Nursery Learning Activities

Hi Seedlings,

We hope you're ok and staying safe. Mrs Ridgway and I are missing you lots.

We have been thinking about some ideas and activities that you can do at home if you and your grown-ups want to try some  or all of them.

Please remember that these activities are suggestions only. Do not feel under pressure to complete all of these – you could pick and choose, repeat your favourites and definitely introduce your own!

Whatever you get up to, please send us your photos, videos and messages via email. caroline.smith@willowwood.cheshire.sch.uk.

Please keep yourselves happy and safe!

 

 

 

Activities for reading and stories

Ideas to practise phonics, reading and writing skills

 

Developing maths skills   

 

Activities for other areas of learning

 

Monday

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/storytime-app

Here are some stories to listen to.

Ask your adult to give you some simple instructions, such as jump 5 times then clap 3 times. See if you can follow the instructions. Then maybe try giving your adult some instructions. Watch and listen to check they are doing the right number of actions

Can you sing some of your counting songs?

10 green bottles

1 little elephant

5 little ducks

5 currant buns

Remember to use your fingers for counting and remember to take one down or put one up each time you sing a new verse.

Do you know what happens to your body when you exercise? Do 10 star jumps in a row and then see what happens to your body. If you did 10 more and 10 more and 10 more what would happen to your body then?

Tuesday

Ask your adult to tell you a story, can you listen to it without looking at any pictures.

Can you make a story around your toys? Given them names and work out what they are going to do in your story. Work out what happens at the beginning of the story, the middle of the story and the end of the story. Once you have decided, then act out your story with your toys.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjkphbk/articles/zd4b382

Have a go at this online line maths activity

Think about opposites. Can you think of the opposite to;

Day

Big

Long

Hot

Happy

Rough

Tall

Wednesday

When you have a bath tonight, have a look on the bubble bath/shampoo or shower gel. What letters do you recognise?

Can you write your name without the help of your name card now? Write it on the back of your name card (on the white side) Check the other side to see if you got it right.

Can you play a board game. Count and recognise the number on the squares and count the spots on the dice.

Can you explore and learn with Maddie?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/do-you-know

Thursday

Have a look at a non fiction book with your grown up. What is the contents page for? Can you think of some information that you want to find out from this book?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0872x41/alphablocks-magic-words-1-meet-alphablock-a

Here are the alphablocks

Ask if you can take a plastic cup or jug into the bath with you. Can you make the cup/jug full? Empty? Half full?

Can you make up your own song? Ask your grown up too video it, we would love to see it.

Friday

Don’t forget to share stories everyday. Stories take us to new worlds and new places, they help us use our imagination.

Write a letter to your teacher in September telling them what you are looking forward to doing when you go into/stay in their class.

Can you find mini beasts in your garden? Count how many wings they have, how many legs they have, how many antennae they have. Draw a picture of them and then go and find another mini beast, do the same thing for the new mini beast and then compare them. Which one has more legs/wings/eyes/antennae?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/eyfs-playtime-weather/z4qsxyc

Have a go at this on line singing and movement activity

 

 

Week 4

 

Activities for reading and stories

Ideas to practise phonics, reading and writing skills

 

Developing maths skills   

 

Activities for other areas of learning

 

Monday

Can you think of some characters for your own story? What are their names? What do they do? How do they act in the story. Tell this story to your grown up.

Can you write your name by yourself now? Are you using just three fingers to hold your pencil?                                                  Pencil Grip Poster by Miss 1st | Teachers Pay Teachers 

Try this more than less than estimating activity

https://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/busyday/bugs/

What has changed about the weather recently? Do you know what season we are in? What are the names of all four seasons? What is the same about the seasons and what is different?

Tuesday

Can you ask your family what their favourite stories are, ask them about the characters, and what happens at the beginning, middle and end of the story.

Can you write the 6 letters that we have been looking at in Nursery? s,a,t,p,i,n. Remember to start writing the letter sounds at the top when you write them. Can you write them in water, sand, with pencils, with chalk?

Have a look at the clock, what numbers can you see on the clock face? If the big hand is pointing up to the 12 it is an ‘o’clock’ time. The little hand tells us the number o’clock.

Can you draw a picture of the four seasons to show their similarities and differences.

