Squirrels Week 13 Timetable

Welcome Message

Story with Maria

Key Learning Intentions for this week ● To be able to correctly identify which cup is full, half full and empty. ● To be able to sing a few sentences from The Grand Old Duke of York song, repeating the actions. ● To be able to match 2 numbers together using the sticky notes and the dice.

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Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Mathematics Measure

Capacity

Today we are learning about capacity. We use capacity to measure liquids. What you have to do:

Literacy Mark making

Read the story ‘Dear Zoo’ and encourage the children to name the animals in the story.

Expressive Arts and Design

Natural Paintbrushes The children will have a go to make their very own natural paintbrushes to create a piece of art.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development Discovering Fruit

The children will be learning about different fruits and how to describe them

Understanding the World

Washing Day

What you need:

- Warm water - Soap - Sponge - Car - Doll - Clothes

Explain to children what capacity is. Capacity is used to measure liquid. Teachers/parents you will need three cups: 1 full cup of water, 1 cup with half water and last cup with no water. Explain the different cups. Print out the flash cards for capacity. Click here for capacity flash cards. Show the children the flash cards and encourage them to explain what can be seen in each cup. You will need to use the key vocabulary with the children. For example, point at a cup and ask them “is this cup full, half full or empty?” Key vocabulary to practice Full, empty, half full, Capacity. Open ended question to ask your child:

Print out the animal flash cards and encourage the children to choose one they would like to draw. Click here for zoo animals You will need to encourage the children to hold their pencils in a pincer grip. Then demonstrate to the children how to draw the animal. Extend your child’s thinking skills by asking them open ended questions. Open ended questions to ask your child:

- Can you tell me about that animal?

Key vocabulary to practise:

• Animals • Write • Draw • Pencil • pincer grip • colour

Physical Development

PE with Coach Marc

What you will need: - Sticks - Flowers - Grass - Rubber bands

What you need to do: Making nature paint brushes is easy: Simply attach a piece of nature to each stick using an elastic band or a piece of string. TOP TIP: To avoid breaking your pieces of nature put the elastic bands onto the sticks first and then slide your pieces of nature onto the bands. Make sure the elastic bands aren't too tight! Model this to your child and allow them to help. This will help them with their gross motor skills Now Let’s Paint!

What will you need • Fruit • labels

What you need to do • Get a variety of

fruit; choose different shapes, sizes and colours such as an apple, pear, banana, pineapple, avocado, strawberries etc…

• Let your child feel each fruit. Talk about how they feel, what colour they are and how they are different. Then cut up each piece of fruit.

• Encourage your child to count how many pieces of fruit there are. Then encourage them to try each piece of fruit, talking about how each one tastes and how they are different.

Extension: • You could also ask

them to draw a picture of the fruits and discuss what

Set up a washing station in the garden and get the children to clean some of the toys that they have. You’ll need a few bowls of warm water – some with soap in for washing and some without for rinsing – along with sponges and brushes for scrubbing, and towels (or paper towels) for drying. You could make this activity more specific, for example, it could be a car wash (for cleaning all the toy vehicles) or a laundry (for washing and pegging out toy clothes).

Key words • Wash • Clean • Water • Soap

Personal, Social and Emotional Development Imaginative Play – At the Shops

- Which cup is half full?

- Can you show me an empty cup? How can we tell?

Activity: Have a large water tray and some measuring equipment.

- Cups - Measuring jug or

cylinder.

Place the key vocabulary on the table and encourage the children to fill up the cups or measuring cylinders. Teachers/parents to reinforce key vocabulary and ask them open ended questions.

Music time!

Before joining in with gym, ask your child to complete a set of warm up activities. For example:

- Stretching out their legs

- Stretching out their arms

- Running on the spot

After their warm up click the link below to practice all of the exercises. Join in the gym activity. Watch the Gym video with your child and practice all of the exercises. When your child is familiar with them, join in with the kids in the video!

Place a piece of paper on to a flat surface. Allow your child to dip their natural paintbrush into the paint. When painting allow the children to be free in the way they apply the paint – still encouraging them to hold the paintbrush, the same way they would hold a pencil.

they have drawn, describing the texture of each one.

Key words Fruit, names of fruit, texture, soft, hard, smooth, rough Physical development Building Blocks

What to use: - Milk cartons - cubes - blocks These items can be of different shapes/sizes

Children will imagine they are a shop keeper. Speak to your child about what shops are and what we do at the shops. Ask your child to collect small items around the room that they would like to sell at the shop. Encourage your child to speak about the items they are selling. Teacher/Parent to ask children open ended questions. Open ended questions

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

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

Personal, Social and Emotional Development Today we will be looking at morning routines. Ask the children to tell you what they do when they wake up. Show the children some cards and encourage them to discuss what is happening.

