Dinosaurs Nursery Week 3 Expressive Arts and Design Our role play will be our dinosaur world where the children can play together, listening to each others ideas and making up stories. On the creative table the children will be starting to make a card for some one special. In music the children will be singing dinosaur action rhymes and use the instruments to play along. We will think back to the dinosaur song we learnt two weeks ago and make up movements to go with the song Communication & Language Literacy This week when the children come into nursery they will see that someone has left a dinosaur egg for us to look after. There will be a letter explaining all about the egg and the children will share their ideas of who might of left it. Personal, Social, Emotional Development Our SEAL topic is – Good to Be Me. The theme is about understanding our feelings as well as considering our strengths and weaknesses as learners. It aims to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in three key social and emotional aspects of learning: self-awareness, managing feelings and empathy. We will talk about the things that we are really good at which will make us feel proud of ourselves. This week we are thinking back to a time when we felt excited and try to describe how our bodies felt. Dinosaurs Nursery Week 3 Phonics In phonics some children will be playing lots of listening games and the older children will be learning all about the letter ‘o’, what sound it makes and objects that begin with that sound. Mathematics Some children will be continuing to learn their numbers to 10 with Ten Town, this week it is Nina Ninebows. They will also be learning the names of 2D shapes and playing a shape dinosaur game. The older children will be re-visiting shape naming and describing different 2D shapes. Physical Development We will continue to do our finger and upper body exercises in dough gym. In PE this week we will be using the space of the hall to practice our dinosaur dance. On our fine motor table we will be pouring and spooning again strengthening those wrist muscles. UW - Technology The children will be investigating a basket of objects finding out what they have to do with them to make them work. Mrs C Mayne