.g. 1 hop, 1 jump, 1 clap, The numeral and formation of 1, Number 1 in the environment

Representing 1 using marks, pictures and finger

Matching numeral to quantity

Number 5 and 6 as above (3 is a part of me, 2 is a part of me; 4 is a part of me, 1 is a part of me) Explain 6 as being 5 and 1 more

 

Homework Leaflet- Homework leaflet

Class newsletter Nursery Spring 1 2024

Spring 1 topic web Bears 2024