Badgers Week 12 Timetable Welcome

Story

Key Learning Intentions for this Week: • To be able to sequence The Little Red Riding Hood Story from beginning, middle and end. • To be able to trace or write their name independently with a correct letter formation. • To be able to name and describe at least three 2D shapes and describe their properties. • To be able to use positional language to explain if something is on top of, in front of, over, under, next to or in between. • To know that when water is frozen, it is ice (a solid) and when it has melted it becomes water (a liquid). • To have an awareness of different weather conditions such as rain, snow, earthquakes, wind and tornadoes.

Please don’t forget your LIVE Creative Movements sessions for Morning and Full-time children on Monday from 9.00-9.30am and for Afternoon and Full-time children on Friday from 2.35-3.05pm. Creative Movements Monday Session (9.00am) - Meeting ID: 886 3336 0517 Password: CMMHStues (Password: 426586) Creative Movements Friday Session (2.35pm) - Meeting ID: 875 8618 2413 Password: CMMHSfri (Password: 236688)

AM AM AM AM AM Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Phonics daily activity – ‘u’

Phonics daily activity –‘u’ Phonics daily activity – ‘r’

Phonics daily activity – ‘r’ Phonics daily activity – ‘c and k’ sound

Expressive Art and Design

Creative Movements

It’s Harriet time! I wonder what story you will be enjoying today!

Physical Development

PE with Coach Marc

It’s Coach Marc time! Let’s get our muscles ready!

Literacy

Phonics

Mystery bag

‘The Mystery Bag’ is a bag full of objects found around the home that

Physical Development

Scissors

Cutting Shapes

Sing the cutting song and demonstrate how to create snips in the page.

Personal Social and Emotional Development

The Good Friend List

This is a simple straightforward activity in which the children are asked to list what qualities would make a good friend.

Expressive Art and Design

Music time!

It’s Janie time! I wonder what music you will be enjoying today!

Personal, Social and Emotional

Development

Literacy

Letter Formation

My name

Today we are going to practice how to write our

names independently.

If you don’t know how to write your name

independently you can ask an adult to write it for you in a light colour and

you can trace over it.

This is going to be so much fun, let’s start!

begin with a letter.

Have a few objects that don’t begin with the letter ‘b’ in order to encourage the children to think further and be able to clearly distinguish different sounds.

The aim of the activity is to sort the objects into groups that begin with the letter ‘b’ sound and which objects do not.

This activity requires a lot of back and forth conversation, repetition and modelling from the parent or educator for children to understand the concept that words begin with the letter ’b’ and be able to hear the difference when it does not.

Sing the song: Open, shut, open, shut That’s the way we cut, cut, cut Fingers on the bottom, thumb on top Do not let the paper drop Open, shut, open, shut That’s the way we cut, cut, cut. The children will practice

cutting shapes. Demonstrate how to hold the scissors and paper correctly. Encourage your child to cut out the four basic shapes (a square, a triangle, a circle and a rectangle). Click here to access cutting shapes worksheet.

Mathematics

Space

Where am I?

For example, someone who shares toys, someone who is kind, someone who uses helping hands, etc. Once you have collated a good list, ask your child if they have the qualities on that list too, and if they are unsure of some, how they can work towards the qualities on that list.

That’s Me!

Hygiene Clean Hands

Make personal hygiene interesting by playing games that will help to instil the importance of hygiene. Whether in the classroom or at home, children can learn about the importance of hygiene and find the right ways to stay neat, clean and healthy.

Glitter Hands

Some children only rinse their hands quickly under water, if they wash at all.

Try to write your name with a crayon, pencil,

marker, pen and chalk. Not to worry if you don’t

have all of these resources, let’s just be creative and use our

imagination!

Click here for your template.

Important Tips!

Always have your child start out writing lowercase letters. This is important because when they start to read, most of the words are in lowercase letters.

Mathematics Numbers

Number pockets

Let’s start the lesson by listening to the number song. Sing along and do the actions to get you warmed up for the lesson! Click here for the song. This is a fun activity for children which engages them in counting and identifying/recognising written numerals. Activity: Number some envelops and stick them

Today we are going to focus on positional language.

Click here for your positional cards.

You will need to print out the propositional cards and have a small ball or any other object.

Explain to them what positional language is. Ask your child if they know any positional language.

