Good morning, Friday is here again!

Here are today’s activities:

Get your paints out! Find a big piece of paper or card and paint a rainbow. Once you have painted your rainbow and it has dried, ask a grown up to help write the names of your friends on it. They can be friends from any group – not just your Nursery friends. Once it is finished send a photo on Class Dojo.

For Phonics today go to phonicsplay.co.uk and play the game ‘Sound Starters’. See if you can guess what the sounds are!

Now get some chalk and draw a giant rainbow on your garden path. See if you can jump over your rainbow. How many steps do you need to get from one end to the other? If you lie down on it is it longer than you?

Have a lovely weekend, Leanne.

Good morning!!

Our activity this morning is to think about one of your friends at Nursery. Why are they your friend? Why do you like them? Are they kind? Are they funny? Next, draw a picture of them.

For our Makaton activity today try signing this song ‘You’ve Got a Friend’.

For phonics today: Can you draw a rabbit, a rainbow, a robot and a ring? Then practice drawing your ‘r’s in your purple sketch book.

Now learn this song ‘Ring a Ring o Roses’ with some new verses.

Have a lovely day, Leanne.

Good morning, we’re half way through the week already!

Here are today’s activities:

Ask a grown up to do this activity with you. Your grown up will need to blindfold you. Once blindfolded they should give you instructions such as take one step forward / take two steps back. See where you end up! Then, swap around and you should give your grown up some instructions. Where will you send them?!

Now draw around your hands and then cut them out. Colour one of them in and then colour in the other one for a friend – which friend would you do it for? See if a grown up can help you write their name and then send a photo through Class Dojo.

For phonics today: We have done this activity before but repetition is very important in developing children’s phonics skills.

Enlivening stories: Involve the children in songs and stories, enlivened by role-play, props and repeated sounds, for example acting out:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall (bump, crash, bang!)
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men (gallop, gallop, gallop)
Couldn’t put Humpty together again (boo, hoo, boo, hoo, boo, hoo).

I hope you enjoy the activities.

Have a lovely day, Leanne.

Good morning!

Today we will continue with our short topic of ‘Friends’. Here is the activity:

Draw a body shape (like the template below):

Then think about one of your friends at Nursery. What colour is their hair? Can you remember the colour of their eyes? What type of clothes do they wear? Now colour in the body template to make it look like your chosen friend. Do more than one if you want to and then send a photo over Class Dojo and then we can add it to the ones that your friends at Nursery have made.

Now try to sign ‘friend’ in Makaton.

For phonics today, still thinking about your friends at Nursery ask somebody to write some of your friends names on a piece of paper. Talk through the names and see if you can recognise anybody’s name. Then, go through two names and see if you can name any of the sounds.

Have a lovely day, Leanne.

Good morning everyone! So we’re back for another week (hopefully with lots of sun). I hope you had a lovely weekend in between rain showers. Today is looking like a nice day so far, let’s hope it stays the same.

Here are your suggested home learning activities for today:

This week our short topic is ‘Friends’. Throughout this week the children and I will be sending pictures or videos to our friends from Nursery who are at home. So….can you make a video or ask someone to take a photo of you and send it through Class Dojo’s as we are really missing all of our friends who aren’t here.

For phonics today, make the most of the sun and go outside and find some different objects. When you have found as many as you want, talk about what they are and see if you know what sound the object begins with. Then draw some of them.

Finally, if it is still sunny, go for a walk and see what birds you can see / hear. What animals are in the fields? Did you see many cars? What colour were they?

Have a lovely day, Leanne.

Good morning!

Here are today’s suggested home learning activities.

Go into your garden and find some big stones. Paint on different things like stars, the moon and planets.

For phonics today draw things that begin with ‘h’ Draw:

horse, house,hat,hammer,hen.

Once you’ve drawn these practice writing ‘h’ as many times as you can fit it on the page.

For something physical go outside and just run! Run around the obstacles in your garden – just run and have fun!

Have a lovely weekend. I am hoping that the sun will be shining!

Leanne.

Good morning!

Today we are going to make telescopes so that we can look the stars and moon.

 Here is an example.

For phonics today let’s try rhyming puppets:

Make up silly rhyming names for a pair of puppets or cuddly toys (e.g. Fizzy Wizzy Lizzy and Hob Tob Bob). Introduce the puppets to a small group and invite them to join in story telling, leaving gaps for the children to fill in rhyming words, for example:
Are you poorly Lizzy? Oh dear.
Fizzy Wizzy Lizzy is feeling sick and…dizzy.
Bob is very excited. Today he is going to be a builder.
Hob Tob Bob has got a new…job.

Next have a go at signing some different space themed words.

Have a lovely day!

Leanne

Good morning everyone!

Today let’s make some planets! Use the following link for ideas.

https://iheartcraftythings.com/preschool-space-craft-marbled-planets.html

For phonics today draw ‘r’ on some balls and then some other letters on more balls. Then draw an ‘r’ on one bucket and leave the other blank. Now choose a ball and throw it into the right bucket, e.g if you find a ball with an ‘r’ on throw it into the ‘r’ bucket.

For a relaxing activity try some frog breathing.

1. Sit in frog position with your feet and hands on the floor.
2. Breathe in deeply through your nose and pay attention to the way your stomach expands, just like a frog’s belly when they breathe.
3. Breathe out through your nose and pay attention to how your stomach shrinks.
4. Repeat until you feel really calm!

Have a lovely day!

Leanne

Good morning everyone!

We are still continuing with our mini topic of space. Today, make a star and keep it safe for tomorrow. You could use a pre-cut cardboard star or cut out your own. Use an old cereal box, draw a star and cut it out. Then decorate with gems, tin foil and anything shiny.

For phonics today sing some Nursery Rhymes. Have a go at the following:

Baa Baa Black Sheep

The Grand Old Duke of York

Incy Wincy Spider

I’m a Little Teapot

See if you can learn Twinkle Twinkle in Makaton.

In your purple sketch book draw a big star and add one dot. Then draw another star and add two dots. Continue until you have drawn a star with five dots.

Have a lovely day, Leanne.

Good morning everyone! I hope you had a lovely weekend – even with the very mixed weather!

Here are today’s home learning suggestions:

Have a watch of the video on Class Dojo stories – the instructions are with the video. Today we will be looking at ‘d’. When you’ve watched the video you could then find some ‘d’ objects from around your house too.

Use a phone or camera to take a photo of your three favourite things in the garden – it could be your trampoline or your favourite tree – anything you like! Then send the photos over as I would love to see your favourite things.

For a bit of movement today try doing forty five seconds of each of these actions: Frog jumps, bear walk, star fish jumps, crab crawl and elephant stomps. Again, photos would be lovely.

I hope you have a lovely Monday, Leanne.