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Make your own musical instrunment: Try at home

Make your own musical instrument!
Use things around the house to see if you can make quiet or loud sounds. Can you shake, hit or scrape?
Please watch the video below where you will see Miss Heenan playing a tune on her Euphonium, some of the nursery ladies and Harry the Hedgehog making use of items around their home to create musical instruments.
Your try at home challenge is to join our BEYC band.
Please send videos and photographs to us using twitter @WLBEYC or uploading onto your Online Learners Journal. Miss Kelly will use all the photos/videos to make a video showing our band together!

Some items you could use to make your own instruments… 

 

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”Harry the Hedgehog wishes everyone a Happy Easter ”

                                                    Good Morning Everyone 🙂
We hope  everyone is doing well 🙂

 Are you excited  about  Easter ?  …………………Harry is very excited !!!
 And because  Harry  is so  excited that he came up with the idea of  creating  his own Easter bonnet. He asked Miss Collins to help him, together they looked for things that they could use for Harry’s Easter bonnet ,they searched and searched and they still couldn’t decide what to use .   Suddenly Miss Collins remembered that  in one of her drawers she  should still have collage that  she  used the last time . 
 She took out different colour of shreds paper  , paints and Easter crafts, showed it to Harry, and then asked: “Harry, do you think this is suitable for your Easter bonnet ?” ”
Harry jumped excitedly and shouted: “It’s beautiful, that’s what I was looking for to make my Easter bonnet.”  Harry sat down to work and made his own Easter bonnet of green and yellow paper, carrots, Easter eggs, ladybugs, a flower and a small rabbit on the front his Easter bonnet .Then with a big smile on his face, he put it on his little head and said “Now I’m ready for Easter”
Then he added  ” I wish you all a happy Easter.”

If you want to share your excitement with your nursery friends about Easter, please send us photos and videos  🙂

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Alphabet Egg Hunt: Try at Home

Harry the Hedgehog was delighted to be invited to take part in an alphabet egg hunt. Miss Collins hid eggs with both uppercase and lowercase letters written on the egg shapes to help support Harry’s early literacy skills by identifying and recognising letter names (B) and letter sounds (b).

Try at Home Challenge: 
1. Help your grown up design the Alphabet Easter eggs.
2. Close your eyes and give your grown up a countdown to hide the eggs inside and outside your home.
3. Set a timer and get moving, finding all 26 Easter eggs as fast as you can.
4. Can you find all the letter eggs from your name and names in your family?
5.Can you find all the letter eggs in the word RAINBOW/rainbow?
6.Now your turn to hide the eggs and your grown up can go on the egg hunt.

Please upload photos or video clips into your child’s Learning Journal using the learning from home tab under your child’s profile photo or upload to twitter @WLBEYC.

Thank you all for taking part and keeping the nursery ladies smiling! 

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Try at home with Harry the Hedgehog Make your own homemade game or props to explore numbers ,match and sort .

Hello everyone 🙂

We hope everyone is doing well !!!
As you already know Harry is a nice hedgehog who likes learn  new things all the time …

            

Last night Harry wanted to play  a math  game e.g. count, sort and match .So together with Miss Collins , they designed a  math game to support Harry in learning how to count ,match ,sort ,and recognize numbers .
They drew 8 houses, wrote the number on each of them, and then cut out the squares on which they wrote the number and  drew various shapes corresponding to the number on the house.

When the game was ready, Harry and Miss Collins played the game for a long time , counting ,matching and sorting  .  …. because …. “” It was great fun, “said Harry and Miss Collins.

So everyone… Try at home challenge is  .   Create your own homemade  math game that will support the development  of  at least one or all of the following skills e.g.   counting, matching, sorting and recognition of numbers. Use your creativity and use everything that you like e.g. you can draw,  cut out, use household items, toys etc.

Please  share  your ideas with nursery friends  by sending photos ,videos 🙂

Good luck everyone !!!

 

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Guess Who? – Try at Home

Guess Who?
So many of us have lots of fabulous photographs of loved ones stored on our digital devices but when was the last time you looked through old photos or even brought the photo albums out? Over the next week your challenge is to spend time with your family and children playing Guess Who while looking at your family photographs? Who would’ve thought mummy or daddy were tiny babies!
Head over to our twitter page to see the nursery ladies joining in, can you Guess Who from our photographs? https://twitter.com/wlbeyc?s=20

Spending time looking at old photos can inspire curiosity and creativity, what was in fashion then, what was the most popular toy, what did digital technology look like then? Can you create a scrap book or time capsule  using current photos and belongings to remember this time in the future?  Could you use digital technology to call/face time a relative to tell them about the photographs you have found?

