Click on the link below to listen to the story Goat’s coat by Tom Percival and Christine Pym together. You could pause the video or at the end talk about the kind of character Goat is.
Talk to your child about Respected. Respected is one of our SHANARRI words. In the story Goat shows great respect to the other animals helping them out and looking after them. In return they show respect to him by helping him out. We often talk about respecting our resources at nursery and each other. Encourage your child to respect their toys at home by putting them back where they belong and respecting other people at home. Tweet us, email or text us and share examples of your child respecting their home and others they live with.
Play a guessing game together which focuses on listening. Ask your child what animal might make the noises “woof, moo, meow etc”. Give your child clues so they can guess what you are thinking of. e.g., “it’s an animal with 4 legs and it goes woof.” You could use animals from todays story. If your child is able to, encourage them to give you clues about an animal. Take turns to give clues and guess the animal.
Use plastic tubs, containers, cups or anything you can find in the house to fill up in the bath or when washing the dishes with your child. Demonstrate to your child what full and empty look like and what heavy and light may feel like whilst modelling language using the words full, empty, heavy and light. Take turns to do this together.
Support your child to continue to develop their fine and gross motor skills. Whilst making your child’s bed encourage them to join in asking questions such as where does the pillow go? Do the buttons of the cover go at the top or the bottom of the bed?
1. Click on the video below to listen to the story Kitchen disco by Clare Foges and Al Murray together. Once you have finished listening, talk about your favourite fruits together and why it is important to eat fruit.
2. In the story the fruit come alive at night and have a disco together. Put on your favourite music and play musical statues together.
Talk to your child about nurtured. Nurtured is one of our SHANARRI words. This week’s story is all about fruit. At nursery, the children help with planting and nurturing plants (including fruits) to grow. Talk with your child about what plants need to be able to grow.
Encourage your child to sort by colour around the house. You could give them a collection of items or pile of clothes e.g. t-shirts or socks for them to put into piles. For example, all the blue things together and all the green things together or they could go looking around the house to find items of their own to sort by colour before putting them back where they belong.
Support your child to continue to develop their fine motor skills. Encourage them to help you hang up the washing.
Do some dancing together. Search Just dance kids on Youtube. There are lots of different dances linked to children’s favourite characters and songs with actions for you to copy together. Or put on your favourite music and dance together.
2. Talk to your child about achieving. Achieving is one of our SHANARRI words. Talk to your child about anything they have been trying really hard to do or something they would like to be able to do and set a target together. It might be putting zipping up their coat, getting dressed by themselves or putting their shoes on.
3. Encourage your child to do some matching around the house. This could include matching together pairs of socks or shoes or sorting out cutlery. If they understand this concept, they could try counting how many they have altogether.
4. Make a model using anything you have lying around the house e.g. recycling such as cardboard boxes, plastic yoghurt tubs, milk jugs or anything else that you can find.
5. Do races in the garden or when out for a walk. This could involve a running race, hopping race or skipping race.
2. Talk to your child about being safe. Safe is one of our SHANARRI words. At nursery children help to prepare snack cutting up different foods. They talk about how to be safe when cutting. Talk to your child about how to be safe when they help you to prepare foods or how to keep safe when you are out for a walk.
3. Play hide and seek together.
4. Play a listening game together. Take turns to hum a tune your child knows well and encourage them to listen and guess which song it is.
5. Whilst looking out the window or out for a walk encourage your child to tell you what they see. Add a word onto what your child says modelling how to describe it to them. E.g. if your child says “car” you might say “A red car.”
Do some yoga together based on favourite characters including Superheroes, Frozen, Trolls, Star wars and Minecraft. Search Cosmic kids yoga on Youtube for a range of different videos.
2. Talk to your child about being responsible. This is one of our SHANARRI words. At nursery children are responsible for washing their own dishes. Encourage your child to help at home by washing the dishes or helping to do the washing.
3. When out for a walk or in the garden find different ways of travelling e.g. skipping, hopping, running and jumping.
4. Create a treasure hunt around the house. This may involve hiding children’s toys or hiding socks. You may wish to give your child clues along the way e.g. “it’s where we make food”, “it’s in the room you sleep in” or “It’s near to the window” etc.
5. Encourage your child to compare the size different objects around the house using the language of bigger and smaller e.g. “Is the Tv bigger or smaller than the pillow?” “Is the milk jug bigger or smaller than the juice bottle?” If your child understands the concept they could try and order a group of objects lining them up from smallest to biggest.
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