• Put on your wellies and go and stand or stomp in the thick oozy mud
• Use a torch to look around the room and track the light
• Visit a local forest/ park and walk through the swishy swashy grass
• To experience a snowstorm, throw scrunched up paper in the air for snowballs
• Link to story narrated with Makaton signing –
  Makaton Signed Story – WE’RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT – Singing Hands
• Watch Mrs Dunbar’s sensory story on Tapestry

• Watch the story with Makaton signs ( link below) Can you learn to sign; car, kite, ball, tiger, paint, trumpet and kitten?
• Can you move like a tiger and go roaring around the house?
• Throw a big ball and catch it. ‘My turn, your turn’ Try a smaller ball if you can throw and catch a big one. If this is tricky hit and catch a balloon
• Link to story being narrated with Makaton signing –
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=99SARGoQoNc
• Watch Mrs Dunbar’s sensory story on Tapestry

• Can your child start to show awareness of the number 2 in the indoor/outdoor environment e.g. house numbers, car registrations, in shops and on buses?
• Support and encourage your child to begin to recognise the number 2 and show an interest in counting. Model counting the objects your child is counting with.
• Listen to and join in with number rhymes – 2 Little Dickie Birds
• Encourage your child to look at the dickie birds as they are counted and taken away
  www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08bzfnh/numberblocks

Watch Hornbeam staff sing and sign ‘When Santa Got Stuck Up The Chimney’

Ideas to support children’s early phonological development

Use rhymes and songs with words repeated in a string e.g. Row, Row, Row your boat. Clap, Clap, Clap your hands.

Say word strings – link with an object of interest e.g. blue block, green grass

Blow feathers, blow bubbles and listen to the quiet pop. Feel and hear them pop on your hand, knee, foot, head

Listen to the sounds the child is making. Repeat back. Add a new sound.

Make a speech sound, then add on another one and then another one to make a pattern e.g. e…i…o….s