Month: January 2021

We would love to hear about the different activities that you are enjoying with your family during this period of home learning.

Starting next week Snap Shot books will be available for collection from the nursery foyer. They will be on the blue trolleys and organised by group. Please come and collect your book at a time that suits you between 8am and 3pm.

Each day there will also be a selection of home learning bags available for collection. When you have finished with a bag please place it in the large plastic boxes as usual so they can be quarantined and checked.

It is so exciting to have woken up to the world being covered in snow! If you get the chance to take your learning outdoors today, here are a couple of activities you could try!

Activities

Pop into your garden and see how tall a snow man you can make, remember to add eyes, a mouth, a carrot nose and see if you can find sticks for arms. Measure how tall your snowman is when you finish

Draw a large circle in the snow and see how many snowballs you can throw inside it. Remember to count them.

Use a stick or your boot to draw 2D shapes in the snow.

Roll a snowball and then use scales to see how heavy it is.

See how far you can throw a snowball, try measuring the distance in cm.

Challenge

Think of your own maths challenge to try in the snow!

We have been using 2D shapes to build structures and to make pictures. Today we are going to go on a shape hunt and use different objects to build our own 2D shapes.

Activities

Go on a shape hunt, how many different types of 2D shapes can you find?

Use sticks or other natural materials to make as many different 2D shapes as you can.

Draw a  picture using only 2D shapes.

How many words can you think of to describe the different 2D shapes?

Today lets think about different modes of transport and ways that we can travel from one place to another.

Activities

How many different modes of transport can you think of?

Tell a family member about your favourite journey.

Draw a picture of your favourite mode of transport.

Read a story that has one on more vehicles in it.

Design and build a vehicle using blocks, Lego, junk materials or play dough.

Our author of the Month for January in Giles Andreae the author of some of our favourite books including Rumble in the Jungle, Giraffes Can’t Dance and Sir Scallywag.

Which of his books is your favourite?

 

 

Activities

Read your favourite Giles Andreae book.

Put on your favourite piece of music and dance like the giraffe in Giraffes Can’t Dance!

Draw an ocean scene like the one you could see in Commotion in the Ocean.

Think of your favourite jungle animal, find out three facts about it.

Challenge!

Today we are going to have a rhyming challenge! Choose one of the words below and think of as many words as you can that rhyme with it:

sea     cloud