Nursery Home Learning - Week Beginning 06.07.20 & 13.07.20

Hello Little Winners and Little Stars. Welcome to another week of home learning. I hope you are all enjoying a little more freedom and are enjoying seeing missed family and friend.

A big thank you to Isabelle. Isabelle made some lovely pink and yellow starfish biscuits, they look delicious. We also really like the papier-mâché Gekko, Catboy and Owlette you made from PJ Masks. You are very creative!

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 -Music

Suggested tasks for Mathematics:

  • Watch a Numberblocks clip each day. Use these tips to help with ideas on what to do with your child whilst watching an episode.

  • Practise counting to 10, and further if you can. Can you count how many windows you have in your house?

  • Practise ordering numbers up to 10. For a paper version, write the numbers 1-10 on separate pieces of paper and cut them out. Choose 3 for your child to put into the correct order.

  • Practise counting as you play catch. How many times can you throw and catch the ball to each other?

Suggested tasks for Reading:

  • Share a variety of books at home – favourites can be read over and over again; this will help memory and language development.

  • Read and sing a variety of Nursery Rhymes with your child. Which one is their favourite? Do any of the rhymes have the same rhythm?

  • Have a look at some of the different ways music is played. Are there CDs, vinyl records or tapes you can show your child? Look at the writing on each and tell your child that this tells people information about the music.

  • Listen to the Story Mr. Big. Discuss with your child how Mr Big felt when no one wanted to be around him.

Suggested tasks for Writing:

  • Practise writing your first name and surname if you can. Can you use Rainbow Letters to do it? (Go over each letter with different coloured crayons)

  • Don’t forget the correct letter formation on BBC Bitesize to see how to form your letters.

  • Ask your child to sing their favourite nursery rhyme. As they sing each line of the song, can they draw a picture to help them remember it?

  • Listen to a piece of classical music. Ask them how it makes them feel. Can they draw a picture to show you how it makes them feel?

Suggested tasks for Phonics:

  • There is an A-Z of Nursery Rhymes for you listen to and join in with. Sing them together and see if you can identify the rhyming words

  • Play Odd Sound Out. For a practical version of this around your house, find objects of the same initial sound, e.g. ‘book’ and ‘bead’ and one without e.g. ‘fork’. Can your child tell you the off one out?

  • Ask your child to find a stick from the garden and ask them to explore making music around the house by hitting, scraping and tapping. Can they make loud and quiet sounds?

  • Play Animal Bingo. Match the sound of the animal to the correct picture.

Suggested wider curriculum projects:

The project this week aims to provide opportunities to learn more about music. Learning may focus on listening to and performing music and exploring a range of music genres.

  • Play ‘What’s That Sound?’ –

  • Game 1- Hum a song to your child that they are likely to know. Can they guess which song it is from the tune alone? Take it in turns to hum out a tune.

  • Game 2- Go into a room of the house while your child listens outside of the door. Make a sound or play a rhythm out on an item in the room e.g. tapping on the table. Open the door and ask your child to find what you used to make the sound.

  • Drummers Drumming – Using pots, pans and baking trays from the kitchen, layout your own ‘drum kit’. Allow your child to explore by banging and tapping the pans to see the different sounds they make.

  • Make your own Music - Your child could create a guitar using a plastic tub with elastic bands wrapped around it.

  • Can your child draw instructions on how to make a guitar for somebody else to follow?

NurseryRebecca Moxon