Expressive Arts and Design Specific painting

Today we are going to learn about the famous artist Wasilly Kandinsky and make our own versions of his famous circles exploring colour theory. Click here for Wasilly Kandinsky’s famous colour circles. What you will need:

• paper or card

• paint

• ruler

• pencil

Encourage your child to speak about what they have drawn. Understanding the World Starting out with ICT

Young children enjoy pressing things and lifting flaps. This is an activity that will help with their introduction to information and communication technology. What will you need:

• Different forms of technology e.g. old phones, stopwatches, tablets, laptops, can be toy technology too.

What you need to do • Out of junk cartons

or cardboard milk cartons cut a selection of cubes.

• Then cover these with paper and let your child decorate them.

• Ask your child to stack the blocks – Don’t worry if he’s seems more interested in knocking them down again.

• Allow them to

stack, knock them down and re-stack. They will be practising using their fine motor skills as well as showing control over objects.

Extension: You could ask your child to count the number of blocks as he stacks them.

- What can I buy at the shop?

- Do you know of any names of shops in our area?

- Can you tell me what you can see?

- What do you think this is?

- What can you hear?

Please see the attached cards. Remind the children that it is important to brush your teeth, take a shower and wear clean clothes every day. Key vocabulary to practise: Brush your teeth, Shower, Clean clothes. Open ended questions to ask your child:

- What do you do when you wake up?

What you need to do:

Step 1:

Using a pencil and a ruler divide the page in to fours squares.

Step 2: Demonstrate to the children how to paint a circle in the centre of one of the circles. You can also draw circles in pencil for children to follow using paint. Step 3: Use other paints to build up the circles, adding bigger circles of colour around the first circle, until you have filled the square space with colourful concentric circles.

What you will have to do:

• Provide your child with some toys that include buttons and flaps.

• Get them to investigate how they can press, push, pull or turn the different parts.

• Try out some safe gadgets you might have in your home. e.g. pressing the buttons on a telephone.

This activity will encourage their investigation of the world.

Open ended questions to ask you child:

• What do you think this does?

• What can you see?

Communication and Language Asking Questions

It is important to encourage your child to investigate and develop their curiosity by asking questions. Take your child for a walk in the park or the garden. Get them to safely touch, smell and feel things. Collect some of the things you find such as a leaf or a pebble. Ask your child some questions. What does it feel like? Is it wet or dry? Encourage them to investigate what you have found. You could read a story linked to a trip out such as Rosie’s Walk.

Rosie's Walk Story Alternatively, you could press a variety of flowers in between some heavy books, or take some leaf rubbings using white paper and coloured crayons. Ask your child some questions about what they are doing. Key vocabulary to practise:

• Feel • Wet • Dry • Smell • Touch • Senses

Communication and Language

Story time!

Goldilocks and the Three bears.

It’s Storytime Squirrels! Let listen to our new story. Click the link below or if you have the book you can read it your child. Click here to listen to the story. Explain to your child that before they can listen to the story they need to make sure that:

1. They are sitting on their bottoms

2. Have their hands on your laps

3. Have their listening ears turned on.

Communication and language

Rhymes

The Grand Old Duke of York Encourage the children to listen and sing along to ‘The Grand Old Duke of York’. Click here to listen to the song. After listening to the song reinforce the key vocabulary for the children to practice and then sing the song again. Key vocabulary to practise: Grand, Old, Duke, Men, Up, Hill, Down, Marched.

Communication and Language

Story time! Brown Bear Brown Bear, What do you see?

It’s story time Squirrels! But before we can start our story please sit nicely with your legs crossed and hands on your knees. Listen carefully to the story as you will be asked some questions at the end. Key vocabulary to practise:

● Name of colours i.e. red, yellow, brown, blue,

● Names of animals,

Communication and Language

Rhymes 5 Little Ducks

Encourage children to listen and sing along to the song, ‘Five Little Ducks’ Key vocabulary: Duck, swimming, day, 5,4,3,2,1, away Open ended questions to ask your child:

- How many ducks were there altogether?

- What were the ducks doing?

