Hello Nursery,

Just to let you know this week is Children’s Mental Health week, the theme this year is ‘EXPRESS YOURSELF’. On Friday the 5th February in school, we will be having a ‘Dress to Express yourself day’.  We will be talking about our feelings and focusing on the importance of ‘being yourself’. It would be great if on Friday everybody at home could dressed up in what ever you like, just as long as you have chosen it and it makes you smile. Then please can you send in some pictures, I would love to see you all♥

Good Morning Everybody,

This morning after you have completed your daily morning routine which consists of counting and number recognition from 0-10, but remember to continue on if you can. Colour recognition, day and date of the week and remember to check the weather, look out of your window, what’s it doing out there? Is it cloudy, sunny, rainy?? can you draw a weather of the day picture??

Our Shape of the Week this week is a hard one we are moving on now to 5 sided shape ‘PENTAGON’, remember to count the sides and corners together, make the number five with your fingers holding them up in the air, then have a go at writing the number 5 on paper, or white board, in sand or even make a 5 using playdough any mark making is fun and super learning.

• Can you recognise the shape on this football??

Our focus activity today is making turnip soup in the water tray, the children are going to try and cut up some pieces of vegetables all by themselves, we are learning how to use a knife safely.

With your grown up can you have a go at home and try to cut up either a piece of fruit or a vegetable safely. We are then going to place them in water with spoons and bowls and role play making our own soup.

This afternoon is Makaton time, Our sign of this week is ‘Thank you’ have a practice with your grown up. If you would like to watch Mr Tumble doing some signs after please see the link below.

Good Morning Nursery,

I hope you have all had a super weekend and are all up and ready to be learning super stars.

This Monday morning means just one thing! How do we start the day but the Joe Wicks way……. Well only if you want to but it is fun, so if you would like to have a go please click on the link below

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Our story of the week this week is still in keeping with our plants and growth theme, it’s ‘The Enormous Turnip’ please watch the story video below, although if you have the book at home please read that together instead.

This story is all about collaboration and working together, helping each other and at the end sharing out what they achieved.

It also helps us learn different words for the word BIG! (Huge, Enormous gigantic, large) How many different words for BIG do they use in this story??

Can you answer these questions?

• What did the old man plant in his garden?
• Why did the old man need help?
• Do you like Turnips? Have you ever tried one?
• Can you remember how many people and animals helped to pull the turnip out of the ground?

Our Maths focus today alongside our morning routine is looking at size terminology. BIG/LARGE or little/small, you can either use the size ordering story character sheets below or use real vegetables or you could even use your own little people and animals.

Please can you try and group them into either small-medium-large, also talk about the characters from the story, is the dog bigger or smaller than the cat?? if you put the dog, cat and mouse in a line which one is big which one is medium and which one is small??

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This week we are still continuing with looking at the number 4, can you recognise the number in a number line without being told? Can you write the number 4 either on paper, in mud or sand or even make the sign in the air?

Lets now have a look at the NUMBERJACKS can you see the number 4??

This afternoon I would like you to draw a picture from the story. Think about what colours you will use? What characters will you put in your picture??

Please remember to send all your hard work to me at admin@shawburystmarys.co.uk 

Have a great Monday ♥

Good Morning,

I just wanted to start our Morning by showing you the class cress head we made last Wednesday, we have placed it in the window for the sunshine and we will keep monitoring it and sending you pictures as its cress hair grows every week.

It does need a name so if you have any good ideas please let me know?

Today if Friday and it means one thing JOE WICKS time, get your sporty gear on and have a go! Remember Fitness is fun!!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

After your morning routine I would like you to have a go at some more cutting skills, its important that we keep having a go at holding and using scissors helping us to perfect our fine motor skills, please see sheets below.

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As we have been reading and acting out the story of Jack and the Beanstalk I wanted to see if you remember how the story goes? I have attached a link to a story map for you to use if you have a printer, you can cut out the images and see if you can place them in the right order. If you can’t print off, don’t worry just have a go at drawing the characters and Jacks house and where the beanstalk grew?

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That’s another week of super learning done, I really do miss you all so much, the classroom is not the same without you all.

Stay safe, and I will speak to you on Monday,

Thank you, Miss Thelwell x

Hello Nursery,

I hope your week of learning is going well and you are not finding anything too difficult. Please let me know via the admin e-mail If there is anything you need and I will get back to you straight away.

This mornings focus activity after our morning routine is to make a beanstalk out of an old toilet roll or kitchen roll which can be painted green if you have paint. After that you can cut out leave shapes from paper, if you don’t have green paper for the leaves don’t worry just colour white paper green with a felt tip pen or crayon and then you can attach the leaves onto your very own beanstalk.

