End of year message 🌈

To all my Nursery superstars and your amazing grown-ups,

I am writing this message to let you all know just how special you are and how lucky I feel to have been your first teacher. The times we shared I will never forget and although our year was cut short, you all made such an impact on me, not only as a teacher but as a person. You have taught me so many important lessons and I want to thank you all for this. We have been on such a journey - from sharing amazing learning in school, to having to share learning via emails, videos and photographs over the last few months. I just want you all to know that you are incredible and I know you will continue to be the best you can be as you transition into Reception.

Grown-ups, I wish to express my heartfelt thanks for how wonderful you have been during the last few months. You have shown so much dedication in home-schooling your children and ensuring that they feel safe and secure whilst everything in the world seemed so scary!

I hope that you all have the BEST Summer ever and I cannot wait to see your smiling faces again in September!

Lots of love,

Miss Woods ❤

*You are all my ‘small things’

I have also added some lovely photographs and videos which have been sent to me this week – even in the last week of school, you have continued to amaze me!

Sophia’s kindness chart

Superstar learners ⭐

Hi Nursery,

I can’t believe we only have one more week before the Summer holidays are upon us! I have really loved putting together videos of your super learning each week and this week was no exception. 

I cannot wait to put together a video all about kindness next week.

I just wanted to say a HUGE thank you to both the children and parents who have sent in photographs and videos, whether that be weekly or on occasion – your emails have really brightened my weeks and to be able to have some contact with the children has been amazing!

Enjoy your last week of learning before the Summer, Nursery – you make me so proud!

Love, Miss Woods ❤

Week 17

Hi Nursery. It was so lovely to see all your photos and videos of your super learning last week. We are all so proud of how well you are learning at home but we can’t wait to be learning altogether again! This is our last week of school learning before the Summer holidays so keep up the good work for one more week.

Here we go with our final weeks learning!

You could begin your days by singing the ‘Days of the week’ song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtQcnZ2JWsY

You could also talk to your grown-ups about the weather and if you are feeling up to a super challenge – name the day that it was yesterday and the day it will be tomorrow!

You could also begin each of your phonic sessions with our ‘Jolly Jingles’ song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euxN7LGOoLc or ‘Phonics Song 2’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BELlZKpi1Zs on YouTube.

Monday

This week we want to celebrate just how kind you all are so we would like you to watch and listen to a story all about being kind so follow this link to see lots of kindness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAo4-2UzgPo

Now can you tell your adult what kind things you noticed in the story? Were there any unkind actions or words in the story?

Tuesday

With help from your adult, draw a kindness chart and then each day when you do something kind to help somebody else you can draw a picture of what you have done and label it. These could be things like:

·       helping your adult make a meal

·       tidying your room

·       making your bed

·       taking a gift to someone who might be feeling sad

We look forward to seeing all of your kind deeds as we know just how kind you all are.

Wednesday

Keep filling in your kindness chart. Today we would also like you to draw a picture of somebody doing something kind for you. This could be someone in your family who looks after you or even one of your friends who may have helped you if you have been hurt or sad. Label your picture with words to show how they made you feel.

Thursday

Keep filling in your kindness chart. Using your picture from yesterday can you look at the words you wrote to show how you feel and use your phonic knowledge to write a list of kind words and feelings.

Fun Friday

This is our last fun Friday in Nursery before you become Tigers and Monkeys! So we would like you to make up an end of year dance to your favourite music. Or you could show us how musical you are by making up your own tune with either an instrument or something you can make noise with from around the house or even body percussion. We are looking forward to seeing some crazy dance moves and music so get creative. Don’t forget to take videos or photos to send in to us to cheer us all up seeing your happy smiley faces.

Dance and Music Festival

Hill Top needs your help!

Monday the 13^th of July marks the beginning of our Trust Dance and Music Festival.

We know how talented you all are and we want to share that!

This will be our last week of Summer term and what better way to lift spirits than a good song and dance!

You can film yourself singing, dancing or playing a musical instrument at home. 

Then please email it to your year group email address.

Look out for your videos on Facebook throughout the week, so we can showcase all of our pupils' talents!

Week 16 - Learning challenges

Hello Nursery, we hope you have had another lovely week at home and have been keeping busy with playing and learning. We have some more fun activities for you to try at home, so let’s get learning!

Here are your challenges for this week:

You could begin your days by singing the ‘Days of the week’ song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtQcnZ2JWsY

You could also talk to your grown-ups about the weather and if you are feeling up to a super challenge – name the day that it was yesterday and the day it will be tomorrow!

