Making your own maracas is a great way to encourage creativity and shaking maracas to a song or tune encourages children to listen to rhythm and anticipate how the song will change. Shake, rattle and roll!
Materials:
two small plastic water bottles, two toilet paper tubes, about a handful of any small material such as rice, birdseed or dried macaroni, tape.
Shape Monsters Interactive Game
Introduction to 2D shapes, you need the feed the monsters with the correct shape, the monsters then say the name of the shape they have eaten.
Shape Monsters – 2D Shapes Matching Game (topmarks.co.uk)
Shape hunt
What items can you find around your home that is the same shape as a circle, square, triangle and rectangle.
Who’s having pancakes today? Are you making them with your grown up or did you buy some from the shop? I wonder what toppings you might have on yours… butter, chocolate, fruit?
Take a look at our virtual classroom! Click on the different areas around the room to take part in different songs and activities.
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1411317629309681665
Copy and paste the link into the search bar to take you to a great idea for a letter bingo game! Even if your little ones do not know any letters it’s a great way to introduce them in a fun way and encourage matching.
https://frugalfun4boys.com/learn-the-alphabet-bingo-game/
It’s the year of the Ox. You could google Ox’s and paint your own representation of one! Or try this handprint Ox.
Here’s a story about a kind Ox for Chinese New year! –
Peppa Pig Chinese New Year episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCR-PVLV6Cw
Chinese Paper Lantern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1_lnmdyR1s
Some questions to ask your child after they have listened to the story:
How would you feel if a tiger came to your door and asked to come in for tea?
What would you do?
Would you let the tiger eat all the food and drink all the drink?
Is the tiger a good guest?
How would the tiger behave differently if he was a good guest?
Who would you invite to your own tea party?
What do you think would happen at your tea party?
Playful and imaginative stories designed to help support early years reading. Every story is brought to life with magical things to touch, swipe and play with. There are also questions to help develop comprehension skills, so you and your child can enjoy reading, playing, and learning together.
The CBeebies Storytime app is available to download for free via the Apple, Google Play and Amazon app stores.
