For more ideas for what you could do at home, including a huge selection of online reading books, look here
Good morning Nursery families
Good morning all
https://www.worldbookday.com/
Watch a selection of delightful video books and enjoy the fun downloadable activities available for every story
Good morning
The knight who wouldn’t fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
https://www.worldbookday.com/
You will need to print the token to use it and it is accepted in supermarkets/ WHSmith in town. The token is valid until 28th March.
Today's activities are:
Activity 1- Go on a book scavenger hunt!
- Find an animal in a book
- Find the word spring in a book
- Find someone helping someone in a book
- Find a picture of a sun in a book
- Find a book that makes you laugh
- Find a bug in a book
- Find someone sleeping in a book
- Find a character eating in a book
- Find a pet in a book
- Find a cat in a book
- Find a superhero in a book
- Find a bike in a book
Activity 2- Build a book nook!
You might want to create a den behind the sofa, lay blankets on the floor and create a roof with pillows or sheets, create a den in the garden or have some ideas of your own to create a cosy nook. Take a photo and share it with us at admin@cavalryprimary.org
Creating a snuggly, cosy area just for book sharing is a great way to develop positive reading connections. Check out 'Top tips for sharing stories' (see attached)
Activity 3- Move along to some of the dances on Boogie Beebies
https://www.bbc.co.uk/
Enjoy your day!
From Mrs Pughsley and the Nursery team
Good morning everyone
Make a teddy bears picnic. Prepare a special meal to have with your bear. You might want to make an invite for your bear.
24.2.21
Good morning Nursery families
Did you enjoy the story of Lima's Red Hot Chilli? It's one of our favourites in Nursery. The children in bubble 1 are enjoying working collaboratively in designing and building the great wall of China, did you have a go? The children in bubble 2 have been enjoying play in the Chinese New Year small world with dragons and have extended their play by building a volcano with blocks and making a volcano in the water tray!
Today's activities are:
Activity 1- Counting using one to one correspondence.
Attached you will find five chillies for you to colour, ask an adult to help you cut them out and sing the attached rhyme Five Red Hot Chillies in the Grocer's Shop
Activity 2- Invite your child to learn about opposites such as hard and soft, hot and cold, rough and smooth. Find a selection of opposite items from around your home to explore and sort.
Activity 3- Explore making patterns with streamers, ribbons and instruments, you might like to explore creating different movements e.g. slow, swirly, gentle patterns or fast, swishy, jerky rhythms.
Good morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
22.2.21
Good morning Nursery families
We hope you had a relaxing break last week and are ready to get going with the second half of spring term! This week we will revisit the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and find out about the cultural celebration of Chinese New Year.
We have a survey to share with you so we can get a sense of how your child is feeling about Nursery home learning. Please click on the link below to fill in the survey.
https://forms.gle/
Today's activities are:
Activity 1- Invite your child to retell the story of Goldilocks and the Three bears using props from around the house. Find 3 different size bears or toys, bowls, spoons, beds- a laundry basket or recycled box might do. What could you use for chairs? Try using different voices for the different characters. What did Goldilocks do in the house of the three bears? What happened when they came home? If your child’s story goes off on a tangent then let them get creative and develop their own! Share their storytelling with us at admin@cavalryprimary.org
Activity 2- Find out about preparing for and celebrating Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year
https://www.bbc.co.uk/
Activity 3- Explore Chinese lion dancing!
Enjoy!
From Mrs Pughsley and the Nursery team
Good morning Nursery families
When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Can you match daddy bear to the biggest bowl?
Can you match mummy bear to the middle sized bowl?
Can you match baby bear to the small bowl?
Can you put baby bear on the biggest chair?
Can you put daddy bear on the smallest chair? Does he fit?
In Nursery we are going to try a variety of additions to our porridge to see what we like best.You might like to try honey, dried fruit, jam…?
We’ve been singing bear rhymes in Nursery (see attached).
