Good morning everyone. Please check your emails throughout today. I will be sending out an email explaining more details about a new whole school learning platform to further assist communication between school and parents and celebrate your child’s successes.

We have two zoom sessions a day for children who want to attend. The sessions are at 11am and 1.30pm and I will read a story during each session.

• Share stories with your children daily, they are hugely important in their learning.
• Please sing or say rhymes with your child. If you do not know the tune, don’t worry. Your child might know it, or you can make up a tune or you could always say it rather than sing it. See Day 1 for the words to some of our popular rhymes.
• Please find opportunities for counting daily. This might be when playing with toys, having tea, or walking up the stairs.

Pre-nursery

Number rhyme – choose a number rhyme from the list given on Day 1. Sing through the number rhyme with your child. Use your fingers to represent the numbers in the rhyme.

Gloop – Mix cornflour and water on a tray or in a large bowl. Allow children the opportunity to play with the gloop mixture. Talk to your child about what happens to the gloop when they pick it up.

Nursery

Phonics – Alliteration – Watch the clip of Thomas (d). Perhaps you can see if you can find things that begin with d around your house.

Number rhyme – choose a number rhyme from the list given on Day 1. Sing through the number rhyme with your child. Use your fingers to represent the numbers in the rhyme. Perhaps write the numbers from the rhyme on little bits of paper and use these to support singing of the rhyme.

Gloop – Mix cornflour and water on a tray or in a large bowl. Allow children the opportunity to play with the gloop mixture. Talk to your child about what happens to the gloop when they pick it up.

Please can you keep in touch with me via email to let me know how your child is getting on. Alternatively you could send me a message below. It would be lovely if you could send a photo or two of your children in their play. My email address is: clister@handale.rac.sch.uk

Take Care,

Mrs Lister