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Numeracy activity

Number rocks is a great hands-on activity for children to practice their creativity and numeracy skills.

Your child can explore the garden looking for their own rocks to paint. If there are no rocks in the garden, why not go for a rock hunt in your local area together (a selection of 22 rocks.)

Once the rocks have been found, the children can use paint or felt tip pens to write numbers from 0-10. The children can then paint or draw dots on the left over rocks to match the corresponding numbers. For example, on one rock write the number 1 and on another rock draw 1 dot and so on.

Leave the rocks to dry and then mix them all up. Ask your child to find a number and then look for the rock with the correct number of dots.

Yummy Minestrone Soup

This week why don’t you try to make some delicious home- made minestrone soup, you can help an adult to chop up all the ingredients. Can you name all the different vegetables in the soup?

Ingredients

½ small onion ½ leek, white part only, washed and finely chopped 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 medium carrot, peeled and diced ½ celery stalk, diced 100 g French beans, cut into 1cm lengths 1 potato, peeled and diced 1 tbsp fresh parsley, finely chopped 1 tbsp tomato puree 1.2 litres chicken or vegetable stock 3 tbsp frozen peas 50 g very small pasta shapes

Method

• Heat the oil in a saucepan and fry the onion and leek for 2 minutes, then add the carrot, celery, French beans, potato and parsley and sauté for 4 minutes.

• Stir in the tomato purée and cook for 1 minute.

• Pour over the chicken or vegetable stock and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes.

• Add the frozen peas and pasta and cook for 5 minutes (check the packet instructions for the cooking time of the pasta

Now Enjoy!!!!

Outdoor Learning – Nature Crowns

What you Need: ➢ Card/Paper ➢ Sticky tape ➢ Scissors ➢ Natural objects

1. Cut out a piece of card in the shape of crown you’d like.

Measure it to fit your child’s head. 2. Go on a walk and collect objects for your crown. Talk about the

different weight/size of the objects you collect and whether they would be suitable.

3. Have fun being creative and send us a pic on Twitter!

Literacy Activities

ALPHABET WALK

When you are out for your daily walk you could play the Alphabet Walk Game.

The ‘Alphabet Walk’ can be played two ways.

1. Pick a letter of the alphabet and try to find as many things

on your walk that begin with that letter (bird, bush, bakery,

etc.).

2. Use the entire alphabet and try to find something during

your walk that begins with every letter (apple, boy, car, dog,)

Have fun!

PLAY-DOH LETTERS

Put out Play-Doh and encourage children to manipulate the Play-Doh to make letters and

numbers. Talk about the letters and the sounds that they make etc. See if your child can find

the letters or numbers at home.

Science

Walking water experiment

What you need:

• Small plastic cups or glasses

• Paper towels

• Food colouring

• Water

Place 7 cups in a row and pour water into each cup about ¾

full. Put different coloured food colouring into each cup.

Take a half sheet of paper towel and fold it in half

lengthwise and half it again lengthwise. Trim off some of

the length so there isn’t too much excess paper towel, this

will make the water walk quicker. Place one half of the

paper towel in the first cup and place the other half of the

paper towel into the cup next to it. Then another paper

towel into the second and third cup. This continues until

you have placed the last paper towel that drapes over from

the 6th cup into the 7th cup. You should quickly be able to

see the coloured water begin to crawl up the paper towel.

Creativity

Rain stick instrument

MAKE YOUR OWN TRAFFIC LIGHTS

• Cut out 3 individual egg cups, one for each colour of the traffic lights

• Paint each cup

• Paint the lollipop stick. You may need to join 2 lollipop sticks together depending on the size

of your cups

• Use blue tack to stick the cups to your lollipop sticks and for the base of your traffic lights

PLAY THE TRAFFIC LIGHT GAME

• Show your child the traffic light set

• Discuss with your child what each light means

• Remove the Red and Green light, leaving the Amber light so that your child knows to “get

ready” to ride his bike

• Remove the Amber light and add the Green light, instructing your child to “go”

• When you are ready, remove the Green Light and add the Red light so that your child knows

to STOP

• Repeat and have fun!!

What you will need:

And old egg box

Lollipop sticks

Paint

Blue tack

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Creativity

Go on an adventure and see what insects you can find. Use your imagination to create your

favourite insects.

