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CBeebies Reading Challenge - Thursday 7th May
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 7:23pm
CBeebies Reading Challenge Thursday 7th May
George Ezra finds out about a ‘Kitchen Disco’ tonight. The party fruit in this story did some amazing actions like ‘spins, jumps, dives, shake-it, wiggle, bouncy bounce.
Will your fruit have a kitchen disco tonight?
Can you shake it like a mango? How else can you and the fruit in your bowl move?
Night night sleep tight
From Mrs Ganner
Maths Daily Challenge - Thursday 7th May
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 7:19pm
Maths Daily Challenge - Thursday 7th May
Today were going to look at how we can create our own shapes from something I’m sure you have been collecting over the week - toilet or kitchen roll tubes. Tubes are round and curved but they are also flexible so you can squash them into whatever shape you want to create. Will you make straight edged shapes or curved? Are there any shapes that are curved and straight?
Shape Toilet Roll Challenge
Look at the picture of toilet roll shape printers and work together with your adult to make your round, curved toilet roll tubes into new shapes. You choose which shapes – it’s your challenge.
Dip the end of the shape roll into paint or food colouring or even muddy water and make prints. You could do your printing in the back garden, on the pavement, on paper or material - anywhere your grown up says you can. I had to use tomato sauce for the red in my picture and I didnt have paper so I used kitchen roll!
Talk about one of the shapes you’ve printed to see if your grown-up can guess which one it is. You’re not allowed to say their shape names! You have to describe it.
Show me your shape pictures and all of the other things you’ve been creating this week by emailing
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Another shape challenge coming up for maths coming up soon.
See you tomorrow
From Mrs Ganner
Phonics Daily Challenge - Thursday 7th May
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 7:11pm
Phonics Daily Challenge - Thursday 7th May
Today we’re going to create and make a friend to help us play a fun phonics game. Then we can practice making groups of objects that have the same sound. We’re not linking the sounds to our names for the rest of the week so when we write the letters today and tomorrow we will NOT be writing capital letters any more.
Sound Monster challenge - s,a,t
Make a sound monster, like the one in the photo, using any box you have at home. This one is a tissue box with eyes and teeth and a tongue glued on to it. I’m going to call him Sammy Sound Monster. What are you calling your monster?
Then feed your monster some objects that begin with its’ favourite sounds. The challenge is to find things beginning with ‘s’ or ‘a’ or‘t’ and let your monster snack on them! Make sure there are lots of silly sound effects too!
Remember to practice writing the initial sound too:
|
Say the sound |
name the letter |
write the letter |
|
Stretch sssssssnake |
letter s |
slither down the snake |
|
Bounce a a a apple |
letter a |
round the apple, down the leaf |
|
Bounce t t t t tower |
letter t |
down the tower, across the tower |
I’ll be back tomorrow with some more sounds to find
From Mrs Ganner
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 10:44am
Good morning,
Another sunny day! 
First all of all I want to thank everyone who has sent in pictures of them doing my wellbeing challenges, it's fantastic to see and hear about how you're enjoying doing them! Have a look at the Past Challenges bit at the bottom to see some photos.
Today's challenge is another one to get you moving and do a mini workout. Sometimes it can seem a bit scary or time consuming to do a whole workout so these mini workouts are perfect if you want a quick break from doing school work or even from just watching TV if you fancy a stretch! All of these little energisers from Go Noodle are between 2 - 4 minutes long so perfect for something to wake you up in the morning or as a break from whatever you are doing.
Here are a few that I like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4DnPhR9_mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KReaoKLA-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALrdpsWYoJs
Or just go to YouTube and type in Fresh Start Fitness to see a variety of mini workouts.
Remember to email EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk with any photos of you doing any of the challenges.
Have a lovely day!
Mrs Glover
Past Challenges
So many fantastic photos of what you've all been up to, well done!
CBeebies Reading Challenge Wednesday 6th May
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 4:26pm
CBeebies Reading Challenge Wednesday 6th May
Today’s story, 'No Matter What’ is read by Suranne Jones. It makes me feel happy when I read this story and there are so many rhyming words in this book too – just like in yesterday’s book.
Can you tell your grown-up some words that rhyme and then keep adding more to make a rhyming string?
I found two words that rhymed ‘small, all’ and then Mickey and Minnie helped me play a game to create more ’all’ words like ball, fall, call, nall, sall, rall, zall - yes that’s right I included some silly billy rhyming words too. Send a video in of you playing the game with your family.