Demonstrate ambling like a bear by placing your hands flat on the floor with your knees relatively straight. Move your right arm and right leg forward at the same time.Then move your left arm and left leg forward. Repeat movements.
Good morning Nursery families
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Why did Goldilocks go into the three bears' house?
Whose porridge did she eat first?
What did mummy bear say?
Whose chair did Goldilocks break in the story?
Who was the biggest bear?
Who was the smallest bear?
You might want to sing the rhyme:
I’m a little Brown Bear
(Tune- I’m a Little Teapot)
By Jolande Garcia, KidsSoup Inc.
I’m a little brown bear
Sleep I crave (stretch arms and yawn)
I’m a little brown bear
Ready for my cave (rub eyes)
I’m all curled up
As cosy as can be
When it’s spring
Then please wake me!
Enjoy!
From Mrs Pughsley and the Nursery team
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4.2.21
Good morning Nursery families
The children in Nursery are really enjoying Molly Whuppie's adventures and had fun playing hide and seek with her yesterday. We developed lots of prepositional language hiding her in, under, on, behind, next to... I wonder what you did yesterday? Today is the final part of the story, how do you think it might end?
Activity 1-
Molly Whuppie and the Bridge of One Hair: Part 4
Molly Whuppie had to get the Queen’s treasure back from the giant. Do you still have your treasure box? You can play the treasure box game too! One person can be the giant and pretend to be asleep. The other person is Molly Whuppie and has to creep up and take a piece of treasure out of the box without the giant noticing. Be careful, because if the giant wakes up Molly Whuppie must run away!
At the end of the story, the Queen gave Molly Whuppie a pair of adventure shoes. I wonder what they looked like? Do you have a pair of adventure shoes? What’s special about them? What adventures do you have when you put them on? I wonder if you'll have an adventure as exciting as Molly Whuppie?
Activity 2- Play games that involve taking turns such as board games or family games. Playing board games can really help develop your child’s social skills. Children learn to follow rules, communicate verbally, take turns, wait, experience winning and losing and learn how to deal with both.
At Nursery one of the children’s favourite games is the shopping list game.
Activity 3- Sleeping Giants- Tell your child they are giants who like to jump- have them jump and down to practice. When you say ‘Sleeping Giants’ your child has to stop jumping and lie down very still on the floor. When you say ‘Waking Giants’ your child can jump up and down again until you say ‘Sleeping Giants’ again.
We hope you have been enjoying the story of Molly Whuppie this week along with the activities. The storytelling week has been supported by MarketPlace to enable Marion to offer the video links free to families in the Fenland area. They would love to receive feedback from you and your child. Please let us know:
- What did your child do with it?
- Was it easy to access?
- What could be improved?
Molly Whuppie and the Bridge of One Hair: Part 3
Molly Whuppie found lots of places to hide from the giant. Do you like to play hide and seek?
Can you choose a small toy to be Molly Whuppie, and find places to hide your toy in your house? Can you get someone to try and find Molly? What clues can you give them if they get stuck? Perhaps you could take a photo or draw a picture of Molly hiding and share it with us at admin@cavalryprimary.org
Use descriptive language to describe the experience, how does the rubbery goop feel? It feels smooth, soft and stretchy.
Activity 3- Chalk a line outdoors or lay some string or wool indoors to create the bridge of one hair! Place one foot in front of the other to balance across, did you make it without toppling? What happens when you go sideways, backwards, slowly or move faster?
Check back in again tomorrow for the last part of Molly Whuppie's story.
Enjoy!
From Mrs Pughsley and the Nursery team
2/2/21
Good morning everyone
Did you enjoy Marion's storytelling session? The children in Nursery had great fun in the role play shoe shop, finding different sizes, sorting them into pairs and measuring their feet to find shoes that fit! We enjoyed saying the rhyme and found a few more about shoes and feet (see attached). Did you make your treasure box and find three treasures that fit inside? You'll need them for the next part of Molly Whuppie's adventure today.
