Story Time
We know that lots of you look forward to the end of the week because you love to hear your Nursery teachers reading a story. Today, it’s Miss Pennock’s turn and she’s chosen to read ‘Dear Zoo’. We’re sure you’ll be able to join in with this one at home.
Here are a few ideas of things to talk about or to join in with at home.
- Do you have any pets? We’d love to see a drawing or painting of them if you do. If you don’t have a pet, what pet would you like to have? Would it be a good pet to have or would it be too jumpy, too loud or too fearsome?
- There are some fun games on the Dear Zoo website. Test your memory skills with this pairs game.
- Here is a listening game for you to play at home. Can you work out which animal is hiding?
- Get active and try moving like different animals by joining in with this song!
- Find out what it’s like to look after a pet with Topsy and Tim, or watch an episode of ‘What’s the Big Idea?‘ all about pets.
- Finally, you may want to visit a virtual zoo, here’s a link to Chester Zoo’s virtual zoo page. There are a few videos of the meercats and giraffes at feeding time.
Home Learning
Have you had chance to email us recently? If you haven’t, please do! It’s not too late to send us a quick email with a short message to tell us how you all are. We’d love to hear from you.
Also, please remember to email us before Monday 29 June if you’d like your child to take part in a Zoom call. Please read our earlier post for more details.
Here are some photos from this week and we’ve also managed to add some videos that 2 of your friends sent in of a farmer making hay bales. It’s fascinating to watch. It looks like some of you enjoyed the transport themed activities this week. Esmae has also sent a photo of a damselfly that she spotted at Temple Newsam.
26 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Watch Geraldine Giraffe learn about ‘igh’.
Read:
Point to the words that have the ‘igh’ trigraph in them. Can you segment and blend the words?
Game:
1.Roll the dice.
2.Read the word next to the number.
3.Move to the next word if you roll the same number.
4.Take it in turns to read all of the words.
Parents/Carers: you could print or write the words on paper if they are too difficult for your child to read on your device.
→Need more of a challenge? Choose a pobble365 photo to inspire creative writing. You could try to include a narrative into your writing by using words such as one day, suddenly, then, next, after that and finally.
Maths
Literacy
1.Listen to the story ‘Something Else’ by Kathryn Cave
2.After listening to the story talk to your child about the story. You could read the following synopsis:
Something Else is excluded from everything because he looks different. He does not play the same games, eat the same food or draw the same pictures.
Then one day Something turns up and wants to be friends. However, Something Else does not want to be friends with this creature as he believes that they are not the same and he refuses to eat sandwiches with ‘Urgy stuff’ in them. He sends Something away and then suddenly realizes that he acts like all the other people who always sent him away.
Eventually Something Else and Something become best friends.
3.Ask your child to think about how the two creatures in the book are different from each other and how this makes them feel. For example:
- How did the blue creature feel when the other animals said he wasn’t like them?
- What could the other creatures have done to help the blue creature feel happier?
4.Even very different people can find things in common. Can your child now find similarities between the two creatures?
Life skills
Lilia has been in touch this week to tell me all about what she’s been doing when she hasn’t been in school. Her artistic flair has been demonstrated when she was allowed to paint her shed – it looks amazing and very bright!
She has also been trying out her baking skills too. She made eclairs for the first time and they look delicious. I hope she is saving one for me!
Learning, learning, learning
We have had some lovely emails recently.
The body parts pictures were brilliant and certainly put a smile on our faces!
There is also a video below of some super reading : Funnybones reading
Returning school library books and other reading books
25 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
→Need more of a challenge? Can you play the polysyllabic game?
Maths
1.Watch the Numberblock 14 video.
2.Using toys/objects from your house can you count out 14?
3.Print or make a part part whole model. Can you split your toys/objects into two groups? E.g. 7 is a part, 7 is a part and 14 is the whole.
4.How many different ways can you split 14?
→Need more of a challenge?
Can you split 14 into three parts?
For example 5 is a part, 2 is a part, 7 is a part and 14 is the whole.
Literacy
Can you find out some things people in your family like and dislike. You could video chat friends and ask them too. Are they different? Can you still be friends even if you like different things? Explore this.
I really like sewing. Mrs Palmer doesn’t like sewing but loves to garden. We are still friends!
Library books
Hello.
Hope you are all well?
Please can you start to return any library books to school that you may have at home. If the weather is fine, there will be a table outside that you can put them on. If it’s a rainy day, there will be a box just inside the entrance. Thank you.
Creating your own RIC reading questions
Eva has worked hard to create her own RIC questions. Take a look and see if you can answer the questions.
Car wash
When we play outside at Nursery on a sunny day, one of the most popular activities is creating a car/bike wash. We put some soapy water in a bucket and add some cloths/sponges, washing up brushes and a few old spray bottles. Children love to clean the wheels on the trikes; this often develops into garage role play including fixing bikes and refuelling at the petrol station.
You could even do it with your little vehicles if you’ve been making marks in paint with them. Remember to send us a photo of something you’ve enjoyed so far this week. Have fun!
Similarities and differences
Following on from the last two weeks, here is another story about celebrating similarities and differences in each other. This time, it’s all about recognising our own differences. Sometimes we are loud, sometimes we are quiet, sometimes bold and brave, sometimes soft and cuddly. In this story, ‘Super Duper You‘, Sophy Henn celebrates all the different, extraordinary and sometimes contradictory things we are. (After the story has finished, Sophy goes on to teach you how to draw the children in the story. You may or may not want to watch this part and have a go at this!)
Nursery books
If you have any Nursery books at home, and you won’t be returning to Nursery in September, please could you return them to school in the plastic zippy wallet (or in a bag marked with Nursery on the front). There’ll be a box outside the main school office for you to do this. If it’s a rainy day, it’ll be just inside the door way. Thank you.
24 June 2020: Home learning
Phonics
Watch Geraldine Giraffe learn about ‘ee’
1.Read the words.
2.Write the words that match each picture.
→Need more of a challenge? I spy! Can you read the words and find the matching object in your house? You might not be able to find all of the objects in your house! I wonder how many you will find?
Maths
Literacy
Can you draw something that you think makes you special? For example, you could be special because you can jump really high? Or because you are always good at making your friends happy. Adults you could share what you think makes your child special.
Your child could then draw something that makes someone they love special. They could share this with the person they love. How does it feel to tell someone why they are special? It makes us feel good to make others feel good.
This is a great activity for not only your child to feel special but to make others around them feel special too.
Extra activity: pass it on smile! We always talk to the children about how special a smile is. It can be passed on to LOTS of people so quickly. If you smile at someone they will often smile back, they then smile at the next person and there you have it, a big line of people passing on smiles. Can your child try this in the house or when they are outside. Not everyone will always smile back but that’s okay, they might not feel like smiling back but I’m sure you’re smile was still nice for them to see.