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We are so proud of the way our new Little Gems have settled into nursery life. Our returning children have also made us proud; they have been extremely welcoming. It is lovely to watch new friendships develop and see the children’s confidence grow.
Little Gems have been looking at Light and Dark this half term, they have enjoyed learning about the animals that live among us but only come out at night. You could ask them what word we use to describe these animals and to name a couple of them.
We have looked at the artist Van Gough and his picture The Starry Night, the children enjoyed creating their own versions using paint, tissue paper, bottle tops and different textured materials.
This term we have looked at different celebrations that our friends celebrate with their families such as Diwali. We also created our own poppies for Remembrance Day and learnt about why we wear them.
The children enjoyed discovering ice in our garden on a very frosty and cold day. We talked about how it got there, and how we could melt it. They decided we needed the sun to help melt it or they could use their warm hands!
They have also enjoyed learning to play board games while recognising numbers one to three.
The children have worked extremely hard learning all our Christmas songs, we hope you enjoyed our Christmas Concert.
We would like to welcome some new children to our Little Gems Family. They have settled in lovely and have begun to make new friendships.
This term we have been looking at numbers three, four and five. The children have enjoyed singing number rhymes, making pasta necklaces and ladybirds with the correct amount of spots.
We enjoyed learning about shapes with four and five sides, we used the artist Piet Mondrian and made some of our own square and rectangles paintings.
The children loved science week where we looked at dinosaur bones and fossils, we tried out our skills as engineers using our dinosaur Jenga balancing set.
We have been talking about healthy choices when choosing different foods, the children loved our fruit tasting and then made a lovely fruit salad with the fruits we tasted. We are so proud of how they are keen to try new foods, they showed us this not only with the fruit tasting but when we celebrated Chinese New Year, they tried Chinese food too.
During our phonics sessions, our preschoolers have begun to learn the sound ‘s,’ ‘a,’ ‘t’,’p’ ‘i’ and ‘n’. Our younger children have been taking part in listening games and can now identify many environmental sounds.
During our PE lessons we have been learning new dances and had the opportunity to use some of the climbing equipment.
What a busy term it has been in Little Gems.
We have been practising our letter sounds during our phonics sessions, learning to blend simple word, identifying environmental sounds through games and the children have been working hard.
Our maths focuses this term has been all about height, mass, and capacity. It has been lovely hearing the children use the correct vocabulary during their play, tall, short, long, full, empty, nearly empty, and nearly full, big, and small.
The children have enjoyed looking at people that help us within our community such as doctors, nurses, firefighters, postal workers, dentists. We have been incredibly lucky and have had a doctor into visit a fire engine with its crew and will have a dentist too. Thank you to those parents that volunteered to come in and talk to the children.
The children have loved having some mummies come in a read a story to them at the end of the day, please speak with your child’s key person if you would like to come in and read.
And how could I not mention our delightful chicks, the children have absolutely loved watching the life cycle of a chicken and have been so caring, kind, and gentle when holding the chicks. They have learnt how to identify between a boy chick and a girl chick. The correct names, Hen for a female and Cockerel for a male chicken. We will be sad to see them go.
Little Gems have been extremely busy in this short half term. They have been using their skills as keen gardeners to grow their very own beanstalks. This has also taught them that sometimes things do not work but that is ok and we can try again.
We have some very keen mark makers, and they have been trying hard to write their own name names and create lovely pictures.
The children have loved watching the caterpillars grow and change, they are making their way to the top of the pots to build their cocoons, hopefully they will stay in there for longer than two weeks and when we return from holiday, we will see beautiful butterflies emerge. During this time, the children have been learning about the life cycle of a butterfly.
The children have been busy practising for our sports day and are trying hard to complete all the races, independently. Please show them lots of support and cheer loudly for them on Sports day.
We celebrated VE Day with a special Fish n Chip lunch and decorated Union Jack Flags and spoke about how brave the children were when they had to go and live in the countryside to keep safe.
We hope you have a restful holiday, and we shall look forward to seeing you all return for the last half term of the school year.
