Author: Miss Kitchin

Good morning everyone!!!!

Keeping Active

Remember you can  access a 30 minute fitness session daily at 9AM on Youtube by the Body Coach. This is the link to access this:

Activity ideas for your children

Activities for children can also be found on the ‘Five Minute Mum’ website. To access this use the address:  www.fiveminutemum.com You require an email address to subscribe to the free site.

Stories, Rhymes and songs.

“Giraffes Can’t Dance” is a popular rhyming children’s story. The audio story can be accessed through the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZjsLK5vwNU

Three Craws is a popular nursery song which encourages backward number sequencing. The link for this is:

“I can clap my hands” is an action song by the Sticky Kids. Children can listen and and follow the instructions in the lyrics. This can be accessed using the link bellow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwCqyRYzQy0

Keep safe and well!!!!!

 

 

 

Good morning everyone.

We will endeavour to upload to the Blog everyday with some activities for you to do with your children.

In the nursery we have been learning our new values song

To the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star tune.

We’re part of Deans nursery,

Where we love to learn and play,

We’re kept safe in all we do,

nurtured and respected too,

We’re part of Deans Nursery,

Where we love to learn and play.

Keeping Active

The Body Coach is doing a 30 minute fitness session daily at 9AM on Youtube. This is the link to access this:

This is maybe something that you could do together as a family.

Story Time

Today’s story is a Squash and Squeeze by Julia Donaldson. This is the link to the audio book:

https://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrExwiKhXheufcAIg2c3olQ;_ylu=X3oDMTBncGdyMzQ0BHNlYwNzZWFyY2gEdnRpZAM-;_ylc=X1MDMTM1MTIxMjcwMARfcgMyBGFjdG4DY2xrBGNzcmNwdmlkAzhUNzU5REV3TGpGcnVYODBYaHRiQ0FBaE1UZzFMZ0FBQUFDRHJzV1MEZnIDeWhzLWFkay1hZGtfc2JudARmcjIDc2EtZ3AEZ3ByaWQDNWQ1Y2x3QUNRVkNfNmJfWU4wQkhMQQRuX3JzbHQDOARuX3N1Z2cDMQRvcmlnaW4DdWsudmlkZW8uc2VhcmNoLnlhaG9vLmNvbQRwb3MDMQRwcXN0cgNlYXJseSUyMHllYXJzJTIwZnJlZSUyMGF1ZGlvJTIwYm9va3MlMjBzcXVhc2glMjBhbmQlMjBhJTIwc3EEcHFzdHJsAzQ0BHFzdHJsAzY1BHF1ZXJ5A2Vhcmx5JTIweWVhcnMlMjBmcmVlJTIwYXVkaW8lMjBib29rcyUyMHNxdWFzaCUyMGFuZCUyMGElMjBzcXVlZXplBHRfc3RtcAMxNTg0OTU2ODQz?p=early+years+free+audio+books+squash+and+a+squeeze&ei=UTF-8&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av%2Cm%3Asa&fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt&hspart=adk#id=1&vid=ea1d72e1296bde72a639e0627cab5a74&action=view

We hope you are all safe and well. We will post more activities daily.

 

 

Reuben shared his Home Learning with us this week and told us all that a palaeontologist is someone who studies dinosaurs. This week we have been learning all about dinosaurs teeth and what fossils are. Reuben also shared that most dinosaurs had a plant based diet. We found out that dinosaurs who ate plants had pencil shaped teeth, those who ate fish have knife shaped teeth and those that ate meat have razor sharp teeth. We learned that fossils are made when bones etc are compacted into the ground by soil etc and left for a very long time, their image is then visible on rocks and stones. We have been making our own fossils using different resources to make impressions in the play dough.

We have also been using different ways of measuring our heights and the dinosaurs. We measured our height using different sizes of dinosaur feet, we have recorded these in a graph so we can compare heights. We have been using tape measures and measuring lines both vertical and horizontal to measure height and length.

In the art area we have been making dinosaur eggs using paper machete, we glued newspaper to balloons allowing each layer to dry before adding the next. We discussed what colour the dinosaur eggs should be, the children wanted blue and yellow eggs. Once the paper machete was dry we painted them our chosen colours.

We have also been learning about the “network on our hand” which is a network of people who we can trust if we are worried, scared, sad or needing support. We drew the individual people we could trust and talked about how they could help us. We linked this to the story of A Huge Bag of Worries that we have been reading in the nursery as learning about how to keep us safe both physically and emotionally.

Our latest topic in the nursery has been Pirates. The children have been doing lots of activities relating to this topic including making treasure maps and telescopes. They have learned a new action song which they have enjoyed singing and dancing to. Perhaps you could sing the song at home with your child.

There was a treasure hunt in the garden where the children had to solve the clues on the treasure map to find the treasure chest. Some of the children made Pirate ships using apples and there was lots of discussion about floating and sinking.

During our weekly sessions with Planet Soccer there has been a focus on fitness. The children have been playing different games during the sessions with a focus on developing their gross motor skills as they moved their bodies in different ways. There was a game with “Spiders and Flies” where the spiders had to try and catch the flies and another game of “Shark Attack” where the children who were sharks had to try and catch the other children, the fish. All the children had great fun at the end of the session when they had to try and catch their coach.

Unfortunately, we have not been able to continue with our community learning due to the adverse weather conditions over the last few weeks. I am sure you will understand that their safety is paramount and taking them out in high winds or very slippy conditions is not putting their safety first. We hope that the worst of the weather is behind us now and that these sessions will restart in the next few weeks.