Good morning everyone. It is lovely to have the snow at the moment, I hope you are all managing to enjoy it.
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
Billy the Bear – watch the video below and encourage your child to join in with the song and counting. See if you can repeat the activity with one of your child’s toys.
Body Sounds: encourage your child to clap their hands softly, loudly, quickly and slowly. Do the same with tapping their thighs, stamping their feet, tapping their fingers and clicking their tongue.
Nursery
Phonics – Body Percussion: encourage your child to clap their hands softly, loudly, quickly and slowly. Do the same with tapping their thighs, stamping their feet, tapping their fingers and clicking their tongue. Make a pattern of sounds for your child to follow e.g. clap, clap, stamp, stamp.
Billy the Bear – watch the video below and encourage your child to join in with the song and counting. Repeat the activity with your child jumping instead of Billy. Sing the song using your child’s name rather than Billy.
Chinese New Year – Watch the following videos about Abbie and her family celebrating Chinese New Year. Discuss the videos with your child and talk about how some people are celebrating Chinese New Year at the moment.
Dragon Dance – Watch the video below and encourage your child to join in with the dragon dance. Perhaps your child might like to draw a picture of a dragon.
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
