Ideas for Home Learning

• Can you find a copy of the book to share at home in the local library?
• Practise making animal noises together
• Can you do these Dear Zoo Yoga poses to-gether – What animal will you be?
• Can you find recycled materials in your house to use and pretend to be a part of an animal e.g. kitchen roll tube for an ele-phant’s trunk

Link to Dear Zoo Yoga Poses-
www.lakeside.theharmonytrust.org/serve_file/681619

Link to story narrated with Makaton signing-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoHn8rLj9pc

• Can you find a copy of the book to share at home in the local library?
• When you are out on a family walk, scoot or ride see if you can find a different object for each colour in the story. Why not take photos so you can make a book or collage when you get home?
• Can you use your hands as binoculars to look for animals in the park – ducks, birds, cats or dogs?
• Move like different animals
• Listen to the story through song. Can you join in with the repetitive phrases?

Link to song-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7tvOtt1itA

Link to story being narrated with Makaton signing-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC6-yK6GeGU

Can your child start to show awareness of the numbers 0- 5 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 numbers up to 5 and show an interest in counting. Model counting the objects your child is counting with.
• Listen to and join in with number rhymes – 5 little Ducks, 5 Cheeky Monkeys
• Encourage your child to look at the ducks/monkeys that are counted and being taken away

 When singing rhymes, present numbers on fingers, showing fingers decreasing and re- counting when we take one away or add one.

Sing/ recite rhymes at home: use resources from home learning packs to do this

Watch Ganneys Meadow Staff Recordings of rhymes on Tapestry

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

Ideas for Home Learning

Can you look for the different vegetables when you go shopping: carrots, turnips, parsnips, potatoes?

Blow a ballon up slowly and use the repetitive language…’bigger, bigger, bigger’

Explore, feel/ taste, line up, transport in baskets some new vegetables that you’ve never tried before

Sing ‘Row. Row, Row Your Boat’ with your child as you hold onto their hands and move forwards and back

Link to story narrated with Makaton signing-
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/something-special-tumble-tales-the-enormous-turnip

Explore, feel, taste, roll, paint with carrots

Can you grow some carrots in your own garden? Or do you know anyone with an allotment? Can you visit one? What can you see growing?

How many carrots can you fit in one basket? Can you count the carrots?

Link to story being narrated-
www.ellaskitchen.co.uk/helpful-stuff/the-carrot-that-could

Can your child start to show awareness of the number 5 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 numbers up to 5 and show an interest in counting. Model counting the objects your child is counting with.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08d630h/numberblocks-series-1-five

Sing/ recite rhymes at home: use resources from home learning packs to do this

Watch Ganneys Meadow Staff Recordings of rhymes on Tapestry

Could you make a healthy snack together? Could you try any fruits from the story?

Can you go on a bug hunt? What can you find? Can you see a caterpillar?

Be a butterfly – run around and flap your arms up and down

Can you spot all the food in the story when you are shopping?

Could you paint a butterfly by painting one side and folding the paper to make it symmetrical.

Link to story narrated with Makaton signing-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQNxBrONqaA

Can you do some planting together and watch it grow?
Could you help an adult in the garden – water the plants with a watering can?

Sing the days of the week and say today is Monday…today is Tuesday…

Can you find any slugs or snails in your garden, on your way to school or at the park?

Link to story being narrated-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=23INhyreb8M

Match shapes that are the same and begin to categorise – square/rectangle e.g. shapes in your house e.g. coasters or picture frames

Notice patterns and start to arrange things by pattern
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08bzfnh/numberblocks

When singing rhymes, present numbers on fingers, showing fingers decreasing and re- counting when we take one away or add one.

Watch Ganneys Meadow Staff Recordings of rhymes on Tapestry

Useful Links:

Pre Phonics and Phonics
www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/#tabnametabSupportForPhonics

Sound Discrimination and Listening
www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/eyfs-listening-skills/zbc4y9q

Number
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/joinin/numberblocks-help-your-child-with-maths

Go for a walk and collect some sticks and build a house

Build a house using building blocks

Use a battery-operated fan to blow cold air onto your children as they join in with huffing and puffing.

Visit a local farm and find the pigs

Look out for the number 3 when out and about, pointing out the number or three objects the same.

Link to story narrated with Makaton signing:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08lc7jz/mr-tumble-tales-the-three-little-pigs

Make some gingerbread cookies or a different sweet treat or even something for lunch or dinner.

Play chase and use the repetitive language ‘Run, run, as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man’

Count three buttons on your coat, top or cardigan

Link to story being narrated with Makaton signing:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEf6MtglpXk

Cook porridge together, to taste or use for sensory play
Look out for the number 3 when out and about, pointing out the number or three objects the same.

Talk about size eg big chair, middle size chair, little chair
Go on a hunt for small or big things, such as a big teddy and a small teddy, a big bowl and a small bowl.

Link to story being narrated with Makaton signing:
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/curations/something-special-mr-tumble-tales

Enjoy ice lollies and link this to melting

Explore edible snow using desiccated coconut

Make ice / ice lollies in the freezer, showing the children the water before you put it in.

Make snow men in real snow or improvise with play dough, recipe shared on Tapestry. Use twigs, buttons etc.

Point to and name different objects such as hat, scarf, gloves.

Watch Ganneys Meadow Staff Recordings of rhymes onTapestry

Pre Phonics and Phonics
www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/#tabnametabSupportForPhonics

Sound Discrimination and Listening
www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/eyfs-listening-skills/zbc4y9q

Number
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/joinin/numberblocks-help-your-child-with-maths