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Skills To Last A Lifetime

Isaac W’s family has been enjoying the Twinkl website that we suggested for some home activities:

“This is an excellent resource, we have downloaded lots from here and also the Chester zoo website. Xx”

We are glad you are finding it useful and would encourage other families to have a look at both these sites. You may find something your child is interested in that you could look at together.

Isaac’s family also commented on the photos we posted of some of their activities at home:

“Isaac is having a great time helping in and out of the house. He is learning skills that will hopefully last him a lifetime. Xx”

There is no doubt that he is developing very important skills and it looks like he’s having such great fun with his learning too. Thank you for sharing your photos.

Here’s a great little gallery of some super home learning. It’s certainly hard work helping to make bread but it looks like you made a great job of it. If only we could smell that bread as it looks delicious. Of course, you needed a tea break after all that hard work then it was on to plant potatoes with Daddy. Goodness, you have been very busy.
Thank you so much for sharing your developing skills at home. We would love to hear from other families about what they have been doing.

Free Resources

For those who might be looking for ideas to entertain their children during this period of lockdown, the website Twinkl is offering free access to their resources. We attach below a screenshot from their site which may be helpful to you.

Senses Hunt

We hope that everyone is enjoying spending time together as a family. To help the children think about their senses of sight, touch, sound, smell and taste, they could perhaps go on a senses hunt around the house as well as the garden if you have one?

Ask the children to help you write a list of what they are looking for before they set off and then see what they can find. Suggestions might be:

something red
something that makes a noise
something rough/smooth
something that has a smell
something you can eat
something long
something soft

The children will no doubt come up with much more interesting and creative suggestions and it would be great to use their ideas, provided they are achievable of course. We would love to hear from you if anyone does this with their child.

I Can Sing A Rainbow

As part of our recent work on language and communication, the children have been learning “I Can Sing a Rainbow” using sign language so hopefully they will be able to show you what they have learned by singing along with this video. We have added a picture of the signs below to help you learn along with your child. Just like “Baby Shark”, this is another addictive song but it will undoubtedly put a smile on your faces.

Just refresh the blog page if you want to watch video again.

Learning At Home

Eileen, our Lifelong Learning Co-ordinator, has been in touch with an update. She said that the Peep group is continuing online which is great news.
Last week’s activity was about making a magic sounds box and one of our families has kindly shared photos from home of them doing their activity which looks super. An Easter book has also provided fun learning activities, such as matching pairs and cracking a code, which have been done without help from Mum or Dad so very well done to this little pupil.

We would love to hear what others have been doing so that we can share it on our blog. Click on the “Leave a comment” link to the left of this post or look at “How to add a comment” on the right, under Support Information, for simple instructions if you are unsure how to leave us a message.

Nursery Library

This is just a reminder to all parents and carers that the Nursery library is open weekly. The Rainbow Room can access the library every Wednesday 9.00 – 9.15 and the Raindrop Room on a Thursday at the same times. If your child is not in Nursery at these times, please speak to staff and we can arrange books to be changed at a different time.
We hope that all children who borrow books are enjoying reading stories to their adopted teddy bears. We still have lots of bears who would love a new home full of lots of cuddles and stories. We look forward to seeing you all at the library this week.

PEEP Group

Our Hecklegirth Nursery Peep group has been meeting for a few weeks now. We are following the Communication and Language learning together course. So far we have practised our listening skills, followed instructions to make play dough, had ‘puppet conversations’ and taken resources home to make our own puppets. Thank you to Eileen, our Lifelong Learning Co-ordinator, for planning such fun activities.

PEEP

Our PEEP sessions got underway last week with children and their families making playdough. As you can see, younger siblings had fun joining in too so we look forward to seeing you again later this week. Thank you to Eileen, our Lifelong Learning Co-ordinator, for arranging these sessions for our families.

PEEP Sessions

As some parents/carers were not available last week, Eileen, our Lifelong learning Co-ordinator, will be starting her PEEP sessions tomorrow, 23rd January, between 9.00 and 10.00. She looks forward to seeing you then. Younger siblings are welcome.

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