Wednesday

Can you make yourself a den or a cosy space to look at and read your books? See who else wants to read stories with you in there.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01k5zyr

try this listening activity what music can you hear?

Have a look in the cupboards at the tins and packets, what shapes can you see, ask your grown up the names of the 3D shapes.  Cube, cuboid, cylinder, sphere and pyramid.

Can you draw a picture of yourself and label the different parts of the body? Head, neck, shoulders, arms, elbows, hands, fingers, tummy, back, legs, knees, ankles, feet and toes.

Thursday

Can you read a rhyming story, which words rhyme? Can you see the letters in the words that make the rhyme? For example, pen and hen both have an ‘en’ sound in them

Can you sing some of the Jolly Phonics songs?

Can you get two groups of objects, if you put the two groups together, how many do you have now?

Can you have a dance off with your adult? Can you dance to the music and think about whether it is fast music or slow music (pace) or loud music or quiet music (timbre)

Friday

Retell your favourite story to your grown up, but surprise them by changing how it ends.

Try this listening activity, can you guess which animals are hiding in the box?

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/1/welcome-to-the-zoo

Can you look at some coins? Do you know how much each one is worth, can you put them in order from the  smallest to largest amount ?

Can you make a picture out of different textures? For example could you use, wool, paper, card, ribbon or plastic. What do they feel like? Which one do you like best?

Week 3

 

Activities for reading and stories

Ideas to practise phonics, reading and writing skills

 

Developing maths skills   

 

Activities for other areas of learning

 

Monday

Read your favourite story to someone in your family Why is what do you like about it? it your favourite story?

Can you go on a sensory walk? What road signs can you see? What do they say? What sounds can you hear?

Can you follow a recipe? Weigh out the ingredients carefully using scales, check the numbers match the recipe.

Sort out the recycling with your adult, can you put all the correct objects on the correct boxes?

Tuesday

Face time a family member and ask them to read a story to you.

Use your home learning cards to practice the letters sounds. SATPIN, do you know the names of these letters as well as the sounds?

Play a dice game, for example, snakes and ladders, count the spaces carefully as you move your counter. Can you recognise how many spots there are on the dice without counting them?

Use house hold utensils to make instruments to make music to tap along to music.

Wednesday

Watch Mrs Smith, Mrs Ridgway or one of the other teachers read a story on Facebook? Which story did you like and why?

 

Go on a treasure hunt around the house, can you find objects that begin with the initial sound of your name?

 

See what number you recognise on the number blocks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsyRlYayBNQ

Can you make some ice cubes? What do you need to make them? What happens to the water? You could add food colouring to see what happens. If you leave the ice cubes outside, what happens to them?

Thursday

Look at a newspaper or magazine, what do you think the story is about? Can you recognise any of the words?

Can you write or draw instructions on how to wash your hands and make it into a poster?

Make a pattern with objects or pictures, for example dolly, car, dolly, car, dolly, car, or cup, plate, cup, plate, cup, plate. Can you think of your own?

Make some bubble mixture (washing up liquid, water and a pinch of sugar) make some bubbles. How many can you blow? Are they big or small?

Friday

Can you go on a word hunt? What words can you see around the house? Where are they? ( are the y on photo fames? Tv? boxes) What do you think they say?

Can you watch the jolly phonics songs? Try to join in with the ones that you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lVPmGyUAC0

Use lego blocks, wooden blocks, cushions, tins etc to build tall and short towers.

Can you do a sticky kids dance session?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj-ouBZXd00&list=RDEMaYy4vwrp6xw7D_RRHXr6ZQ&start_radio=1

 

you get up to, please send us your photos, videos and messages via email. caroline.smith@willowwood.cheshire.sch.uk.

 

 

 

 

Week 2

 

Activities for reading and stories

Ideas to practise phonics, reading and writing skills

 

Developing maths skills   

 

Activities for other areas of learning

 

Monday

Try sharing a story with an adult, talk about the characters and the story line, what happens in the beginning? What happens in the middle? And what happens at the end?

Can you remember when talked about alliteration in nursery. What did it mean? Can you think of an alliterative sentence? Draw a picture of your sentence.

Can you make some number cards? Write numbers 0 to 5 or ten on pieces of paper and then put them in order. Or you could make a game where you ask your adult to say a number and then you jump on it, time to see how quickly you can do it.

