Activity 1

How many ways can you make ‘g’?

What you’ll need

• The ‘How many ways can you make ‘g’?’ worksheet,
• a pen or pencil, 
• Lego or duplo, 
• a toilet or kitchen roll tube, 
• some finger paints or stamps (You could also use small stickers or dot stickers if you don’t have any paints or stamps).

Method

Start by asking your child to identify the sound ‘g’ on the sheet. You might want to show them the jolly phonics song video for ‘g’ too (on youtube).

Work through each part of the sheet making the ‘g’ letters as directed in each instruction. Encourage your child to say the sound each time and think of some words beginning with  ‘g’. Try to ensure that they are using the correct formation on the tracing and writing parts of the sheet.

Once they have completed, please upload to Famly as we would love to see their creations!

What did we learn?

Literacy: Writing – Linking sounds to letters, naming and sounding letters of the alphabet.

Physical Development: Moving and handling – Can copy some letters, eg: letters from their name.

Expressive arts and design: Exploring and using media and materials –Manipulates materials to achieve a planned effect. Constructs with a purpose in mind, using a variety of resources.

Activity 2

Soapy Painting

What you’ll need

• Small buckets
• Paint brushes (preferably ones used for household painting!)
• Sponges
• warm water
• fairy liquid
• apron
• toy/real money.

Method

Explain to your child that the Wendy house, shed or fence needs painting in the garden. Fill up buckets of warm soapy water, put and apron on and get them painting. This can also be done with toy cars, trikes etc… Great way to get them to wash the toys ready for the summer! Ask them how much it will cost them to paint a fence panel or house? Pretend to pay them like a tradesperson…. You’ll be surprised how many jobs you will get done!

What did we 

learn?

 EAD - Engaging in role play. MD - Money recognition, counting.

Activity 3

Planes, Trains and Automobiles 

What you’ll need

• Cardboard box (preferably a large one)
• Resources to decorate your box (using anything available at home)
• You may wish to attach a registration plate from Twinkl or even better, create your own registration plate if appropriate!

Method                   

Transport week is renowned at MCK and it is a well-known fact that Mr Federici loves all types of vehicles!

Today, talk to your child about the different ways we can travel around and the variety of modes of transport that we see in our everyday lives.

Share the story :We all go travelling by": 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSw50Jw0H34 

Talk about the different ways of travelling in the story. 

Along with surplus toilet rolls many of us seem to have surplus cardboard boxes also. As we are thinking about transport and journeys this week invite your child to make their own mode of transport out of cardboard. They might choose to colour or paint the side of their box and stick on wheels or a steering wheel. Ask your child to name their mode of transport – is it a steam train, an “Audi” car, a JCB digger or a lorry etc…? Or maybe it is a new invention?! Ask open-ended questions which gives your child a chance to think and talk about how their vehicle works, it’s special features – encouraging them to be as imaginative as possible! 

Explain to your child that at the moment we are not going on long journeys but ask them where the first place is they would like to travel to in their vehicle once we can go out again. We know where our first journey would be - straight to Mount Carmel to see all our friends again! We miss you! 

*If you do not have cardboard boxes at home your child could use their imagination to make a vehicle using dining chairs, sofa cushions and other props from around the home. 

Please share your transportation creation with us via the Famly app, our Facebook page or using the hashtag #MountCarmelatHome

Here is one Zephyr made earlier…

This is Zephyr’s steam train that he made at home. 

He shared his photograph via Famly. Zephyr travelled from St Albans to Disneyland. Wow Zephyr, so very creative! Please can we come with you next time? He even made a ticket to travel!

What did we learn?

Communication and Language:

We are learning to use talk to pretend that objects stand for something else in play and to give explanations. 

Understanding the World:

We are learning to talk about how things work.

Expressive Art and Design:

We are learning to use available resources to create props as representations of objects.