Dalrymple Early Childhood Centre

Continuing our listening skills this week, have some quiet time and take part in Mindfulness with Cosmic Yoga.

Potion Making

Today bring out the wizard in you and make a magic potion. Use petals, leaves, grass, mud and water to create a magic potion.

Why not make up a magic spell to say while stirring and creating your potion.

Have fun!

This is a popular song in the nursery, see if you can remember it and sing along.

Charley has been working on learning and reciting the Pat-a-Cake nursery Rhyme. Well done you aced it!

Kyle has been helping his dad in the garden lately watering the flowers, tomato plants, sweetcorn, and the potatoes to make sure they are getting enough water to make them grow.

Well Done Kyle x

Let’s explore our understanding of feelings through art and craft.

Get creative! Gather some string, paints, pens etc. Draw pictures of faces on each paper and write down it’s emotion.

Practice fine motor skills and cut around your picture to make feeling cards. The cards can be kept to refer to when discussing emotions.

Why don’t you play a guessing game with someone? Change your facial expression and moods, and see if you can guess each other’s emotions! Then at the end make a smiley face to make each other laugh!

Chelsie had done some planting at the beginning of lockdown.  Look how big her plants are now 😀 Her mum is super happy with her mother’s day flower gift as seen in the middle.

Another listening game.  Make up a rhythm of sounds and get someone to copy.  You have to listen carefully to make sure they are doing the same as you.  Start simple and add more actions as you get better at copying.

You can use your hands, spoons, wooden blocks, stones or any other objects that will make a noise.

Here are some examples.

tap together  X 2, repeat this and begin to add more taps, if you can’t manage one amount go back to the number you were good at.

Tap together, tap the floor, tap together tap the floor.  When you have mastered this rhythm, try two taps of each and add  more if you wish.

Gardening

Today help to take care of your garden. Ask an adult to help you pull out all of those pesky weeds.

This is a great way to learn the difference between weeds and plants which are growing in your garden as well as excellent exercise. The reward is a nice tidy garden to play in.

Have fun!

This activity is great for colour matching. Sorting and matching letters and numbers, identifying sounds.

WHAT TO DO:

1. Fill the bin about half full of water.

2. Pour all the letters and/or numbers into the plastic bin.

3. Arrange the cupcake molds or bowls next to the bin.

4 Give your child the spoon and ask them to scoop a certain Colour, number or letter.

1. Once the molds were full of letters and numbers, dump them all back in the water and started filling them up again.