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Remote Learning: Storytelling

January 29, 2021 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

A brief History of Storytelling

Story telling is said to have been dated right back to 30,000 BC where cavemen would draw pictures on the wall of their cave showing a short series of events usually depicting their rituals of hunting. 1,000 BC Greek myths and legends came about, and then in 700 BC the first written story was printed.

Benefits of Storytelling

Helps with understanding of social behaviour – telling right from wrong and teaching empathy.
Develops language and communication.
Improves listening skills.
Encourages creativity and imagination.
Promotes higher order thinking skills.
Can helps understanding of difficult ideas and situations.

Ideas to try at home…

Helicopter Stories

Helicopter Stories is a way of creating stories with your children. As a parent you’re the scribe and write word for word your child’s story down. Then have a go at acting it out…let your child decide who plays which character and what props to use.

Find out more in Miss MacLean’s Helicopter Stories Blog here.

What’s in the bag?

All you need is a bag or a box filled with objects (can be anything you find around the house.) You then take turns with your child to take an object out and create a story around the object.

You could make up a station to go with the bag full of cuddly toys or dolls or toys that you could use to be the characters for your story.

This is a game that can have endless results and can be played repeatedly, as so many different stories could be told.

I wonder what story you could tell about the Gruffalo?

Hanen

In Nursery we use Hanen’s Abc and Beyond approach to develop early literacy skills. Find out more about how to turn stories into conversations in this Sway.

Go to this Sway

Listen to some stories together online

This ThingLink has links to many stories that you might like to share. Click on an icon to take you to the story…

We would love you to share your stories with us on Google Classroom or Twitter @GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome

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Remote Leaning: Looking after the birds

January 27, 2021 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Responsible Robbie likes to help look after the environment and wildlife.

Have you tried the recipe for bird cake in your home learning booklet?

Why not try to make your own bird feeder from recycled materials you have in the house. Here are some ideas…

Remember to throw any wire away after the birds have eaten the cereal.

The CBeebies website has some more ideas on how to make bird feeders for your garden. Why not take a look… Make a bird feeder – CBeebies – BBC

Why not join in with the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch which is happening from the 29th to 31st January and you can sign up for free. There are lots of other things to do on their website too, including stories to read and games to play.

I wonder which birds you will have visiting your garden?

Why not let us know on Google Classroom or Twitter?

@GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome

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Remote Learning: Our New Nursery

January 25, 2021 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Respected Rhiya encourages us to think and talk, and to share our ideas and views.

Rhiya has got some sad news, happy news and she wants to give you a challenge.

The sad news is that we can’t all be at nursery together as we have to make sure everyone is safe from the virus. Also when we come back together, our nursery building might have disappeared. Big machines are going to knock it down.

How does that make you feel?

Some people think that will be exciting and they want to see it all smashed. Some people are worried it will be very noisy and messy. For lots of people the building and garden have lots of happy memories. The happy news that we are getting a new nursery with lots of lovely new toys inside. It is much bigger, with large playrooms, lots of windows and a little garden in the middle. Everything is new and clean and there will be lots of new things to try and we will see our friends there.

What do you think? Are you excited, worried or not sure?

The adults are getting things ready in the new nursery – here are a few photos for you to see what it looks like.

The cloakroom where you will hang your jacket.

The book corners are waiting for their rugs.

Look at the lovely new cooker and sink in the role play area.

Some new vehicles to play with in the sand.

This room will be a gym hall and dining room.

The sandpit is underneath the white tarpaulin – isn’t it big?

Rhiya’s challenges are:

Can you tell us what you liked best about our old nursery?
What are you looking forward to at our new nursery?
Can you draw us a picture or make us a model or write us a story or make a game?
What should our rules be for our nursery and what is important?

Rhiya hopes you like the challenges and that you will post into Google Classroom.

Completing the challenges will help you use lots of skills – you will be remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating and creating. These are called higher order thinking skills.

