Order, order Dear Children, parents and carers,

We hope you are all keeping safe and well. This week our activities are focussed on

ordering. We hope you enjoy them,

Love from the Nursery Team.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Watch or read the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’

Can you remember which fruit the caterpillar ate on each day of the week?

Can you order the life cycle of a butterfly? Have a go at the attached cut and

stick activity or you could create your own by drawing each phase in order.

If you’re enjoying ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ then have a look at the

attached home-learning challenge. Have fun!

The tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher

Share the story of ‘Mr Jeremy Fisher’ by Beatrix Potter. https://www.shortkidstories.com/story/tale-mr-jeremy-fisher/

Mr Jeremy Fisher lived amongst the buttercups. Can you find some buttercups

and count how many?

Mr Jeremy Fisher was a frog. Can you find out about the life cycle of a frog?

Seasons Can you guess the seasons from the pictures on the following

PowerPoint?

Can you name the seasons in order?

Sorting in order

Find a few items of different sizes then see if you can order them from the

smallest to the largest. (adults, try asking questions such as “Which is smaller

than…?” or “How many things are larger than the…..?”

Next pick 3 items and order them by weight. Pick each object up and decide

which is the heaviest, lighter, and lightest. Can you choose three more items

and decide which is the lightest, heavier and the heaviest. Were you

surprised……..was the heaviest item the largest?

Seasons

Powerpoint.pptx

Pencil control development

Draw a picture of your family in order starting with the tallest. Before you

start you might want to check by lining your family up. Have a go at naming

each person, e.g. mum, dad, your name.

Phonics – rhyme time!

Make a collection of small items (or make picture cards) that rhyme. For

instance a bear and a pear, a key and number 3, box and toy fox, jar, star, toy

car, sock and rock, bell and shell, rice and dice, truck and toy duck, goat and

boat, cat and hat, bag and flag.

Play a game of silly soup:

Place the collection of rhyming objects in front of your child.

Using a bowl and spoon as props, invite your child to place one of the objects

into the bowl and stir the ‘soup’ singing

I’m making lots of silly soup

I’m making soup that’s silly

I’m going to cook it in the fridge

To make it nice and chilly (to tune of pop goes the weasel)

You choose an object that rhymes with your child’s object and add it to the

bowl, emphasising that the two objects rhyme, (end sounds sound the same).

Sing the song again and invite your child to find items/pictures that rhyme,

adding them to the pot.

Music

Using any instruments you have at home (or you could find something that

shakes or can be used as a drum) see if you can play a rhythm. You might like

to explore the Chrome Music Lab to help you: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments

Purple Mash

Check out the 2Do activities on Purple Mash.

2Do My Family: How many people are there in your family, can you draw a

picture to show them all?

2Do Seasons Quiz: Can you use your knowledge of the seasons to answer the

questions?

2Do Butterfly: Can you draw a beautiful butterfly?

2Do Addition to 10: Challenge

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and this year’s focus is on

the power and potential of kindness. Over the last few weeks, we have

seen kindness dancing in the eyes of so many people doing their bit to

help others in all sorts of ways.

Let us take time to shine a light on some of the many acts of kindness

that have taken place. This week reflect on acts of kindness and share

your stories with your child, about kindness at home and in the

community, both locally and wider afield.

Encourage your child to join you in talking about and performing acts of

kindness. Some ideas might be simply taking notice, try and say thank

you as many times as you can for the things you do for one another; find

as many opportunities as you can to pay each other compliments and

take time to ask each other how they are. As parents and home-

schoolers, you are doing an amazing job, so don’t forget to take a break

and be actively kind to yourselves as well.