Maths Daily Challenge - Wednesday 6th May
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 4:21pm
Maths Daily Challenge - Wednesday 6th May
Yesterday we looked for shapes that you could touch and trace around in your home. Today I want you to go outside with a grown-up and take a piece of paper and a pencil with you please. Find a safe place to look at your house. If it’s raining take a photo and look at it inside. Look at the pictures of houses I’ve attached to this blog. Is your house exactly the same? Is there one that is similar? Is it completely different? Talk to your adult about what you can see.
'My House' Drawing Challenge
What shapes did you see on your house? Is the main building a square shape or is it rectangular? Maybe it’s a tall shape or a wide shape. Trace the shapes of your house in the air whilst holding your pencil. Stand far enough back and using your whole arm. Ask a grown-up to help you if it’s a bit tricky. Now draw your house on paper. Are you going to colour it in using the same colours as your real house or will you choose your favourite colours? I think I’d like a rainbow roof and spotty bricks in my dream house
I hope you enjoy your maths challenge today.
I’ll see you around on here tomorrow, don’t be square, make sure you’re there (sorry about that rubbish joke)
From Mrs Ganner
Phonics Daily Challenge - Wednesday 6th May
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 4:11pm
Phonics Daily Challenge - Wednesday 6th May
UPDATE Thursday 7th May :
WE HAVE BEEN SENT FAMILY PHONICS CHALLENGE VIDEOS
from 2 of our amazing families.
👀 TAKE A LOOK 👀
Can you remember reading ‘Alfie’s Alphabet’ yesterday? I’ve attached a photo of the drawing that I made of my family. Did you remember to do one of your family? Do it now if you forgot and then take a look at how to complete today’s activity.
Active Alphabet Challenge
Click on the YouTube link to join in singing and dancing to the alphabet song.
Then look on the A-Z photo attached to see if you can complete your initial sounds active challenge. I’d love to see a video of you doing it. Can your whole family complete their initial sounds actions? There is a video of me completing my ‘V’ challenge too.
I’ll be back tomorrow with more phonics fun
From Mrs Ganner
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 12:42pm
We have had some new players on the NUMBOT website and app!
Well done to everyone who has started playing the games. If you haven't had your log in details yet you can get them by sending a request in to our home learning email:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Here are the players who have played so far:
NNH
Ott E-101, Jay Milliplex, Bolt Numberclone, Vesper Sigma-1
NVG
Gold Aeroplex, Tiny Earthtron, Merigold Digitar, Sparky Hydra-2.1, Junk Stellatronic, Z.O.E Autopod, Joy Stellastar, Krypton Aqualon, Stone Ultramorph
Keep watching updates on the blog to see who has been playing these fabulous number games! Will you join the robot number challenges?
CBeebies Reading Challenge Tuesday 5th May
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 2:55pm
CBeebies Reading Challenge Tuesday 5th May
I hope you enjoyed last night’s story, I know I did. Our second story of the week is read by Robert Webb and the story is called ‘The Big Animal Mix Up’ In this book lots of the animals get all mixed up in a really funny way and there are lots of pairs of rhyming words in it. I spotted ‘fur,purr’ and ‘laugh,giraffe’
Can you tell your grown-up some words that rhyme in the story?
Night night sleep tight
From Mrs Ganner
Maths Daily Challenge - Tuesday 5th May
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 2:29pm
In Maths this week we are going to be naming and describing shapes. First of all I’m going to read you the shape book from our maths area in school. You will have seen this book before and talked about what you can see with your friends when you have played with it in class. Watch the video then complete the challenge.
Shape Hunt Challenge – naming shapes and tracing around them
Did you notice how I traced around the shapes in the book? If you look around inside your house you will be able to find shapes to trace around too. Notice if the shapes have curved or straight edges. Draw the shapes you find and see if you can match them to the shapes in the book using the photos attached.
What kind of shapes have you found? Are they straight or curved? Can you think of other words to describe your shapes?
I’m going on a shape hunt now. I’ll be back tomorrow with more marvellous maths games
From Mrs Ganner
Phonics Daily Challenge - Tuesday 5th May
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 2:27pm
Phonics Daily Challenge - Tuesday 5th May
To start our week of Phonics learning, watch the video of me reading ‘Alfie’s Alphabet’. This is one of my favourite books by Shirley Hughes because we see lots of people and objects in Alfie’s life that link to the letters of the alphabet.
Alphabet Challenge
I’d like you to start thinking about the initial sounds that are in your life. What sound does your name begin with? Can you find that page in ‘Alfie’s Alphabet’ and point to the capital letter on that page?
Find the pages for your family and say their name then say their sound then say the name of the letter
e.g. Alfie, a, capital A
Draw your family and label each person with their initial sound capital letter. You’ll be able to use this drawing with the action challenge I set for you tomorrow.
