Home Learning Expectations Nursery HT 5 Week 1 – Key text: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

A total of one hour of focused learning time per day and lots of play and exploration. Children will still earn summit stamps for completing each day of learning and up to two additional summit stamps can be earned each week of school closure for exceptional presentation and extended learning.

Day Reading Listening Games Name

writing

Songs and

rhymes Physical

Development Maths

Mark making / writing

Understanding the World

Mon Day 1

Read for 15 minutes together. Fill in and sign the reading log.

I know a word. Practice writing my name to fill one page.

Listen to the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY

Tear some paper and create your own sun.

Complete Page 1 of your Hungry Caterpillar Maths book – Numbers and Counting

Draw and decorate your own butterfly. Give it an alliterative name – that is – two words that begin with the same sound. Eg Colourful Cory. Write it using mark making.

1 Look up the stages of the butterfly life cycle on Nat Geo kids. Can you name all the stages: egg, caterpillar, cocoon or chrysalis and butterfly. www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/animals/insects/butterfly-life-cycle/ 2. On a warm, sunny day this week go outside and see how many different types of butterflies you can spot using our ‘spotting chart’. Take a photo of any that you find. 3. Complete the ‘butterfly life cycle’. 4. Cut and decorate a beautiful butterfly from paper. Then wrap it up toilet roll to create a chrysalis around your butterfly. 5. Make up some actions for egg, caterpillar, cocoon and butterfly. Listen to the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar. Each time you hear a key word, do the action.

Tues Day 2

Read for 15 minutes together. Fill in and sign the reading log.

Match the rhyme activity sheet

Practice writing my name to fill one page.

Join in the Hungry Caterpillar song www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUBBh4QzTU

Collect some leaves thread together using thread or string

Complete page 2 Counting caterpillar pieces and write the number

Make a ‘handprint butterfly’ by painting your hand and using the print to make wings.

Wed Day 3

Read for 15 minutes together. Fill in and sign the reading log.

Alliteration game 1 Line up all your teddies/toys. Make up a name for each one using two words with the same beginning sound. Eg Tony Train, Samba Snake.

Practice writing my name to fill one page.

Sing ‘Days of the week’ song www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtQcnZ2JWsY

Using a stick or a pencil draw a caterpillar in a tray of rice, dried beans or outside in the sand.

Complete page 3 Counting and tracing

Write a shopping list for your grown up to use next time you go. Which foods are healthy and which are unhealthy?

Thur Day 4

Read for 15 minutes together. Fill in and sign the reading log.

Collect a sound! Find three things in your home that start with the same sound as your name. Say the sound your name begins with.

Practice writing my name to fill one page.

Sing ‘Incy Wincy Spider’

Move fingers and flap hands to create a butterfly.

Complete page 4 Caterpillar addition sheet

The very hungry caterpillar is very full! Can you carefully draw the food he ate using the same colours? Now label your pictures using mark making. Ask your adult to write what you have said.

Fri Day 5

Read for 15 minutes together. Fill in and sign the reading log.

Collect a sound! Find three things in your home that start with the same sound as someone in your family.

Practice writing my name to fill one page.

Sing ‘The Wheels on the Bus’

Cooking- Make a very hungry fruit salad, cut, slice and chop fruit using a knife with a grown up.

Complete page 5 Caterpillar pattern sheet

Roll, Say, Colour – see your pack.

Sat Day 6

Read for 15 minutes together. Fill in and sign the reading log.

Play ‘I Spy’ focusing on the beginning sound of each word.

Practice writing my name to fill one page.

Sing ‘Tiny Caterpillar on a leaf’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOlbSE0CmNM

Move along with Busy Feet - moving like animals www.youtube.com/watch?v=MugzDjGDYjo

Listen to the story of the Hungry Caterpillar. www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY Count the fruits from the story. Everytime you see one put a line or spot on your paper. How many lines did you draw?

Sun Day 7

Read for 15 minutes together. Fill in and sign the reading log.

Alliteration picnic Practice name writing to fill a page.

Sing ‘Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear’

Cut out and match the food to the day of the week it was eaten by the VHC.

Make the longest caterpillar ever using playdough, lego or by threading pasta on string/ribbon.

What did you eat today? Draw a plate of your favourite food in your books. Which is healthy and which is unhealthy?

It is important we are all physically active during our time at home. Do one of the 10-minute energisers 6 times per day to meet the minimum expectation.

