Ni hao!
Did you think about the seven days of the week yesterday? Today is Friday, the last day of the school and nursery week and assembly day. Please look on our Team for this week’s assembly focusing on achievements.
Here are today’s suggestions for learning by helping at home:
- Practise maths concepts of sorting, grouping and organising by sorting the laundry, going through a mixed up box of toys or by clearing out the cutlery tray and returning everything to its place. Perhaps you could count how many items are in each group. Maybe you could count back as you return each one to its place.
2. Help to prepare a simple meal or snack. Develop fine motor control by spreading, cutting, slicing or mixing. Can you cut some things into two equal parts? Cut them in half?
3. Plan a menu for next week by talking about the things you would like to eat. Why don’t you try to eat at least three new things next week? One new fruit, one new vegetable and one new meal. Write and draw your plan and help to write a shopping list.
4. One of the things we need to do to stay healthy is wash our hands and body but we also need to make sure that our homes are clean. Can you help your adult to clean a room at home?
5. Even when we are thinking about being safe and healthy we can sometimes have an accident. How do your adults at home and nursery help you if you have a fall or a bump? What would they do if it was a very deep cut or a big bump? Who might they call for help? Do you know how to get help for you or your adult if you need to? What do you do in an emergency? Talk about this together.
6. Do you have any pets at home? What do they need humans to do to look after them? Can you help with some of those jobs today? Maybe you could look online or in a book to find out more about your animal. I hope Tessa and Rocco enjoyed learning a bit more about caterpillars yesterday!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/my-pet-and-me
7. Parents are often very busy working and looking after you. They can be very tired but they also need time to do things they like. Your parents might not play the same games as you but they will have their favourite things to do. Why don’t you find out something that your parent really likes to do and try it together? Maybe they know about cars and can show you under the bonnet, or perhaps there is a special place they have visited that they can show you in photos or a video. Maybe they are really good at drawing and could show you or perhaps you could go on a short run with them if that is something they like doing. Why don’t you draw a picture of your adult doing their special thing?
8. If you have a garden there may be jobs to be done there. Can you help to rake up grass once it has been cut or maybe you can look carefully to identify weeds and pull them up. Lots of you are great at washing and sweeping up in the Little Garden so maybe you could do that at home. Why don’t you build a den to relax in after all that helping around the house?
9. Being busy and active helps us to feel good about ourselves. Having some things that we do every day – a routine – also helps most of us. Recently we have had to change or routines or maybe we have lost them altogether. Why don’t you take some time to agree a plan for things your child will do each day, either independently or with your help. This will help now but also for their return to nursery/school.
