What are we doing in Dolphins June
to July?
From June to July we will be focussing
on story telling.
Many of the
children are loving storytelling, acting, puppetry, etc. It started on some of
those torrential rain days in early June when we were stuck inside and needed
some extra inspiration for group work. They did some great acting and now story
telling is all go.
The activities this month will be
based around the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) areas of learning:
KUW-Gain an awareness
of the cultures and beliefs of others. PSED- Show increasing
confidence in new situations.. PSRN-
Show an interest in shape and space by
playing with shapes or making. CLL Use intonation, rhythm and phrasing to
make their meaning clear to others. join in with repeated refrains and
anticipate key events and phrases in rhymes and stories. Listen to stories with
increasing attention and recall. Describe ain story settings, events and principal
characters. Listen to others in one-to one or small groups when conversation interests
them.. PD Combine and repeat
a range of movements.CD
Capture experiences and responses with music, dance, paint and other
materials or words.
Some of the activities we will be
doing this month to support this will be:
· Christine H will be talking with children
about their favourite books and suggesting they bring them in to read and talk
about why they are their favourite stories.
· Cristina will be making finger puppets with
the children of their favourite story characters to act out some stories in the
little theatres we have made.
· Laura J will be adapting the story of ‘We’re
Going on a Bear Hunt’ to a sign language story and telling it to the children
through signs, then getting them to join in.
· Laura Z will we working on ‘Little Red Riding
Hood’ through sign as well, introducing drama and story retelling.
· Rachel G will be setting up a home book all
about our meerkat, where the children can take home the nursery meerkat and
tell a story about her adventures with the children.
· Jenny will be continuing working through
acting out stories with the preschool children and presenting them to the rest
of the Dolphins children and teachers.
· We’ll also be having lots of discussions about
the different ways of storytelling; theatre, dance, puppet show, movies, tv
shows, song, telling stories with books and straight from your head.
What you could do to support your children at home:
· Talk with your child about different ways that
stories can be told.
· Take them to a children’s theatre show locally
to experience story telling through theatre.
· Talk about their favourite story and bring it
to nursery to share with the children and teachers.
Many children
are starting to take their summer holidays, meaning new experiences for them
beyond their daily lives. Imagery of summer fun is interesting them as they
share with others images of tents, beaches, ice-creams, and images that they
have been experiencing or that are new to think about.
The activities this month will be based around
the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) areas of learning:
KUW- Developing curiosity in the environment. PSED-
developing a strong exploratory impulse, exploring the environment with
interest. PSRN- developing interest
in classifying and organising items with intent. CLL Using language to accompany feelings, experiences and thoughts.
PD being to use tools and materials for
a particular purpose. CD-seeking to
make sense of what they can see, hear, feel, touch and smell.
Some of the activities we will
be doing this month will involve:
· Sara will be collecting and displaying images
of summer holiday icons and activities.
· Sarah G will be looking at images of
ice-creams and helping the children to make their own through arts and crafts.
· Sarah G will also being setting up tents and
dens with camping equipment to role play camping.
· Laura W will be setting up a range of sensory
activities to imitate the sense and textures the children feel in the summer
time, such as sandy water.
· Chloe will be setting up a ‘going on holiday’
role play activity with the children where they can pretend to travel and
arrive at a new destination.
· Sarah-Louise will be creating some art with
the children about summer scenes, including sunshine, sand, animals.
· Ella will be making some post cards with the
children with images of holiday destinations.
· Sarah Louise and Chloe will be making a
holiday board with images of holiday destinations from catalogues and
magazines.
Some ideas to support your children at home:
·
When
you go on holiday, write a post card with your toddler and then post it to
nursery. We’ll make a display of all the postcards we’ve collected from you.
·
Remember
to name all of the new things they come across and don’t forget to use language
that describes texture, colour, shape, number.
·
Bring
something back from your holiday and bring it into the nursery for the day so
we can talk about it with the children and give your child a special proud
moment.
