• Can your child retell you the story at home?
• Can you make your own potions?
• Could you make your own wand?
• Can you make your own puppets to help you retell the story?
• Can you see any of the animals from the story when you are out?
• Can you visit the library and find any other rhyming books or Julia Donaldson books to share?
• Can you join in with the Talk for Writing shared via tapestry at home. Can your children show you the actions?
• Could you junk model your own broomstick? You could even use natural resources!
• Link to the animated story
  www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0102qfj/room-on-the-broom

• Can you visit the library and find any space books?
• Can you make your own junk modelled rocket? Maybe for your own bear to visit the moon!
• Explore more about what astronauts do. What might they wear? How do they get too space?
• Talk about day and night and what we might see in the sky at different times of the day.
• What would you take to the moon? Could you make a shopping list and have your own picnic?
• Could you sing songs together such as 5 little men in a flying saucer and twinkle, twinkle little star.
• Could you make your own rocket out of blocks or lego?

• Dear Santa
• The Very Helpful Hedgehog
• Bear stays up for Christmas

This half terms Nursery Rhymes:

Our core nursery rhymes this half term are:

• Incy wincy spider
• Twinkle twinkle little star
• Pop goes the weasel
• Two little dickie birds

Please join in with the Willow Class staff singing these at home, these will be sent out via tapestry.

Maths Home Learning:

Our Focus number this half term is 2 and we will also be exploring pattern. Here are some ways to support your child at home:

• Can your child identify numbers in the environment?
• Can your child start to copy/write any numbers they see?
• Can your child find shapes in the environment?
• Can you create your own simple AB pattern, for example, using two natural resources; leaf, conker, leaf, conker- what would be next?
• Number blocks on BBC IPlayer is also a great resource.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World Home Learning:

• Can you talk about what the weather is like each day?
• How many animals can you find around your local area? What animals do we see in the day? What animals might we see at night?
• Can you go on a litter pick around your local area to help make sure the animals don’t eat it?
• Can you explore and find out some more about different festivals that are being celebrated over the coming weeks e.g. bonfire night, Remembrance Day, Diwali, Christmas. My first Festivals is a great way to explore this: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000qp30/my-first-festivals
• Can you cook/bake and share your favourite healthy foods and share on tapestry.