Phonics Choice Challenge – Tuesday 7th July

Date: 7th Jul 2020 @ 8:10am

Good morning Nursery,

We would like you to have a choice of which phonics activity you complete over the next couple of weeks. The children learning in school will be playing some of these games too. If you are still learning at home, play one game every day with an adult.

Over the last year we have been learning how to play games from Phase 1 Phonics and we will continue to play these games through Reception. Keep practicing them so you can remember how to play them when we return to school. (In Reception you will also learn new games in Phase 2 and Phase 3 – they’re so much fun too!)

There are 7 aspects in Phase 1. Today your choice is from Aspect 1 - environmental sounds

Send in a video or some photos of which game you play to

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

From Mrs Ganner

Maths Daily Challenge – Tuesday 7th July

Date: 6th Jul 2020 @ 9:41pm

Good Morning Nursery!

Today we are going to practise forming numbers.

Watch the ‘show me’ video and have a go at forming numbers with me. You will need a pencil and paper!

CLICK HERE TO WATCH TODAY’S SHOW ME.

Your challenge today is to practise forming numbers.

You can write numbers on paper, use chalk on the floor outside, use paint and a paintbrush – you decide!

Don’t forget to say the rhymes to help you remember the formation of the number.

You can find pictures of the numbers below.

Have fun forming numbers! Send your pictures to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Reading Weekly Challenge - week beginning 6th July

Date: 6th Jul 2020 @ 8:51am

Minibeast Clues Game

Sing along to one of our favourite minibeast songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoIeeIEPGJI

Aaargh minibeasts! My house has been invaded by minibeasts.

Watch the video and play along with my minibeast clues game.

https://youtu.be/3WCMX66E2Qo

Send in your photos or videos to

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Have fun creeping and crawling around

From Mrs Ganner

Connected Curriculum: Minibeasts

Date: 5th Jul 2020 @ 9:23pm

How are you going to learn about minibeasts this week?

You can choose how you would like to learn about minibeasts by picking one or more of the challenges below:

1) Story time:

This week’s minibeast story called Norman the slug with the silly shell! Click on the picture below to listen to the story.

Norman is a slug who longs to be a snail – if only he could find a shell A tennis ball… An apple… What will Norman use for his precious shell? 

Can you design a shell for Norman?

Remember to take a photo of your picture and send it to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

2) Cosmic Kids Bug Adventure:

It's all about the BUGS in this compilation of awesome yoga videos! We've got ants 🐜, stick bugs, spiders 🕷 & bees 🐝 all ready to help us enjoy stretching & moving our bodies and looking after our minds as well!

Enjoy listening to the stories and join in with these yoga moves!

3) Snails:

Find out about snails with Jess! Click on the link below:

Andy’s secret hideout:

Andy's accidentally brought back a slimy friend from his latest adventure!

Click on the link below to find out more interesting facts:

4) Move and dance like minibeasts!

Create movements for this Bug n Roll song.

Can you march like ants, buzz like a bee, blink like a firefly and creep like a caterpillar?

6) Let’s get creative!

Have a go at creating your very own moving snail. Watch the clip below to see my moving snail!

You might like to create a pattern to make a paper plate snail or use collage materials to design a funky shell!

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Weekly Vocabulary Challenge

Date: 5th Jul 2020 @ 8:55pm

Weekly Vocabulary Challenge

This week we are looking at the different ways minibeasts move.

Watch this video of Minibeast adventures with Jess.

In the video Jess is looking at all different sorts of bugs, look carefully at how the minibeasts move and think of words to describe their movements.

You may like to use words such as: slither, crawl, flutter, scurry, creep, wiggle, march, flap, stretch or jump.

You might be able to think of other words to describe how they move too!

After the video, take a look at the pictures below and choose your favourite minibeast.

Challenge: Have a go at drawing your favourite bug, then copy the word underneath your picture to say how it moves.

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

🌟Outstanding Home Learner!🌟

Date: 3rd Jul 2020 @ 4:14pm

Well done to this Nursery child who has been very busy at home being kind and helpful to her family!

Well done. You are an 🌟 Outstanding Home Learner!🌟

Yellow Bubble Week 2 Celebration Videos

Date: 3rd Jul 2020 @ 3:28pm

This week we have done so many activities that we had to make one video for each day! The children are really finding their groove and they are full of smiles all day long. I asked if I could just use a few of the photos to make one video and the children were very firm with their answer, ‘NO!’ haha. They wanted to share all of them with you.

