Home learning grid for school closure EARLY LEVEL – Nursery week beginning 22/06/20

Literacy

Numeracy

Health and Wellbeing

See separate Literacy Home Learning Grid.

Reading: Listen to Mrs Chatir read the story of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHDrq-bij5Q

Mark making: Can you draw the three bears? Remember daddy bear is the biggest, mummy bear is middle-sized and baby bear is the smallest.

Listening/Talking: Can you tell someone in your family what happened in the story? What do you think Goldilocks should do now?

See separate Numeracy Home Learning Grid.

Counting: Listen to the counting song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzmB0GoEKkA

Can you count from 1 -10? Try counting your footsteps as you walk around your home.

How many steps from the kitchen to your bedroom? What about from the living room to the bathroom? Which room is furthest away from the bathroom? How do you know?

(Answer: count the footsteps and the largest number of footsteps is the furthest away)

Challenge: What happens if you take smaller footsteps?

What about bigger footsteps?

Transition task: Please see the suggestions at the bottom of the grid on how to develop independence skills.

Stay calm: Remember that you can help yoursef feel calmer when you focus on your breathing. Listen to the clip below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsa03I9kq9M&feature=youtu.be

Stay Well: One of the most important things you can do to help keep yourself healthy and well is to wash your hands regularly throughout the day. Please watch the clip below to remind you how to do it properly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9VjeIWLnEg

Stay Healthy: Watch Joe Wicks kids workout on YouTube at

9:00am every morning from Mon – Fri

https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_

query=joe+wicks+pe+lesson

See separate P.E. tasks in our Nursery class webpage on the Sighthill Primary School website

Creative Play

Sciences/Technologies

IDL/Topic

Singing

Listen to “The Teddy Bear’s Picnic”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9umlwZlPlmg

Could you learn all the words and actions? Maybe you could perform it to someone in your family?

Art

Can you make some bears using toilet roll tubes and paper?

Maybe you could make a few and have your own teddy bear’s picnic at home? You could invite some of your other toys too.

STEM Challenge

One of our favourite STEM challenges was to make a chair that was big enough to support one of our bears from the “Goldilocks” story. Maybe you could try it again at home with one of your toys?

Use some of the paper, cardboard or tubes you have around your home.

Challenge: Could you make a chair outdoors?

Moving On:

Many of you will be moving into P1 after the summer and some of you will be moving into all day nursery places. There are lots of things that are changing and sometimes that can make you have lots of different feelings. Please listen to the story below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87meeeysYlA

You will feel lots of different emotions about moving on and coming back to school after summer and that’s okay. EVERYONE feels like you sometimes – even the ladies!

Please watch our special nursery assembly to remind you of some of our happy nursery memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytooAZwDJQI&feature=youtu.be

Remember that we are all here to care for and support you always. We can’t wait to see you all again

Why not listen to some of our favourite stories, songs and rhymes until then……Just follow the links in the grid below.

Have a lovely summer break everyone and we will see you very soon.

Favourite Rhymes

Favourite Stories

Favourite Songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9AxMQibZGA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzc_Rd4TuYg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciKmkcqyu3k

The Very Hungry caterpillar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY

The Gruffalo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8sUPpPc8Ws

The Three Little Pigs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLR2pLUsl-Y

Ketchup on your Cornflakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfqHI-oMuYA

5 Little Men

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKHJbVLLkSg

Old MacDonald had a farm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6HzoUcx3eo

If you’re happy and you know it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71hqRT9U0wg

5 Little Speckled Frogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSC-gHBU_d0

Here are some helpful suggestions from the ASL team to help you to encourage your child to become more independent

Some Ideas for Supporting Independence

It’s a good idea to start developing independence skills in preparation for school. It will be a busy environment and developing your child’s confidence around routines will help them to settle in. Here are some ideas to think about.

1. Encourage your child to take off and put on their shoes.

2. Encourage your child to take off and put on their coat.

3. Can they open their lunch box independently and all the items in it? Practice opening and closing food items and drinks bottles etc.

4. There will often be a few identical lunch boxes in the class. Can you add a keyring or similar so that they can recognise their own more easily? This also applies to school bags.

5. Make sure that their name is on their lunch box, water bottle, shoes, clothing and school bag. A lost jumper may cause your child to be upset. It will be found more quickly if it has a name.

6. Encourage your child to take turns during games and activities. Use clear language “my turn”, “your turn”.

7. Practice waiting whenever you can. Just for short times to begin with so they feel success. Then start to make the wait time a little longer as they get better at it. Encourage them with praise “Good waiting Anne, well done”.

8. Praise your child’s efforts and be clear about what you are praising them for e.g. “good listening”.