You could also begin each of your phonic sessions with our ‘Jolly Jingles’ song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euxN7LGOoLc or ‘Phonics Song 2’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BELlZKpi1Zs on YouTube.

For the Maths sessions this week, Mr Bear and Jenie would like you to sing The Singing Walrus number song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Ajq682yrA&vl=en

Monday

Maths

We hope you had some fun doing your doubles last week. This week we are going to explore sharing so today you can make yourself a sharing mat just like the one below. Make it as colourful as you like and make yourself some bright coloured counters using cardboard from a used food box such as a cereal box and colour them in your favourite colours.

Phonics

Let’s make some silly soup. All you need is a bowl or pan and a spoon to stir your silly soup and then have a look around the house to find lots of silly things to put in your soup (the sillier, the better). Then sing our silly soup song to the tune of pop goes the weasel:

I’m making lots of silly soup

I’m making soup that’s silly

I’m going to cook it in the fridge,

To make it nice and chilly

In goes a …

Tuesday

Maths

Today you will need your sharing mat that you made yesterday. If you put 2 counters on your mat, how many will you have in the 2 smaller circles if you share them?

Now try again with 4 counters.

Challenge

What is the biggest number you can share on your mat?

Phonics

Your phonics challenge for today is to find as many things in your house and garden that begin with these initial sounds:

g, o, c, k.

When you have found at least 6 objects, cover them with a towel and ask your adult to take away 1 thing. Can you work out what is missing? Can you work out what is missing if your adult takes away 2 things?

Challenge

Put more objects under your cloth to see if you can work out what is missing when it is a bit trickier with more objects to remember.

Wednesday

Maths

Sharing can be lots of fun so today have a think about what food you would like to share with someone in your house. It can be anything from fruit, sweets or some of your homemade baking. How can you share it fairly? How many do you have? How many does the other person have? How many are there altogether? Don't forget to take photos to email them to us so we can see what yummy treats you have been sharing.

Phonics

We have a tricky challenge for phonics today. Your adult will need to write these graphemes on a piece of paper:

S A T P I N M D

When your adult says the phoneme, draw a circle around it and then see what you can find in your house and garden that starts with that phoneme.

Challenge

Can you can find each object in less than 20 seconds? Ask your adult to time you.

Thursday

Maths

Using 2 of your teddy bears and 2 plates collect some items to share between them. You could use food or some of your small toys to pretend they are teddy bear food. Share the items fairly between your 2 teddy bears. How many do they have each? How many is there altogether?

Challenge

What would happen if you had another teddy? Can you still share your items equally?

Phonics

Using your photos from yesterday, choose 2 graphemes to practice forming. When you have done this, draw the item that you found yesterday that has the correct initial sound. Remember to use your letter formation sheet.

Fun Friday

As you have been sharing items with your teddy bears this week, why not have a real teddy bears picnic. You could help your adult to prepare the food and then share it out with the people in your house but don’t forget your teddy bears and have lots of fun!

PE

Joe Wicks has posted lots of short workouts for children so why not try one of those this fun Friday? Click below for a fun 8-minute workout:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqLNxJe4L2I

Enjoy your week Nursery. We are really looking forward to singing, learning and playing together again soon!

Superstar learners ⭐

Hi Nursery,

I have been very impressed yet again with all of the lovely photographs you have sent across this week. I have been blown away with your motivation and creativeness!

I have made another video for you to watch with lots of your own and your friends’ super learning – I hope you enjoy it!

Sending you all a BIIIIIIG air hug – I am missing you all so very much.

Enjoy your weekend and I hope to hear from you again next week.

Love,

Miss Woods ❤

NEW LINK - Virtual Sports Day

NEW WORKING LINKS 

We apologise that the links didn't work 

yesterday. Click below to watch the videos 

and log your score 

HILL TOP NEEDS YOU!

Pupils, parents and teachers of Hill Top, enter the Trust Virtual Sports Competition 

and let’s make Hill Top victorious!

Join the competition and help Hill Top win against the other schools in the Trust!

To log your score 

- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdAQ5HNm_4deh9SiBZcO3f56MwWHRNDnktIC1j4dTi4RR4nxg/viewform

To see the activities -

 https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmX9uy8Tkt1wBBwpbVtltaobge8gsngay

Take a look at our video of the teachers practising their skills last week.

