Weston Way Nursery School

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Weekly Adventure

Each week, we update the focus for learning across the nursery with additional key information for each colour adventurer group.

Week Beginning: 31.03.25

 

 

 

Skill of the Week -  Cutting (Consolidate from previous week)

 

 

  • Cutting natural resources, paper and card and using different materials
  • Focus on holding the scissors, using with one hand and safely.
  • Look at owl pictures and snipping edges of photographs/images
  • Look at which hand is their dominant hand (right/left)
  • Create fringes around different materials
  • Create animal nests snipping string and wool, focus on squeezing, open and closed.

 

 

Story of the Week - Easter Stories

 

-  Read Story, focus on the repetition, repeating phrases. Link to Phonics Aspect 5 ( Alliteration)

 

-Story Map and discussing the sequence of events. 

 

-Discuss Characters and Act Out

 

-Recreate the Story with Different Scenarios

 

-Innovate- Use the retell hand changing the object, place, problem, solution.

 

-Explore life cycles; owls, plants

 

  

 

 

Rhyme of the Week - Hot Cross Buns

 

CONDITION – Add signs to a rhyme

 

Stage 3 rhyme development: Rhyme that uses fingers

 

Stage 4 rhyme development: Cross the mid line with hand movement across the body (when hand swims)

 

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Phonics of the Week: Aspect 5: Alliteration

To develop understanding of alliteration 

To explore how different sounds are articulated, and to extend understanding of 
alliteration 

To listen to sounds at the beginning of words and hear the differences between them 

 

Possible links to the curriculum this week

Discuss how different sounds are made by the mouth, lips, and tongue, and experiment with various sounds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forest School Adventures/Gardening

 

We are very lucky to have 3 brand new green houses in our Nursery garden. 
This week we will continue to plant vegetables such as tomatoes, broad beans and carrots.
We will learn how to look after our own seedlings, and as they grow and get a little bigger, we will transfer them to the allotment beds in our garden where will grow and nurture them as part of our Together Times sessions.

 

 

 

Cooking/snack

 

Supporting Skill

Create- Cutting (and spreading)

Cuts a straight line-using helpful hand to guide

Use knife to spread butter and then to cut into small bite size pieces by holding pieces in one hand and slicing with the other. 

 

Please click on your child's group tab to find our more....

  Blue Adventurers

Vocabulary of the Week

 scissors

 cut

Home Learning

Can you practise how to hold your scissors safely and cut in a straight line at home. 

 

  Yellow Adventurers

Vocabulary of the Week

 

 

 horizontal

 

 vertical

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Home Learning

Take pictures of you as a baby to compare how you have grown up.

  Purple Adventurers

Vocabulary of the Week

snip

 cut hold fringe

Home Learning

Talk to your family about how to use scissors safely.

  Pink Adventurers

Vocabulary of the Week

horizontal

vertical

 

guide

 

  

Home Learning: 

Practise and encourage your children to explore cutting playdough and natural resources at home.

  Orange Adventurers

Vocabulary of the Week

snip

  scissors

Home Learning

Can you talk at home to your family around scissor safety

  Red Adventurers

Vocabulary of the Week

 snip

 

cut

 

sharp 

 

  

Home Learning: 

Can you talk at home to your family around scissor safety.

 

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