Year Nursery Work Book Week 3

Literacy – The Very lazy Ladybird

Hello Nursery (Explorers)!We hope you all had a good Easter break even though it was very different! Did you complete

some of the Easter activities and crafts we sent you? We have seen some on tapestry from children and they looked great! Keep posting

I will being calling you all over the next week just to check you are okay and give you some help for your learning so if you have any questions please just ask. Mrs Hardy will be ringing to make sure you can get on tapestry so that we can see your great learning. It is so important

we see your fab learning so we can remind ourselves of how great you all are! We can’t wait for you to complete this week’s learning jobs. They are based on ‘The very lazy

ladybird’ story, and bugs and insects. Stay Safe

Mrs Bembridge and Mrs Crookes xx

Useful Websites

Twinkl.co.uk is offering a free membership during school closure so you can log on and download anything from their website. You can then print them for your children to complete.Phonicsplay.co.uk is also offering free membership. Here you can find phonics games and word banks to practise with your children.Topmarks has maths challenges and games that are suitable for a range of ages. BBC bitesize are releasing daily videos to support home learning covering lots of curriculum areas. Some of it might be too old for your child but you may find some useful.

Areas of Learning in Nursery.

Over the next few weeks we will ensure that we plan activities that cover all the areas of learning.

This week the focus will be on;

Physical development

Literacy

Understanding of the World

Mathematics

Communication and Language (phonics)

Day 1 Listen to The Very lazy Ladybird read by Mrs Bembridge on Tapestry ’. Now draw a picture of the main character (Lazy ladybird) you need to remember to use the correct colours and shapes.

Day 2 Listen to the story again.

Think about the word ‘lazy’ and talk to a family member about what the word means. Make a playdough person and put them in lazy positions such as, in bed at 11am.

Day 3 Read the story/watch again.

Make a picture list of each of the animals the lazy ladybird meets during the day.

Day 4 Read the story/watch again.

Using your list of animals from yesterday. Pretend to be each animal and act out the way they move. Then you can ask a family members questions using the action words such as, Can you roar like a lion?

(Swish, jump, roar, swing etc.) Day 5 Read the story/watch again.

Make a story map thinking carefully about the beginning, middle and the end?

Mathematics

Day 1

Counting actions forwards from 3, 4, 6, 8 stopping at 12. Challenge – stopping at 20.

Find something red (placemat, cushion etc) and pretend it’s a ladybird body. Then collect 6 black objects and place them on the body as ladybird spots. Then close your eyes and a family member

will take some objects away and you can count how many you have left over. You can repeat this several time.

Challenge – collect 10 black objects. Day 2

Counting in order. Watch and sing along with the ladybugs song Click here

Challenge – Ask the children to select a number card from a bowl/basket up to 10 they play fastest fingers.

Day 3

Counting actions. Ask a family member to shout out a number and represent the number in different ways. (Claps, jumps, touching toes etc.)

Using half a potato and red paint, stamp some ladybird bodies. Then with black paint add 2 spots, 4 spots, 6 spots to the bodies.

Challenge – Ask a family member to draw a line down the middle of the ladybird’s body. Then using your number bonds to 10 draw the correct number of dots for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Remember both sides of the ladybird must total 10.

Day 4

Count forwards and backwards from 0-12

Using just two coloured object, pieces of card, shapes, lego etc. Can you make a repeating pattern.

Day 5

Count how many potatoes or carrots there are in the vegetable cupboard.

Thinking about repeating patterns. Follow this link to play an interactive repeating pattern game. http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/simple_patterns/eng/Introduction/MainSession.htm

Challenge – make a repeating pattern with 3 objects, shapes, colours.

Communication and Language (Phonics)

Day 1 Sing your favourite nursery rhymes in the garden.

Day 2 Alliteration games - Silly soup Select items with names that begin with the same sound. Talk about them and then make some ‘silly soup’ by putting ‘ingredients’ (e.g. a banana, bumble bee and bug) into a pan in the role-play area. You could turn the silly soup into a song.

Day 3 Listen to a rhyming story. Rhyming Rabbit Click here to listen to the story.

Day 4 Alliteration - Name play Call out your child’s name and make up a fun sentence starting with the name (e.g. Ben has a big, bouncy ball, Kevin keeps kippers in the kitchen, Tim has ten, tickly toes, Fiona found a fine, fat frog). Ask the children to think up similar sentences for their name or another family member.

Day 5 Mirror play Using a mirror play at making faces and copying movements of the lips and tongue. Introduce sound making in the mirror and discuss the way lips move, for example, when sounding out ‘p’ and ‘b’, the way that tongues poke out for ‘th’, the way teeth and lips touch for ‘f’ and the way lips shape the sounds ‘sh’ and ‘m’

Understanding the World.

Activity 1 Ladybird hunt. During your daily exercise search for ladybirds. Count how many you find.

Activity 2 Spring time hunt During your daily exercise complete a signs of Spring hunt.

You can find a copy of the checklist on the Twinkl website. Activity 3 Bugs, insect and bugs.

During your daily exercise or while you’re in the yard or garden. Quietly search for other insects. Draw a pictures of all the insects you find.

Activity 4 Bug hotel. During your daily exercise collect some sticks, grass, leaves etc. then when you get home you can make a bug hotel. I’ve attached some photos to inspire you.

Physical Development

Suggested time: At least 30 minutes of exercise daily

Every day, Monday – Friday, Joe Wicks will be doing a live Youtube video for a PE session appropriate for all primary school children!

Other ideas to ensure you stay active:Draw

Find a yoga video on Youtube to follow with your family. Do some Just Dance or Go Noodle videos! Cosmic Kids Yoga

This Week I would like you all to use your fingers so they get really strong.

You could do some finger painting. Make big chalk patterns in the garden or back yard. Make some playdough

Playdough Recipe (no cooking needed) 2 cups Plain Flour

1 cup Salt

1 tablespoon Oil

1 cup Cold Water

2 drops Liquid Food Colouring (if you have it)

Use your playdough and have fun at the dough disco. Click here for dough disco.