Terrific Tuesday! 14/7/20 

Dear Parent/Carer, 

The Nursery team hope that you and your children are safe and well. Here are some ideas and 

suggestions for a great day with your child. Choose your favourite 3 or do more and if you can, 

take some photos to share. 

Over the week we will be reviewing stories your child has learnt throughout the year. See what they 

can remember about any of the stories before reading/watching them and completing activities. 

Story of the Day! 

● Little Red Riding Hood (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDMWJCrDVMI)  

Match the animal sounds! ( 10-15 minutes max) 

● Visit the phonics play website and play the game ‘Sound 

Starters.’’  

● https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/1/sound-starters 

● Explore pressing the different buttons to hear all the different 

sounds. Talk about what the different sounds are and what it is 

that could make that sound. 

● What sound did you hear? What do you think made that sound? 

● Can you make some other strange sounds! 

 

Wake and Shake! (Suggested time 10 minutes max) 

● Watch the link for Fairy Tale Fitness- Little Red Riding Hood.. 

● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u5QoqgtT9w 

● Follow along with the actions and use the time to sit calmly and 

quietly.  

● Can you copy the actions? 

● Can you use all your body? What moves can you do? 

● What was your favourite move? 

● Should we talk to strangers? 

 

Draw a map! (Suggested time 15 minutes) 

● Let’s make a map to help Little Red Riding Hood get to Grandma’s 

house safely.  

● Support your child to draw the map or use coloured paper to 

make pictures for your map.  

● Start with Little Red Riding Hood house and make a path.  

● What might she see along the way? Trees, flowers or the Big Bad 

Wolf? 

● Remember to make Grandma’s house as well. 

● Can you get an adult to help you label the different parts of your 

map? 

● Maybe you could then try making a map for someone in the family such as how to get from the 

bedroom to the kitchen or from your house to the park.  

 

Maths (Suggested time 15 minutes) 

● Let’s practise some counting. 

● Support your child to look at the pictures of characters/objects from the’ Little Red Riding 

Hood’ story. 

● Count how many of each object there are and then try writing the correct number the circle 

provided. 

● How many objects can you count? Which object is there 4 of? How many Little Red Riding 

Hood’s are there? 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snack/Lunch (15 minutes) 

● Little Red Riding Hood is taking some cupcakes to Grandma.  

● With an adult, make some cupcakes to give to family members.  

● Follow the recipe from 

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/587/easy-kids-cupcakes.aspx 

● You will need: 

● 70g (6 oz) butter or margarine, 170g (6 oz) sugar, 3 eggs, 170g (6 

oz) self-raising flour. 

● With an adult follow the instructions and carefully bake in the over 

following the recipe.  

● When cooked and cooled, decorate with your favorite decorations.  

● If you have a basket, fill it with the cupcakes and deliver them to family 

members like Little Red Riding Hood.   

  

Playtime 

● Go on a family walk with grownups and see if you can 

explore an area like the forest that Little Red Riding 

Hood walked through to get to Grandma’s house.  

● If there is no forest area, find some trees in a park 

and pretend it is a forest. 

● What can you see on your walk? Are there any trees 

or flowers? 

● Pretend you are going somewhere. Where are you 

going? 

● You could even dress up as a character from the story. 

● Are you bringing anything with you? 

● Are there any strangers on your walk? 

● Talk with an adult about what a stranger is; someone 

we do not know and should not talk to without a 

familiar adult.  

 

 

Topic Activity! (15 minutes) 

● Little Red Riding Hood is going to visit her Grandma.  

● Maybe you haven’t seen your grandparents or other family 

members in a while.  

● Support your child to try writing a letter to another family 

member that does not live with you. You could talk about what you 

have been doing at home? If you have learnt to do anything 

new?If you have gone back to school?  

● You could also take some photos of what you have been doing 

and encourage your child to try labeling the pictures.  

 

 

 

 

Storytime 

● Watch the story of Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion on 

YouTube. 

● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vewVqfMc_Hs 

● This is a twist on the original fairy tale.  

● Watch the story and talk about the characters and what happens 

in the story. 

● Is it the same or different to the ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ story 

that you know? 

 

 

 

Apps you Might Like to Explore with Your Child  

 

  CBeebies Storytime is filled with free interactive story books and bedtime stories for 

young children and is a great way to enjoy reading with your little one. The library is 

always growing, with amazing stories featuring all the CBeebies’ favourites.  

  

CBeebies Playtime Island contains a wide range of fun and educational games 

to help children understand the world around them and support the 

development of core skills. Children can play along with all of CBeebies’ most 

popular characters.  

 

 

 

Lingumi provides a course focused on spoken and communicative English. The app provides 

sets of learning games, speech recognition games and video-based games to help the child 

grow their grammar and get them speaking their first words.  

   

 

Kaligo is a digital handwriting exercise book designed to teach children how to 

write using a stylus and tablet, built on an AI machine learning platform. A 

self-paced approach enables children to progress at their own speed according 

to their own ability, whilst AI Machine learning provides real-time corrective 

feedback.  

 

Fonetti is a Listening Bookshop™ that provides young children with a patient, 

comforting listening ear to help in the learning-to-read journey, but also with the 

added benefit of tracking progress, identifying reading challenges, and highlighting to 

their adult carers where the most support is needed. 

 

Phonics websites that you can access 

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/#https://www.phonicsbloom.com/ 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds