Fun in the sun

Hopefully the good weather of the last week is the start of things to come.

Please can you make sure your child has in school the following: • Spare set of clothes including socks and shoes - can you please make sure these are easy to put on we are working on getting ourselves changed • A hat • Wellies • Suncream – we will apply sunscreen to your child throughout the day if you send it in.You need to send it with a label on with your child’s name. WE DO NOT SHARE SUNSCREEN

Over the rainbow

"I am following the lines carefully" We have started to look at the colours of the rainbow and the story The Wizard of Oz. Some of us have looked where Kansas is on a map where Dorothy lived. We talked about the weather and Dorothys house taking off in the wind.

"It stops going round when it's near the floor"

"Its going faster ,faster" Next week we are making scarecrows for the garden if you have any old pillow cases or clothing we could use we would be greatful

Great Outdoors

The summer season is here and hopefully the good weather will stay. Being out doors is vitle to your childs development. It gives us more space to be noisy, active and boisterous,experience of different weathers and seasons, contact with the natural world, a freedom to do things we may not be able to indoors

Whilst outdoors we will be enjoying filling and emptying containers, hiding, tents, digging and exploring natural materials like soil, water, sand, leaves, pebbles, fir cones, shells. We will be growing our own flowers and vegetables learning to care for living things, The outdoors offers so many multi sensory experiences developing your childs physical and emotional well being, there will be plenty of opportunities to touch, smell, hear, taste and see. So how can you help your child get the most out of the outdoors? Provide suitable clothing for all weathers including a hat and name labelled suncream Encourage your child to care for living things, give them a plot of their own in your garden Involve your child in outdoor activities such as gardening, washing the car, sweeping,feeding wildlife

What to expect, when?

What to expect, when? A guide to your child’s learning and development in the early years foundation stage The Early Years Foundation Stage Framework (EYFS) sets the learning and development for children from birth to the end of their reception year. The EYFS guides all who work with children what they need to do to support your child. This booklet is to help you as a parent/carer find out more about how your child is learning and developing within the EYFS. The booklet is available through the link below. There is a copy of this on the information table outside nursery. http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/files/2015/03/4Children_ParentsGuide_2015_WEB.pdf

Summer term 2015

We hope you all had a good break over the Easter holidays and enjoyed what sun we had. Before the holidays the children started work on the new decorations for the nursery. We are going to be doing many things but mostly we will be working with colour, our topic is ‘Over the rainbow.’ The story The Wizard of Oz will be a base for this but we will be looking at other stories too. Each week we will do some focused work on a particular colour, this is dated and listed with the colour for each week. We will have colour boxes for each week so if your child would like to bring from home anything of that colour to put in we would appreciate it. Please do not send anything precious and if you wish for it to return home please label it with your child’s name.