Home Learning Week

Dylan didn't attend nursery this week as they weren't fully ready for him, he is due to start on Monday morning fingers crossed..

The Very Hungry Caterpillar provided a base story for our learning and activities on Monday and Tuesday.. A favourite story in our household and one I knew Dylan would remember from prior to all the drama. We used the following song alongside the story to help teach the order of the days of the week..

"Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday too, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 days, each day different and every day new."

This is a song I know they teach at the school from when Bryce joined them so it would be handy for him to have a grasp on the rhythm of it at least before he attends.

We did a range of both learning and fun activities including pipe cleaner caterpillars to practice fine motor skills, baking, painting, collecting different shape and colour leaves and doing leaf rubbings.

We talked a lot about counting and counted along with the story and whilst doing our activities. We also talked about the colours of leaves in Autumn and what happens to them.

Tuesday I also had a meeting at the school along with the Kite team training to ensure that all my concerns were aired and I have to say I am very very happy with how it all went and am feeling a lot more relaxed about him attending when he can.

Wednesday we went to Dylan's last session at Little Nippers, for the most part he really enjoyed himself but got tired and tearful towards the end as he had been up since 6am! A quick 40 winks soon sorted that out when we got home.

Thursday we had tickets for Alton Towers that we had collected through The Sun newspaper tokens. Daddy couldn't get the day off work so I took Dylan and Logan by myself. As well as going on some rides we spent a lot of time in the sensory garden looking at plants and colours.

Friday we revisited the book and song from Monday and Tuesday and we also spent some time playing with playdoh looking at colours, shapes and working with plastic scissors to cut the playdoh.

A relaxed first week of 'home schooling' but hopefully it will ease him into nursery on Monday morning now we've added a bit of structure to our mornings at home.