Show your child the flash cards and ask them to tell you where the object is placed. Ask your child to repeat the positional

For this game, one child stands in front of the group (or family, or stuffed toys) and shares a fact about themselves, such as their favourite colour or favourite animal.

Children love this game because it’s interactive and social. They get to share their favourite things, there’s fun in not knowing what each child is going to say, and learning more about our friends/families preferences and interests.

Physical Development

Drama

Be an athlete

However, hands should be scrubbed with an antibacterial soap for at least 2 minutes.

For this hygiene fun, we are going to sprinkle glitter on the children's hands and challenge them to wash off the glitter with soap and water. Glitter is naturally sticky, so it will take at least 30 seconds to scrub the glitter away.

Don’t forget to sing our washing up song while we are washing our hands!

Germ Transfer

Remind your child to use their ‘helper hand’ (opposite of their writing hand), to stabilise the page and hold it down while they write.

Help them use the correct tripod pencil grip. This may take some practice, but it is key for writing letters with correct letter formation.

Ensure your child is sitting at the right sized table with their feet flat on the floor to create the stability needed to move their eyes and hands with precision.

Mathematics Maths Project

Comparing containers

Today we are going to be

exploring water and containers of different

capacities.

on the wall or place them on the floor. The numbering of the envelops will depend on the abilities of your child. On popsticle sticks, draw some dots that will correspond to the numbers you have written on the envelopes, then ask your child to count the dots and place them in the correct envelop. If you do not have any popsticle sticks you can cut rectangles from paper or card and draw the dots on them.

Let’s see if you can match all the numbers

with the correct quantities.

language after you. Once your child has understood the different vocabulary used for positional language, you can play the ‘Where am I?’ game with them. How to play: Place an object somewhere and tell your child to describe to you where the object is. For example; Adult: Where is my teddy bear? Your child will need to look for the teddy bear and describe where it is. Child: The teddy bear is behind the sofa.

Ask your child to pretend to be a professional athlete and do one of these sports.

Think of it as heart-pumping charades!

• basketball • football • skiing • rope climbing • tennis baseball • rowing

They should try to move like a real athlete and get you to guess which sport they are a professional in.

We are going to teach the children about the spread of germs by explaining how germs can live on hands and the things that we touch. Next you can pretend to sneeze, and when you do, cover your hands in a washable paint. Then go about your business, touching things around the room (that can afford to have paint on them).

The kids will actively see the transfer of germs, to help them understand the concept. After this exercise, have the kids find and tally all the surfaces where germs now live just from you transferring them

Let’s have three same sized containers and explore a variation of

capacities. A good resource for this is 3

transparent water bottles of the same/similar sizes. Fill one until it’s full, one

half full and keep one empty.

Let’s think:

-Is the full container the heaviest?

-Can you place them in order?

-Can you compare the half full and the full container?

- Which container is the lightest? How do you know it’s the lightest?

After you finish exploring the activity click here and ask your child to cut the pictures and place them

Understanding of the World

Water

Rescue the ice toys

What you will need to do:

- Get a small bowl and place some (non electrical) toys inside the bowl.

- Then submerge the toys in water within the bowl.

- Freeze this overnight so it is ready for the activity.

For the lesson, take out the frozen bowl of toys. Show it your child and

Expressive Art and Design

3D modelling

Dream catchers

Resources: Paper plates, beads, feathers, colour

pencils or markers.

What are dreams? Have a discussion with your child about what dreaming is. Do you dream? What do

you dream about?

You can also talk about dream catchers and their purpose. Dream catchers use the web to catch the bad dreams during the

night and dispose of them when the day comes. As for the good dreams, the feathers act as a fluffy, pillow-like ladder that allows them to gently come to the sleeping

person.

Be the weather

Children can use their bodies to portray different kinds of weather, such as:

• rain • snow • earthquake • tornado • wind

Encouraging them with questions such as:

- How might you move to show…?

- What could you do with your hands and feet?

around the room.

To access the song lyrics, please click here

in order of capacity to ensure they have

understood the concept.

Expressive Art and Design

Specific Drawing Looking Through the

Window

Ask the children to look

out of the window and to describe what he/she can

see. Then ask your child to try and draw what they can see from their detailed

description.

Click here to access to our template.

explain that the toys got stuck in the ice overnight and they need your help to rescue them. Ask your child open ended questions: - How do you think the

toys got frozen? - How can we rescue

the frozen toys? - What will we need to

do? To experiment with different ways of melting the ice, have different materials such as fabric, foil, gloves and sponge. You can also experiment with warm water and encourage your child to use a pipette to put drops of water to see how fast the ice can melt. Discuss with your child which material or method helped to melt

What you will need to do:

1. Cut out the inner circle from the paper plate to

create a ring.

