Jolly Pirates Newsletter September 2012
Jolly Rodgers Toddlers Newsletter June 2017
THIS MONTH’S THEME IS ‘FATHER’S DAY, SPACE, TRANSPORT ’
Our learning through play will continue to progress well throughout our monthly activities. The children will continue to build on new skills daily please encourage these at home. This month our theme is about transport, space and of course Father’s Day. We will talk about travelling on aeroplanes and buses/boats etc to get to our destination/holidays.We will discuss ‘space travel- ships and rockets’. J We will hopefully have lots of outside play with lots of sun!!
THIS MONTH’S SONG’S (please encourage your child to sing these with you)
Twinkle twinkle
Four little stars
Climb aboard the space ship
Down by the station
The wheels on the bus
I’m a little Airplane
Flying on an aeroplane
The big ship sails
Five little men in a flying saucer
The Daddy song
Father’s Day
And many more…
NUMBERS
Each day we encourage the children with recognition of numbers. Please encourage your children to count with you, discuss how many they count e.g. how many aeroplanes can they see in the sky, how many buses, motorbikes cars they see while travelling to nursery etc.
THIS MONTH’S COLOURS – BLACK & SILVER
The sand tray will be filled with sand we will add cars, buses, diggers, tractors, trucks, other vehicles, foil and moulds throughout the month.
The Water Tray will change throughout the month fish, fishing rods, nets, buckets, pebbles, boats; these will all be added during the month.
We will carry out a little experiment with seaweed; we will look at and feel seaweed, to find out what it feels like when its dry e.g. is it hard or soft? We will add the seaweed to the water and then feel what it is like once it has been soaked in water e.g. slimy, soft, slippery etc.
We will also be playing with ‘galaxy dough’, black & orange rice, spoons, spacemen and shaving foam.
Tuff tray will have space activities, moon rocks and spacemen.
THIS MONTH’S ARTS (we will send home children’s work for you to display)
We will be using lots of different art & crafts to decorate pictures for our theme. E.g. crayons, felt tips, painting, sticking, junk art, foot prints, tissue paper, making pictures using glue & sand. Free play art resources and junk art available throughout each week.
Transport pictures - how we get to our destination e.g. car, boat, plane etc.
Foot Print aeroplanes
Hand prints & sponge painting of our solar system
Coloring space rockets
Space ships from toilet roll holders
Father’s Day card
Hand print Father’s Day Frames
We will also be making a surprise for a special someone this month!
We will be doing cooking activities this month which will include moon rock cookies & holiday smoothies.
THIS MONTH’S CIRCLE TIME
Within the Toddlers room we will use “Circle Time” to read stories, poems etc to develop each child’s love of books and language and knowledge.
We will use circle time this month to continue our discussions about how we travel and how we get to nursery, grannies house, the shops etc.
We will read books and learn our new songs. Our songs & stories will all be theme related.
We will also use circle time to discuss:
Our daily calendar
Days of the week
The colour
THIS MONTH’S BIRTHDAY’S
Each month we may have a birthday celebration; we will create a birthday chart and sing “Happy Birthday”. Each child will be added to this chart as their birthday occurs throughout the year. If you wish you may send a cake/or healthy option to celebrate during break. (All Cakes must be nut free).
Happy birthday:
No birthday’s this month J
PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
We will also be spending lots more time in the garden and hopefully, Mr Sun will come back to shine and we will be able to bring even more fun outdoors. Arts and crafts will be moved outside, along with other activities.
We will have lots of fun digging in the sand, splashing in the water, playing in our builder’s yard, using our gardening tools, having lots of messy fun in our mud kitchen and exploring fairyland forest!! We will also be using our Soft Play and activity shed outside!! Busy fun times ahead!!
If the weather stays dry we might also go for a walk so can you please ensure you have sent a coat to nursery and also could you please supply a sun hat & sun cream if the weather does brighten up again. J
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Can we please say a huge THANK YOU to you all for all your contribution towards the wonderful week we had celebrating our 20th birthday! We all had such a fantastic time and have proven we know how to celebrate in Jolly Rodgers. J We do plan to continue marking this amazing achievement throughout the month of June!
Thank you also for your generous donations – we raised £110.00 for Mencap ‘Big Step Forward’.
Can we ask that you please be extra cautious when driving around the car park area and always be aware of adults and children. We are sure you can appreciate that there are a lot of children within the nursery being collected at different times and it can be busy. Please always be attentive of this. Can we please remind you not to block the area where nursery vehicles are parked. This must be kept clear at all times so the vehicles can get in and out and we can safely off load the children. Thank you.
If you have any holidays planned over the next couple of months could you please give us any dates as soon as possible as this really helps when working through staff holidays. Happy Holidays!!
As it is coming into holiday period we will have a few new faces about the nursery – Elly, Tenaya and Emma Lousie will be in working with us to help with staff holidays, along with Rebecca, Emily & Gemma who have been with us the last few years.
We are taking steps to implement a Sun Safe Nursery policy and teaching, the content of which forms part of our duty of care to ensure the health and wellbeing of your children during nursery hours. Staff will issue you all with a letter with more information about this which includes a consent form that you have read and understood the letter and that you will supply a sun hat and sun cream for outdoor play/walks. If you could complete this form and return to staff this would be great as we cannot move forward with this until we have received this from all parents. THANK YOU.
Please note: Nursery will be closed on Wednesday 12th & Thursday 13th July and will re-open again on Friday 14th July 2017.
Thank you – Toddler staff.
