Hi
Nursery,
I hope
you enjoyed your half term and got up to lots of exciting activities at home!
I hope
you found it fun trying to guess who the baby pictures belonged to for your
challenge last week! If you have any pictures of you reading in extraordinary
places, we would love to see them!
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*For some of our phonics activities next week,
please save up plastic bottle lids from your empty milk cartons or bottles of
pop and water. Please also save any glass bottles you have ready for some
musical activities next week! *
Mr Bear
and Jenie Jigsaw had a very relaxing half term and spent lots of time in the
garden, playing with their toys and eating ice-cream! I told them that they
need to turn their brain boxes back on to think of some great challenges for
you this week, so here’s hoping they’ve done a good job!
Here are your 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!
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 you could sing
any of our number or shape songs to warm up your brainboxes.
Big Walrus 2D shape song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEbRDtCAFdU
Big Walrus count to 20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Ajq682yrA
Macarena counting song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGKXZVxAffM
Monday:
Phonics – Today your challenge
is to go on a hunt around your house and garden. How many objects can you find
that begin with the letter sound s?
You could collect as many objects as you can or ask your grown-up
to write down all of the things you find. See if you can find 10 items. Ask
your grown-up to email me with a picture or a list of all the things you found
and I will see if I can find the same number of items in my house too!
Challenge: Practise writing the letter sound ‘s’
in three different sizes. First, try and write it REALLY BIG, then try a medium size and lastly, can you write it tiny?
Maths-
We are going to be exploring number this week in our maths
challenges. Today’s challenge is a good one to warm up your brain boxes and a
good way to exercise too! Ask your grown up to place number cards on each step
of your stairs. When you climb the stairs, can you name each number?
Challenge: Can you say the numbers on the way
back down the stairs too? (Sit on your bottom on the way down to make it easier
and safer). Which was the biggest number you saw? Which was the smallest
number?
Tuesday:
Phonics – Today, your
grown-up will need a sheet of paper with sounds written on, like the picture
below. They are going to shout out a sound and you are going to find it on your
paper. When you have found it, can you draw a circle around it? If you find all
of the sounds, you can shout BINGO!!
Challenge: Your grown-up could ask you to find
something beginning with one of those sounds e.g. “Can you tell me something
beginning with t?”
Maths- Just like in our Phonics challenge, ask your grown-up to write
numbers onto a piece of paper this time. When they shout out a number, can you
find it? Shout BINGO when you have
found all of your numbers – good luck!
Challenge: Can you find numbers 1 and 2, how many
would you have altogether if you added these? You could use objects to help,
place one object to one side, and two objects at the other. When you move them
altogether in the middle, how many do you have?
Wednesday:
Phonics – For your phonics challenge today, you will need a muffin tray or
a few different bowls/plates. Look at the picture below to help. (You could write the letter sounds on small pieces of paper also)
You will also need some pennies to throw. Your challenge is to
throw a penny to one of the sounds – when your penny lands, name the sound it
has landed on.
Challenge: Can you make up the words cat, dog,
sun, pig, hen with the letter sounds you have?
Maths- Keep your
muffin tray or bowls out, but this time you are going to have numbers instead
of letter sounds in the compartments (see picture below). Can you use pasta or
cereal to add the correct number?
Challenge: Can you count all of your
pasta/cereal pieces together and add up how many you had?
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 or
choose a story book from home which you have enjoyed reading and discuss the
same questions with your grown-ups*
Maths- To finish off
our number learning for this week, Mr Bear and Jenie Jigsaw would like you to make
a number line. Can you use your number cards to make a number line from 0 to
10?
*The caterpillar number line has a number missing, can you spot
which one it is?*
Challenge: Can you add any other numbers to
your number line? Which number comes after 10?
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:
As I know that lots of you enjoyed making pictures with your
snacks a couple of weeks ago, I thought it would be nice for you to prepare a
snack, meal or dessert with your grown-up in the kitchen. You don’t have to do
this today; you could do it any day in the week. Please send any pictures of
you helping and with your end product – I can’t wait to see some amazing
creations!
PE time:
I have found some physical challenges for you to have a go at
today. There are two challenges so start with challenge 1 and have a go at
challenge 2 if you are feeling super strong and flexible! Send in any pictures
of you completing your exercise, we would love to see them!
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