EYFS have worked very hard this week! We have been learning about New Year and completed lots of special ‘New Year’ challenges. We made New Years’ Resolutions, wrote ‘Thank You’ cards from Christmas and practised counting back too.
Nursery rhymes provide bite-sized learning opportunities for young children to develop key developmental skills and can often be the trigger for hours of creative and open-ended play. They are a powerful learning source in early literacy and enable children to become interested in the rhythm and patterns of language.
“Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight. -”
Mem Fox, Reading Magic.
Below is a booklet containing some classic Nursery Rhymes that you and your child can enjoy together. You can also put the names of your favourite rhymes into YouTube so you can watch and listen to them. Alternatively, Cbeebies iplayer has some great Rhymes from Mr Tumble.
Let us know your favourite Nursery Rhyme in the comment box below 🙂
Hope you all enjoy the first Bedtime Story of 2021!
Today we celebrated the end of term with a Christmas PJ and movie day. The children enjoyed lots of Christmas activities in class and also got to watch a Christmas film this afternoon. Reception combined their Christmas party and Movie day and played some special party games in their PJs this afternoon!
Everyone in Nursery is all partied out as we have danced, played games and ate party food all day!
We all had a lovely time and even received a message from Mr and Mrs Claus!
Today we said goodbye to Miss Smith in Nursery. For her last activity with the children she made some super snowmen biscuits.
We would like to wish Miss Smith good luck for the future and say a big thank you for all of your hard work 😊
Nursery and Reception have been learning about Hanukkah. We listened to a special story, watched some videos of children celebrating Hanukkah and we made our own dreidel too.
This week, we have continued our Christmas crafts in Foundation Stage. We’ve made our Christmas cards, calendars and some delicious Christmas cakes too!
Thank you to Alexander and Willow for their requests.
Hope you all enjoy the latest story and don’t forget to pop a comment below if there’s a story you’d like to hear! 🙂
Today the children took part in a Design a Christmas Jumper Competition.
Congratulations to all our winners!