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Remote Learning: Sorting and Matching

January 21, 2021 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Sorting and matching objects is an important mathematical skill for young children to develop. It helps children to develop their thinking and awareness of number and quantity. Children organise, match and sort items in different ways, by colour, shape, design, size, and sometimes using their own criteria. They may sort by using simple categories such as colour, size or shape, or by using categories such as, type of transport (cars, trains, boats) or types of animals (farm, zoo, sea). Matching encourages children to look for similarities and differences.

Here are just a few ideas…

Sorting toys You could start by asking your child to gather some of their favourite toys (maybe suggest small toys like Lego or animals) then ask them to sort them using different criteria, shape, colour or size.

Loose parts are things like bottle tops, buttons, beads or natural objects – there are many wonderful possibilities.

You might choose stones or shells of different colours, shapes, sizes and textures.

Loose parts can provide good opportunities to challenge children’s thinking because of variations – Will all the different shades of blue go in one set? How will you decide if an item is ‘big’ or ‘small’? Encourage your child to explain why they have chosen to put an object in a particular set.

Household sorting jobs

Putting away the shopping – sorting the fruit, vegetables, tins, frozen food into the correct places.
You could talk to your child about what you are doing as you sort and separate clothes for washing (whites, colours, and darks) or get them to help you sort and match socks.

At lunchtime or dinner time encourage children to set the table by matching knives and forks or plates with cups, you could talk about the different sizes of spoons you might use. How many will you need?
Involve them in recycling waste (paper, plastic, cans and food waste).
Will you read a story (fiction) book together or will you choose non-fiction? Are they all muddled up on the book shelf?
Putting toys away into the right place!

Putting in order of size

Challenge your child to put a selection of items into size order – coins, sticks, shoes or lego bricks perhaps. This encourages measuring skills as well.

Play Odd One Out

Show your child 3 objects, start simple perhaps 2 red and 1 blue – can they spot the odd one out? As they get the idea, increase the challenge – perhaps a red car, a blue car and a green train.

Let your child have a turn at choosing the items for you to say which is the odd one out.

Mrs Russell wonders who can spot the odd one out in the picture below… remember to say why!

Show us what you have been sorting and matching on Google Classroom or Twitter @Glenwood FC #Glenwoodlearningathome

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Remote Learning: Fine Motor Skills – Getting Ready to Write

January 19, 2021 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Fine motor skills involve the use of the muscles and joints of the hands that interconnect and work together to allow you to complete dexterous tasks. They are the smaller hand and finger movements used, for example, to open a lunch box, zip up a coat or write with a pencil. A young child cannot be expected to be able to do these tasks or learn to write appropriately if they haven’t yet developed the strength needed in their hands and fingers. Here are some ideas you can try at home with your families to help develop your fine motor skills and have some fun as well.

Ice and snow melt

Use a pipette to squeeze some warm water on to some ice cubes or snow. How long does it take to melt? Maybe you could try adding some food colouring or paint to the water or try using different liquids such as vinegar or fizzy juice.

Play dough

Try squeezing, stretching, squashing, pinching and rolling some play dough. Can you make some snakes or wiggly worms? Maybe you could try using scissors to cut the play dough into small pieces and then rolling them into little balls. How many can you make? Can you make different sizes of play dough balls? Try holding a masher in both hands and find out how flat you can squash your play dough. You could also try using some loose parts to add to your play dough. Have fun.

Recipe

Plain flour – 2 cups
Water – 1 cup
Salt – ¼ cup
Vegetable oil – 1 tablespoon
Food colouring or paint (It helps to add this to the cup of water)

Add everything together into a large bowl and stir well with a spoon until it turns into a soft dough.
If the mixture is too sticky add some more flour. If it’s too dry add some more water.
Empty the play dough onto a floured surface and mix together with your hands.