Science

What You Do:

1. Fill the flask most of the way with vegetable oil.

2. Fill the rest of the flask with water. ...

3. Add a few drops of food coloring; your choice of color. ...

4. Break an alka-seltzer tablet into a few small pieces, and drop them in the flask one at a time.

5. Watch your lava lamp erupt into activity!

Share your creations on twitter

Use your imagination to

create a pattern on the

butterfly’s wings.

Collect different sized stones on

your adventure and have a think

about what insect you would like to

make. Using lollipop sticks you can create

lots of different insects. Why not

try making bumble bees.

Literacy Activities

Nursery rhymes are a fun way to help children’s language development. Read your child a story in

rhyme, or sing along together. Ask your child if they can find the rhyming words.

Here are some rhymes we enjoy in nursery.

Miss Polly Had A Dolly

Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick, sick, sick.

So she phoned for the doctor to be quick, quick, quick.

The doctor came with his bag and hat,

And knocked at the door with a rat tat tat.

He looked at the dolly and shook his head,

And said “Miss Polly put her straight to bed.”

He wrote a pad for a pill, pill, pill.

I’ll be back in the morning with my bill, bill, bill.

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Row, row, row your boat

Gently down the stream

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

Life is but a dream

Row, row, row your boat

Gently down the stream

If you see a crocodile

Don’t forget to scream!

5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

Five little monkeys jumping on the bed,

One fell off and bumped his head.

Mummy called the Doctor and the Doctor said,

“No more monkeys jumping on the bed!’

Four little monkeys jumping on the bed,

One fell off and bumped her head.

Mummy called the Doctor and the Doctor said,

“No more monkeys jumping on the bed!’

Three little monkeys jumping on the bed,

One fell off and bumped his head.

Mummy called the Doctor and the Doctor said,

“No more monkeys jumping on the bed!’

Two little monkeys jumping on the bed,

One fell off and bumped her head.

Mummy called the Doctor and the Doctor said,

“No more monkeys jumping on the bed!’

One little monkey jumping on the bed,

He fell off and bumped his head.

Mummy called the Doctor and the Doctor said,

“Put those monkeys straight to bed!’

I spy

I spy is a great way to learn letter sounds. It can be played anywhere!

Outdoor Learning - MAKING SHAPES

1. Collect stones, flowers, leaves, sticks, grass or whatever other natural materials you can find.

2. If needed, draw the shape on the ground using chalk as a visual aid.

3. Choose your favourite shape and make it using the natural materials you have found.

4. Once the shape is made, can you add to it to make it into a funny picture?

5. Shapes you might like to try; square, circle, rectangle, triangle, diamond, star, hexagon

Rainbow Fruit Salad

This week help an adult to make a super healthy fruit salad. Try to use as many different fruits as possible, try to name as

many as you can.

Ingredients

• any fruits you like

• watermelon

• cantaloupe

• strawberries

• blueberries

• grapes – cut into small pieces

• peaches

• bananas

• pineapple, fresh or canned (drained)

• kiwis

• limes/lemons

INSTRUCTIONS

• Wash, chop, peel, etc. the fruit as needed. Drain the canned pineapple.

• Combine everything, except the kiwis, bananas, and lemon/limes.

• Slice the lemon and lime in half and squeeze 1 slice of each over the fruit.

• Add the kiwi and bananas just before serving.

Remember to post a picture of your delicious rainbow fruit salad on twitter… and let us know your favourite fruit,

Enjoy!

Numeracy activity

Number bingo

Bingo is a fun game to help children become familiar with numbers.

For children who are beginning to read and write, it can help them to

recognise the words and numbers. Why not make

your own number bingo cards using paper or card. Draw a grid and

fill it with the numbers you desire. The children can use buttons or

markers to cover the spaces as the corresponding number is called

from the Bingo "caller." The children win a game by completing a

line going vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Or, you can play for a

"full house" which means the winner is the first person who covers

all of the numbers on the card.

For younger children you can use a visual as you call out the number,

for eg. holding up the number 2 as you call it out.

To make the game more challenging, use numbers up to 20 and let

your child have a turn of being the "bingo caller".

Take care of your bike day!

This is a great activity to teach your child about taking care of her bike.

I can keep my bike clean

Choose a warm sunny day and arrange brushes, cloths, a hose, and/or a bucket of soapy water. Let your child have fun washing his bike and making it clean!

I can do a safety check

Some of our children learned how to perform an “M” safety check on their bike as part of our Play on Pedals Programme. They should imagine they are tracing the letter “M” when carrying out their check.

