Week Beginning 8^th February:

Some of our activities this week will relate to ‘Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day’.

Zoom Room Invite:

In our our Zoom Room on Thursday (11^th) at 10 o’clock. Please bring something you have enjoyed making/ writing etc during your home-schooling, to show and tell your friends. (We would be grateful if you could send a photograph of this to our Pre-School email too, thank you). You could wear your Chinese hat too (Maths Wed)

Phonics (Mon 8th)

We will be doing our short Zoom Room phonics revision session, at 11 o’clock, to revise the letters we have already learnt. (We will also include shape/ number revision too)

Daily phonics:     

Before beginning each of your Literacy activity please have a look at all the letters we have been learning so far in Pre-School this year. Can you say the sound and action for each letter?

A reminder of the songs and actions can be found on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvJKc0Ord1g

s  a  t  p  i  n  d  g  o  b  j u  m  c  k

Literacy      

Mon 8^th – A new letter.

This week’s letters is ‘c,k’

A song to help you learn the sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpBSfA5UuRU

 Can you say its sound and action?

 Try to find some objects beginning with the sound c or k.

Tues 9^th – Listen to the story about Chinese New Year (this links to the Tues Topic activity too)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/lets-celebrate-chinesenewyearperformance

Can you remember all the animals in the story?

Research which animal is celebrating having this year 2021 named after it. Draw and colour a picture of it and try writing its name.

Wed 10^th – Try to do some Chinese writing. Their letters use lines which go down and lines which go across. If you can use red paper and a black pen.

Try different letters, are you able to write your name in Chinese?

Thurs 11^th – Remote Learning Show and Tell in our Zoom Room at 10 o’clock – please join us with the children in Pre-School, please bring something you have enjoyed doing during remote learning.

Create a Chinese Restaurant for your teddies/ dolls. Chinese people don’t use knife and forks but chopsticks. (If you don’t have any you could use straws or pencils instead). Chinese people like to eat rice and noodles too.

Write a menu for your teddies to choose which food they would like to eat (outline below).

Fri 12^th  – On Sunday it is Valentine’s Day, make a card for somebody you love, this could be Mummy or Daddy, Grandparents. Decorate the front of the card, maybe put a picture of a heart, flowers or a teddy on.

Inside write

To

Love

   ?

Don’t write your name they have to guess

Mathematics

Mon 8^th  – Play the counting game on CBeebies, helping Peter Rabbit count the fruit, vegetables and nuts in Mr Mcgregor’s garden

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/puzzles/peter-rabbit-counting

Tues 9^th – Red is a lucky colour in China. Draw round a plate onto a piece of red paper, or alternatively use white. Cut out the circle.

Decorate the hat with Chinese numbers, use a black or gold felt tip, if possible

Cut a slit in the circle to the middle, the circle can now be made into a Chinese style hat (We’d love to see you wearing it in our Zoom Room on Thursday)

Wed 10^th  – Using paint or chalk have a go at writing the numbers

1    2    3

Under each number draw the correct amount of dots

Now can you find:

1 teddy

2 books

3 crayons

Thurs 11^th – Using either cooked or dry noodles/ spaghetti, cut into different lengths and start with 3 pieces

Can you find the shortest/ longest?

Can you put the noodles/ spaghetti in order of size?

Now add more noodles/ spaghetti and repeat the activity

Fri 12^th – 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 and 3

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

Topic

Watch about how the Chinese celebrate Chinese New Year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ssHXZ9_qU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cRMRp9-Z08

Mon 8^th - Learn the ‘Chinese dragon’ song (sung to the tune of ‘I’m a Little Teapot’).

Can you add any actions to go with it?

‘I’m a Chinese Dragon’ song

I’m a Chinese dragon,

See me dance!

Twisting and turning,

I jump and prance.

When it’s Chinese New Year,

Take a chance.

Come and join with the dragon dance!

Tues 9^{th –}  Watch Jamie and Hannah learn how to do a Dragon dance

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/lets-go-club-chinese-lion-dance?collection=chinese-lunar-new-year

Make your own Chinese dragon, can he do a dragon dance when you sing th song from Monday?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/chinese-hand-dragon?collection=chinese-lunar-new-year

Wed 10^th – Make a Chinese dragon using Lego, stickle bricks, cardboard boxes or any construction materials Can you make him very long? Can you make him shorter? How many different colours have you used?

Thurs 11^th – Use card or paper plates to make a Chinese drum

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/chinese-rattle-drum-make?collection=chinese-lunar-new-year

or

https://www.giftofcuriosity.com/chinese-new-year-drum-craft-for-kids/

Fri 12^th – Cook  noodles/ spaghetti (and let them cool). Explore them using your hands, how do they feel, can you think of 3 good words to describe them?

Using chop-sticks (straws or pencils if you don’t have chopsticks), can you pick up the noodles/ spaghetti? Can you serve the noodles/ spaghetti into small bowls