Remote Learning – The Gingerbread Man
Well, it’s not quite the welcome back that we had planned! We’ll provide you with more information regarding our remote learning activities this week, but here are some activities to get you started.
This week in Nursery, we were going to read a very popular and familiar tale, ‘The Gingerbread Man’.
If you have a copy at home, share it together or you could watch this online version.
Reading
As you read the story, see if your child can join in with the repeated phrases such as… “Stop! I want to eat you!” and “Run, run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread man!”
Talk to your child about the story. What happened? What did the Gingerbread Man say? What happened at the end of the story?
Mark-making
We love drawing our own gingerbread people in Nursery. Draw, paint or print an outline and add in some details. Give your gingerbread person some eyes, a nose and a mouth. How many buttons will you draw? What shape are they?
Mathematics
There are some fun Gingerbread Man counting activities on this website. In Nursery, we don’t expect children to recognise digits at this point so you may need to help your child recognise the numbers as you play together. Count the buttons and remember to say the numbers slowly, touching each button as you count it.
You could continue to play this together using the gingerbread person that you drew. Find something to use for buttons (buttons, pompoms, sweets, coins…) and challenge each other to put on 1-5 buttons. We’d expect some children to be working with numbers up to 3,4 or 5, but some children may be able to count more confidently up to 10 with one to one correspondence.
Here are a few ways to extend the activity…
- Which Gingerbread Man has the most/fewest buttons? How do you know?
- How many buttons would s/he have if we added one more? Ate one?
- If you put 1, 2 or 3 buttons on the Gingerbread Man, can you tell how many there are without counting? Try it!
Creative
- If you have the ingredients, have a go at making your own gingerbread people. It’s always a great hit in Nursery. If you don’t have time this week, add the ingredients to your weekly shop and save it for a weekend treat together.
- Watch ‘Melody’ as she listens to some music that reminds her of the Gingerbread Man story. What did it make you think of?
- If you have playdough at home, have a go at making gingerbread people.
Phonics – Nursery rhymes
During group time this week, we were going to re-visit some of our favourite Nursery rhymes. Sing some together at home. There are lots to choose from here.
As you’re singing, try missing out a word from the end of a line. Can your child fill in the missing word? E.g. Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great….. ?
Please remember to let us know how you’re getting on throughout the week and send us a quick e-mail to scholesf1@spherefederation.org. We love to find out about your home learning – in whatever form it takes. Gingerbread Man related or something completely different!
Home Learning
Following the news last night, we will be producing a daily interactive home learning menu.
Here some lessons and activities to complete today.
Phonics
Listen and join in the Jolly Phonics songs.
Point and say each sound on the sound mat.
Write the word to match each picture.
Write a caption to match the picture.
Maths
Watch the number formation song.
Write numbers and find objects to match each numeral.
Topic
Draw and label one of your Christmas presents or favourite toy.
Challenge – write a sentence.
School closure – including Nursery
Please see the whole school announcement regarding school’s closure today, including Nursery.
https://www.scholeselmet.leeds.sch.uk/find-out/news/#news0
Let’s read – new books!
Each class chose £100 worth of new books to refresh our reading corners. They were delivered just before Christmas and the children couldn’t wait to get stuck in! We particularly bought non-fiction (information) books that can be dipped into. The Lego, animal and science-based lift up flap books were a particular hit.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! We hope that you’ve had a happy and healthy break over the Christmas holidays.
Remember, we have a training day on Monday 04 January. We’re looking forward to welcoming you back to Nursery on Tuesday and can’t wait to hear all about the fun that you’ve had over the last two weeks. We’re also looking forward to meeting our new families on Friday, when our new children will join us for a settling in session.
This week, we will focus on settling children back into Nursery routines and we’ll be looking for any new interests that children have. Don’t forget to send us an email if your child has suddenly become engrossed in something new at home! We will add their new interests to up-date our ‘What makes us tick’ notice display in Nursery. We use these interests to inform our planning and learning activities in Nursery.
See you soon! Foundation One Team
Merry Christmas
What a fabulous, festive and fun filled week we’ve had! Children loved our Nursery Christmas party on Monday. We danced to Christmas songs in the school hall and played some traditional games including pass the parcel and ‘corners’. Afterwards, we enjoyed eating some party treats and then watched the animated version of ‘Stickman’. Lots of children remembered parts of the story from reading it in Nursery in our small world area.
On Wednesday, we watched a live pantomime and enjoyed some popcorn during the performance. The children were engrossed and soon began to join in… It’s behind you!
On Thursday, everyone had a traditional Christmas lunch together which included pulling crackers, telling jokes and wearing party hats! Afterwards, we visited the ‘Christmas lights’ in the school hall. You may have already seen the photographs on our Facebook page. We had another surprise when we got back into Nursery, Father Christmas had been! We watched a video of Santa playing in Nursery, he read us a story and left us a Nursery present. Thank you, Santa!
Finally, we’d like to say thankyou for our cards and gifts and for your lovely comments about our Nursery Christmas Sing-a-Long videos. We’re glad you enjoyed watching at home.
We’d like to wish you all a very merry Christmas (even if it might be a little different to usual) and a happy and healthy new year!
A quick message from Mrs Hogarth
Miss Fallon and I would like to say a huge thank you for all the gifts we received today. It’s really generous of you and greatly appreciated. It appears that some parents know me quite well!
Thank you to all the parents of 5/6 S for your positive comments , emails of support and kind messages that we receive. It really does help to keep us going.
The class have had a great term and I can’t wait to see them all again in the new year.
I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and a very happy and healthy new year.
Mrs Hogarth.x
It’s Christmas!
It has been a busy half term with lots of fun and learning along the way.
This week has been a Christmas filled extravaganza.
The children loved watching the pantomime. Thank you Friend of Scholes Primary (FOSP) for paying for us to watch this!
Sunshine and Rainbow have also become expert sprout peelers!
We enjoyed our Christmas dinner with some extra dinner guests.
We had a visit from Professor Myers. She had been in touch with Santa and the elves to bring a candy cane experiment.
How strong is a candy cane?
We tested different objects in our classroom and recorded our results.
From everyone in Sunshine and Rainbow, we would like to wish you all a merry Christmas!
5/6 S Certificate Celebration
This weeks certificate winners are…
For great learning…
Ellis- for great learning in all subjects. You put 100% into everything you do and you’re a great member of our class. Well done!
For sport and physical activity…
Connor- for demonstrating perseverance during WUSU. You’ve finally grasped that tricky dance! Well done.
For living and learning…
William W – for being a great member of my class. You make me giggle every day and our class wouldn’t be the same without you. Thank you!
Well done everyone!