Nursery: Blog items
Date: 22nd Jun 2020 @ 5:58am
Hi Nursery! Are you ready for some more exciting activities and challenges this week? Fantastic! Try to complete one of each of these this week.
Connected Curriculum Weekly Challenge
This week we are looking at a story called ‘The Crunching Munching Caterpillar’. You can watch the video of the story, draw pictures of caterpillars and butterflies, sing and dance to caterpillar and butterfly music or be creative! You choose how you want to learn about minibeasts by picking one or more of the challenges.
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Vocabulary Challenge
We are going to make and use a butterfly spin wheel to talk about and describe what we can see.
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Reading Weekly Challenge
This week, we are going to look at a non-fiction book called ‘Butterfly’. We look at the pictures and find out some interesting information and facts about butterflies. We will then create a little booklet to draw and label the changes that happen to the caterpillar.
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Home Learning Weekly Challenge
PLEASE send any photos or videos of the challenges you complete at home to me by Friday and I’ll put them all up on the blog for you to share with your friends. We love seeing all the fantastic work you do at home so make sure you send your learning to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
I will also be posting daily Phonics and Maths challenges for you to complete.
Phonics Daily Challenges
This week in phonics we are going to be practising our oral blending skills. Each day there will be a new game for you to join in and play with your grown up!
Maths Daily Challenges
For our Maths learning this week we will be practising our counting skills by counting out objects saying a number name for each item. Each day there will be a new game or activity for you practise these skills.
We have lots of fun learning to do this week at home. I am very excited, I hope you are too!
From Miss Heritage
🌟 Outstanding Home Learners! 🌟
Date: 19th Jun 2020 @ 1:02pm
Let’s take a look at this week’s Outstanding Home Learners!
🌟You are both SUPERSTARS!🌟
This Nursery child has been busy drawing and describing the different parts of a ladybird and has created a super Father’s Day card for her Daddy. Well done!
This Nursery child has been using alliteration in Phonics and using positional words in Maths to create a train! Fantastic work!
Remember we love seeing all the super learning you do at home, so make sure you keep sending photos and videos to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
See you next week
Miss Heritage
Date: 19th Jun 2020 @ 12:28pm
Hi Nursery, it’s story time!
As promised, here is a story for you to listen to before you go bed tonight!
It’s a story about two bears and it is called ‘I love you Daddy’.
It is Father’s Day on Sunday. There is still time for you to make your card and have it ready to give to your Daddy with a great big HUG! Remember you can also make a card for another special person in your family too!
Have a lovely weekend and I will see you here again next week!
From Miss Heritage
19th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 19
Date: 19th Jun 2020 @ 8:53am
Hello Wildlife Wardens of Ravensbury!
We’ve reached the end of another week getting out in the wild. We have such a lot of beauty in our world. Remember that when you see something in the wild.
Today’s challenge is to draw a wildflower. My sister-in-law and brother-in-law have lived in lots of amazing places around the world. Some of the photos at the bottom are from places as far away as Saudi Arabia and some are from my local woods. Can you find a wildflower and draw it?
Have a fun filled day
From Mrs Ganner
Send photos into my home learning email please:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Weekend Challenges:
If you want to keep in touch with nature over the weekend why not try our day 20 and day 21 challenges? Get up early to watch sunrise and then wait for the sun to set at the end of the day. I’d love to see your photos.
Phonics and Maths Daily Challenge - Friday 19th June
Date: 19th Jun 2020 @ 6:28am
Good Morning Nursery!
To complete ‘Toby the terrific train’ we are going to create our final carriage for our last passenger. When you have made your train, send in a video or photos of you using alliteration and positional words to describe your passengers and where they are sat. I will then be able to look at your amazing work!
Are you ready? “All aboard, lets’ go! Toot, toot!”
Watch the video of me showing you our final passenger. Can you describe where he is sat?
Phonics: Which words did I use to describe today’s passenger? Can you think of more alliteration to talk about duck?
