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Communication is key at this difficult time, if you have any queries please feel free to email Miss Richards on: preschool@barfordschool.org

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Here you will find many different suggested activities for your child to do at home! We have incorporated the seven areas of learning throughout the activities.  We have also added some additional fine motor activities to develop your child's writing skills.

Children tend to learn best through play, so we would also encourage lots of 'play time' at home as well as some of our suggested activities. These activities are all optional for you to do with your child

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Miss Richards and Miss Cook would love to see any activities that you and your child do at home, you can upload photos and videos to your Tapestry account for us to view. If you have any problems with using Tapestry as an alterative please use the attached email address above to submit any evidence of activities which have been done.

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Miss Richards would like you all to focus on the sound 'g'. Can you take a photo of things around your house beginning with the sound 'g'. You can then upload these photos on Tapestry.
Here is a attached link you can access to listen to the sound 'g'.

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Learn phonics with your CBeebies House friends Evie and Dodge.

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Keeping fit and being healthy is very important but also can be challenging during lockdown, so here is a link to a Yoga session which we do every Thursday at Pre-school. (fun for grown ups to)!

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Hey Duggee - Yoga with Rebecca and Duggee

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Rebecca and Duggee show you how to do some Yoga moves, you can watch and join in!

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As our topic for this term is Dinosaurs, Miss Richards would love to see what resources you could find around your home to create a dinosaur! You could use the following items:
-toilet roll
-cardboard boxes
-mesh
-paper/card

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Reading is essential in Early Years, we would like your child to choose a book to share. We find children's choice is very important so this is a great opportunity for them to make their own choice. When reading the story you can encourage your child to discuss the pictures in the book.
If it is a familiar story you can even encourage your child to help you read the story by finishing the last phrase/word of each page.

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Mathematics is an huge part of your child's learning development. At home Miss Richards would like your child to be able to build a tower using six blocks and another tower using eight blocks, you can ask your child questions such as 'which tower is taller and which is shorter?' 'what colour blocks have you used to make this tower?' Miss Richards would love to see photos/videos of all the children's towers.

I have also added a link below of a number blocks program, this will also help your child's recognition of  numbers and this also encourages early counting skills.

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Ten turns up to tell the Numberblocks what it's like to be a perfect ten.

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Fine motor skills are very important in early years as this helps children with their hand coordination which impacts their writing skills for the future.
To help your child's fine motor skills threading is an important skill which can help this.
We would love to see any homemade necklaces', you could use beads, pasta, blocks, string or wool to make this. Encourage your child to thread these on independently.

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Children learn best from the outdoors! Spending lots of time in the garden is the perfect opportunity for exploring the environment.
Whilst playing outdoors we would love to see any minibeasts which you can find! You could even try to make a minibeast house for them using leaves, bark, grass or mud!

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Talking about feelings and emotions is extremely important during these difficult times. A good way to talk about feelings is to discuss with your child what makes them happy. Your child can then draw a picture of this to show the Pre-school teachers.

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10 Little Dinosaurs | Kids Songs | Super Simple Songs

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The big dinosaurs | Early Years - Nursery Rhymes

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Ideas for making a bird feeder, can you spot any in your garden..

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Scroll or swipe down to find out how to make a feast for the birds in your garden. There are three different bird feeders you can make with your grown-up. Take a look below, you might want to make all three!

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Here is a link which shows you how to make your very own musical instrument.

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Make your very own music kit and start making your own musical magic. Find out how to make a microphone, ukulele and maraca!

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Five little monkeys swinging from a tree

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Five little monkeys swinging from a tree. An animated version of the popular children’s nursery rhyme ‘Five little monkeys swinging from a tree’ with lyrics.

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You can use your playdough to go to the dough disco!

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Playdough finger exercises to Twinkle twinkle little star

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This story is based on different feelings and emotions. Talk about how you are feelings today.

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This story is based on different types of dinosaurs! This story is read by singing hands! (Makaton)

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Makaton Signed Story: Dinosaur Roar by Singing Hands