Bottle top blaster

Ask an adult to help you cut the top from a plastic bottle and then attach a balloon where the lid would normally be.
Put a pompom into the bottle funnel.
Hold the bottle funnel with one hand and pull the balloon back hard with your other hand.
Let go of the balloon and your pompom will shoot out. How far can your missile travel?
Why not rip or cut some paper to stick on to decorate your bottle top blaster.

Mark Making

Fill a tray with rice, or spread a thin layer of shaving foam or salt on a worktop or old baking tray. Try different items to draw, write or make patterns with such as your fingertip, twig, lollipop stick or paper straw.

Rice RacePut three small empty bowls on a table. Divide a handful of uncooked rice into two of the bowls, leaving the middle one empty. Have a race with someone from home to find out who can be the first to empty their bowl using a teaspoon to put their rice into the middle empty bowl. Try using your left hand and your right hand.

Activities such as jigsaws, building with Lego or playing with loose parts are also great ways to help develop your fine motor skills. Collect a variety of small loose parts from around your home such as buttons, dried pasta, beads, coins or bottle lids. Experiment with making shapes or patterns with your loose parts or perhaps you could make some pictures, or build towers.

Please remember to share your learning on Google Classroom or Twitter @GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome

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Remote Learning – Our Wellbeing Friends

January 15, 2021 Mrs Husbands 2 Comments

2021 has been named ‘Year of Childhood’ and while already full of challenges, let’s look for opportunity and community building. Here are some ways we hope that we can work together this year.

At Glenwood, we have the exciting opportunity to work alongside Save the Children with the project they have created called ‘Children’s Places’. Through this project we will work with the children to look at their community using the wellbeing indicators from ‘Getting it Right for Every Child’ – GIRFEC.

Save the Children have created some fantastic resources to help us work together to do this – including our Wellbeing Buddies.

We have prepared a learning at home bag for every child to introduce you and your family to the Wellbeing Buddies, alongside some ideas that will help your child understand what each of the indicators mean for them. There is also a diary for you to record your experiences together.

Here are our 8 Wellbeing Buddies…

Don’t forget to come to Glenwood to collect your learning at home bag.

Please remember to share your learning on Google Classroom or Twitter @GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome

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Remote Learning: Fresh Air and Exercise

January 13, 2021 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Just because it’s winter and the days are short doesn’t mean going outside is not fun!

In fact, fresh air really is good for you! It can:

help you feel more energised
help you sleep better
help decongest you if you have a cold
restore your mood

Here are some ideas of things that you can do with your families outdoors at this time of year…

Play in the Snow – Why not build a snowman, go sledging or throw some snowballs? Just going for a walk in the snow is exciting – everything looks and sounds different! Can you see different footprints? Who do you think made them? Which way did they go?

Ice and Frost – Go exploring – look for different patterns of frost and different places to find ice. You might slide on it, smash it or pick it up and look through it.

Try blowing bubbles when it’s cold – if you are lucky they will freeze.

Have a go at making ice decorations click here to find out how.Go on a Bear Hunt – Use all your senses as you squelch through mud, scrunch over frosty grass and splash through puddles! You might need to climb through branches or scramble up a hill… will you find the bear’s den?

Puddle Jumping – It’s always fun to jump and splash in puddles! Who can make the biggest splash? Which puddle is deepest? Can you splash all the water out of the puddle?

Fun with Sticks – You could try a game of Pooh Sticks if you are near a bridge over a stream or take some sticks home and make a Stickman using what you have in your house.

Go exploring with a torch – Why not go for an adventure after dark? Take a torch with you and explore the woods or just have a turn in the play park! You might choose to watch the sun go down while you are out as well.

Have a campfire – Some of you might be lucky enough to be able to have a fire in your garden. Why not try cooking some tasty treats on it, such as foil wrapped bananas or marshmallows?

Remember to wrap up warm – Several thin layers are better than one very thick one – then if you get too warm you can take one off! Adults please remember that children will not feel the cold as much as you do BUT they also may not realise when they get too cold – especially when hands and feet get wet.