Think of all the people in your house, can you think of something they are all good at? Now think about all the things you are good at. Are they all the same things or are you good at different things?

Tuesday

Can you find some words that rhyme with cat, dog, pin, sun, pop and hip?

Can you recognise the first 6 letter sounds that we have looked at in nursery? Can you think of an object and draw a picture for each one?

Can you make a picture using 2D shapes? What is you r picture of and what shapes have you used?

Can you make a obstacle course outside using chalk? Can you balance along it? Hop along it? Jump along it? Which way of travelling was easier and why?

Wednesday

Do you know where you can find out information? Can you find out information about your favourite animal, then draw a picture or write a simple sentence about it.

Have a go at some of these on line counting activities.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/3-5-years/counting

Can you get dressed yourself? Are your shoes on the right feet? Can you have a go at fastening the zips or buttons yourself?

Thursday

Do you have a favourite nursery rhyme? Can you sing it to your adult?

Can you retell a past event in the correct order? What happened first, what happened in the middle what happened last?

Ask your adult to find or draw some pictures of times of the day, can you put them in the correct order from morning until night time?

Have you got a pet or a plant? How do ou look after your pet? What does it need to keep it healthy?

Friday

Retell your favourite story to your adult, ask them some questions about the story.

Which part did they like best and why?

Sit quietly in your house, close your eyes and listen, what 5 sounds can you hear, can you draw a picture of them?

Ask your adult to write some numbers down between 0 and 10. Can you go and find the right number of objects to match the numeral.

Can make a story up using your toys? What are the toys going to do? Where are they going to go? What are they going to see?

 

 

 

 

 

Week 1

Activities for reading and stories

Ideas to practise phonics, reading and writing skills

 

Developing maths skills   

 

Activities for other areas of learning

 

Monday

Can you share a story with your adult? Look at the pictures before you read the words and talk about what you think might be going on, on that page.

Can you write your name confidently on your name card without any help? Make sure you start each letter in the right place.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/numberblocks-make-and-play

 

Have a go at some of these number blocks games

Can you find some different objects in the garden or house? Describe how they feel, are they rough or smooth? Hard or soft? Bumpy, spikey or fluffy?

Tuesday

Ask an adult to sing some nursery rhymes with you, but stop before the end, can you fill in the missing words?

Can you write some letters on the path outside with water?

Can you sing some of the counting songs from the stay at home pack?

Have a think about something you would like to build, what do you want it to look like? What could it be made from? Then have a go at making it, has it turned out like you imagined it?

Wednesday

Can you listen to a familiar story but change the ending, for example,  goldilocks doesn’t run away, she stays and makes friends with the bears.

Have a go at this listening activity.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/eyfs-listening-skills-sound-games-2/zd8dgwx

Can you tell your adult about what happens throughout the day? What do you do first thing? When what next?

Can you play catch with an adult or and sibling? Remember to concentrate and keep you eye on the ball while you are throwing an catching.

Thursday

Can you look at a non fiction book, see what information you can find out

Can you help to write a shopping list for your adult? What letter sounds can you hear at the start of each word? Can you write it down?

What shapes can you find in your house? Can you find any 3D shapes? Any Cubes, cylinders, spheres or cuboids?

Can you find any mini beasts in the garden? Do they all look the same? If they look different how do they look different? Do they have any similarities?

Friday

Can you follow the words by using your finger to point at them while your adult is reading? Where do the words start and which way do we read across the page?

See how many words you can find around the house that you can recognise? Can you read all the letters in the word, or were there any other clues to help you work out what the word said?

Do you recognise any coins? Can you see any numbers on them? Can you order them from the smallest number to the largest one?

Can you remember what we have to do when we wash our hands? What song do we sing, or how long do we have to count for?

 

 

 

 

 

Week 5

Activities for reading and stories

Ideas to practise phonics, reading and writing skills

 

Developing maths skills   

 

Activities for other areas of learning

 

Monday

Can you read a story somewhere exciting and send us a photograph.

Can you watch this episode of alphablocks. What letters do you know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFIQE2rYpAQ

Can you set someone in your family a challenge…… can you ask them to do 5 jumps or 4 claps etc and count the number of activities they do.

Can you look at your family members, can you talk about what is the same and different about you all?

Tuesday

Have a listen to this story, can you hear the rhyming words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfiPrA8E3qE

Can you write some labels for objects in your house? Think about what letter sound you can hear at the start of the word when you say it.

Can you help your adult to sort the washing, put all the socks together, all the jumpers together, all the t shirts together.

Can you use some small world toys to make a train track or a farm or build a road using imagination.

Wednesday

When you go on your daily walk/exercise, can you see any signs? What do you think they say?

Can you write some letter sounds in sad/salt/flour/soil. Don’t forget to think about where you start writing them from.

Can you order 2 or 3 items by length and order them tallest to shortest.

Do you know how to use a camera or tablet or phone or remote control, do you know what they are used for?

Thursday

Look at a non fiction book, can you see how they are different from story books?

Can you have a go at writing some simple cvc words (consonant vowel consonant ) such as pin, dog, cat, which other ones can you write?

Can you practice writing your numbers, and you write them in order starting from 0.

Can you do a cosmic yoga session?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAT5NiWHFIU

Friday

Can you sing some nursery rhymes? For example humpty dumpty or baa baa black sheep, what other ones do you know?

Draw picture and tell your adult all about it, get then to write down what you say about the picture. We would love to see them.

Can you talk about different times of the day and what do you do at these times.

Can you make up a song about your family or friends?

 

 

 

 

Week 4

Activities for reading and stories

Ideas to practise phonics, reading and writing skills

 

Developing maths skills   

 

Activities for other areas of learning

 

Monday

Can you read a story you don’t know and suggest how the story might end.

Can you write down something that is red, something that is yellow, something green, something, blue and something purple?

Can you sing 10 green bottles putting one finger down each time a bottle falls.

Can you dance to your favourite song? Does it make you feel happy or sad? Are you dancing quickly or slowly?

Tuesday

Can you describe the different characters, and settings in a story.

Can you practice writing your name? Can you write it without your name card?

With chalk outside can you draw a hopscotch outside on the path, can you then paly hopscotch, saying each number name as you land on it.

Ask your adult to clap a simple rhythm, can you copy it?

Wednesday

Can you share a story with your adult, you could even do it over facetime.

Can you use a paint brush to write some letter sounds that you know on the path.

Ask your adult to put some items in a box, without counting estimate how many are in the box. Count them to check how close you are.

Can you make an instrument? Does it make a loud noise or a quiet one? Can you make it louder or quieter, tell your adult how you are changing the sound.

Thursday

Can you hear and say the initial sounds in words?

Can have a go at some dough disco?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBsNhwxzgc

Put some different shaped objects in a bag, can you describe the objects to someone else and they have to guess what they are. Are they round? Or flat? How many sides or edges or corners does it have?

Do you know where you can find out information about things? Think of a question and then ask your adult to help you find out the answer. What might you need to use?

Friday

Can you ask your adult to say a word, can you think of a word that rhymes/sounds the same as it?

Have a think about the letter sounds we have looked at in nursery (satpin). Can you think of different objects  that start with each letter?

Use your toys and put them in different places. Can you describe to your adult where they are using, next to, beside, in front of, behind, under, on top of etc.

Can you draw a picture of someone who helps us. Write down how they help us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 3

Activities for reading and stories

Ideas to practise phonics, reading and writing skills

 

Developing maths skills   

 

Activities for other areas of learning

 

Monday

Can you make puppets or use your toys to retell your favourite story.

Can you draw a picture of 5 of your favourite things? Can you have a go at writing their names, writing each sound that you hear.

Can you sing some of the number songs from your ‘at home’ pack

Can you help to carry out a small task? Could you help to make a sandwich for lunch?

Tuesday

Can you retell your favourite story to your grown up.

Can you practice holding your pencil correctly? Remember to just use 2 fingers and your thumb.

Ask your grown up to get you two groups of objects. Which group has more? Which group has less? Are they the same?

Can you think about your feelings? Are you happy? Sad? Cross? Scared? Can you explain to your grown up what is making you feel like this?

Wednesday

Can you make a reading den, somewhere cosy for you to look at books and share stories.

Can you colour in a picture, try to stay within the lines. We would love to see the pictures.

