Hi
Nursery 🌈
Another
week has passed by and I would just like to say that I am so proud of you all
for completing your learning challenges – you are so motivated and resilient!
It is a
pleasure to receive lots of lovely pictures from your grown-ups and I look
forward to them each week. Keep sending them in and look out for the Superstar
learner blog post each week where you will be able to see what your friends
have been getting up to at home.
Email
pictures/videos to:
nursery@hilltop.doncaster.sch.uk
*We have
found a fantastic reading/phonic resource called ‘Reading Eggs’ which we think
you will love! There is an option for your grown-ups to sign up to this online
resource for a three week free trial by clicking on this link - https://readingeggs.co.uk/
You can also
download this as an app on your devices! Have a look and let us know what you
think*
Mr Bear
and Jenie Jigsaw have had to think really hard this week as they know how good
you are with these challenges now. They have had to turn their brainboxes onto
superpower mode for this week’s challenges!
Here
are your challenges for the week:
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!
For the Maths sessions you could sing any of our
number or shape songs to warm up your brainboxes.
Monday:
Phonics – Today
your warm up is to have a go at clapping the syllables in your name e.g. if
your name was Mabel is would be 2 claps, if your name was Ben is would be just
1 clap and so on.
Following on from
your warm up, you will need a saucepan and a wooden spoon or something similar.
Today you are going to play saucepan syllables. You could gather a range of
objects from your home and use these to bang the syllables on the saucepan e.g.
Cup – 1 bang
Teddy – 2 bangs
Dinosaur – 3 bangs
Challenge: Which item did you find that
had the most syllables? Email me with your results!
Maths- In our
Maths sessions this week, we are going to explore pattern. For your first
challenge this week, you are going to use items that you have at home to make
patterns. See the picture below for help.
Challenge:
Can
you count how many of each item you have used? Which item did you start with?
Which item have you ended with? Can you verbalise the pattern e.g. “orange,
biscuit, orange, biscuit, orange, biscuit”
Tuesday:
Phonics – after you
have sung one of our phonics songs to warm up, your grown-up will need to have
a bag prepared with some items inside. These items can be household items such
as: cup, fork, ball, hat, car.
Take a look at
the picture below to help. Your grown-up will put their hand into the bag and
sound out an item that they have chosen so for example your grown-up might say,
“I have a d-o-g” or
“I have a s–p–oo-n.”
See if you can
guess what the item is! If you do, you can keep the item – good luck!
Challenge: You could have a go at sounding out an
item for your grown-up to guess what is inside the bag!
*Alternatively, you
could also play this game by describing an object which is hidden inside the
bag or you could give your child the initial sound of the object to see if they
can guess what it is.
Maths- Today you are going to continue looking at pattern but today you
are going to need some paint and an item like an apple or a potato cut in half.
Can you make a repeating pattern? You could do this by either
using one item and change the colour e.g. red, blue, red, blue, red, blue or
you could use two items like potato, carrot, potato, carrot, potato, carrot. Good
luck!
Challenge: Ask your grown-up to send me some
pictures of your patterns – I can’t wait to see them!
Wednesday:
Phonics – Today we are going to be
exploring rhythm and rhyme. On Phonics Play, there is a game called ‘Cake Bake’
where you have to identify words which rhyme with the picture on the bowl. https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/CakeBake.html
see if you can have a go at matching the rhyming words and saying them
altogether in a string e.g. cat, hat, bat, mat.
Challenge: Choose two items that you know
rhyme and draw them onto a piece of paper. Can you have a go at writing the
initial sound or the word to match?
Maths- Continuing on with pattern, you
need to find some items which have colours in your house today. The best item
to use would be Lego or wooden blocks to create your pattern. Take a look at
the picture below to help create your pattern.
If you
wanted to explore pattern outside, you could always make a pattern using
natural resources such as sticks, stones or leaves.
Challenge:
Can
you count how many of each item you have used and practise writing these
numbers?
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!
*Alternatively,
you could go onto the Reading Eggs app and explore some learning on there*
Maths- Today you are going to finish
looking at patterns by completing an online game on Top Marks.
Fun
Fridays:
Well
done for completing the tricky challenges for Phonics and Maths this week
Nursery – I hope you have a super fun Friday and I cannot wait until we can
share those fun times together again!
Creative time:
This
week, your challenge is to get creative in the kitchen! I thought it would be a
super fun idea if you could have a go at making items with your food. Make sure
you are using the equipment in your kitchen safely and always work with a grown-up’s
supervision! You could make a flower, a caterpillar or a house. The possibilities
are endless! Have a look at the pictures below for some inspiration – be as
creative as you like and make sure you ask your grown-up to send a photograph
of your finished product to me!
PE
time:
Today,
your PE challenge is to complete each activity for each letter in your name. If
you have a short name, you could always add on the activities for your surname!
Have fun – I would love to see some videos of your exercise!
