Noticing Shapes, and Choosing Items Based on their Shape for a Particular Purpose
Our maths focuses this term is around SHAPES. We will be exploring and noticing shapes and pattern through placing and arranging activities, puzzles, loose parts play and building with construction resources.
We will also be creating pictures and patterns with paper shapes.
In the garden we will be going on a shape hunt and noticing the shapes we find and beginning to learn their names.
What shapes can you find around your home or on your journey to nursery?
Imitating Movements with Songs, Music and Rhymes
We will be exploring and moving to different genres and styles of music from around the world as well as creating our own music through singing, exploring instruments, and making our own instruments.
We will be sharing the music we like to listen to and making up our own dance moves.
If there are any parents with dancing or music skills that they would like to share with the children, please let us know.
Creating and Persevering, Through Reading Jabari Tries by Gaia Cornwall
Jabari wants to make a flying machine, but it crashes. He needs to change his plans, think of diverse ways to achieve his goal, and maybe even let his little sister help!
We will be creating with boxes and loose parts and learning how to use different tools and resources safely to help us attach and join e.g. glue, tape, staplers, hole punches, string etc. Boxes are a great starting point for creative and imaginative play. We can stack them, and climb in them, create cars, houses and spaceships, the possibilities are infinite.
We welcome donations of boxes of all sizes, from small food boxes for the home corner and for junk modelling, to large boxes that the children can get inside and use in their story telling and imaginative play. We can’t wait to see what we can create.
Learning to Hear and Notice the Initial Sounds in Words
We will be noticing the initial sounds in our names, and other objects, through songs, games, and stories, such as B is for Baby by Atinuke.
We will be learning about alliteration, when words start with the same sound, and making up silly alliterative strings and tongue twisters— Lovely Leo likes licking lollipops, ten terrible tigers try teaching tennis.
Why not have a go.