Pre-School Blog

We have been enjoying the sunshine this week.

On Monday we went on the 'big' playground and did PE, we travelled along the road in lots of different ways. We have also begun playing with our outdoor continuous provision, making our boat into a musical pirate ship and having a picnic.

 

                              

 

      

 

                       

Monday 21st September

Today we have sent a book home with each child to share with their family.

Please bring the book bag on a Monday for your child to choose a new book. Books will only be swapped on a Monday, due to isolating the books for 72 hours before they can leave Pre-School again. Please feel free to write any other books you may have shared at home in the 'Share a Book' Diary too.

Don't worry if your child chooses the same book again, we do encourage them to try a new book, but there are some very popular stories which the children are familiar with and like to take home to tell their family several times.

Many thanks in advance for your co-operation.

Our 1st Week Together

All the children have enjoyed playing together inside and outside, making lots of new friends. They enjoyed eating their dinner in Pre-School too.

 

      

 

      

Our 1st days at Pre-School

We have all enjoyed playing and doing the different activities in Pre-School, especially going into the Home Corner and pretending we are pirates on the ship. It has been lovely to see the children begin to form friendships.

 

                

 

                

We can't wait till next week when we will all be together.

 

A BIG welcome to the Class 2021

 

Thank you to everyone for visiting Pre-School this week. Mrs Whalley and Miss Worsfold have enjoyed meeting you.

We're looking forward to seeing you all again on Monday in Pre-School.

 

Well done everybody for all your hard work this year in both Pre-School and through remote learning. Mrs Whalley and Miss Worsfold wish you lots of luck as you start your new adventure in Reception.

(we're looking forward to welcoming back our Rising 3's in September)

Have a fantastic summer holiday.

 

 

We have had a lovely time in Pre-School today, we participated in a mini Sports Day, we all won a glittery gold medal. We also enjoyed eating a Teddy Bears Picnic.

 

               

 

               

 

               

 

               

 

We hope the children who are not attending Pre-School at the moment will be able to pop and collect their ‘Year in Pre-School’ Book and wellingtons on Monday afternoon, any time between 1.00 and 2.30, please ring on our doorbell and we will be able to pass them to you.

 It will be lovely to see you again and to say ‘good-bye’

(for children attending Pre-School we will give these out at the end of their session on Monday)

 

 

 

Week Beginning 13^th July:

Our activities this week are related to races and a Teddy Bears Picnic

 

Phonics

Mon 13^th July – Please keep practising your letter sounds, it is important to keep practising them, this can be done in a variety of ways

 

• Letter Detective, find the letters when you’re out and about or in books, say the sound and do the action
• Hide and Seek Letters, when you find the letter say the sound and action
• Play I-Spy
• Watch Alphabloks

 

Literacy      

Tues 14^th  – There are lots of different stories about Sport’s Day, listen to the story about Peppa Pig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K26eJb7Rz80

 

Think about the sounds you can hear at the beginning of the words below, also can you hear any other sounds in the word. Have a go at writing them down, you could use a different colour pen for each word. (again it doesn’t matter if the words are spelt correctly)

• Ready
• Steady
• Go
• Run
• Stop
• Skip
• Win
• Jump

 

 

Wed 15^th – Make a Certificate for yourself for winning a race, remember to put your name on it, you could draw some pictures on it too

  

  

 

 

Thurs 16^th – Think of all the food you like to eat on a picnic outside and write a Picnic Menu.

Remember to include what you like to eat and what you like to drink

 

 

Fri 17^th – Watch how to make a sandwich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KxoWtb2VE

 

Can you give instructions so somebody else can make a sandwich too

You may even want to sing the Sandwich song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK4O8hi30UA

 

Mathematics

 

Mon 13^th – Write each number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 on a different circle.

Use these circles as targets, can you throw a ball or bean bag to hit each number. Say the number as each target is hit.

 

Tues 14^th – Put 3 teddies in a line, 1 behind each other.

Who is 1^st in the line, 2^nd, 3^rd

Have a race with 2 other people in your family, who came 1^st? 2^nd? 3^rd?

Can you find other things to put in a line, 1 behind each other, use the language 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd.

 

Wed 15^th – Have fun helping Duggee race against the squirrels

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/hey-duggee-the-paddling-badge-game

 

Thurs 16^th – Make and play hopscotch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUi0V6_ROWA

 

Fri 17^th – When you make your sandwich can you cut it into a triangle, square and oblong shapes.

You could also do this activity with play-dough

 

Topic

Mon 13^th - Do some races with people in your family.

You could do:

• A running race
• Egg and spoon race
• Balance a bean-bag on your head race
• Jumping race

Maybe make an obstacle course again similar to the on the 15^th May

 

Tues 14th – Make some medals which your teddies or you can wear.

Draw and cut out a circle from card and decorate this could be with a picture or foil to make it sparkly. Using string or ribbon make a hole in the circle and tie the string/ ribbon through.

Try to write 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd on the back of the medals

 

 

 

Wed 15^th – Make a collage of your favourite teddy using any old material, wool, paper etc.

 

Thurs 16^th – YouTube – Teddy Bears Picnic song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDndFOtBy-E

Sing-a-long with the song

 

Fri 17^th  - Collect all your favourite teddy bears and go on a picnic don’t forget  a blanket, food and plates

 

Week Beginning 6^th July:

 

Our activities this week will relate to the story ‘Peace at Last’

 

 

Phonics

Mon 6^th July – Well done everybody, we have now learnt all our letter sounds. It is important to keep practising them, this can be done in a variety of ways

 

• Letter Detective, find the letters when you’re out and about or in books, say the sound and do the action
• Hide and Seek Letters, when you find the letter say the sound and action
• Play I-Spy
• Watch Alphabloks on CBeebies

 

Literacy      

Tues 7^th  – Listen to the story Peace at Last by Jill Murphy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U9y35kWBvM

 

Can you answer the questions?