Maths: Where is today’s passenger sitting? Can you use positional words to describe where he is sat? Where is your duck going to sit on your train?
Challenge: Draw the final carriage of your train. Can you use alliteration to describe a duck and use positional words to describe where he is sat?
Let’s take a look at ‘Toby the terrific train.’ Can you talk about your train with your grown up, by using alliteration to describe the passengers and positional words to describe where they are sat?
I have attached all of the videos I made when I created my train so you can see all of them in one place. If you haven’t made your train yet then follow the step by step videos and you can create one today. Then send photos of your train to me and I will put them on our celebration blog later today!
I can’t wait to see your ‘terrific trains!’
Miss Heritage
Date: 18th Jun 2020 @ 1:37pm
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Hi Nursery!
Please send in any photographs of your home learning to me today so I can put them on our celebration blog tomorrow!
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
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Thank you
Miss Heritage
18th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 18 🤔
Date: 18th Jun 2020 @ 7:23am
Good Morning once again Ravensbury!
Time really is flying. We are over half way through our wild month enjoying our time learning about and enjoying nature.
Today’s challenge is about sticks! Your challenge is to find a stick. What can you pretend your stick is? Will it be a wand? Can you turn it into a pencil and write in the mud with it? Let your imagination GO WILD!
Have a fun filled day
From Mrs Ganner
Send photos into my home learning email please:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Photos of past challenges:
Here are more photos from one of our wonderful wildlife wardens who spent the day yesterday chasing rainbows. Thank you for taking part again and making us smile
Phonics and Maths Daily Challenge - Thursday 18th June
Date: 18th Jun 2020 @ 6:37am
Good Morning Nursery!
I wonder who will be joining our train today? So far we have a slippery, slimy, scaly snake and a loud, laughing, lazy lion. Which animal will be next?
Don’t forget to send pictures of your wonderful work to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk for all your friends to see in our celebration post tomorrow!
Watch the video of me using alliteration to describe the animal joining our train today.
Phonics: Use alliteration to describe today’s passenger – tiger. What words can you think of beginning with the initial sound t?
Maths: Use positional language to describe where tiger is going to sit on the train.
Challenge: Draw the third carriage for your train. I drew a tiger sitting under the carriage. You can make up alliteration for tiger using words with the initial sound ‘t’ and use positional words to describe where he is sat.
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
17th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 17 🌈
Date: 17th Jun 2020 @ 7:43am
Hope today will be a Wild Wednesday Ravensbury! I bet the ducks enjoyed yesterday’s weather. It was tremendous to watch!
Today’s challenge is to see if you can race to find the colours of the rainbow before you get wet in the rain! Maybe you’ll find an orange flower and green grass? These are the colours you are looking for and remember to send in your photos:
violet indigo blue green yellow orange red
If you see a rainbow send in a photo too.
Have a Wonderful Wednesday
From Mrs Ganner
Send photos into my home learning email please:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Photos of past challenges:
Yesterday I discovered that a squirrel’s front teeth never stop growing. Squirrels must gnaw to keep their teeth at the right length. What did you find out?
I also hear this beautiful birdsong every night at tea time. Does anyone know what bird is singing?
Phonics and Maths Daily Challenge - Wednesday 17th June
Date: 17th Jun 2020 @ 6:05am
Good Morning!
Now we are going to find out which animal will be next to join our train. They will be on carriage number 2!
Watch the video and see if you can guess which animal it is.
Phonics: Can you use alliteration to think of words to describe lion?
Maths: Use positional language to describe where lion is sat on the train.
Challenge: Draw the second carriage for your train. I drew a loud laughing lion sat next to the train. You can make up alliteration for lion and use positional words to describe where he is sat.
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 17th Jun 2020 @ 5:49am
Last week, Mrs Ganner showed you key words to describe the different body parts of minibeasts. Can you remember some of the words you used? Don’t worry if you have forgotten, I have attached a copy of the key words we used below.
Look at this picture of a ladybird.
Can you use the key vocabulary words to describe the body parts you can see?