Home Learning Expectations Nursery HT 5 Week 2 – Key Text: Supertato by Sue Hendra A total of one hour of focused learning time per day and lots of play and exploration. Children will still earn summit stamps for completing each day of learning and up to two additional summit stamps can be earned each week of school closure for exceptional presentation and extended learning.

Day Reading Listening Games Name

writing Songs and rhymes

Physical Development

Maths Mark making / writing

People and Communities

Mon Day 1

Read for 15 minutes together. Fill in and sign the reading log.

Play any ‘Phase 1’ games on Phonics Play. www.phonicsplay.co.uk

Practice writing my name to fill one page.

Listen to the story ‘Supertato’ by Sue Hendra. https://youtu.be/rze89HB9u8g

Design your own Mr Potato head character by cutting and sticking on his face.

Potato printing. Cut out a shape from a potato. Dip it in paint. Write the numbers 1 – 5 and print the correct number of shapes using your potato.

What vegetables do you have in your fridge? Look at them all and draw each one in the correct colour. Can you write the name of each vegetable too?

1 Look at some older and more recent family photos with your grown ups. Discuss: Who do you recognise? How have the people changed since the photo was taken? How have you changed? 2 Draw a picture of you in your book. Next to it, draw a picture of someone else in your family. Can you say one way you are the same as that person? Now one way you are different? Ask you grown up to write your ideas under your picture. 3 Complete the ‘All About Me’ activity sheet and glue it into your book. 4. ‘I like / I don’t like’ books. Make a zig zag book (instructions in your pack). On one side draw something you like on each fold. Turn it over and on the back draw something you don’t like on each fold. Write your ideas using your mark making. 5. Draw a face and mask on a potato and make your own ‘Supertato’. Take Supertato around your home to help with some of your jobs like tidying up your toys and setting the table. Draw three helpful things your Supertato has helped you to do.

Tues Day 2

Read for 15 minutes together. Fill in and sign the reading log.

Rhyme and Freeze - repeat the rhyming words after Jack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSPmGPIyykU

Practice writing my name to fill one page.

Eggy’s Rhyming story www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Y-RdhjK00

Use a colander to stick small twigs, or straws into the holes of the colander.

Use a weighing scale to weigh different potatoes or vegetables. Which is the heaviest? Which is the lightest?

Draw two pairs of the rhyming words you saw in Eggy’s rhyming story (songs and rhymes)

Wed Day 3

Read for 15 minutes together. Fill in and sign the reading log.

Think of a word which begins with the same sound to describe each person in your family. Ask your grown up to write it in your book. Eg Marvellous Mummy. Dancing Daddy Kind Karim

Practice writing my name to fill one page.

Listen to ‘Each Peach Pear Plum’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIKfFWCByVI Repeat the words that rhyme – ‘hubbard, cupboard’

Cut out, decorate and make your own ‘superhero mask’.

How many potatoes (or other vegetables) can you carry before you drop them?

Draw a road or path for your cars/toys.

Thur Day 4

Read for 15 minutes together. Fill in and sign the reading log.

Alliterative odd one out Practice writing my name to fill one page.

Listen to ‘Alligators All Around’ by Maurice Sendak www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_lNPwqYfGw What was the phrase for the letter that your name begins with?

Wrap up some food

packages using

paper and cello

tape.

Help your grown up to peel some potatoes. Which is the longest peel? Which is the shortest? Put three of them in order of length.

Draw on some tin foil/cling film.

Fri Day 5

Read for 15 minutes together. Fill in and sign the reading log.

Have some fun with the ‘Poem Generator’. Type in your name and read out the funny alliterative phrases. www.poem-generator.org.uk/alliteration/

Practice writing my name to fill one page.

Listen to the story ‘Click, Clack Quickity-Quack’ by Doreen Cronn www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWrfGV1iAkk Repeat the alliterative phrases. Can you think of your own?

Make a superhero cape by using a piece of fabric or paper and joining a piece of string by tying it so it can be worn.

Making pasta numbers. Using pasta, beans or small pebbles make some numbers. How many pebbles did you use to make number 1? How many pieces of pasta do you think you will need to make 0?

Practice writing the following patterns

Sat Day 6

Read for 15 minutes together. Fill in and sign the reading log.

Play “I Am Going on a Trip” Practice writing my name to fill one page.

Sing along with ‘The Hungry Caterpillar song’. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tUBBh4QzTU

Cut out some food pictures from magazines, glue them onto paper to create a collage

Sing ‘Days of the week’ song www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtQcnZ2JWsY

Practice writing letters on get squiggling and then on paper www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/get-squiggling-letters-mobile

Sun Day 7

Read for 15 minutes together. Fill in and sign the reading log.

Rhyming odd one out (see Thursday)

Practice writing my name to fill one page.

Learn the song ‘Tiny Caterpillar on a leaf’. The words are in your pack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOlbSE0CmNM

By rolling playdough make peas to fill a small bowl.

Count the vegetables in your fridge. Draw and number them.

Talk about what your name would be if you were a Superhero and what special powers you would have. Draw your ideas in your book.

Maths Activities – Week 1

Monday - Making a bracelet or necklace

Begin by using scissors to measure the length of string required. Thread pasta shapes with string to create a

beautiful piece of jewellery.

Tuesday - Building a Tower or lines

Build towers or lines of bricks. Encourage children to make the highest tower or longest line possible and

count the bricks used. Add a number on each brick to make a numbered tower or wall

Wednesday - Making Biscuits

Children make biscuits using a basic recipe

Recipe- Butter(100g), flour(200g) one egg, water

In a large bowl make a crumble with the butter (at room temperature and flour. Add the egg yolk and

water to mix. Roll out the dough on a floured bowl surface. Cut into shapes as required. Bake in a preheated

oven, at 375F/190C Gas mark 5 for 10 minutes.

Thursday - Exercise numbers

Take part in some exercise with your child, counting to 10 each time, e.g. jumps 10 times, or take 10 steps as

you walk around the home. Can you count ten hops to your bedroom? Or ten jumps to the bathroom?

Friday - Heavy and light

Ask your child to find two objects, one heavy and one light, and put one into a similar carrier bag. Then

encourage them to ask different people at home to hold the bags and ask which they think is heavy and

which is light.

Saturday- Fill a small box

Using an empty small box, look around the home and put ten tiny items into it, e.g. a small stone, a leaf, a

sticker or a bead. Help your child to count the items as they are put into the box.

Sunday - My front door

Help your child to daw a large picture of your front door, including the number of your door.

Maths Activities – Week 2

Monday – Tea Party

Children act out a tea party with teddies or dolls. How many for tea? Count the same number of cups. How many plates? How many biscuits?

Tuesday - Daytime In your book draw and label four things that you do during the day. Discuss: How do you know it is daytime?

Wednesday – Night-time In your book draw and label four things you do at night-time. Discuss: How do you know it is night-time?

Thursday - Number Walk Go on a number walk look at all the numbers you see around you e.g. doors numbers, bus numbers, car

registrations.

Friday - Go Shopping

Visit and shops and notice the prices. Discuss: What can you buy with one pound? Make coin rubbings with

a crayon the coins 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p

Saturday - Number Painting Paint or write large numbers. Children paint a matching number of animals e.g. cats, birds or snakes. Try

up to 5, then 10. You can do this in your book.

Sunday - A self-portrait

Children to draw two pictures of themselves, one for daytime in their favourite clothes and one for night-

time in their favourite pyjamas.

HT5 Week 1

Monday- Complete page 1 of your Very Hungry Caterpillar Maths Book-Numbers and counting.

Tuesday- Complete page 2 counting caterpillar pieces and numbers

Wednesday- Complete page 3

Counting and tracing.

Thursday- Complete page 4 caterpillar addition sheet

Friday-Complete page 5

Caterpillar pattern sheet

Saturday-

Listen to the story of the very hungry caterpillar. Count the fruits from the story. Everytime you see one put

a line or a spot on your paper. How many lines did you draw?

Sunday- Making a Caterpillar Make the longest caterpillar ever using playdough, Lego, or by threading pasta on string/ribbon.

HT5 Week 2

Monday- Potatoe Printing

Cut out a shape from a potato. Dip it in paint. Write the numbers 1-5 and print the correct number of

shapes using the potato.

Tuesday-Weighing Potatoes

Use a weighing scale to weigh different potatoes or vegetables. Which is the heaviest? Which is the lightest?

Wednesday-How many?

How many potatoes (or vegetables) can you carry before you drop them?

Thursday-Peel Potatoes

Help your grown up to peel some potatoes. Which is the longest peel? Which is the shortest? Put three of

them in order of length.

Friday-Making Pasta Numbers

Using pasta, beans, small pebbles or small stones make some numbers.