Whatever you do outdoors – have fun and please share your adventures on Google Classroom or on Twitter @GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome

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Happy New Year

January 11, 2021 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

All of us at Glenwood hope that you had a good break and wish you all the best for the New Year.We are disappointed that we are not able to welcome you all back to nursery this week but have been busy making plans for the upcoming weeks.

We will again be providing regular ideas for learning experiences for you to use at home if you wish. This will be both through our website and on Google Classroom. We are also getting another Home Learning Bag put together along with a booklet full of ideas for you to use as a family.

We hope that you will share your learning with us through Google Classroom – by doing this your child can show their friends what they have been doing and also see what their friends have been doing to! We will also add your pictures to your child’s learning journal to show their learning at home.

This is an unsettling time for everyone, so you may like to look back at some of our previous blogs….

Healthy Minds and Bodies

Daily Routines

Stay safe and we hope to be able to welcome you back to Glenwood soon.

For full details of how we are supporting home learning and the extra measures we have in place to keep safe in Glenwood please visit this page as part of our Coronavirus planning.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/Glenwood/january-2021-remote-learning/

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Road Safety with Ziggy

November 27, 2020 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Today we took Ziggy with us on our Woodland Adventure and taught him all about staying safe on the road.

We hold hands with our partners to keep them safe.

We stop at the kerb and look and listen for cars.

Zebra crossings are a safe place to cross.

We stay away from the edge of the pavement when we are walking.

The children are all very good at keeping safe when we walk to the woods and could tell Ziggy all about what he should do.

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Exploring Mark Making

September 18, 2020 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Over the past few weeks at nursery, the children have been exploring different ways of mark making both indoors and outside.

Here are just a few photographs of what we have been doing…

…working together on a large piece of paper.

Whiteboards are a favourite…

Writing in salt…

Gloop is always popular!

Mixing our own colours of paint…

We love painting on a large scale (although it can get messy!)

Making paint from things we find outdoors…

Crayon rubbings and chalk outside too.

How do you like to make marks, draw and write? Why not share with us on Twitter @GlenwoodFC or in your Google Classroom.

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Remote Learning – Patterns

June 26, 2020 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Patterns are everywhere. Looking for patterns helps us discover and learn new things about the world around us.

Mrs Wilson went on a pattern hunt in her house and garden. Here are some of the patterns she found.

Can you find any of these patterns?

Maybe you can find some different patterns in your house or when you are outside.

Activities to try at home

Pair socks by looking at their patterns to help develop matching skills.

Print a pattern using fruit and vegetables.

Look at the patterns on the soles of your shoes and wellington boots. How many different patterns can you find?

Design your own tartan pattern using paint and toy car wheels.

Support your child develop their understanding of repeated patterns by providing simple patterns for them to copy using loose parts. Saying the pattern out loud as it is made can really help children as they decide what item is next. Making their own patterns also helps children develop their decision making skills as well as learning how to make logical connections.

Collect some leaves to peg a leaf pattern on a washing line or piece of wool or string.

Explore the different patterns that animals might have by watching a clip from CBeebies about animals with spots and stripes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p011mxh0

Remember to tweet to let us see the patterns you find or make. Have fun! @Glenwood FC #Glenwoodlearningathome

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Remote Learning – Fun Friends: Don’t Forget to be Brave and Stay Happy!

June 25, 2020 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Hello Fun Friends. This is our last message of this year and we want you to carry on being Brave and Happy!

Remember to use your milkshake breathing and relax when you feel upset or worried. Also it can be good to talk about your feelings with people who care for you.

Mirror, Mirror

When you are looking at yourself in the mirror (perhaps brushing your teeth or hair) Tell yourself something positive e.g “I can be brave, kind, helpful, try my best” These are positive (green) thoughts.

You can help other people to have green positive thoughts too. Send a message to a friend, member of your family or neighbour.

We know that you are Brave! We saw how Brave you could be at Glenwood and we know you will continue to try and be brave. Remember to keep practising being brave. Brave is :

Looking people in the eye
Smiling
Using a brave voice
Standing up tall
Trying your best and giving it a go!

