Squirrels Week 6 Timetable

Welcome Message

Story with Maria

Key Learning Intentions for this week • To be able to identify simple shapes, such as a triangle, square, circle, oval and rectangle. • To be able to differentiate between longer and shorter. • To be able to recall at least two facts about firefighters.

Monday Literacy

Tuesday Maths

Wednesday Fine and Gross Motor Skills

Thursday Understanding the World

Janie’s Music Lesson - Please access this at any point throughout the week. Please don’t forget your LIVE Creative Movements sessions for Morning and Full-time children on Tuesday from 10.10-10.40am and for Afternoon and Full-time children on Friday from 2.50-3.20pm. Creative Movements Tuesday Session (10.10am) - Meeting ID: 886 3336 0517 Password: CMMHStues (Password: 426586) Creative Movements Friday Session (2.50pm) - Meeting ID: 875 8618 2413 Password: CMMHSfri (Password: 236688) Morning Angelica sprocket’s pockets

Angelica Sprocket’s coat is a delight to the senses. It is bright pink which provides a wonderful contrast with her bright green dangly earrings. But by far the most amazing thing about Angelica’s coat is

Morning

Comparing Length: Longer and Shorter

Read story Bunny Cake by Rosemary Wells

Morning Tracing time!

Today’s focus is going to be about pattern making using our hand and fingers. Activity 1: Please have ready either, cornflour, rice or sand on a tray

Morning Fire Fighters Fire is magical to children. It emits warmth and light and is used in many types of celebrations around the world. However, fire also has a scary side. For these reason, children need to learn at an early age that fire is not for play. They also need to learn how to protect themselves if they come into contact with fire and the important role of firefighters. Practise this song:

the pockets! Angelica’s small chums are enchanted by the contents which include mice, cheese, hankies, frying pans, umbrellas and much more. Each pocket hides something more exciting, more colourful and more fun than the last. There are surprises galore in Angelica Sprocket’s pockets! Children to listen to the story of Angelica sprockets pockets read by Maria this week or using the following YouTube video. After watching the story talk to your child about her colourful pockets and what was found in each. Key vocabulary to practise: Pockets, coat, hides, full, empty, colourful, green, pink, galore, ducks, alligators, Elephants… Open ended questions to ask you child:

After listening to the story talk about the cake that Max made out of earthworms and the icing that he made with caterpillars. Ask your child if they think this story is real or make-believe. The aim of this activity is to compare long and short, longer than and shorter than, longest and shortest. Key vocabulary to practise: Long, longer, shorter, compare, short, length Warm up activity Show your child how to indicate length with two hands in the air separated by some distance for long, more distance for longer, and even more distance for longest. Do the opposite for short, shorter and shortest.

for your child to practice drawing patterns in.

Model to your child how they can trace their fingers around the material to make patterns. Use the patterns and shapes they have been working on during the week for consistency. Resources: Flour Foam Cornflour Sand Powder Tray

Ten Little Firefighters (finger play)

Ten Little Firemen song Ten little firemen sleeping in a row, Ding dong goes the bell. And down the pole they go. Off on the engine, oh, oh, oh. Using the big hose, so, so, so. When all the fire’s out, home so-o slow. Open ended questions to ask your child: -What firefighters do? -What is the firefighter holding? Key vocabulary to practise: Safe, fire, ladders, fire engine, truck, hoses, pumps, water, firefighter.

- What was found in her pockets?

- Were any of her pockets full?

- Were any of her pockets empty?

- Did you find any animals in her pockets?

- Can you name any of the animals found?

- Did you enjoy the story?

Activity 1: For the children to use the template of Angelica’s coat to explore the different colours she has on it.

Activity 1: Follow one of our simple recipe and make some playdough with your child. Give your child playdough with which he/she can make earthworms and caterpillars. Allow him/her time to manipulate the playdough. Model how to make long and longer earthworms and short or shorter. Ask your child to make their own earthworms and caterpillars. Encourage your child to talk about their lengths as he/she makes them.

Key vocabulary to practise: Touch, trace, feel, shape, circle, triangle, square, rough, smooth, wave, letters, tracing, straight, curve. Open ended questions to ask you child:

- How does it feel when you trace your finger over…?

- Can you make a big pattern?

- Can you make a small pattern?

- Can you make a long pattern?

- Can you make a short pattern?