Can you have a go at writing some number down? Remember where they start when you write them

Can you tell your adult some of the things you are really good at.

Thursday

Can you talk to your grown up about the characters in the story and what they do? Can you also talk bout the where the story is set and what happens in the story.

Can you draw a picture of yourself and label all the parts of your body?

Once you have written your numbers can you get the right number of objects to match each number

Can you have a look out of the window? What can you see outside? Are they living? Are they man made? Are they natural? What words could you use to describe them? Hard? Soft? Rough? Smooth?

Friday

Can you look at words around your house, do you recognise any letters, do you think you can work out what the word might say?

Can you play a listening game? Get your adult to try this link. See what sounds you can hear.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/eyfs-listening-skills-weather/zvrcf4j

Can you separate 3 or 4 objects in different ways? (1 and 2, 0 and 3, 2 and 1 ) does it still always make the same number?

Have a look at yourself and all the people who are in your house. Do you all look the same? What is the same and what are the things that are different about you all?

 

 

 

 

Week 2

Activities for reading and stories

Ideas to practise phonics, reading and writing skills

 

Developing maths skills   

 

Activities for other areas of learning

 

Monday

Sing a favourite nursery rhyme to your teddies.

Write a letter to a friend or a teacher, maybe on your daily exercise you could push it through the door of their house or school, you never know you might get a reply!

Make a pretend shop. Can you make and write price tags and labels for them, look at coins and practice writing the numbers.

Talk about pounds and pence and their symbols ‘£’ ‘p’

Look at the photographs on the school website/facebook/twitter. Can you tell your grown up who is in the pictures, what else you can see and what you like or don’t like about the pictures.

Tuesday

Can you learn a new nursery rhyme? You might need a grown up to help you find some on the internet.

With a bucket/bowl of water and a paintbrush or finger you could mark make outside on the path. (while we have this lovely weather!)

Find a washing up bowl or bucket or even in the bath. Predict which objects will float and which will sink. Then test it out to see if you’re right.

Can you ask your grown up to put some music on. Can you dance along to the music? Is it fast or slow? Does your dancing change to the different types of music?

Wednesday

Ask a grown up or an older brother or sister to read you a story, can you join in with any parts of the story that are said over and over again. For example in the ginger bread man story it say ‘run run as fast as you can’

Write your name by copying your name card on to another piece of paper. Decorate it, make it look exciting with your favourite colours. It could now be a picture for the wall of even a place mat.

Try a jigsaw, try to work out where are the pieces go without any help from your grown ups.

Can you practice getting dressed all by yourself? Can you put your shoes on the right feet and fasten the zip of your coat all by yourself? Can you even have a go at some of the buttons… they can be trick!

Thursday

Listen to a story, are there any words in this story that rhyme (sound the same).

 

Draw a picture of the people who live in your house. Can you have a go at writing their names next to their pictures.

Collect for objects, can you sort them in to groups? Explain to your adult why you have put them in to those groups.

If your allowed to can you use a camera or tablet or phone to take a photograph of something? Tell a grown up about it and explain how you took the photograph.

Friday

Have a look in some of the cupboards. Have a look at the labels can you work out what they say by looking at the initial letter and then using the picture to help.

 

See if you copy and any rhyming words from the books you have read. Can you see the patterns in the letters, can you copy them down. Can you make any more rhyming words using that pattern, they could be real words or alien (made up) words.

Make a line of toys can you count them all by saying one name for each toy as you point to it/touch it. Remember the number you say last is you stopping number. This number tells you how many there are in the group.

Can you and your family play ‘Kyms Game’ this is a memory game where some objects are on a tray, you close your eyes, your grown up hides an object and then you have to guess what is missing. Start with 4 or 5 objects and then work up to having lots more.

 

 

 

 

 

Week 1

Activities for reading and stories

Ideas to practise phonics, reading and writing skills

 

Developing maths skills   

 

Activities for other areas of learning

 

Monday

Share a favourite story with a grown up or older brother or sister.

Talk about the picture, what you can see and what you can tell about the story from them.

Practice writing your name using the white board pen and name card from your stay at home pack.

Can you count how many letters there are in your name, once you’ve done that try Mummy, Daddy, your sister, brother or dog’s name.

Do you have some building blocks? Can you build a model with them? What have you made? If you haven’t got blocks maybe you could use boxes or tins.