1. Start at the bottom left hand side of their bike.

Check the spokes – are there any loose or sharp parts? These should be repaired if required

Check the tyre – tyres on a balance bike should slightly soft, like a tennis ball. Tyres on a pedal bike should be firm. Adjust the pressure if required.

2. Your child should then move their way up the frame.

Is it secure? Are there any loose parts? These should be fixed if required.

Check the handlebars – do they move? If so, they need tightened

3. Your child should then move their way back down the centre frame of their bike

Is the frame secure? Does it have any loose parts? These should be fixed if required.

4. Your child should then move back up the back of frame are they secure? Do they need to be tightened?

Is the frame secure? Does it have any loose parts? These should be fixed if required.

Check the seat - is it secure? Tighten if required.

5. Finally your child should then move back down towards the back tyre

Check the spokes – are there any loose or sharp parts? These should be repaired if required

Check the tyre – tyres on a balance bike should slightly soft, like a tennis ball. Tyres on a pedal bike should be firm.

WELL DONE! YOU CAN KEEP YOUR BIKE CLEAN AND SAFE

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Creativity

Name Art

This learning experience helps children become familiar with alphabet letters and the letters in their name. It

can develop your child’s fine motor skills, concentration and hand and eye coordination.

Children can use different craft and natural resources to decorate the letters. Here are some ideas:

• Buttons

• Different coloured paper

• Paint

• Glitter

• Wool

• Sticks

• Leaves

• Flowers

• Stones

Science

Raincloud experiment

Fill your jar about three quarters full with water from the tap. Use the shaving foam to create a cloud on top of

the water. Let the foam settle a bit. Now drop food colouring into the 'cloud'. As your cloud fills up, the food

colouring will fall down into the water creating a rain-like effect.

To extend this learning experience, you can add different food colouring to create a rainbow. You can also use

paint to create snowballs.

Outdoor learning

Rainbow bubble snakes

All you need is an empty water bottle from your recycling, duct tape, a sock that

is missing its match, dish soap and some food colouring.

Start by cutting the bottom of the water bottle off. Next slide the sock over the

bottom of the bottle. You can use colourful duct tape to secure our sock, but

you could also use a rubber band as well.

Pour some dish soap into a shallow container with a little bit of water and

gently mix. Dip the sock covered bubble blower into the solution and gently

blow.

Bug Hotel

All you need is an empty milk carton and fill it with different natural resources

such as: stones, sticks, leaves and pine cones. Why not go on an outdoor

woodland walk to see what you can find. You can also use your imagination to

make little signs for your bug hotel.

Have fun! Show us what you have created on twitter

Literacy Activities

Matching letters and sound game.

This is a simple literacy activity for preschoolers. Give your child a letter of the alphabet (written on a

card/paper) and have them place it on something they can see that begins with that letter. For example the

Letter C could be placed on a cup. Remember to say the letter sound when you show your child the letter.

Play

Literacy activities should be fun! In nursery our children love role play! Set up a Café, (Shop, Doctor’s Surgery

or a Vet the ideas are endless) and have your child serve you. They can make signs, forms, lists and menus and

have fun while playing with literacy.

Simple numeracy activities

Car Park Numeral Recognition and Matching

Using a piece of paper or card, draw ten lines (a car width apart) and write numbers 1 - 10 in each space. Find

ten cars (or other toy vehicles) and place a sticker on top and write numbers 1 - 10 using a marker.

The children can then practice recognising numbers 1 - 10 by matching the number shown on each car and

parking it on the corresponding number in the car park. You can also draw dots to match the corresponding

numbers to help the children count. To challenge the children you

can use up to 20 cars and car park spaces.

BEST EVER NO-COOK PLAY DOUGH RECIPE!

WHY NOT TRY TO MAKE YOUR OWN PLAY DOH THIS WEEK, JUST MAKE SURE TO HAVE AN ADULT HELP YOU

WITH THE HOT WATER!

You need:

• 2 cups plain flour (all purpose)

• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil (baby oil and coconut oil work too)

• 1/2 cup salt

• 2 tablespoons cream of tartar

• 1 to 1.5 cups boiling water (adding in increments until it feels just right)

• gel food colouring (optional)

• few drops glycerine (my secret ingredient for stretch and shine!) *optional

Method:

• Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar and oil in a large mixing bowl

• Add food colouring to the boiling water then into the dry ingredients

• Stir continuously until it becomes a sticky, combined dough

• Add the glycerine (optional)

• Allow it to cool down then take it out of the bowl and knead it vigorously for a couple of minutes until all of the stickiness has gone. * This is the most important part of the process, so keep at it until it’s the perfect consistency!*

• If it remains a little sticky then add a touch more flour until just right

Once cooled you can play with your home made playdoh, HAVE fUN !!