What a privilege it is to work with the children in yellow bubble. Thank you for a lovely week everyone. I’ll see you again on Monday for a creepy crawly ‘aargh spider’ kind of week.

From Mrs Ganner

Monday’s Video

Tuesday’s Video

Wednesday’s Video

Thursday’s Video

Playing together in class

Pulling some fancy moves

Learning the whip dance move

So now you know why the children are so tired after a day with their bubble. They’re so busy and they’re having lots of learning fun.

🌟 Superstar Learners 🌟

Date: 3rd Jul 2020 @ 7:58am

We have lots of superstar learners this week!

Nursery Green Bubble have a had an amazing first week back at school. They have been very busy exploring and playing with maths, construction, small world and mark making activities and have created caterpillars and butterflies.

Well done!

Daily Phonics Challenge: Friday 3rd July

Date: 2nd Jul 2020 @ 9:08pm

Daily Phonics Challenge: Friday 3^rd July

Good Morning Nursery!

For today’s segmenting game we are going to dress a baby/teddy.

For this activity you will need a doll or a teddy and some items to dress it (e.g. hat, sock, coat, boot, top etc).

Set out some clothes for the baby/teddy e.g hat, coat, boot, sock, dress, top.

Choose one of the items by using sound talk. E.g. I am going to choose a coat, c-oa-t… coat. I am going to put a b-oo-t on the doll, b-oo-t… boot etc.

This week we have played lots of segmenting games. Which one did you enjoy the most?

Choose your favourite one and play it again today or over the weekend with your family.

Enjoy and have a great weekend!

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Maths Daily Challenge – Friday 3rd July

Date: 2nd Jul 2020 @ 8:56pm

Maths Daily Challenge – Friday 3^rd July

Today we are going to sing the counting rhyme the ants go marching one by one. So get up on your feet and get ready to march and join in with the song!

For today’s game you will need:

• A basket of objects (bricks, toys, buttons etc)
• A tray / table top
• Number cards

To play this game you will need to place your number cards on the table so you can see the numbers.

Close your eyes whilst your grown up places between 1 to 10 objects on a tray/table.

Open your eyes, count how many objects there are on the tray/table by pointing to and saying a number name for each item.

Then find the correct number card to show how many objects there are.

Fantastic!

Place the objects back into the basket and play again!

Enjoy playing this game and have a great day!

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Fun in Nursery Black Bubble!

Date: 2nd Jul 2020 @ 1:21pm

It has been a very exciting first week in Nursery Black Bubble! The children have had a great time exploring their maths, construction, reading, writing and fine motor activities! They have had lots of time to play outside, and found LOTS of butterflies on our scavenger hunt!

Daily Phonics Challenge: Thursday 2nd July

Date: 1st Jul 2020 @ 9:13pm

Phonics: Thursday 2^nd July

Good Morning Nursery!

Today we are going to segment the sounds in words whilst dancing to the ‘beat it’ song we use in our phonics at nursery.

Challenge: Use the pictures below, say the word then segment the sounds whilst doing some funky dancing. Move your arms from side to side whilst you say the sounds in the word.

Watch the video and practise with me first!

Now have a go at today’s challenge using the pictures below.

Click on the link for the ‘beat it’ song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n2l9nuDmTQ

Have fun dancing whilst segmenting sounds!

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Maths Daily Challenge – Thursday 2nd July

Date: 1st Jul 2020 @ 9:06pm

Maths Daily Challenge – Thursday 2^nd July

Good Morning Nursery!

Do you remember this counting song? Enjoy joining in with the actions and singing the song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDnXXgK-OXI

For today’s maths activity you will need your number cards and a basket of ten objects or you can draw some pictures of spiders on paper and put all the pictures in a pot.

Watch today’s video of counting objects then have a go at playing this game at home.

1. Turn over the number cards so they are faced down.
2. Reveal and say the number.
3. Count out objects from your basket or count out spiders from your pot to match the amount shown on the number card.
4. Say how many objects you have and point and say the number on the card. Do you have the correct amount to match the number?
5. Place your objects back into the basket/pot, then reveal another number and repeat the activity.

Have fun playing this game! nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Daily Phonics Challenge: Wednesday 1st July

Date: 30th Jun 2020 @ 8:13pm

Daily Phonics Challenge: Wednesday 1^st July

Good Morning Nursery!