2. Ask your child to decorate the ring.

3. Next, ask your child to thread the string through the holes to create a web to stop the bad dreams.

4. Give your child some string and ask them to put some beads and

feathers that will hang from the ring.

Your child can admire their beautiful dream

catcher and even put it in their room so that they have nice dreams when

they sleep at night.

Feelings

Children can use their facial expressions to represent different kinds of feelings, such as:

• sad • happy • surprised • angry • scared

the ice quickest. Let’s explore and see if we can rescue the toys!

PM PM PM PM PM Physical Development

PE It’s Coach Marc time! Let’s get our muscles ready!

Literacy

Fine Motor Skills

Flower challenge

Personal Social and Emotional Development

Wellbeing

Mindfulness is about focusing on the present, and being aware of what is happening inside and outside, in a non-judgmental way. It’s about noticing physical sensations and emotional responses, as well as their connection to other people and to your surroundings. Important Tips:

Literacy

News

Before you read the story to your child ask them what they already know about the story. Read to your child ‘The Little Red Riding Hood’ or listen to the story clicking here.

Understanding the World

Technology

Busy day in the office

Today the children will be exploring different technology equipment. Ask your child to pretend they are in the office. Resources: Technological equipment such as telephones, laptops/computers, cameras, keyboards,

Expressive Art and Design

Creative Movements It’s Harriet time! I wonder which story you will be enjoying today!

Personal, Social and

Emotional Development Hygiene

Fine motor flower fun For our science centre, we will seek out some flowers, along with a few pairs of children’s tweezers, some magnifying glasses, and cardboard squares with laminating paper in the centre (sticky boards).

The children need to use the tweezers to then pluck the petals from the flowers.

We can use the parts we have tweezed from

Practising these skills of focusing and noticing can be hugely beneficial to preschool children in several ways:

-It helps to increase their attention span. -It helps them to understand and regulate their emotions -It helps with stress management and general wellbeing -It helps them become more aware of their bodies and their senses. -It helps to build a

Discuss with your child what happened in the story. Higher end questions: -Where was little red riding hood going? -Can you remember what her mum told her before leaving the house? -What did the wolf do? -Which foods where in the basket for the grandma? -What did Little Red Riding Hood do when she was walking to her grandma’s house? After discussing the story with your child, explain to your child that they will be drawing Little Red Riding Hood and the food that was

papers/pens and a desk with a comfortable chair. (All equipment does not have to be working, they can use any old equipment you have). Put the equipment on the table and ask your child to pretend that they are working in their office. They will need to answer phone calls and respond to emails. Please support your child by asking them open ended end questions during this activity. Key question: - What are some

different ways that we can communicate with other people?

- Can you call to make an appointment for…?

- Why do we use emails?

Experiment: how do we

get rid of germs?

Use our simple experiment to show your children what they need to do to clean their hands thoroughly. Explain to the children that they are going to do a super experiment using oil and that the oil is going to represent bacteria. They’re going to wash their hands in three different ways. After each wash, rate the appearance of their hands as either ‘very oily’ ‘oily’ or ‘not oily’. Round one: cold water

our flowers to create a flower collage on our sticky boards.

The children need to spread the flower petals that they plucked across the sticky boards to look at through their magnifying glasses. A great way to combine scientific discovery and a little fine motor fun!

connection with the natural world. -It helps them to develop empathy and compassion for others. Let’s Play!

1. Describing emotions Sit in a circle with your child and ask them to describe different emotions. How does it feel when they are angry, happy or worried? You could prompt them by suggesting that they

inside the basket. Click here to access your template and basket template. Extension: Encourage your child to describe the food or little red riding hood. Parents can write adjectives and children can trace or copy-write the words independently.

Maths Project Capacity

We are going to be focusing on capacity and the language related to it. Resources: Cups and different sized containers. Key Vocabulary: Empty, full, half full,

Mathematics Shapes

In today’s lesson we are focusing on our shapes. Show your child the template and ask him/ her to name all the 2D shapes and explain some qualities of each one. Clear any misconceptions your child might have about the different shapes. Activity: Cut out the shapes from the template provided and finish all the patterns.

