September 2008 - Schedule
Dated: 09/09/2008
This month's topic is "Poetry and Rhyming". We will be reading rhyming stories and playing games. The activities that Stepping Stone's "Rising 5s" room have on offer will provide opportunities for children to enhance their development in the following areas.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Settling in new children
- Independance and new learning skills
Communication, Language and Literacy
- Rhyming stories and poetry books
- Letter of the month
- Rhyming games
Mathematical Development
- Sorting by size
- Counting beyond ten
- Recognising and writing numbers
Physical Development
- Threading
- Dressing dolls and experimenting with clothes fastenings
- Weaving on a small and large scale
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
- Sorting by function
- Finding out how things work
Creative Development
- Sorting by colour
- Dressing dolls and roll plays
- Creating displays
Ways that parents can help their childs learning
- Encourage you child to do up their own clothes fastenings
- Bringing rhyming books to share at nursery