Weekly Reading Challenge

Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 6:47am

This week we are going to be looking the book ‘Superworm’ by Julia Donaldson.

I am just going to read the beginning of this story to you. You can watch a video of me reading by clicking on the link below…

I would like you to think about the beginning of the story and what might happen next?

Can you now think of an ending to the story?

These are the kinds of questions I am going to ask.

What do you think is going to happen in the story?

What do you think Superworm and the other bugs will do next?

Can you think of a good ending for the story?

You could start your answer by saying things like…

I think Superworm will…

The bugs will…

At the end of the story, Superworm will…

Rhyming challenge

Over previous weeks, we have looked at rhyming words…  Did you notice that there were LOTS of rhyming words in this story too?

Can you listen carefully and find the pairs of words that rhyme?

Watch the 'SHOW ME' below to help identify rhyming words in the story.

CLICK HERE TO FIND THE RHYMING WORDS

Drawing and writing challenge

WATCH SHOW ME

Draw one of your favourite bugs from the story. Label them with the first (initial) sound.

Draw a picture of what Superworm could do next? Who could he help? What could he do?

Make up and draw an ending to the Superworm story.

Don't forget to send pictures of your learning to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Connected Curriculum: Minibeasts

Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 6:12am

Hi Nursery, I am very excited about this terms topic… I wonder if you can guess what we will be learning about from these clues!

Feelers out… What’s about?

Look and listen, stop and stare… Minibeasts are everywhere!

That’s right, you guessed it! Our topic is MINIBEASTS!

You can find out lots of fantastic facts about minibeasts by playing along with Jess and the Minibeast spotter by clicking on the link below:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/mini-beast-adventure-with-jess-minibeast-spotter

You might like to have your very own Minibeast adventure and go on a MINIBEAST HUNT!

With your grown up, can you go into your garden or outside for a walk and look for some creepy crawlies! I wonder what sort of minibeasts you can find?

Attached below is a Minibeast Hunt Sheet, of lots of different minibeasts to look for.

Have lots of fun and don’t forget to take a photo or draw a picture of the minibeasts you find!

If you are feeling creative, why not have a go at creating a Minibeast yourself.

Have a look at the ideas below and see if you can create your very own Minibeast! We would love to see your minibeast, so dont forget to send a picture to us!

In this week’s story, ‘Superworm’ is helpful and likes to help his friends. Can you think of ways to be helpful to your family at home? What helpful deeds could you do? You could draw a picture or ask a grown up to make a list of all the helpful things you do!

If you are feeling musical, you may like to learn and sing this helpful song! (The song is attached below)

Finally, you might like to listen to a story and sing some Minibeast songs.

Watch Mr Tumble and the Minibeasts have an amazing adventure in the garden. Can you guess which Minibeasts he will meet? Click the picture to watch!

There are lots of things here to keep you busy! Remember to choose your favourite and send photos or videos of your learning by Friday to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Monday 1st June: Maths Daily Challenge

Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 5:55am

Good Morning Nursery!

Today we are going to be using our counting skills so let’s warm up by singing a counting song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ir_l7qTiZ4

Your challenge today is to use the ‘I spy and count’ sheet to count and find the amount of each type of minibeast. Use the ‘I spy and count’ checklist to see which minibeasts you need to count.

Remember when you count, point to the minibeasts and say a number name for each one.

You could have a go at drawing the minibeasts and writing the numeral to show how many there are of each type next to it.

Use our superhero cape to help you recognise and copy the numeral.

Have fun counting and don’t forget to send a photo of your work to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.co.uk

Monday 1st June: Phonics

Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 5:30am

Good Morning Nursery… Welcome back, we hope you have enjoyed your half term break!

This week we are going to complete activities for oral blending and segmenting.

Blending is combining sounds we hear in words and segmenting is separating the sounds we can hear.

So let’s get started…

Today we are going to have a go at oral blending and play a game called ‘Clapping sounds’.

Using the letters that we have learnt so far (s,a,t,p,i,n), we are going to listen and clap the sounds in words then blend the sounds together to say the word.

Take a look at today’s ‘Show me’ clip to join in with listening, clapping and blending together the sounds in words.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH TODAY’S SHOW ME CLIP

Today’s challenge:  With your adult, I would like you to have a go at clapping the sounds for the words below:

Listen carefully as you sound out the word.

