Nursery Play Based and Topic Activities - Transport
Week 5 - 18/05/2020
Move your body like Diggory the Dumptruck during some yoga by Cosmic Kids
Design your own vehicle that can go on land
This week we are learning all about different types of transport that you can use on land. Your challenge is to use your imagination to design your very own land vehicle. You can use anything you like to make your vehicle - lego, cardboard, play dough or even natural resources you find on your daily walk. It can be as big or small as you like and you can use any colours you choose. Think carefully about what your vehicle will look like before you start, will be like a car, train or truck or maybe a mixture of them all? How many wheels will it need, does it go fast or slow? Will there be room for lots of passengers or just the driver?
Don't forget to share photos of your creations on seesaw. |
Traffic Survey
While on your walk or looking carefully out of the window/from your garden count how many different kinds of transport you see. Record the results on the table below or make your own table. When you finish can you find out which kind of transport you saw most? Which kind of transport you saw least? If you saw any types of transport not on the record sheet or that you weren't expecting to see. Don't forget to share the results on seesaw. |
Experiment - Cars and Ramps
This is a simple way to introduce physics to children and all you need is a ramp, and toy cars!
Materials:
Grown ups encourage your child to make predictions as they play and allow them to test their theories out independently. Encourage language such as fast, slow, speed, move, high, low, bigger and smaller. Don't forget to share some photos and let us know what you find out during your experiment. |
Name Car Parks
This is a great activity to encourage matching and letter recognition. Create a car park from cardboard, paper or even chalk it on the ground. Write a letter from your child's name in each space. Stick a label or post it on to some toy cars and write one letter of your child's name on each car. Encourage your child to drive the car into the right spaces to match the letters in their name. You could also play this game using shapes or numbers on each car/in each space for an extra challenge.
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Traffic Light Biscuits
Download the recipe below to make some delicious traffic light biscuits. Don't forget to sing our traffic light song of the week as you make them. Yum Yum
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Week 6- 26/05/2020
Move your body. Try out these new yoga poses - The aeroplane pose, the helicopter pose and the hot air balloon pose.
Can you put the poses together and make your own air travel yoga story
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Design your own vehicle that can go through the air
Last week we learned all about vehicles that travelled on land and you designed lots of amazing vehicles from trains and cars to motorbikes and even a train transporter! We were so impressed with your land vehicle constructions we thought this week you could try again but this time instead of designing something that travels on the land we'd like you you to try and design your very own air travel vehicle. You can use anything you like to make your vehicle - lego, cardboard, play dough or even natural resources you find on your daily walk. It can be as big or small as you like and you can use any colours you choose. Think carefully about what your construction will look like before you start, will be like a plane, rocket, helicopter or hot air balloon or maybe a mixture of them all? What does it need to fly through the air? Is it heavy or light? Does it spin or does it glide?
Don't forget to share photos of your creations on seesaw. |
Paper Mache Hot Air Balloon
Create your very own paper mache hot air balloon. Paper mache is a fantastic sensory activity for children. It helps to develop their fine motor skills, creative skills, understanding of how materials change and gives them an immense satisfaction once their work is complete. Paper Mache can be messy so set this up on some old towels or newspaper. This activity calls for paper mache paste - this can be PVA glue mixed with a small amount of water, wall paper paste or simply flour and water mixed together to give a glue like consistency. You can use any paper to paper mache but layers of thin paper such as tissue paper or newspaper often gives the best effect. Once your paper mache balloon is dry it would make a beautiful hanging decoration for a bedroom or playroom. Click on the link below for step by step instructions to make a paper mache hot air balloon
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Washing Up Bottle Rocket Experiment
What do I need:
STEP1 - Your washing up liquid bottle is going to be your rocket! It's best not to waste the whole bottle and to do this experiment when there's about a 1 cm layer left in the bottom of your washing up bottle! Make sure to do this experiment outside! It's a great experiment but it does make a real mess, outside only for this one! WARNING: Make sure to only do this experiment with bottle tops that can click open. This way your bottle can never explode, as when the pressure gets high enough the top will pop open and that's what will launch your rocket! STEP2 - Now the warnings are out of the way, let's get cracking! Fill your washing up bottle about a third of the way up with white vinegar and mix it in with the washing up liquid. STEP3 - Add your bicarbonate of soda to your mixture of washing up liquid and white vinegar and quickly turn your rocket over and place it on the launch pad (in the pint glass!) NOTE: Some types of bottle will need more pressure than others to blast off. If it's not going to launch you can flick the bottle top open and that will fire a stream of foamy goodness! Not as good as launching a bottle but still pretty good! Try adding more vinegar next time for a stronger reaction Experiment like a real scientist!
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Cooking - Cloud Mash
Ingredients
Potatoes Cream Cheese Cheddar cheese Method
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Week 7 01/06/2020 - Boats
Yoga - Move and Stretch your body like 'Popcorn and the Pirates'
Floating and sinking - Design a boat for the passengers
In week 5 we explored how some things sink to the bottom when they are put in water while others float to the top. This weeks construction challenge and experiment will build upon that knowledge.
Your challenge is to collect small figures and an ocean (the bath or a tub of water). Sadly the toy people have become stranded on an island and need a new boat to travel across the sea to get home. Can you use items in your house to build a boat that can carry them across the sea? Don't forget to send us some photos or videos of your experiment |
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Ice Cube Painting
This week the weather has been very sunny and hot. Why not cool down with some ice cube painting. To make your ice cube paints mix some paint with water and freeze in an ice cube tray, you could add some lollypop sticks as a handle if you like. Once your paints have frozen you will be ready to paint. Try mixing the colours and you paint, can you guess what colours it will make?
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Role Play - Make Your Own Boat
Have a go at making your own boat to go sailing. You could use a washing basket, cardboard box, crate or even an empty paddling pool. Decide if your boat needs oars or a sail? Maybe it even has an anchor. Once you have designed your boat you can take it on an adventure across the seven seas. Maybe you'll do a spot of fishing or pick up some passengers along the way? Hopefully it's all smooth sailing and you don't spring any leaks.
Send us some photos and videos of your sailing adventures. |
Cooking - Apple & Cheese Boats
Have a go at making this healthy snack - apple and cheese boats. Maybe you could take them on a picnic when you make your role play boat, I've heard sailing is hungry business!
What You’ll Need:
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