Dalrymple Early Childhood Centre

This activity promotes expressive language, vocabulary, turn-taking and attention and listening.

What you need –

• Small Stones
• Stickers, magazine pictures cut-outs, felt pens

Story stones are essentially very simple prompts for narrative play. All you need to do is get some flat and smooth stones from a craft shop or your garden and decorate them with pictures of objects or animals. Choose one of the stones and start a tale based on the picture on it, then encourage your children to draw more stones and continue the story.

Let’s practice our hand and eye co-ordination skills.

You can use a ball, balloon, beanbag or try all three…but not at once ha!!

Tie a piece of string between two chairs, so that they are 2 metres apart.
Can you throw the ball/balloon/beanbag to someone else, throwing and catching over the string? How many can you get without dropping it? If it’s too tricky to start with, pull the chairs in a metre or so.

Karly has been building her new swing set learning about tools and different parts names. Well done Karly!

Karly would like to introduce her pets. She has a new pet called tinker bell she’s a baby tortoise 🐢 she has little legs and feet Minnie my Puppy has little paws 4 of them and 4 legs.

Tinkerbell eats lettuce plants and flowers I bath her every morning so she does a poo in bath 🛀 she comes out to play in the garden

Minnie eats dog food it’s yucky I don’t eat it she drinks water she plays with her toys. I throw her ball talk to her when she’s smelly I bath her I take her a walk on a lead I keep the gate closed. I get a poo bag and but it in the bin it’s smelly yuck I have another dog called rosy.

good morning everyone

do you know what animals live in these houses. Chat with someone in your house and email me what you think.

eanatalie.speirs@glow.sch.uk

Bottle Bug Hotel

Fill a used bottle with natural materials such as twigs, moss, leaves, pinecones etc.

Hang your bottle in your garden and wait for bugs to make it there home.

Over the next few weeks use a magnifying glass to observe which bugs make your bottle their home.

Questions to find the answers to…

What bugs are living there?

How many legs do they have?

What do they like to eat?

What do they do to help us?

Play with Baking Soda Science
A little baking soda and vinegar can open a whole world of fun to tiny scientists. Cover the bottom of a foil tray with baking soda. Fill an ice cube tray with vinegar––for extra fun you can add a drop of food coloring to each compartment. Using a dropper or pipette (great for fine motor skills, too!), watch the baking soda fizz and froth in a chemical reaction.

This activity promotes attention and listening skills.

How quickly can you freeze when the music stops?

Can you stand really still?

You will need:

• Music
• Dancing feet

You can click on the link below if you are not sure what to do.

Just think how fun it would be to grow our own fruit, vegetables and herbs…and fresh, home grown food tastes much nicer too!

At this time of year there are a lot of choices of seeds, that are ready to be sown this month…

How about…courgettes, carrots, broccoli, salad onions, swede …Those and many more which are all ready to plant in June…

You could visit a site I use to help me in the garden.

rhs.org.uk

Please take some pics before, during and after of your food growing, and feel free to send them to us!