Bonjour!
COMING UP:
* Braidbar Nursery Blethers this week:
| Tuesday 02.02 @11am | BLUE + YELLOW GROUPS (Apples) |
| Tuesday 02.02 @1pm | ORANGE + AQUA GROUPS (Bananas) |
| Wednesday 03.02 @1pm | RED + PINK GROUPS (Apples) |
| Thursday 04.02 @2pm | GREEN + PURPLE GROUPS (Bananas) |
Please remember that you are welcome to join us at another time if the designated group time doesn’t suit your family.
*Diary dates – Friday 5th February = In-Service day
– Monday and Tuesday 8th and 9th February = Holidays
Did you take part in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch at the weekend? We’d love to know what you saw and heard. Maybe it led you to find out more about birds. Please share with us on Teams. Today we invite you to develop early literacy, numeracy and other skills whilst looking at birds again.
A. 
This is a picture of a bird called a Chaffinch. Birds have different parts like beaks and claws. This picture has words on it. They tell you what the different parts are called. Can you ask someone to read them out to you? Can you draw a picture of a bird and label it using the picture to help you?
Maybe you could draw a picture of yourself in the same way and label the parts of your own body as you name them. Add as much detail as possible. You might want to do this in your special learning book, if you still have it at home.
B. Practise counting, numerals and problem solving with Owl: https://nrich.maths.org/12744
C. 
On Teams, Miss Paterson described magpies collecting and hiding treasures in her garden. In this hide and reveal game, your child can practise the skill of subitising. This games can be played with stones, pasta shapes, lego bricks or any other small pieces that can easily be covered by a bowl. This skill can also be practised with more regular formations that can be found on dice, playing cards or dominoes. Quite simply, the objects should be hidden, uncovered and your child should say how many WITHOUT doing 1-1 counting. Start with one and see how far you can go!
D. This week is National Storytelling Week. Why don’t you begin by looking through your books and finding stories which feature birds? You could read some of them and perhaps some non-fiction books about birds too. Using what you know, why don’t you tell your own bird story? It could be about a real bird. A superhero bird. A bird from another planet. It might be that you use your imagination to create a story about birds that visit your garden….You could draw, write or act out your story, maybe making a puppet of the main character. We’d love to hear and see what you come up with.
E. Watching videos without language helps your child to focus on other visual clues that are important for early reading skills. You can help them to make predictions or ask and answer different types of questions e.g. What happened? What will happen next? How do you think he feels? What would you do if..?
F. Here are some action rhymes and songs. Repeating these and being able to recite rhymes is a valuable skill in early literacy development.
G. We know that birds lay eggs. Can you use some reading and measure skills to follow an egg recipe this week?
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/search/recipes?q=eggs
H. One bird we often see in towns and cities is the pigeon. Why don’t you join Jaime and Nelson the pigeon to move your body on a yoga adventure? Namaste!
I. Can you count back from 10 with these birds? Can you begin from an even higher number and count back? Maybe you could use a visual number line to help you get started.
J.
