Can you sing and wave your scarf at home?

"Wow said the Owl" is the focus book we are reading at nursery this term. What is your child's favourite book? Let us know and we can try to read it with them!

At nursery, we have been focussing on mixing the colour green! Can you try to make and paint a green jungle at home? Watch this short film for inspiration!

Why not try to find as many rainbow colours as you can! Maybe you can find them in a book or even by looking at your clothes in your wardrobe?

Hippo is hungry! Watch this short story with your child and find out how you can help to send hippo his perfect lunch! Send your artwork to centre@morningside.hackney.sch.uk and we will feed it to hippo!

Miss Daisy reads 'Greedy Zebra'

Zebra has lost his stripes! Watch this short story with your child and find out how you can help to make Zebra a new coat! You can follow our idea or come up with your own ideas for Zebra's stripy black and white coat! Then why not send your creations to centre@morningside.hackney.sch.uk and we will show them to Zebra! :-)

Learn the Makaton sign for Zebra with Daisy from Artburst!

Miss Korinna reads 'Just like us', a story about how to make friends and be happy!

Blue and Green

What things can you find around your house that are blue and green?

Can you sort the colours?

How many blue items can you find?

How many green items can you find?

Share your photos to our email address centre@morningside.hackney.sch.uk

How did Hippo get into the water? Why is hippo not eating any fish? Find out hippo's story with Femi from Artburst!

Learn the Makaton sign for Hippo with Femi from Artburst!

This is the introduction to our mini project with Artburst.

Can you look at the book and see how may colours you can spot?

Look at the colour chart at the back, can you create your own by mixing colours?

Can you create other shades?

Can you find out the names of colours in your home language?

Can you draw a rainbow?

What coloured things can you find around your house?

Are they soft?

Are they hard?

Are they smooth

Are they gritty?

Miss Korinna reads '5 Little Apples', a story with lots of numbers and surprises hiding in the book!

Introducing colours and props to tell a story.

What things can you find at home to tell your story?

What will you be doing over half term?

Splashing in puddles? Watching ice melt? Walking through the park and kciking some leaves? Make marks on some flour? Chase bubbles? Ride your bicycle or scooter? Make some artwork from your art pack? Share your photos to our email address centre@morningside.hackney.sch.uk

We wish everyone who is celebrating Chinese New Year a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year! Rishan got ready to celebrate early and send us a picture of this dragon that he and his brother made!

Why not go to pick up your free half term art pack and some treats from the children's centre? The art pack contains instructions how to make your own Chinese Dragon! Or just get creative and invent your own... don't forget to send us your pictures, we love seeing what you get up to!

And if you want to know more about how the Chinese New Year is celebrated, click here

Miss Korinna shows you a simple speech and language game that you can play with your child to practice speech sounds. Practicing speech sounds is important because it makes the muscles stronger that we need to form words. Actors and singers practice speech sounds as part of their warm up before they go on stage to perform... don't be shy to make the sounds with your child, it can be very funny to try this together! It is also funny as adults to find out that different languages have different sounds for things. In the German language for example, an ambulance goes 'tatu tataa' instead of 'neenaa neenaa'. Why not try this speech sound game in your home language?

We are celebrating Chinese New Year at Nursery this week. Here is our focus book 'Lanterns and Firecrackers'. You can look at this book together!

Can you make a Dragon with the items from your art pack that you have collected from the nursery? What colour will you paint your dragon?

Send us pictures of your dragons to centre@morningside.hackney.sch.uk. We will share it on this website with your nursery friends on the Celebrating You page. We have had so many pictures of your lovely home learning sent to us already! Thank you everyone!

This is a great story about what happens during Chinese New Year. It is a simple book introducing your child to Chinese culture and a celebration.

Parents can read the story aloud, taking time to talk together about the pictures, encouraging them to repeat words and point to pictures that interest them.

You can talk about colour, shape , and count lanterns together.

Ready for collection! We have treats too in a good bag for you to enjoy at half term. Please go to the centre to collet them to take them home.

Can you use chopsticks at home like Ms Marie showed you on zoom? You can collect sticks or use pencils and pretend you are using chopsticks. What can you pick up? You can try anything and you will be practising your fine motor skills.

Miss Korinna shows you how to make your own sock balls out of household materials and how to use them to practice hand- eye coordination. Hand-eye coordination helps children track the movements of their hands with their eyes. Good hand-eye coordination will make it easier for children to learn how to read and write when they go to school later on. Have fun throwing and catching and rolling at targets!

Why not follow these instructions to make a paper plane and see how it flies! Can you practice how to aim at something and throw it over an obstacle or through a doorway?

Miss Marie reads 'We are not tired' by Selina Young. It is a great story about what can happen at bedtime! A brother and sister introduce all sorts of ideas how to use toys for imaginary play and role play. There are so many play skills to learn from this book!

Miss Korinna demonstrates how to make print marks with different everyday recycled objects and toys. Why not have a go at trying out some of the methods suggested or even inventing your own ones? At the end of the session, use your children's paint covered hands to demonstrate to them how our hands get clean when we wash them!