Our Learning this Week
Nursery 28th November 2014
| Language, Literacy & Communication
Ben and Betty have been teaching us the letter sound “j” this week. We listened to the story “Jack and the Beanstalk” and we practiced our pen control by tracing along the path to connect the characters from the story. We used Puppet Pals on the i-pad to retell the story and lots of children were very good at remembering what happened. Ask them to tell you the story at home.
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Mathematical Development
We used cubes of jelly to help us with our counting this week, placing the jelly cubes on the number squares and counting how many we had altogether. We also looked at sizes by playing a matching game on the interactive whiteboard.
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| Knowledge and Understanding of the World We explored what happened when we put jelly cubes in warm water in our water tray. The children were making some excellent observations and descriptions of what was happening. We also did some job puzzles which included firefighters, police, chef, dentist, vet, etc. The children had to talk about what each person did.
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Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity
We talked about whether Jack was right or wrong to take the golden hen and harp from the Giant. Most children decided that it wasn’t right for Jack to have taken things that didn’t belong to him.
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| Creative Development
We did some junk printing by using rubbish we don’t need to create some art. It was fun to explore the different shapes each object made on the paper. |
Physical Development
We have been playing jigsaws this week to develop our fine motor skills. We moved and danced to jelly on a plate making our bodies as wiggly as we could. |
| Welsh Language Development
We are practising our Welsh counting this week by counting how many children are in school every day. We also matched pictures in a counting book by counting in Welsh.
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Anything else!
We are very excited to go and visit Santa on Monday for our school trip to Poundffald Farm in Three Crosses. Don’t forget to bring a packed lunch with you and dress appropriately for the weather – wellies will be a must if it is wet.
Have a good weekend. |