Still learning at home

Date: 4th Jun 2020 @ 2:34pm

If you have found it hard to explain coronavirus to your child you may want to look at this link;  https://nosycrow.com/blog/released-today-free-information-book-explaining-coronavirus-children-illustrated-gruffalo-illustrator-axel-scheffler where the illustrator of books such as the Gruffalo,  has made a free  to download explanation to share with your children.

 

Lingumi - Kids' English

Lingumi provides a course focused on spoken and communicative English. The app provides sets of learning games, speech recognition games and video-based games to help the child grow their grammar and get them speaking their first words.

Age: 2-5

Platform: Apple, Android

 

Kaligo

Kaligo is a digital handwriting exercise book designed to teach children how to write using a stylus and tablet, built on an AI machine learning platform. A self-paced approach enables children to progress at their own speed according to their own ability, whilst AI Machine learning provides real-time corrective feedback.

Age: 3-5

Platform: Apple, Android

These apps are interactive and really suitable for nursery age children.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and stay safe.

CBeebies Playtime Island

CBeebies Playtime Island contains a wide range of fun and educational games to help children understand the world around them and support the development of core skills. Children can play along with all of CBeebies’ most popular characters.

Earth Day

• Help your mum or dad to sort out the recycling – is it plastic, paper, glass or a tin?
• Some animals are endangered – that means there’s not many of them left. Some include polar bears, pandas, turtles and orangutans. Which do you like best? What do you know about it? Look on https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/kids-club/cool-kids/general-kids-club/earth-day to find out more about  these amazing animals.
• Make a picture of your favourite wild animal – where does it live? Snowy arctic, rainforest, ocean?
• Use your recycling boxes to make some art – you could make a robot, home for an animal or a rocket to blast off into space.

 

 

The wheels on the bus go round and round, all day long!

• Sing along here https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/eyfs-listen-and-play-the-wheels-on-the-bus/ and join in the actions.

• It’s time to pretend! Line up your chairs to be the seats on your bus and find something round which can be your steering wheel. Make paper tickets for everyone in your family and then drive the bus to reach your destination.
• Look out onto your street. Make your own traffic survey counting cars, bikes, vans and people. Remember to count carefully then see which has the most.
• Can you recycle a box to make your own bus? How will you decorate it? Don’t forget to add wheels and windows.
• Draw a map to show a bus driver how to get to your favourite place. Where will you go? To see your family? The seaside? Or somewhere else?

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Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock.

The clock struck 1, the mouse ran down

Hickory dickory dock!

• Watch Rastamouse on Cbeebies as she sings the Hip-hoperty Bop on https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/dj-scratchy-hip-hoperty-bop

• Make your own clock face using a paper plate. Ask an adult to help you write the numbers and cut out two hands which can help to tell the time for breakfast, lunch and bedtime.
• Listening for rhymes – clock, sock, rock, dock. Can you think of any more words which rhyme? What could rhyme with mouse? What could rhyme with cat? What could rhyme with dog? Draw a picture of two things which rhyme.
• Clap the beat – say the rhyme out loud and clap in time to the beat.
• Play ‘Race the clock’ with the Go Jetters on  https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/puzzles/race-the-clock-grimbot

Have a lovely day!

  

In the meantime if you have a very active child with boundless energy try out https://about.gonoodle.com/gonoodlefamilies with actions and dances!

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5 little speckled frogs sat on a speckled log, eating the most delicious bugs yum yum!   One jumped into the pool where it was nice and cool, then there were 4 green speckled frogs, Glub! Glub!

• Sing along with the song and count down each time. Use your fingers to show how many frogs are left.

• Frogs are so good at jumping – try it yourself …hands and feet on the ground then jump as far as you can. Have a jumping race with your family.
• Make yourself a hungry frog catching a fly on the end of a string using a cardboard tube. Can you catch it? https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/cbeebies-house-frog-make shows you how to do it.
• How do frogs grow? Talk to your child about eggs growing into tadpoles and changing into frogs. Take a look at https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/science-ks1-animal-life-cycles/zrg9kmn to see a video clip.

I know  our children love animals so I hope you have fun with these activities! 

 

Have you noticed how many birds are busy nesting at the moment? I keep hearing beautiful birdsong!

Two little dickie birds, sitting on a wall, One named Peter, one named Paul

Fly away Peter, fly away Paul, Come back Peter, come back Paul.   

• Take a look on the RSPB website    https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-kids/ and see some of the activities children can join in to promote looking after our birds and environment.
• Make your own bird bath – if you would like to see some cute splashing set up a shallow dish, not too smooth a surface so they slip, and add some water – a plant saucer is ideal. The birds will come to drink and splash!
• Make a bird finger puppet  - you can draw then cut out a puppet and decorate with colours and feathers. Will it be a robin with a red breast,
• Be a bird spotter in your garden – how many birds can you see? Ask a grown up to tell you their names. If you put out some bird seed you will get more visitors to your garden. 

Let us know which birds you see. You can contact us on [email protected]. 

This could be an opportunity to look at photos with your child and talk about relatives you haven't seen for a while and make your own family tree. You could draw or stick on photos and talk about what you plan to do with them when you can see them next.