- When did they

Communication and Language Its Puppet Show Time

Using their frame from last week. The children can create their own puppet show or puppet show background using the following recourses below. The children can use their brown bear puppet used last week What you will need:

- Cardboard - Glue - Paint - Tissue paper - Any recyclable

materials you have - Brown puppet - Toys

Whilst the children are listening to the story, pause the video and ask them some key questions. This will show whether the children understand the story.

1. How many bears are in the story?

2. Why did the Three bears leave the house?

At the end of the story ask your child some open ended questions. Key vocabulary to practise: Three bears, Goldilocks, porridge, through the woods. Open ended questions to ask your child:

- Why did the bears go outside?

- What did Goldilocks do when she smelt the porridge?

- Whose porridge and things did Goldilocks like?

Open ended questions to ask your child:

- Who marched all of them up to the top of the hill?

- What did the Grand Old Duke have?

- What did he make them do?

Activity: Craft activity

Now let’s create your own men.

1. You will need white card. Encourage the children to roll the paper to make it look like a cylinder and the glue down the edges.

Bear, bird, frog, sheep, goldfish, duck, horse, cat, dog.

Open ended questions to ask your child:

● Where were the animals seen?

● What colours were these animals?

● What noise do these animals make?

● What did the teacher see?

Activity:

come back? - What sound did

mother duck make?

Activity:

What you will need

• Paper Plates • Blue paint • Green paper • Glue • Medium sized

paper clips • Scissors • Small stones

(optional) • Duck template –

print it at the bottom of the post

What you will need to do:

1. Paint your plate blue. It doesn’t have to be neat, but if they go up too far on the sides, the blue will show on the other side of the grass.

Encourage the children to retell the story. Once doing that they can even create their own story! Ask open ended questions to develop their language skills. Key questions

• What are your characters names?

• What is your favourite part of the story?

Activity:

Resources that you will need

- White, brown and yellow paper

- Glue - Colour pens.

What you will need to do: Print this template. The children will need to tear brown pieces of paper and stick them on to the bear template. Cut a semi-circle for a bowl and encourage the children to turn and scrunch up light brown paper to make it look like porridge. Extension: Encourage children to stick strips of yellow paper for Goldilocks hair and then draw her eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth.

2. Then make three sections.

3. Ask children to paint the bottom section black, the middle section red and the top section skin colour and let it dry.

4. Whilst the body of the men is drying, encourage children to create the hat. For this you will need white paper. Cut out a bubble shape.

5. Then ask children to stick cotton wool and paint it black to give it a 3D effect.

6. Now assemble the hat on the body and ask children to draw the face on their marching men.

Brown Bear Puppet Craft • brown

construction paper (we used two colours)

• pom pom for nose • googly eyes if not

paper • glue • scissors • Brown Bear

Puppet Tracing Patterns (click to download)

When finished ask your child to act out or pretend to be a bear. Ask them to describe what a bear looks like, what sounds it makes and where it might live. You could even act out walking around the house like a bear, what do they think they move like? Are they fast or slow? Quiet or noisy?

2. Cut the grass using scissors – parents please do this for your child. You’ll want your strips of grass to be rounded so that they lay neatly against the paper plate.

3. Glue the grass to the sides of the plate.

4. Add small pebbles to the edges of your pond, if desired. This is not a necessary step.

5. Assemble the paper ducks. Print out this template.

6. Stick a paper clip onto the duck and then stick this to the plate.

PM PM PM PM PM Personal, social and

Emotional Development

Sunbathing at the seaside

It is so hot today Squirrels! Let’s take a trip down to the seaside. What you will need:

- Seaside flash cards

Click here to access the flash cards. Key words: Sand bucket, spade, Encourage children to discuss what they will need to take to the seaside. Using the flash cards

Understanding the world Water play

Under the sea Show the children some pictures of under the sea animals to see if they recognise them. In the water tray put blue paint/ colour and some under the sea animals. Encourage your child to explore and describe the animal in front of them. Key words to practise: Sea animal, under the water, big, small, Extension: Ask the children to match the sea animals to the ones on the worksheet.

Floating and sinking

Personal, social and Emotional Development

Feelings Box

It is important that children learn how to express their feelings and understand things that make them feel special.

This activity aims to promote security and early emotional development.

