Hello Little Winners and Little Stars. Welcome to another week of home learning. I hope you are all enjoying a little more freedom but also staying safe. This week we have put together a variety of activities related to all areas of the EYFS curriculum. We hope you enjoy selecting the ones that interest you.

To begin with, we would like to say a special thank you to, Rex for sending in a photograph of him practising his numbers. Wow, you can recognise numbers 1-10, that’s fantastic. Keep up the good work! We would also like to thank Thomas and William for sending in a photograph of not only you both practising your counting but sharing with each other as well. That is super, it makes us very happy!

Please keep sending us photos of the wonderful activities you have been doing at home. Remember if you have a drawing or a photograph of something you have done, feel free to send it via the Home Learning Showcase. We love to see your creations.

Remember if you would like to send a message to Little Winners teachers or Little Stars teachers, feel free to do so via the stay in touch section on the nursery home page.

Little Winners & Little Stars - All About Plants & Growth

Suggested tasks for Mathematics:

Look at different seeds found in fruit and vegetables. Can you count them? Can you classify them according to shape and size?
Encourage your child to use money, real or pretend in an imaginary role-play garden centre.
Can your child measure plants? Use objects from around the house; cubes, blocks, pencils.
Have a go at sorting plants into height order.
Sing Counting Seeds Song

Suggested tasks for Writing:

Draw the life cycle and help your child to label each picture. Useful vocabulary: Life cycle, frogspawn, tadpole, frog, grow, pond, water.
Draw and label a plant. Useful vocabulary: roots, leaf, stem, petal, flower.

Suggested tasks for Phonics:

Practise oral blending – touch your body game. Say the name of a body part in sound speak e.g. touch your f-ee-t, feet, t-oe-s, s. You can use this oral blending in everyday tasks too.
Talk about words that rhyme. Start a rhyming string and see if your child can think of another word that rhymes, e.g. rat, hat,………., fox, box,………, dog, frog,…….., Look at the first sound ‘s’.
Can your child find anything beginning with ‘s, a, t, p, i, n’ around the house? Point out ‘these sounds’ in a book you’re reading together, can they find any more letter ‘with these sounds’.

Suggested tasks for Understanding the World:

Make your own frog life cycle out of playdough.
Playdough recipe: This super-easy playdough recipe is the perfect way to spend a rainy afternoon inside. It's quick enough to hold a young child's attention and you only need a few store cupboard ingredients. Little hands can play with the results straight away, so there's immediate gratification for all involved.
Makes 1 coloured ball- Prep 10 minutes- You will need: 8 tbsp plain flour, 2 tbsp table salt, 60ml warm water, food colouring, 1 tbsp vegetable oil

Method

1. Mix the flour and salt in a large bowl. In a separate bowl mix together the water, a few drops of food colouring and the oil. 2. Pour the coloured water into the flour mix and bring together with a spoon. 3. Dust a work surface with a little flour and turn out the dough. Knead together for a few minutes to form a smooth, pliable dough. If you want a more intense colour you can work in a few extra drops of food colouring. 4. Store in a plastic sandwich bag (squeeze out the air) in the fridge to keep it fresh.

Suggested tasks for Personal, Social and Emotional Development:

Read Fran’s Flower – talk about having patience. What does your child find difficulty waiting for?
Talk about plants that grow to provide us with food & drink.
Talk about farmers and the work they do.
Talk about different kinds of Harvest Festivals.
Talk to your child about looking after living creatures.
Discuss food, water, shelter, care, exercise.
If you have a pet can your child tell you about how they care for them? If you don’t have a pet, what pet would your child like and do they know how they would look after them?

Suggested tasks for Physical Education:

Fill a tray with beans, seeds, peas and lentils and ask children to separate them into containers using their hands or tweezers.
Adults or siblings can play wheelbarrow races. Use obstacles as appropriate.
Encourage the whole family to participate in Cosmic kids yoga- The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Suggested tasks for Commination and Language:

Read Jasper’s Beanstalk – provide an opportunity for role-playing.
Interactive rhyming game – children choose words or pictures that rhyme.
Write labels for a garden centre.
Sing 'Mary, Mary' Look at a variety of illustrations from different rhyme books.
Play Mother and baby memory game
Give adult animals names to alliterate with offspring e.g. Katie's kitten.

Suggested tasks for Expressive Arts and Design:

Learn the sunflower song: I'm a little sunflower/Strong & tall/See my petals/ See my stalk/When I feel the sunshine I will grow/ Taller & taller and taller I go.
Complete observational drawings of flowers.
Use blob and fold techniques to create symmetrical butterflies. Stick on bodies when the paint is dry.

Sunny the Sunflower Craft

This is a fun and simple cut and pastes sunflower craft that's perfect for young children.

Materials: paper, something to colour with, scissors, glue, seeds (sunflower, popcorn or dried peas beans or lentils all work well), yellow tissue paper or something to colour with, green tissue paper or something to colour with.

Instructions:

1. Draw a template.

2. Cut out the template pieces.

3. Glue the flower and leaves onto the stem.

4. You can glue both onto a piece of white paper if that makes it easier to hang up later.

5. Glue seeds into the centre of the sunflower.

6. Glue balled up pieces of yellow tissue paper onto the petals.

7. Glue balled up pieces of green tissue paper onto the leaves.

*If you don't have yellow tissue paper, you can make the petals some other colour (just don't call it a sunflower). If you don't have green tissue paper, you can just colour in the leaves and stem.

Nursery Home Learning - Week Beginning 18.05.20