Then blend the sounds to say the word out-loud:

S-a-t (sat)

P-i-n (pin)

P-a-t (pat)

T-a-p (tap)

P-i-t (pit)

P-i-p (pip)

Ask your grown up to say the sounds in these words – see if you can blend the sounds, say the word then do the action!

s-i-t, p-a-t, r-u-n, h-o-p, j-o-g.

Well done! It would be great if you can keep practising your oral blending skills throughout the day, which other words can you sound out and say?

Have a great day and we will have some more phonics fun tomorrow!

Half term wellbeing challenge

Date: 25th May 2020 @ 11:00am

Hello and happy half term!

I'm not going to be posting a daily challenge for you over half term but here is something you can do  if you like. It's a funny time right now and it's one we may want to look back on in the future to remind oursleves what we did, how we felt and how lucky we are when it's all over. So I've attached a time capsule template for you use so that you can record some of these things, either by writing or drawing it's up to you.

You can either print it out, do it on a computer or just draw our each page for yourself. Do as much or as little as you chooe and feel free to share anything you do on EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Stay safe,

Mrs Glover

Home Learning Celebration Post

Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 4:08pm

Home Learning Celebration Post

I’ve had such a lovely time looking through your home learning this week and making this video of you proudly sharing your work. Keep sending your fabulous photos and videos to us.  You’re doing an amazing job learning at home and we are very proud of you.

You’re ALL Outstanding Home Learners

We've had 2 children playing on Numbots this week. Well done. You're both bot-tastic!

NVG - Gold Aeroplex      NNH -Trance Petastar

Miss Heritage told me she loves seeing your photos too and she can’t wait to add lots of fabulous new activities on to the blog after half term.

Thank you to all of the adults that have helped this week. I hope it wasn’t too messy! Let us know what you think about the activities by emailing us and tell us if there is anything you’d like to see more of. 

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Let's finish our half term with a celebration dance alongside our friends, Blazer Fresh, from Go Noodle.

https://app.gonoodle.com/activities/celebrate

Take care of yourselves and your families.

I’ll see you back on the blog soon.

Mrs Ganner

Eid Mubarak!

Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 12:36pm

To all our families who will be celebrating Eid this weekend...

We hope you have a lovely time but remember to keep safe!!!

Love From

Nursery and Reception Staff x

THANK YOU!

Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 10:03am

We now have 6 home learners in our celebration video this week! Thank you so much to those of you who sent your photos in yesterday. The video will be ready after teatime today.

There's still time to send your photos in if you want to be in our celebration video. Here is a reminder of our email address:

 nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Phonics Daily Challenge - Friday 22nd May

Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 5:37am

Phonics Daily Challenge  - Friday 22^nd May

Click the link to your favourite rhyme from this week and perform in a new musical style

Humpty Dumpty  - see the real Humpty fall!

CLICK TO WATCH HUMPTY

Baa Baa Black Sheep  - sing along and do a funky hip hop dance with J Boom

CLICK TO WATCH J BOOM

Hey Diddle Diddle – watch this nonsense rhyme come to life in the little girl’s dream and settle down at the end of a very busy week to dream about cows jumping over the moon and a dish running away with a spoon.

CLICK TO WATCH THE LITTLE GIRL'S DREAM

I’d love to see videos of you performing the rhymes

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Have an amazing half term!We'll see you again on June 1 for more fabulous home learning fun

From Mrs Ganner

Maths Daily Challenge - Friday 22nd May

Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 5:35am

Maths Daily Challenge  - Friday 22^nd May

I watched a video on YouTube and it gave me a great idea. I could use things from my house to print a flower garden. In the video they used a fork to print flowers that have 3 petals on it. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE PRINTING FLOWERS VIDEO

I decided that I wanted to make flowers with different numbers of petals on them so I collected lots of different things from my house and made a printed shape flower picture.

Printing Flowers Challenge

Create your own printed flower and don’t forget to label your flower with how many petals it has.

Send in your flower pictures to

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Have a fabulous flower filled week off full of colour and smiles! We'll see you after half term. Have a rest and take care of yourself and your loved ones.

From

Mrs Ganner

Wellbeing challenge 21.5.20

Date: 21st May 2020 @ 10:15am

Good morning, I hope you all found some way to enjoy the sunshine yesterday. I sent a lot of time in my garden and I have to admit even though I applied plenty of sun cream, I’m still a little pink! I hope you were all more careful than me.

We’re almost at the end of the week and today is the last kindness based challenge as I have something a little different for tomorrow.

