Continuing our ‘Seaside’ topic, this week the children have been busy bubble painting, making octopuses, junk model telescopes and treasure chests, baking sea biscuits, playing tennis and sharing out shells and fish scales too!
Category Archives: Literacy
More Minibeasts!
We have been so busy in nursery this week, making spiders webs, moving like minibeasts in the gym hall, making symmetrical butterfly wings and even counting spiders legs!
The Gingerbread Man
After reading the story of The Gingerbread Man, the children used small world characters to retell the main events of the story. Some even created their own happier ending, where The Gingerbread Man escaped. Have a look.
The Listening Lot
As part of the Three Read Approach, the children have been busy learning about the Listening Lot characters, Lizzie Listen, Eileen Eyes, Wendy Wait, Stevie Still, Robbie Remember and Tommy Talk. These characters will help the children to develop their listening skills. The children had fun drawing their favourites.
Creative Story Making
This week, we had great fun making up our own stories. We thought about characters and settings. Our stories also had ‘big problems’ and resolutions.
Literacy and Three Read Approach Workshop
Yesterday, we held a workshop on the benefits of reading with children. The workshop also covered the Three Read Approach, which we have been using in the nursery to develop literacy skills. Thank you to all the parents who attended.
The Listening Lot
As part of the Three Read approach, we are learning about The Listening Lot. You may have noticed your children wearing stickers with some of the characters on them. These characters will help to develop listening skills.
Three Read Approach
In the nursery, we are using a ‘Three Read’ approach to help children develop really important literacy skills, like understanding how books work, understanding stories, listening, thinking and talking about their ideas and experiences. Small groups of children will work with the same book three times over a week.
The emphasis on the first read is hearing the whole story and beginning to understand what happened and why. With the second read, the emphasis is on understanding the story and building longer conversations with the children to help them think more deeply about events and reasons. By the third read, the children will be the storytellers, talking about what happened on each page, how characters feel and what they might say or be thinking.
With frequent experience of the ‘Three Read’ approach, children should develop their talking, thinking and listening skills.
