Nursery you’re working so hard and having so much fun. Rakhi and Aysha have loved seeing what you’ve been doing at home :).Art/Mark MakingA long long time ago there was a fire in London on a street called Pudding Lane! The fire was so big, lasted so long and spread so quickly so they called it the ‘Great Fire of London!’ Rakhi went to visit Pudding Lane and she met someone who needs Nursery’s help....
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Can you make some of the equipment that the Firefighter needs? Can you make a fire engine?
Number/Shape
Play finger football with Rakhi today and lets practise finding numbers and counting. You can have a go! You can add more numbers if you like and more pen lids!
Phonics
Join in with Rakhi’s song and actions and guess what animal she is describing. Can you make the sound that the animal makes? Have a go at thinking of your own and use the song to help you.
Fine Motor
Art/Mark Making
Can you mark make a list of the Firefighting equipment you will need to put out the fires? Mark make your list and go on more Firefighting adventures. Tell me about it on Tapestry.
Parents, allow your child to make their own marks of what they need to put out the fire. Please don’t ask them to copy my writing. They do not need to know how to write these words, they need to be encouraged to make as many meaningful marks to them as possible and to be encouraged and supported to give meaning to their marks.
Number/Shape
Nursery! Rakhi’s numbers are on fire! She has found some numbers and she’s using water in a spray bottle to spray them. When she chooses 2 she sprays the number 2 times. How many times will she spray the number 5? Can you try? If you can find the numbers 1-5 when they’re all jumbled up and out of sequence then maybe you could try numbers 6-10?
Phonics
For Phase 1 Phonics today we are going to be practising some body percussion. Can you copy the sounds, rhythms and movements that Rakhi is showing you?
Can you think of your own?
Can you make the rhythm and your singing faster? Can you slow it down?
Describe the rhythm, is it steady, slow, fast?
Fine Motor
Can you stretch and count some rubber bands onto a bottle, just like how Aysha is showing you?
I hope you all had a lovely weekend :).
Just a reminder for this week, Tuesday is our ‘Play Dough Disco’ day and Friday is our next ‘Show and Tell’ session. Thank you to our three wonderful Nursery children who shared last Friday, Rakhi really enjoyed listening to you!
This week we are learning all about Firefighters and how they can help us. Watch the video below and go on an adventure with the Fire Rescue Service.
Firefighters don’t just put out fires, they also help to rescue people and animals that may be stuck or in danger! Watch Topsy and Tim meet some brave Firefighters.
Art/Mark Making
Watch Rakhi’s Superhero Fire Fighting adventure. Can you role play and go on your own Fire Fighting adventure? What fires are you putting out? Who are you rescuing? How did the fire start?
Can you mark make a telephone message and write down what was said, is anyone hurt, what’s their address? Keep on talking Nursery we love listening to you!
Parents, to encourage children’s early writing we need to demonstrate and model writing for purpose. We need to talk about our writing to our children as we’re making lists, writing messages etc. Play along side your children and show them how fun it can be to add mark making to their play.
Watch Aysha create a fire painting by cutting kitchen roll and dipping it in red, yellow and orange paint. Can you have a go? Can you talk about your painting, how are you creating it? What colours are you using? What does your fire look like?
Number/Shape
Firefighters use a ladder to help them climb up really tall buildings, to rescue people and animals and to put out fires! Rakhi has made a ladder using masking tape and she has stuck it on her fridge! She wrote numbers 1 to 5 and stuck them on her ladder. She used her feet to climb up and down the ladder, counting forwards and backwards. You can have a go too!
If you can recognise the numbers 1-5 confidently in any order maybe you can make the ladder taller with 6-10?
Sing and climb the ladder with Rakhi!
Phonics
We are going to tap or clap the syllables in our name today. How many syllables are in your name? Can you find out how many syllables are in your family’s names, or in your cuddly toy’s names?
Fine Motor
Have a go at making some play dough today with your grown up. Grown ups I have sent you an email with a recipe if you need one! I can’t wait to see you all for our ‘Play Dough Disco’ tomorrow :) where we will be learning and developing our language skills, number, shape and strengthening our fine and gross motor dexterity!
Well done to all of our Nursery children and Parents for a fantastic week of learning.
Remember that yours and your child’s mental health and well being is incredibly important, always, but particularly during this time. Take each day as it comes and have fun with the activities. Please remember that you’re doing a fabulous job and YOU are your child’s ‘Forever Teacher.’
Here are a few pictures of some of the activities we have been sharing on Tapestry (counting, mark making our thank you card for the Hospital workers, large scale mark making and role play). I’m so proud of you all.
Art/Mark Making
Today Rakhi has a project for you. She wants you to make your own ‘Operation’ game. This used to be her favourite game when she was little.
You need a cereal box, glue/tape, scissors and some colouring pens.
1. You and your grown up can cover one side of the cereal box with plain paper using tape or glue
2. Next you can draw a big picture of a person
3. Draw 10 shapes onto the person (heart, circles, rectangles, squares, ovals) and colour them in
4. Using scissors, cut the shapes to make flaps so that you can see through your person into your cereal box
5. Place some cotton buds into the holes so that one end is popping out slightly
6. Using some tweezers, count how many you can pull out. Use your cardboard operation game for your role play and mark making
When you have made it, you can use this game in your ‘Doctor Role Play.’
Can you mark make all the different ways you are helping your patient? Every time you pull something out from the hole, mark make on some paper and tell your grown up about your marks. What part of your patient’s body are you treating? Why have they come to see the Doctor today? Look at Rakhi’s one!
Adults you can model writing with your child. Allow your child to see what your writing looks like and explain to them that what they’re doing is writing too.
Number/Shape
Can you use some tweezers to pull out the cotton buds? How many can you count altogether?