I hope that you have been experiencing some acts of kindness this week as today my challenge is to write a kindness acrostic poem. This is where you use each letter of the word you choose to start a sentence or word.

I’ve attached a file that has a few different kindness words to use for your poem so you can choose one or choose more than one you like! As always if you can’t print then don’t worry, you can write it out on a piece of paper or even type it on a computer like I have.

I have chosen the word caring. Here is my poem.

Cooking for other people

Asking people how they are

Returning peoples phone calls and messages

Interest in what friends and family are up to

Niceness goes a long way!

Going the extra mile for those you love

As always please e-mail your poems to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Mrs Glover

Past challenges

I'm very impressed with all the origami hearts you've all been making, some of you even made both hearts like I did! Here they are along with some other past challenges.

HOME LEARNING - please send your photos in

Date: 21st May 2020 @ 7:43am

We only have 2 children's home learning so far this week. Thank you so much to both of you! I'm so excited to make a video of your learning tomorrow but I'm sad I can't see more lovely home learning.

Remember to send photos of you completing your home learning challenges so we share your learning with all of your friends in Nursery. 

From Mrs Ganner

Wellbeing challenge 20.5.20

Date: 20th May 2020 @ 9:54am

Good morning,

Wow what a day! The weather forecast suggests it could get as hot as 26 degrees today! I can’t wait to get out there and enjoy it although I’ll definitely be putting on some sun cream!

Today’s activity is linked to kindness again and involves making a little present for either someone else or yourself. Today‘s challenge is to make an origami heart.

To start with you will need a square piece of paper and it will be easier to follow the instructions if it is decorated or coloured on one side.

Here is a YouTube video telling you how to make a square from an A4 piece of paper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLrKrHgAI40

Then you have a choice of making 2 different hearts, one flat and one 3D. I made both and prefer the flat one and found it a bit easier but it’s up to you which you do.

Here is how to make the flat heart (my first picture) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnV262Egucw

Here is how to make the 3D inflatable heart (my second picture) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN4oPm9bCWE (then at the end you have to blow it up using the little hole at the bottom)

I can’t wait to see your hearts! Remember to e-mail them to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Mrs Glover

Past challenges

I've really enjoyed reading about all your kind acts in your hearts from yesterday and I love how some of you are mentioning clap for carers in your kind acts for others! Here are the ones I've been sent:

Wellbeing challenge 19.5.20

Date: 19th May 2020 @ 10:26am

Good morning,

I hope everyone is well and taking good care of their mental health this week. We are still looking at kindness today and how important kindness is to keep everyone happy and healthy. Today's challenge will hopefully help everyone to see that kindness is all around us and I bet there are things that others do for us (and that we do for others!) that we barely even think about.

Today we're going to draw a kindness heart.

First of all draw a large heart on a piece of paper. Then on the left hand side write all the things that people do for you that are kind, all in different colours. Then on the right hand side write all the kind things that you do for others in different colours. If you can't think of many then maybe have a think of things that you could do. The acts of kindness could be as simple as just smiling at someone or saying good morning.

Here is mine if you would like to steal some ideas!

If you would like to share your kindness hearts then as always please feel free to e-mail me on EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Past challenges

Thanks to Mrs Iqbal who sent me her kind acts for the week!

Well done to the children that are still sending in their mask designs as well as their kindsness acts (one here has even made his mum a cup of tea and some biscuits!)

Wellbeing challenge 18.5.20

Date: 18th May 2020 @ 10:41am

Good morning everyone, its the start of a new week!

Thank you to everyone who has sent their amazing face mask designs, I've been blown away once again! Have a look below to see what you have all done.

This week it is Mental Health Awareness week so I will be posting some activities linked to this. Mental Health means looking after yourself to make sure that you are happy and healthy. The theme is kindness and involves being kind to yourself and others.

For today I've attached a little booklet for "The power of kindness" where you have to draw or write what kindness means to you and then write (or draw) 5 kind acts that you can do this week (it says month but I think we can squeeze them all into a week!) The acts of kindness can be either being kind to yourself or being kind to others. Perhaps a mix of both would be nice. If you can't print out the booklet then you can just type or write them out like I have :-).

Kindness to me means doing something nice to make somebody feel good and loved.

