Wendy House Nursery - Carlisle Ltd

WC 17th August Owls
This week the children will be:
💪continuing to develop their movement, balancing, riding (scooters, trikes & bikes) and ball skills.

The children will take part in some mini sports day games. Staff will provide bean bags, balls & hoops for over & under passing and we will encourage the children to work together to pass the bean bags through the hoops. They will take part in egg & spoon races to help to develop their balancing skills - don't let the egg fall !!!
The children are receiving a 'Well Done' certificate for taking part.

At home:
Enjoy the weather - get outside on bikes, go to the park etc.

WC 17th August Squirrels
This week the children will be:
🎲talking about & exploring 2D & 3D shapes (eg circles, rectangles, triangles, cuboids) using informal and mathematical language: sides, corners, straight, flat, round.

Staff will provide a variety of different things that are all different shapes. Staff will talk about the different shapes - cereal boxes (cuboid), balls (spheres), paper plate (circle). Children will be given solid blocks to handle, they can count the corners and count how many sides the shapes have.

At home:
What shapes can you find in your house - clock - circle, windows - rectangles, mirror - oval.

WC 17th August Foxes
This week the children will be:
🎲sorting & matching objects and pictures by colour, animal, appearance.
🎲noticing simple similarities and differences.
📞using simple language to describe what they see & match.
😀develop attention, concentration and problem solving skills.

Staff will introduce a variety of simple matching games for the children to play. Staff will supervise the game and encourage the children to match things up. Staff will be communicating using words such as same and different.

At home:
Help match the clean socks after washing and talk about the colours and size of the socks.

Owls & Holiday clubbers have been checking on the allotment today and giving the plants a drink.

WC 17th August Ducklings
This week the children will be:
💪starting to build independently with a range of appropriate resources.

Staff will provide a range of appropriate resources for the children to build with. Staff will model placing the bricks on top of each other to build a tower and encourage the children to have a go. Staff will give lots of praise when the children make a tower.
We will model turn taking and using the bricks appropriately ( no throwing).
BUT don't forget it is always more fun knocking the tower down.

At home:
Build towers at home, see how may blocks they can stack.

Caroline's allotment is looking great - the children with the help of green fingered Caroline have been so busy planting lots of different things. We have:
potatoes & new potatoes 🥔
tomatoes 🍅
peppers 🌶
garden peas
runner beans
variety of herbs 🌿

Hopefully it won't be long before we are tasting the things we have grown 😄

Squirrels have been to the sea Carlisle Sea Cadets hall this morning. They looked at the ropes for the flags - Zoe knows about the ropes as she has been a Guide leader. They also joined in with some running races.

Squirrels
This week the children were discussing the eclipse and they looked at some pictures of eclipses and they then made their own picture of an eclipse.

WC 10th August Owls
This week the children will be:
😀noticing and asking questions about differences such as skin colour, hair, gender etc.
🌍noticing differences between people.

The children are going to be painting a friend, they will choose a friend and sit across for them and paint a portrait of their friend. Staff will support them to look at 'what colour hair do they have, what colour eye's' etc.
Staff will provide paper and paint for the children to do their masterpieces.

At home:
Talk about the differences or similarities between you and your child.

WC 10th August Squirrels
This week the children will be:
😀developing their sense of responsibility and membership of a community
📖begin to notice some print, such as a bus or door number or a familiar logo

Staff this week are following children's interests from last week - they were all pretending to go on a bus by lining up the chairs and taking turns to be the driver. So staff are going to take the children out on some little trips in the local area. We will hopefully have a trip on the bus and staff will talk about safety when they are out and about - holding hands, listening to the adults who are with them. We will encourage the children to see what they can see and discuss the things they spot.

At home:
When out and about together talk about what you can see, talk about the street signs, bus and door numbers.