Everyone: Can you create your own St George’s Flag?
Today’s daily challenge theme for our younger children is ‘Nursery Rhymes’.
Singing Nursery Rhymes with your young child is a great way to encourage speech and language and helps them learn new vocabulary or numeracy. When actions are linked to words in the nursery rhyme, it helps boost motor skills and improves rhythm and movement.
1. Can you create a boat out of a cardboard box and decorate it? Sing ‘Row Row’ with your child.
2. Can you create your own nursery rhyme song bag/box? Create a selection of nursery rhyme related pictures; Twinkly stars, a Woolley sheep, Humpty Dumpty etc. Put all of your crafts into a box or bag and encourage your child to pick one out, identify it and sing the rhyme together. This is something that you could use going forward each morning or night. They can pick one and you can sing it together.
3. Can you create your own musical instruments to use whilst you sing along to your favourite nursery rhymes? You could make a shaker or a drum.
Our daily challenge theme for our older children is stories. Again, reading is a great way to support your child’s language and develop their vocabulary. In Pre-school, we have been starting our own little story projects with the children and would like to give you some ideas to do with your child at home.
1. Encourage your child to choose their favourite story. Read it through with them and discuss the main events within the story, encouraging your child to retell it back to you. As you read the story, discuss the illustrations and the characters too.
2. Create your own simple book review. Firstly, write the title of the story on a piece of paper (encourage your child to do this over highlighted guidance, even if they only make a series of marks – this is all part of pre-writing). Get them to create their own representation of a character or scene from within the story. Discuss with them what their favourite part is and write this down.
3. Create a craft that links to the story; this could be the main character or could be something they particularly like from the story.
4. Support your child to make some props that support the retelling of the story and encourage them to use these in their play to retell the story to a grown up. For example, you could create transport used by the characters or character puppets or masks.
5. Can you support your child to come up with a short story? What characters would they have (this could be their favourite toy or teddy). Where would the story be set and what would the character get up to? We’d love to hear them!
6. Role-play your story outdoors!
Enjoy!