My family’s Christian names begin with A, M, S, V. Can you remember what my family’s names are?
Take a look at 'My Family' below and have fun drawing yours.
I’ll post another phonics challenge tomorrow
From Mrs Ganner
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 11:28am
Good morning everyone,
I hope you all had a good weekend and are ready to work hard on your learning (and your wellbeing!) this week.
Today's challenge has actually come from a website that Mrs Hughes sent to me to look at so thank you Mrs Hughes!
Today I would like you to think about resilience which means keeping strong and bouncing back even in a difficult situation. I'd like you to design a Shield of Strength.
Think about what your strengths are, especially the ones that can help you at the moment while we're not in school, and write or draw (or both!) onto a shield. Here is my shield that you may want to use for help: 
I have attached a template of the shield in case you want to use it but otherwise you can just fraw a shield on a plain piece of paper.
As always I would love to see your challenges so please send them to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.sch.uk
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
Thank you to Shawnakaye who has sent me a couple of photos of things that make her smile!
CBeebies Reading Challenge - Monday 4th May
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:30am
CBeebies Reading Challenge Monday 4th May
Today Angelica Bell is going to read ‘Nobot the Robot with No Bottom’. What a funny title and what a funny book! It made me giggle when I read it. Another reason I like it is because the animals are very creative with their uses for Nobot’s bottom! Tell your grown-up what you like about it and why.
Can you send me some photos of you using an object in interesting and different ways?
Night night sleep tight
From Mrs Ganner
Weekly Vocabulary Challenge ‘Baby Animals’
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:28am
Describe the Baby Animals Weekly Challenge
I bought this book from Home Bargains last week for you. I know how much you like animals. You might have some animals like these at home. We call them pets. I haven’t got any pets but if I did, I’d love to have a dog. Dogs are silly and they like cuddles, which is a bit like me! Tell your grown up what you know about pets. How do you look after them?
Watch and listen to the Show Me Video and join in pointing to the words as I read the story. You’ll need your listening ears too because I’m going to ask you lots of questions.
http://www.showme.com/sh?h=9hZkYee
Use the Superhero Speaking Cape Symbols from class to help you (see photo below)
Pause the video: Can you use shape words to describe the animals?
Shape Vocabulary –describe the shapes – round, circular, tall, pointy, wide,
Pause the video: Can you use texture words to describe the pictures?
Texture Vocabulary– fuzzy, soft, fluffy, silky, squidgy, smooth
Challenge:
Find groups of objects in your house and sort them by shape or texture. Can you describe your objects using interesting vocabulary? I’ll post the groups I found on Friday
I hope you find lots of objects to put in your groups. Maybe you could have some spiky objects or some hard objects. Make sure you send in photos or videos of your learning to
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have Fun
From Mrs Ganner
Weekly Connected Curriculum Challenge 'The Family Book - Creating Family Art'
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:08am
Creating Family Art
This week we will be learning about our families and there are lots activities you can choose to do after listening to the story I am reading for you. Watch the video of me reading 'The Family Book'
Choose one or more of the challenges that your family would like to complete with you and then send your photos to us
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Exciting Science Challenge (You need a packet of Skittles sweets)
Do the ‘skittlescope experiment’ together and use your speaking skills to find out what will happen.
First of all watch the video and talk to your family as you find out together. Explain what you think is happening and try to work out what will happen next as you watch this video. Then retell the video and carry out the experiment for yourself using your super scientist skills.
Messy Outdoor Art Challenge (see photo below)
Create a picture on an old bed sheet using paint filled balloons, your feet, hands and body! Use your hands to move the paint and draw your family’s faces. Can you write your name too? Talk to your family about completing this challenge, listen to each other and decide if this is something your family would like to do. Hope the weather doesn’t stop your fun! After creating your art, hang it up on the fence outside and see what happens when it rains next.
What happened to the colours as they mix?
Do you think your art will look the same as the children’s in your class at school? Why do you think that?
Artist’s Creative Colour Mixing Challenge (see photos below)
Use a paintbrush to experiment mixing new colours using 2 or more paints. Use these colours to paint a picture of something you like. You might want to paint your family or your house or a pet or another rainbow for your window? You can choose anything you want because you are the artist.
The picture below is by an artist called Banksy and he created it to honour the NHS workers. I love how the ‘S’ is like the Superman logo because our NHS workers are all Superheroes.
I can’t wait to see your photos!
