Year R – Thursday 9th April

Good Morning Penguins, Puffins and Parrots!

We hope you are having a lovely Easter break and are looking forward to the Easter weekend. We will not be posting this weekend, but you will hear from us again on Tuesday. In the meantime, we’d love to hear what you have been doing so please do keep posting on Tapestry. I wonder how many Rainbow Points you have so far? We love to give them out when we see children showing our Learning Behaviours and our Heart Smart High Fives.

If you would like to reflect on the Christian meaning of Easter we have selected a few stories, videos and worship songs that you might want to share together.  

We hope you all have a wonderful Easter Weekend, and thank you again for everything you are doing, we are so proud of each and every one of you.

 

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From the Year R Teachers

p.s  Here’s a fun Easter Bunny dance!   Click here

Celebrating Easter –

Here are three video links showing child friendly versions of the Easter Story that you might like to share.

Palm Sunday: The Triumphal Entry Click here

The Last Supper: Click here

Good Friday to Easter Day: Jesus’ Sacrifice Click here

Here are some children’s Easter worship songs: 

Celebrate – Click here

Sing out an Easter Song – Click here

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Holiday Activities – 

  • Set up a garden obstacle course and record yourself completing it.
  • Create a photo storybook.  For example – The adventures of your favourite Teddy – take photos of your cuddly toy and then get an adult to video you telling your story or perform it to an audience.
  • Draw a picture and send it to someone to make them smile.
  • Make some animals out of playdough.
  • Video call a member of your famliy and read them a story.
  • Try a Numberblocks make and play activity. Click to open.
  • Take the Lego Play challenge. See here for details.

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Easter Themed Activities –

  • An Easter egg hunt.
  • A “Busy Bodies” Easter hunt in the garden. Click to download ideas and resources.
  • A “Keyword” Easter hunt in the garden.  Click on the sheet below to download and print (alternatively make your own or make your own keyword hunt: write out pairs of keywords – keep one set, hide one set and when you find a word match it to the word in your set.)    blank
  • A “Number” Easter hunt in the garden – Download and print the sheet below, cut each egg in half and hide all the parts. Once the children have found the egg parts they have to combine the correct ones to make a total of 10 e.g. 8 and 2, 7 and 3 etc  

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  • Make an Easter cross from sticks.

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Helpful Reminders

EmailHow much to help? Too much to do?

Don’t forget you can email us on yearr@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if you have a question, need a password or need some help.

You can continue to use Tapestry to share your child’s work. Please only upload one post a day. You can either choose one activity or put all the activities you complete on one post.

We look forward to hearing from you. We may not reply the same day!

Independence

The children in Year R are very rarely asked to work independently, particularly when writing. It is expected that they will need adult support to get started on all of the tasks we set for them here, and continue to need it throughout their activity. 

However, we want to continue to build their independence, so encourage them to use resources which can help them be independent like sound cards, letter formation cards for handwriting etc. 

 

Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities with you. We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child.

There is absolutely no expectation that you get all, if any of these activities completed each day. 

Enjoy your Easter Weekend, we’ll be back on Tuesday.