Author: Alana Speirs

One of our favourite games! Who doesn’t like a game of I Spy??? And what’s more, the educational benefits are tremendous! Initial sounds is a skill which can take a while to grasp with some children so it’s a great wee activity to do that’s easy no matter where you are.

Starting off it’s best to have items in front of your child that they can see

e.g. an apple

a car

a pencil

a ball

a doll

(you get the idea)

You then begin, “I spy with my little eye, something beginning with PI” (for P) remember to use the sounds that the letters make and not the letter names.

When your child begins to get the hang of 5 or 6 items on the table in front of them you could try this super tricky challenge sheet. And once they have mastered this they are ready to play anywhere.

I Spy

Challenge – try turning it around to see if your child can take a turn, asking YOU if you can find things using their initial sound clues.

For some finding eye spy using initial sounds a little tricky – why not start with COLOUR I SPY. Again set up the same only with coloured items OR you can use the checklist below and it can be a look and find activity. You can use it to match, or to give clues, colour, shape, size, where you might find one, pattern etc. Lots of possibilities.

Checklist

Have fun 🙂

Keep your work coming in everybody. It’s lovely to see you all.

The staff are missing you loads.

So my idea for today’s task came from my 4year old’s drawing yesterday.

There is so much change in our little one’s lives just now but in their eyes they are probably loving it. To them, for most, their house is just how they like it these days with parent(s)/carers having more time to play with them, fun home schooling activities going on for older siblings and thankfully the weather has been good to enjoy walks and out in the garden. Their house is their safe place.

Encourage your child to draw a picture of their house and who lives in it with them.

Capture moments like these when you can and hold onto the positives that come with the negatives.

The long red bit are our stairs, the squares are the cushions on our couches she tell me. Up the top is “Mum, dad, Cole and me all playing in my room.”

https://youtu.be/qAGbxKfNMuE    #WEREMEMBER #POSITIVITY

Just before I post more of the children’s fab work from this week I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has posted in and also to the parents who have taken the time to fill out our wee feedback form.

The comments were very helpful and thank you for the lovely comments that came through in them too with regards to the great job the staff are doing.

Have a great weekend – rest up parents – you have two days to recover 🙂

And please keep the pictures, videos and work coming in.

Ashton’s fabulous village and Abi’s stunning rainbow with a very beautiful matching top 🙂

Rebecca’s castle   please click to view 🙂

Poppy and Flynn’s Days of the Week song

And we’ve made it …….. Happy Friday everyone!!!!!!

Follow the link below to find our last bank of daily suggestion tasks for the week and don’t miss our final mystery challenges for the day at 10am and 2pm 🙂

Daily timetable 5

Can we also ask that you take a few moments to give us some feedback on our past week whilst most of you have been learning from home.

We want to help and support the best that we can during this time and so we are open to honest answers and we aim to use your feedback to make positive changes and improvements for next week.

Remember nothing that we post is required to be carried out, its simply ideas for families to dip in and out of if you are finding the days long.

Thank you for your continued support – from all at Catrine ECC.