Some extra ideas for you to try at home based on our topic 'Minibeasts'

• Make a bug catcher
• Draw and label what you catch in your bug catcher
• Make a bug hotel
• Make a scarecrow using recycled materials
• Plant a seed and create a diary documenting its growth
• Draw and label your plant
• Make a cress head using a potato
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Suggested Ideas For Completing EYFS Home Learning Activities

Dear Parents,

In response to lots of your concerns about completing learning activities at home during this difficult time, we have tried to put together a plan to help you. Some of you may be able to complete all of our suggested activities and some not so many. Please remember that this is not compulsory and we appreciate whatever you are able to manage. So many of you have been using Seesaw regularly and we have thoroughly enjoyed your posts. Please keep using this as responding and communicating directly with the children is important. We have also been amazed at all of the new skills the children have been learning - gardening, cooking, experimenting, dancing and so much more. These are just as valuable as the activities we’ve posted. Finding the time to give your child your undivided attention is invaluable so, if you do nothing else, please try and find the time each day to sit and share a story together. Talking about the story, re-telling the story and being immersed in language in this way is extremely important for your child’s development, it’s also a fun and enjoyable way to spend time together.

We hope all of you and your families are staying healthy and safe,

Many thanks the EYFS Team

Please note - These activities can be completed at any time across the week, little and often, at a time that works for you. The tasks will be posted weekly (as we have been doing) on Seesaw

Other possible activities linked to learning until Easter:

• Read the Gingerbread Man (story on YouTube if you don't have the book)
• Read Biscuit Bear by Mini Grey
• Re-tell and re-write these stories
• Bake a gingerbread man/bear and write a list of ingredients and instructions
• Make a poster to advertise Biscuit Bear's Amazing Circus
• Write a set of instructions on how to brush your teeth correctly
• Write a story about a biscuit that has a life of its own
• Design a shelter to protect Biscuit Bear/Gingerbread Man
• Build a model (lego etc) and write a set of instructions
• Role play a biscuit shop. Use real money to identify values of coins and make different amounts
• If you have a tablet, download the Daisy Dinosaur or Beebot apps