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Amazing!
Now watch today’s show me clip. We are going to draw a picture of a ladybird and use the key word cards to describe the different parts.
Click on the picture to watch today’s clip
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Challenge: Can you draw a picture of a ladybird and describe it using our key words?
Send your photos to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
16th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 16 💻🦢🐾🕷🦆
Date: 16th Jun 2020 @ 7:36am
Happy Tuesday Ravensbury!
I hope you are well and you managed to get out yesterday before the thunderstorms. It’s a bit cooler today but hopefully we’ll have some sunshine later.
You can see my butterfly buffet challenge at the bottom. The butterflies didn’t come but there were a couple of visitors and this morning half of the peach I put out had gone! I wonder who enjoyed it. What do you think?
Today your challenge is to go outside, find some wildlife and then google facts about them. What’s the most interesting fact you can find? Write down your answers and send a photo or send a short video in telling us what you’ve discovered about our wild friends outside.
Have a terrific Tuesday
From Mrs Ganner
Send photos into my home learning email please:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Photos of past challenges:
Here are a couple of visitors to my garden. Someone has half a peach tucked away for a treat later!
Phonics and Maths Daily Challenge - Tuesday 16th June
Date: 16th Jun 2020 @ 5:45am
Good Morning Nursery.
Today we are going to continue creating our train by making a carriage for a passenger!
Can you guess which animal is going to join the train? I wonder where he will sit?
Watch the video of me showing you my first passenger for the train.
Phonics: Can you use alliteration to make up words to describe our first passenger? Remember alliteration is words that start with the same initial sound.
Maths: Use positional words to describe where your snake is sat.
Challenge: Draw the first carriage for your train. I drew a slippery, slimy, scaly snake sat on top of the train. Can you make up alliteration for a snake and use positional words to describe where he is sat?
Send a photo in to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 16th Jun 2020 @ 5:38am
This week Peppa Pig is going to tell us about her Daddy and share with us some of the things that make him special. Watch the video of me reading the story then create a ‘Father’s Day’ card. My card is at the bottom.
- Think of the things that make your Daddy Special. What does your Daddy like? What special things do you enjoy doing with your Daddy? Draw, paint or create a special picture for your Daddy.
- Copy the words from my card, ‘Happy Father’s Day’
- Write a special message to your Daddy inside your card. Copy my words or ask a grown up to write the words for you, then have a go at writing your name.
If you would like to make a special card for another member of your family, that is fine too!
Keep your Father’s Day card in a safe, ready for a surprise on Sunday!
Send your photos in to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
15th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 15 🦋
Date: 15th Jun 2020 @ 8:26am
Good morning Ravensbury!
Welcome to week 3 of our Summer Term and the beginning of our third week going wild. Did you manage to find something wild over the weekend?
I went to our local woods with my family and I hugged a tree. It made me smile, as you can see in the photo at the bottom. Send in your photos if anything you got up to over the weekend.
Today we are going to help our fluttery friends by giving them a treat. See what visits your garden when you put out a sugary buffet for the wildlife. I'm hoping I get some butterflies.
From Mrs Ganner
Send photos into my home learning email please:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Photos of past challenges:
Thank you to the lovely children in these photos for completing the hug-a-tree challenge. I think there was some hug-my-family too! Plus take a look at some of our children in school, enjoying going wild at break time. Great big smiles from everyone.
Phonics and Maths Daily Challenge - Monday 15th June
Date: 15th Jun 2020 @ 6:21am
Hi Nursery!
Over the next few days we are going to create a train by using alliteration and positional words.
You can send in your photos of one part or the whole train if you complete every activity.
We are going to start today, by looking at the book ‘Hippo has a hat’ by Julia Donaldson. We are going to listen out for alliteration in the story and look at where objects are by using positional words.
Watch the video of me reading ‘Hippo Has a Hat.’
