This week is international week and in nursery we will be learning about China!
Please visit the Seesaw Class App for some activities and stories.
Any issues please do get in touch either via the Seesaw Parent App or email me: [email protected]
Morning – hope you are all well. Nursery remains open to all of our children and we are working very hard in school and as always having lots of fun.
If you have chosen to keep your child at home or are self-isolating, please see the Seesaw Class App for activities. I will not be posting new activities as I know lots of you still have many activities you could complete. If you do need more activities and you are self-isolating, please do let me know by emailing me at:
Useful websites are:
Education City (If you need log on details just ask)
Purple Mash (If you need log on details just ask)
Phonics Play (It’s free at the minute and we are Phase 1)
Teach Your Monster to Read (free on desktop)
Hope you are all well – please do get in touch if you need anything either via my email:
[email protected] or via Seesaw.
All remote learning activities are on the Seesaw Class App – any help you need please do get in touch. The children who are accessing it seem to be enjoying the work! Some of the parents are too! Especially story time – you never know what might happen.
If you’d like to see our daily routine please look at my post from WB 1th January which will be underneath this post.
My email address is:
You can contact me using my email or through Seesaw.
All work from now on will be released using the Seesaw Class App so please do ask for help if you aren’t on it. It can be used on most phones, kindle fires, tables, ipads, computers, chromebooks and anything else I haven’t mentioned. I have also heard that X-Boxes and Playstations can be used too!
Please also remember that we work with 3 and 4 year olds so the work I’ll be setting will need to have adult input/help/support.
Useful websites are:
Education City (If you need log on details just ask)
Purple Mash (If you need log on details just ask)
Phonics Play (It’s free at the minute and we are Phase 1)
Teach Your Monster to Read (free on desktop)
Please do remember that when your child is in nursery we don’t work solid for three hours – our routine looks like this (there’s lots of repetition):
Welcome – hang coats up, put bags away, wash hands, do the register, say hello, talk about the weather and count how many children are in.
Music and Movement – we sing songs, recite rhymes and dance, lots of counting up and counting down in ones. There are some nice ideas on the BBC website.
Small Group Time – we break into our smaller groups and carry out a teacher led activity with either Mrs Brown, Mrs Jewitt or Miss Thompkins.
Independent Learning – this usually lasts about 90 minutes and is a time where the children explore the nursery and access all of the areas. They choose what they would like to do e.g. paint, build, play outside, use the role play, small world, ipads, computers, reading area etc. We will help the children by modelling activities, providing resources, talking to them and listening. The adults also record anything new and exciting either on paper or seesaw.
Large Group Time – we all come back together (after tidying the nursery) and play a group game, do circle time, use the parachute and work on our phonics (Phase 1). We will also look at numbers in the environment, counting things in our classroom, counting jumps, hops steps etc.
Story – sometimes related to a theme or topic, sometimes just because it’s a lovely story. We read for pleasure and I try my best not to talk during the book and save questions and explanations for the end or if we read it again.
Home Time – we wash our hands, get our own coats and try and put them on (this is something that you could work on at home too), get our bags, water bottles and any things we have in our trays. We sit back on the carpet and sing songs until we get collected.
Once a week we do yoga and we all take our shoes off, it’s rather stinky! We use Cosmic Kids and love it. Afterwards we all try to put our shoes back on independently (again this is something you could practice at home).
If you haven’t managed to get onto the Seesaw Family App – please let me know so I can help you, it’s a brilliant way for you to show us what your child has been doing at home and also a quick way for us to communicate with you.
All work from now on will be released using the Seesaw Class App so please do ask for help if you aren’t on it. It can be used on most phones, kindle fires, tables, ipads, computers, chromebooks and anything else I haven’t mentioned. I have also heard that X-Boxes and Playstations can be used too!
Please also remember that we work with 3 and 4 year olds so the work I’ll be setting will need to have adult input/help/support.
Useful websites are:
Education City (If you need log on details just ask)
Purple Mash (If you need log on details just ask)
Phonics Play (It’s free at the minute and we are Phase 1)
Teach Your Monster to Read (free on desktop)
There has been lots on social media about using games consoles to access home learning and our friends at ICT in Schools, who are based at The Word in South Shields, have produced this brilliant guide explaining how to use them.
Their website is also worth a look for any other support you may need with technology, or if in doubt, do what I do, I ask my youngest daughter!
Information about a new App – Frog
Please do not feel that you have to do any of these activities – they should hopefully be fun! I am also very sure that you can think of your own amazing things to do too. As always please do not hesitate to contact me via my email or on Seesaw.
If you are not on Seesaw – PLEASE get in touch with me as this is the best way for us to communicate and for me to share work with you.
| Communication and Language | Sit down and have a chat with your child – ask them some questions about the things they might like to do over the next few weeks. You could write a list for your child or get them to draw their suggestions. Please do share these with us on Seesaw. |
| Physical Development | Make play dough! Or if you have some – get it out and play with it. Great for working little fingers. I’ll add a recipe to Seesaw.
If you don’t have these ingredients – small construction toys such as Lego are also brilliant. We’d love to see some photos of your creations. Why not have a theme and each day build something that links with your theme e.g. superheroes. vehicles, food, houses! We also have a yoga session once a week and use videos from Cosmic Kids: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga |
| Personal, Social and Emotional Development | Play some games – or do a jigsaw. This is really important to promote turn taking. |
| Literacy | Sounds like
Mystery bags – have objects hidden in a bag or a box. Ask your child to pull an object out. Really emphasise initial sound, ask the children if they can think of other things with the same initial sound. Repeat. |
| Mathematics | Working on the number 5.
I will put the rhymes we have been using on Seesaw 🙂 You can also watch Numberblocks too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08bzfnh/numberblocks?seriesId=b08bzg8q |
| Understanding the World | If you can – go for a walk and encourage your child to look at the world around them. See if there are any natural materials you can collect, you could bring them home and make a picture with them. You could also let your child take some photos to add to Seesaw – they could add a voice recording to talk about what they have taken the picture of. Encourage your child to look closely at trees and plants, if you can find any animals even better. |
| Expressive Arts and Design | We love using Go Noodle in class and we all have our favourite songs and dances. See which ones your child likes and see if they can find some new ones – let me know if there are any good ones! |
Your child can also access Purple Mash and Education City at home with the log on details which have been sent out before – if you have lost them, do not panic, just email me and I can sort them out. 🙂
Most of all – try and have fun! I know it will be hard, last lockdown I had a puppy, two kids and a husband at home so there will be tough times but do not hesitate to get in touch and either I will get back to you or Mrs Brown or Miss Thompkins will.
Lastly – this is the link to the tidy up tune: https://youtu.be/e4cczzBsmZ4 it may come in handy.
Take care – Mrs Jewitt 
Any families self-isolating may find some useful information from our friends at The Openzone:
