Home Learning Task Year: NurseryTheme - The Hungry Caterpillar

Week beginning 29th June 2020 Try to complete 2-3 tasks a dayWeekly Maths Tasks Weekly Reading Tasks

Careful countingAll childrenWith a pencil or your finger can you draw a line from the number to the correct amount of fruit?

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Preschool challenge: How many pieces does the caterpillar have on his body?

Listen to stories and show understandingAll childrenEnjoy the story below – The Hungry Caterpillar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY

Preschool Challenge :

Where is the egg? What did the caterpillar eat first? How many apples did the caterpillar eat? What is the caterpillar’s house called? What did the caterpillar turn in to?

Other books by Eric Carle

YouTube has more Eric Carle stories.

Weekly Phonic Task Weekly mark making/writing TaskLetters and Sounds

Preschool children : We are learning to recognise the sounds t and i. Watch Geraldine the Giraffe explain the t and i sound.Name 3 objects that start with t and i.thttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmlzzMTqBxoihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gi8OBhl11U

All childrenGo on a sound walk around the home. Grownups, help to create some different sounds e.g.

a tap running, the fridge humming, a door shutting people talking

Help the children say a word to describe the sounds e.g. drip, hum, bang, chatter.

Writing for a purpose - Write a shopping list – think about healthy and non-healthy foods.

All childrenWould you like watermelon, strawberries, chocolate biscuits and ice cream on your shopping list?

Make marks to show your shopping list. Grownups, ask your child to ‘read’ their marks back to you. Can they remember what they ‘wrote’?

Preschool children:Ask them to try to hear the sound at the start of the word; can they hear the ssss sound at the start of strawberries? Write S to show them what it looks like.

Remember to tell them their ‘writing’ is really good and give lots of praise.

Weekly Learning Task Useful Websites

Understanding the world

All Children:

Play with bubbles! Weknow you love chasing andpopping bubbles! How fastcan you run and how high canyou jump when you try tocatch a bubble?

If you don’t have bubbles, you can use a little washing up liquid or shampoo but ask a grownup first.

Cbbies.co.uk Flashacademy.co.uk Topmarks.co.uk Ictgames.co.uk http://www.letters-and-

sounds.com/phase-1.html Purplemash.co.uk Oxfordowls.co.uk

Expressive arts and Design

Make a hungry caterpillar.

There will also be a daily activity for you to complete on our school Facebook page. There are also regular updates on here too!