Here is a number song for you to listen to and join in with. It is about potatoes.

Have you got any potatoes at home which you can count? Lie them in a line, on the floor or on a table and count them, like in the song.

When you have counted the potatoes, draw a potato family. One potato, two potato, three potato, four, five potato, six potato, seven potato more. How many more will you draw in your family?

Here is my potato family.

Next add numbers next to the potatoes as you count them and finally colour them in.

Ask your child questions such as:

Which numbered potato is your favourite?

How many potatoes are in the family?

Which potato is the biggest?

Which potato is the smallest?

Which potato is the funniest?

Have fun drawing and decorating your potato family and send us your photos to:

ContactNursery@holbrook.coventry.sch.uk

We loved your amazing work about favourite fruit last week so, today we are going to do our favourite vegetables. Enjoy singing along to this vegetable song first.

Can you ask other members of your family what their favourite vegetables are?

Can you draw them? Listen to the sounds at the beginning of each vegetable and ask an adult to help you write the letter? Can you count how many like each vegetable and write the number with help.

Which vegetable was the most popular?

Which vegetable was the least popular?

Were there any vegetables that had the same number of people liking them?

Send you fantastic work to ContactNursery@holbrook.coventry.sch.uk

Today we are practicing writing our names. Lets get warmed up with singing in the rain.

Here is how we write out letters to help you remember to write them correctly.

Remember to send your wonderful writing to ContactNursery@holbrook.coventry.sch.uk

Today we are listening to rhyming words. Lets start with round and round the garden.

Can you do the actions with someone at home?

Enjoy Jack and Jill, then think about the rhyming words.

Did you here these rhyming words?

Got and trot.

Jill and hill.

Down and crown.

Caper and paper.

Can you think of any works that rhyme with Jill and hill?

Bill, ill, till, fill still.

Vegetable Shape Patterns

Using vegetables, cut into shapes to print a pattern with. Drawing, colouring and naming shapes. Thank you for the videos which children sent.

Healthy or Unhealthy?

Sorting out the healthy food and healthy vegetables from the unhealthy food.

Fitness Fun

Dancing to keep fit and healthy.

Funky Fingers

Thank you also for the videos which showed children doing up their own zips. Super Funky Fingers.

More Beautiful Butterflies

Carefully drawn patterns, using good pencil control. 

Vegetable Shop Role Play

Counting out the correct amount of pennies.

Busy Bees

Fun in the kitchen baking hungry caterpillar cookies, making music playing the guitar and keeping fit on the trampoline too.

Thank you all for sending us your photos. Keep in touch at:

ContactNursery@holbrook.coventry.sch.uk

It is 2:30pm on a Tuesday, Mrs McCarthy’s favourite time of the week – BEST assembly.

In Nursery we love to see how the children are getting on at home, we love to see pictures of the children completing the challenges set on the blog and how they are helping at home and playing – we have lots of different role play areas in school over the year as these are so important for the children’s development and understanding.

To be our BEST Learner of the Week we need to see what the children have been working on at home so if they have done some of the challenges we have set on the blog, been mark making, created a work of art or a junk model or even helped around the house please snap a few pictures on your mobile phone and e-mail it to contactnursery@holbrook.coventry.sch.uk so we can see what the children have been busy doing.

This week we are still learning about keeping happy and healthy, today we are going to play a game that involves different types of beans and some other vegetables.

The children have taken part in this activity in a warm up game in our P.E lessons.

Here we go boys and girl, here is Miss Woodward playing the bean game…

• Runner Bean –  jog on the spot knees up high
• Bean Sprout – Stand on tiptoes and make yourself as tall and thin as possible
• Chilli Bean– Shiver and shake
• Kidney Bean – Bend over and try to touch your toes.
• Broad Bean – Stretch your arms and legs out as wide as you can.
• Peas– Squat down as low as you can
• Cauliflower- Move arms above head and jump together.

That was so fun nursery, hope you enjoyed it!

Keep active.

Send you pictures or videos in to Contactnursery@holbrook.coventry.sch.uk

Today we are going to learn about making a shape pattern using vegetables to help. First take a look at this short video about patterns.

First choose two or three vegetables. You only need a small amount, choose old vegetables if you have them. I used a carrot and a potato. Then ask your grown up to cut them into different shapes for you. I chose a circle, square and triangle.

You will then need three coloured paints to dip the vegetable shapes into. I only have two colours of paint at home, so I mixed them together to make the third colour.

You will then need three coloured paints to dip the vegetable shapes into. I only have two colours of paint at home, so I mixed them together to make the third colour.

Once you have three shapes you are ready to make your pattern. The pattern needs to repeat by shape, so if you only have one colour of paint it doesn’t really matter, it just looks nicer. The learning here, is to know which shape comes next, not which colour, for example, square, triangle, circle, square, triangle etc. Like this:

Explore the different repeating patterns you can make with the shapes, try two shapes, then three shapes again in a different order.

Ask questions such as:

Which shape comes after the triangle?

Which shape comes before the square?

How many circles can you see?

Can you make a new pattern?

We look forward to seeing your shape patterns. Please send them to:

ContactNursery@holbrook.coventry.sch.uk

Today we are sorting healthy vegetables with unhealthy food. Here is a video to remind us of the unhealthy foods. Remember it is OK to have a little treat but not too often. Remember we need to eat five portions of fruit or vegetables a day, a portion fits into the palm of your hand.

Can you sort the food you have at home into health vegetable and unhealthy food?

Which vegetables are your favourite?

When do you have an unhealthy treat?

How many portions of fruit or vegetables should you eat a day?

Today is a funky fingers day so lets get warned up with Happy and you know it.

Today we are using our fingers to practice doing up our own zips. This may be a bit tricky but keep on trying as it is an important skill and will help you be ready for reception.

You will need to use your pinching fingers.