We’d love to know what books you have been reading at home. One of my son’s favourite bedtime story was Calm Down Boris. He is a monster who always gets into trouble but ends up being the hero of the day.

Today we are finding the writing you read on a page.

Can you point to the picture?

Can you point to the writing we read?

Where do you start reading? (At the top on the left.)

Can you point to the words moving from left to right?

If you have more than one line start at the top and then go underneath.

Send us photo’s of your favourite books to Contact Nursery@holbrook.coventry,sch.uk

Thank you to our children who have sent us pictures of their incredible work today.

Counting Teeth

You are all being very imaginative in your ideas for learning. Keep up the good work.

Healthy Teeth

Fantastic learning about healthy and unhealthy food and drink for your teeth. We hope you are remembering to brush your teeth carefully too. Well done everyone.

Funky Fingers

A good way to help you ‘pinchy pinchy’ and read your numbers. Fantastic!

Ten in the Bed

Joining in with the rhyme and the counting. We hope you know how to work out one less now.

Name Writing

You are trying so hard with your writing children. It will help you to use your name card everyday to copy from. Remember, only use the capital letter for the first letter at the start of your name.

Keeping Busy

Thank you for sharing pictures of your children’s independent learning too. Whatever your children are doing to keep busy we would love to know. Please send us your pictures and keep in touch.

Tell your Holbrook nursery friends about our blog too and ask them to send their photos to us:

ContactNursery@holbrook.coventry.sch.uk

This is a fun number and creative activity. You can get busy making and learning your numbers at the same time.

First of all you need to make a big, pink tongue. You could paint it or make a collage with bits of paper and glue, or you might have different craft materials you could use.

Next you need to make some big teeth to go around the outside of the tongue. Egg boxes which have been cut up are perfect, or little yogurt pots. If not, big pieces of paper cut into the shape of teeth will work instead.

Make enough teeth to challenge your child and number them clearly with big digits. Then place them in order around the tongue from smallest to largest.

Ask your child to count the teeth, starting at number one and touching each one as they count them.

Continue by asking your child questions such as:

Can you find number two?

Where is number seven?

Which number comes after number four?

What is one more than eight?

Which number comes before two?

What is one less than six?

Make sure your child shows you the correct tooth each time.

Repeat the activity with different questions. Add more teeth (maximum of twenty) once your child is confident with the numbers, to make it more challenging for them. Have fun!

Please send us your pictures to:

ContactNursery@holbrook.coventry.sch.uk

Today we are listening to the story ‘We’re going on a Bear hunt’. The story we have chosen today to read is by the author Michael Rosen.

Join in with the bits you know.

Who was in the story?

Where did they go?

What was your favourite part of the story?

Was there anything you didn’t like in the story?

Today we are learning about what food and drink is good and bad for our teeth.

Can you find a variety of food and drinks that are good and bad for your teeth?

Can you sort the things that are good for your teeth? (The green smiley face.)

Can you sort the things that are bad for your teeth? (The red sad face.)

Remember sugary foods and drinks are bad for our teeth. Milk will make our teeth stronger and water will keep them clean.

Sugary foods stick to our teeth and will make them unhealthy. It is nice to have a treat but best to have it after we have eaten a meal or before we brush our teeth.

Remember to send in your photos of healthy and unhealthy food to ContactNursery@holbrook.coventry.sch.uk

Enjoy this last song to help you remember to eat healthily.

Today we are getting our fingers moving with our funky fingers activity. Lets get warmed up first.

Today you will need the mouth shape you have made for Number and plenty of clothes pegs. Remember to use a pinch to clip the pegs on.

How many pegs can you peg on in a minute?

(Comment below how many pegs you managed to get on. Lets see who got the most.)

Keep practicing are you getting quicker?

In nursery we have a lot of favourite stories. This P.E lesson we thought that we could bring the story to life with our bodies. One of our favourite story is we’re going on a bear hunt. We would like the children to move their bodies in different ways to create this story.

Before we start our P.E lessons we always talk about how it is important to get our muscles warmed up for our exercises. This storytelling involves lots of stretching and bending, so we need to WARM UP! We sometimes use music to get ourselves warmed up in our P.E sessions. Today we will use this song and get active!

Now we are all warmed up, lets tell our story. Join in with all the actions and key phrases.

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Well done, to our Wednesday workers. To finish off Wonderful Wednesday, join in with Mr Gould’s daily challenge at the bottom of the page.

Keeping Active

Goalllllllll!

Writing Skills

Such careful letter writing and beautifully decorated names too.

Ten in the Bed

Well done for using your toys to count with. We hope you enjoyed the rhyme to help you learn how to count backwards.

Cleaning Teeth

We hope you are all brushing your teeth well and taking good care of them.

Clap-ping Col-ours

Clapping the names of the colours. Which is your favourite colour? How many claps are in that colour name?

Each day Mr Gould organises a daily challenge for staff and children throughout the school to take part in.

We thought it would be a nice idea for nursery to join in with this one, as we are very good at ‘being kind’ to each other.

By showing your kindness to your family you could:-
– Give a cuddle to someone in your house.
– Take turns in a game with your siblings or parents.
– Help with some of the jobs at home (tidy your toys away.)
– Share a story.

Send us your kindness pictures.

Thank you to all of our parents who have been sending us emails. Tell your Holbrook nursery friends about the blog and ask them to try the activities too. We would love to hear from all of our families.

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Here is a song that will help you with counting backwards and with learning about one less. Listen to the song and join in with the counting.

Once you have enjoyed listening to the song a few times, find some teddies and toys to act out the song with.

Make a bed for them and roll the toys and teddies over, making one fall onto the floor each time.

When a toy or teddy falls onto the floor, count how many are left in the bed.

Have fun and please send us your pictures to:

ContactNursery@holbrook.coventry.sch.uk

Today we are practicing writing our names or some of the letters from our names.

Can you make your name really colourful?

Can you add a bumpy line to decorate your name?

We would love to see how your are improving so take a photo and email it to:- ContactNursery@holbrook.coventry.sch.uk