Class Teacher: Mrs Williams Week beginning: 29/6/2020 Week 5 Term 6 Summer Term Thank you to all of you who have sent in photos and videos of your learning at home on Tapestry or school email! It is great to see so many of you taking part in the activities and we are really enjoying looking at what exciting adventures you have been up to! Don’t forget to send in your photos to Tapestry and/or to [email protected] so that we can celebrate your home learning with the class next week! This term our topic is Wild Things! This week’s story is ‘Giraffe’s Can’t Dance!’

Nursery Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Wk 4 Don’t forget to post Don’t forget to post Don’t forget to post Don’t forget to post on Don’t forget to post on on tapestry on tapestry on tapestry tapestry tapestry Daily sharing of a book/s Daily sharing of a book/s Daily sharing of a book/s Daily sharing of a book/s Daily sharing of a book/s Reading Giraffe’s Can’t Dance! - listen to the story read on Tapestry or on Rhyming game Talking and listening Literacy YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZjsLK5vwNU or read your Play Silly soup How would you cheer up Gerald? If someone in your own version if you have the story! https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=tvSBDVoZD5Y family was feeling sad how Here are some activities linked to the story for you to try: you will need 4 or 5 things would you cheer them up?  Draw your favourite animal from the story and label it with support. that rhyme to put in a bowl  The story is in rhyme – practise your rhyming words. Mad, sad. Hat, cat. Top, shop. and sing the song as the  Draw Gerald and describe him. Then describe yourself! Maybe your parent can have a go first to model how to/show you how to describe. items go in. It’s important for  You are going to have a Jungle Dance party – draw/write a list of items you will need for the adult to say the word and the party. the children copy. At the end can they think od their own rhyming words – they can be nonsense e.g. hat, mat, cat, lat, jat, gat

Money Measurement Survey Pattern Show me - repeat Maths Using the list created for Gerald is tall. Are you taller Find out what your families Have a go at making simple Ask your child to show you a the Dance party, can you or shorter?!! favourite wild animal is. ABABAB repetitive patterns. number in different ways. Put turn it into a shopping list? Find things in your house Complete the attached You can use lego – out lots of different resources Add the prices – 1p, 5p, 3p. that are taller than you are sheet and using tally marks red brick, green brick, red e.g. conkers, lego, biscuits, Then play shop and use 1p or shorter than you. you can find the answer. brick, green brick dice, playing cards Then ask coins to buy things. Compare 3 items and place Let me know the favourite! fruits – them to show you 3. Could be in order e.g. apple, orange, apple, orange, 3 fingers, 3 on a dice, getting Toy is the shortest, you are apple, orange 3 lego pieces. Then focus on 3 taller than the toy but the Or try using skittles on a fingers. Can they show you 3 door is the tallest. plate fingers a different way? How You can find different Red, blue, red, blue then do many different ways can they items to use for comparing the experiment below show you 3? height. Use phonics play Phase 1 – phonicsplay.co.uk – FOCUS ON RHYME Phonics Letters and sounds Phase 1 home learning challenges – Twinkle.co.uk …………use the code UKTWINKLHELPS If you would like to hear HOW to say the sounds listen to this on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTe5_Em0BHQ Topic Discovery Dance and music Art Science Art Find out about Have your own dance Recreate the prints Skittle science Giraffe looks at the moon Giraffes party!! Create some found on animals. Place sweet skittles on a and says how beautiful he https://www.youtube.com banners, some bunting and What colours would you plate – try using pattern or thinks it is. Can you draw /watch?v=bNYXweQ81vI&s make your own use for a zebra, a tiger, a a rainbow. Then add warm your own beautiful night afe=active instruments. Then dance, giraffe? Cover a whole water to the middle. Watch scenes? Can you create a book dance, dance! page in those colours to what happens. about giraffes using make it look like the pictures and writing – skin/fur of the animal. parents can write it for Show me and I will guess you. the animal!

https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=4FHbbc8v1Cs https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=4FHbbc8v1Cs Exercise Create your own Dance and perform it you someone. Remember to exercise everyday inside or outside – try any of the websites below for workouts for 3-5 year olds.

Please email all photographs or questions about home learning to Tapestry or [email protected]. For all other enquiries, including requests for school provision for keyworker children, please use [email protected]. Here are a few website links you may find useful: Exercise/workout websites for Early Years  Cosmic Kids, Cosmic Yoga  Andy’s Wild Workouts cbeebies  Moovkids.com – go to free resources  Go.noodle.com  Boogie Beebies

Other useful websites  KEYU.co.uk – Keeping Early Years Unique. Go to the Learning at home page and click on publications e.g. write with me, move with me and then select relevant age group.  Singup – Launching Monday 20th April this is a site dedicated to singing. www.singup/singupathome  David Walliams Every day at 11 am, you can listen to one of David Walliams' World's Worst Children stories. www.worldofdavidwalliams.com  Oxford Owl- Free resources for parents. Interactive books/reading activities to share at home. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/welcome-back/for-home/reading-owl/parent-letter  Phonics Play- Great site with some free phonics games. http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm  National Geographic Kids Facts, quizzes and activities https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/

 Scholastic Free audiobooks for children www.scholastic.com  www.storyNory.com This site offers free audio downloads of classic fairy tales, world fairy tales, fables, 1001 nights and more  https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/ Is packed with hundreds of free audiobooks, but many of the books and poems have free PDFs to download and print so that children can read along, highlight, and mark up the passage being read  http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ An International Children’s Digital Library A library for the world’s children. This site contains thousands of books in more than 60 languages.  The Literacy trust is working flat out on creating a comprehensive web portal built specifically for parents to help support children’s learning at home www.literacytrust.org.uk  www.hungrylittleminds.campaign.gov.uk CBeebies Story time is filled with free interactive story books and bedtime stories for young children and it is a great way to enjoy reading with your little one. The library is always growing, with amazing stories featuring all of the CBeebies favourites.

We would also like to share with you North Bristol Children's Centre FaceBook page. There are many great links to learning at home together, support and advice. https://www.facebook.com/northbristolcc/ AS well as this due to the ongoing Covid-19 situation North Bristol Advice Centre continues to offer advice by telephone and email only for debt and welfare rights. We can be reached via our new contact numbers: 07731 842 763 or 07595 047 278 or via email: [email protected] Visit our website www.northbristoladvice.org.uk for more information and to find our online referral form

I hope you have a great time learning at home this week! Keep yourselves safe and we look forward to seeing you all as soon as we are able!

Mrs Williams and Mrs Daly