Have an amazing time learning with your family
From Mrs Ganner
imoves fun for the body and mind
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:04am
Note to parents:
Before I post our weekly challenges I want you to join in with one of the fabulous videos from imoves with your child. They are a brilliant company who have made lots of their videos available for parents and teachers for free during this Covid 19 school closure. The videos are fun ways to teach your child about exercise and keeping your mind healthy too. One of my favourites is the worry monster but your child can choose their own.
Active Challenge
Click this link and then find a video like the one in the photo or choose one of your own
https://imoves.com/the-imovement
If you like this video you could try some of the other Active Blasts for children Ages 4-7
Have a blast!
Mrs Ganner
Welcome to this week's learning
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:01am
Hello again Nursery!
It’s lovely to be back on the Nursery blog. I will be posting lots of interesting activities and challenges this week and Miss Heritage is busy thinking of some more fun things to do with you next week.
‘Nursery Nursery who can it be? Teach me about your family’
I want to let you know about the challenges I’m setting you this week. They are all about teaching me about your family and where you live. I will post separate blogs for each of the challenges very soon. By the end of the week the home learning you send in will show me some things that are the same as your friends, some similarities and some differences because all of our families and homes are unique to us.
Video Exercises imoves
Before learning every day why not try some funky imoves active blasts to get your body and mind ready for the challenges we set for you?
Connected Curriculum Weekly Challenge
‘The Family Book’ is all about celebrating the kinds of families we have and you can choose a challenge as a follow up to show me your learning
Vocabulary Weekly Challenge
This week we will be focussing on using the language of shape and texture to talk about the pictures we see in a book called ‘Baby Animals’
Reading Weekly Challenge
On the blog this week we’re going to share a CBeebies bedtime story every night. Each day I will post a new link for you to watch before you go to bed.
Home Learning Weekly Challenge
Send any photos or videos of the challenges you complete at home to me by Friday tea time and I’ll put them all up on the blog for you to share with your friends. This is one of my favourite parts of blogging from home so please send lots and lots of photos or short videos in.
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Tomorrow I will start setting you a daily phonics and maths challenge too, as well as posting the next CBeebies bedtime story so you can end your day relaxing with a book
Maths Daily Challenges
This week we will be using a book from our Maths area, ‘Big Round Red Balloon’ to learn about flat, 2D shapes. YOU WILL NEED TOILET OR KITCHEN ROLL TUBES ON THURSDAY SO START SAVING THEM.
Phonics Daily Challenges
This week we are going to continue to work on linking initial sounds to objects and isolating initial sounds to be able to complete lots of challenges with our families using the beginning sound of their names. We will use the book, ‘Alfie’s Alphabet’ to help us
I’m so excited about this week of learning together at home. Hope you are too!
From Mrs Ganner
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 10:21am
Hi everyone and Happy Friday! I can't believe it's already the end of another week. I hope everyone is working hard and staying safe.
I got the idea for today's wellbeing challenge yesterday when I saw the most amazing rainbow in the sky. It was the brightest colours I've ever seen and I could see the whole arc. There was even a faint second rainbow next to it!
Photos don't really show how amazing it was but you can see how vivid the colours are:
The rainbow made me feel happy when I saw it and I thought it might make other people happy too! So today's challenge is to take a photo of something that makes you feel happy. You could find something in your house or do it on a walk. It could be a person, an animal, an object or even something that you've made. Anything that makes you feel happy or positive. If you don't have a camera, phone or tablet of your own then ask an adult if you can borrow theirs but please be careful with it!
If you'd like to share your happy photo then please e-mail it to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk, I'd love to see it and then I can post some of them and spread the happiness around!
Have a good weekend,
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
Thanks to A who sent a photo of himself doing the breathing exercises I set yesterday, I hope they helped you feel nice and calm.
🌟 Outstanding Home Learners! 🌟
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 8:11am
Another week of Outstanding Learning at home!
Well done to all the children who have been busy completing challenges and work from their home learning packs.
You are all 🌟 Outstanding Home Learners! 🌟
Well done, keep up your good work and keep sending your pictures to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Miss Heritage & Mrs Ganner
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 7:28am
Hi everyone,
Let's start our day by singing a days of the week song (a different one today!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loINl3Ln6Ck
What day is it today? Thats right... It's Fantastic Friday! What day will it be tomorrow?
This week, in our Maths learning we have been ordering and sequencing events.
For today's challenge you will need a teddy or toy (doll)!
You are going to help one of your teddies or toys to get ready for bed, by talking through the order and sequence of what they need to do.
What do they need to do first? What do they need to do next?
Talk about all the things your toy needs to do before they go to bed – Have they brushed their teeth? Have they put on their night clothes? Can you read them a bedtime story?
