Holly has been helping to hoover in the house as well as playing ‘Pop to the Shops’ which helps her with her counting and dealing with money. She has also been matching her letters to pictures and doing jigsaws.
Holly prepares her own lunch. She loves chopping up the food.
Looks delicious, Holly!
WOW!! Your Fairy Garden looks fabulous. You have used your first tooth fairy money well to create a fantastic area to play in.
Oscar has been enjoying the tasks from the Learning Together calendar. Here he is writing his name with play doh.
Apparently, the best part was destroying it all at the end.
Well done, Oscar!
In this last post in the series we are going to look at some day to day activities that can help develop fine motor skills.
Activities
Fastening and unfastening buttons, zips and belts
Jigsaw puzzles
Using a knife and fork correctly
Block play
Drawing and colouring
Technology and using a mouse
Pegging out the laundry
Tightening and loosening nuts and bolts
Peeling and placing stickers
Challenge!
Create a fine motor skills box or area where you can work on your skills each day
Violet made some animal habitats with her brother. She made an elephant habitat and they then built a habitat for dragon, lizards and snakes!
Activities
Today we are going to explore the weather! In Scotland you can often experience many different types of weather in just one day, so pick the activities below that suit the weather you have today:
If it is raining put a container outside and at the end of the day see how much water has fallen, how could you measure it?
Write a weather journal and record in pictures and words what the weather is like each day.
Read some poems or books about weather
Make rain in a jar – fill a jar with water, top with shaving foam and drop some food dye on top then see what happens!
Go cloud watching – find a comfy pace and look at clouds, what shapes and colours can you see?
Create a weather chart so you can show your family the weather each day
Challenge!
Find out about the water cycle