Harry the Hedgehog was suprised to see his baby photo!

Can you guess the ladies below?

 

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Mindful Walking – Try at Home

Connecting with our minds and bodies is often easier said than done, when we are busy our mind can wander instead of focusing on what is all around us and the present moment. Over the next few weeks try focusing on the statments below asking your child the following questions if you are out for your walk or in your garden or street. (Staying within Government guidlines)
This may support your child’s emotional health and wellbeing during this period of change. 
When we go for a mindful walk we really try to notice every little detail around us – trees, cars, flowers, clouds and the how our bodies feel at that moment.
Feel your feet on the ground and notice how you walk, heels lifting up and toes pressing down.
Think about the sounds your feet make as you walk.
Take big deep breaths of the fresh air.
Stop for a moment and notice how your body feels, is your heart beating a bit faster?
Look up at the sky and notice what you can hear.
What can you smell?
Find something to look at, a leaf or a plant and really look at it and notice everything about it.
How does your skin feel?
Carry on your mindful walk as you go back home.
Join Jamie from Cosmic Kids on her mindfulness walk around the countryside.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P3Deuv8tbc
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Discovery Bottle Activity – We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Following on from yesterday’s try at home Bear Hunt activity today we would like to share an activity inspired by one of our most popular and highly requested stories to read at nursery. We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.

Discovery bottles can help enrich your child’s experience while listening to a story and help them to connect with the words in the book. While reading or listening to the book ask your child to find the matching bottle listening out for words which describe the objects inside e.g Squelch/ Stumble building on their vocabulary and early literacy skills.
Please watch the video at the bottom of this post to listen to the story and play along.

What you will need:
Clear bottles/ jam or coffee jars/ zip lock food bag
Grass
Water
Mud
Leaves/sticks
White Paper or cotton wool

Fill up the clear container to resemble the Grass, River, Mud, Forrest and Snowstorm in the story. While creating the discovery containers your child will be developing their fine motor skills.  

Mrs Bonnar and her family had great fun completing this activity have a look at the photos below.

 

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Try at home :Can you draw a picture of a colorful bear? Can you tell and show us your favorite toy? :)

         

Hello everyone 🙂

It’s Wednesday . How are you today ? .

This morning, Miss Collins and Harry noticed something out of the window, something was  lying on the grass leaning  against the tree. Because they were very curious about what it could be, they went outside to see what it was. As they approached, they saw a beautiful picture of a colorful bear. On which it says: “Well done, you found me on a Bear Hunt”
– How exciting !!! thought Miss Collins and Harry the Hedgehog 🙂

Try at home challenge  ; Here is a small task for all of you.  Can you draw a picture of a colorful bear?
Maybe you have a cuddly toy or any toy that you like very much and want to show and tell us about it?

Please share your  fantastic  pictures , and  your favorite toy  with our nursery friends and send any photos and videos.

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Try at home challenge with the hedgehog Harry ” You can also be an engineer and build a tower?” Support early years math’s.”

 

       

Hello Everyone 🙂 It’s Tuesday today .

How are you today? Let me share with you what our little friend Harry the Hedgehog  did?

Harry decided to help in the spring cleaning. He started by cleaning kitchen cupboards.
During  cleaning Harry  came up with a great idea? …
He thought, “I want to be like an engineer and build and create various structures.”
So Harry started building, putting one can on top of another, Harry built a tower.
 ”WOW” he said I built a tower with 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8 tins , which he found in the kitchen cupboards. 
So today your Try at home challenge is … Can you build a tower  like Harry did?

You can use blocks  ,Lego,  cardboard  boxes ,tins  or anything else you can find  in your house .

We would love to know, how many objects did you used ?
How tall is your tower ?

Please share your tower 🙂  with our nursery friends and send any photos and videos .


  Achieving Allan says  You too can be an engineer and  build  your own tower .

                                      Good luck everyone 🙂

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Home challenge is … ”You can be an explorer” .  Support heath and physical development .

Hello everyone  🙂

It’s Monday , we hope everyone enjoyed the weekend.  Today you can be an explorer .Explore nature in your garden to see what you can find ?
Maybe you will find :

  • Some minibeasts?
  • Icy winy spider  who climb  up the water spout , or his web ?
  • Or maybe some more signs of spring?

What do you think  you’ll  find ? We look forward to hear from you 🙂

Please share your findings  with our nursery friends and send any photos and videos.

 

 

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