• Who is in the story?
• Where does the story take place?
• Who can’t sleep?
• What noise does Daddy Bear hear in the kitchen?
• What noise does Daddy Bear hear in the living room?
• What noise does Daddy Bear hear in the garden?
• What noise does Daddy Bear hear in the car?
• What happens at the end of the story?

     

 

Wed 8^th – Go on a Noise Journey around your house. Sit quietly in different rooms/ places and describe the sounds you can hear. Maybe draw a picture of what you are hearing

 

Thurs 9^th – Write your own story about all the things you can hear in different rooms in your house. Each page could start with the title

In my kitchen I can hear …………. 

In my garden I can hear …………..

In my bedroom I can hear …………      etc

 

Try writing the word of what you can hear, think carefully about the initial sound of the word (remember it does not have to be the correct letters or spelling – the children just need the confidence to make marks to represent their ideas).

 

Fri 10th  –  Using a torch, if you have one, find a dark space and see if you can write letter shapes on the wall using the light from your torch.

Can you write your name too?

Alternatively use crayons on a piece of paper.

 

Mathematics

Mon 6^th – Look everywhere for shapes, watch all about shapes and try to find one of each shape in your bedroom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGHo63pPDBc

Are you able to draw a picture of a bear using the shapes circle, square, triangle and oblong (you may want to add some extra shapes too ie star)

 

 

 

Tues 7^th – Play a game with Numberbloks 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

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

 

Wed 8^th – Make a Counting Book for the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

On each page write the number at the top and then draw the correct amount of objects or cut out the correct number of pictures and stick them on.

 

 

 

Thurs 9^th – Be a teacher for a day, let your teddies be the children in your class and teach them all about:

• The shapes circle, square, triangle, oblong
• The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Which teddy is the tallest? Smallest?
• Making totals with 1ps

 

Fri 10^th – Using wooden bricks/ duplo or lego can you build a tower in a colour pattern, try using 2 colours 1^st.

 

 

Can you use 3 colours to make a pattern? or even 4?

 

Topic

Mon 6^th  - In a 1 minute…………..

• How many jumps can you do?
• How many times can you run round the garden?
• How many pencil rolls can you do
• How many times can you bend down and touch your toes?
• Can you balnce on 1 leg?

 

 

Tues 7th – Choose a type of construction toy or old boxes and make your own house. Make sure it has a roof, door and windows.

Who can fit inside your house?

 

Wed 8^th – If it is sunny go outside and investigate what shadows you can see. Ask an adult to draw around your shadow, does your shadow move when you do?

 

 

If you have a torch can you make your own shadow puppets?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfrbCdV8sI

 

Thurs 9^th – Make a quiet little Den for you and your teddy to go to sleep in. You could use blankets, cushions, lullaby music

 

 

Fri 10^th  – YouTube – Sleeping Bunnies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHcFQ9gaMF4

 

Join in the song and do the actions too. Can you do the song for other animals and think of the action they would do?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week Beginning 29^th June:

Our activities this week will relate to the story ‘Goldilocks and the 3 Bears’ and Money!

 

 

Literacy

Mon 29^{th -} Remind yourself of the story ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY

 

Using the Food Diary you have created over the last week, can you retell the story of the Hungry Caterpillar but calling it ‘The Hungry (your name)’

 

 

Phonics      

Tues 30^th  – 

This week’s letter is ‘l’

 

A song to help you learn the sound

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

     

 Can you say its sound and action?

 Try to find some objects beginning with the sound l.

 

Literacy

Wed 1^st – Listen to the story Goldilocks and the 3 Bears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oUP2PFeOi8

 

Can you answer the questions?

• Who are the characters in the story?
• Why did the Bears go for a walk?
• What did Goldilocks do in their house?
• What did the bears do when they came home?
• What happened at the end of the story?

 

Thurs 2^nd– Draw a story map, showing the order Goldilocks tried the different things in the Bear’s House

You could draw a picture of the 3 Bears at the top and a picture of Goldilocks

Then the 3 different size bowls of porridge, 3 different size chairs, 3 different size beds

Talk about what happened when Goldilocks tried the different bowls of porridge, chairs, beds

 

 

 

You could try writing the words Daddy Bear, Mummy Bear, Baby Bear, Goldilocks, bowl (dish), chair, bed (remember it does not have to be the correct letters or spelling – the children just need the confidence to make marks to represent their ideas).

 

Fri 3^rd –  Using your story map of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears can you retell the story in the correct order?

Try to remember what happened when she sat on the chairs and what happened at the end of the story.

Extension: You could make your own book of ‘Goldilocks and the 3 Bears’ using a mix of pictures and writing

 

Mathematics

 

Mon 29^th – See how many different coins you can find, are they all the same shape? Same colour? Can you see any numbers on them? Who is the lady on the coin?

Using the coins, make coin rubbings. Put the coin under a piece of paper and gently use the side of a crayon to colour over it.

Challenge: Make a picture with the coin rubbings

 

 

 

If you have lots of coins can you sort the coins in different ways?

