Happy Friday!! As it is the last day before half term we will be doing some Valentine’s Day activities.

First of all, have a think about the people you love. What do they do to make you feel happy? What do you do to make them happy? Can you take a photo of yourself and the person that you love and send it to Class Dojos.

Can you make somebody you love a Valentine’s Day card? Here are some ideas! I would love to see what you make.

For your phonics today, learn this new song.

I Love You Song | Kids Song | Love Song | The Kiboomers – YouTube

Have a go at some Valentine’s Day yoga too.

Valentine’s Day Yoga For Kids! 💘 Yoga Club (Week 27) | Cosmic Kids – YouTube

Well done for working so hard this half term. Have a lovely, lovely half term. Spend lots of time outside in the garden and having walks in the fresh air! Do some baking and play some games.

Home learning suggestions will be back on Monday the 22nd of February. Don’t forget to send some photos of what you do over half term.

See you all soon!

Leanne

Good morning!! Here are today’s activities!

To warm up your fingers today I want you to find a coat and some shoes. See if you can do your zip up and put your shoes on!

Have a listen and dance to some of these Chinese New Year videos. Can you move like the dragons?

Dragon Dance for Chinese New Year 2020 – Bing video

Chinese New Year Song for Kids | Chinese Dragon Dance for Children | Chinese New Year for Kids – Bing video

For phonics today try this song from the Letters and Sounds document.

Roly poly:
Rehearse the rhyme with the actions (rotating hand over hand as in the song ‘Wind the
bobbin up’).
Ro … ly … po … ly … ever … so … slowly
Ro … ly … poly faster.
(Increase the speed of the action as you increase the speed of the rhyme.)
Now add in new verses, such as:
Stamp … your … feet … ever … so … slowly
Stamp … your feet faster.
Ask your child to suggest sounds and movements to be incorporated into the song.
Say hello ever so quietly
Say HELLO LOUDER!

Take a look at Class stories on Class Dojo’s for our daily story time.

Have a lovely day, Leanne.

Good morning! We are half way through our last week before half term!

Today to warm up your fingers I would like you to go outside and see if you can find some pine cones. Once you have found them go and get some pipe cleaners or wool and see how much of the pine cone you can cover by wrapping the pipe cleaner or wool around it.

Have a go at making a Chinese Lantern. This video should help but they are very simple to make anyway. See if you can use red, blacks and golds to make them even more perfect for Chinese New Year. How To Make A Chinese Paper Lantern | Fun Kids Activities – YouTube

For some phonics fun have a look at this website: Teach Your Monster to Read: Free Phonics & Reading Game

Once your grown up has set you up and logged you in, press play and have a go at the ‘s’ game. This is more suitable for children aged 3+ but it is still a fun game for younger children to go on.

For some number fun see if you can jump six times, clap six times, hop six times and then think of something else that you can do six times. I would love to see some photos.

Don’t forget to have a look on Class Dojo stories for our daily story time.

Have a lovely Wednesday!

Leanne.

Good morning!

To warm your hands up have a go at this play dough action song. ‘I like to’ playdough action song – YouTube.

For our Phonics today we will use an activity from the Letters and Sounds document. You will need some musical instruments. If you don’t have any it’s super easy to make your own or use kitchen utensils as instruments e.g. a wooden spoon and saucepan.

Aspect 2: General sound discrimination –
instrumental sounds: Tuning into Sounds.

Adjust the volume:

Sit opposite your child with identical instruments. Ask them to copy making loud sounds and quiet sounds.
Use cues e.g. cards or hand gestures to represent loud or quiet (e.g. a megaphone,
puppet of a lion; a finger on the lips, puppet of a mouse).

For some number fun today we are going to do some Chinese numerals. Use this sheet to help you and get some red and black paint and do your own.

Don’t forget to head over to Class Dojo’s for our daily story.

I have also scheduled a Teams meeting for today at 11:45am. It would be great to see you and don’t forget to bring one of your favourite objects to it!

Have a lovely day, Leanne.

Good morning and welcome to a new week!

This week we will be looking at Chinese New Year!

Find some paper and some red and black paint. Use your fingers to print onto the paper.

Using shapes to make a Chinese New Year dragon. Use these shapes or make your own.

   Here is a blue dragon, can you make a red one?

For our Phonics activity today try this activity from the Letters and Sounds document.

