Nursery Inspire
Welcome to Nursery's Inspire page. On this page you find all the ICT resources that are used during the Inspire sessions.
Literacy/Maths Inspire - 14th February 2017
The nursery inspire session looked at The Gingerbread Man story, specifically using talk for writing actions for children to retell the story. The children also created their own puppets to go with the story and also played an ICT game to count the number of buttons The Gingerbread Man has.
The Gingerbread Man story, Talk for writing actions and ICT Gingerbread Man game have been added below.
The Gingerbread Man story.
Talk for writing actions.
The Gingerbread Man story used with in the inspire session. The words that have been highlighted in red are where the Talk for writing actions have been used.
The Gingerbread Man game used in the ICT inspire session.
Literacy Inspire - 11th October 2016
The main emphasis of the inspire session was to get children attuned to the sounds around them and ready to begin developing oral blending and segmenting skills. There are lots of literacy resources below to help the children learn their letters and sounds.
This video will help parents/carers to pronounce the sounds of the letters that are used in school during letters and sounds lessons.
This website is a great introduction to the alphabet.
The first page goes through the whole alphabet pronouncing the letter names.
The second page shows how to write each letter (pencil icon), the letter sound (ear icon) and the letter name sound (speaker icon).
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Phase One of Letters and Sounds concentrates on developing children's speaking and listening skills and lays the foundations for the phonic work which starts in Phase 2. The emphasis during Phase 1 is to get children attuned to the sounds around them and ready to begin developing oral blending and segmenting skills.
Phase 1 is divided into seven aspects. Each aspect contains three strands: Tuning in to sounds (auditory discrimination), Listening and remembering sounds (auditory memory and sequencing) and Talking about sounds (developing vocabulary and language comprehension).
These free online games will be useful for Phase 1 of the Letters and Sounds phonics programme. Most of the games will work well on an interactive whiteboard as well as for individual play on a computer. To play a game, just click the picture and it will open in a new window or tab.
Mr Thorne is a Teacher that has engaging high quality phonics resources on his website.
In this series Mr Thorne goes through the whole alphabet using the help of Geraldine the Giraffe.
This website has digitial phonics flashcards to use with your child. This is perfect for an interactive whiteboard or computer and there are optional picture prompts and articulated phonemes.
When children start to learn the letter sounds in Nursery they start with the s a t p i n letters and sounds.
How to use this website?
1. Select the s a t p i n letters by clicking on them and then click on the tick button.
2. Clicking on the speaker button will speak the letter sound.
3. Clicking on the picture button, will switch to the picture. When you click on the speaker button, the name of the picture will be spoken using the letter sound.
You can use this flash card website as your child gets more confident and starts to learn more letters and sounds.
Watch as the letters of the alphabet tell stories and make words using phonics.
Start by watching "The Alphablocks guide to phonics" video to help your child with letters and sounds.
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There are lots of ebooks to read on the activelearnprimary website. As nursery children do not have an individual login, books have been assigned to one login. Please see you class teacher for the login details.
To access these fantastic e-Books follow these steps:
1. Enter the username.
2. Enter the password.
3. Enter the school code: pwxa
4. Click on the login button.
5. Click on the "My stuff" button and then click on the green bug picture to read the allocated books.
6. Click on the "my library" and then click on the "library door" to see all the available books to read.
7. The first page in the book will explain the letters and sounds that will be used in the book. All the books that have been allocated can be read to using the "read to me" button.
Maths Inspire - 10th February 2016
The ICT Inspire session focused on using the Ten Town website. The website contains a lot of activities and songs to help the children learn numbers from 0-20.
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How to login to the tentown website.
1. Click on the login button.
2. Click on the "class sign in" button under the school sign in area.
3. Enter the following login details and then click on the "sign in" button. Username: barford password: nursery
English Inspire - 14th October 2015
The ICT Inspire session focused on playing phonics games from www.activelearnprimary.co.uk website and learning the initial letter sounds. Articulation of Phonemes videos have been added below to help Parent(s)/Carer(s) pronounce the letter sounds correctly. The videos are great practice for children and Parent(s)/Carer(s) to join in together and learn the sounds.
Maths Inspire - 11th February 2015
The ICT Inspire session focused on using the Ten Town website. The website contains a lot of activities and songs to help the children learn the numbers from 0-20.
How to login to the tentown website.
1. Click on the login button.
2. Click on the "class sign in" button under the school sign in area.
3. Enter the following login details and then click on the "sign in" button. Username: barford password: nursery
Literacy/Phonics Inspire - 22nd October 2014
The ICT Inspire session focused on Phonics games and learning the initial letter sounds. You can play the phonics games below.
Initial sounds and blending CVC words game.
The aim of the game is to pop the bubbles with the correct phoneme. A new phoneme is chosen every 30 seconds.
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A great phonics game that focuses on spelling words.
Sort out the eggs. Give the green dragon eggs that have real words and give the red dragon eggs that have made up words.
Blend the sound together to make a word and then click on the picture that matches the word.
Give Bob snacks that have real words and give Obb snacks that have made up words.
The following 2 activities are free to try.
Channel Earth - An activity that provides silly alliterative sentences based on a single phoneme.
Flash Cards Real and Fake Set 1 (Phase 2 and 3) - A set of cards with real and fake words, with whole word read for real words.
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Play bingo with words.
A rhyming word game.
Play along with the Alphablocks and have fun with the letters of the alphabet.
Excellent letters and sounds Phase 1 resources and games.
Lots of free phonics resources and games.
Click on any of the bubbles to hear a mystery sound.
Listen to the animal sounds and see if you can guess which animal is in the box?
Click a card in the top row to see a letter, then click a card in the bottom row to show a picture. If the letter matches the initial sound of the object in the picture then you have found a match. If not you can keep trying until you match all the cards.
Drag the coins with real words on them to the treasure chest. Drag coins with fake words to the dustbin.
Numeracy Inspire - 9th July 2013
Number recognition maths games.
Help Hutch park the pods on the numbersquare. Numbers up to 100.
Use your mouse to collect all the numbers in the correct order. Numbers up to 15.
Connect the dots in the correct order. Numbers up to 30.
Underwater counting numbers up to 10.
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Feed the teddy bear cakes. Numbers up to 15 and words up to 15.
Count the pictures and click on the correct number. Numbers up to 10.
Catch and count objects. Numbers up to 10.
Counting and ordering numbers up to 6.
Count and match games. Numbers up to 10.
Shoot the duck with the correct number. Numbers up to 10.
Count the balloons and pop them in the correct order. Numbers up to 20
Counting, matching and ordering numbers up to 10.
Paint in the picture using the correct order numbers up to 10.
Pop the balloons in the correct order. Numbers up to 10.
Match the number words to the numbers up to 5.
Match the number words with the numbers up to 20 in this fun memory game.
Count the barrels and type in the number of barrels to sink the base featuring numbers up to 20.
Post the letter into the correct house. Numbers up to 100.
Put the correct number of children on the bus. Numbers up to 10.
Find the missing number from the sequence. Numbers up to 10.
Find the missing number from the sequence. Numbers up to 20.
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Put the caterpillar numbers in the correct order. Numbers up to 100.
Matching, ordering and sequences games. Numbers up to 100.
Order numbers up to 100.
Hang out the washing in the correct order. Numbers up to 10.