Learning Through Play at HomeEaster Break

Literacy & English

Read We’re Going on an Egg Hunt with Fin. (Staff films – Stories). Can you remember how many eggs we found?

Decorate some stones to look like Easter Eggs and go on your own Egg Hunt at home or maybe you can decorate some hard boiled eggs like Sylvia did (Staff Films - activities)

https://theimaginationtree.com/easter-egg-pebble-craft

Make an Easter Card for someone in your family who you won’t get to see at Easter, have a go at writing your name to show who the card is from...you could post it when you are out for your daily exercise.

Numeracy & Maths

Learn a Spring counting song with Annmarie, Donna and Nair singing together (but apart!) (Staff films - Singing)

Health & Wellbeing

Make a sheep biscuit with Donna – remember to wash your hands before you start! (Staff films - Activities)

Use your senses of sight, hearing and touch to go on a Scavenger Hunt around your house, outside area or when out for your exercise with someone in your family.

Can you find all the things on the Senses list or the Spring list?

Go to the site below and practise your listening skills:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/eyfs-listening-skills/zbc4y9q

Expressive Arts

Nursery rhymes :

Share some of these Spring themed Nursery Rhymes with your family (Click on the link if you need help remembering the tune and words):

Little Peter Rabbit

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/songs-and-rhymes/little-peter-rabbit

Mary had a Little Lamb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb0LKINJtgY

5 Little ducks

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/songs-and-rhymes/five-little-ducks

A Tiny Caterpillar on a Leaf

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z3ncd2p

Sleeping Bunnies

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/songs-and-rhymes/sleeping-bunnies

Music and Movement with Nair (Staff films - Activities)Listen to and join in with a piece of classical music Vivaldi’s ‘Spring’ from ‘The Four Seasons’.

Exploring Textures with craftsPerhaps you can make a woolly sheep, a feathery chick, a fluffy rabbit or a grassy Easter bonnet!

Sciences

Join in with Annmarie singing 5 Little Speckled Frogs and hear her read about The Big Wide Mouthed Frog ( Staff Films - Singing )

Follow the link to watch the life cycle of a frog.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHfwSAPXA1c

Create a rainbow of colour in an exciting experiment with Karyn(Staff films – Activities)

RME

Listen to Lauren read The Easter Story (Staff Films - Stories)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/lets-celebrate- easterperformance

Watch The story of the Three Trees on You Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5qRzTOpOnk

Technologies

Upload a photo of some of your home learning and share it with your friends at Spinneyadmin@spinneylane-nur.edin.sch.ukOR

Watch one of the staff films online and ‘Like’ it to give them some feedbackOR

Go to the ‘Leave a reply’ section and work with a grown up to send the staff a comment

Modern Languages

Learn how to count and sing the Name Song in Spanish with Nair (Staff films - Activities)