Our Learning this Week
Nursery (AM) 24th January 2014
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Language, Literacy & Communication
Ben and Betty have been teaching us the sound “o” this week…oranges and octopuses. We listened to the story “Jolly Olly Octopus” and then talked about our favourite part of the story. We practiced writing “o” on a giant o shape…some of us drew picture of things beginning with “o”. |
Mathematical Development
We have made fab octopuses that have helped us with pattern and counting…8 tentacles in a repeating pattern and then counting the right number of stickers onto each tentacle. We have been playing a whole class game of snap to help with number recognition and the children had a go at writing the numbers on the board.
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Knowledge and Understanding of the World We have been exploring oranges with our senses this week. Looking at the colour of them, feeling the skin, squeezing the juice out and then tasting the freshly made orange juice! Only two or three children didn’t like it and all the others loved how the fresh orange juice tasted. What a healthy treat!
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Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity After reading “Jolly Olly Octopus” we were asked the question “What makes you smile?” The children had some lovely answers but my favourite answer was “Coming to school!” |
| Creative Development
We used oranges to make some great printed pictures. We printed with half an orange and rolled a whole orange across the paper to create different effects. |
Physical Development
This week’s Move it Monday was parachute games. We practiced lifting the parachute up and down while singing “The Grand Old Duke of York” and we bounced a teddy up and down while singing “Round and Round the Garden like a Teddy Bear”.
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Welsh Language Development We have been practising welsh words for fruit at snack time. We have been asking for banana, grapes, apple and orange in Welsh – “Gai banana/grawnwin/afal/oren.” A welsh counting song has been helping us remember welsh fruit names; “Un, dau, tri afal, pedwar, pimp, chwech afal, saith, wyth, naw afal, deg afal coch.” Have a go at singing it at home.
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Anything else! Family storytelling happens on Wednesday mornings in the infant hall. A fun session for any members of the family, where you can make games linked to popular story books in order to help your child with their learning. Session starts at 9.15 am and lasts for 2 hours. Let me know if you would like to come along.
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