Well, it’s not quite the welcome back that we had planned! We’ll provide you with more information regarding our remote learning activities this week, but here are some activities for you to do this week.
This week, the activities are all linked to a very popular and familiar tale, ‘The Gingerbread Man’.
If you have a copy at home, share it together or you could watch this online version.
Reading
As you read the story, see if your child can join in with the repeated phrases such as… “Stop! I want to eat you!” and “Run, run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread man!”
Talk to your child about the story. What happened? What did the Gingerbread Man say? What happened at the end of the story?
Mark-making
We love drawing our own gingerbread people in Nursery. Draw, paint or print an outline and add in some details. Give your gingerbread person some eyes, a nose and a mouth. How many buttons will you draw? What shape are they?
Mathematics
There are some fun Gingerbread Man counting activities on this website. In Nursery, we don’t expect children to recognise digits at this point so you may need to help your child recognise the numbers as you play together. Count the buttons and remember to say the numbers slowly, touching each button as you count it.
You could continue to play this together using the gingerbread person that you drew. Find something to use for buttons (buttons, pompoms, sweets, coins…) and challenge each other to put on 1-5 buttons. We’d expect some children to be working with numbers up to 3,4 or 5, but some children may be able to count more confidently up to 10 with one to one correspondence.
Here are a few ways to extend the activity…
- Which Gingerbread Man has the most/fewest buttons? How do you know?
- How many buttons would s/he have if we added one more? Ate one?
- If you put 1, 2 0r 3 buttons on the Gingerbread Man, can you tell how many there are without counting? Try it!
Creative
- If you have the ingredients, have a go at making your own gingerbread people. It’s always a great hit in Nursery. If you don’t have time this week, add the ingredients to your weekly shop and save it for a weekend treat together.
- Watch ‘Melody’ as she listens to some music that reminds her of the Gingerbread Man story. What did it make you think of?
- If you have playdough at home, have a go at making gingerbread people.
Phonics – Nursery rhymes
During group time this week, we were going to re-visit some of our favourite Nursery rhymes. Sing some together at home. There are lots to choose from here.
As you’re singing, try missing out a word from the end of a line. Can your child fill in the missing word? E.g. Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great….. ?
Please remember to let us know how you’re getting on throughout the week and send us a quick e-mail to stjameseyfs@spherefederation.org. We love to find out about your home learning – in whatever form it takes. Gingerbread Man related or something completely different!