How many pebbles did you use to make number 1?

How many pieces of pasta do you think you will need to make 0?

Saturday-Days of the Week song

Sing “Days of the week” song www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtOcnZ2JWsY

Sunday-Counting vegetables

Count the vegetables in your fridge. Draw and number them.

Half Term 5 – Nursery Phonics Listening Games – Week 1

Monday – I know a word

Key Questions: What does ‘rhyme’ mean? How do we know when words rhyme? Who can tell me what these pictures are of? Does your picture rhyme with my word? How do you know?

• Show the Rhyming String Cards. What these pictures are of? Discuss the ideas and say the words together for each one.

• Spread the images out on the floor and stand up and Say, “I know a word and it rhymes with…” Say a word that rhymes with one or some of the pictures.

• Ask the child to point to a picture that rhymes with your word.

• What picture are they are pointing next to? Does it rhyme with my word? What are some other rhyming words with that ending? Eg dog – frog – log – stog – brog – nog – tog – plog (They don’t have to be real words!)

• Repeat, using different rhyming words.

Tuesday– Match the rhyme

Wednesday – Alliteration Game 1 Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a close sequence of words.

Tongue twisters often use alliteration. Eg Tony Tiger tiptoed tidily to take tea. We teach

alliteration in Nursery to help children begin to listen in to sounds in words in preparation for

phonics.

Pick a ‘target sound’ again. For example, let’s say the target sound is ‘s’. Then make up a story with lots of ‘s’ sounds in. Say to your child ‘If you hear a ‘s’ then put your hands on your heads.’ You can really emphasise the sound to start with, but you could make it less obvious if the children get better at the game.

An example of a story could be…’One day Steve the Snake went to the sandy beach. He saw a sea serpent in the sea. The serpent jumped out and slithered towards Steve. He tried to slice him with his teeth!…(etc)

Sunday – Alliteration picnic Make a meal or snack time into a picnic using alliteration words. Try serving “tasty

tomatoes”, “leafy lettuce”, “sweet strawberries”, “crunchy crackers”, “jazzy juice” or

“magnificent milk.”

Week 2

Thursday – Odd one out!

Say a string of words all beginning with the same sound. Then say a word with beginning

with a different sound. When your child hears the odd one out they point at you and say

‘odd one out!’ They get a point if they catch it, you get one if they don’t. First to 6 points

wins (or you could choose any amount). Eg ‘fruit… fix.. fan… foot… bear!’ (Child says

“odd one out” on bear because it begins with ‘b’).

This also works well with rhyming words. Eg frog, log, bog, snog… duck!

Saturday – I am going on a trip

1. Have one person start by saying (or perhaps singing) that they are going on a trip to a particular place. They will take with them some object that starts with the same letter as

the place. Example for the letter P: I am going to Paris and I am taking a poodle. 2. Have the other players take turns adding to the list of objects being taken by thinking of

something else that starts with that letter. Example continued: I am going to Paris and I am

taking a poodle and a pen. 3. Continue the game until someone is unable to think of a word or makes a mistake.

Week 1 Day 1 Writing – Look at some different symmetrical butterfly patterns on the internet then decorate

your butterfly. Write it’s name using your mark making. Can you think of a two-word name where both

words begin with the same sound? Eg Magical Mona or Fluttery Felix

Week 1 Day 2 Understanding the World – on sunny, warm days look for butterflies outside. Which ones

can you find? They love to come out when it’s sunny, during mid-morning to late afternoon and you’ll find

them among flowers feeding on nectar.

Week 1 Day 3 Understanding the World

Week 1 Day 6 Songs and rhymes – learn this song with your family and make up some actions to help you

remember it!

Week 1 Day 7 Physical development – cut out the food from the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar and

glue it next to the day of the week on which it was eaten.

Week 1 Day 5 Mark Making – Roll, Say, Colour!

Week 1 Day 6 Mark Making – Draw and write the parts of the story.

Week 2 Day 1 Physical Development – Cut out and glue on the parts to make your own Mr Potato Head.

Week 2 Day 3 Physical Development – Decorate, cut out and make your own superhero mask with some

string or attach a straw on one side to help you wear/hold it.

Week 2 Activity 3 People and Communities – Draw or mark make your responses. Ask a grown up to write

your ideas!

Week 2 Activity 4 People and Communities – Make an ‘I like’ zig zag book. After you’ve folded the paper to

make your book, draw something you like on each page. Write what it is using your mark making.