Making New Friends

It’s good to make new friends and to play with different people. Friends smile, help, talk, listen, play and share. What would you tell your friend? What would you ask them? Would you tell them about your family?

Family Fun Questions (why not write these out, add some more and then pick a question to answer)

Who has the loudest laugh?
Who makes the best food and what is it?
Who is the funniest person?
Who has the smelliest shoes?
Who is the oldest person in the family?
What is your favourite thing to do?

Our support Team

Sometimes we need help or care from others. On a piece of paper draw yourself and then people who can help or support you round about you. This might include siblings, wider family, neighbours, teachers (pets can also be included).

Game – What could you do if? (Think of solutions to these problems)

You don’t get a plate/book but everyone else does.
There’s a lion in the garden.
There is a group of children playing and you want to join in.
Everyone is doing an activity and you don’t know how to do it.
Your friend gets their head stuck in some railings.

Make up your own scenarios – some things that might happen and some funny.

It’s ok to say No!

Sometimes our friends do or say things we don’t like. Remember it’s ok to say “I don’t like that”. Look the person in the eye and use a brave voice. Next you can get louder and show a cross face. Then use a very loud voice and show your angry face and body (no hitting or kicking). Get help from an adult if you need it.

We follow the rules so we don’t get lost or hurt. We ask for help when we need it and we remember the Pants rule https://youtu.be/_SzbMEVYiyg

Game – Today we will be……

Here are a few positive behaviours (add your own), write them on pieces of paper, fold them up, put them in a container and then pick one out each day. Then everyone playing needs to try and be this word.

Determined Flexible Thankful Friendly Creative Funny Surprising Tidy Helpful Co-operative Bendy Strong Gentle Playful Try hard

Keep Learning!

As you grow there are lots of things to learn! Keep practising to achieve your goals and try hard! Remember: ‘No matter how old you are everyday is a learning day’.

We are proud of you!

Being in lockdown has been very hard and we want you to know that we have missed you very much but we are very proud of you staying at home or going to a nursery hub.

We hope you will continue being Fun Friends and will remember:

- Friends- can recognise our own and others feelings
- Relaxing and milkshake breathing
- I can do it – turning red thoughts green
- Encouraging – I can achieve a goal
- Nurture – I can be a good friend
- Don’t forget to be brave!
- Stay happy!

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Remote Learning – Healthy Tuck Shop

June 24, 2020 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Miss Bibby has been thinking about ways you can use money in your house.

One way I thought of is to set up your very own healthy snack shop.

My snack shop is going to have apples, tangerines, strawberries, blueberries, carrot sticks, peppers and celery for sale.

You and your family can take turns at both selling and buying your snacks.

You could make it a bit easier by putting the coins on the price list.

Why not see what coins you can recognise and use these to buy your snacks?

This activity will help develop numeracy skills such as coin and number recognition.

Don’t forget to share your tuck shop with us on Twitter or Google Classrooms #Glenwoodlearningathome

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Remote Learning – Number Sense

June 23, 2020 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Number Sense is when a person has a sense of what numbers mean, understands their relationship to one another, can perform mental arithmetic and can use numbers in real situations.

At Glenwood we play games that help us to develop our number sense. All of these ideas can be adapted to suit the stage of individual children – make the numbers and quantities smaller or larger to give the appropriate amount of challenge.

We like to add an element of competition to add to the fun and will play several games in a row for a short time each.

Saying Number Sequences – Forwards and backwards: this can be as simple as counting together as you climb up the stairs, kick a football or count down to begin a race. Try saying alternate numbers as you count, or clapping for each number.

Recognising and sequencing numerals:

Point to each number as you say it – go forwards and backwards.

Cover a number – Which one is missing from the sequence?

Play Splat! – say a number and ‘splat’ the correct card.

Counting Visible Items:

Count out the correct number of items onto the plate or match the correct numeral to the set.

