As the season changes and we begin to learn about Autumn, our “Word of the Week” this week is indeed Autumn. This may be a new word to the children so we will be using it a lot in Nursery and explaining what it means. Hopefully the conversations you have with your child will help to reinforce this learning in Nursery.
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Word Of The Week
As we work on implementing the rules in Nursery as part of our Health and Wellbeing development, the “Word of the Week” this week will be ‘share’ as we help the children to understand what it means when we say that it is important to share.
Word Of The Week
Our “Word of the Week” for this week is graduation as we prepare the children for our end of year celebration.
Word Of The Week
Our “Word of the Week” this week will be audience as we begin to talk about our end of year graduation and practise a few songs.
Word Of The Week
This week’s “Word of the Week” is cocoon as we keep an eye on our own little cocoons. I wonder how many of the children can use this word?
Word Of The Week
As we look forward to our whole school Health Week, with lots of fun activities planned for everyone, our “Word of the Week” this week will be ‘healthy‘. Hopefully we will have a better understanding of what it means to be healthy at the end of this week as well as feeling happy and healthy after taking part in the various activities.
Word Of The Week
Our “Word of the Week” for this week will be symmetrical. We will be looking at what symmetrical means as part of our activities in Nursery and it will link to our learning about the life cycle of a butterfly.
Word Of The Week
This week’s “Word of the Week” will be ‘artist’ as we look at the work of Vincent Van Gogh. I wonder how many children will know what an artist is by the end of this week?
Compost
Letti and Oscar’s Mum has been hearing them use our “Word of the Week” which is compost.
“I heard all about the kids putting compost in, then seeds, more compost and they each had their names in the pots. Letti and Oscar have been helping Mum planting at home this week too!”
Well done Letti and Oscar for using our word at home and what a good description they gave of what they have been doing. Well done for helping with planting at home too – you have both been very busy this week. Hopefully we will be able to post some planting photos soon.
Word Of The Week
Last term, as a school staff, we took part in Word Aware training, which is a structured whole school approach to develop the vocabulary of children.
It is estimated that the average child learns 2000 – 3000 words per year every year throughout their schooling which equates to six to eight words a day on average. Children with good vocabulary go on to become good readers and vocabulary has a major impact on all areas of learning.
As part of our work to support the development of the children’s vocabulary, we will be including a “Word of the Week” in our planning and will focus on the appropriate use of that word in the Nursery environment. Sometimes the selected word may arise from a child led discussion and at other times it may be linked to our learning focus. We will share this word on the Nursery blog so that you can share in the fun with words at home.
Our first “Word of the Week” will be compost. I wonder if you can guess what we are planning to do next week?
