Dear Parents, Knowing the months of the year and being able to order them is a vital skill that children should learn early in their lives. This catchy song should help them to learn the order of the months and retain it. Mr G x This year is flying by already. This year we have already been through January, February and March. We are now in April. May will be along in just ten days! Do you know the months of the year? Do you know how many months there are? Do you know the order of them? Give this song a listen, then play it again and try to sing along! Can you sing the song without the music?
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What's your favourite book? I find that a very tricky question indeed. It could be "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", "Room on the Broom", "Elmer", "Hairy Maclary" or even "Peter Rabbit". There's so many stories I love.
What I'd like you to do today, with bits of coloured paper, tissue paper, wrapping paper and old newspapers and magazines, I would like you to try and re-create the front cover of your favourite book. When you use lots of bits and pieces and stick them together to make a picture, it is called a collage. Have fun! Yesterday, we described things that we could see outside our windows. Today, we're going to use those skills to play a game.
What I want you to do is find something in your house. Look at it really well but don't tell your grownup what it is that you have chosen. Now, describe it to your grownup without saying what it is, and see if they can guess! Here's my example: My object is rectangular in shape and made of black plastic around the edges. Inside the black edges, the middle of this object has pictures that change and flicker. On the bottom edge, it is bumpy, with little holes in it. There is a tiny bit of shiny, silver writing on the bottom edge in the middle. See if you can have a go at describing, then see if you can guess what your grown up is describing! How many triangles can you count in the picture below?
Can you make your own triangle picture? Count how many triangles are in your picture. At Greenhouse Learning, we love finger painting. So when Pixie Rae came up with this incredible finger painting peacock idea, we thought we simply must tell you about it! If you'd like to have a go, head on over to The Magical Lair of the Craft Pixies where you will find instructions and a template to give you a head start with it!
Dear parents,
This activity is a simple way to get children thinking about description, which will come in very useful later in their school lives. - Greenhouse Learning -- Look outside your window. What do you see? I'll tell you what I see:
Write your list in the same way. Now, let's add extra details. Let's pick colours to add.
Are you done? Fantastic description. Dear Parents, Today, we will be playing a time game that helps children to order their daily events. Children will create colourful timetable cards of their day and then put them into order from beginning to end. This activity will help them to show you their understanding of sequencing events, which is an important skill to learn. Have fun! - Greenhouse Learning x -- Every day, you do things in an order, don’t you? You wake up. You brush your teeth. You might have a shower. What else do you do? What I’d like you to do is draw the things you do every day on the blank cards attached. Draw a new thing on every card, remember to colour them in. Now, we will play a game with the cards. What I would like you to do is turn them over so you can’t see them. Shuffle them about so you don’t know what is on each card and lay them out flat like this. Now, turn a card over. If it is the first thing you would do in a day (wake up) then you get to keep the card. If not, turn it back over and choose another card until you find it. When you’ve found it, put it at the start of a line of cards and start looking for the second card (get out of bed) in the same way. This game will help you to put events into order but it will also train your memory. We hope you have lots of fun.
Making dice can be quite fiddly, so you may wish to ask somebody older than you to help. Here's what to do:
Today, I would like you to make an 'under the sea' themed alphabet poster.
I would like you to turn the letters of the alphabet into sea creatures. You might want to turn them into octopuses, turtles, fish, starfish, jellyfish, sharks, whales, dolphins or narwhals. Maybe you have your own ideas. Here is the alphabet to help you: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Have fun! x Dear parents,
Today we will consolidate the learning we have done so far on counting, shape and 1-1 correspondence (that is knowing the value of a digit). You will need a piece of paper, a pencil, coloured pencils, and a ruler. Children will draw along to your instructions. Greenhouse Learning x -- Last night, Mr and Mrs Green watched a film called "The Little Mermaid", and now we can't stop thinking about life under the sea. |
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