Activity 1-
Molly Whuppie and the Bridge of One Hair: Part 2
To get away from the giant, Molly Whuppie went in and out of the trees, under a log, over the rocks and across the Bridge of One Hair.
Could you make your own Molly Whuppie journey that goes in and out, under, over and across? You could do this in an outside place, or you could do it somewhere in your house. Can you travel across it backwards as well as forwards? With long giant steps and then with short Molly Whuppie steps? How will you make sure you are safe?
Activity 1- Draw a map of your Molly Whuppie journey and share it with us at admin@cavalryprimary.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Have fun!
From Mrs Pughsley and the Nursery team
1.2.21
Good morning Nursery families
This week is National Storytelling week and we are delighted to be able to share with you the story of Mollie Whuppie and the Bridge of One Hair
An interactive story in four parts told over the next four days, with adventures in between. Join storyteller Marion Leeper to follow the adventures of brave Mollie Whuppie in the giant's castle, play Mollie Whuppie's games - and have your own adventures too! Your friends in Nursery will be joining in too, we'd love to hear how you get on at home. Let us know at admin@cavalryprimary.org
After episode 1 you might:
- Make a big pile of shoes and sort them into pairs. Who has the biggest shoes? The prettiest? The shiniest? How many pairs? How many altogether?
Activity 2- Make a treasure box: Find a box – any box! You can decorate it if you like. Find some treasure: it doesn’t have to be valuable – anything can be treasure! – it just needs to fit in the box. Keep it safe, ready to play a guessing game in the next part of Mollie Whuppie’s story. What treasure did you choose? What makes it treasure for you? Is it the right size for the box?
Imagine you are wearing...
-space boots, how would you walk in them?
-ballet shoes, what movements might you make?
-trainers, if you were an athlete, how would you move?
What different types of shoes and movements can you think of?
Check back in with us for Part 2 tomorrow, enjoy!
From Mrs Pughsley and the Nursery team
29.1.21
Good morning
I wonder how many vehicles you spotted on your walk yesterday? The children at Nursery have been showing lots of interest in the different types of vehicles that pass by Nursery, talking about the size of the cab of a lorry making a delivery to school, wondering whether it had a bunk bed in it and watching as the refuse lorry came to empty the brown bins of nearby neighbours.
Today's activities are:
Activity 1- Read or listen to the story of Duck in a Truck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pICm8MigUQI
Imagine you are in a vehicle going off on an adventure. What vehicle would you choose? Where would you go? Who would you see? What would you do when you got there?
The children in Nursery loved this song about travelling!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpoze1QKOCY
Activity 2- Promote your child’s confidence in their ability to care for their environment, invite them to help out with the household chores. Talk with them about it, why you are doing them and how they can help. Everyday conversations help to develop listening, speech and language as well as knowledge and understanding.
Activity 3- Build and scramble on a cushion mountain! Collect cushions and pillows from around the house and stack them in a pile, encourage your child to scramble up and over!
Next week is National storytelling week, we're looking forward to sharing with you a four part story across the week from a professional storyteller. Check back in with us on Monday to find out more!
Have a wonderful weekendFrom Mrs Pughsley and the Nursery team
28.1.21
Good morning everyone
From the phone calls we've had with our home learners we hear that lots of you are going out for walks or trips to the park so one of today's activities will give you a challenge to spot some vehicles along the way! Did you enjoy the Boogie Beebies bus song? Our friends in Reception shared the following wheels on the bus song by the Wiggles that they really enjoy, we're sure you will too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Activity 1- Go for a walk and see what vehicles you can see. What colours are they? Make tally marks for the different colour vehicles. Which colour vehicle did you see the most? How Many?
Where do you think the vehicles are going?
Activity 2- Float Your Boat-Give your child several items from the recycling bin—milk cartons, cardboard, food packaging—and challenge them to build a boat! Provide tape, glue, string…and nothing else! Let them experiment with different ways to put together their boat. Then test their creation in the sink or bath!
Activity 3- Play Red light, green light!
