Nursery Newsletter

Summer Term 2 2018

Jungle Boogie-Woogie

Dear Parents/Carers,

We hope you all enjoyed our Superhero topic as much as we did. The visits from our real life superheroes really were great experiences for all the children. What a fantastic amount of money the cake/bun sale raised! We have sent £175 to Guide Dogs. Thank you to all those who supported this.

Last half term of 2017/2018

Another busy half-term lies ahead. We will begin the transition into Reception (for those children who are starting in our Reception in September) We are sure the children will relish the opportunity to explore the Reception environment and enjoy meeting their new teacher (after 21 6 18) and also staying for a school dinner later in the term. (Details to follow)

Our next topic is called ’Jungle Boogie Woogie’. The children will be learning all about jungles and what lives there. As an introduction we are very excited to have some unusual animals visit us on Thursday 13th June. We have also planned lots of fun and practical activities for the children to take part in. (Please see the attached overview).

If you have any ‘jungle’ related objects or photos/mementos from zoo/wildlife park visits that your child wants to bring in and share with the other children just let us know.

We are always in need of ‘junk modelling’ materials in particular kitchen roll tubes, so would be most grateful if you would send them in, thanks.

Dates for your diary;

Thursday 21st June - New Reception Parents Meeting Thursday 28th June - New Nursery Parents Meeting (parents of children who started in 2018 also welcome) Tuesday 10th July - School dinners for AM children starting Reception Wednesday 11th July - Nursery Family picnic at Silsden Park including sports Thursday 12th July - School dinners for PM children starting Reception Wednesday 18th July -Topic celebration day Wednesday 25th July - School Closes

Thank you for your continued support,

Mrs Tucker, Mrs Ahmad and the Nursery Team

COMMUNICATION & LANGUAGE – Listening and attention, Understanding & Speaking

Story Time

Dear Zoo Handa’s Surprise The Tiger who came to

Tea Monkey Puzzle Rumble in the Jungle

Songs

The Animal Boogie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25_u1GzruQM

Walking Through the Jungle I’m being eaten by a boa constrictor Five Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree Look at the sneaky crocodile

Children will be encouraged to talk about models they have made , pictures they paint and the games they are playing.

PERSONAL, SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL

DEVELOPMENT – Making relationships, Self-confidence and self-awareness & managing feelings and behaviour

Taking turns when playing jungle memory games,

Confidently share their ideas about the jungle as

part of group discussions

Children will have the opportunity to take turns, share resources whilst playing in all areas of provision and role play.

Outside there will be den making, large construction and games to encourage children to work together.

Older children will visit Reception to help with a smooth transition in September.

Continuing to develop independence in Nursery and remembering manners.

Joining in with special events such as the Family Picnic incorporating sports day and a ‘jungle expedition’ (pretend) for our topic celebration

MATHEMATICS – Numbers & Shape, space and measure

Playing memory games- finding a matching pair of animals

Playing board games – rolling a die and counting

Animal hunt - counting how many jungle animals we can find as we hunt around the outside area

Finding out which is our favourite animal, creating pictograms and charts ( use 3D representations with bricks and discuss which is the most popular).

Singing our number based topic songs.

Using the Ten Town characters to help us recognise numbers and write them.

Ideas to try at home Draw, paint or make a model of your favourite jungle animal

Find out an interesting fact about a jungle ani-mal and tell us about it during circle time

Sing our jungle songs to family and friends.

Visit a zoo, wildlife park or Tropical World at Roundhay Park, Leeds

Jungle Boogie-Woogie

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

Moving around like jungle animals. Dancing to the Animal Boogie song and copying the actions.

Practising for our sports day games including a relay race

Dance-http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/boogiebeebies

Outdoor -large construction/building dens, balls, obstacle courses, balance beams etc.

Mark making and lots of creative activities using a range of different tools and equipment.

Developing hand-eye co-ordination and use of scissors when cutting out paper to create shapes to make animal models and animal masks, etc

UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD

Look at the information about where in the world jungles are and what sort of animals live there.

Talking about the animals that we saw at Nursery. What animals did they see? How did the children feel about holding some of them?

Food, making jelly, fruit kebabs and juice lollies

Sorting animals according to where they live.

Using the Kiddizoom camera

LITERACY – Reading & Writing

Singing – learning our topic based songs.

Phonic based activities taken from Letters and Sounds teaching programme:-

Clapping out syllables in CVC words.

Sounding out and blending simple CVC words

Writing CVC words.

Practising writing own names.

Sorting objects according to initial letter sound.

Sequencing the story ‘The Tiger who came to tea’

EXPRESSIVE ARTS AND DESIGN

Explore role play in all provision areas especially role play and book areas.

In the role play area we will create a jungle explorers camp site with tent, sleeping bags, binoculars, maps, animals etc.

Making binoculars to use on our jungle expedition

Making animals using junk modelling materials

Paintings of jungle animals

Jungle prints using camouflage colours

Butterfly prints

Children will be encouraged to create small world jungles outside using plants, natural materials and small world jungle animals.

Making passports so that we can go on an expedition to the jungle

Topic celebration – To go on a Jungle expedition (even get on the plane and watch an inflight slide show about what they might see).