Welcome to the Nursery Class page.....
NURSERY LOCKDOWN CLOSURE INFORMATION
January 2021
We hope you are all keeping well and staying safe.....that is the most important thing! Our aim is also to support you in helping your child with their 'Remote Learning' so this Nursery class page will hopefully provide you with some ideas, resources and inspiration!
Parents - Each week we will be putting a set of activities on this class page which you may like to complete with your child at home. If they complete one Communication/Language/Literacy activity and one Mathematics activity each day plus one other activity from the 'Other Curriculum Areas' and completed 3 activities in total per day that would be ideal. You can of course increase this amount if you wish by choosing more than one activity from the 'Other Curriculum Areas' section.
Please remember that the above is only a recommendation. We know that it may not be possible to complete 3 activities per day so please just do as much as you can.
There will also be activities put on 'Purple Mash' for your child and these can be accessed by logging in to 'Purple Mash' and then checking the 2Do's by clicking on the tab at the top of the page. Purple Mash (Mini Mash section) is very suitable for your child to explore at home as a fun, educational website.
If you have mislaid your log in details for Purple Mash please telephone the school and I will contact you with the log in details for your child.
At any point please feel free to contact the school if you have any questions, concerns or worries about the online remote learning or your child. I am more than happy to speak to you on the telephone and I will contact you as soon as I can if you leave a message with the school office.
Mrs Lucas
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(Week beginning January 25th)
Nursery Remote Learning - Week Four
Winter Theme
This week we will be thinking about snowmen and other things that we see in the Winter time! I hope we do get some snow so you can go outside, make footprints, throw snowballs and build a snowman in your garden too!
Communication, Language and Literacy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvIliH10wTg
After you have listened to the story see if you can remember what happened to the little girl and how did the little polar bear help her?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1652HUK-ONjq-Ey9o6qLDwQL99rO2moP_/view?usp=drive_web
(You may have to copy and paste in to your browser if the link does not open immediately)
Maybe go on a ‘S’ hunt in your house too! I can see a settee, socks, scissors and slippers when I walk around my house!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2yf4j/articles/z4ycrj6
Have a go at writing each of the letters. You can write over, under or independently!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71HQW6TxRGw
You could have a go at making a paper plate sound shaker too! (See Other Curriculum Areas for further details)
Mathematics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTJUGYhjD0c
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/numberblocks-make-and-play
After you have played the games create towers of bricks (duplo, lego or wooden bricks if you have any of these) starting with 1-5 and then moving on to 6-10. Talk about how the towers are getting taller if you count forwards and the towers are getting shorter if you count backwards.
Other Curriculum Areas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUzPw7qhMlo
(Week Beginning January 18th)
Nursery Remote Learning – Week Three
Winter Theme
I hope you all enjoyed finding out about Penguins last week!
I have really enjoyed seeing all your work on Purple Mash too and I hope you have all been able to read the messages that I have sent on Purple Mash next to your work.
This week it is time to think about Winter weather such as Ice and Snow and to explore melting!
We will also be sharing stories about animals in Winter time, including a little hedgehog who is wrapped up in a warm hat, scarf and mittens! I hope you have those at home too for when you go out on your walks or for when you play in the garden!
I am reading another 'Winter' story on the video below, all about a little fox cub who asks lots of questions to his Mummy to find out all about Wintertime. I hope you enjoy it!
Communication/Language/Literacy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBKfbo60jlI
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2wpdvv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4fvEl8MIvs
Collect 5 objects or toys in your house that begin with ‘s’ and 5 that begin with t. Mix them up and then sort them by their initial sound asking your child what sound they can hear at the start of each word. You can write the letter sound on paper to put next to each set of objects.
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Mathematics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=85M1yxIcHpw&list=PL9upehN5QqdEu_RBWE9PAgFUpnYyGQEIs&index=12
Other Curriculum Areas:
Science is fun!.......and they are very tasty for tea too!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p06tmrxh/andys-wild-workouts-series-1-10-arctic
Recipe for playdough:
2 cups of self-raising flour (a mug or plastic cup is fine)
1 cup of salt
2 cups of cold water
4 teaspoons of cream of tartar (Tub available in Aldi quite cheaply)
1 tablespoon of oil
food colouring if wished (or ready mixed paint if you have that)
Mix all the ingredients together in a pan and heat gently mixing all the time. Keep stirring until all the ingredients come together and the dough forms a ball. This makes quite a lot of dough and can be kept in the fridge in a plastic bag……it lasts for ages too! You could halve the ingredients if required.
https://youtu.be/T_oNCJqZruw
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Nursery Remote Learning – Week Two – Winter
Hello Nursery!