Activity 2:

Activity 1: Using this theme we are going to work this week a little bit more on our fine motor skills. We are going to put the fire out using our pencils and paper. Fireman mark making activity The children could choose the colour they like to follow and follow the lines from the fireman to the fire. Make sure your child holds the pencil with a nice tripod grip. Activity 2: Now, your child can also colour in a firefighter and his equipment using the activity sheet provided. We can make sure he/she is able to recognise the right colours to use for the firefighter’s equipment. Maybe he/she will need some support so show them an image of a firefighter to help. Firefighter colouring activity

To access the image please click here

Key vocabulary to practise:

- Blue - Yellow - White - Green - Pink

Suggested extension activity: What patterns can you see? Use the previous template from the morning session. Give the picture to your child for them to explore the different types of pattern. Key vocabulary to practise: Zig zag, straight, spotty. Practice time! Give your child a plain piece of paper with colouring pencils, encourage your child to copy out the different patterns they explored on Angelica’s overcoat.

Activity 2: Show your child our templates with caterpillars and explain to them which one is short, which one is long. Allow your child to count the body parts of our caterpillars using the numbers placed on them. Once finished the children could use our caterpillar template to place their examples on top of them. Key vocabulary to practise: Long, longer, shorter, compare, short, length, caterpillar, wiggly eyes, earthworm, body, roll, push, twist, cut, squeeze, smash

Children to begin to trace same shapes that we have looked at during the week. Model using your index finger first to create a circle, triangle, square and rectangle. After each shape, support your child to trace around the shape. Make sure to do this with all the other shapes and encourage them to say the name as they are tracing. Suggested extension activity:

Activity 3: Finally the children could create their very own firefighters.

Have ready:

- 10 circles for each firefighters face.

- 10 firefighters hat to place on top of the heads.

Resources: Paint Paper Glue stick (Pritt stick) Pencil Colouring pencils Cards Using red paint, place your child’s hand inside. Then place their hand on a piece of paper.

Once that the children are confident making the simple shapes maybe they can have a go and try to write lines, wavy lines or also their first number 1.

Use a glue stick to support your child with placing each face on the fingers. At the end support your child to draw on the hose for the firefighters to put out the fire!

Maths Challenge

Full or empty

Activity: The children should focus on the key vocabulary full and empty. The children can use one of their own coat or yours to put different sized objects inside. These can include, action figures, Duplo or any other toys they have at home. The children should then use the different items to fill in the one of the pockets and the other not, to compare if they are full and/or empty.

Maths Challenge 3

Which one is longer or shorter?

Activity : During this activity we will need some yarn, show your child yarn of 3 lengths that represent earthworms and the concepts of long, short and medium size. Help the children to say those words and the order the yarn based on long, short and medium size. Children to have the yarns together laid out so they are able to explore which yarn is longer and which yarn is

Story challenge Rosie’s walk by Pat Hutchins

The children should listen to the story of Rosie’s walk by Pat Hutchins. After they have watched the clip of the story, ask your child the following questions:

1. What did the rake do to the fox?

2. What animals could you see at the pond?

3. How did Rosie get past the haycock?

Reading Challenge

Recall parts of our song

The children should practise the song from the morning to recall specific parts of the song. Encourage the children to use their fingers to count each of the firemen. Together count from 1 to 10 and blow out the flames.

Key vocabulary to practise: Full, empty, half full, half empty.

shorter. Please encourage children to explore the difference in size of the yarn by pulling the yarn. Resources Yarn (different colours) Paper Scissors Glue Key vocabulary to practise: Short, long, shorter, longer, the longest and shortest Suggested extension activity: Children can also use the yarn to create their numbers. Mummy or Daddy could write some numbers down and he/she only have to place the piece of yarn on top of the number and call out the number that they are doing.

4. What happened to the fox at the mill?

5. What did the bees do to the fox?

6. Did Rosie know that the fox was following her?

7. Why do you think the fox was following her?

Key vocabulary to practise: Under, over, around, walk, hen, fence, past.

Key vocabulary to practise: Fire, firemen, firefighters, down, slid, hoses, pumps, water, numbers, put out. Open ended questions to ask you child:

- How many firefighters or firemen are there?

- What noise do firemen hear? - What do they do when they

hear that noise? - What do the firemen need to

put out? - What do they use to put out

the fire?

Afternoon Shapes

Watch the story again and pause where possible to allow your child to explore the different types of shapes they see. Or you can use the template from the previous activity for your child to have a look at. Key vocabulary to practise: Square, rectangle, triangle, circle, oval, star, diamond To help support your children to recognise and identify each of the shapes here are some activities you can do to help them. You can use peas or marshmallows with straws or

Afternoon Length detectives Children to now walk around their house to find different objects that they can use to compare size. These can include socks, shoes, clothing, sticks and any other objects found around the house.

Afternoon Rosie’s Walk obstacle

Using the story, with your child create an obstacle course for them to use their body to move around. Here are some ideas of obstacle courses you can plan to do indoors: 1. Lay out large books, pillows or cardboard squares as stepping stones. Ask your child to step from one to another without touching the floor. Pretend you are crossing a river and don’t want to get wet.

