Burton Manor Primary School Early Years Foundation Stage

Nursery Activities to Support Your Child’s Learning at HomeTopic/Theme: Mini beasts Date: Week Beginning 11/05/2020

Area of Learning

Communication and Language

Physical Development

Personal, Social and Emotional

DevelopmentLiteracy Mathematics Understanding

the WorldExpressive Art

and Design

NurseryActivities

Developing new vocabularyLearn names of minibeast and their body partsDevelop questioningPlay a game where you guess the minibeast from the questions (e.g, what minibeast has eight legs?, is red with black spots)Minibeast story bags – make a story bag or box using a plastic minibeast or one you have made. A leaf, a twig, a cup and a shoe – tell a story as the children pull out the props Make up nonsense rhymes about minibeast

Developing gross motor skills, balance and co-ordination.Cosmic yoga – Stella the stick insect, all about bugs and the hungry caterpillarhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIT-9Nnlvn0

Use lines and circles using gross/large movements.Draw minibeast in the soil or mud with sticks, chalks outside on the ground or pens/pencils on paper on the floor. Make large stretching movements. You can warm up your arms for writing beforehand with exercises. Rotate your shoulders, whole arms, elbows, wrists one way and then the other.

Enjoys responsibility of carrying out small tasks, confident to ask for helpMake and decorate mini beast cakes or biscuits, explore ingredients used and have a go at the different tasks in the method. Ask for help when needed. (see below for recipes and decoration ideas).

Books to share;Look at and listen to stories you have home about minibeast. Books you can watch on you tube.The Bad Tempered LadybirdIncy Wincy SpiderThe Hungry CaterpillarThe Very Noisy CricketThe Very Busy SpiderThe Cautious Caterpillar

Developing pencil controlTrace the mini beast and spider web work sheets (see below). Try and use a tripod grip (three fingers) when holding a pencil.

Matching mini-beasts(See last page below) cut out the minibeasts on one page then print another page to match them. Print out more copies for family members to join in and play minibeast bingo.

Counting a given number from a setminibeast worksheets (see below)

Use shapes for a purposeWith pre-cut shapes from paper make minibeast, use shapes for a purpose (e.g circles for caterpillars body, triangles for wings.)

Go on a mini beast huntGo on a walk for your daily exercise or in your garden. See if you can find the minibeasts on the worksheet. (see below)

Learn about mini beasts and where they liveWatch minibeast videos and talk about what you can see and what you have learnt.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/search?q=insectsAfterwards you can build a bug hotel with recyclable materials or natural items you find outside (e.g, logs, stones, sticks, plant pots, boxes etc)

Make mini beast stonesGo on a walk for your daily exercise or in your garden, look for stones and large pebbles. Paint them to look like minibeasts (see below).If you do not have paint see recipe below.If you cannot find stones you can you recycling materials.(see ideas below)

Make up a danceHave an Ugly Bug Ball – make appropriate head wear for different minibeasts or find fabrics/scarves for wings and dance to the Ugly Bug Ball music

Please continue to look on line for resources to support learning at home. Don’t forget to log in to your Ten Town account and complete maths games on line!

Also look at Hungry Little Minds, a suggested website from the government to support the learning of younger children at home.

Cup cake recipeIngredients 100g self-raising flour 100g caster sugar 100g baking spread 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 eggs

Step 1 - Preheat the oven to 180°C/ 350°F/ gas 4 and place the cases into a muffin tray. Step 2 -Beat together the sugar and baking spread until the mixture is light and fluffy. Step 3 - Add one egg at a time along with a spoonful of flour to stop the mixture from curdling. Mix in the remaining flour

then spoon the cake mixture into the cake cases. Step 4 - Bake in oven for 20 minutes, until the cakes have risen and are lightly golden. You can check they are done by

inserting a wooden toothpick or cocktail stick into the middle. When it is removed it should come out with a few moist crumbs and no wet batter. Remove the cakes from the oven and cool on wire rack.

Biscuit Recipe

50g sugar150g plain flour100g butter

1 Pre-heat the oven to 150c2 Chop the butter into small pieces and rub together with the flour in a mixing bowl until you get small crumbs3 Add the sugar to the bowl and mix it together to make a dough4 Wrap the dough in clingfilm, and place in the fridge for 30 minutes5 Roll out until they are a few centimetres thick and cut out into shapes and place on baking parchment on a baking tray6 Bake in the pre-heated oven for 7-10 minutes - keep checking to make sure they don't overcook, all ovens can be different7 Once cooked, leave to cool on a wire rack