Nursery - Hungry Caterpillar
CURRICULUM FOR Summer 2
This half term our topic is ‘Fun at the Seaside."
AS READERS
We will be reading books linked to our half term theme: “Look What I Found at the Seaside!” “Rainbow Fish,” “Sharing a Shell,” “Ten Little Pirates,” and “The Little Mermaid.” We will also discuss books that will help the transition into reception class, these include: “When a Dragon Goes to School,” “Starting School,” “Hello Friend,” and “Everybody Feels Scared.”
The children are also playing Fred Games from RWI and learning the set one sounds.
AS WRITERS
To improve the children’s fine and gross motor skills we will be doing activities that encourage the control of the whole body in movement using scarves. We have funky fingers activities and name writing in the morning to strengthen the children’s posture, shoulder and elbow movement, hand grip, pincer, and tripod grip. The children are encouraged to mark make using a variety of different media: post its, notepads, paper, card etc, They will be working very hard on writing their own name independently.
AS MATHEMATICIANS
We will be looking at numbers 1-5, ordering them and discovering one more and one less using concrete objects such as pebbles on a number track.
We will continue to subitise objects (by not counting) but using the approach of “What do you notice? How do you see it?”
AS EXPLORERS
This half term we will be exploring what we could find at a beach, what grows naturally and what it might look and feel like. The children will discover what beaches looked like in the past and how it compares to now. We will also investigate what objects float and sink and how we can search for treasure on the beach (magnets.)
PSED
Children follow Jigsaw and Happy Minds. We also have circle times and on the spot opportunities to develop PSED skills. This term we will focus on the transition to reception and discuss how the children are feeling about this big step.
PE
Lessons will take place every Tuesday morning with our PE Staff. The children will need to come to nursery wearing their PE kits.
“STAY AND PLAY” sessions.
Parents and carers are welcome to stay for a lovely, calm 45 mins on a Friday morning, to share their child’s learning. It might be craft activities, cooking, playing games, sharing books, watching live sessions, or even looking at their child’s learning journals.
HOME LEARNING
Please ensure that you are logged on to Class Dojo so that you can see what your child has been doing. Photos and messages will be posted regularly to show you what your child has been learning at nursery.
DROP OFF INFORMATION
We are now encouraging you to drop your child off at the Nursery gate, so they can put their own coat away, find their picture/name independently, vote for the story at the end of the session and go into the classroom confidently and independently.