Phonics: Listen out for words starting with the same initial sound e.g. Hippo has a hat. Can you make up alliteration for other animals in the story? (e.g. camel’s colourful coat)
Maths: Listen out for Miss Heritage describing the position of objects. Can you create actions for: on top, under, behind, next to, inside, in front.
Fantastic!
Now this week we are going to create a train.
Challenge: Make the engine of your train by watching the second video ‘Toby train.’
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Connected Curriculum Weekly Challenge
Date: 15th Jun 2020 @ 5:51am
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 ladybird. Click on the picture below to listen to the story.
After the story, draw a picture of a ladybird - how many spots will your ladybird have? Don’t forget to take a photo of your picture and send it to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
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2) Dress up and move like a minibeast:
Which minibeast are you going to be? Dress up in some bright clothes or the colour of your favourite minibeast (e.g. red t-shirt for a ladybird. Find some props (scalves, fabric etc) to add to your costume or create a minibeast mask – see examples below.
Now you can pretend to be a minibeast! How does your minibeast move? What actions can you make in order to move like your bug? Does your bug fly, crawl or even jump? Don’t forget to take a photo of you dressed up as a minibeast and send it to us!
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3) Song time:
Join in with singing a song about 5 Little Ladybugs. How many ladybirds can you count?
Click on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFypgjYXfCA
4) Be creative:
This week’s story was about a ladybird. Can you create a ladybird too? Take a look at some of the creative activities below and create your very own ladybird!
5) Explore:
Look out for ladybirds. Keep your eyes peeled for their bright, shiny bodies. How many spots can you count?
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nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 15th Jun 2020 @ 5:48am
Hi Nursery! It’s Miss Heritage here.
I am happy to be back with you on the blog this week for some more exciting activities and challenges! Try to complete one of each of these this week.
Connected Curriculum Weekly Challenge
To continue our minibeast topic, we are going to look at a story called ‘The very lazy ladybird’. You can watch the video, create pictures, dress up or explore. You choose how you want to learn about minibeasts by picking one or more of the challenges.
Vocabulary Challenge
We are going to use the key vocabulary of minibeasts body parts to draw and label a ladybird.
Reading Weekly Challenge
We are going to be reading a Peppa Pig story this week called ‘My Daddy’.
It is Father’s Day on Sunday so you are going to think about what makes your Daddy special. Then we are going to make a Father’s Day card for you to give to your Daddy as a surprise (ssshhhh! Don’t say a word!)
I will also read a special story to you at the end of the week called ‘I Love You Daddy’.
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Home Learning Weekly Challenge
Send any photos or videos of the challenges you complete at home to me by Friday and I’ll put them all up on the blog for you to share with your friends. We love seeing all the fantastic work you do at home so make sure you send your learning to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
I will also be posting daily Phonics and Maths challenges for you to complete.
Phonics Daily Challenges
This week in phonics we are going to be learning about alliteration. We will look at the book ‘Hippo Has a Hat’ by Julia Donaldson and create ‘Toby the terrific train’.
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Maths Daily Challenges
In maths we are going to be learning to use positional words to describe the position of objects. We are going to describe the position of our passengers on ‘Toby the terrific train.’
We have lots of fun learning to do this week at home. I am very excited, I hope you are too!
From Miss Heritage
Date: 12th Jun 2020 @ 7:35pm
Well, what can I say? The home learning this week has been amazing, outstanding, fabulous, marvellous, incredible, wonderful...Well, I think you get the picture.
We've had lots and lots of photos of the minibeasts you've found and so many of you have created your very own number rhyming book. I'm flabbergasted at how well you did. Thank you for finishing off this week in style.
You really are Outstanding Learners!
Three of our authors have sent in videos so settle down and enjoy these bedtime stories read out to you by your friends in Nursery. I'm sure you'll agree with me that these children are awesome authors. Look out Julia Donaldson!
From now on Miss Heritage will be doing our blog because I'm going to be teaching some of the children in school but I'll still be on the blog to read you some stories.
Stay Safe, Have Fun, Be Kind.