Use a brush to paint oil all over your child’s hands. Ask them to wash their hands with cold water only for 30 seconds. Once done, ask them to feel and look at their hands – is the oil gone? Then get them to wipe their hands dry with a hand towel. Round two: warm water

Cover your child’s hands

in oil again, but these times get them to wash it off with warm water only for 30 seconds.

Again, ask them to rate how clean their hands are and then dry them.

Round three: warm

water and soap

Cover your child’s hands in oil again, but this time get them to wash it off with warm water and soap for 30 seconds.

Mathematics Numbers

Today our chameleons have been a bit cheeky

and they have been eating numbers.

Can you help us find

our missing numbers?

If you don’t know how

visualise their emotions as colours, or types of weather.

2. Listening circle Take your child on a trip to a local park or nature reserve. Sit down and ask your child to listen out for different sounds. Instead of calling out, ask them to put their hands up when they want to share the sound that they can hear.

3. Looking at clouds Keep an eye on the weather for this activity, as ideally you need partial cloud cover and a good breeze. Get the children to lay down outside and look up at the clouds (taking care not to look directly at the sun). Ask them to look out for shapes and notice how the clouds change as they move along.

medium, large, small The aim of this activity is to see how many cups of water you will need to fill up each container. Firstly, proceed to fill up your first container ensuring to count the number of cups you are using to fill it up as you go along. For each container, ensure to note down the total number of cups you used to fill it up. When you have finished, you can discuss and compare what you have noted down for each capacity. - Which container needed the most cups of water to fill? - Which container needed the least cups of

Support your child to identify the patterns of the shapes if they need more help to understand. Click here to access to our pattern template.

Physical Development

Visual discrimination Spot the difference

Again, ask them to rate how clean their hands are and then dry them.

Talk about which method removed the oil

completely.

Expressive Art and Design

Music time!

It’s Janie time! I wonder what music you will be enjoying today!

to write numbers independently ask for

help to an adult.

Remember to use our number rhymes to

write your numbers.

This is going to be so much fun!

Expressive Art and Design

Specific Drawing

My favourite animal Can you draw a picture of your favourite wild animal?

Try to describe the appearance of the

Physical Development

Games I Spy

Go through story books or a family album, and ask your child to spot certain items or people. For example, say “Spot the yellow bunny”, or “Find the picture of Daddy wearing a hat and smiling”

Scavenger hunt Create an “event” of picking up toys at the end of the day by announcing a scavenger hunt. You can give your child a hat, torch and bag, and

water to fill? You can extend this activity by asking your child questions like ‘How many cups of water do you think we might need to fill up a…?’ ‘Then how many might we need to make it half full?’

Expressive Art and Design Printing

Make your own roller

Resources: kitchen roll tube, string, bubble wrap, cardboard etc…

Today we are going to be identifying similarities and differences between two pictures. Click here to print images. Print the pictures provided and show your child. After they have had a good look, ask them to find the differences between the pictures. Your child will need to focus carefully on the details in the picture to make sure they spot all of the differences. Remember to let your child to do this independently and guide them to the correct area of the picture if they are finding it challenging.

Singing encourages a child to express their emotions and sharpens their ability to communicate while exercising lip and tongue movement. But one of the biggest benefits of singing is the repeated use of the 'memory muscle'. As children get older the power of singing in their lives can still be extremely beneficial.

animal of choice in detail.

Click here to see some wild animal examples.

announce what he/she needs to look for, e.g. books or blocks. Once they find them, they will need to put them in the correct place – with your help, if necessary. At the end, you can provide a “reward” such as a sticker or an extra bedtime story.

A–Z Each night, ask your child to think of as many words as possible using each letter of the alphabet. Each night, build up more anticipation as you work through the alphabet. Journaling Keep a drawing pad or scrapbook with some crayons or pencils by the children’s beds, and ask them to draw a picture about their day, or any good dreams they would like to have, or what they are looking forward to the next day. You can also keep a journal for them

Activity: Using a kitchen roll tube, cover it in string, bubble wrap or other items that you can find around the house. Ensure that whatever is added creates a raised surface. Using different paints, get your child to cover the roller in paint and then roll the surface onto paper or cardboard. What patterns have been created? Can they make a variety of different patterns? Can you guess what ones they have created? Can they describe them to you, listing some key facts? Extension: Get them to create animal prints for you to guess!

jotting down what he/she says, or it could be a gratitude diary, where each night they list five things they are grateful for.