For today’s phonics challenge we are going to segment sounds in words.

Join in with Kung Fu Phonics! Learn the moves and join in with segmenting sounds in words.

Challenge: Can you create Kung Fu moves when you say the sounds in words?

Play some music and create moves to segment the following words:

Pot, sock, cat, bag, pin, sit, net, cup, dog

Have fun creating Kung Fu moves in this game!

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Maths Daily Challenge – Wednesday 1st July

Date: 30th Jun 2020 @ 8:08pm

Maths Daily Challenge – Wednesday 1^st July

Are you ready for today’s Maths learning? Great!

Let’s start by pointing and singing along to this number song.

Click on the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt7-Hcy8JPs&pbjreload=101

Today we are going to create playdough spiders. We are then going to count different amounts of eyes and legs onto our spider and find the numeral to show how many.

For this activity you will need:

• Play dough (see recipe below)
• Eyes (these can be small balls of paper, buttons, googly eyes etc) put the eyes in a pot ready to use.
• Legs (you can use small pipe cleaners, cut up straws, small sticks/twigs, string etc)
• Number cards (from yesterday!)

1. Use dough to create a spider’s body. Use your hand to roll the dough into different sized balls.
2. Count out eyes from the pot and press them on to the dough.
3. Count out legs from the pot and push them in to the dough.
4. Find the number cards to show how many eyes and legs are on your spider.

You can repeat the activity to create spiders with different amounts of eyes and legs!

Well done! Great counting and number recognition!

Send pictures of your dough spiders to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

30th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 30 FINAL DAY

Date: 30th Jun 2020 @ 7:22am

Hello everyone,

Congratulations! You made it to the end of our wild month discovering and caring for wildlife.

I’m going to bring back an old favourite as our last challenge. Let’s dance in the rain!

Enjoy the weather today and I will see you all soon with some activity challenges over on the wellbeing page.

From Mrs Ganner

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Past Challenges photos:

If you have any photos of you in the wild, remember to send them in.

Connected Curriculum: Minibeasts

Date: 29th Jun 2020 @ 8:37pm

How are you going to learn about minibeasts this week?

You can choose how you would like to learn about minibeasts by picking one or more of the challenges below:

1) Story time:

This week’s minibeast story is about a spider! Click on the picture below to listen to the story.

In this story, all Spider wants is to be a family pet. But the family whose house he lives in are terrified of him. Whenever he tries to show them what a great pet he would make, they simply cry, 'Aaaarrgghh, Spider!'.

Would you like a pet spider? What would your spider look like? What would you like to see it do?

Draw a picture to show of your pet spider, can you give your spider a name?

Remember to take a photo of your picture and send it to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

2) Spiders:

Enjoy finding out about different sorts of spiders in Andy's Secret Hideout, play along with this fun interactive episode and find out more!

3) Get squiggling: Meet Selma the Spider and see where she lives. Can you draw Selma's web with Squiglet?

Now see if you can draw Selma the spider next to her web!

Don’t forget to take a photo of your picture and send it to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

4) Story and Song time

Enjoy listening to this Incy Wincy Spider story and join in with singing the nursery rhyme Incy Wincy Spider!

You can also listen to this story too: Floella meets Incy Wincy Spider and finds out why he likes climbing up the water spout!

5) Move and dance

Dance along to this classic nursery rhyme with a modern twist!

Can you move your arms and legs like a spider? How does your spider move?

6) Let’s get creative!

Have a go at creating your very own moving spider, click on the picture below:

Or you might like to create a creepy-crawly egg carton spider with this creative activity, click on the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnQw2OJ2UfA

You can always create your own spiders by drawing, painting or printing with your hand, you decide!

Don’t forget to sent photos of your creations to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Daily Phonics challenge: Tuesday 30th June

Date: 29th Jun 2020 @ 8:25pm

Daily Phonics challenge: Tuesday 30^th June

Today’s segmenting game is called Metal Mike!

Watch the video and join in with segmenting the sounds for the words Metal Mike says.

Challenge: Draw a picture of Metal Mike.

Then play the game. Metal Mike will tell you a word, or you can choose a word from the pictures below then move your arms like a robot when you segment the sounds in the word.

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Maths Daily Challenge – Tuesday 30th June

Date: 29th Jun 2020 @ 8:22pm

Maths Daily Challenge – Tuesday 30^th June

Hi Nursery!

