Dalrymple Early Childhood Centre

Karly has been practicing some counting with paper plates and grims

Karly learned how to do her own ponytail

Karly had great fun on her isolation picnic. She learned about floating and sinking by the river.

It was Karly’s mummy and daddy’s anniversary so she helped to organise a fun fair with prizes. They played hoopla, hook the tattie (no ducks), 😂 chuck the welly and more we won tickets and had to go to the prize shop. Karly got candy floss and Popcorn 🍿

One of Karly’s many baking activities. “Move over Natalie, snacks now my job.”

Karly built her own den without any help

We can’t wait to see more adventures!

Karly has been very busy exploring messy play.  Here are some of the things she has been doing:

Karly decorated the window every week

She used her daily exercise to make others happy drawing rainbow’s doing hopscotch for others to play

Shhh don’t tell daddy we stole his sock to make bubble snakes 🐍

Karly made slime for the first time. It stretched so long

She made Easter chicks

Karly explored mixing the colours of the rice and then using it to decorate her pictures

Having splashing fun

Mummy left Karly alone and she tried to ice her biscuit. It is in there somewhere 😂

She helped to paint her play house in the garden

Karly loved her messy farm. She used sunflower seeds, mud, Weetabix as hay, Cous Cous, sawdust, some rice and chick peas

Karly started her lockdown being extremely kind and caring by helping to rescue a baby lamb whose mummy left it in the snow.  Karly helped to heat it up and gave it some warm milk until the SPCA came to collect it. The lamb is now living in a small holding and getting big.

Health and Wellbeing 

Hi everyone, I’m really missing our gym time! We haven’t had gym for a while now…so it’s time to wake up our bodies!

I’m going to start doing more exercises at home, because it will keep me strong and make me feel happy! Why don’t you join me?

Remember we need to look after our heart and stay healthy.

Since it is Monday we will ease in gently! So lets get back to basics today with doing our warm up, developing our balancing skills, and a cool down. Then as the days go on, more ideas will be added…and it will feel like being back in the gym hall again!

Lets start with a warm up. We need to tell our bodies to get ready to exercise. Then it won’t get such a fright!

Warm up 

Lets stretch up and reach the sky

Touch your toes

Swing your arms

Turn around

Kick your feet

Shake your feet

Marching

Hop on one foot

Run fast on the spot

Star jumps

Lets practice balancing!

How long can you stand on one leg?

Lift one foot up and then back down, keep changing feet slowly.

Here’s a challenge! Can you lift your foot out to the side /in front of you and hold for the count of 3? Who is wobbly?

Lets run on the spot, faster and faster!

Can you feel your heart beating yet? Well done! You’ve been working hard today. It’s time to do a cool down now. It’s important to give our bodies a rest too.

Cool down

Lie on your back like a star, breathing in and out.

Then curl into a ball and you can sing “See the little bunnies sleeping”.

Hip, hip hooray, it’s time to get up and enjoy our day! 

Don’t you feel better after exercising? Have a fun day.

Today’s story is about a detective, someone good at finding things.  Listen carefully to find out what she uses to find things.

What did Nell like to find?

Come back tomorrow for more detective activities.

• Have a look at the shapes bellow,
• See if you can name them,
• Look around your house and garden and see if you can find any shapes that look the same.

Bubble Making

Why not have a go at making you own bubble mixture. Use the recipe below to create bubbles in your garden. Experiment with objects to create the bubbles.

Remember we love to see what you have been doing at home so send us some pictures of your bubbles.

Have fun!

Recipe

½ cup washing up liquid
1½ cups water
2 teaspoons sugar
Kitchen utensils (such as potato mashers, whisks, slotted spoons, frying pan cover, spatulas, colanders, cookie cutters, etc.), bubble wands, sticks tied together with a loop of string, hula hoop.
A large container  to put the mixture in for example a basin.

Instructions
Mix together all the ingredient’s till the sugar is dissolved.
Encourage the children to explore how to create bubbles using the kitchen utensils, wands and string.

Questions to ask …
What makes the biggest bubbles?
What makes the most bubbles?
How can you make the bubbles fly higher into the sky?
How many bubbles can you burst before they touch the ground?

Good morning everyone!
Today I have posted my favourite nursery rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle. I hope you enjoy listening to it. I have a job for you to do today, I would like you to think about your favourite nursery rhyme and have someone in your house video you and email it to me eanatalie.speirs@glow.sch.uk.

Thank You

Natalie x

We have our first cocoon today 😀 Look how quickly it changed.

Nora and Elsie have been exploring shadows in the garden.  I wonder how a shadow is made? Maybe you can ask mummy or daddy to help you find out?