Have your child stand on the opposite side of the room or garden. Call out “Green light!”your child ‘drives’ (vary the speed to suit the space). When you call “Red light!” they have to freeze where they are. The game continues until they reach the other side.
You might like to sing:
Traffic Light Song (tune of Twinkle, twinkle little star)
Twinkle, twinkle traffic light
Round the corner shining bright
Red means stop
Green means go
Yellow means very, very slow
Twinkle, twinkle traffic light
Round the corner shining bright
Have a fabulous day
From Mrs Pughsley and the Nursery team
27.1.21
Good morning Nursery families
How many different shapes did you find on your shape hunt? Some of our families at home made art and craft shape pictures, sorted stickle bricks by shapes and created 3D shapes with Duplo, I wonder what other kinds of shape inspired play you have had? In Nursery we got very creative with box modelling making vehicles. The children worked so hard on their creations, adding wheels, flashing lights, wings and windows. We sang and acted out a variety of transport songs (see attached sheets).
Today's activities are:
Activity 1- Hidden sounds
Find pairs of household objects that make a noise-eg pans and wooden spoons, shake a bunch of keys, scrunch a crisp packet, shake rice in a jar etc. Hide one set of objects behind the sofa and put the other in front of you.
Ask your child to sit with the hidden objects
You make a sound, can your child make the same sound. If you play a rhythm can they copy it?
Have fun together and make a band!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
26/1/21
Good morning everyone. The children in Nursery have been busy role playing buses and trains, lining up chairs, selling and collecting tickets and going off on adventures!
Did you enjoy singing along to On the journey home from grandpa's yesterday? Which was your favourite vehicle? What other vehicle might you like to travel in?
Activity 1- Go on a shape hunt indoors or out - how many different shapes can you find? Do you know what shape it is? In Nursery we sing shape songs to help children learn about shape properties (see attached sheet).
Activity 2- Challenge: What can you make with a cardboard box?
Will it be a robot, car or some other vehicle, garden, or a house? Give it a go! Share photos of your creation at admin@cavalryprimary.org
Activity3- Balance and control- Have your child balance on one leg, they are likely to have a favoured side so use both, you could time how long your child can balance for then try to improve their personal best!
25.1.21
Good morning Nursery families
What a wintery weekend it has been, a few snow flurries, though sadly not enough for us to build a snowman! The children in Nursery enjoyed creating a storm in their winter blizzard activity on Friday and watching the ice drip as it melted from their ice decorations. I wonder how you got on with your activities? Let us know at admin@cavalryprimary.org
Last week in Nursery the children in bubble 1 lined chairs up to create a bus and in bubble 2 they made their own version of a camper van! Following those interests and the interests of some of the children at home who have been enjoying play with trucks and diggers and following instructions to build a lego vehicle we've planned a vehicle themed week, our maths focus this week will be shapes.
Today's activities are:
Activity 1- Share the story On the Journey Home from Grandpa’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Activity 2- Use chairs, boxes, cushions to create your own vehicle for role play. Will it be a bus, aeroplane or train? Who will you invite onto your vehicle? Will they need to buy a ticket? Can you draw a map to guide you to your destination, your very own sat nav!
Activity 2- Winter blizzard sensory tray- Experiment with cause and effect in this wintery weather activity. You will need: Kitchen roll or tissue paper in wintery shades e.g. blue, white, silver etc, scissors, hand operated balloon pump, a tray, cardboard box or similar.
Cut or tear tissue/ kitchen roll into small squares and place in a tray or box. Experiment with the amount needed to work effectively.
Demonstrate the balloon pump on your child’s hand- What do they think will happen if aimed at the paper snow?
Have fun whooshing the ‘snow’ around and around! This activity helps to increase vocabulary, builds large motor skills, strengthen muscles in arms and hands as well as learning about maths and science. Talk about wintery weather, introduce words and sounds e.g. whoosh, whirl, swirl…
Extend the activity by adding other items e.g. feathers, tinsel, figures, stones… Predict which item will move with the air from the pump. “I wonder what will happen if?” Talk about heavy, light, weight, float, big, small, air pressure, force, etc.