Tuesday

Share a book with your teddy bear, look at the pictures and tell them about the story.

 

 

See if you can spot the first sound in your name in other places. For example, in books, newspapers, toy boxes or food packets.

Can you find something taller than you and shorter than you?

Can your grown up make you an obstacle course, where you can balance, jump, hop and crawl.

Wednesday

Have you got skype, whats app video or facetime? Ask someone who doesn’t live in your house to share a story with you. Or Mrs Smith read one on facebook and Mrs Ridgway’s in coming soon!

See if you can recognise the sounds that we have been looking at in school (satpin). Tell your grown up the names and sounds of these letters if you can remember them.

Can you help your adult with the washing? Can you sort all the socks to make matching pairs?

Can you play a cebeebies game on your grown ups tablet, phone or computer for 5 minutes.

Thursday

Make up your own story. Ask a grown up to put it on learning book, facebook or email it to the school. Mrs Ridgway and Mrs Smith would love to hear it!

 

Can you draw a picture or write a simple sentence about what you liked doing best when you were in nursery, email these to Mrs Smith.

Can you go on a hunt? Can you find…

2 plates

3cups

4 spoons?

How many have you got all together?

(Your grown ups could then think of some more things to find.)

Can you find any mini beasts in your garden? Can you draw a picture of it and tell your grown up all about it and where you found it.

Friday

Can you make a puppet form your favourite story and send a picture of it to leaning book?

 

Does your grown up need to do some shopping? Can you write a shopping list to help them.

Can your grown up make some simple number cards? Can you recognise any number and order them, to 5 , 10, 15 or 20.

Can you close your eyes for 30 seconds? What sounds can you hear?

 

Please remember that these activities are suggestions only. Do not feel under pressure to complete all of these – you could pick and choose, repeat your favourites and definitely introduce your own!

Whatever you get up to, please send us your photos, videos and messages via email. caroline.smith@willowwood.cheshire.sch.uk.

Please keep yourselves happy and safe!

We hope we will see you all soon! smiley

 

Here are some ideas for some activities for the children to do while we are off school

 

Have a go at writing your name using the name cards and pens.

 

Sing some familiar songs and nursery rhymes

Share some stories with your children.

Practice counting objects to 10 or 20.

Go on a shape hunt around the house to see what shape they can see.

See if you can find anything in your house that begin with the sounds

‘s’ ‘a’ ‘t’ ‘p’ ‘i’ or ‘n’

Sing some counting songs.

Can you draw a picture of your family.

Can you write our letter sounds in the book, remember to start at the top of each letter.

‘s’ ‘a’ ‘t’ ‘p’ ‘i’ ‘n’

Can you go on a number hunt in the house, what numbers can you see?

Can you see any birds in your garden, count how many you see and draw them in your book.

Don’t forget to take photograph of all of these activities and up load it on to learning book.

 

Here are some ideas for some activities for the children to do while we are off school

 

Share some stories with your children. Get your children to try and retell some parts of stories that they might know. For example ‘run, run as fast as you can you can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread man!’

See if the children can find objects in the house or garden that are ‘tall’ or ‘short’. Can they order them using the language long, longer, longest, short, shorter, shortest.

Practice counting objects to 5, 10 or 20 pointing to each object and saying one number name for each.

If you have jigsaw puzzles at home, do puzzles with the children and talk to them about the ways and strategies they could use to complete the puzzle, getting the children to problem solve.

Help your child to practice fastening zips on their coat on their own or putting their shoes on themselves.

 

Talk about the weather with your child, and get them to draw a picture of the different types of weather each day.

Can you clap out a simple rhythm and get the children to copy you. These rhythms can get  harder as they get better at following them.

Can you make something with junk modelling, talk to the children about what they have made and how they did it.

See if the children can find objects in the house or garden that are ‘big’ or ‘small’. Then start introducing ‘middle sized’ can they order them from biggest to smallest or smallest to biggest.

If you have internet try looking at ‘singing hands’ on youtube,  and learn the Makaton signs for the songs.

Play a game with your child and encourage your children to take turns. For example snap, matching pairs, picking twos, snakes and ladders.

Don’t forget to take photograph of all of these activities and up load it on to learning book.

 

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