Remember to post your pictures on twitter so we can see your playdoh creations.

Play on Pedals

• Ask your child to colour in their bike.

• Cut out the bike parts shown below.

• Read the word out to your child.

• Ask your child to place the word next to the correct part on their picture.

Front spokes Frame

Back Spokes Handle Bars

Seat Front Tyre

Back Tyre

HAVE FUN !

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This week Mrs Forgie has been making Empire Biscuits, why don’t you give it a try. You can help measure out the

ingredients, mix everything together, and then decorate your biscuits… HAVE FUN!

Empire Biscuits

Ingredients

For the Biscuits

• 130 g Caster Sugar

• 250 g Butter

• 1 Egg

• 500 g Plain Flour

For the Decoration

• Strawberry or Raspberry Jam

• 200 g Icing Sugar

• Few teaspoons of boiling water

• Glace Cherries/Gummy Sweeties/Icing Shapes

Instructions

• Pre-heat your oven to 180°c (or 160°c for a fan assisted oven) and line a couple of baking trays with greaseproof paper.

• Cream your butter & sugar on a medium speed until light & fluffy.

• Add the egg and mix until combined then sift in the flour and mix to form a dough.

• Roll the dough on a floured surface to around 1cm thick. Using a round cutter, cut your biscuits & transfer to your baking tray.

• Bake for around 10 minutes until the edges of the biscuit are just golden.

• When still warm but cool enough to touch, add the jam to the under side of half your biscuits and pop the other half on top of these to sandwich together.

• When completely cool, make your icing by mixing icing sugar & gradually adding the boiling water until you're happy with the consistency - "gloopy" is a great way to describe it! Gently dip the top of your biscuits into the icing to cover and top with your decoration of choice!

Remember to post your finished biscuits on twitter… ENJOY

Literacy Activities

1.Fine motor practice.

Anything that will strengthen your child’s fine motor skills is incredibly helpful when they start

school.

Here are some ideas:

Paintbrush, water and the back fence

Using crayons and pencils and blank paper

Chalk on a concrete space outside

Lego

Playdough and Sand

Cooking – kneading, stirring, whisking, rolling.

2. Writing and posting a letter

“Write” a letter or draw a picture and post it to a family member or friend. Ask them to write

back……it’s always exciting to get mail when you are a child!

Windmills.

This activity will help your child understand the movement required to pedal a bike.

How to play:

• Talk to your child about windmills – what kind of movement do they make? They go round

and round in a clockwise (forward) motion

• Lie on your back on the ground. This would be best done inside if wet, but do go outside if

its dry! Demonstrate to your child the forward circular movement your legs make when

pedalling a bike

• Ask your child to lie on her back, and copy your movement

• Check that your child is molving his legs in a clockwise (forward) motion

Learning outdoors – Nature walk

Go on an adventure with your little one to see if you can find any

of these things. Talk about:

• What do trees need for them to grow?

• Different types of flowers

• What do ducks eat?

• Different shapes and sizes of leaves

• Take the leaves home and do some leaf printing

• Different textures

• Use sticks and other objects you may find on your walk to create a house for stickman

Share your adventures on twitter

Simple numeracy activities

Counting Songs for children

Here are some of our favourite counting rhymes from nursery which you can

sing with your children. Some of these teach rote counting forwards or

backwards (e.g. reciting from one to 10) and some teach number concept (e.g.

there were 5, one fell off, now there are 4).

1. Five Little Monkeys

Five little monkeys jumping on the bed

One fell off and bumped his head

Mama called the doctor

And the doctor said

No more monkeys jumping on the bed

Four little monkeys jumping on the bed…

Three little monkeys jumping on the bed…

Repeat verses until there are no little monkeys left

2. Five Little Speckled Frogs

Five little speckled frogs

Sat on a speckled log

Eating some most delicious bugs.

YUM! YUM!

One jumped into the pool,

Where it was nice and cool,

Then there were four speckled frogs!

GLUB! GLUB!