Phonics
We can practise tuning into our environmental sounds today. Let’s play a game. It’s called, ‘Where’s the sound?’
Adults, you can set an alarm on your phone to go off at different times and hide your phone somewhere in the house. As the alarm is going off ask your child where they think the alarm sound is coming from? Is the sound getting louder/quieter? Are you closer or far away? Take it in turns.
Fine Motor
Let’s practise our cutting skills again today using scissors. Aysha is cutting and sticking paper to make a picture of a flower.
Have a wonderful weekend :)
Art/Mark Making
Copy the letters of your name in different colours and stick the letters onto the fingers of an old glove. Every time you look at and wiggle your fingers, you’ll be able to see all the letters in your name. You might need two gloves! Look at Rakhi making hers.
Can you draw a picture? It can be of anything you like and talk to your grown up about the marks that you are making?
Number/Shape
Sing the Nursery Rhyme with Rakhi and lets count the ducks on our fingers! Grown ups you can write the numbers 1-5 and together have a look at these numbers as we sing.
Phonics
In our zoom session today we were practising our phase 1 phonics. We learnt about some different voice sounds. Keep having a go at home!
Fine Motor
Aysha is using a peg and a tweezer to pick up some pasta. She’s pinching her fingers, pinch pinch pinch, to hold the peg and as she puts them in the basket she counts each one. Can you have a go?
I’ve really loved seeing all your pictures on Tapestry :). Thank you so much for showing me.
We have access to a free online Theatre. Today we can watch a lovely production called Huddle, all about a daddy penguin and a baby chick. I hope you enjoy it. See you tomorrow :).
Art/Mark Making
Writing/Mark Making in the Early Years must be fun and engaging for children to develop a love of writing. It must meet their interests and needs. To develop your children’s early writing skills we need to develop their muscles in their whole arm. Here is a fun mark making activity that you can try at home to strengthen their shoulder pivot!
We can get creative today! Can you design and make your own Stethoscope using anything you can find in your home? Have a look at some pictures below but remember you can make it however you want! Use it in your role play!
Shape/Number
We have been exploring circles. We all did such a great job finding different circle shaped objects around our home. Watch Rakhi make some pictures by drawing circles. You can have a go too. Can you make a flower using circles, maybe a car or a person? You choose! If you find it a bit tricky you can draw around some of the circle shaped objects that you found the other day.
Count how many different colours you used! Can you name them?
Phonics
You came for a listening walk with me on Monday, I took you to the park and we heard the birds, the leaves rustling, a police car siren, the people talking, the wind, even a barking dog! I hope you’ve had a chance to go on one.
Throughout the day today you can have a listen for the sounds that you can hear around you at home. Can you hear the tap running, the toilet flushing, the washing machine spinning? Can you hear the television or the door closing? Listen to the sound and tell your grown up what is making the sound.
Fine Motor
Aysha shows you how to finger paint a tree! She also shows you how to do it with colouring pens if you don’t have paint at home. See if you can have a go.
It was so lovely to see everyone in our Zoom session today :). We had so much fun learning together. Below are some activities for you to try. Have fun!
Before we start, watch Topsy and Tim at the Hospital. Talk through the video with your grown up.
Art/Mark Making
Hospital workers have been so busy looking after us all. They’re so kind and they help us to feel better when we are sick. Can you mark make a Thank You card for all the Doctors, Nurses and other Hospital Workers who look after everyone?
Have a look at Rakhi writing her card. You can make yours however you want :)
Number/Shape
We’re going to play a counting game today. You’ll need a bucket (or a bowl/container) and some toys to throw inside it. You can use Lego, Duplo, anything you can find. You’ll need to do some careful counting and count 10 toys. Then, you’re going to see if you can throw all 10 into your bucket. Don’t worry if you don’t get all 10 in, count how many you got into the bucket altogether and then try again! Look at Colin the Crocodile having a go...
Phonics
In Nursery we explore phase 1 phonics. Have a listen to the sounds Rakhi is making. She is tapping a metal and a plastic spoon onto some different kitchen utensils. Can you make different sounds using different kitchen utensils? Have a go and talk about why and how these sounds are different.
Fine Motor
Aysha is making a hat today. Can you get your busy fingers ready and make yourself a colourful hat?
See you tomorrow :)
Good Morning Nursery. I hope you had a wonderful weekend and are ready for a week of some really fun activities.
Mark Making/Art
We are going to be role playing Doctors and Nurses today. You can play with a grown up/your brother/sister, you can even play with your cuddly toys! Remember to do lots of talking.
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Parents, role play (throughout the EYFS) is the most important part of children’s early development. When children are given the time, opportunity and space to role play, they learn many skills. Role play allows children to develop their confidence, creativity, communication and language skills, physical development and problem solving skills. They are able to act out different roles, different occupations, what they see out in the community and at home. When an adult facilitates their play and plays alongside them, allowing the child to take the lead, this is where the magic happens. Our children’s language develops, their independence, their imagination, their early story telling skills, early writing, and knowledge of number. They use this play to make sense of the world around them. Their play is meaningful.
If you can sit every day for at least 10 minutes and role play with your child, ensuring that this play is language rich, you will be giving your child the foundation they need to develop a love of learning and master all of the skills mentioned above. |
Your child may make marks like this. This is what we want! This is called their early writing. It doesn’t look like yours or their older brother’s and sister’s writing. Please praise your child’s writing when they show you this. Don’t call it scribbling, call it writing and ask them what their marks mean :). They’ll love telling you. |
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We can get creative today and make an Ambulance van. When there is an accident or an emergency we can call 999 and ask for the Ambulance. Some really important people called Paramedics come in their Ambulance van and help to look after us. They take us to the hospital if we need to go there.
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