The 5 things I am going to do are:

1. Make my husband some cups of tea

2. Send a friend a little message through the post to cheer them up.

3. Phone my mum for a chat.

4. Have a nice relaxing foot spa while I watch one of my favourite films (for me)

5. Buy myself a litle treat while I'm out shopping, maybe some nice chocolate! (also for me!)

As always, please let me know what your ideas are by e- mailing  EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Mrs Glover

Past challenges

Look at all these fantastic face masks! :-D

Maths Daily Challenge - Thursday 21st May

Date: 18th May 2020 @ 9:33am

Maths Daily Challenge  - Thursday 21^st May

I was thinking it would be nice to have lots of flowers in my garden but I’ve not planted any seeds so I can’t have them.

This made me feel sad so I decided to reuse old things I had around the house to make pretend flowers. I used tubes and rolls and plastic shopping bags to make a big piece of flower art in my house.  I’m going to take it in to Nursery and put it up in the outdoor construction area I think.

WATCH MY FLOWER GARDEN VIDEO HERE

Challenge

Use anything you can find to create a flower garden in your house and remember to label either the petals or the flower so we can remember how many petals each one has. 

I can't wait to see your flowers!

From Mrs Ganner

Phonics Daily Challenge - Thursday 21st May

Date: 18th May 2020 @ 9:31am

Phonics Daily Challenge  - Thursday 21^st May

Hey Diddle Diddle

Say the rhyme with your grown-up and find all of the objects beginning with ‘c’ in it.

Make a poster of objects beginning with the same initial sound and label each object.  I chose c c c c cow and c c c c cat from the rhyme and then thought of more objects beginning with ‘c’.

You might want to make a different sound poster with ‘m’ objects like moon, man.

Send in photos of your sound posters to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

It’s performance day tomorrow! You will be showing me your favourite rhymes performed in new and interesting ways.

From Mrs Ganner

Maths Daily Challenge - Wednesday 20th May

Date: 18th May 2020 @ 9:15am

Maths Daily Challenge  - Wednesday 20^th May

Go outside and find one flower from your garden or on your exercise walk.  See if your grown up can find one too. Take a photo and send it to us

DON’T PICK THEM! REMEMBER, WE CARE FOR OUR FLOWERS.

You could talk about the shape or size or colour or even texture of the flowers that you saw. Use counting words to describe them too.

You could say things words like:

I have ___ petals on my flower.

It is the same number of petals as your flower

It has a different number of petals to your flower

We both have lots of petals

I have one more petal than yours

Another one makes __ petals

Challenge

My friend has a beautiful garden and he sent me photos of the flowers in it. I used the show me app to draw over the top of the photos. How are you going to draw and label your flower?

CLICK HERE TO WATCH ME DRAW AND LABEL PETALS ON FLOWERS

If you can't find any flowers, here are some photos for you to look at and draw. Remember to label your picture with how many petals there are. 

Phonics Daily Challenge - Wednesday 20th May

Date: 18th May 2020 @ 9:05am

Phonics Daily Challenge  - Wednesday 20^th May

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Say the rhyme together and then find objects that begin with ‘sh’ with your family.

Feed the objects to a sound monster like the one we made a couple of weeks ago.  If you’ve not made one pretend your hand is a sound monster. Look at the things I found that begin with ‘sh’ in the photo

Send in photos of your ‘sh’ objects to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

A nonsense rhyme is on our phonics challenge tomorrow so make sure your join us for some more phonics fun

From Mrs Ganner

Maths Daily Challenge - Tuesday 19th May

Date: 18th May 2020 @ 8:52am

Maths Daily Challenge  - Tuesday 19^th May

I wanted to learn more about flow
ers so I looked on the internet for pictures and videos of lots of different flowers. I was looking at the petals on the videos and I noticed they had different colours, shapes, sizes and numbers of petals.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO I FOUND

CLICK HERE TO LOOK AT FLOWERS WITH ME

Challenge

Watch the video, pause it and talk to your grown-up about what you know about the flowers.

You could say things like:

I can see ___ petals on that flower.

This has same number of petals as this one.

The pink flower had a different number of petals to the blue one.

These flowers had lots of petals.

I hope you liked watching the video as much as I did

From Mrs Ganner

Phonics Daily Challenge - Tuesday 19th May

Date: 18th May 2020 @ 8:46am

Phonics Daily Challenge  - Tuesday 19^th May

Humpty Dumpty

Say the nursery rhyme with your family and then make up a rhyming string like Mickey and Minnie did in the video. Can you remember when they did this a couple of weeks ago? ‘ all, wall, ball..’

CLICK TO WATCH MICKEY AND MINNIE

Can you make up your own rally robin ‘en’ rhyming string?

