22 Street Lane Nursery - August 2017 Newsletter

August Newsletter

Country of the Month: South Africa;

The children had a wonderful time celebrating ‘South Africa’ throughout July, it was great to see so many of the children dress up as African animals, they had lots of fun! The children enjoyed playing African instruments, learning about African animals and had a traditional lunch ‘bobotie’.

From the 29 th August to September 1 st we will be celebrating a selection of countries which make up the Caribbean! We will be having our very own Street Lane carnival and lots of exciting Caribbean activities. If you have any resources that will support our Caribbean week we would be most grateful.

Home Learning Bags;

The team have been really busy here at 22SLN creating a variety of ‘home learning bags’ which you are able to borrow from the nursery to support your child’s learning and development at home. Further opportunities for parents to spend time helping their children learn at home is highly recognised in the Early Years Foundation Stage and something that we fully support here at 22SLN. Each bag has been carefully designed to support your child’s development in different areas of learning and so far, they have been a great hit! The bags include various activities such as song and story time, messy play, sensory exploration, gardening, early maths and much more! If you would like to borrow a ‘Home learning bag’ please speak to your child’s key person so that they can arrange this. We would be most grateful if you could feedback to us on how your child engaged and interacted with the bag!

Reading aloud and sharing stories with your child is a great way to spend time together. Reading and storytelling also helps promote language, literacy and brain development. Reading and sharing stories can:

Story Bags;

• help your child become familiar with sounds, words, language and the value of books. • spark your child’s imagination, stimulate curiosity and help their brain development. • help your child learn the difference between ‘real’ and ‘make-believe’. • help your child understand change and new or frightening events, and also the strong emotions that can go along with them. • help your child develop early literacy skills like the ability to listen to and understand words.