Let’s start our Maths learning today by counting our fingers and toes. Click on the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_lgJgBbqWE

Today you will need to make some number cards and count out 10 bricks.

1. Use the bricks to create a model (you don’t have to use all 10)
2. Count the amount of bricks you have used, by pointing to each one saying a number name for each brick.
3. Find the number to show how many bricks you have used and put it next to your model.
4. Repeat the activity, by counting out another 10 bricks.

Take a look at the models I have made:

What models can you make with your bricks?

How many bricks did you use?

Can you find the correct numeral to show the amount of bricks you have used?

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

29th June, 2020. Today's challenges -Reading Challenge and Vocabulary Challenge

Date: 29th Jun 2020 @ 7:52am

Hello Nursery,

For those of you still learning at home here are some challenges for you to do this week.

Vocabulary Weekly Challenge

This week we are going to meet Goz. He is going to learn about what we call animals when they are babies and when they grow up. They change from one thing to another. Isn’t that amazing!

Reading Weekly Challenge

Can you remember meeting Bear? This week we are going to learn about the things that he does to be kind. Then you need to be kind to your grownups and they can take photos of you.

Watch the video and say a list of 5 ways Bear is kind.

Have fun with your grownups

Mrs Ganner and Miss Heritage

29th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 29

Date: 29th Jun 2020 @ 7:47am

Hello everyone,

We’re nearly at the end of our wild month. Today will be the perfect day for getting out in your wellies and lifting up a log to see what is underneath. There should be lots to see.

Have a marvellous Monday

From Mrs Ganner

Send photos of your sketches to my home learning email please:

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Past Challenges photos:

If you have photos of you in the wild, remember to send them in.

Daily Phonics challenge: Monday 29th June

Date: 28th Jun 2020 @ 8:01pm

Daily Phonics challenge: Monday 29^th June

Good Morning Nursery!

Last week we completed lots of oral blending games. This week we are going to segment sounds in words and play some segmenting games and activities.

Today’s challenge is to have a go at this blending and segmenting game. Listen and blend the sounds together and see if you can find the animal!

Click on this link to play the game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNtBfQm3Fuc

Have fun playing this game. nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Maths Daily Challenge – Monday 29th June

Date: 28th Jun 2020 @ 7:49pm

Hi Nursery, I hope you have had a lovely weekend and are ready for some exciting learning this week!

This week for our Maths learning we are going to be counting out objects from a larger group and select numerals to represent amounts of objects. Each day there will be a new game or activity for you practise these skills.

Let’s start our learning today by singing the number song ‘Five little spiders’. Click on the link below and join in with the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=44&v=fwoEVBXUcZw&feature=emb_logo

For today’s challenge we are going to create spiders!

To do this ask a grown up to help you cut out circles of paper/card and write a numeral in the middle of each one.

Then you will need to collect plenty of pegs.

Challenge: Say the number that is written on the spider and count out that amount of pegs. Clip them on to create the spiders legs.

Remember to look carefully and say the numeral and count out the pegs one at a time from the larger group.

Enjoy creating lots of numbered spiders! nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

🌟Outstanding Home Learners!🌟

Date: 26th Jun 2020 @ 9:26am

LET’S CELEBRATE!

Well done to all our Outstanding Home Learners this week.

🌟You are all superstars!🌟

Thank you for sending your photographs and videos to us. We love your seeing fabulous learning, it makes us feel very proud!

We are looking forward to seeing some of you next week in our small bubbles. For those of you who will be continuing with your home learning keep looking on our Nursery blog for more activities and challenges!

We hope you have a lovely weekend

From Miss Heritage and Mrs Ganner

26th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 26

Date: 26th Jun 2020 @ 6:57am

Hello Ravensbury wildlife lovers,

The end of another week and it’s going to be a little cooler today. It was so hot yesterday again! I think the ducks will be happy with the rain later.

Today’s challenge is to use your ears as the sun sets tonight. Listen for the wildlife concert that is played in your back garden every evening. You could record it and email the concert to me.

Have a wonderful, sunny and safe Thursday.

From Mrs Ganner

Send photos to my home learning email please:

nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk

Weekend challenges:

If you would like to keep going through the weekend, here are your challenges. Challenge number 27 is to sit with a friend in nature (remember to keep a safe distance) and number 28 asks you to build a den: