Learning Project Week Beginning 22nd June Nursery

Age Range: Early Years Foundation Stage Topic: We’re going on Safari Story: Rumble in the Jungle

Weekly Maths Tasks Weekly Reading Tasks • Make your own maths counting game to 20.

Draw a snake number track, as large and long as

will fit on your paper, tracing or writing numbers

to 20 which should be evenly spaced out. Use a

dice or a cut up number cards 1-6 to be selected

at random. Make a small card animal for each

player. Take it in turns to roll the dice or take a

number and count the right number of steps

along the snake. The first one to get to the

number 20 is the winner.

• Link counting to actions, child moves around the

room, when adult says the animal name and holds

the number card up. Child stops and acts out:

Monkey - five jumps

Elephant – four stomping steps

Lion – three roars

Snake – two slides (to one side of the room then

the other on their belly)

Giraffe – One massive stretch up high

• https://youtu.be/Y4927Uw_V0c

• https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-

reading/have-some-fun/storybooks-and-

games/rumble-in-the-jungle/

• Both of the above links are to our story of the

week which contains a little rhyme about

each animal in the jungle. The first link is with

sign language.

• Choose your child’s favourite animal in the story

and attempt together to learn off by heart one of

the rhymes. Miss Power is going to learn the

giraffe rhyme – put it on tapestry if you can say it

all the way through!

• Watch Miss Brough read “Dear Zoo” when it is

uploaded to Tapestry later in the week.

• Watch Mrs Partridge’s story already on Tapestry

– I DON’T WANT TO WASH MY HANDS.

Weekly Phonics Tasks Weekly Writing Tasks

• See “I Spy” for the Jungle animals below. Stress the

initial sound in each word as you say it, show the

letter of the alphabet from the grid below.

• Clap syllables in words that are jungle animal

names ie. Mon-key or el-e-phant or gir-affe.croc-o-

dile. Which has the most claps? Use the pictures

below as prompts.

• It was Father’s Day at the weekend – make a list of

all the good things about a daddy or grandad or

favourite uncle and draw a special picture to go

with it.

• Make a fact sheet together – your child can draw

the picture and adults can write facts about a

jungle animal, how much do you know? Research it

Learning is fun – To be completed throughout the week

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/storybooks-and-games/jungle-picture-

maker/

This is a nice creative task where your child can make their own jungle picture on a tablet or laptop.

Most of you have playdoh at home or can download a recipe to make some. Make a 3D jungle animal from the story with the dough and ask a grown up if they can guess what animal you have made. 21st June is World Music Day – choose a favourite piece of music and make up a jungle dance to it together.

Additional learning resources we recommend parents engage with

https://www.relaxkids.com/calm-pack

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/home-learning-hub

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games

https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/fundraising/design-a-duck-g/

https://ican.org.uk/i-cans-talking-point/parents/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p05n0krs

Word of the week in Nursery

Tall

Read the story to your child.

Concept Cat is a clever cat, she looks here, she looks there,

learning as she goes and when she comes home she tells us a story.

This story is about tall Listen out for the word tall. Put your

thumb up every time you hear it.

One day, Concept Cat is at home. She wants to get a box which is

on top of the tall cupboard. She tries to reach but she is not tall.

Her friend frog comes over bus he cannot reach because he is not

tall. Her friend lamb comes over but she cannot reach because she

is not tall. The giraffe comes over. She can reach because she is

tall.

Concept cat is not tall. Frog is not tall. Lamb is not tall. Giraffe is

tall.

Concept cat is a clever cat, she knows what tall is.

Concept Cat has learnt all about “tall”.

Read out the names of the babies and their parent to your child.

Look at the photos below – can they find each pair? Talk about and

describe what you both can see.

This is the phonics activity as mentioned above. Use the letter

sounds below to help see the letter, then hear the letter.

If your child likes art and would like to enter a competition

designing a badge for special helpers, details are here below.

Search for #PinYourThanks for full details of the competition.