Fun home activity suggestions:

  • Sing nursery rhymes. Miss out words and phrases for children to join in with
  • Sing number and counting songs:
    • Five Currant Buns
    • Five Little Speckled Frogs
    • Ten Green Bottles
  • Clap syllables in words el-e-phant cat-er-pill-ar
  • Listen for rhyming strings – odd one out – log dog cat frog
  • Play I spy with my little eye something beginning with …
  • Play I hear with my little ear something starting with…
  • Recognise and write letters from their name
  • Count everyday objects, steps, cutlery,
  • Read to and with your children. Talk about pictures – can they guess what will happen next? Can they join in with repeated words and phrases? What is their favourite part or character? Where is the story set? What new words have you learned?
  • Finger gym – strengthen hands, fingers and wrists, ready for mark making (Playdoh, tweezers, pegs, cooking, Duplo, puzzles, threading beads)
  • Sing songs with finger and hand actions
  • Two Little Dickie Birds
    • Ten Little Fingers
    • Twinkle Twinkle
    • Tommy Thumb …
  • Have fun making marks – pencils, crayons, chalks, mud and paints. Make marks on pavements, chalk boards, different size/shape/colour paper, rolls of paper …
  • Draw pictures of what they can see, characters from books,
  • Cutting and sticking activities – make snips, cut along a line, cut around a circle…
  • Make collections. Red things, square things, things from the kitchen, things from summer time, things to wear when it snows …
  • Matching games – match shapes, match colours, match and pair socks
  • Spot the difference games
  • KIMS game (objects on a tray and one is hidden or moved or added)
  • Sorting and ordering objects according to their size
  • Duplo/Lego who can build the tallest tower, who can build a red tower, etc
  • Look for signs of the season or the changing weather

Planning map and PLOD sheets will come home every half term. Please fill them in and return them to Nursery as soon as possible. Additional holiday and seasonal activities will come how with your child.  Remember to look at School360 – there you will see what the children are doing at Nursery so you could have a go at home.