Nursery – St. Michael In The Hamlet Community Primary School

Welcome to the Nursery Home Learning Hub

Wednesday 15th July – Sunday 19th July 2020

Hello Turtles

Can you believe that it is nearly the end of the school year! Keep HAVING LOTS OF FUN PLAYING, LEARNING and BEING CREATIVE. HELPING YOUR FAMILY is GREAT too. WELL DONE! Keep it up you SUPERSTARS! 🙂 WE MISS YOU!

Let’s start with or daily exercises. Today we are focusing on each letter of the alphabet. Are you ready… steady … go!

Do you know the song ‘Somewhere over the rainbow’? Watch this video and join in when you can. It is such a lovely song.

Now here is a beautiful mix of two songs – ‘Somewhere over the rainbow’ and ‘What a wonderful world’. It has beautiful illustrations too.

Walking Rainbow Jars

You need 6 mason jars or transparent plastic cups and set them up in a little circle.
Add equal amounts of water to each one.
Then add food colouring to each one – red in the first one, skip one, yellow in 3rd , skip one , blue n the 5th one and skip the last one.
Talk about what colours were in the rainbow and learn the ROYGBIV (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet) trick for remembering them.
Next, carefully fold up paper towels into a skinnier rectangle shape, and place them in the jars.
Finally sit and watch; wait for the magic to happen!

Try and make your own rainbow wind chime! It will look so beautiful hanging in front of your front door or in your back garden. You will need a grown up to help you with some the instructions.

Rainbow wind chimes

How about making a sun catcher?

You can simply colour in some plastic using felt tips or marker pens or you can get strips of coloured tissue paper.

How about making a tasty rainbow to eat? You will need lots of different coloured fruit for this one. What fruit could you have for each colour of the rainbow? Let’s help you!

Red – Strawberries/raspberries.
Orange – You’ve guessed it, oranges!
Yellow -Bananas/lemons/pineapple
Green – Grapes/Kiwi/Melon
Blue – Blueberries
Purple – More grapes!

Try out this cardboard rainbow. Cut out a rainbow shape and then use all different collage materials to fill your rainbow.

You can make this rainbow with different strips of coloured paper and cotton wool balls.

How about this lovely smiling cloud rainbow using different strips of paper too.

Paper plate painting Rainbows with cotton wool balls.

Or how about a lovely pom pom rainbow with rain falling from it.

Try out this cardboard heart activity. Draw a small heart shape. Then another one slightly bigger, and repeat 4 times. Next, get an adult to cut it out then colour it in. And there you have a heart stacking puzzle.

This week we will be focusing lots of activities around a lovely story called ‘The Rainbow Fish’. Here it is.

Get creative and make your own Rainbow Fish collage. The-Rainbow-Fish-Collage-Resource-Pack
Here are some mindfulness colouring in sheets under-the-sea-themed-mindfulness-colouring-sheets
Try out these cool science experiments … eyfs-science-experiments-resource-pack
Lets work on your fine motor skills with these pencil control sheets. The-Rainbow-Fish-Pencil-Control-Sheets

Wordsearch time. under-the-sea-wordsearch-
Can you sequence the story using these picture cards. The-Rainbow-Fish-Story-Sequencing
Here are some role play masks if you want to act out the story. The-Rainbow-Fish-Role-Play-Masks
Have a go at writing a book review. The-Rainbow-Fish-Book-Review-Writing-Frames
Here is a bit of a challenge for writing sentences. simple-sentence-writing-prompt-pictures-activity-the-rainbow-fish-activity

Here are some lovely photos of rainbow fish with difference coloured scales. Have a go at counting the different colours. Rainbow-Fish-Scales-Counting-Worksheet
Try some additions addition-sheet-to-support-teaching-on-the-rainbow-fish under-the-sea-addition-worksheet-
Next try some subtractions. under-the-sea-subtraction-up-to-10-differentiated-activity-sheets
Cut out these sea animals and put them in order of size from the smallest to the biggest. Under-The-Sea-Fish-Size-Ordering

Have a listen to this lovely story. It teaches you all about how everyone is unique and special in their own way. People look different in all different kinds of ways but we all make a super team together.