Rhyme Time

We sing a nursery rhyme every day in nursery, repeating the same rhyme every day.  This week our rhyme is: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, once I caught a fish alive...

Drop Everything and Read

Learning about the world through stories and developing a love of books is promoted through our daily shared reading sessions.

We hope children enjoy watching and listening to our daily stories.  Children can of course watch the videos again and again and use the stories to inspire play and creative tasks.

Making Meaningful Marks

Learning ideas:

Draw pictures of the characters you read about in stories.  Can you find a picture of a character you like and have a go at copying it?  Look carefully at the colours the illustrator has used and the shapes and features they have drawn.  

Making sense of number.

Play games which encourage counting and count objects during play and whilst doing helpful jobs at home.

-Collect natural treasure as you go on a walk.  You could take a bag to collect your treasure, or fasten it to a stick. (See photo below)

Remember to wash your hands after touching natural objects.

Count how many items of treasure you have collected.  Could someone else in your family collect treasure too?  Who has collected more?  Did you collect the same things?  What is different?  What is the same?

Number names and numerals are just words and marks.  Helping children by exploring quantities through play, supports secure understanding of number values.

Being creative with shapes

Explore shapes and patterns.  Where can you see patterns and shapes in the stories were are reading this week?

Can you create a fish of your own to go with Tiddler, or a shell to share for the characters in Sharing a Shell?  Think about your pattern before you start.  You might like to choose a stripy pattern, a dotty pattern, zig zags, swirls, stars...

Think about the size of the patterns you see and the things you create.  Can you talk about big, huge, small, tiny patterns?

Making long creatures!

Physically Active Learning

Challenges which involve 'fiddly fingers' (moving small objects carefully) help to support children's fine motor control. This helps the development of early writing skills.

Moving in time to music and copying movements supports the development of children’s gross motor skills, spatial awareness and coordination skills.

-Drawing in the frost; making meaningful marks, drawing faces, animals, patterns, writing letters.

-Make a paper snowflake (see the link below for instructions is required); support your child to make the snips in the paper.