Afternoon Firefighters equipment For the children to explore the different type of equipment that is used by the firefighters. Click the link below to access the images. Cut them out and talk with your child about each of the different equipment the firefighters need and why. Firefighter equipment template Open ended question to ask you child: -Why do they need to wear this type of clothing? Explain to your child that this type of clothing protects the firefighters from the fire, so that they do not get burnt.

sticks to make the shape discussing the following:

- Triangle – this has three corners and three side

- Square – four corners and two side

- Circle – goes round

- Rectangle – two short sides and two long sides

Key vocabulary to practise: Long, short, longer, shorter, compare, short, length. Encourage your children to select the objects from around the house and place them near each other. Model one example of how to compare the length of the objects they selected. For example, shoes. One can be yours and the other his/hers. Put them together and say this one is shorter and this one is longer. Key questions:

- Which one is shorter? - Which one is longer? - Which one is the

longest? - Which one is the

shortest?

2. Create a tunnel with blankets and furniture. We find highchairs perfect for this. 3. Lay out a blanket, ask your child to sit on it, and drag them from one end of the obstacle course to the other on a blanket train. 4. Set out some blocks and get your child to build a tower using however many blocks they are currently able to stack, before moving on to the next station.

-What is the mask for? The mask is to protect the firefighters breathing because the smoke is very strong.

-What is the helmet used for? The helmet is to protect the firefighters head. Just like when you ride a bike you need a helmet.

Encourage children to practise the vocabulary below when completing the obstacle course. Key vocabulary to practise: Under, over, around, jump, walk

-What is the hose used for? The hose is used for putting out the fire. It contains water that helps to get the fire out.

-What is the fire engine used for? The fire engine helps the firefighters get to the fire very quickly and has all of the equipment they need.

Afternoon- Let’s be Creative

My own oversized pocket coat

Now, it is time for you to create your very own oversized coat with pockets!

Afternoon- Let’s be Creative Fairy cakes It’s cooking time! It’s time to get prepared so have a look at the ingredients we need.

Afternoon- Let’s be Creative Rosie the fox

Afternoon- Let’s be Creative Fire Engine

Use about 6 small boxes or something similar. Attach them together with masking tape.

Please have ready the follow materials:

- Old top or plain coat or cardigan

- Cut different sized fabric

- Glue - Felt or paint

The children should stick the cut out shapes and place them on to their oversized coat like a pocket. Make sure that you are with your child to support them with sticking. Once the pockets are on the coat, give your child either paint or felt, to draw on their patterns using different colours. Please guide your child throughout this activity. Encourage the children to practice the vocabulary learnt from the previous lessons. Suggested extension activity: If you already finished decorating your coat or you are not able to create your own one, you could decorate your own special pockets using this template.

Ingredients (makes 12 cakes) ●100g/4oz butter or unsaturated spread (softened) ●100g/4oz self-raising flour ●100g/4oz caster sugar ●2 eggs Method Show your child where the temperature is on your oven and allow him/her to help you to turn it onto 180°C/Gas 4. Allow your child to whisk all the ingredients until creamy and spoon into a bun tin or bun cases. Cook for 10–15 minutes. To check they are cooked just ask your child to press gently and they should spring back. Once cooled, the cakes can be decorated. To make icing, mix icing sugar and (a tiny bit) of water to and spread it on the buns when cold. Suggested extension activity: Now, it is time to decorate with anything you like (sprinkles, sweets, cherries).

Explain to your child that now we are going to make a handprint fox craft based on our Rosie’s walk story. Resources

• orange paper • scissors • pencil • glue • white paint

Now we will need to trace your child’s hand with a pencil or a crayon. Mummy or Daddy will need to cut out the hand outline. Then, draw a head shape and two triangles for the ears. After that cut the head shape out and paint with white paint on the sides of the head. Please also paint the end of

Decorate with red construction paper & black wheels. Make a hose made from two or three paper towel rolls then covered in black construction paper. Fire Truck You need: 1. A large card board box 2. 4 Paper plates 3. Red, white, and black paint 4. Some large paint brushes Let the children paint the box with the red paint. Then let the children paint the plates with black paint. Cut a ladder out of card board and then let the children paint it white. after all the pieces dry put them together using tape, and put some fireman stuff in and around it and put 2 small chairs in the front for the front of the fire engine. Firemen’s Hat Use large (12 x 18) red paper. Cut a semi-circle in the center (the child’s head goes in there) Round off edges. Keep a piece of the center cut, to go up, in the front (like a firemen’s helmet) have children write 999 on it.

Angelica Sprocket’s pockets decorate your own pockets template

the “thumb” white. We will have to allow the paint to dry and then draw the nose (and if you want some pink in the ears). Allow your child to glue on or draw eyes. They could also use a glue stick to attach the head onto the body.