Nursery - St. Francis - Mrs Pritchard and Mrs Butler

Welcome to Nursery -

St Francis of Assisi

Home Learning – Week Beginning 16^th March 2020

Phonics – ‘d’

• Our sound for this week is d. Please go on a sound hunt around your house and find objects that start with the d sound.  

• Sing the Jolly Phonics ‘d’ sound (tune of ‘This old man)
  Action – Beating a drum up and down

‘See me play on my drum, playing drums is lots of fun,

With a d/d/d/d/d/d/d/d/d

Playing drums is lots of fun

• Practise forming the letter d in different ways (with crayons/felt tips/pencils/paint/tracing d in flour or shaving foam)

Maths – Exploring Numbers 1-5

• Adult to write numbers 1-5 on paper, children to recognise these numbers and put them in order. Count out the correct number of objects to match the numeral (toys/teddies/pasta).
• Number hunt around the house – where can you find/ see these numbers.
• Explore shapes (square, circle, rectangle, triangles, pentagon). Can the children find these shapes in the house. If you cut up these shapes can they make a rocket/ aeroplane out of these shapes.

Literacy

• Encourage your child to practise writing their names, using different forms of media.
• Share stories with your children. Talk about the characters and events in the text.

RE

• Talk to your child about the importance of saying sorry and what it means. Write a sorry prayer together for something they need to say sorry for.

Other learning opportunities

• Encourage your child to dress independently, practise buttons and zips.
• Using scissors correctly, cut over some simple patterns drawn on paper.
• Build a tower using bricks (or stackable objects).

Nursery Teachers; Monday - Wednesday Mrs Butler, Thursday & Friday Mrs Pritchard

Nursery Key workers: Mrs L McDonagh and Mrs S Abdelmassih 
 

Our morning nursery session runs from 8.45 -11.45. We have a lunch club that runs daily in our nursery from 11.45-13.00. Our afternoon session runs until 15.00.

Key Information:

P.E.

Our P.E. day is Friday. Long hair needs to be tied back and earrings are not allowed to be worn in school at any time. 

A Typical Day in St Francis Class

8.45 - Classroom doors open

8.45 - 9.00 - Funky Finger Activities

9.00 - 9.15 – Register, calendar and prayer.

9.20 - 9.40 – Phonics

09.40 -10.00 – Snack

10.00 -11.15 – Child Initiated Learning

11.15 - 11.30 - Group Time

11.30 -11.45 – Story, Singing, Prayer and Home Time (for 15 hour children)

11.45 - 13.00 - Lunch

13.00 - Register and story/singing

13.15 - Group Time

13.30 - 14.45 - Child Initiated Learning

14.45 - Story, Singing, Prayer and Home Time

Take One Picture Week W/B 20th Jan

This week, we looked at the work of Andy Goldsworthy.

The children explored making art out of natural resources. 

Here are some pictures of our work.