Hi everyone, here is the link for this weeks Easter/safety themed Thinglink.

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1431967093103788033

Hopefield Nursery are concentrating on personal care and hygiene in nursery this week.

Today we have been talking about our teeth and why we need to clean them.  We talked about how long we need to clean them for and how important it is to have regular check-ups at the dentist.

We would love it if you could take a picture and email it into us or pop it into your learner journals of your child cleaning their teeth or leave a comment/photo on the Padlet page of our Thinglink.

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1427731230060707843
Thanks

Nursery Team

Wordboost exposes your child to more interesting words and helps to develop their vocabulary. This initiative involves parents and staff to work together to support their child to reinforce targeted words.

What are BOOST words? ‘Boost’ words are good words for helping your child with their talking, listening, reading and writing. We want your child to learn words like ‘enormous’ and ‘tiny’ so that they can use these as well as words like ‘big’ and ‘small’ .

Where do the BOOST words come from? The ‘boost’ words are taught through the context of a story. We will focus on 3-4 ‘boost’ words from the chosen story each week.

Why are we focusing on BOOST words? ‘Boost’ words help your child to explain their ideas and thoughts better when they are talking. ‘Boost’ words also help them to understand what they are reading. In the future, your child can use them in their writing to make their stories better too.

Wordboost not only helps children to understand what they are reading but also builds up their confidence.

I would like you to join us for an online session. You will have a chance to see what your child learns during the Wordboost.

During this uncertain time, the session would have to be presented online. We would use a safe platform to do so. If you decide to take part, an email with a link will be send to you in due course.

I have done an online session week beginning Monday 1st March. I plan to continue to do that on weekly basics. Sessions will not last longer than 40 minutes. If you would like to join please fill in the Wordboost questionnaire.

I will confirm the date and time once I have all questionnaires.

Hope to see you on online session!

Basia

Hello Everyone,

We will be celebrating all things science related this week in Nursery.

Today we will be doing a flower experiment, to see if we can change white flower petals into different colours using food colouring!

I wonder if it will work?

Have a fun day, Nursery Team

We are continuing our World Book Day theme.

Today in nursery we are creating our favourite characters from our favourite story books using various arts and craft resources. I wonder what you will create…?

Here is a great wee story called Luna Loves World Book Day by Joesph Coelho https://youtu.be/GUmwgJjNidk

Have a great day, Jen.

Hi Everyone,

World Book Day is on the 4th of March, However in nursery we will be celebrating this special day across the whole week.

Today we will be playing with sequencing jigsaws and reading some of the stories released by national books for World Book Day.

For more information visit https://www.worldbookday.com/

Click here to hear the audiobook of We love you, Hugless Douglas by  David Melling. https://www.worldbookday.com/stories/we-love-you-hugless-douglas/

There is also plenty of stories on our thinglink so check that out here on the blog too.

Have a great day, Jen

Hello Children,

Saint David is the patron Saint of Wales. The Welsh national emblem is a Daffodil and a leek.

Check this out to find out how why these are the national emblem.  https://youtu.be/BQbeWFxsRp0

And watch this Cbeebies clip to see how the day is celebrated. https://youtu.be/1G9gtSBAJII

Have a great day, Jen.