Nursery Home Learning Week 6

Good morning Nursery,

Welcome to Week 4 of the Summer term.

We hope you had a nice weekend and enjoyed the sunshine! Thank you for sending your pictures of your picnics at home while wearing red, white and blue, it looks like you all had a lovely time. We really enjoyed seeing all the activities you have been busy with this week, we were very impressed
with all the starry night pictures! We loved all of your stories this week, some great props! We will continue to collate these this week and share a video of all your efforts. Remember to send any more video stories on Evidence Me or via email to eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk.

Creative activity
In Nursery we encouraged the children to look carefully at what they could see and create their own pictures based on this. If you have any flowers or plants at home you could try and paint or draw these! If not have a look at these pictures and see if you can create your own. You can use pencils, pens, crayons, pastels, paint... Whatever you prefer! Try and look carefully for the colours you can see!
You could try Monet's sunflowers and add some yellow to your vase! Or you could try our more abstract flower picture, you could add some long lines for green stems and for flowers you could fingerprint, dab your brush or even flick your paint!

Visit the British Museum Virtually
Taking children to museums opens their eyes to different ideas and perspectives that are relevant to their lives. There are more than 60 free galleries at the British Museum for the children to explore online https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries#virtual-galleries

Literacy
Click to watch this weeks story challenge below:

Miss Ahmed's example story:



Phonics
If moving on to the initial sounds (we call these set 1) please do so in line with how the school teaches reading. We use phonics and teach children sounds. There is an interactive lesson for the children to join in with on the Ruth Miskin website:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ



For name writing create a name card and let your child practice in a tray. You could fill it with salt, split lentils, a little dry sand or even spices!

Physical 
5-a-day
These are five minute dance routines that have a fun theme. Use as a break between activities, switch it in to replace PE with Joe or cosmic yoga. There are also Time-2-Chill routines if you need a calm moment or two.

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Preparing Your Pizza

Can you help prepare a snack this week or help with cutting vegetables for dinner this week? Maybe you could try and make a pizza snack this week for your family! You can make your own version using pitta breads, crumpets, muffins, halving bagels or even naan bread. Children can help spoon tomato passata, grate the cheese and add some toppings.

Maths

Number
This week see if you can practice matching your numbers to an amount. Here are some ideas that you could use at home! Remember to keep maths very practical with resources the children can touch and feel at this stage. You can use any resources at home for this. Create some number cards and match that number to it, you can even set challenges and hunt around the house e.g. 2 shiny items. The examples below include cherrios, lego (any blocks) and cut out circles for pretend ice-cream cones.

Shape Challenge
We could see lots of good naming and finding shapes last week! To encourage the children to remember this maybe you could try some of the activites below to consolidate your skills! The example below include drawing a shape outline and filling it with items or placing them around the outside, printing shapes with cardboard tubes and using pringle tubs or other recycling you have to make shape monsters.

Construction
Lots of children in Nursery enjoy building and creating their own models. This week we thought you could see if you can use resources at home to create your own house or castle! You could use blocks, cardboard boxes, lego, duplo... even plastic cups to add to your design! Mrs Chisholms grandson Joshua enjoyed create a magical castle with some construction straws at home.

Reading 

As always one routine we would really recommend is having a bed time story every day, you can never hear too many stories! You can join in with telling one of our Nursery favourites 'We're going on a Bear Hunt'.

Have a lovely week! Keep Smiling!

To finish off here are some photos of things your teachers have been busy with this weekend; baking, cooking, walking and planting! A big hello from us all!