We hope you all enjoyed doing the activities about ‘Presents’ last week!
This week we will be putting some activities on ‘Purple Mash’ for you to try at home too and we are sure that you will enjoy those as well!
(Parents: Please contact the school if you have mislaid your child’s Purple Mash login)
When you log in you will see a tab at the top which is labelled ‘2Do’s’ and this will contain your child’s 3 activities for the week. When you finish and save them I will be able to see the completed activity and comment upon them. You can also use this to send a message to me as well)
WINTER THEME - WEEK 2 - 11th January 2021
Parents: Please aim to choose one activity from CLL and Maths per day, however you may wish to choose additional activities from the ‘other curriculum areas’ section if required.
(Please remember that the above is only a recommendation. We know that it may not be possible to complete 3 activities per day so please just do as much as you can)
This week we are going to start thinking about ‘Winter’ as it certainly is getting very chilly outside now with a lot of ice around!
So this week we will be having fun finding out about Winter time and Penguins!
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If you would like to listen to a story all about a penguin....click on the link below.
Mrs Lucas is reading a story and there is also some additional information at the end for parents....maybe sit down with some milk and a biscuit and have storytime!
CLL - Communication/Language and Literacy:
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-17185-winter-information-powerpoint
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2wpdvv
Mathematics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-scENG_uisc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJxq0kR8yNc
Parents – If you can draw some shapes for your child to trace over that would be very helpful as squares, rectangles, ovals and triangles are tricky!!
Add faces to each shape just like they have in the video!
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/underwater-counting
Other Curriculum Areas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He5Xu11HBkM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIo1giiTXCs
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/852939616897172600/
Have fun learning together!
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September Information:
We would like to welcome all our new children and their families to the Nursery Class here at Birkdale Primary School.
We hope that this is the start of a very happy and successful partnership between home and school.
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P.E day for some of the Nursery children will be Wednesday.
The children who attend at the beginning of the week (Blue group) or full time ( Red group) will have a P.E session with Mr Murphy on a Wednesday morning.
The children who attend at the end of the week (Yellow Group) will have an outdoor P.E session weather permitting.
PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOUR CHILD IS WEARING TRAINERS/JOGGERS/LEGGINGS IN NURSERY ON A WEDNESDAY......THANK YOU!
We will be adding to this class page as the term develops so please keep checking this page from time to time.
Please look at the Nursery Newsletters as this covers more of the activities that we will be doing in the Nursery this half-term.
It is a very difficult time at the moment for everyone, however we would like to thank you for your continued support. Please remember that you are welcome to speak to a member of staff if you have any questions or alternatively you can send in a note, phone or email the school and Mrs Lucas will contact you as soon as possible.
Some website suggestions are;
www.teach your monster to read.com - phonics games
www.readingeggs.com - phonics games
(30 day free trial available)
www.mathseeds.com - maths games and activities
www.kidstv123 - phonics and maths songs
www.oxbridgebaby.com - traditional stories/nursery rhymes
www.phonicsplay.co.uk - phase 1 and 2
www.busythings.co.uk - all curriculum areas
www.topmarks.co.uk - age 3-5 - literacy and maths games
www.cbeebies.co.uk - numberblocks, alphablocks
www.phonicsbloom.com - phases 1 and 2
www.famly.com - activities to do at home
hungrylittleminds -Department for Education website
www.activeforlife.com - ideas for physical play
www.pinterest.com - lots of indoor learning activities and suggestions
www.twinkl.co.uk - this has a section for parents with some fabulous activities and resources
We also use www.youtube.co.uk to source number songs, alphabet songs and nursery rhymes.
The Jolly Phonics songs on youtube are also helpful to sing along to as we learn these in class to support our phonics activities.
Are you looking for some inspiration for different
things to do at home?
Try some of these websites for ideas.....
https://www.seftondirectory.com/kb5/sefton/directory/advice.page?id=1Vg0VbjhmNY&localofferchannel=0
A list of useful resources from Sefton council.
http://www.thesensoryprojects.co.uk/covid19-resources
This website includes plans for rhyming multi-sensory stories with Makaton and links for music activities. There are also videos on how to learn how to juggle, play boccia and making sensory dough.
https://www.mathematicsmastery.org/free-resources
Some nice English and Maths activities that you can print off at home.
https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/learning-home-packs/
These are free learning packs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/help-your-child-with-maths
This has some nice links and practical ideas for things to do.
https://www.stem.org.uk/primary-science
We know a lot of you have enjoyed your own projects at home- you could use this website to explore some more ideas for Science.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mvsc
https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups
Some nice little PE based activities.
Mental health and wellbeing document from British Psychology Society.
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