Nursery Blog: Nursery PE

June 17th, 2016

This month in PE we worked and had fun with all the sports day activities.

We finished the year with an amazing day!

We wish you a happy and restful summer break and don’t forget to keep active!See you in September!

May 13th, 2016

In Nursery we did bowling again which the children love! It's a great way to work on their hand-eye coordination and working together in a team!

April 15th, 2016

Nursery has been having lots of fun playing different games to improve coordination and balance: we've been working with tennis rackets and soft balls , bouncing and catching, basketball learning to bounce and even shoot some goals, passing balls to each other and learning the rules of handball.

February 4th, 2016

So many activities in PE improve our hand-eye coordination so that has been an ongoing theme over the last few weeks. We worked a lot with balls; throwing, catching and bouncing. Also with small tennis rackets and soft balls and with scoops to catch.

We had a lot of fun with a bowling competition to see which team could knock over the most pins.

January 22nd, 2016

PE and music teachers have joined together this week to do some wonderful music and movement.

The power of music is amazing!

The children were excited and animated the minute the music started. We did some free "improvisation" as the children moved to different kinds of music.

Later we did some simple folk dancing routines and ended the lesson with some wonderful relaxing music to slow down!

December 17th, 2015

In the last two weeks we’ve been working on throwing and catching balls.

We started by throwing a big soft ball and then moved down to a tennis ball as the children became more confident.

We had a lot of fun using a plastic baseball bat to hit a ball on a cone!

Next challenge was to hit a ball that was bowled by a friend. That’s not easy!!

November 9th, 2016

We continued improving our body control by jumping with two feet in and out of the hoops,along the ladder and over the plastic bars.
The children are great and working so hard!
For some free movement we played with the beach balls.

October 26th, 2015

This week we've be working on basic body control skills with different balancing activities;

Walking down a beam, stepping on the tree blocks in the garden, and lots of other obstacles.

Everyone did a great job.

We practised our running technique at different speeds.

Afterwards we felt our heartbeat and noticed some changes that physical exercise makes on our bodies.

October 12th, 2015

We made some wonderful connections between Art an PE this week.
Ms Maryanne has been looking at lines in Art - wavy lines, straight lines, zig zag lines, dotted lines.
We made an obstacle course in our PE classes where we could find some of these - zigzagging between cones, walking along a wavy skipping rope, jumping into hoops.
The children had fun and many remembered the lines they'd seen in art thanks to Ms Maryanne showing their beautiful art work.

Home Connections

Ways To support your child's learning outside of the classroom: Ask your child to do the movements along with reciting the fingerplays

Finger plays recently learned in class: Recite along with your child.

Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick, sick, sick

So she phoned for the doctor to come quick, quick, quick.

The doctor came with his bag and his hat

And he knocked on the door with a rat-a-tat-tat.

He looked at the dolly and he shook his head,

He said, "Miss Polly, put her straight to bed.'

He wrote on the paper for a pill, pill, pill

"I'll be back in the morning with the bill, bill, bill.

The beehive: First use one closed fist and then in the second verse, for double numbers, two closed fists.

Here is the beehive. Where are the bees?

Hiding away where no one can see.

WATCH and you will see them come out of the hive

1,2,3,4,5 Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Here are the beehives. Where are the bees?

Hiding away where no one can see.

Watch and you will see them come out of their hives

2,4,6,8,10 ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

1: While out in the country or the park talk with your child about the changes that are happening to the trees, leaves, plants, etc.. LOOK FOR SIGNS OF SPRING, small green shoots, blossoms, use your eyes and nose to explore.

2: Read to your child in your mother tongue. Find a quiet moment, maybe before bed to read a story together. Although your child may not be able to read the words, they surely can

' read' the pictures to you!

3: On your way to school count the cars you pass, or the stairs you need to use. These natural and simple ways of enriching numbers and counting, will make learning fun!

Holiday Homework:

Celebration books:
Please include photos and any decorations that you would like. These books will be shared with the other children but will also be going home, to learn about the difference and similar celebrations we all celebrate!

Have fun creating!!

Fun things to do at home!

The children love to play with playdough here at school. Aside from being FUN to play with, playdough helps develop many different skills such as: fine motor development and creativity. Having a wide range materials to add to playdough leads to a wonderful open-ended play time together! You could have leaves, straws, animals, buttons, googly eyes, fabric or pasta shells on the table in individual containers, ready for those little hands to get busy.

Here is our favorite playdough recipe:

1/2 cup of salt

1 cup of flour

2 tbs cream of tartar

1 cup of water

1 tbs of oil

3-4 drops of food colouring of your choice

STEP 1: Mix all ingredients together in a medium saucepan

STEP 2: Stir over hear until dough forms a big ball

STEP 3: allow to cool

STEP 4: HAVE FUN!

STEP 5: Store in a sealed container or plastic bag

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