Nursery Newsletter

It has been a busy time in nursery recently. The children are now settling in and beginning to understand the routines, expectations, and the daily timetable. They are sitting beautifully at carpet time, enjoying listening to stories such as Room on the Broom and joining in with singing nursery rhymes and songs. 

This week we introduced the children to ‘subitising’! This is the ability to instantaneously recognise the number of objects in a small group without the need to count them. An example often used to explain this, is to think of a die – we immediately recognise the number of dots without having to count each one individually. 

We started this using groups of dots up to 3! Subitising is something the children do throughout the school, so we are giving the children a great start in this skill. More information about subitising can be found here: https://nrich.maths.org/14004

To help develop this, the children have been making simple playdough hedgehogs (a great fine motor skill in itself) and then rolling a dice and placing the number of ‘spikes’ (coloured matchsticks) into their hedgehogs.

We have also been making shape houses, with the children using simple recognisable shapes to create their houses such as square, rectangles and triangles.

We have continued our focus on number rhymes, following on from the family finger song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6k7dChBaJ8), and have been singing songs such as:

5 Little Ducks Went Swimming one Day,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZw9veQ76fo  

5 Little Men in a Flying Saucer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E3p_51tJx0

5 Little Speckled Frogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtX8yVEF0-w

And 5 Currant Buns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9bkEqA4x8o

Maybe you could sing these at home with your child.  

Have a great week!

The Nursery Team.