Nursery Newsletter
Term: Autumn 2
Date:11th November 2016
Getting ready to write!
Masefield Road
Little Lever
Bolton
BL3 1NG
Tel: (01204) 333714
Fax: (01204) 333531
Email: [email protected]
Executive Headteacher:
Mrs Lisa Whittaker
Head of School:
Miss Gemma Yapp
Next Week
Our sign of the week:
What?
Nursery Rhyme of the week:
Three Blind Mice
Number of the week:
Eight 8
Circle Time Focus SEAD
I can tell when I am feeling sad or
angry
I can show someone when I am
feeling sad, angry or happy
Kind Hands, Kind Feet, Kind
Words
Children need to build lots of skills before they are able to write. These pre-writing
skills are essential to develop the ability to hold and move a pencil fluently and to
produce legible writing and to write without tiring their hand muscles later on in
their learning. In Nursery, we play lots of games to develop hand and finger
strength, pencil grasp and hand-eye co-ordination.
A really important part of pre-writing is the ability to draw some shapes and to build
these skills before then working on letter shapes. Circles, crosses, lines and zig zags
all help children to develop the control that they will need to become fantastic
writers.
I’ve attached a sheet with some fun ideas to develop these skills that you can try at
home.
Notices
This Week
We have been learning about shapes and learning the names of lots of 2D shapes
such as trapezium, pentagon and hexagon. The children have been counting the
number of sides and angles to help us find out more about the properties of shapes.
We have recorded the shapes we know in our busy books. The children have also
been very busy creating some very special winter themed pictures in our creative
area.
World Nursery Rhyme Week
The children have all loved learning a new Nursery Rhyme every day as part of
World Nursery Rhyme Week. We have been tapping out rhythms with the claves
and making up funny little versions of the rhymes. The children have all shown
great confidence in singing their favourites at group time.
Next Week
Our Learning Focus will be building up our writing and pre-writing skills. We will be
introducing ‘dough gym’ to the children where we move to the music whilst rolling,
pinching and patting the playdough.
Toys from Home
We have noticed that lots of children have been bringing in little toys from home.
This can cause some issues relating to sharing, and also these toys could be lost or
broken so we ask that these be kept at home – thank you for your support in this.
Hats, gloves and scarves
We do play outside in all but the most extreme weather so it is important that your
child has a warm coat and a hat for these cold days. Writing your child’s name in all
items of clothing, including hats and scarfs, really helps us to match them to their
owner.
As always...
If you have any questions or concerns please come and speak with any of the
Nursery Team
THE NURSERY TEAM