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3-5 Nurturing Early Readers Programme
The Nurturing Early Readers programme has made a welcome return, with children excited to explore the characters and events in their new stories. The programme will run daily where the Three Read Approach to literacy will be used to enable children to develop their early literacy skills. The books and new vocabulary which will be promoted to children can be found below:
Nature Park Sessions – Week 1
1,2,3,4,5, once I caught a fish alive!
Pond dipping and fishing.
Learning all about Living Things
The learning has came to life this week as the children have been monitoring the progress of the seeds and beans they planted last week. There have been conversations throughout the nursery about what is needed to care for their plants and some children have been recording their growth.
Children have been expressing their creativity through a range of opportunities from creating their own representation of the different parts of the plants to learning and adapting new songs to link to our learning.
And of course, we have welcomed ten new baby chicks into the nursery, which has been a thrill to watch for children, staff and families!! Everyone is equally excited about the new arrivals and eager to learn all about what is required to care for them, taking into account their basic needs.
Outdoor Learning Environment
Christmas Party Songs
The children have been preparing for their visit from Santa Claus at their Christmas Party. To help you practice with your child at home we have provided the words to the songs below.
We’ll build a jolly snowman
We’ll build a jolly snowman with some snow,
in his hand a snowball made of snow,
for his head a bucket, eyes of coal,
for his nose a carrot, his mouth a hole.
We’ll build a jolly snowman with some snow,
in his hand a snowball made of snow,
get ready Mr Snowman, now we’ll try,
just to throw a snowball, in the sky!
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose.
And if you ever saw him, you would even say it glows.
All of the other reindeer,used to laugh and call him names.
They never let poor Rudolph,join in any reindeer games.
Then one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say:
“Rudolph with your nose so bright, won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?”
Then all the reindeer loved him, as they shouted out with glee.
“Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, you’ll go down in history!”
When Santa got stuck up the chimney
When Santa got stuck up the chimney he began to shout
“You girls and boys won’t get any toys if you don’t pull me out!
My beard in black, there’s soot on my sack, my nose is tickly too,”
When Santa got stuck up the chimney, Achoo! Achoo! Achoo!
Christmas Eve is here
Christmas Eve is here, it’s time to go to bed.
As we climb the stairs, nod our sleepy head.
Take our stockings off, and hang them in a row.
Then jump quickly into bed, and off to sleep we go.
Oh, Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
Oh what fun it is to ride on a one-horse open sleigh.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
Hurrah! For dear old Santa Claus. Hurrah! For Christmas day.
We wish you a Merry Christmas
We wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.
Good tidings we bring, to you and your kin,
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Bringing books to life
Children have been exploring the characters and events from within their favourite stories, using their imagination to bring them to life.
The children had a special visit from the Tiger Who Came to Tea
By exploring a variety of media, the children recreated the shark from the story ‘Shark in the Park’.
The children retold the story ‘Walking Through the Jungle’ using musical instruments in search of the various animals from within the story.
During their Nurturing Early Readers Sessions, some of the children have been exploring and tasting the foods from the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. 