Colour

Shape

Same value ie 1ps

 

Tues 30^th – Listen to the fun song about money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFzAU3u06Ps

 

See if you can find 10x 1p coins

We are going to use these coins to make different number amounts

Show me:

    1p                       2p                                         3p                                                     

                                 

 

Repeat but with amounts in any order

 

Wed 1^st  – My own shop You are going to make your own shop to use for the next few days for Maths. This could be any time of shop ie Food Shop, Toy Shop, Book Shop etc

Think of a good name for your shop and make a banner with the name on.

Make labels for each item in your shop so the customer knows how much it will cost. (please make the prices 10p or less)

If you have a pretend till (or use a pot), shopping basket/ trolley you could use those too, in your shop too.

Please only use 1p coins in your shop

 

Thurs 2^nd – Today you are going to be the shop-keeper, ask someone to come and but something in your shop. They need to look at the price tag and give you the correct amount of 1p coins. Count the coins as you put them into the till or pot to make sure you have the correct number

 

Fri 3^rd –Today you can be the customer and buy something in the shop. Remember to count out your 1p coins carefully.

 

Shop Challenge: How many 1p coins would you need if you bought 2 items. Hint- count out the correct amount of 1ps for the 1^st item and then count out the correct amount of 1ps for the next item

 

Topic

Mon 29^th  - Go on an adventure on your bike or scooter, talk about all the different things you see on your journey

 

Tues 30th – Make your own ice-lollies, follow the recipe on ‘Cbeebies Let’s Go Club’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/the-lets-go-club-fruit-ice-lollies

 

Don’t forget to say this week’s sound “l l l l l “ as you eat it!

 

Wed 1^st – Find 3 of your teddy bears which are different heights ie Daddy Bear, Mummy Bear and Baby Bear

Paint or draw/ colour a picture of them together in a line, look carefully at their colours and features, make sure they are correct size too

 

 

 

Thurs 2^nd – Set up your own Goldilocks and the 3 Bears House/ role-play

Find:

• 3 bears which are different sizes, for Daddy, Mummy and Baby Bear
• 3 different size bowls and spoons
• 3 different size chairs/ cushions
• 3 different size beds (you could use boxes/ blankets/ pillows instead)

 

Pretend you are Goldilocks or use another toy and retell the story using all your props

 

      

 

Fri 3^rd  – YouTube – Goldilocks and the 3 Bears song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxEk-tl-GUQ

 

Join in the song and create some actions too. Can you find and sing other Goldilocks songs?

 

 

 

 

 

 

A little note for those children attending Pre-School:

Please can Pre-School children bring their own sports bottle to Pre-School, from tomorrow, with water in.

 

 

The children can also bring a small fruit snack to eat whilst they are in Pre-School.

 

 

Well done everybody for finding lots of minibeasts on your hunt a few weeks ago. Please can you go outside again and see if you can find any more minibeasts hiding? Did you see any butterflies flying around or caterpillars crawling on a leaf?

 

Week Beginning 22^nd June:

Our activities this week will relate to the story ‘Hungry Caterpillar’.

 

 

 

 

Phonics (Mon 22^nd)
Using the letters we have learnt so far

• Can you remember its sound and action?
• Try to find objects beginning with the sound.
• Using the collection of objects play a game of eye-spy

 

s, a, t, p, i, n, g, o, c, k, m, d, e, x, h, f, v, u, j, y, r, b, w, qu, z,

 

Literacy

 

Tues 23^rd – Listen to the story ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY

 

Discuss the story together and try to include the questions:

 

Where is the story taking place?

Who is in the story?

What does the caterpillar do in the story?

What happens to the caterpillar at the end of the story?

 

Wed 24^th – Watch the story again

Using the alternative story telling

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

Turn the sound off, can you tell the story in your own words using the pictures as clues?

 

Thurs 25th– Create your own book of The Hungry Caterpillar, try to do some writing and pictures, (it does not have to be the correct letters or spelling – the children just need the confidence to make marks to represent their ideas). Read your book to a teddy and people in your family

 

Fri 26 ^th – Letter Hunt – Hide all the letters, we have learnt  so far (see Monday) around the house and garden. Can you find them, say the sound and maybe think of a word which begins with that letter?

 

Mathematics

 

Mon 22^nd  –  Begin to make a food diary, just like in the Hungry Caterpillar story we will be reading tomorrow in Literacy

 

 

Draw a picture of your favourite meal and maybe a treat, on each day. Draw each part of the meal separately underneath each other, writing the number you ate (where possible) see Monday as an example.

(please keep this diary as we will need it for some work next Monday)

 

Tues 23^rd - Sing a days of the week song

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNJRGHk7sN8

Can you say the days in the right order?

What day is it today?

Can you answer the questions (a tricky concept, so don’t worry if your child is unable to)

What day will it be tomorrow?

What day was it yesterday? Can you remember what you did yesterday?

 

Wed 24^th  – Count to 10

Can you count more than 10, try not to miss out any numbers.

Look at the fruit the Hungry Caterpillar ate on each day, can you count the different fruit he ate on each day and then the number of treats on the final day?

           

                          

 

Have a look at the food you have at home, can you count the same type of food ie 3 tins of soup, 10 biscuits, 2 packets of crisps, 6 appples etc

 

Thurs 25^th – Make a caterpillar using some construction toys ie lego, duplo, k’nex

How long can you make it, can it stretch across the room?

Can you make a shorter caterpillar?

Can you make a longer caterpillar?

 

Fri 26^th – Yesterday we learnt a butterfly looks the same on both sides when we fold it in half. Explain the big word for this is symmetry. Can you find anything in your house which looks the same on both sides if a line goes down the middle (you may need an adult to help you with this) ie a teddy bear.

 

                           

 

     

Try playing the game, you look at the picture and decide which box it goes in.

