Elmer week

We looked for objects in our Nursery yard which matched the colours on our paint charts

Parachute games

"5 elephants went out to play"

We learnt about the artist Kandinsky who uses lots of colours and shapes in his paintings. We copied one of his paintings "circles"

We decorated our own Elmers on the make it table by cutting up and gluing coloured squares from paint charts

We designed our own 'Elmer day' elephants on the Interactive Whiteboard

Colouring Elmer

Number work - we counted the Elmers then looked for the number on our number fan

PSD (circle time) We spoke about what makes us special. 

We talked about how we all experience the same feelings.  We looked at pictures and sorted them.

We compared ourselves to smarties - we all look different on the outside but are all the same inside.

We enjoyed sorting and tasting the smarties!

Playing our Elmer board game. 

Problem solving - Elmer squirted water everywhere and we decided together what materials would be best for mopping it up.  We tested sponges, paper napkins, mop and bucket, foil, plastic and dish cloths.

Summer Term Overview 2013 -" TheJungle "

Summer Term Overview 2013 -" TheJungle"

LANGUAGE, LITERACY & COMMUNICATION
- Self portraits for Summer term.
- Continue to recognise and write own name, ensuring correct letter formation
- Read/listen/discuss  a variety of  jungle related stories and rhymes
- Sound of the week (Jolly Phonic)
- Develop pencil grip & left-right orientation through pre- writing activities: increasingly complicated writing patterns, colourings,tracing , shaving foam, stencils
- Develop pre- reading activities – odd one out, left to right orientation, difference between pictures and print, picture snap/lotto 
- Group reading activities - sharing stories
- Develop speaking and listening skills- 'Letters & Sounds' phase 1 activities
- Emergent writing activities – favourite part of story/character, invitations, labelling, etc
- Home /school link – share reading books – retell story in own words, describe character/events in story, recognise key vocabulary and identify initial sounds

MATHEMATICAL DEVELOPMENT
- ABACUS scheme activities.
- Count, recognise and name numbers 1 – 10 and on to 20+
- Number of the week
- Capacity - full/empty, half empty/full
- Recite days of week and match to activities
-  Begin to recognise coins
- Compare animals by size/weight/quantity/skin etc
- Recognise and name 3D shapes
-Begin to use ordinal numbers e.g 1st the crocodile, second the lion

-Use Ict to generate pictograms of animals


PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
- ‘Val Sabin activities (gym, games,).
- Develop spatial awareness.- coloured ribbons, coloured spots, coloured hand/footprints
- Awareness of body parts.- transfer weight to body parts, carry beanbags on body parts, travel on different body parts(record and evaluate using tough cam)
- Hang like monkeys, travel like foxes(Pess), jungle obstacle races
-- Develop, co-ordination and gross motor skills –pedalling, manoeuvring, climbing, sliding, pushing ,pulling, throwing, catching, rolling, jumping, hopping, skipping ,balancing
- Develop fine motor control – peg board colour patterns, sorting small coloured objects with tweezers, threading coloured beads, jungle lacing cards

WELSH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
- Continue to introduce ‘brawddeg yr wythnos’ (Sentence of the week) on a weekly basis to build up phrases
- Develop a range of topic-related vocabulary:- animals, colours, numbers, greetings, weather, etc
- Watch Welsh language videos/DVD’s (‘Ding Dong’, ‘Fflic a Fflac’) to enhance and develop language
- Choose a ‘Helpwr Heddiw’ and ‘Seren y dydd’ daily
- Sing a range of simple Welsh songs

PERSONAL & SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
- Primary National Strategy PSE scheme (SEAL)- Relationships and Changes
- Continue to learn to share and take turns.
- Continue to adapt to school routines and become independent in personal
needs
- Continue to identify different feelings and emotions
-Safety rules for visiting farms/zoo
- Develop self confidence
-Prepare to move on - implications/transition for reception
- Develop care and concern for plants and animals
- Begin to develop understanding of food/clothes/customs in other countries/cultures
- Healthy Eating


CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT
- ART - Make Fathers Day card, snake patterns, 
animal masks, animal footprints, imprints

- D.T –binoculars, magnifying glasses, rainsticks, 
jungle drums
-  MUSIC – ‘Music Express’ activities- African drums, 
Monkey Puzzle - sound story , Bye Baby Bunting
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- DANCE – ‘Val Sabin’ dance activities
- Respond to different stimuli - move like animals- Explore a variety of simple movements- e , turn, spin, pounce, spring ,bounce, hibernate, slither - sequence 2 movements

KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD
-Animals found in jungle - identify, features
- ICT 2 simple -create pictures of jungle animals/ graphs
- Beebot /I pad activities
-Materials and their properties - tents/jungle dens
-Ways of travelling - travelling to the jungle
- Hot/Cold countries
- Clothes for hot/cold countries
- Following trails - can the footprints lead us to the animals
- Zoos/circus in the past 

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VISITS, VISITORS & MATTERS OF INTEREST
Fathers Day - 16th June
Infant Fun Day

Pre-Easter Photos

We have been naming and sorting 3-d shapes (sphere, cube, cylinder)

Look at our lovely Easter bonnets!