Use a pack of cards and count out the same number that is shown – see who can do it fastest.

Spatial Patterns: These are the dot patterns that are on dice or dominoes – we learn to recognise the pattern and can say how many spots there are without counting them.

Roll a dice and count out the correct number – take turns and see who has the most at the end. Add the spots on two dice together for a challenge…

Subitising: Our brains are very clever – they can tell us ‘how many’ items are in a small group without us counting!

Hide a small number of objects under a cloth…

…lift up the cloth just for a few seconds – How many did you see?

You could try using more than one colour and asking how many of each colour.

We hope you will try out some of these games with your family… have fun and let us know which you enjoyed most.

@GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome

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Remote Learning – We’re Going to Go to School Soon – Week 6

June 22, 2020 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

It is the final week of our transitions programme. Can you believe how quickly time has gone?

As we are saying ‘goodbye’ in nursery to all the children who will be going to school in August, here are some activities to finish off our Bear Hunt…

Bear Hunt – Week 6

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Transition Visits to Glenwood

June 19, 2020 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

This week we have been excited to welcome our pre-school children back to Glenwood for the first of their transition visits.

It was a bit strange at first but the children soon got over their nerves and were soon joining in with all the different activities. It was hard remembering that we couldn’t be too close together but everyone did very well.

Here are some pictures of the experiences we took part in…

The Beebots went on a Bear Hunt

Building houses for bears

Inventing our own bear maths games

Playing on the computers

Drawing pictures and reading books

Listening to the story of Whiffy Wilson The wolf who didn’t want to go to school

And everyone decorated a triangle to make our own bunting

Next week we will hear all about your adventures when you visited your new schools and also have a small celebration together to say ‘Goodbye’.

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Remote Learning – Fun Friends: Nurture

June 18, 2020 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Consistency is key – the more your child practices, the better they will become at finding ways to work through their own personal challenges.

Recap on previous weeks’ learning:

Feelings It’s ok to have feelings, everyone has feelings. Learning how to recognise and deal with our feelings is an important skill.
Relax Practise relaxation every day if you can and encourage your child to use relaxation strategies to calm down if they feel upset/worried/angry.
I can try We can be BRAVE! By looking someone in the eye, smiling and using a brave voice. We now know that RED thoughts are unhelpful thoughts and GREEN thoughts are helpful thoughts. We can choose to turn our RED thoughts GREEN.
Encourage Did you encourage your child to try a new skill, develop self-control or overcome a fear? Did your child have the opportunity to practice the skill of being brave as they took on a new challenge?

Nurture

Learning about role models in our lives and how they can influence how we nurture relationships. Spending time together doing fun activities with adults, peers and siblings help us to role model positive relationships. Our family, friends and adults in our lives can help us be brave and we can help them.

Being a good friend Discuss what makes a good friend – helping, sharing, smiling and listening. Then talk about a time that your child has been a good friend and thank them for sharing the story.

Making new friends Remind children about doing things one step at a time. Discuss steps to make new friends by, smiling and saying hello, asking them to play with you, share your toys, invite them to play at your garden, etc

Encourage children to listen to their friends.

Listening game: Play a Simon Says game but with a different action from what is being said. For example, Simon says “touch your nose”, while touching your head. Your child needs to listen and do what you say rather than what you do.

Sharing game: In a small group give each child 5 stickers of the same colour. The aim is to end up with 5 stickers- all different colours. Each child has to ask the other child for a sticker in a brave voice and say please and thank you. Afterward you can discuss the importance of being kind and sharing. What would happen if no one had shared a sticker.

Magical sound box: Put different objects, such as keys, paper, beans in a bottle, etc., into a covered box, and then manipulate one of the objects asking a child to tell you what he or she heard. You might need to introduce the child to different objects and sounds before playing this game.

Guess who is calling you: Seat everyone in a circle, choose one child to cover their eyes. Then choose someone else in the group to shout out the person’s name that has their eyes closed. The child then uncovers their eyes and has to guess who shouted out their name. Continue until everyone has had a turn in the circle.