Take a look at the picture below.
With your adult see if you can make a list of the sequence. You can help your teddy by drawing pictures and talking about the order, what comes first? What do they need to do next?
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You could also have a go at this extra challenge this weekend too!
Extra challenge: Draw pictures of activities you do this weekend. Can you use the words first, next, after that and finally to describe the order of what you have done?
Amazing! Well done for all of your super work this week! Keep sending pictures of your learning to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
I hope you have a fantastic weekend!
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 7:11am
Good Morning Nursery...Happy Friday!
We have been very busy this week learning about rhyme and completeing lots of rhyming activities.
Today I would like you to play a game with me!
The game called 'I spy'.
CLICK HERE TO PLAY 'I SPY' GAME
Fantastic! I hope you were able to make a rhyming pair by matching my word with the picture that rhymed with it!
It would be great if you can have a go at playing this game at home with your grown up. You could draw some pictures or find some objects and ask your adult to play.
Your grown up can say 'I spy with my little eye, something that rhymes with...(bat)'. Then you can find the picture or object that rhymes with their word (cat)!
I have also attached a rhythm and rhyme home learning challenge sheet for you to have a look at. See if you can complete some of these fun rhyming activities over the weekend too!
Have a great day!
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 10:02am
Good morning everyone,
I hope everyone enjoyed some relaxing colouring yesterday, here is a picture of mine. It isn't quite finished yet but I had a nice relaxing hour doing it last night:
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Today's challenge is to do a mindfulness breathing activity. Mindfulness can help you relax and be in the moment, appreciating everything that's around you.
Just one breath
Find a relaxing place where you won't be disturbed. Sit in a comfortable position, either with your legs crossed or any comfortable posture. This activity can be done in as little as one minute, but you can also do it for longer periods of time.
Begin by setting a timer for one minute.
Start breathing deeply in and out. Notice how the breath feels as it moves in and out of your body. Notice how the air feels on your skin. Pay attention to any sensations that you notice or any sounds that you hear.
Take another slow deep breath and see if you can imagine how the breath moves down into the lungs and then back up again. Thank your body and breath for giving you life and keeping you healthy.
Take one more deep breath and hold the breath for a moment - then release it.
If any thoughts worry you, try and imagine your thoughts immersed in a white, puffy cloud and push the thought cloud out of your awareness.
Afterward, notice how you feel after taking this one-minute break.
If you want to tell me about your experience or send any photos of yourself doing the activity then e-mail me on EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk.
There are more simple instructions below.
Mrs Glover
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 8:21am
Hi everyone!
Join in with singing our days of the week song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtQcnZ2JWsY
Yesterday we look at pictures from the book 'Jaspers beanstalk' and you talked to your adult about the order and sequence of the story by saying what Jasper did on each day.
Today I would like you to think about the order of your day.
Take a look at the picture below and discuss with your adult what you do at different times of the day.
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Talk about your morning and evening routine: What do you do first, next, last?
Can you draw pictures to show the order of the things you do at these times of the day?
Don't forget, we love to see your learning so make sure you send your pictures to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 7:04am
Good Morning!
Lets start today by singing some of our favourite Nursery Rhymes...click on the link below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/curations/nursery-rhymes
Yesterday you played a rhyming game called 'odd one out'. Did you manage to find the rhyming pair and spot the 'odd one out'?
Today we are going to play another rhyming game.
See if you can make a rhyming pair by listening to a word and clicking on the picture that rhymes with it.
Click on the picture below to play the game:
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Can you think of a word that rhymes with these words too?
Cat
Frog
Fox
Wall
Peg
I hope you can find lots of rhyming pairs today. Have a great day!
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 10:36am
Hello everyone,
It's a rather miserable looking Wednesday out there so my wellbeing challenge today is an indoor one.
It's actually quite a simple challenge today; I'd simply like you to do some colouring. Colouring is a lovely relaxing activity that you can do on your own for some me-time or together with a family member to make it a more sociable activity.
I think most of you were given some colouring pages when we finished school but if you've already used these and don't have any more at home then good news, there is a website where you can do online colouring without having to have any colours or anything printed out:
https://www.online-coloring.com/
Or you could always draw something to colour! Anything you like.
I have a new Enchanted Forest colouring book that my husband bought me (pictured below) that I'm going to do a bit of colouring in later, maybe while I listen to a podcast or to some music to have a bit of a break from staring at a screen. I'll post a picture of my efforts tomorrow.
Remember to send in pictures of your challenges to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
A big thanks to Roderigo from Year 1 who sent me a picture of his crystal ball challenge from yesterday, some fantastic goals there!
