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What is nursery doing this half term? Water Topic

Date	Theme	Small Group work			Cooking	Other
Date	Theme	Communication, Language and Literacy	Mathematical Development	Understanding the World, Physical Development and Expressive Arts & Design	Cooking	Other
19.4.	Polar regions	Read ‘Lost and Found’ and talk about the story	Shape hunt around the school	Draw a penguin on the board	England flag toast	Polar role play & arctic animals. Ice experiments. Plant seeds. Make instruments. St. George’s Day. Phonics – s,a,t. Number 6.
25.4	Weather and seasons	Present your own UK weather forecast	Paint a rainbow, matching numbers 1-7	Complete seasons puzzles and discuss the changes	Fruit rainbow	Noah’s Ark. Puddle painting. Ramadan/Eid. Colour mixing. Weather songs and rhymes. Phonics - p,i,n,m. Number 7.
3.5	Plants	Set up a garden centre role play.	Order flowers by size and order flower numbers	Make a seed packet	Make cakes in flower pot moulds	Wesak festival. Plant cress. Print with daisies. Sorting seeds. Oak tree life cycle. Flower collage. Phonics - d,g,o. Number 8.
9.5	Using water	You can swim, Jim - Match rhyming words	Capacity exploration - Mr Archimedes bath	Sew a web	Cress sandwiches	Keeping our bodies and teeth clean. Dentist role play. Naming ceremonies. Daily routines. Phonics - c ,k,ck. Number 9
16.5	Incy Wincy Spider	Incy Wincy instruments and rhymes	Incy Wincy board game	Make a spider puppet	Cracker & cheese string spiders – peel 8 legs.	Minibeast hunt & puppets. Visit Rye Meads. Junk modelling. Frog life cycle. Frog beanbags. Phonics - e,u,r,h. Number 10.
23.5	Jubilee	If I was the monarch for a day….	5 Little ducks with number lines and props	Repeated pattern shape crowns	Crown biscuits	Make bunting. Learn about London, crowns & Queen. Street party role play. Castles. Red, white and blue markmaking.

This half term our topic is…. Water

Our weekly themes are Polar regions, weather, plants, using water, Incy Wincy Spider and the Jubilee. At home, you could follow up our topic work by:

Reading stories about water, such as ‘The pig in the pond’, Daisy the duck books, ‘Five minutes peace’ and ‘Lost and found’. (After half term our topic is sea-side so we will cover sea, fish, pirates, boats etc. then)
Exploring how water is used in your house and letting children help with watery jobs like washing up, washing the car and watering the garden.
Enjoying wet weather – jumping in puddles with wellies! Which clothes keep us dry?
Talking about how water changes when it freezes – making ice cubes or ice lollies.
Visiting a pond or river to feed the ducks, pond dip and talk about water safety.
Playing with water toys in the bath.
Talking about how the garden/park is changing in the Spring.

Dates for this half term….

Tuesday 19^th April: Back to nursery.

w/b 25^th April: Visitor to talk about Ramadan and Eid.

Tuesday 26^th April: PTA Bags for school.

Monday 2^nd May: Bank Holiday.

Wednesday 4^th May: Phonics meeting for nursery parents (virtual) 8pm

w/b 9^th May: Visitor to talk about use of water in Christenings/naming ceremonies.

Thursday 26^th May: Jubilee celebration day in school

Friday 27^th May: Jubilee bank holiday in lieu – school closed.

30^th May – 3^rd June - Half term

Monday 6^th June – Inset day, school closed.

Tuesday 7^th June – Back to nursery.

Additionally, we are hoping to find a visitor connected with dentistry to talk to nursery – if anyone has any contacts, please let us know.

We are arranging a trip to Rye Meads nature reserve to do a workshop all about pond minibeasts. Details to follow once dates are confirmed.

Here are some photos taken during our homes topic, February-April 2022

What to expect in the Early Years Foundation Stage: a guide for parents The Department for Education (DfE) published ‘What to expect in the Early Years Foundation Stage: a guide for parents’ to reflect the EYFS reforms.

Guidance on adding Tapestry Observations

How-to-create-Observations-for-relatives.pdf

Here are some photos taken during our 'Food' topic in January-February 2022

Here are some photos taken during our Toys Topic in November-December 2021

Here are some photos taken during our 'People who help us' topic.

Here are some photos taken during our 'flight' topic in Summer, 2 2021

Activities to support your children's learning...

Small Talk Here are ideas, games and activities for encouraging communication with 3-5 year olds.

Bedtime Stories Here's a link which lists lots of great bedtime stories. Goffs Oak library have a fantastic selection of children's books to borrow.

Hungry Little Minds Here is a link to Government advice for developing speaking and listening skills with your child. It has great ideas for 0-5 year olds.