Nursery Weekly Home Learning Suggestions

Week Beginning 4th May 2020

Suggestions for activities at home

Get Set Grow!

This week’s main theme is about how some animals grow and change. In particular, the

focus will be on the frog lifecycle.

Look out for frogspawn in ponds if you have a pond or have access to one nearby, or else

have a look at some pictures online and talk about what it is. Talk about what tadpoles are

and what they will become.

Main stages:

1. Frog eggs/frog spawn

2. Tadpole

3. Frog

(If you want to go into further detail, the tadpole grows back legs, then front legs then

it’s tail shrinks and it is called a froglet before becoming a frog).

Andy’s Aquatic Raps – Frog Hopping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJg3Dy5Jm48

Cbeebies Come Outside about frogs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0x6M42m3IY

Read stories (or watch them) about frogs:

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Ten Tiny Tadpoles by Debbie Tarbett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c66IE-QkTw

Tadpole’s Promise by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross

(a bit of a surprise ending… you may want to watch it first!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKMl-a3-uNY

Cbeebies Show Me Show Me – Frog Moments of Beauty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkLrSOXaJ4A

Talk about other animals and how they grow and change.

Remind the children of the eggs we had at school and the ducklings that came out and how

they would grow and change into adult ducks.

Continue planting and growing seeds and beans, watering and caring for your seedlings.

Monday

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Read or watch The Teeny Weeny Tadpole by Sheridan Cane and Jack Tickle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vRZuG11ZqU

The tadpole wants to be able to jump like a frog, but just can’t do it YET!

Last week we thought about what you can do now that you couldn’t do when you were a

baby.

This week ask your child to think about what they would like to be able to do that they

can’t do yet. For example, hopping on one leg, skipping, skipping with a skipping rope,

cartwheels, doing their own zip up, etc. You could ask them to choose one thing that they

might be able to practise to help them learn to do it.

Maths

Try making some frog spawn out of balls like ping pong balls in water, pom-poms, marbles,

water beads (Orbeez), googly eyes, or cooked cous cous, tapioca or chia seeds in water for

some sensory play.

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Ask your child to count some out into different containers, practising saying one number

per object. For extra fine-motor skills practice, try using tongs and scoops to pick them

up.

Tuesday

Make some frog art and crafts.

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You could even try to make a collage frog life cycle.

Bubble wrap makes a good collage material for frog spawn – you can even use a black

marker to draw some dots on.

Bubble wrap can also be used to print with paint – give it a try with different shades of

green to print a frog’s speckled skin.

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Maths

Sing 5 Little Speckled Frogs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSC-gHBU_d0

Numberblocks version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_hzAlnSw5w

You can use your 5 fingers to count down with the frogs, you could even draw froggy faces

on each finger, or make 5 little frog finger puppets.

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If you have any toy frogs, or some pictures of frogs, have 5 at the start and ask your child

to take one away each time “one jumps into the pool”. If you have 5 people in your

household, you can all be frogs!

Ten Little Froggies – another song this time counting up to 10 and down again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvyhmbcHqvw

Wednesday

Read stories about baby animals and other creatures that grow and change, for example,

The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Maths

Use some numbers on lily pads and have a toy or cut-out frog to jump on different

numbers.

Try asking your child to put the frog on random numbers to see if they can recognise them,

then they could swap roles, with her/him giving the numbers for a sibling or parent/carer

to land the frog on. Or ask your child to jump up one number to find one more, or down one

number to find one less.

Try starting at different numbers and jumping to count up, or down from these different

numbers.

Like this:

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Start at 5 – then counting up: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

And down: 4, 3, 2, 1, 0.

For some added physical activity, you could try chalking the numbers on the ground and

being frogs, jumping to the numbers!

Thursday

See the school website for VE Day activities

In preparation for tomorrow’s VE Day and May Day Bank Holiday, you could make some

paper bunting flags, decorations, party hats, flags on sticks/straws or prepare some

special food for a celebration tomorrow.

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Maths

Try some VE Day baking or food preparation. You could make cupcakes, biscuits, afternoon

tea or cucumber sandwiches.

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Ask your child to count out number of spoonfuls or cups of ingredients, or count out

cupcake cases. You could ask children to help look at the numbers on the scales if you are

weighing ingredients.

Friday

Happy VE Day and Early May Bank Holiday!

Phonics- through the week

Read or watch

Oi Frog by Kes Grey & Jim Field: Listen out for the rhyming words. You can ask your child

to put their thumb up, or finger on their nose each time they hear a rhyme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPDyXsSbxOY

Which things rhyme with frog:

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Learn a new rhyme/song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p2YqaU2XCo

Other

Try some of Andy’s Wild Workouts:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p06tmmvz/andys-wild-workouts

Continue planting seeds, beans or cress. You could take photos to show how your plants are

growing to compare it over time.

Please do email in any photos of your children’s learning, WOW moments or anything they

would like to share with us!