Socks and shakers:
Partially fill either opaque plastic bottles or the toes of socks with noisy materials (e.g. rice, peas, pebbles, marbles, shells, coins). Ask your child to shake the bottles or socks and identify what is inside from the sound the items make. From the feel and the sound of the noisy materials encourage your child to talk about them. Ask questions such as: Where might we find shells and pebbles?

Don’t forget to watch your daily story on Class Dojo’s too.

Have a lovely day, Leanne.

It’s Friday again and almost the weekend!

For Flexi Fingers today grab some pegs and help Mummy or Daddy hang some washing! Maybe you have some doll’s clothes that need to be hung up too?

Print off and copy this matching cards game, you could even make your own snap game with it. If you can’t print it, why not draw the pictures yourself to make your own game? T-S-021-Where-the-Wild-Things-Are-Matching-Cards-and-Board.pdf (twinkl.co.uk)

For Phonics today have a listen to Hickory Dickory Dock and sing the song as the actions happen on this video.

Hickory Dickory Dock (phonicsplay.co.uk)

For some number fun try  this interactive game: The Gingerbread Man Game – Counting, Matching and Ordering game (topmarks.co.uk) Try the counting one today. Start with 1-5 and move onto 1-10 if you would like.

Have a lovely weekend. I would love to see some photos of what you get up to, Leanne.

Good morning!! I hope you are having a good week so far!

For Flexi Fingers this morning, grab some pipe cleaners or string and a colander. Now push the pipe cleaners / string through the holes in the colander.

Make some Where the Wild Things Are feet!

You will need at least two differently coloured cards, scissors, glue and any other craft materials you would like to make the feet look furry.

On one of your coloured pieces of card draw a big monster foot template and then cut it out. As illustrated in the picture cut a little arch to fit your feet through. Now cut some triangles for toenails and glue them on. Add the other craft bits.

Now see if you can move around the room like a Wild Thing!!

Go to Class Dojo for a story and a Beat Baby activity.

Have a lovely day, Leanne.

Happy Wednesday!!

For Flexi fingers this morning, cut out these characters and sellotape to a straw or a lollipop stick to make some puppets. T-T-1357-Where-the-Wild-Things-Are-Stick-Puppets.pdf (twinkl.co.uk)

Let’s have a look at some shapes. Use the shapes below to make a picture of one of the Where the Wild Things Are characters. 

For Phonics today learn a new song and have a listen to ‘I’ve Got a Body’  I’ve got a body – BBC Teach

Head over to stories on Class Dojo for your daily story.

Have a lovely day, Leanne.

Good morning! Today we will continue with Where the Wild Things Are. I hope you enjoyed the story yesterday.

Today to get your fingers warmed up, have a go at colouring in some Where the Wild Things Are characters.

T-T-1355-Where-the-Wild-Things-Are-Colouring-Sheets.pdf (twinkl.co.uk)

Like in Where the Wild Things Are can you have a ‘rumpus?!’ Can you roar?

Can you gnash? Can you march? Can you jump? Can you be still?

For some number fun, try this: Make a board like this.

 and then print put the characters T-T-1358-Where-the-Wild-Things-Are-Story-Cut-Outs.pdf (twinkl.co.uk) (do two pages to a sheet to make them smaller) Now cut them out and put the correct number of characters to the numerals.

For phonics today have a listen to Jolly Phonics and see if you can remember the actions to the songs.

Don’t forget there is a story on Class Dojo stories too.

Have a lovely day, Leanne.

Good morning! We’re back to the beginning of another week.

I hope you had a lovely weekend, it would be great to see some photos of what you have been up to.

Today and for the rest of the week we are going to have a look at the story ‘Where the Wild Thigs Are’.

Go to stories on Class Dojo and you will see a video of me reading the story. Once you have listened to the story use some blocks to build a house for the wild things. Before you build the house, guess how many blocks you think you will need to build a house. Whilst you are building the house count how many blocks you use. What shape are the blocks that you are using? Are some of them square? Or rectangle?

For phonics today try this activity. It is taken from the Letters and Sounds document but I have adapted it a little. Find some puppet or cuddly toy animals and make the sounds that they make. How many of each animal do you have? Would they all make exactly the same sound?

See if you can make a Wild Things mask. Choose a character from the story and use whatever you need to make it. You could use a paper plate, wool – anything!

Have a lovely day, Leanne.