Four little speckled frogs…

Three little speckled frogs…

3. Ten Green Bottles

Ten green bottles

Hanging on the wall

Ten green bottles

Hanging on the wall

And if one green bottle

Should accidentally fall

There’ll be nine green bottles

Hanging on the wallFive Fat Sausages

Five fat sausages sizzling in a pan

The grease got hot – and one went “BANG”!

4. One, Two, Three, Four, Five

One, two, three, four, five,

Once I caught a fish alive

Six, seven, eight, nine, ten,

Then I let it go again.

Why did you let it go?

Because it bit my finger so.

Which finger did it bite?

This little finger on my right

Mrs Forgie has been doing lots of Arts & Crafts with her little girl over lockdown. You can make lots

of different prints using your hands and feet. why not try them at home!

Here are some ideas!

Have Fun!

What other prints can you make?

Share your ideas on twitter

Salt dough hand prints

2 cups of flour

½ cup of salt

Cup of water

Mix together, then roll

Print your hands

Put in the oven on 120 for 3

hours

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Literacy Activities

Last week Mrs Yeaman read the story The Tiger Who came to Tea by Judith Kerr.

1. What is your favourite story ? Tweet us a photo of you and your favourite book somewhere

cosy or strange !

2. Can you gather objects from your house the begin with the sound “t” for Tiger?

3. When you are on your daily walk/exercise what else can you see that begins with the sound

“t”?

Your grown up could tweet us a picture of some of the things you find!

Numeracy Activities

1. Label some containers with some numbers that you would like your child to practise and

prepare objects to count. For example:buttons , pegs , crayons etc. Your child can then

count out the correct number of objects using tongs or their fingers and place them in

the container to match the number.

2. I Spy: You can play this game with shapes and colours. “I spy something round” ,“I spy

something blue” To give an extra clue you could count each one that you see.

Mini pizza quiches

PREP: 10 MINS COOK: 15 MINS It’S EASY MAKES 6

TREE BARK RUBBING

Method

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Using a 12cm

cutter (or a small plate) cut circles from the

large tortilla wraps – you should get 6.

Use the circles to line 6 holes of a muffin tin,

pushing them into the holes to make cases.

Beat the eggs and pour into the tortilla cases

(you can add some chopped vegetables too, if you

like).

Top each case with a slice of ham or bacon and

1/2 a cherry tomato.

Bake for 15 mins until the egg has set. and serve

with extra tomatoes and vegetable sticks.

You can help to cut up vegetables, mix the eggs and fill up the tortilla cases.

Always be careful when using kitchen knvies and hot ovens, and make sure you have an adult to help you.

Make sure to post a picture of your finished pizza quiches on twitter, why not make a picnic and enjoy

them in the garden!

Enjoy

Ingredients

2 large tortilla wraps

4 Eggs

chopped vegetables (optional)

6 slices of ham, bacon or salami

3 cherry tomatoes, halved, plus extra to serve

handful basil leaves

Vegetable sticks, to serve

What you need:

Sellotape

Paper (the larger the better)

Coloured Crayons with wrapper off

How to:

Just stick the paper to the tree and make bark patterns using different coloured crayons. Talk about the

texture of the tree and how it feels. What’s your child’s favourite colour? Do it on different trees and compare

the patterns. Have fun and share your pictures with us on Twitter!

Ask your child to cut out the pictures.

Mix the pictures up.

Read a sentence to your child.

Ask your child to find the picture that is relevant to the sentence.

Place the picture next to the relevant sentence.

ART AND CRAFT

WHAT YOU NEED:

A BAG TO COVER THE TABLE

SHAVING FOAM

PAINT OR FOOD COLOURING (OPTIONAL)

CLING FILM

ENJOY MESSY PLAY WITHOUT GETTING MESSY!

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5 Easy things you can do to support your child in preparation

for Primary One

1. Encourage your child to dress

themselves. This will help them get ready

for PE lessons and to put their own jacket

on at playtime.

3. Teach your child to

wash their hands independently. Especially

after going to the toilet. I am sure they

are experts by now!

2. Help your child to put their shoes

on the correct feet. Ideas to help:

Cut a favourite sticker in half and

place in each shoe. When you put

the shoes together the sticker will

match up.

If the shoes have Velcro put the 2

shoes side by side and when the

Velcro straps touch tell your child

the straps can talk to each other.

5. Identify their own lunch bag

4. Let them practise opening their

own snacks, healthy of course.