Symmetrical “the same on both sides”

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-sorting

 

Topic

 

Mon 22^nd  - Think about all the different minibeasts.  Move in a variety of ways around the house/ garden ie slither, shuffle, roll, crawl, jump, slide. Which minibeast could you be for each movement.

Can you think of any other ways to move like a minibeast?

 

 

Tues 23^rd – Make a fruit snack of a caterpillar, think about which fruit is the best colour for his green body ie apple, grape and the best fruit for his red face

 

 

 

 

Wed 24^th –  In the story of the Hungry Caterpillar we learn about the life-cycle of a butterfly

 

 

Can you find the pictures in the story where the above pictures are.

Draw your own pictures of the life-cycle of the Hungry Caterpillar

 

Thurs 25^th – Paint a picture of a butterfly using a magic trick.

• Fold a piece of paper into ½
• Open it up and paint a pattern on one side of the paper
• Fold it over again, press the piece of paper gently
• Open it up and you will have a butterfly  with the same pattern on each side
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Fri 26^th – YouTube – Hungry Caterpillar song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gs8_VUSnMQ

 

Join in the song and create some actions too. Can you find and sing other minibeast songs?

 

 

 

 

 

 

We hope everyone enjoyed their jelly activities last week. Both Mrs Whalley and Miss Worsfold made their own jellies at home too and loved eating them!

 

Week Beginning 15^th June:

Most of our activities this week will relate to ‘Growing seeds’ and being outside in the garden.

 

 

Phonics (Mon 15^th)

This week’s letter is ‘y’

If you can, eat a yogurt and say ‘y’ before eating every spoon

 

 

A song to help you learn the sound

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

     

Literacy      

 

Tues 16^th – Can you say its sound and action?

Try to find some objects beginning with the sound y.

Play a game of ‘eye-spy’, can you see a word beginning with the letter you are told ie ‘eye spy with my little eye, a word beginning with ………

s (sun), g (grass), b (bike) etc

Once confident can you say the rhyme and ask an adult to guess the word.

 

Wed 17^th – Listen to the song about what a plant needs to grow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUBIQ1fTRzI

Write a list of the things a plant needs to grow. Think carefully about the initial sound in each word. (the word does not have to be the correct letters or spelling – the children just need the confidence to make marks to represent their ideas).

Draw a picture for each word

 

                                                                

    water                                soil                                     air                                 sun (light)

 

 

Thurs 18^th – Create your own book about ‘How to plant a seed’, try to do some writing and pictures. Try to put the instructions in the order you did when planting your own seed.

Don’t forget to write your name on the cover and give your book a title. Each page can be a mix of pictures and words (again it may just be marks to represent their ideas). Read your book to a teddy and people in your family

 

 

Fri 19^th – Find different size sticks and practise writing different letters and your name in soil/ sand.

 

Mathematics

 

Mon 15th – Today I want you to do lots of counting

Find lots of different sets of objects you can count ie spoons, teddies, leaves, flowers, cars etc. Touch each one as you count

If you are out and about you could count how many cars/ bikes/ people you see

Do any of the groups have 5?

 

Tues 16^th – Last week we learnt all about the number 5. Find 5 flat small objects which are all the same ie buttons, blocks. Can you make different patterns with the 5 objects. Count each time how many you have, the answer should always be 5!

 

The patterns could include:

 

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I’m sure you can think of lots more ways to arrange the objects.

 

Wed 17^th  – Listen to the song all about the properties of 2D shapes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zhnvcdm

Can you say what is special about a circle, triangle, square, oblong (rectangle)

Are you able to draw a picture of a flower using the shapes circle, square, triangle and oblong. You may want to add some extra shapes too, do you know their name?

 

    

               

 

Thurs 18^th – Play a game where you have to compare objects and animals by size, using the language biggest, smallest, shortest, longest and tallest

There are 2 games ‘At the Beach’ and ‘Animals’

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/early-years/lets-compare

 

Fri 19^th – Outside on the path use chalk to try and write the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in the correct order. Put the correct amount of dots by each number (this can also be done on a piece of paper)

 

 

Topic

 

Mon 15th  - The Flower Dance, listen to the instructions of Dance-A-Lot Robot and join in his actions

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

 

Tues 16^th – Look around outside what are the different colours of the flowers, can you remember the names for the different parts of a flower?

 

 

 

Choose you favourite flower and draw a picture of it, looking at the shape and colour of the petals and leaves.

 

Wed 17^th – Watch the clip below about Topsy and Tim planting a seed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVqp0R1lkcM

 

Plant a seed, it could be a sunflower seed just like Topsy and Tim. Look after it, making sure it gets water and sunshine. Begin a seed diary drawing pictures as the seed begins to grow into a flower

 

 

Thurs 18^th – Make soup fairy soup

You will need:

A bowl

Glitter

Food dye (optional)

Big spoon

 

Fill the bowl with water, add some glitter and food dye and then find lots of different things (petals, leaves, shiny stones in the garden to add to your soup. Remember to keep stirring your soup as you add new things.

 

 

 

Fri 19^th – Watch how Sonic Explorer, J, listens to the sounds in the garden and creates a story from the sounds she can make

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/bring-the-noise/eyfs-music-sonic-explorers-garden-jungle/zhvmkmn

 

Explore your garden and see what sounds you can make with the things you find, can you go on an adventure too?

 

 

Welcome back to the Pre-School Blog, we hope everyone had a lovely break and enjoyed the sunshine and time with their family.

 

Week Beginning 8^th June:

 

Most of our activities this week will relate to ‘Jelly’.

