What are we doing in Sea Turtles in January?

The children love nursery rhymes, puppets and stories and have (particularly recently) all really enjoyed, learning new actions to new rhymes. To further support this, we’ll be having a month focussed on nursery rhymes, story books and songs.

 

The activities this month will be based around the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) areas of learning:

Prime areas:

C&L: Learning new words and actions to songs, extending their communication and language repertoire. PSED: Sharing new experiences and communication in learning new songs and actions with friends.  PD: Gross motor skills; moving with whole bodies and fine motor skills; finger plays and small actions.

Specific areas:

UW: Learning songs and finger plays from another language. EA&D: Creating art works, dressing up, dance. M: Learning rhymes with numbers. Counting and noticing when something has been taken away.

 Some of the activities we will be doing this month will involve:

·         Making puppets. Laura will be helping the children to make simple puppets to use in their songs and rhymes.

·         Character guessing. Sarah G will be making some character shapes with the children and getting them to guess what the characters are and then reading the story, doing the actions and songs.

·         Collaging. Chloe will be setting up some collages on paper shaped with nursery rhyme characters to do with the children while singing nursery rhymes.

·         Puppet Shows. Sara and Ella will be setting up lots of nursery rhymes and story puppet shows for the children to watch and take part in.

·         Nursery rhyme cards. Sarah Louise will be making some nursery rhyme flash cards for the children to look at. She’ll also be making a display of nursery rhymes for everyone to add to.

 Some ideas to support your children at home:

·         Pull out all the old traditional nursery rhymes and start reading and singing them.

·         If your child has a particular favourite, share it with the team so we can make sure we focus on it for them at nursery too.

·         When you are out and about, point out nursery characters. You’ll see them on cots, in shop windows, bowls, etc. They are everywhere, you just have to notice. Point to them and sing or say the song/ rhyme.

·         Learn the rest of the words to the rhymes you only half remember. You can find lyrics and words to everything on the web.

·         http://www.rhymes.org.uk/ this one is a good start.