Again it has been lovely to see so many of you enjoying the activities at home and sending us your pictures. It was great to see some of you in our Zoom Room too.

Week Beginning 25^th January:

Some of our activities this week will relate to ‘Elmer and elephants’.

Zoom Room Invite:

We are hoping to have some ‘Elmer fun’ in our Zoom Room on Thursday (28^th) at 10 o’clock. We would like you to wear as many different colours as you can (we will be doing this in Pre-School too) and bring an object to show us of your favourite colour ie blue teddy, green cup, pink hat

Phonics (Mon 25^th) *please note the new time*

We will be hopefully doing a short Zoom Room phonics session, at 11 o’clock, to revise the letters we have already learnt. We will send invites out in the morning.

A new letter.

This week’s letter is ‘u’

A song to help you learn the sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUbrQ_Kfux8

 Can you say its sound and action?

 Try to find some objects beginning with the sound u.

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

Literacy      

Tues 26^th – Listen to the story ‘The Elmer’ by David McKee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRFEtE1HQMU

Discuss the story together

What animal is Elmer?

Which colours can you see on Elmer?

What did Elmer do so you couldn’t see his colours?

What happened at the end of the story to make Elmer go colourful again?

What did all the other elephants do at the end of the story?

Watch the story again

Turn the sound off, can you tell the story in your own words using the pictures as clues or pretend you are Elmer to retell the story

Wed 27^th – Tomorrow we are going to pretend it is Elmer’s Birthday. Make him a birthday card with lots of colours on it.

Try to write

To Elmer      

and your name on the inside

Thurs 28^th – Elmer fun in our Zoom Room at 10 o’clock – please join us with the children in Pre-School, wearing as many different colours as you can (just like the elephants at the end of the Elmer story)

We’re going to sing Happy Birthday to Elmer and do an elephant dance:

Andys stomp

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p071b2mn/andys-raps-animal-10-elephant-stomp

Listen to the song and join in the actions

Can you list the special features of an adult

Fri 29^th  – Today we are going to try and do some writing with water, fingers crossed it isn’t raining or wet outside

Using a spray water bottle or a squirty water bottle try making lines and circles on the path outside

Extra challenge: write your name

Mathematics

Mon 25th – Listen to the song all about the shapes we have been learning

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/cbeebies-house-songs-shape-up

Can you describe each flat shape

Circle – can roll

Triangle – 3 sides and 3 corners

Square – 4 sides the same and 4 corners

Rectangle/ oblong – 4 sides, 2 short and 2 long

Be a shape dectective and try to find an example of each one in your bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and outside

Tues 26^th – Look at a picture of Elmer

Ask an adult to write down all the colours you can see

Now count how many of each colour there is ie how many red squares

Which colour had the most/ least squares?

Wed 27^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?

Thurs 28^th – Use a collection of different small objects, this could include buttons, coins, beads, sweets, counters etc

Sort the collection in different ways (maybe onto 2 or 3 separate white plates/ pieces of paper, this could be by:

• Size, big and small

• Colours

• Shape

• Material/ texture

Try to explain how you have sorted them. Ask an adult to sort the objects a different way, can you describe how they have done it?

Fri 29^th – Find lots of different things to count today ie toy cars, tins of food, crayons etc

Put all the objects in a row, start at the left side and begin counting, make sure you touch each one as you count

An extra challenge can you help Elmer out of the maze? This will be attached to the end of the Blog

Topic

Mon 25th  - Watch “Be a Rainbow” from the Elmer stage show. Use scarves, ribbons, socks etc to create a rainbow dance, sing-a-long as you dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz8yo0_I7BQ

Tues 26^{th -} Imagine you are Elmer walking through the jungle. Which animals might you meet? What noises do those animals make? Are they friendly or are they scary?

If you have any toy/ teddy animals you could use these as you pretend to be Elmer

Wed 27^th  – Either print the picture of Elmer (This will be attached to the end of the Blog) or draw your own Elmer outline and make a collage. You could use bits of coloured paper, wrapping paper or old magazines – whatever you can find! Have fun cutting or ripping the paper and sticking it down to make Elmer as colourful as you can!

Thurs 28^th – Using some skittle sweets make a ring. Add a bit of water – watch what happens next! Use your finger to swirl and mix the colours together. Do they change?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw09oy6hW9Q

Fri 29^th – Create a jungle for Elmer to live in. (use a toy elephant, if you have one, to pretend to be Elmer) You could look in your garden or go on a nature walk to find things to put in your jungle. This could be sticks, leaves, berries, small logs, grass, stones etc