Dalrymple Early Childhood Centre

Lets have fun today with a hula hoop!

You can do exercises, practice your balance, and hand and eye co ordination with a hoop!

Stand in the middle of the hoop, hold your arms out, and try to balance on one leg at a time. Are you wobbly?

Put your hoop down on the ground and try and jump in, out and around, using two feet together.

Do some stretches! Lift hoop up over your head and back down to the ground, repeat, up to 10!

Hold a hoop up for someone else to throw balls through!

You could also throw a hoop over standing plastic bottles/skittles to practice target throwing!

If you have more hoops, spread them out like islands, and practice hopping and jumping from each one! If you are not in a hoop then you are in the water!!

More activities coming soon 🙂

Yesterday came the time to let our Butterflies fly free.  One was very eager to escape and the rest were very calm and flew off after a little play.  It’s time for their life cycle to begin all over again 🙂

Talk to your child about school

Talking about the exciting things your child is going to do at school helps them get over any nerves. You could:

Talk about how fun school is. We have done lots of transition sessions before we the school closed and there might have been something your child particularly enjoyed playing with. Older siblings could be enlisted to share all the things they enjoy about school – as long as they’re thoroughly briefed not to share things they’re not so keen on. Giving your child time to talk also lets them raise any concerns or questions.

Practise the school routine. Have some fun practising your new school routine.  take a walk to the school, looking for any interesting things on the way to talk about. It might be a good idea to make sure your child has school-friendly bedtimes and getting-up times a few days in advance.  This will help your child feel less scared as to what to expect (and prepare yourself) for the first day of school.

This week we are looking at day and night.  This story is about night time, how do we know it’s night time?

Look out for another day/night activity tomorrow.

Worm Charming

Worm charming, worm grunting, and worm fiddling are methods of attracting earthworms out from the ground. It is usually done to collect bait for fishing, but it can also be a sport. Most worm charming methods involve vibrating the soil, which encourages the worms to the surface. One method involves stamping your feet on the ground and watching carfully as the worms come to the surface.

How to charm

While outdoors today stamp on the grass or mud really fast. This should attract the worms to the top of the surface. This is what birds do to attract some lunch! You can watch the worms as they wiggle about or very carefully pick them up to examine them.

What do they look like?

How do they feel?

Low long are they?

What is the biggest worm you have charmed?

Once you have looked at the worms make sure you place them carefully back onto the grass or soil and give your hands a really good wash.

Some cool facts about worms.

Have fun!

A good way for children to learn to count is to drop it into normal every day activities.

Like when you are out a walk with your child, pick a colour and count how many cars you see in that colour.  This will also help children recognise different colours as well as counting.

Just a quick reminder that Monday the 25th of May is a Public Holiday and Tuesday the 26th is a Teacher’s in -service day so we will not be posting on the blog these days.

Please do not hesitate to send in all your wonderful learning though.  We love seeing what you are all up to.

See you all Wednesday.  Stay Safe 🙂