You might spot a theme starting here. This week it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Helen Gibson Nursery School!
We will also be reading a big book called ‘The Scarecrow’, which is out of print.
Our song of the week is ‘Little Peter Rabbit‘. A lovely version using Makaton signing can be found here.
We have another varied selection this week. Please let us know if your child has enjoyed any of our stories.
Our song of the week is 10 fat sausages. If you’re not sure of the words, you can watch a version of it by clicking here.
This week we have a variety of stories to interest everybody. Please let us know if your child has especially enjoyed any of them.
Our song of the week is 5 little ducks. A lovely version of it can be found by clicking here.
Another spooky themed week, but we have so many good stories to choose from that it would be a shame not to! This week’s stories have all been firm favourites in past years so we know the children will get lots out of them.
Our rhyme of the week is 5 shiny conkers. Many thanks to those of you who went out conker collecting for us over the past few weeks.
Five shiny conkers on a conker tree,
Beautiful and brown, don’t you all agree?
Along came the wind,
And down one fell,
And a squirrel came to find it in it’s green spiky shell.
Our song this week is 5 little monkeys. We hope you have lots of fun jumping around to the song! Click on the link to join in. Don’t blame any broken beds on us, though!
This week’s stories are all a little bit spooky, but we know the children will enjoy the surprises in them all.
Let us know if your child has particularly enjoyed any of the stories this week. You could send a message to our Facebook page – look for Helen Gibson Nursery and Kids Club.
Have a great week!
This week we are reading a different version of The Three Bears and we are introducing The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We will have lots of opportunities to retell these stories using our story table in nursery.
We are also reading Walking Through the Jungle and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, which we will have opportunities to act out with lots of noise and movement.
Our counting rhyme of the week is 5 Currant Buns, which can be found here and our song of the week is the Little Green Frog, which we hope will help develop the voice sounds aspect of the Letters and Sounds phonics programme. We are learning some Makaton signs to use along with these songs, so encourage your child to show you what they have learned.
Our stories for this week include some well known classics. 
Here is a lovely animation of Owl Babies you could share with your child.
Our rhymes of the week are all about apples. Our apple trees in the allotment have had a great year and we are really enjoying tasting the different varieties!
These are the rhymes we will be sharing.
Ten Red Apples Growing
Ten red apples grow on a tree
(both hands high)
Five for you and five for me
(dangle one hand and then the other)
Let us shake the tree just so
(shake body)
and then red apples will fall below
(hands fall)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
(count each finger)
Five Red Apples
Five red apples in a grocery store
Bobby bought one and then there were 4.
Four red apples on an apple tree
Susie ate one and then there were 3.
Three red apples. What did Alice do?
Why she ate one and then there were 2.
Two red apples ripening in the sun
Tommy ate one, and now there was one.
One red apple and now we are done
I ate the last one and now there are none.
(Replace with names from the group)
The story time plan is on the Parent Noticeboard in the Conservatory. This tells you which story each group will have each day.
This week’s stories will be:
Our songs for the week are 5 little speckled frogs and 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive.
These are the stories your children will be having in nursery this week.
Our number song of the week is 5 little men in a flying saucer. Here’s a link to it on youtube if you’re not sure of the tune.
