Here is another little gallery of some great activities from home. We love your beautifully decorated hat and the plants look bright and colourful to cheer up your garden. I wonder if you are needing to water them lots as we don’t seem to have had rain for such a long time? It’s great to have the responsibility of looking after your own plants and we feel sure that you will do a super job of it.
We are delighted to be able to share more photos from home of what some of our children were doing over Easter. One of our families worked together to decorate their home beautifully while the other one has been very busy decorating eggs and making chocolate nests.
Thank you for sharing your photos. It’s lovely to see what great activities you have been enjoying.
Isaac W’s family has been enjoying the Twinkl website that we suggested for some home activities:
“This is an excellent resource, we have downloaded lots from here and also the Chester zoo website. Xx”
We are glad you are finding it useful and would encourage other families to have a look at both these sites. You may find something your child is interested in that you could look at together.
Isaac’s family also commented on the photos we posted of some of their activities at home:
“Isaac is having a great time helping in and out of the house. He is learning skills that will hopefully last him a lifetime. Xx”
There is no doubt that he is developing very important skills and it looks like he’s having such great fun with his learning too. Thank you for sharing your photos.
Here’s a great little gallery of some super home learning. It’s certainly hard work helping to make bread but it looks like you made a great job of it. If only we could smell that bread as it looks delicious. Of course, you needed a tea break after all that hard work then it was on to plant potatoes with Daddy. Goodness, you have been very busy.
Thank you so much for sharing your developing skills at home. We would love to hear from other families about what they have been doing.
Eileen, our Lifelong Learning Co-ordinator, has been in touch with an update. She said that the Peep group is continuing online which is great news.
Last week’s activity was about making a magic sounds box and one of our families has kindly shared photos from home of them doing their activity which looks super. An Easter book has also provided fun learning activities, such as matching pairs and cracking a code, which have been done without help from Mum or Dad so very well done to this little pupil.
We would love to hear what others have been doing so that we can share it on our blog. Click on the “Leave a comment” link to the left of this post or look at “How to add a comment” on the right, under Support Information, for simple instructions if you are unsure how to leave us a message.
Rhymes are not only fun and engaging for young children but they can make a real difference to their language and literacy. Research suggests that children who have a good understanding of rhyme do better in literacy than children who have poor skills in this area.
• The rhythm of nursery rhymes can help children’s listening skills – they are the foundations of the careful listening needed for developing clear speech.
• Rhyme helps children begin to recognise patterns in words and to discriminate between different sounds, for example ‘cat’ and ‘hat’, which are the skills needed in the future when sounding out words for reading.
• Many nursery rhymes and songs also have their own actions that can help to engage even those who struggle to listen and most children enjoy the combination of music and actions. Actions encourage them to take part, engaging them in repetitive songs and rhymes, which in turn support their language development.
• Finally, singing and rhyming is a wonderful way for families to bond with your children. Music is proven to help reduce stress levels and spending just a few minutes a day sharing a song or rhyme together can have a positive impact on everyone’s mental health.
This unprecedented closure of nurseries and schools is an opportunity to have fun with your children, learning lots of different nursery rhymes which will not only be a wonderful experience to share but will also benefit their development for the future. We will put a “Nursery Rhyme of the Week” on our blog during the times that the children would normally have been in Nursery as a suggestion, but the more rhymes they enjoy, the better.
We suggest starting with “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” as most children are familiar with it and should be able to join in with the words and actions. We will be listening hard for Hecklegirth Nursery children singing “Twinkle Twinkle” all over the town.
We hope that you are all staying safe and healthy at home. We would like to share some suggestions of activities you may like to do with your children.
• Look at books with your family.
• Sing songs and dance.
• Help tidy away your toys.
• Set the table, counting out the plates and cutlery.
• Help write shopping lists and find the items in the shop.
• Discuss the ingredients that will be used for meal preparation and help to make a meal.
• Bake some cakes.
• Help to weed the garden.
• Play games and practise listening and taking turns.
• Build dens.
• Dress up.
• Let your imagination run wild!! Children are great at creating their own fun and games.
• Most importantly play and have fun, spending time with your loved ones.
• Children learn from everything they do and can gain so much from the interactions they have with the people around them. Make the most of this precious time with your little ones.
I wonder how many of you have been enjoying stories with your families this week? It’s a great chance to revisit your old favourites and to get to know some not so familiar. You could look online for stories as well as enjoying those you may have at home. These children from the Raindrop Room enjoyed looking at books outdoors recently which you could perhaps do if you have a garden? Please leave a comment to let us know if you have enjoyed any good stories this week and we can share it with others.
What a lot of patience and perseverance these young builders displayed when playing in the construction area. We were all very impressed with your super construction.
With so many children showing great interest in dinosaurs, we talked about how big they were compared to us as children and adults then how big they might have been compared to the Nursery corridor or the playground. Once some serious measuring had been done, we laid this paper out on the playground to help us appreciate just how huge dinosaurs were which certainly made everyone think.
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