Activity 2- Join in with one of our favourites in Nursery:
'Shake your sillies out'
Can you remember what happened in the story? Who knocked on the door first? Who came second? How did the squirrel feel when he fell out of bed? What did the animals think the scratching, scraping sound on the floorboards might have been?
This is the way we put on our coat, put on our coat, put on our coat
This is the way we put on our coat on a cold and frosty morning
This is the way we… pull on our boots…put a hat on our head…wear scarf and gloves… open the door… walk outside… shovel the snow… stomp through the snow… catch snow on your tongue on a cold and frosty morning!
Enjoy!
From Mrs Pughsley and the Nursery team
Good morning Nursery families,
- learn new words
- practise a range of physical skills especially hand and eye coordination
- provide opportunities to count, measure and talk about time
- develop a sense of pride and achievement
- become early scientists- observing how ingredients mix together and the effect of heat on that mixture as well as being a whole lot of fun!
Activity 3 - Paint outside using large brushes and rollers with water. Can you draw lines and circles? Can you write the beginning letter of your name?
Have an enjoyable weekend, we look forward to seeing you in person or catching up on the phone next week.
From Mrs Pughsley and the Nursery team
Activity 3 - Have a go at sticky kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Thank you for sending emails and photos, it's great to see the children enjoying the home learning activities and reading about the fun things you've been up to, keep them coming! Send to admin@cavalryprimary.org
Today's activities are:
Activity 1 - Get your morning off to a great start with an energetic workout with Joe Wicks. You can join in live at 9am on YouTube or have a go later with the recorded workout.
Activity 2 - How many different number rhymes do you know? Here are a few to start you off:5 currant buns in a bakers shop1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive5 little monkeysCan you think of some more?
Activity 3 - Go bird spotting- in your garden or out on a daily walk. If you made bird feeders, have you noticed which birds like to feed on them? Boost your ICT skills by finding out more information about the birds you see. You might like to learn more at:
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/identify-a-bird/
Have fun
From Mrs Pughsley and the Nursery team
Did you make some bird feeders? Your friends in Nursery thoroughly enjoyed making theirs and wanted to hang them outside yesterday afternoon but they weren't quite set. Winter and early spring is the most important time to feed birds, as this is the time of year when their natural food is scarce.
Today's activities are:
Activity 1 - Listening ears: In Nursery we talk a lot about using our listening ears! Invite your child to use their listening ears to listen carefully to the sounds around your home. Some sounds will be loud and some you might need to listen more carefully for. Ask a grown up to help make a list of the noisy objects around your home or you might like to draw what you hear. You could sort them into different groups e.g. loud noises and quiet noises. Share them with us at admin@cavalryprimary.org
Activity 2 - Warm up winter worm! Make some dough with your child (dough recipe attached). You might want to add a little red food colouring to turn your dough a wormy shade of pink! Use both hands to roll out the dough to make worms. You could cut, measure, compare different worm lengths. Your child will be developing important skills as they engage in dough play, strengthening muscles in their fingers and hands and developing hand and eye coordination, skills needed for when they begin to write in school. Did you know? During the winter 10cm under the ground the soil is often a few degrees warmer than the air, many soil animals are still active including earthworms.
Activity 3 - Practise using scissors. In Nursery we use a scissor rhyme to support holding and using scissors:Two fingers on the bottom And the thumb on top Open the mouth and chop, chop, chop.
If you don't have scissors you could tear paper into small pieces, squeeze water out of a squirt toy in the bath to give hand muscles a workout or use a clothes peg to strengthen small hand and finger muscles.
Enjoy!
From Mrs Pughsley and the Nursery team
We hope you had an enjoyable weekend and are ready for some more fun home learning this week?
Today's activities are:
Activity 1 - Mitten maths- Use the attached templates to count objects onto the numbered mittens. You might use small toys, bottle tops, pasta or buttons. This activity helps to develop your child's mathematical skills of number recognition and counting one to one. Encourage your child to count slowly saying a number name for each item they place.
