For any children who might benefit from a story about what coronavirus means, this story may be helpful. It’s called “Dave The Dog Is Worried About Coronavirus” and features Nurse Dotty explaining it all to Dave.
Click on the link below to see the story.
https://nursedottybooks.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/dave-the-dog-coronavirus-1-1.pdf
Lola has been very busy while at home during lockdown. Baking has been a big hit and she has been practising her weighing and measuring skills. Lola has been planting some seeds and made her own flower bed. She has been watering her flowers to make sure they grow and stay healthy. Lola has been making pictures to celebrate our wonderful NHS and key workers to display in her window.
As well as being so busy, Lola made a home spa for her and her family to enjoy. “The cucumber was very cooling on my eyes and I loved relaxing”. Lola can’t wait to get back to nursery to see her friends.
I think we are all missing each other Lola. It will be lovely for your friends to see all your hard work here though.
Thank you so much for sending these super photos of all your activities. We love to see what you are all doing at home.
Play Scotland are delighted to launch their Home Play Pack to support children and their families. It contains many simple ideas to stimulate children’s imagination, creativity and play time. Many ideas can be led and carried out by children themselves, with very little adult support and some are good fun for all the family.
Click on the link below to see this super free resource. We have also added it to our blog on the right under “Useful Reading” if you would like to return to the play pack in the future. We hope that you have lots of fun.
Alfie from the Raindrop Room has sent us a wonderful picture of his work that he has sent to his Grandma. His family said,
“Grandma lives a long way away. So we sent her her very own Alfie. We drew round Alfie which he found very ticklish then Alfie painted himself complete with glasses & crazy hair! Grandma can now wrap Alfie’s arms around her whenever she needs a cuddle.”
They also wrote a lovely poem for his Grandma which you can see attached to his picture. What a thoughtful gift for your Grandma, Alfie. We think that you will have made her very happy indeed. Thank you so much for sharing your super work with us. It’s lovely for everyone to see what you have been doing at home.
In Nursery we often talk about healthy and unhealthy foods as we prepare snack together and the children are developing an understanding of the difference between them. They have talked about some foods being good to eat lots and some less often. Most have grown in confidence to try different foods as the year has progressed and fruit and vegetables, for example, are a regular part of their snack time each day.
As a fun game, get the children to look at a range of foods in their kitchen and see if they can sort them into healthy and unhealthy foods. They could then sort fruit and vegetables (fresh and tinned) into those they like and those they do not like.
In the past we have looked at the work of artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo who created faces out of food in his work. It’s always great fun to try this with the children using foods, or anything else you have available, to create a face. Maybe you could create one from things you find outdoors? We would love it if you sent us photos of your work via the school office at
gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk
We would like to share this Sticky Kids video about eating fruit and vegetables for the children to sing and dance along to as they play. Sticky Kids is very popular in Nursery so the children will no doubt love to join in. Refresh our page to see the video again.
Niks family has been listening to the story of “Lucy’s Blue Day”:
“Thank you so much for story. ❤”
We are glad that you enjoyed it and hope that lots more of our families listen to it. It is one that creates lots of lovely discussion in Nursery.
We hope that lots of the children remember this story as they certainly thoroughly enjoyed it in Nursery. It’s a lovely one to share as a family especially at the moment when children may be experiencing lots of different feelings.
The British Red Cross has provided these short and simple but very helpful videos showing Dr. Radha Modgil’s top tips for making sure your children stay healthy and happy while in isolation. Dr. Modgil is an NHS GP and has been educating audiences on health and wellbeing for years. We think that her suggestions are super and worth a look.
Click on the link below to see three short clips on continuity, care and creativity.
We are delighted to be able to pass on a message from one friend to another:
“Hi Alfie. I’m so happy to read your comment. I miss you too very much and all other friends. I hope everyone is well and safe.
Niks.”
Let’s hope that these two friends can see each other again soon.
We have had a super update from one of our families about what they have been doing while we are closed.
“V is been busy with her sister playing , learn do some art crafts she makes vase for the flowers with a can because she loves flowers, yesterday I talk about the super heroes and she doesn’t really no very well what’s a hero so I explained and she said he all can be heroes because he all can help each other. Here some photos show what we have doing. We hope you are all ok, and see you soon”
Thank you so much for sharing your lovely photos and for giving us news of what you have all been doing at home. It looks like you’re having a wonderful time. How thoughtful to say that we can all be superheroes by helping each other. It is great to hear from you and we hope that we see you soon too.
