Concentrating and cutting
Investigating and exploring
Reading and writing
Counting and building
Making scarecrows
World Food day
Halloween party fun!
Wow what a busy month this has been!
This week we are concentrating on the Little Red Riding Hood story and games linked to this.
We had so much fun at our celebration this year! Thank you to everyone who came.
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’s stories all have creepy crawlies in them.
Our Rhyme of the week is ‘Here is the Beehive‘. We have been fascinated by the bees buzzing around the flowers in our nursery garden, so it seemed a good choice for this week.
You can watch an online version of the rhyme here.
Here is the beehive
Here is the beehive,
Where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees.
Watch and you’ll see them come out of the hive.
One…two…three…four…five!
Buzz…buzz…buzz…buzz…buzz.
Here is the beehive,
Where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees.
Watch and you’ll see them land on the floor.
One…two…three…four!
Buzz…buzz…buzz…buzz.
Here is the beehive,
Where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees.
Watch and you’ll see them come out of the tree.
One…two…three!
Buzz…buzz…buzz.
Here is the beehive,
Where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees.
Watch and you’ll see them come out of the hive.
One…two…three…four…five.
Buzz…buzz…buzz…buzz…buzz.
Buzzzzzzzzz…they’ve all flown away!
Our children at nursery are thoroughly enjoying this damp weather as they have been able to look for worms in the garden. Not only have they been interested in how they move but also timing how long it takes for them to cross lines which the children have drawn on the floor with chalk. Some children have been measuring them using unconventional methods e.g. “This one is longer than my boot!”
Ideas
Have a look in your garden and try to find some worms. See who can find the longest or the shortest. Try sorting them into fat ones and thin ones, quick worms or slow moving ones.
Herman the Worm – Camp Songs – Kids Songs … – YouTube
Here are some fantastic books to read about worms.
This week, we are thinking about babies in celebration of our new addition!
Our stories this week, as every week, all help to support literacy development and phase one of Letters and Sounds, which encourages children’s developing phonics skills.
Please see the plan on our Parent Noticeboard in the conservatory to see which aspect each book hopes to develop and which story each group has each day.
Our Rhyme of the Week has been planned to support children who are learning to count objects, giving one number name for each object touched. We will be saying the rhyme slowly to allow the children time to show each finger as it is counted. We’re hoping it will give all those hard working fingers a really good stretch too!
I Can Count
I can count, want to see?
Here are my fingers- one, two, three (Hold up fingers as you count)
Four and five, this hand is done.
Now I’ll count the other one.
Six, seven, eight and nine (Hold up fingers on other hand)
Just one more, I’m doing fine.
The last little finger is number ten.
Now I’ll count them all again.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten!
We hope that everyone has enjoyed the break and taken the opportunity to recharge their batteries and get over the nasty bugs that were going around before we broke up.
This week, we will be concentrating on settling back in to the routine, so our Group Times and Story Times will be planned by your child’s Key Worker according to the needs of the children in each group. We might be recalling work we have done before, planning new, exciting things to do for the Spring, or trying out different approaches to favourite activities. Story Times will be spent going back over some of the best-loved books and songs from previous weeks.
