• Could you make a Zoo at home together?
• Could you play peekaboo with the animals hiding under the material?
• How about a visit to the Zoo?
• Could you provide sensory play alongside zoo animals?
• Encourage mark making, you could paint using animal footprints exploring the range of colours in the story. You could add some counting as you make the footprints.

• Read story together, pat children’s knees for children to hear and feel the rhythm.
• Add the animals in playdough, add broccoli for texture and food exploration.
• Could you create a Jungle to explore?
• Can you categorise the Jungle animals into big and small?
• Playing instruments for repetitive parts of the story can help children discriminate between different sounds they hear.

• Can you count to five in all opportunities?
• Can you point out the number 5 in the indoor/outdoor environment e.g. house numbers, car registrations, in shops and on buses.
• Could you learn a number rhyme such as 5 cheeky monkeys?

• Watch Ganney’s Meadow Staff Recordings of rhymes on Tapestry.
• Can you and your child play or listen to the beat of an instrument whilst you sing this song?

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

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

Could you paint a rainbow, naming all of the colours?

Could you explore sensory water using chopped up fruits from the story?

Encourage mark making exploring the range of colours in the story

Encorage children to Stop, Look and Listen when crossing the road.

Watch and learn the rhyme of Road Safety for Children “The Wiggles”.

Look at books about cars and staying safe.

Could you fasten a favourite toy into the car wearing a seatbelt as a role model?

When you stop at traffic lights can you say Ready, Steady, Go, as the lights change from red to green?

Always encourage holding hands or holding onto reigns when crossing roads or in car parks.

Can you count to five in all opportunities?

Can you point out the number 5 in the indoor/outdoor environment e.g. house numbers, car registrations, in shops and on buses.

Could you explore five bath toys the same such as five little speckled frogs?

Watch Ganneys Meadow Staff Recordings of rhymes on Tapestry.

Can you and your child play or listen to the beat of an instrument whilst you sing this song?

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

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.

Could you explore sensory water using chopped up fruits from the story? Join in at home with our very hungry
caterpillar rhyme on tapestry.

Join in at home with our very hungry caterpillar rhyme on tapestry.

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

Can you do some digging/ planting together and watch it grow?

Could you help an adult in the garden – water the plants with a watering can?

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

Join in at home with our days of the week rhyme on
tapestry.

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

Can you use positional language such as in or under?
Could you watch Pepper’s Easter Hunt and sing the new rhyme with your child?

Why don’t you visit a farm and see if there is any baby chicks or other baby animals?

Join in at home and watch and listen to our rhyme on tapestry.

Can you point out the number 4 in the indoor/outdoor environment e.g. house numbers, car registrations, in shops and on buses.

Match shapes that are the same – square/rectangle e.g. shapes in your house e.g. coasters or picture frames
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08bzfnh/numberblocks

Useful Links:

Pre Phonics and Phonics

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

Sound Discrimination and Listening
www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/#tabnametabSupportForPhonics

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

Play with toy animals from the story such as cow, fox, horse.

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.

Go for a walk/explore in the woods and see what you can notice.

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.

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

Jump in muddy puddles

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