We hope you had a relaxing Easter break and are all safe and well. Thank you for continuing to share what you have been doing at home it is really lovely to see the children enjoying activities.
Keep sending in the photos to Evidence Me, Facebook or email eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk. Over Easter we have seen children; baking delicious cakes and muffins, practicing their drawing and painting, playing with water, riding bikes, creating moonsand, planting vegetable seeds, organising teddy bear picnics and even investigating ice... Wow! We think you are all amazing! As we have always said the most important thing is the children are safe and happy.
Here are some ideas you could complete at home this week:
Make a Banana Loaf - Knives do not have to be very sharp to cut through bananas so this is a great way to develop cutting skills. Try and encourage the children to hold with one hand and cut with the other ensuring the knife is the right way round!
You can follow this recipe if you have the ingredients:
Maths
Matching quantity to numeral is an important step in children's mathematical development. This is a fun way to check and support accurate counting. This could also be adapted to be played inside using items inside your house. Encourage the children to use their fingers to count the items and check the have the same amount as the number.
Markmaking Outside
Explore shadows outside and draw round these. If you have chalk you could turn this into pavement drawing. You could even let your child draw around your own shadow as a challenge!
Memory Game
Memory is such an important literacy skill that the children need to have to succeed in literacy later. This game encourages the children to remember and spot what is missing. It is easy to play and can be replicated very easily at home.
We are waiting for a code from one company we have been working with to create amazing stories recently, Tales Toolkit. We will keep you updated on some resources to create your own stories at home.
Here are some resources that might be useful:
Here are some ideas you could complete at home this week:
Make a Banana Loaf - Knives do not have to be very sharp to cut through bananas so this is a great way to develop cutting skills. Try and encourage the children to hold with one hand and cut with the other ensuring the knife is the right way round!
You can follow this recipe if you have the ingredients:
- Preheat the oven to 160 C.
- Let the children cut and mash bananas!
- Mix together bananas, 200g caster sugar, 1 egg, 60g melted butter in a bowl. Add 200g flour (with one teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda mixed in). Stir one teaspoon of salt in.
- Add to a loaf tin and cook for roughly an hour.
Maths
Matching quantity to numeral is an important step in children's mathematical development. This is a fun way to check and support accurate counting. This could also be adapted to be played inside using items inside your house. Encourage the children to use their fingers to count the items and check the have the same amount as the number.
Markmaking Outside
Memory Game
Memory is such an important literacy skill that the children need to have to succeed in literacy later. This game encourages the children to remember and spot what is missing. It is easy to play and can be replicated very easily at home.
We are waiting for a code from one company we have been working with to create amazing stories recently, Tales Toolkit. We will keep you updated on some resources to create your own stories at home.
Here are some resources that might be useful:
Coronavirus: A Book for Children
Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo has illustrated a digital book for primary school age children about the coronavirus and the measures taken to control it. If your child has lots of questions the pictures might help you explain.
CBeebies
Join a host of different celebrities for a different story read each night just before bedtime. https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/bedtime-stories
Ruth Miskin Speed Sounds Lesson Schedule
As previously mentioned if your child is interested in learning to read then the initial sounds (sounds of the alphabet) are being taught and filmed to share by Ruth Miskin. Below you can see the times for Set 1 sounds.
https://www.ruthmiskin.com/media/filer_public/1b/7d/1b7df13e-4381-4bb5-866b-ac0549394947/ss_after_easter1.pdf
The government released some advice recently on helping children 2 to 4 learn at home during this time. It is focused around helping your children to learn through the little things you do with them for example; every day conversations, make believe play, involving them in house hold chores (We saw a lovely photo of Sonny hovering and polishing this week!), playing games with letters and numbers and sharing a story together.
The advice is to keep a routine including bed times, meal times and making sure electronic devices are off an hour before bed time. Keeping active which could include a daily walk if you are able,PE with jo wicks, running in the garden, seeing who can do the most star jumps inside or playing hide and seek inside. Have a look at https://hungrylittleminds.campaign.gov.uk/ for some ideas for apps and games.
It has some good advice on socialising which is an important part of children's leaning at this age. At home you can talk to them and respond to them but you can also video call relatives and even Nursery school friends to keep in touch. They might not be ready to have a conversation but they can sit with you and show what they have made that week!
Many Thanks,
The Nursery Team
The government released some advice recently on helping children 2 to 4 learn at home during this time. It is focused around helping your children to learn through the little things you do with them for example; every day conversations, make believe play, involving them in house hold chores (We saw a lovely photo of Sonny hovering and polishing this week!), playing games with letters and numbers and sharing a story together.
The advice is to keep a routine including bed times, meal times and making sure electronic devices are off an hour before bed time. Keeping active which could include a daily walk if you are able,PE with jo wicks, running in the garden, seeing who can do the most star jumps inside or playing hide and seek inside. Have a look at https://hungrylittleminds.campaign.gov.uk/ for some ideas for apps and games.
It has some good advice on socialising which is an important part of children's leaning at this age. At home you can talk to them and respond to them but you can also video call relatives and even Nursery school friends to keep in touch. They might not be ready to have a conversation but they can sit with you and show what they have made that week!
Many Thanks,
The Nursery Team
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