 

 

 

 

 

Phonics (Mon 8^th)

This week’s letter is ‘j’

 

 

 

A song to help you learn the sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b9asCO1Uxk

     

 Can you say its sound and action?

 Try to find some objects beginning with the sound j.

       

Literacy

     

Tues 9^th – Listen to the story ‘Red Rockets and Rainbow Jelly’ by Sue Heap and Nick Sharratt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9goNsbFbZk

Discuss the story together

 

Who are the characters in the story?

Which colours were in the book?

What things does Nick like?

What things does Sue like?

What colours were there on the jelly?

 

Watch the story again

Turn the sound off, can you tell the story in your own words using the pictures as clues?

 

Wed 10^th – Make your own jelly (please don’t eat all your jelly, once it is made, as we are going to use it as part of our topic work tomorrow)

Using a packet of your favourite flavour jelly, follow the instructions on the back of the packet to make your jelly with an adult helper.

                                    

Thurs 11th– Create your own instruction poster on ‘Making My Jelly’

Try to do some writing and pictures, (it does not have to be the correct letters or spelling – the children just need the confidence to make marks to represent their ideas).

Read your instructions to a teddy and people in your family

 

Fri 12^th – Rainbow writing Using lots of different coloured pen/ pencils/ crayons/ chalks. Write your name in a different colour each time.

Practise writing your surname using a different colour for each letter

 

Mathematics

 

Mon 8th – Look everywhere for shapes, listen to the shape song and see if you can find the shapes around your house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRuLS-Vnjs

Are you able to draw a picture using the shapes circle, square, triangle and oblong (you may want to add some extra shapes too ie star)

 

                                 

 

 

Tues 9^th – Using a packet of jelly beans (or any other sweet which are different colours ie smarties, jelly tots), sort the sweets into different colour groups

 

 

 

Which is your favourite colour sweet? (you could ask other people in your family too     

Count how many sweets you have of each colour

Which was the most popular colour sweet?

Which was the least popular colour sweet?

Were there any colours which had no sweets?

 

Wed 10^th  – Watch Numberblocks to learn all about number 5

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08d630h/numberblocks-series-1-five

 

Can you count out 5 objects?

Can you see the number 5 anywhere around your house or in books?

 

Thurs 11^th – Ask an adult to help you play a Number Detective Game. Can you find me 5 ……. (teddies, boxes, books etc).

 

• Put the objects in a line to count them (remember to touch each one as you count).
• Put them in a circle, how many do you have?

 

To extend the game show the number 5 rather than saying it.

If you are given 5 objects can you count them and say how many you have?

Draw 5 spots, remember to count each one as you draw.

 

Fri 12^th – Count upto 10 and beyond if you can

Play the Monster Counting Game on CBeebies, you may need help to recognise some of the numbers once you have counted the objects.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/puzzles/school-of-roars-monster-maths-quiz

 

Topic

Mon 8th  - Using a ball outside can you:

 

• throw it into the air
• throw it to someone else in your family
• catch it when someone throws it to you, start near each other and gradually move apart
• kick it into a goal
• dribble it from one side of the garden to the other, add some obstacles to go round
• roll it around the garden

 

 

Tues 9^th – Discuss all the different flavours and colours of jelly you can eat

Paint a picture of a rainbow jelly, just like the one in the story

 

 

 

 

 

Wed 10^th – Create your own picture on a computer/ Ipad using lots of different colours.

 

https://pbskids.org/peg/games/paint-a-long

 

Thurs 11^th – Exploring your jelly

Put your jelly into a large bowl or tray and initially explore the jelly with your hands. Can you answer the questions:

• What does it feel like?
• What can you do with it?

 

You could add plastic toys, spoons, cups, sieves, ice-cream scoops to the jelly play

 

Fri 12^th – YouTube – Jelly song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl28uKoarLI

 

Join in the song and create some actions too. Can you think of other foods you could use in the song instead?

 

 

 

Thank you everyone for trying all the different activities over the last few weeks. We hope you had lots of fun and we’re looking forward to hearing all about them soon!

 

Week Beginning 18^th May:

Our activities this week will relate to minibeasts.

 

 

 

Phonics (Mon 18^th)
Again we are learning another new letter.

This week’s letter is ‘z’

 

A song to help you learn the sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ehmu68v8w

 Can you say its sound and action?

 Try to find some objects beginning with the sound z.

       

 

Literacy

Tues 19^th – Watch the videos below about different minibeasts

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/z9fkwmn

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/mini-beast-adventure-with-jess-minibeast-spotter

 

Write down a list of all the minibeasts you have just seen and maybe draw a picture of then too.

Listen carefully to the sound at the beginning of each word, can you identify the initial letter, ie w for worm, s for snail…………………., and then try to write it.

(it does not have to be the correct letters or spelling – the children just need the confidence to make marks to represent their ideas)

Can you think of any more minibeasts to add to your list?

 

Wed 20^th – Listen to the story ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu9mPX7DuLA

 

Discuss all the things the ladybird heard. Can you pretend you are a ladybird and travel around your house and garden and describe all the different noises you can hear

 

 

Thurs 21^st – Today you are going to be a Letter Detective, how many of these letters can you find? Can you find them more than once?

Try to remember the sound and action for each letter before you try to find it

Begin with the letters we have been learning in the last few weeks:

r, b, w, qu, z

 

If you would like to be a ‘Super’ Letter Detective try to find all the letters we have learnt this year in Pre-School

 

 s, a, t, p, i, n, g, o, c, k, m, d, e, x, h, f, v, u

 

Fri 22^nd – Make a pattern like a shell of a snail. In the air begin to draw anti-clockwise circle, keep going round and round and getting bigger and bigger  

 

 

Now see if you can do the same with paint or chalk.

