Home learning Keeping healthy and Growing
Date: 30th Jan 2021 @ 5:58am
Hi Preschool, we hope you are all doing well.
We miss you lots.
This week and next week we are thinking about Keeping healthy and Growing.
The book we will be reading this week is The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.
Each day I will be adding the new lesson to this class blog and to Tapestry. Any work you complete please upload to Tapestry and if you are having any problems uploading, please phone the annexe and Mrs McLaren will be happy to talk you through how to upload.
Monday 01.02.21
Todays tasks are to do with phonics and physical development.
We are working on our rhyming today within phonics.
1
Rhyming pairs In a pairs game, use pictures or objects with names that rhyme.
If you don't have any rhyming cards you could draw them or just find objects or toys that rhyme.
Here are a few simple ones: mug,rug,bug,jug,slug
cat,bat,rat,hat
ham, jam, lamb
hen,pen,ten
dog,frog,log
Take it in turns to turn two cards over and keep them if the pictures are a rhyming pair.If they are not a rhyming pair, the cards are turned face down again and the other person has a turn.
If playing with objects, split the rhyming objects.Place one of each of the rhyming objects outside the box and the other objects inside the box. Pull one object out at a time and match it to the objects outside of the boxt. Again take it in turns to match the objects. the person with the most pairs at the end wins.
Start with a small core set of words that can then be extended. The children need to be familiar with the rhyming word families before they can use them in a game – spend time looking at the pictures/objects and talking about the pairs.
2
Cutting activities. All our children need lots of practice with cutting as it is a very hard skill to master.
Encourage your child to work on their cutting skills, focusing on how they hold their scissors and what hand they hold their scissors in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDtupoBsp6o
Above just a simple video to help your child learn how to hold scissors proerly and cut.
Different resources you can use to help with their cutting skills is playdough, straws, paper, bread and card.
3
Hide and seek game
Promotes listening and attention and language skills and prepositional language, e.g. on top of, underneath, next to and behind.
Use some of your child’s favourite toys and hide them around the room before your child comes in.
Encourage your child to find the toys, following your instructions e.g. it is underneath something blue. Once they have found all the toys re-set the game focusing on the prepositions they found the hardest.
Allow your child to then hide them and encourage them to use the prepositional language to explain where the toys are.
You could incorporate some rhyming in here too if you are able by placing items that rhyme by each other, e.g. a mug on a rug, a hat on a mat etc.
4
Well being activity
If you haven’t already, pick up a baking set from our pop up pantry open from 10-11 am and enjoy doing some baking.