Week 5 learning

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all enjoying this lovely sunshine and doing lots of fun things outdoors with your grown-ups!

The Nursery grown-ups are still missing you all lots and lots and we can’t wait to be able to hear from you soon!

As of Monday, your grown-ups will be able to email nursery@hilltop.doncaster.sch.uk with lots of pictures and updates of how you are doing at home. We cannot wait to see the super fun things you have been getting up to! 

But until then, have lots of fun and use your super brainboxes to tackle your challenges for this week.

I have had a phone call with both Mr Bear and Jenny Jigsaw and they have been really impressed with how you are all doing with your learning. They have been thinking really hard of some fabulous challenges for you this week.

Here are your learning challenges for the 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!

Monday:

Phonics – Warm up by singing the ‘Jolly jingles’ song on YouTube (you don’t have to sing them all in one go, you could sing a few each day)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euxN7LGOoLc

Today, ask a grown-up to play I-Spy. Gather together around six to eight objects which all begin with different sounds. You could ask your grown-up to start the game and say “I spy with my little eye, something beginning with…” they must choose an item which is in your pile of objects. If you guess the item correctly, it is your turn! Keep going until all of the items have been guessed.

Challenge: Can you think of a word to describe each of your items. E.g. if you choose a banana, you could describe it as yellow or curved. Try to think of a different describing word (adjective) for each of your objects.

Maths – Warm up with Big Walrus and count all the way to 20! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Ajq682yrA

Your task today is to work on your positional language such as ‘behind’    ‘in front of’    ‘next to’    ‘underneath’

‘on top of’    ‘in between’

You could do this with a chair and your favourite toy by placing your toy in areas relation to the chair when your grown-up asks or you could work with your grown-up to put yourself in those places. E.g. your grown-up might say to you “Stand next to the sofa” “Go under the table” etc.

Challenge: Can you place yourself or your toy in a place such as ‘on top of’ the chair and explain your position to your grown-up?

Tuesday:

Phonics – log on to phonicsplay.co.uk. Play flashcard speed sounds (phase 2) and practise saying all of the sounds. How many could you remember? Are you getting faster at naming each sound?

Challenge: Ask your grown-up to put some flour/sugar out on a baking tray for you to have a go at forming some of the phase 2 sounds in. It’s magic and can be re-used again and again. All you have to do is shake the tray and the sounds will vanish.

Maths -  Join in with singing our favourite shape song again with Big Walrus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guNdJ5MtX1A.

Your challenge today is to collect some items from around your house. They could be tins from the kitchen, a football from the garden, a book from your bedroom. Your grown-up is going to ask you to predict whether you think the items that you have collected will roll or not? Have a go at rolling the items to see if you were correct.

 

Challenge: Can you describe the shapes that did roll? What was special about them that made them roll? Were they round? What about the shapes that didn’t roll? Were they flat?

Wednesday:

Phonics – watch Geraldine Giraffe ‘h’ on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiu_YmW_Efk See if you can remember which items she found in her house. Can you name them?

Now have a hunt around your house to see what you can find that begins with h.

Challenge: Have a go at writing this sound and if you want to challenge yourself further, have a go at saying/writing the other sounds you can hear in the objects you find e.g. h-a-t.

Maths – Warm up again with Big Walrus and count all the way to 20! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Ajq682yrA

Today, your challenge is to have a go at grouping items from around your house for example, 3 yoghurts and 1 banana. Can you work out how many items you have altogether by counting them all? You could ask your grown-up to add one more banana. How many items do you have altogether now? Has the total got bigger or smaller? What if you don’t add any more items? Will the total stay the same? You could repeat this activity with different items from around your house or garden.

Challenge: Can you have a go at writing the total number on a piece of paper?

Thursday:

Phonics –  Using your log in for Oxford Owl, choose a new story to read. Look at the front cover and guess what you think might happen in the story. Can you spot any letter sounds that you know in the title?

Can you spot the characters in the story, how might they be feeling/why?

Challenge: Can you recall the events that happened in the story? Tell your grown-up your favourite part of the story – you could even draw a picture to show your favourite part if you want to!

Maths -  Can you count backwards from 10-0 and blast off like a rocket for your warm up?

Today you will need to find lots of items which are the same, for example, socks/stones/spoons etc. your grown-up is going to ask you to give them an amount. They might say “Please can you give me 3 spoons” “Can you find 6 stones?” and so on.

Challenge: Your grown-up could use your number cards to make this challenge trickier by showing you a number card but not telling you the number. Can you say the number and find that many items?

Fun Fridays:

We know how much Nursery love our fun and fitness Fridays so we know you will love Friday challenges!

Creative time:

This week, you could have a go at making super soft playdough. Click on this link – it will take you to the recipe! Have fun.

PE time:

Get ready to turn yourselves into animals this week! We love to play this game in Nursery and I hope you can remember the rules.

Your grown-up is going to choose an animal and say “Move like an elephant/giraffe/snake” and so on. Can you make your bodies into the shape of that animal and have a go at moving like they would? For an elephant you could make yourself big and stomp, stomp, stomp. You could use your arms to make a really tall neck like the giraffe and you could slither across the ground like a snake! I can’t wait to see some fantastic pictures of you moving like animals!