 

Mathematics

 

Mon 18th –  Look at your Weather Chart you have been completing for the last few weeks

Can you count:

• How many sunny days? (you may need an adult to help you)
• How many rainy days?
• How many cloudy days?
• How many windy days?
• Which was the most popular weather? Were there any types of weather we didn’t have?

 

Tues 19^th -  Make your own worms to measure, using string or cooked spaghetti cut into different lengths, start with 3 worms.

Can you find the shortest? Longest? Can you put the worms in order of size?

Now add more worms, let your worms go for a wriggle and repeat the activity.

 

Wed 20^th  – Look at the different ladybird pictures and count how many spots does each ladybird have?

                               

Draw your own ladybirds and put on 1 spot, 2 spots, 3spots, 4 spots, …………..10 spots

 

Thurs 21^st – Play the shape monsters game, post the shape into the correct monsters mouth. (At Pre-School we have learnt that rectangles are also referred to as oblongs)

 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/early-years/shape-monsters

 

Fri 22^nd – Be a ‘Number and Shape’ Teacher to your teddies (or maybe family too!)

Tell your teddies all about the different shapes, their name and why each one is special

Circle – it has no corners and it will roll

Square – it has 4 corners and 4 sides which are the same size

Triangle – it has 3 corners and 3 sides which are the same size

Oblong - it has 4 corners and has 2 long sides and 2 short sides

Count to 10 (or more)

Introduce number 1 and show 1 object, repeat for 2, 3 and 4

(Remember to tell the teddies to count the set of objects so they know how many they have)

 

Topic

Mon 18th  -  Decorate a biscuit like a bee (linked to today’s letter ‘z’)

Either choose a chocolate biscuit and put on yellow icing in lines or choose a plain biscuit and put melted chocolate on in lines. Can you decide what you could use for eyes?

 

Tues 19^th – Can you do these minibeast challenges?

 

 

 

Wed 20^th  –  Can you create your own dance as you sing along to the Ladybird song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY5ajMMFO28

Try to create a song about another minibeast

 

Thurs 21^st – Make a collage of your favourite minibeast using any old material, wool, paper etc. Make it as colourful as you can

 

Fri 22^nd – Go on a Minibeast Hunt.

Look carefully to see how many you can find, remember to walk quietly and slowly so you don’t scare them away. They sometimes like to hide underneath things too!

Try to write down or draw a picture of all the different minibeasts you see.

 

 

Well done everybody for your continued hard work, we hope you enjoyed the Bank Holiday Weekend

 

Week Beginning 11^th May:

Our activities this week will relate to animals which live on a farm.

 

 

 

Phonics

(Mon 11^th)
Again we are learning another new letter.

This week’s letter is ‘qu’

A song to help you learn the sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdsA67mxt1o

     

 Can you say its sound and action?

 Try to find some objects beginning with the sound qu.

       

Literacy

Tues 12^th – Talk about a time you have visited a farm and the animals you saw there or listen to a story about Topsy and Tim visiting a farm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xftLYUow1z0

 

Write an interesting fact about a farm and draw a picture.

(Again, it does not have to be the correct letters or spelling – the children just need the confidence to make marks to represent their ideas)

 

Wed 13^th – Using some of the animals we see at the farm, can you think of any words which rhyme with their name (don’t worry if your child says a nonsense word)

 

                                                                               

                     pig                             hen                                 dog                            cat

 

ie pig

   dig

   jig

   mig (nonsense word)

 

Ask an adult (or you could try too) to write the rhyming words underneath each other, can you recognise a pattern with the rhyming words? Can you say the letters of a new rhyming word?

 

Thurs 14^th – Set up a reading area again, maybe in your favourite place outside or inside, can you think of an unusual place to create it? Make it cosy with blankets and cushions. Take any animal books or Nursery Rhyme books and maybe some teddies/ dolls and read/ sing stories and rhymes using the pictures. Which is their favourite story/ rhyme?

Please take a picture we’d love to see your cosy reading areas

 

Fri 1^th – Dough Disco

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dough+disco+for+children

 

Mathematics

 

Our final week of doing your weather diary and singing the Days of the week song.

 

Mon 11th –  Go on a Shape Hunt inside and outside

How many squares can you see?

How many circles can you see?

How many triangles can you see?

How many rectangles can you see?

 

Which shape has the most? least?

 

Tues 12^th -  Make a collection of animal toys of similar size. Talk about how some of the animals can be the same and how some animals are different. Sort them into sets ie. number of legs, colour.  Can you think of another way to sort the objects?

 

 

Wed 13^th  – Last week we learnt all about the number 4. Find 4 flat small objects which are all the same ie buttons, blocks. Can you make different patterns with the 4 objects. Count each time how many you have, the answer should always be 4!

 

The patterns could include:

 

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I’m sure you can think of lots more ways to arrange the objects.

 

Thurs 14^th – Outside on the path use chalk to try and write the numbers 1, 3, 4 in the correct order. Put the correct amount of dots by each number (this could also be done on a piece of paper with crayons)

 

Fri 15^th – (Related to Fri Topic)

Using your obstacle course you have created can you describe how to move through it, using the words first, under, over, through, next, finally.

Maybe tell your teddy what to do or give instructions for someone else to follow.

 

Topic

Mon 11th  -  Sing-a-long to the song ‘Old McDonald had a Farm’ and listen carefully to the sounds each farm animal makes, as you sing-a-long

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6HzoUcx3eo

 

Are there any extra farm animals you can add to the song? Can you sing it all by yourself?