Hill Top Staff - Virtual Sports Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxq8R909bi8

Sports Active Week

Good morning Nursery. This week is our Sports Active week so let’s get moving! We have some excellent sports that you can do at home with household items. Watch the videos by clicking this link: https://buff.ly/2zQPvuO

You can log your score online by clicking this link: https://buff.ly/2YYgfCb

Let’s do this Nursery!

Superstar learners ⭐

Hi Nursery,

I hope you have all had another lovely week. I have been in school with the key worker children so Mrs Greenough has set some challenges on the blog for you ready for next week. 

I am still loving to see all of the pictures and videos that your grown-ups are sending to the nursery email – keep them coming! 

Take a look at the video of the learning and activities from this week – I have been blown away by all of your motivation and hard work, even after all this time!

Have a lovely week ahead and I hope you enjoy this week’s learning.

Love, Miss Woods 🌈

Week 15 - Learning challenges

Hello Nursery, we hope you are well and staying safe in the sunshine. It would be lovely to see what you have been doing outside this week so don't forget to send in some sunny photos to  nursery@hilltop.doncaster.sch.uk.

Here are your challenges for this week:

You could begin your days by singing the ‘Days of the week’ song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtQcnZ2JWsY

You could also talk to your grown-ups about the weather and if you are feeling up to a super challenge – name the day that it was yesterday and the day it will be tomorrow!

You could also begin each of your phonic sessions with our ‘Jolly Jingles’ song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euxN7LGOoLc or ‘Phonics Song 2’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BELlZKpi1Zs on YouTube.

For the Maths sessions this week, Mr Bear and Jenie would like you to watch ‘Numberblocks’ on BBC iPlayer; one episode a day. Start with the first video on the webpage and each day choose the next one in the sequence.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/b08bzfnh

Monday

Phonics

Using a paint brush and water you can make a masterpiece in the sunshine, if you don’t have a paintbrush maybe you could use your adults mop. With a bucket of water, you can dip your brush in and paint the water onto the floor outside to make graphemes (letters), you’ll have to be quick though as the sunshine could dry up your picture very quickly! How many graphemes can you make before the water dries? *Remember to use the rhymes that we say in school to help us form our sounds – see picture below for rhymes*

Maths

Go on a nature hunt, how many things on the list can you collect?

2 red leaves

1 smooth stone

3 yellow flowers

2 small twigs

1 piece of rough bark                                              

3 green leaves

1 seed

2 purple petals

Challenge

Can you count how many objects you have altogether?

Make sure you keep all of your treasures as you will be needing them tomorrow.

Tuesday

Phonics

Using all of the things you found on your nature hunt yesterday, can you draw a picture of each item you have found? Tell your adults the initial sound for each item, can you hear any other phonemes?

Challenge

Ask your adult to help you to label your creations by helping you find the correct phoneme cards or writing the letters for you to write over the top, just like we do in school.

Maths

Ask your adult for a mirror and using your objects from your nature hunt, place a set of items in front of the mirror e.g. 2 red leaves. How many leaves are in the mirror? How many leaves are there altogether (in front of the mirror and in the mirror)? Well done! You have doubled your items. How many doubles can you make using your treasures?

Wednesday

Using all of your treasures you have found, feel each one – how does it feel? Is it warm or cold? Smooth or rough? Soft or hard? Tell your adult and they can write what you have said on your picture. Can you tell your adult the initial and final sounds of each word?

Challenge

Can you write any of the words on your picture?

Maths

Draw a large butterfly, can you make each side the same?

Draw and colour 5 spots that will fit inside your butterfly’s wings.

 

Remember to count the spots to make sure you only have 5. Can you make a pattern on your butterfly using the spots? Make sure you do not stick them down as you will be needing them tomorrow.

Thursday

Phonics

Using your treasure and anything else you can find around the house or in the garden, can you make these letters S A T P I N? What other letters can you make?

Challenge

Can you make your name with your treasures?

Maths

Using your butterfly and spots from yesterday, can you place one spot on each wing? How many spots are there altogether? Double 1 is 2. Can you do the same with 2 spots? What is double 2? If you put 3 spots on one wing and 2 on the other, is this a double?

Challenge

If you put your butterfly in front of the mirror, how many spots do you have altogether? Is this a double?

Fun Friday

This week is virtual sports day! Get ready for some exercise.

How many of each exercise can you do in one minute?

Jumps

Hops

Star jumps

Skips

Lie on the ground and look for shapes in the clouds

Look up and watch the clouds blowing across the sky – what shapes can you see? What stories can you tell about the shapes in the clouds?