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Some Simple Number Activities

1. If you go out for a walk with your child ask

them to look at the numbers on doors,

signs, car number plates and identify the

numbers.

2. When you bring the washing in get your child

to help match the socks , put them into

pairs and then count the pairs.

3. Write numbers 1-5, 1-10 or 1-20 on a piece

of paper and taking in to account your

child’s ability to recognise the numbers line

up some numbers and ask your child what

number comes first, next or before each

number.

4. If your child is confident with numbers place

5 numbers in a line and tell your child to

close their eyes and tell them the number

fairy is going to steal one of the numbers.

Then get them to tell you which number is

missing.

5. Kim’s game -Take a tray and place 5

different objects on the tray and let your

child see and touch the objects. Then cover

Play on Pedals Cycling together is a really good way to take your daily exercise. Cycling Scotland strongly recommends the use of a balance bike during the early stages of riding a bike. They suggest that the transition from balance bike to pedal bike will be easier if children are confident on a balance bike. Now is a good time to practice! If you do not have a balance bike you could consider removing stabilisers, and pedals if possible, from an older bike. Here are some simple ideas to get them started! SAFETY FIRST Don’t forget to ensure your child’s helmet is fitted safely. The helmet should fit just above your child’s eyebrows. Your child should be able to bend their neck and gently “wobble” their head without the helmet moving around. FROG FEET

• Ask your child to tell you “how does a frog

jump”?

• Ask your child to jump like a frog for you and ask, “Do you see how you use both your feet”?

• Then ask your child to sit on their bike and this time they PUSH with both feet, like a frog, and then lift their feet

• You can reinforce the “frog feet” by repeating to your child “PUSH like a frog”

• Tell your child: “The harder you push, the faster you’ll go”!

• Why not try some frog noises???

THE FLOOR IS LAVA! Our nursery children love this game, and we know you play this a lot at home too! Why not ask your child to sit on their bike and then take a big frog push to escape the lava?

• Continue to encourage your child to push like a frog with two feet at once, lifting their feet off the ground as they ride their balance bike

• Then shout “THE FLOOR IS LAVA”

• Your child needs to lift BOTH feet in the air to escape the lava!

them with a tea towel, discreetly take one

away and ask your child which one is

missing. Great for memorising.

Baking - Banana Muffins Why don’t you try to make some yummy banana muffins this week?

You can help:

Weigh and count out the ingredients Mix everything together

Clean up Then eat the delicious muffins

Bananas are a healthy food and are very good for you. Can you find other healthy foods around the house, try to find as many as you can and discuss these with an adult. Remember to post your muffin pictures on twitter so that we can see them.

Enjoy!

Learning Outdoors - Fairy Soup What you need:

• Bag or basket

• Old saucepan/bowl and spoon

• Scissors

What you need:

• Empty Milk Carton

• Pens (optional)

• Stickers (stickers)

• String

• Scissors Once you have decorated it, you can fill it with

seeds and see what birds visit your garden.

• Natural colourful ingredients you find on a walk

• Food colouring or paint, glitter or sprinkles (optional)

On your walk, bring a basket or bag to collect items

for your fairy soup. Look for colourful flowers, varied

coloured and sized leaves, small stones, sticks,

anything interesting! Talk about size, smell, colour,

weight, feel with your child. Allow your child to pick

the items.

Bring them home and get some scissors, a bowl,

spoon. If you have food colouring, paint, sprinkles or

glitter, they could be added too! Get your child to

cut up the bigger leaves and flowers with the

scissors and add them to the pot, add all the other

ingredients and stir them up well. Leave the soup in

a corner of the garden, where a fairy might find it!

Literacy and Communication – Down on the Farm

We have enjoyed seeing what you have been doing on Twitter……..thank you to your grown ups! One of the tweets reminded us of one of your favourite nursery songs, Old McDonald had a Farm. We miss hearing your lovely singing voices so maybe you could sing it and your grown up could tweet it to us? It doesn’t have to be the whole song just your favourite animal from on the farm. Here is a link to a game about farm animals. Can you guess the animal from the noise it makes? https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/puzzles/down-on-the-farm-animal-sounds-quiz We had been learning some Makaton signs in nursery before we closed. In this clip, Mrs Yeaman will show you the Makaton signs for some animals you may see on a farm. You could try to do the Makaton sign for your favourite animal and your grown up could tweet it to us! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgHG8bXlPUk