 

Tues 12^th – Look at and discuss the special characteristics of each farm animal

ie a pig is pink and has a curly tail, a hen has feathers and 2 legs

 

Paint or collage a picture of some of the animals you see on a farm. Remember to choose the correct colours

 

Wed 13^th  –  Can you move and dance like the different farm animals, below are dances you can follow

 

CBeebies: Boogie Beebies - Barnyard Boogie 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMEZz3CJJ6c

Or

CBeebies Let’s Go

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/lets-go-club-funky-chicken

 

Can you create your own Farmyard dance?

 

Thurs 14^th - Using any construction type toys you have at home can you build your own farmyard

It could have fields, barns, haystacks, farm house, fences to keep the animals in their field. Choose one of your toys to be a farmer and add any farm animal toys you may have, maybe add a tractor too!

 

Fri 15^th – (Related to Fri Maths)

Make an obstacle course in the garden

Try to find something you can balance on, travel through, go around, go under

 

For example:

                     

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mrs Whalley and Miss Worsfold hope you’re having lots of fun doing the different activities at home, we can’t wait to hear which were your favourites!

 

Week Beginning 4^th May:

Some of our activities this week will relate to animals which live in the Jungle or see if you go on a safari.

 

On CBeebies Andy goes on Safari Adventures and meets some of the animals which live in the jungle

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/andys-safari-adventures

 

 

Phonics

Mon 4^th - Again we are learning another new letter.

This week’s letter is ‘w’

A song to help you learn the sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlDPegyV6XI

     

 Can you say its sound and action?

 Try to find some objects beginning with the sound w.

       

Literacy

Tues 5^th – Write down a list of all the animals you can think of which live in the jungle. Maybe Andy’s Safari on Cbeebies may give you some clues too.

Listen carefully to the sound at the beginning of each word, can you identify the initial letter, e for elephant, l for lion…………………., and then try to write it.

(it does not have to be the correct letters or spelling – the children just need the confidence to make marks to represent their ideas)

 

Wed 6^th – Choose your favourite animal from the jungle, look at a picture of it and describe it to someone in your family, think about what it looks like, it’s colour, what it likes to eat, what it likes to do etc

ie If I chose a giraffe, I might say

“it has a long neck, tall legs, a pattern on his body and he loves to eat leaves from the top of a tree”

Now choose a different animal to describe

 

Thurs 7^th – Play a ‘Guess who I am’ game

Take it in turns to choose an animal from the jungle and describe it, can the other person guess which animal it is?

You could also give a clue by saying the initial sound of the animal ie my animal begins with a t……….

 

Mathematics

Please carry on doing your weather diary this week and singing the Days of the week song.

 

Mon 4th – Today try to do lots of counting

Find lots of different sets of objects you can count ie spoons, teddies, leaves, flowers, cars etc.

If you are out on your daily exercise you could count how many cars/ bikes/ people you see

 

Tues 5^th -  Watch Numberblocks to learn all about number 4

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08d61cv/numberblocks-series-1-four

Can you count out 4 objects? Can you draw 4 circles, 4 lines etc

 

Wed 6^th  – Ask an adult to help you play a Number Detective Game. Can you find me 4 ……. (teddies, boxes, books)

To extend the game show the number 4 rather than saying it.

If you are given 4 objects can you count them and say how many you have?

 

Thurs 7^th – Completing a shape pattern

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns

Shape Patterns is a sequencing game where you need to complete the pattern of different coloured 2D shapes. Click onto Level 1 look at the pattern at the top and then click the carriage which has the correct shape to complete the pattern.

 

Topic

Mon 27th  -  Sing-a-long to the song ‘Walking in the Jungle ’ and listen carefully to the movements you can do ie skipping, stomping, as you sing-a-long

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoSq-yZcJ-4

 Can you add another way of moving and another Jungle animal to the song?

         

Tues 28^th - Make your own jungle animal from recycled materials ie boxes, tubs, lids, cardboard tubes, egg boxes, wool, material

Can you think of a good name to give it?

 

Wed 29^th  –  Can you play the safari animal noises piano

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/andys-safari-adventures

 

If you scroll down and find ‘Andy’s Safari Sounds’, Andy will tell you how to use the safari piano.

Which was your favourite animal sound?

 

Thurs 30^th -  Can you make your own jungle outside using leaves, twigs, stones, pebbles etc or create your own safari trail. If you have any animals add those to your jungle/ safari too.

 

 

 

 

 

Well done everyone for beginning to learn new letters and we hope you enjoyed being a pet animal for the day, as you all always love being pretend cats and dogs in the Role-play Area, in Pre-School!

 

 

Week Beginning 27^th April:

Some of our activities this week will relate to animals and creatures which live in the ocean

 

On CBeebies Andy goes on Aquatic Adventures and meets some of the animals which live in the ocean

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/andys-aquatic-adventures

 

 

Phonics

(Mon 27^th)
Again we are learning another new letter.

This week’s letter is ‘b’

A song to help you learn the sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMns7nj3kjQ

     

 Can you say its sound and action?

 Try to find some objects beginning with the sound b.

       

Literacy

Tues 28^th – Listen to the story of Tiddler by Julia Donaldson

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcTQADUywZY&t=66s

 

Discuss the story together and try to include the questions:

• Where is the story taking place?
• Who is in the story?
• What does Tiddler do in the story

 

Wed 28^th – Can you write the name for each of these animals which live in the sea

 

       

                

Listen carefully to the sound at the beginning of each word, can you identify the initial letter, f for fish, w for whale…………………., and then try to write it.

