Pre-School and Nursery Home learning PlanSummer term

29th June- 3rd July 6th July- 10th July

Teachers: Miss Baker and Miss Wickett

Learning focus:

During the upcoming term, we will start by focussing on two weeks of the topic ‘Pirates and treasure’. Texts: ‘Pirates Love Underpants’ is a humorous story that focuses on lots of rhyming opportunities. ‘Penguins Make Bad Pirates’ is a story about how pirates unexpectedly find some penguins while they are on their ships at sea. Reading/ Listening and attention

- Continue to Read some of your favourite stories with your grown up DAILY. - Listening to instructions and getting children following through with them is an important

part of their early development. They can often follow a one part instruction, but can find it more difficult to follow a two or three part instruction. The children can forget what they are supposed to be doing. Can they follow both parts of a two-part instruction? i.e.Can you wash your hands, then get your breakfast from the kitchen?Can you get dressed and put your shoes and socks on?Can you pick up your toys and put them away, in the right place?

- Share the story ‘Pirates Love Underpaints’ by Claire Freeman. (Can be found on you tube). Phonics

- Blending and segmenting - This week we are going to teach the children to start trying to hear a word when it has been segmented to see if they can blend it together again. Here is a video to show what segmenting is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEzfpod5w_Q, We use the phonetical sound to do this rather than the letter, so its ‘aaaa’ rather than ‘A’. An example is ‘rrrr’ ‘aaaa’ ‘ttt’. You then need to see if the children know that you have said the word ‘rat’ when they blend the sounds together again. We begin with words that have three sounds that are consonant, vowel, consonant (CVC words).

- Game1- Which one? Have a select of object on a tray that have three sounds, i.e. pig, cow, cat, dog, cup, pen. Make sure the children know what the objects are called to begin with. You can then sound out one of the objects using the phonetical sounds and see if they can identify what object you are saying. This can take children a while to get, so don’t worry if it takes them a while.

- Game 2- Which one? When the children become more confident at hearing the word you are saying you can play the same game but get them to segment the word and the adult has to find the object. This will be challenging for them and if they can hear the first and last sound in the word that’s great. Blending and segmenting is something that takes lots of practice and they will continue working on this in Reception. The children will pick it up eventually, just keep practising.

- Game 3- Clapping sounds – this is a game that can be played throughout the day. When you are talking to your child, or asking them to do something, you could segment the CVC

words. An example of this might be “Fred can you the ‘zzz’ ‘iii’ ‘ppp’ up? When you segment the words you could also clap how many sounds there are so the children can begin to hear that there is three different sounds in the word, e.g. ‘z-clap’ ‘i-clap’ ‘p-clap’.

- Game 4- Cross the river – Choose a selection of objects that have three sounds in (CVC words). Create a river or road, this could be made from a box, some fabric or paper. Put all the objects on the right hand side of the river and the adult needs to sound out one of the objects. The child can then pick which object they think you have said and move it across the river. Repeat this until all the objects are on the left hand side of the river. When the children become confident at blending the words together again you can get them to try and segment the word and the adult has to move the objects over the river.

Please remember this is a hard concept for children to pick up and any practise before they start Reception will be beneficial for them. We wouldn’t expect them to be confident with this before they start Reception, just to have some awareness of what segmenting and blending is.Maths

- Counting – Select a range of different coins and hide them around the house, tell your children they need to find the pirate treasure coins. Once they have found all the coins around the house get the children to count the coins, don’t forget to put them in a line first. How many coins do you have? How many do you have if I add one more? How many do you have if I take one away? Can you sort all the 1ps into a group? Can you sort all the 2ps into a group?

- Sinking/floating – Fill a large bowl, box or tray suitable for holding water. Find a selection of different objects that are different sizes, weight and length. Explain to the children the different between sinking and floating, this video explains it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dyCe1GPagE. Once they have a basic understanding of sinking and floating go through each object and see which ones float and which ones sink. Is there a pattern? Do heavy objects sink or float? Do big objects sink or float?

- Estimating – Find some small objects that can easily be counted, for example, money, marbles, pens or pasta. Put a selection of the objects in a pile in front of the child, no more than five to begin with. Ask the child to estimate how many objects they think are in front of them. If they say a big number like 100, you can explain that we can see there isn’t that many in the pile. Once they have estimated a number, count the objects and see how close they were. Keep repeating the activity, adding more objects each time, trying to show the children we can estimate how many things are in a pile by looking at the size. If the pile is small the number we estimate will be small, if the pile is big the number we estimate will be big.

Writing/ Mark making

- Can you keep writing your name? Remember to hold your pencil using your pinchy fingers! (Watch tapestry to see a video showing you how to hold your pencil using your pinchy fingers).

- Decorating – Can you create a pirate treasure map? ***Please supervise your child throughout this activity*** Soak a teabag into a mug or bowl and add boiling water. Using a peg help your child pick the teabag out off the water and dab it onto some plain white paper. This will make the paper look old, like it was left by pirates. Once the teabag water has dried and the paper has turned brown you can add on your treasure map. Get the children to draw the line to follow first, then add what different things they will find along the way. This could be a house, mountains, trees or anything else they wish to add. Don’t forget to add the x marks the spot.

- Writing- Can you write a list of clues to follow to help the pirates find where you have left some treasure? This will be using the children’s have a go mark making. You will need to ask them what each section says after they have used their have a go writing to distinguish what they have tried to write. Can you use positional language and describing words to help the pirates find the treasure? Can you get somebody in your family to follow the clues and see if they can find it?

- Mark making – Can you do some pirate writing using a feather? If you go on a walk outside and manage to find a feather somewhere you can dip the end of the feather into paint and get the children to try and do some writing or drawing using it. You can explain to the children that pirates used to do this to write letters using a feather and some ink.

Creative Development

Physical Skills

- Gross motor skills (moving in different ways) – using this pirate action song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SLtUUUmTjc get the children to try and copy/follow the actions that Emily does. These actions use a range of different muscles to try and develop the children’s core strength. There is also different pirate action songs available on YouTube but please always check the videos first, before you play it to your child.

- Dough disco – pick a groovy song with a good beat and give your child a ball of playdough.

While the music is playing give your child instructions to move the playdough in different ways, i.e. splat the playdough, pinch the playdough, squash the playdough, squeeze the playdough, and push the playdough. This helps to develop the children’s finger and hand strength, to prepare them for when they are ready to write. An example of dough disco is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBsNhwxzgc, you can just follow this if you would like. I have found that the instructions can be quite fasted passed and the children struggle to keep up, which is why I would pick an upbeat song and do my own intructions over the top.

- Pinchy fingers – Can you make a boat out of paper using an origami technique? Your child will need some support with this but they will use their pinchy fingers to turn the paper in different ways. There is some videos available on YouTube showing you how to make a simple origami boat, if you search ‘simple boat origami video’.

Understanding of the World/ Investigation- I will add to tapestry- Files- some power points/ e books about stories linked dinosaurs

and adventures. - Can you see which different countries you would travel to if you were a pirate? You will

need to find a world map on the internet and either look at it on a phone/laptop or print it out. What country would be the closest to travel on a pirate ship? What country would be the furthest to travel? What country would you travel to if you were a pirate?

- Digging for treasure – Make some pirate treasure coins with your child and add on the letters we have been looking at (m,s,a,d,t and i). This could be done using card or salt dough. Hide the coins in the sand and using a spade see how many pirate coins you can find. Can you sort the coins into different sound piles when you have found them all? What words can you think of that start with the different sounds you have been digging for?

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