Little Winners Home Learning- 16th March to 26th March
Hello everyone!
In Little Winners this week we are all learning at home so below I have set some activities, videos and pictures of activities that you could do. Any questions or if you have any photos to add to our Nursery Gallery, please email them to Mrs Williams at ce.williams@win.jtmat.co.uk.
Our topic will be The Little Red Hen. Watch the video below, ask an adult to read the story to you or role play it with other members of your family.
Getting creative- Ask an adult to help you make a hand print for you to decorate and turn it into The Little Red Hen. You could use paint to create a hand print and once its dry then use crayons to add two eyes and a beak. Send us a photo and we can make a collection to add to the Nursery blog!
Make a puppet- Make your own Little Red Hen puppet to retell the story with an adult. You could make a sock puppet or a stick puppet.
The Little Hen Sensory Bin – Ask an adult to look through their cupboards for things like flour, porridge oats, rice, pasta and cereals which you can then place into a bowl or tray .Then look together through any toy boxes for farm animals that you have and then add them to the bowl or tray to retell and act out the story. Then let your child explore to their hearts’ content.
Porridge oats themed play dough -There are lots of great playdough recipes around cooked, uncooked, edible, scented. You name it, and there is a playdough recipe.
Porridge Oat playdough is one that you may not have made, seen or used before. It is so easy to make and only requires 3 ingredients and no cooking. You can’t get easier than that!
You will need:
· 2 parts uncooked oats
· 1 part water
· 1 part flour
Directions
1. Place the flour, oats and water in a large bowl.
2 Mix the ingredients until thoroughly combinedOnce made store your dough in a plastic bag. If it starts drying out add a tiny bit of water to it!
Please supervise your child while making and playing with this and make sure they do not eat it!
Follow a recipe- Why not have a go at making your own bread? Here is a recipe in four easy steps that you could follow. Your child can help with this super-simple bread recipe. Use whichever flour you like, granary, wholemeal or white
Preparation and cooking time
Prep:15 mins
Cook:35 mins
Ingredients
500g granary, strong wholewheat or white bread flour (I used granary)
7g sachet fast-action dried yeast
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp clear honey
Method
STEP 1
Tip the flour, yeast and salt into a large bowl and mix together with your hands. Stir 300ml hand-hot water with the oil and honey, then stir into the dry ingredients to make a soft dough.
STEP 2
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 5 mins, until the dough no longer feels sticky, sprinkling with a little more flour if you need it.
STEP 3
Oil a 900g loaf tin and put the dough in the tin, pressing it in evenly. Put in a large plastic food bag and leave to rise for 1 hr, until the dough has risen to fill the tin and it no longer springs back when you press it with your finger.
STEP 4
Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Make several slashes across the top of the loaf with a sharp knife, then bake for 30-35 mins until the loaf is risen and golden. Tip it out onto a cooling rack and tap the base of the bread to check it is cooked. It should sound hollow. Leave to cool, enjoy!!
Maths
Counting in everyday situations will develop your child’s understanding of number in real life. Continue to count with your child as they play, dress, eat and move. Please find below some examples of counting activities:
Farm animals- If they are playing with their farm animals, count how many legs each animal has, how many eyes they have etc. Look at the colours and patterns on each animal are they all the same, are they all the same size?
Cooking- If you are making bread, encourage your child to join in with you to count the ingredients, and how many times they are mixing the spoon round the bowl.
Counting is learnt best when it is used throughout the day during everyday activities. So, count cushions on the sofa, how many fish fingers they have on their plate at tea time and how many claps they can count all help develop the use of using numbers in everyday play. Encouraging children to count in different situations will also support them to count when they are playing.
This week we will be continuing to learn to count to 5 and trying to use our fingers to represent numbers.
The following video will also support this learning:
Your child will enjoy joining in with this rhyme and learning to count objects 1-5 , if your feeling brave why not let your child explore a real egg with you!!
BBC EYFS Number Songs- Practise recognising numbers and counting
Chat, Play, Read
We hope that you have found the activities and information useful. If you are finding these activities difficult to fit in with your schedule, please just remember three words. Chat, Play, Read. If you manage to get these into your day, this is the best way that you can support your child at home, to help them grow physically and emotionally.
Lead by example- You are your child’s most important educator, and modelling behaviours is one of the most powerful things you can do. Playing with your child shows them it’s important to have fun, creates quality time between you, and embeds exercise into your daily routine.
Turn chores into games- Find mini-games or challenges in everyday tasks – who can find the most toys to put back into the toy box? Or make up a song about tidying up toys. Who can pick up books and put them back on the bookshelf?
Build a den- Even a cardboard box can become a fortress with a bit of imagination. Or transform your table by covering it with blankets and placing cushions underneath.
Water play at bath time- Enjoy some experiments at bath time – what sinks and what floats in the water at bath time? Add washed out yoghurt pots, how much water can fit in different sized containers?
Blow some soapy bubbles- Mix some washing-up liquid with water and see what you can use to make the bubbles as big as possible! If you have the opportunity to go into the garden see how far your bubble travels in the air.
You can find more simple tips and activities on the Hungry Little Minds website.
Benefits of story time
What better way to end your day than by ending it with a bedtime story? A night-time book shared with your child when they’re snuggly and ready for bed is the perfect time for cuddles, to bond and to make cosy memories that will last a lifetime.
Sharing a bedtime story will help make reading a part of your child’s bedtime routine – as important as brushing their teeth – it means you’re less likely to forget. If you’d like to suggest and recommend your child’s favourite bed time story book we’d love you to send in a picture so it can be added onto the nursery gallery.
Story Time
As always, read, read, read! The story of The Little Red hen is a lovely story to share together and then act out in various ways using the props you may have made from the suggested activities above.
Other reading skills to develop are as follows:
Point out the pictures and the print. Develop the idea that what is written means something.
As you read to your child, follow your finger under the words. Support your child in understanding that English is read from left to right and from top to bottom.
Point out any letters that are familiar to your child. This could be the letter that starts with their name. What sound can that letter make? Can you find more of these letters on the page?
We hope that you have a good week. It would be lovely to see what the children are doing so that we can share their learning. Send photos to the email link above.
Stay safe and have fun!
Little Winners Team
Winshill Village Nursery