(it does not have to be the correct letters or spelling – the children just need the confidence to make marks to represent their ideas)

 

Can you draw a picture of them too?

 

Thurs 30^th – Create your own book about an animal which lives in the ocean, try to do some writing and pictures. Don’t forget to write your name on the cover and think of a good name to call your book. (again it may just be marks to represent their ideas). Read your book to a teddy and people in your family

(Please keep your books so Mrs Whalley and Miss Worsfold and your friends can read them when we come back to Pre-school)

 

Fri 1^st – Use your ribbon wand to try and write your name in the air

Which other letters can you write, can other people in your family guess which letter you are writing?

 

Mathematics

Please carry on doing your weather diary this week and singing the Days of the Week song.

 

Mon 27th –

Can you spot all the differences in Andy’s Aquatic ‘spot the difference’ quizzes

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/puzzles/andys-aquatic-adventures-spot-the-difference

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/puzzles/andys-aquatic-spot-the-difference

 

 

Tues 28^th – Find 2 objects which are the same but different heights or lengths ie bottles, teddies, sticks. Put them next to each other and decide which is

the smallest/ shortest to tallest/ longest

Repeat for 3 or 4 objects

 

Wed 29^th -  Look again at the story of Tiddler by Julia Donaldson (from Literacy yesterday)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcTQADUywZY&t=66s

 

Can you count how many fish are on each page? (don't worry if there are too many fish to count on some pages)

Which page has the most fish?

Are there any pages which have only 1 fish on? 2 fish on? 3 fish on?

 

Thurs 30^th – Make a simple ribbon wand

 

Use your wand to draw different shapes in the air, can someone in your family guess the shape you are drawing? Try to write numbers 1, 2 and 3 with your wand.

 

You will also need your wand for Literacy tomorrow

 

Fri 1^st – Try to complete Andy’s Aquatic jigsaw

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/puzzles/andys-aquatic-adventures-jigsaw-game

 

 

Topic

Mon 27th  -  Use the music ‘Under the Sea’ from the ‘Little Mermaid’ film

Create a dance, you could be Ariel the mermaid or Sebastian the crab and and perform it to your family

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_mV1IpjWA

 

Tues 28^th  –  Make a ‘pretend’ ocean

You could use a see-through plastic box, bowl, jar, bucket or sink

Use your imagination about what could go inside ie, sand, stones, shells, blue food colouring

If you have any plastic sea creatures they could go in to.

 

This activity will continue tomorrow.

 

Wed 29^th  -  Use a plastic character which will fit inside your ‘pretend’ ocean, let them go on an adventure and tell the story. They could be a diver or mermaid, maybe they find some treasure or make a friend with a sea creature.

 

Thurs 30^th -  Make an octopus, this could be from a tube or paper plate, make sure he has 8 legs

 Can you think of a good name for your octopus?

 

Fri 1^st – Join Andy and sing along to his raps about some ocean creatures

‘Cool crabs’, ‘fish fiesta’, ‘funky octopus’

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/andys-aquatic-raps-playlist#playlist

 

We can't wait to hear all about the fun you had doing a little singing concert in the garden to your family, hopefully there will be pictures too!

 

Did you spot Mrs Whalley and Miss Worsfold doing the toilet roll challenge on the school website?

 

Week Beginning 20^th April:

Phonics (Mon 20^th)
From this week we will begin to learn new letters.

This week’s letter is ‘r’

A song to help you learn the sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xayfJnl6Bkk

     

 Can you say its sound and action?

 Try to find some objects beginning with the sound r.

       

 

Some of our activities this week will relate to pet animals

 

Literacy

Tues 21^st – Write a list of all the animals which can be a pet ie cat, dog, rabbit, fish etc.

Listen carefully to the sound at the beginning of each word, can you identify the initial letter, c for cat, d for dog…………………., and then try to write it.

 

Wed 22^nd – Listen to the story of Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rudDGRQ9QGA

 

Discuss a pet you would like to look after and why you would like it

 

Thurs 23^rd – Watch the story with no sound, can you tell the story in your own words using the pictures as clues?

 

Fri 24^th – Practise writing lines going up in a different media,

 

 

this could be soil, sand, flour, rice or shaving foam

 

 

Mathematics

Mon 20th – Sing a days of the week song

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNJRGHk7sN8

Can you say the days in the right order?

 

Tues 21^st – Start a weather diary, recording the weather each day for the next few week

 

 

 

Wed 22^nd -  Watch Numberblocks to learn all about number 3

 

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08bzgxx/numberblocks-series-1-three

 

Can you count out 3 objects?

 

Thurs 23^rd – Ask an adult to help you play a Number Detective Game. Can you find me 3 ……. (teddies, boxes, books)

To extend the game show the number 3 rather than saying it.

If you are given 3 objects can you count them and say how many you have?

 

Fri 24^th – On your daily exercise, can you see any of the numbers 1, 2 or 3 out and about?

 

Topic

Mon 20th  - Today move like different animals you might have as a pet, around the garden ie a dog would walk on all 4s, a rabbit would jump, a snake would slither.

Can you think of any more?

 

Tues 21st – Paint a picture of a pet animal, think carefully about the colours you would use.

 

Wed 22^nd -  Choose a pet you would like to have. Can you find out:

• How it moves
• What it likes to eat and how it eats (does it use a knife and fork like you?)
• What it likes to play with
• Special things your pet might need

 

Thurs 23^rd – Be a pet animal for the day (or for some of the day!)

 

Fri 24^th – Sing-a-long to the song ‘I have a pet’

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAObh4cLDAI or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWepfJ-8XU0

 

Can you add another pet to the song?