Today’s Learning - 

• Hello song, days of the week song and Introduction for the week with Mrs Parsons
• Nursery rhyme - I can sing a rainbow 🌈 
• Phonics - Colour Monster read by Mrs Parsons 
• Maths - Counting with Cheerios with Mrs Swaine
• Topic - Making Play-Doh - following a recipe with Mrs Swaine
• Story time with Mrs Swaine

Other activities can be found here!
 

Rhyme of the Week: I can sing a rainbow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLpEGM34Fic

Phonics - Colour Monster

This week is called feeling good week. Today I thought we would start off with one of my favourite stories called the Colour Monster.  It is really important that we talk about our feelings and we can tell a trusted adult (home or school) or sibling how we feel.  All feelings are okay. 
 

Activity - Have a think about things that make you happy. 

• Can you draw a picture of what makes you happy?  
• Have a think and talk about your ideas with a grown-up.  

Maths

Today we are going to use the play dough in maths and practise our counting skills.

You will need:

• Play dough
• Pasta
• Cherrios 
•  Numbers written on paper 

What you need to do:

• Make a small ball with your pasta.
• Place your pasta into the play dough.
• Next pick a number and count out that many Cheerios and then thread them onto the pasta.
• Be careful not to snap the pasta!
• Can you see which pasta has more or less Cherrios?
   

Topic

Today in topic, we are going to be making play dough and following instructions

You will need

• 1 cup of flour
• 3/4 cup of water
• 1/4 cup of salt
• 3 tablespoons of lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon of oil
• Food colouring

Instructions 

1. Add the water, lemon juice and oil into a pan (you can add food colouring now)
2. Put it on a medium heat, you want the liquid to heat up but not boil
3. Mix the flour and salt together in a bowl
4. When the water is hot but not boiling you can add the dry mix
5. Stir together until ingredients combine, dry out and begin to form a ball.
6. If it’s sticky you can flatten it out in the pan leave it for a few second then flip it over, repeat until it’s not sticky
7. Don’t over cook, you need it to be a bit undercooked as it will firm up as it cools down
8. Place it on a wax sheet to cool
9. Once cooled you can knead it to bring it all together 

Story time

Story time with Mrs Swaine is ‘Snail and the Whale’