‘men, again, when…’

Send in your rhyming string videos to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Come back tomorrow for another fab phonics challenge

From Mrs Ganner

Mental Health Awareness Week Calm Time Breathing Activities

Date: 18th May 2020 @ 8:38am

This week we are going to be kind to each other. Watch the video to see how you can be kind too and send in your videos and photos of kind acts.

WATCH THE KINDNESS VIDEO HERE

Sometimes it's hard to be kind all of the time. To help us feel calm, in Nursery we practice calming breaths on the Go Noodle FLOW channel. If you want to you can go there and practice your breathing with an old activity:

CLICK HERE TO GO WITH THE FLOW ON GO NOODLE

If you want to try something new try these:

Breathe with Moby Robot – concentrate on breathing to  help you feel calm

CLICK HERE TO BREATH WITH MOBY ROBOT

Belly Breathing – fun song to teach you how you can help calm yourself down if you’re feeling mad

CLICK HERE TO SING A FUN SONG ABOUT BELLY BREATHING WITH ELMO

Square breathing – let the fish teach you how to breathe and hold your breath to help you focus and calm.

TEACH YOURSELF SQUARE BREATHING HERE

Enjoy a quiet corner of calm when you do these breathing exercises

From Mrs Ganner

Weekly Vocabulary Challenge - verbs

Date: 18th May 2020 @ 8:27am

We are going to learn lots of words about moving. These words are called verbs. In the story, ‘The Little Seed’ there are lots of words about how the seeds move. You need to know what these words mean so click on the video to find out about them:

sails, falls, drifts, settle down, burst open

WATCH ME PLAY THE VOCABULARY SPINNER GAME HERE

Make your own vocabulary spinner at home and complete a challenge using the verbs in the songs.

Challenge 1 – simple actions

Freeze by the Kiboomers - dance along to the song.

DANCE ALONG WITH THE KIBOOMERS

Play the Vocabulary Spinner game using these words

hop, skip, twirl, dance

Challenge 2 – harder actions

Move and Freeze by The Learning Station – dance along to the tricky crossing your body actions song

LEARNING STATION TRICKY ACTIONS DANCE

Play the Vocabulary Spinner game using these words

move, freeze, jump, shake, turn

Weekly Reading Challenge 'The Tiny Seed' by Eric Carle

Date: 18th May 2020 @ 8:14am

Watch the video of me reading the story, ‘The Tiny Seed’ by Eric Carle. Get ready to predict what will happen next. When I tell you to, pause the video and answer my questions.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH ME READ THE STORY

These are the kinds of questions I am going to ask:

What do you think will happen?

What do you think will happen next?

What will happen if the seed stays there?

You could start your answer by saying things like:

I think it will

The seed will

I think the seed is going to

Drawing and Writing Challenges

CLICK HERE TO WATCH ME DRAW AND WRITE

• Draw one of your favourite pictures from the book. Label the objects with the first sound (initial sound).
• Draw the pictures from the story in order and label the objects with their initial sound.
• Draw the sun and label the picture with the word. Can you hear all of the sounds in the word ‘sun’ and write them?

I can’t wait to your pictures. Send them in to our email address

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

From Mrs Ganner

Weekly Connected Curriculum Challenge - How to Grow and Care for Plants

Date: 18th May 2020 @ 7:49am

How to Grow and Care for Plants

Find something growing in your garden or in the park during your daily exercise time – look at the grass or a flower– DON’T PICK IT! Leave it growing in the ground to show everyone you care for living things. Talk about what you know about plants. You could describe what it looks like or say how it has grown.

Challenge Choices

If you are a scientist you can use a computer to find out about flower grow using your knowledge of the story, ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ and by looking at videos on the internet like these:

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO 'THE NEEDS OF A PLANT'

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO GROVER TALK ABOUT PLANTS

CLICK HERE TO WATCH A SUNFLOWER GROW

If you are a singer you could learn a new song like this one and sing it to your family

If you are a dancer you could pretend you are a plant growing and move along with the music.

If you are an artist you could paint or draw a picture of a flower using the colours that you see. Look at the beautiful painting my daughter made below.

If you are a speaker you can use words to talk about what you have seen and learned. You could make a video describing your favourite flower and talk about how it grew.

WATCH THE VIDEO OF ME TALKING ABOUT A FLOWER I FOUND

There are lots of things to keep you busy there. Remember to choose your favourite and send in photos or videos of your learning by Friday

From Mrs Ganner