From Mrs Ganner
Phonics and Maths Daily Challenge - Friday 12th June
Date: 12th Jun 2020 @ 8:29am
Phonics and Maths Daily Challenge - Friday
For our last page of ‘One Mole Digging a Hole’ we are going to look at page 4. When you have made your book send in a video of you reading it or some photos so I can see your awesome work.
Watch the video of me reading page 4. There’s a problem today!
Phonics: What two words rhyme on this page? Can you think of any more words that rhyme with them? This rhyming string is too tricky to draw pictures for because the words are not real words. For this page choose any animal and rhyming word like cat, hat or dog, log or rat, mat.
Maths: Remember to draw 4 of your animal and 4 objects.
Challenge: Draw page 4 for your book and send your photos in to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
I’ve attached all of the videos I made when I created my book so you can see all of them in one place. If you haven’t made your book yet then follow the step by step videos and you can create one today. Then send a video or photos and I’ll put them on our celebration blog!
I can’t wait to read your books!
From Mrs Ganner
12th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 12 🌳
Date: 12th Jun 2020 @ 8:02am
Hello again!
I wonder who will go wild today to find their nearest tree. Will there be a mass of Y5 wildlife wardens invading Clayton green spaces to hug a tree or will it be Year 2 that aces this challenge? I look forward to finding out.
I’m going to look for a really old tree. Make up your own challenges over the weekend and discover what is outside your door then send the photos in to me.
From Mrs Ganner
Send photos into my home learning email please:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Photos of past challenges:
More EYFS ‘Wonderful Wildlife Wardens’ sent in some stunning photos of the wildlife they’d discovered in their gardens over the past couple of days. Did you know there was a big hotel open near you?
Date: 11th Jun 2020 @ 2:10pm
This message just came in to the nursery home learning email and it really made me smile. I hope you do too 😁
Watch the video
Phonics and Maths Daily Challenge - Thursday 11th June
Date: 11th Jun 2020 @ 7:59am
Good morning Nursery,
What’s the next page we are going to look at? Yes, it’s page 3 because number 3 comes after number 2. We are very close to the end of the week so remember to send in your photos so I can make a video of your fabulous learning.
Watch the video of me reading page 3 and talking about how I made my page 3.
Phonics: What two words rhyme? Create a rhyming string and draw pictures for your page.
Maths: Use your counting skills to check how many you need to draw and then practice writing the number 3.
Challenge: Draw page 3 for your book. Will it be completely different like mine - Three bees sipping cups of tea? Or will the 3 Bears sit on 3 chairs or go to 3 funfairs? You choose because it's your book.
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
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11th June #30DaysWild - Challenge 11 🐚🍀
Date: 11th Jun 2020 @ 7:44am
Good morning Ravensbury!
If you’re wild enough to accept the challenge then here is what you can do today:
Channel your inner Captain Jack Sparrow or Captain Pugwash (ask your parents and grandparents who this is) to find a hoard of treasure on your latest walk on the wild side. Collect anything you find and keep it in a treasure box. Remember to wash your hands when you come home.
Bonus joke of the day:
Why are pirates called pirates?
Because they arrrrrrrrr
From Mrs Ganner
Send photos into my home learning email please:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Photos of past challenges:
More ‘Wonderful Wildlife Wardens’ have been spending time in nature and discovering new and interesting things around them. Aisha sent this beautiful blue sky photo in from our blue challenge yesterday and we have some young explorers that are fascinated by their upclose encounters with minibeasts.
Date: 10th Jun 2020 @ 9:54am
Well done if you have been playing NUMBOTS. These games will really help keep your maths skills on top form. Here’s who’s been playing:
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Ott E-101, Jay Milliplex Bolt Numberclone Vesper Sigma-1 Trance Petastar
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Gold Aeroplex Tiny Earthtron Merigold Digitar Sparky Hydra-2.1 Junk Stellatronic Z.O.E Autopod Joy Stellastar Krypton Aqualon Stone Ultramorph
If you haven’t got your child’s log in send a request to