Welcome to Chatelherault Nursery
Maths at Home
| Reading Numbers
Look for numbers around your home. Copy them |
Number hunt
Set a challenge to find numbers 0-10 in order around your home. |
Touch-count
Count objects such as stairs, toys, socks, dried pasta shapes, pencils, croyons, coins, etc |
Dice Games
Write the numbers 1-6 (several times) on a piece of paper. Each person takes turns to roll the dice and colour in a number. The person who colours in the last one is the winner. (Why not play with 2 dice?) |
| Patterns
Make lego/duplo towers with repeated patterns. Design a pattern on paper for them to create |
Go on a Shape Hunt
Set a challenge to find several shapes or 10 of a shape i.e. squares. |
Sort Coins
Sort coins by colour, size, value Play shops |
Play a board game
Helps children count, turn take and identify values on dice by sight |
| Counting
Count aloud from 0 – 10, 20 or 30* Backwards from 5, 10 or 15 – 0* |
Colours
Find all the colours of the rainbow Sort toys by colour, shape or size |
Counting
Do 20* star Jumps Stamp your feet 20* times Clap your hand 20* times |
Sing Number Songs with Actions
10 Green Bottles 5 Little Ducks 5 Currant Buns in the Bakers shop |
Literacy at Home
| Read a Story
Read some of your favourite stories. Make up a new ending to a well-known story. |
Characters
Talk about the characters and what they might do next?
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Rhyming words
Read nursery rhymes and stories that rhyme (Julia Donaldson). Listen for rhyming words and identify them. |
Alternative Endings
Read a familiar story and make up a new ending. |
| Perform a Puppet Show
Use teddies, dolls or why not make sock puppets |
Go on a Bear Hunt
Get your child to recall the story while using your own special effects to set the scene. |
Have a Teddy Bear’s Picnic
Bring a bear, snack and your favourite story or song. |
Learn a new poem or a rhyme |
| Colour in and draw pictures | Letter/Word Hunt
Find letters or words around your home Copy them |
Letters of the Alphabet
Look for letters from your name Write your name Trace your name |
Finger gym
Use tongs to move objects from one bowl to another Use scissors to snip
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| Letter Formation
Fill a tray or plate with salt, rice, flour, glitter or shaving foam and practice writing letters of your name or draw a picture. |
Write a Story
Draw a picture or one for a beginning, middle and end. Ask an adult or big brother or sister to write the words for you. |
Play a game
Play iSpy (use colours instead of letters) Hide and Seek
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Have a Theme Day
Be a superhero, princess, pirate, animals…for a day |
Websites
Chatelherault Primary and Nursery Class
Useful Websites
| www.storylineonline.net
A huge selection of stories read by actors. |
| www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
CBeebies helps pre-schoolers learn whilst they play fun games, watch clips, sing songs and make things with their favourite CBeebies characters and shows. |
| www.abcdoes.com/home-learning/
This collection of activities/ideas is simply here to help parents and carers find fun things to do if they find themselves unexpectedly at home with younger children. |
| www.classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-prek-k.html
Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing. |
| https://www.education.com/games/
Educational Games for Children |
| www.discoveryeducation.com/community/virtual-field-trips/
No permission slips required. These virtual events let educators take students to amazing places and give them remarkable experiences, without ever leaving the classroom. |
| www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/
The game that makes learning to read fun. |
| www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
Free eBooks collection, developed for children aged 3–11 years old. |
| www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/
The world’s most detailed globe |
| www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?AgeGroup=1
Interactive educational resources. |
| www.starfall.com
At Starfall, children have fun while they learn. |
| ww.sciencebob.com/category/experiments/
Fun science experiments |
| www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html
Nasa for children |
| https://www.switchzoo.com/
Learning about amazing animals |
Our Lunchtime Routine
During lunch we sit with our friends and develop our skills for life, learning and work. We are very independent. We pour our own water, ask the dinner ladies for our chosen lunch, select our own salad and bread, carry our trays all by ourselves and after we are finished eating, we can also clear our plates away.
Library with Mrs Livingston
We visit the school library on Tuesday mornings. Today’s story was called Naughty Parents by Joy Gosney.
Visit to Silverton – Monday 9th March
Some boys and girls from the nursery paid a visit to Silverton. They enjoyed sharing books in the sensory room.
World Book Day – Thursday 5th March
Taking part in Literacy activities on World Book Day.
Stay and Play ‘Story Session’ – World Book Day
Stay and Play – Tuesday 25th February
Visit to Silverton Short Breaks – Monday 24th February
We have been visiting Silverton Short Breaks. They offer respite care to disabled children and young people in the local area. While there are no young people there when we visit, we can learn all about the service. The children and young people who access this service have a great time going on outings, making their own choices, making new friends and having fun.
We will be visiting on a regular basis to take part in lots of creative and exciting experiences.
Stay and Play- Thursday 23rd January
Party Time!
Christmas Fayre – Friday 6th December
The boys and girls of the nursery had a fabulous morning taking part in the activities and crafts on offer at our Christmas Fayre.
Stay and Play – Wednesday 6th November
We hold a ‘Stay and Play’ on a monthly basis. Dates are included in our regular newsletters. Many thanks to those who came along. At Chatelherault Nursery Class we have an open door policy, if you would like to stay and play, and the date doesn’t suit, please speak to Miss Laird to make arrangement to stay.
Hallowe’en
We had a really busy Hallowe’en this year. We performed our Hallowe’en songs, accompanied by Mrs. Livingston. We took part in a Hallowe’en parade in school and around our local community.
After lunch we played party games, ‘bobbed’ for apples, pinned the BOO on the ghost, danced and had our Hallowe’en snack. Many thanks to those who managed to join us.
Rights Respecting
Nursery Charter
Our nursery charter has been evolving since August. The elements included reflect the children’s rights and exemplifies their understanding of each of the rights we embed in all aspects of nursery life. As part of the wider school, we are working towards the Rights Respecting Silver Award. In the nursery, we focus on 4 articles from The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. These are; Article 7 – the right to a name, Article 19 – the right to be safe, Article 29 – the right to learn and Article 31 – the right to play.
Please talk to your child about these rights at home.