Activity 2 - Make bird feeders- You will need: lard, bird seed, string, yogurt pot or plastic / paper party cup. Make a hole in the bottom of the yoghurt pot, thread the string through the bottom of the cup. Tie a knot in the end at the bottom of the cup. Leave the other end long, so you can hang your seed cake out for the birds. Ask an adult to melt some lard in a saucepan, then carefully stir in the seeds. Fill the pot with the mixture keeping the string free. Once the cake has set, carefully cut away the pot/ container. Now you can hang the cake outside for the birds to feast on.
Alternatively you could poke some of the mix into a pine cone or smear room temperature lard onto a toilet roll and roll in bird seed to place on branches outdoors.
Activity 3 - Throw your socks into a box! Find different size containers to throw rolled up socks into, how many did you get in?In Nursery we encourage the children to discuss their feelings and let them know it's okay to feel anger or frustration and that sometimes those feelings just overwhelm us! This activity is particularly good for venting feelings of anger or frustration.
We like the following quote:
‘Thoughts and feelings are something you have, not something you are’
Have a splendid day!
From Mrs Pughsley and the Nursery team
Dear Nursery families
Did you brave the cold and go on a winter walk? The trees in and next to the nursery garden are bare and the children have spotted last year's bird's nests. The birds are much easier to see this time of year as they fly past and sit in the trees. Next week we are going to turn our mark making shed into a bird hide. We'll be getting the binoculars and bird identification sheets out and making bird feeders, ask your grown up to put bird seed on the shopping list in preparation!
Today's activities are:
Activity 1 - Play ‘Kim’s game’. You will need a tray and up to 7 items e.g. cup, plate, animal, toy etc and a cloth. You might want to have a go with 4 or 5 items to begin with. Show your child the items you have placed on the tray, when your child has named them with your support, cover with a cloth. Remove one item and then remove the cloth. Can you remember the missing item?
Activity 2 - Ice investigation!- What happens when you put water in an ice cube tray or container and place it in the freezer?
This activity supports your child in investigating the properties of ice using their senses. Time how long it takes for the water to freeze. How does it feel? Talk about the process of freezing and melting. You might choose to put something in each, we put small world arctic animals, sequins and glitter in ours with a few drops of food colouring in some. We froze them yesterday ready to explore today. You might want to place some water in a container outside over the weekend to see what happens, let us know what you find out.
Activity 3 - Try some yoga! We like this one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X655B4ISakg
It's Friday! Last day of home activity ideas for this week, you can have a well earned rest over the weekend and we'll catch up with you all again next week.From Mrs Pughsley and the Nursery team
Did you have a go at designing and building a bridge for the gingerbread man? Your friends in Nursery built theirs with blocks, lots of discussions about how big it should be! Tomorrow we'll extend their play by adding photos of different types of bridges and measuring tapes. We enjoyed using large body movements in repeating the story refrain. The children had lots of their own ideas for how the gingerbread man could travel! Your friends in Nursery will be doing the same activities as you are at home so please send photos and emails in to admin@cavalryprimary.org so we can share them with your friends. Thank you for the emails received so far, the Nursery ladies love to see what you have been up to!
Today's activities are as follows:
Activity 1 - Go on a walk to look for signs of winter. What kind of clothing do you need to wear? What happens to your breath when you blow into the air outdoors? How do your fingers and toes feel? What do you notice about the branches on most of the trees? Talk about what you can see and hear.
Activity 2 - Design some winter clothes with matching patterns (template attached). Will you draw spots, stripes, zig zags, wiggly lines? Can you repeat the pattern?
Activity 3 - Play potato drop! Have your child place a potato between their knees and race to a finish line where they have to drop their potato into a bucket or bowl. If the potato is dropped or hands touch it they have to go back to the start and try again.
Enjoy!
From Mrs Pughsley and the Nursery team
Good morning everyone
Hello Nursery families
