Good morning everyone!

Your phonic challenge today is again to help children blend the letters in a simple word in order to read them.  It’s another great phonics play game, please select the game “pick a picture” at phase 2.  This gives the children a word on the screen and three possible objects.  Please can you help your child blend their sounds by tapping on their arm for each sound and then stroking it to blend them together.  I call this patting and stroking the dog!   It may seem strange but it seems to work.  If there are any unfamiliar letters please go back to Mrs Giodano’s post which shows the children the letter cards.

Have fun!

Good morning nursery, it’s Wednesday already!

Did you create a rain maker or shaker yesterday? please send them in to us, we would love to see them and share them with you all.

The suggested activity for today is a fun game we are sure your children will enjoy; ‘Kim’s game’. See the attachment for details.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/mr-tumbles-rhyme-time?collection=fun-activities-for-toddlers-and-preschoolers

Today’s challenge will help support your child’s reading by helping them to blend letters together.  Please find phonics play on the web and then input the username march20 and the password home.  Then select the game “dragons den” at phase 2 level.  In this challenge the children find out that the dragons eggs are mixed up and are unable to breathe fire.  In order to help them they must read the eggs and give them to the correct dragon.  They need to give the green dragon the real words and the red dragon made up words.  Good luck in helping the dragons!

Good morning nursery,

Please find attached the suggested activities for today. It’s time to get crafty, let’s make our own rain makers and shakers! These can be made using lots of resources you may have in your home.

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Enjoy, The Nursery Team

Good morning nursery

We hope you enjoyed our ‘Art’ themed activities last week, we received some fabulous photos, thank you.

This week’s theme will now focus on ‘Music’. Music can be simple and can be enjoyed by all, nursery love using instruments to make simple sounds and tap out beats.

We would like you to enjoy music in lots of ways using lots of resources if you can. The activity today uses pots and pans! Have a little look below.

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Enjoy your day,take care.

On a Friday we usually go over the phonics we have learnt that week and play a few games.  One of the games that has always proved popular is bingo.  This particular version is available on twinkle (this is a free website at the moment) and the game you are looking for is called “cvc bingo matching card game”.  Again, use the phase 2 level as this is most appropriate.  However, this only works with a printer.  You could instead though make your own version with your child, they could draw the pictures and write the letters.  You would need to make two boards (if you’re not sure how they should look just google the game even if you’re not going to print it).  The words include net, man, dog, tap and so on.

Have fun!

Happy Friday nursery, we hope you are all safe and well.

You are all doing a fantastic job at home, keep smiling :)

Here are the suggested activities for today, we hope you have a nice weekend and enjoy the sunshine at home.

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Numicon:

Numicon is a teaching aid consisting of plastic tiles with holes which represent the numbers 1 to 10. They can be used to teach place value, ordering and calculation. Numicon are designed to make numbers real for children by them being able to see and physically touch each number.

Each Numicon shape provides children with a visual image of what a number looks like. A child will start to recognise the relationship between different numbers, as each Numicon piece has an extra hole to the last one.

As you may not have access to actual Numicon resources, I have attached a copy you can use as a paper template to print and cut them out. Once you get the hang of Numicon, you can make an activity as simple or as challenging as you wish.

So for our first challenge, we would simply like you to have a little play with them. We use Numicon in nursery already so your child may surprise you!

Next week I will be posting some ‘Numicon Challenge’ activities to support you.

Numicon

Today, I thought we’d get a little active!  Please could you help your child write the following letters on separate pieces of A4 (or similar) sized paper…

s a t p i n

When you have done this place them around the room and put some music on.  Encourage your child to dance around to the music and then when the music stops call a letter out and your child runs to it (a bit like musical chairs).  Repeat this with all of the letters.

Bring the letters back to the carpet or table together and explain that you are going to put some of them together to make words, can they help you read them?

For example, you could put p a t together, sound it out carefully by tapping your arm and then stroke the sounds together.  You could then swap out one of the letters and continue to make new words.  Your child, if they are feeling confident could make their own words up.  This is a great activity to use again another day, just chose different letters, enjoy!