Useful links for being a good friend.

CBeebies Justin’s Good Friends Song

What makes a good friend? song on YouTube

Bad Apple: a tale of friendship by Edward Hemingway (YouTube)

Friendship Soup – a recipe for friends (YouTube)

Can you tell us about when you have been a good friend to your family, neighbours or anyone else?

Share on Google Classrooms or Twitter @GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome

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Remote Learning – Catapults and Mazes

June 17, 2020 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Mrs Silvester has been having fun with her recycling again! Here are some ideas of things you could try at home too…

Catapults

In Mrs Silvester’s house we set out to build our own catapults with things we had around the house to see if we could create our own trajectory devices. Then we built a basketball type game with the catapults.

Here are some of the things you could use:

Piece of scrap wood/ cardboard/ice lollipop stick/craft stick
Wood glue/rubber bands/sticky tack
Clothes peg/plastic spoons
Plastic bottle caps
Cardboard box
Yogurt pots/containers
Projectile Ideas (safe for toddlers and preschoolers): peas, pom poms, dandelions (just the flower part)

These were some of the questions the children in my house had, which we were hoping the experiment would answer:

Which would go further, heavier things or lighter things?
Does a longer catapult fling the object further?
Which catapult would work better, the spoon or the lollipop stick?

Find more information

https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/lolly-stick-catapults/

Maze Game

This game was fun to make and is great for building motor skills, concentration, counting and number recognition. Turn a cardboard box or plate into an entertaining ball maze game. This is a great hand-eye coordination game to make and play with reusable materials.

Suggestions of what you could use to make your own Recycled Maze Game:

Scissors
Cardboard Box or Plate
Pencil
Paper Strips or Cardboard Tubes (Toilet Paper Rolls, Paper towel rolls, wrapping paper tubes, etc.)
Sticky Tape or Glue
A bean, marble, scrunched up paper ball or something small that rolls.

Create the Maze

1) Design your maze by placing the tubes or paper strips on the box. Arrange them making sure you leave enough space for free ball travel around the maze.

2) Then attach the tubes or paper strips to your box or plate

3) ENJOY ! ! !

You could try these other ideas for making mazes too.

Here’s a fun song to help remind us of ways to cut down on single use plastic: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0798jzc/junk-rescue-songs-2-single-use-no-thank-you

Don’t forget to share your creations on Google Classrooms or Twitter @GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome

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Remote Learning – Let’s Smile!

June 16, 2020 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

We love to see your smiles and it is nearly the end of National Smile Month (18th May – 18th June). When you smile it’s great to see your teeth especially when they are clean and bright.

Remember to:

Brush your teeth twice a day in the morning and at night.
Brush for two minutes with a pea sized amount of toothpaste
At the end spit don’t rinse
Reduce sugary foods and drinks and restrict them to mealtimes.

Why don’t you sing along with Hey Duggee’s toothbrushing song?

Activity

Next time you are brushing your teeth can you name the different parts you are brushing: the lower set, front of your teeth, gums, back of teeth, biting surface, corners and upper set of teeth.

Sugar

Lots of us also love things that are sweet but sugar isn’t good for our teeth or bodies. Are you eating too much sugar?

https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/food-facts/sugar

Activity – Sugar Bags

Create bags with spoonfuls of sugar to show how much sugar is in a product you enjoy. You will find the amount of sugar in the nutrition panel of the product listed under “Carbohydrate of which sugars”. 1 teaspoon=roughly 4g of sugar so divide the figure on the packaging by 4 to get the number of teaspoons.

Mrs McGregor checked her yoghurt ingredient panel and found it contained 13.8g of carbohydrate as sugars. She measured out 3 ¼ teaspoons of sugar to show how much sugar was in the yoghurt.

Sugar swap

Which items do you enjoy that you could swap for similar products with less sugar? For example, you could swap flavoured yoghurt for natural yoghurt with fresh fruit .