You can make it a small or tall as you like but don’t forget to count how many leaves you attach, you could even write the numbers on your leaves, 1,2,3,4….

You could even make Jack and the giant to go on top. Have fun creating.

Our focus number today is the number 5 again, please see work sheet below, don’t forget to have a go at writing it independently and counting your own fingers.

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Have a lovely day x

Hello Nursery,

This mornings after your morning routine I want you to focus on some pencil control and number bean counting, (see worksheets below). If you can’t print off the worksheets don’t worry just continue with your name tracing/writing seeing if you can write at least the first letter of your name independently and then line up and count objects you have around you seeing if you can write the correct number against your objects, if you can’t remember the what the numbers look like without looking at them, please use your number line

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Please don’t forget to forward your work on to me at admin@shawburystmarys.co.uk so I can add your work to your learning journeys.

This afternoon it is cosmic yoga time!!! so have fun and send me some photo’s of you working out I would love to see them.

Keep up all the super learning, speak to you tomorrow! x

Good Morning Nursery,

This morning it’s time for our daily morning routine refresh remember we start with counting from 0-10, but if you can continue further that’s amazing, please do so. Colour recognition, Shape recognition. focusing on our Shape of the Week this week which is a ‘Rectangle’, remember to count the sides and corners together, have a look at what is different on a rectangle than a square, Talk about 2 long sides and 2 short sides, write 2 + 2 = 4, explain it is a simple sum, look at 2 fingers then add 2 more then count them all together, or use objects 2 rubbers plus 2 more equal 4, don’t worry if you don’t understand, its a first look at sums just hearing plus or add and equals terminology is great at this age. then have a go at writing the number 4 on paper, or white board, in sand or even make a 4 using playdough any mark making is fun and super learning.

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• Can you find objects around your house that is a RECTANGLE shape??

Remember to look at the day and date of the week also what the weather is doing outside?, We have magic weather goggler’s (Binoculars to you and me) in nursery but you can just make your own binoculars by using your hands to inspect the weather further when you look out of the window!

In the water tray today we are adding Duplo and soapy water and shaving foam to build our own beanstalk through the clouds, join in with us if you can.

This afternoon is Makaton sign time, the sign to learn together this week is ‘PLEASE’, Then as you get super good at it put on Mr Tumble and see if you can spot him signing it.

• Does he sign it as we as you??

Have fun x

Good Morning Nursery,

I hope you had a lovely relaxing weekend

It’s time to start the week again with a bit of Monday morning exercise, JOE WICKS, so click on the link below and have some fun before completing our morning routine and listening to our story of the week

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Our story this week is Jack and the Beanstalk please watch the video together, or if you have the story book please read that instead.

• Think about how Jack felt when he got rid of the cow, did he do the right thing or should he have sold it like his Mummy asked??
• Do you think it was dangerous to climb up the beanstalk?? Would you climb up there??
• Should Jack have taken things from the giant ogre??
• What colour is the beanstalk??

Have a go at finding ‘Green’ objects around your home and take a picture of them for me to see.

The number we are looking at in more detail today again is the number 4, please see attached worksheet below. Please write the number 4, count 4 fingers and find 4 objects.

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This afternoon in nursery we are roleplaying the story using masks from the story, could you all have a go at making a mask of one of the characters from the story, you can cut it out and colour it. You could be Jack, the Giant or even Milky White the cow, once you have finished it you could attach it to a stick with Sellotape and pretend you are in the story. You could even make up your own story and make friends with the giant or have a tea party with him.

Have fun xx

Good Morning,

Today is wake up with Joe Wicks, please click on the link below to start your Friday with some exercise.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

After your daily morning routine, Our focus activity today is making flowers and leaves out of playdough, if you don’t have any playdough, I have a super simple no cook playdough recipe to try, see link below.

Don’t worry about adding glycerine, and gel colouring just means food colouring if you have any.

Thank you to every one who has continued to send me your work this week and earn these cool virtual stars. You are super learning machines and I’m very proud of you.

This afternoon is family time so enjoy doing some puzzles or reading a story together.

Have a fantastic weekend from Miss Thelwell x

Hello Nursery,

This morning our focus activity is to make and design your own seed packet, please see below for resource template. I would like you to try and cut out the packet, if you need help that’s ok and then draw a picture of what seeds you would like on the front or cut out and stick on the images provided, I also want you to have a go at gluing everything together!! You could even add some seed inside your seed packet like apple, orange or watermelon seeds.

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Please don’t forget to forward your work on to me at admin@shawburystmarys.co.uk so I can add your work to your learning journeys.

This afternoon its all about mark making in mud with twigs and sticks, draw a picture, mark make the first letter of your name, write out some numbers you remember, make a stick man or a face using sticks, leaves for hair, stones for eyes, be creative in nature and have fun.