Bailey Green Primary and Nursery School Together with Bailey’s Butterflies
Hello to our Poppies' parents and families! We thought it would be nice to put up some ideas and activities that you can try out at home during this isolation period which tie in with the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum. We hope you enjoy these activities and that it gives you some inspiration for ideas at home. These activities also link in with our planned stories for the upcoming weeks which you can also find on our website. We have attached a timetable that you may like to look at which follows usual nursery daily routines. We can’t wait to see some of your creations and hear all about them when we see you soon! We wish you all the best and are looking forward to seeing you all soon.
Keep safe and take care, Miss Begum and Miss Beedham.
Here is a video of the book of the week being read on YouTube, if you do not have the book at home:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBJ-7lSPnW0
Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED)
Allow this time together to build on 1:1 opportunities with your children. To help this area develop your child may want to lead certain activities and show independence. This may involve playing games, and making decisions for themselves, such as what game they want to play. Encourage them to take turns and allow them to express their own feelings.
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Physical Development
Poppies are already fantastic with their physical skills and really enjoy practising different physical movements like, jumping, dancing, skipping. Physical development however can also involve things like discussing keeping safe and healthy, eating a healthy diet, using various tools and objects for fine motor development and many more!
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Communication and Language
Poppies really love our song time on a morning and afternoon and always join in with actions, try to let them choose their favourite nursery rhyme to sing. Encourage use of speech and using words rather than gesturing or pointing. Poppies enjoy talking about their day and love to talk about what they have done in the past, try this for even 10 minutes a day.
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Literacy
Take time each day to encourage your child to look at stories and encourage them to focus on the images and discuss what they can see and what they think is happening within the story. Try to focus on a word they may not know the meaning of and ask them what they think it may mean. They may have a favourite story that they love to read, if so, encourage them to repeat phrases and fill in missing gaps to see if they know the words.
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Mathematics
Poppies have been building their maths skills and are starting to show number recognition as well as beginning to count 1-10 all by themselves. Counting can be done using everyday items and all around your household and you could even make this into a game, for example ‘count how many toys there are’. You could even use this as a sorting activity and ask them to group similar objects and then count them.
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Understanding the World
Include your child in day to day activities as in Poppies we love to role-play and always pretend to carry out day to day activities such as washing the clothes and making dinner. Involve your children when cooking or serving food and allow them to play a 'role'. As previously mentioned water play is another great form of play and allows your child to explore and indoors and outdoors and encourages them to question, predict and observe.
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Expressive, Arts and Design (EAD)
EAD is your children’s chance to explore, create and design in any form they can! Allow them to explore and express their own interests and decisions. This can be very stimulating for them and allow them to build skills through sensory exploration. The opportunities are endless and so much can be achieved with items in your household.
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Daily Routine