What you will need

- An old show box or box

- Colours/paint - Paper - Special things

Literacy Fine motor skills

Mark Making using shaving foam

Shaving foam has to be one of the most fun and engaging ways to practice mark making. You will need:

- Shaving foam - Plate/tray - Pencil - Letter cards

Next, invite your child to use the pencil to ‘write’ any mark, shape or letter into the shaving foam.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Hygiene

Washing Hands

Today we are going to focus on why we have to wash our hands and when we have to wash our hands. Ask children why they have to wash their hands. Encourage your child to watch and listen to the ‘I don’t want to wash my hands’ video below - Click here for the video After the children have watched the story, encourage them to discuss when they should wash their hands. Refer back to the story and support them to repeat the key vocabulary.

ask children to discuss what they do at seaside. Encourage the children to discuss with each other what they would like to do when they get to the seaside. Join in the children’s play in order to observe, support and extend the children by being a role model, using open ended questions. Open ended questions:

- What do we do when we go to the seaside?

- When do we go to the seaside?

- What can you hear at the seaside?

- How do you feel? You could even play some sounds from the ocean for them to listen to. Key vocabulary to practise: Sunbathing, seaside, beach ball, relaxing, sandcastle.

The aim of this activity is for the children to understand which objects can float and which objects can sink. What you will need:

- Water tray - Heavy and light

objects/toys. - Flash cards

Click for flash cards

What you will need to do: Find different objects from around the house, ask your child to find you some heavy objects from your pile. Discuss what will happen if you put them in the water. Key vocabulary to practise: Float, sink, heavy, light Higher end questions:

- What object can float or sink?

- Why do you think it floats or sink?

What you need to do • Get a small

cardboard box, such as a shoe box, and help your toddler decorate it.

• You could use paint, cut and stick different papers on it etc…

• Then ask your child to pick out some special and precious things and place them into the box.

• It could be a photo of you, their favourite toy, a special book etc…

• Tell her this is her special box and that she can put in things which are important to her.

• Encourage your child to discuss why it is important and maybe ask what makes them happy or sad.

Once they have finished, ask your child to wipe it, start again with a new mark making activity or letter. Please focus on holding the pencil or tool properly. They can also use stencils or letter cards to guide themselves.

Key vocabulary - Germs. - Sneeze - Toilet - Before eating

Understanding the world Construction

The children will explore building a car park for a supermarket. Ask children to discuss what they will need to build car park for a supermarket. Print out flash cards of building equipment and show them children to see if they can recall any of them. Remind children that they are builders and they need to work together to build a carpark. Role model to the children how to use the equipment.

Expressive arts and design

Painting

Today we are going to focus on a painting by David Hockney. Show the painting of David Hockney. Encourage the children to discuss what they can see. For example, trees, field, road, etc. Support their understanding by asking them key questions. The children should create their own landscape. Ask the children to look outside the window and paint what they can see. Parents and educators to reinforce key vocabulary and encourage children to

Physical Development Games

Stepping Stones

The aim of this game is to develop the children’s balancing skills. What you will need:

- Cardboard - Plastic crates - Buckets

What you need to do?

• Cut out about 10 circles from old cardboard boxes.

• The circles should be big enough for your child to stand on.

• Then place these circles on the floor or outside.

Expressive Arts and Design

Shape Collage

An easy way to introduce collage to your child is to start with a few baskets of basic paper shapes in lots of different colours, and let your child explore. What you need

- Coloured paper cut up

- Scissors - Glue - Paper - Paintbrush

Expressive Arts and Design Creative Movements It’s Harriet time! I wonder what story you will be enjoying today! Expressive Arts and Design Music time!

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

Mathematics Choose the right

number counting game

Resources needed: - Sand - Water - Cement mixture - Helmet - Building

equipment

Key vocabulary to practise: Sand, bricks, cement mixture, helmet Open ended questions - What else can use to mix the cement? Physical Development PE with Coach Marc

use realistic colours e.g. paint the tree green not purple. Key vocabulary Shape, tree, land, road, grass, sky.

• The gaps between them should be big enough for your child to jump to or walk across.

• You can arrange them in a pattern so that your child has to move in different directions.

• Then tell your child that they need to walk across these stones and make sure they don’t fall into the ‘sea’!

• This game can be played outdoors or inside – just make sure there is plenty of space around the circles.

What you need to do

- Spread the glue on a piece of paper

- Ask your child to use the pre-cut card and stick on the paper

- Once finished let it sit to dry

Questions to ask - What shapes can

you see?

- Prepare some sticky notes with various numbers and place them in front of the children armed with fly swatters.

- The goal of this simple

yet fun game is for the little ones to identify the number on the dice and match it with the ones written on sticky notes before smacking the correct answer with a fly swatter!

What you need –

• Dice • Fly Swatter • Sticky Notes

Have fun!