Here is a quick look at some of the activities that you have been doing at home. Thank you for sharing what you have been doing on Twitter – remember to tag @GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome
Planting and growing sunflowers…
Baking…
PE with Joe Wicks…
Getting creative…
Helping with DIY…
Building dens…
Making rainbows for your windows…
We love to see what you have been doing at home.
Please stay in touch.
We may not be at nursery together but some of the staff would like to share some of our favourite stories and songs with you from our homes.
You might also like to revisit our previous Storytelling Sway.
We hope you enjoy these and we look forward to seeing you all again.
@GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome
Young children love to help… we all know this often means a job can take twice as long, so why is it important that we encourage children to help with jobs around the house?
Helping is fun for children! They want to copy what adults do and enjoy spending time with them.
What are children learning as they help with chores? Firstly, a sense of pride in what they have contributed to the family. They are also learning to cooperate and to take responsibility, as well as important skills for life.
Children will be developing their literacy skills – having conversations, listening to instructions, learning and using new words.
Numeracy skills are also used – sorting and matching, counting and measuring are just some of the skills that are important in jobs around the house.
Both large and fine motor skills will be developed along with motor-eye coordination.
There are a few important things to remember if having the children helping is going to be enjoyable for everyone:
So, what jobs can young children help with?
Try and enjoy spending time together with your child whatever you are doing and remember learning is everywhere.
@GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome
Children are naturally scientists – their curiosity helps them to understand the world around them. The children at Glenwood love to do their own experiments – developing their skills of scientific inquiry and creativity as they work.
They ask questions and make predictions, follow instructions and make observations, developing skills for learning, life and work.
Here are a few simple experiments and investigations you can try at home…
Click on the link to find out how to Make a Bubble Snake
Here is a reminder of the bubble mix recipe:
1/2 cup of washing up liquid, 1 1/2 cups water & 2 teaspoons of sugar
You could use straws or other tubes to blow bubbles (or anything else with holes…)
Make a Paper Aeroplane (follow the link for instructions)
Which is the best design for flying fast?
Which goes the furthest?
Why don’t you have a competition with your whole family?
Create a Volcanic Eruption
This is a favourite at Glenwood – it can get messy so you might like to do it outside!
First make your volcano – you could use an empty plastic bottle or yoghurt pot and some sand or mud.
Next put some bicarbonate of soda in the volcano (along with some ketchup or food colouring or paint to make the lava red)
Finally pour in some vinegar and watch the eruption!
Lego Boat Challenge
Can you make a boat that floats using Lego?
How many pennies can it hold before it sinks?
Another challenge for the whole family to get involved with!
Build a Bug Hotel
You could create a home for minibeasts in your garden – it can be big and fancy like the one on the RSPB website but a simple one using recycled materials will also attract wildlife.
Don’t forget there are some other science experiments in your Ideas for Home Booklet March 2020
Please Tweet some photos @GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome
Can you name any of these shapes?
Can you find these shapes in your house?
Can you find any other shapes in your house?
When doing a scavenger hunt like this you are learning to explore and notice shapes in your environment, to match 2D shapes and to talk about the properties of shapes (How many sides? How many corners? Are they straight, round, curved?). For further challenge you could try to find and name some 3D objects.
Please Tweet us your shape hunt photos
@GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome
A little bit messy but great fun…
You will need: plain flour, washing up liquid, water, food colouring, bowls, spoons, paint brushes
Measure out 1 cup each of flour, water and washing up liquid and mix until smooth – try not to make too many bubbles.
Split the paint between small bowls and add food colouring.
Your paint is ready to use!
Have you spotted any rainbows in your street?
Here is Mrs Husbands!
Following the Scottish Government decision to close schools and nurseries, we have plans in place to make sure our pupils have every opportunity to continue their education regardless of the circumstances we may face.
We know that these are very challenging times for all of our families and we would like to begin by sending our care, thoughts and best wishes to all of our families and the wider community.
We understand that many of our families will find themselves in very difficult and worrying circumstances over the coming weeks and months and do not want, in any way, to add to these emotions through creating any anxiety about learning activities that ‘must be done’ each day. With this in mind, the learning activities that we will be facilitating will be shared with an understanding that some of our children/ families will not be in a position to complete these activities each day. We also acknowledge that spending time with your child in whatever ways are best suited to your family and to meet your child’s interests and stage of development will be most beneficial.
We have developed Home Learning Bags for each child to take home and a Home Learning booklet.
ideas for home booklet March 2020
We will regularly update our website and Twitter with tips, games, challenges and ideas of ways you can support your child at home including links to educational websites.
We recently enjoyed a visit to St Ninian’s High School to take part in a sports event led by the sports leaders and the active schools co-ordinator. We played lots of games with the senior pupils and had a great time!
Thank you to all the parents who attended our recent STEM curriculum evening and to the whole staff team for showcasing our learning and making this evening a huge success. Our parents loved trying out some of the experiences on offer and feedback was very positive and encouraging.
Great to see all the stimulating and fun activities and nice to talk with staff and parents.
So lovely to see the amazing resources and have a chance to meet other staff members – really lovely group.
Thank you for all the staff’s knowledge and expertise!
The resources were fantastic, in particular the technology.
Loved the ideas for playing and learning at home and seeing what children do at nursery.
I wish I could provide constructive feedback, but nope! The evening and it’s content was perfect! So much effort made! Such a shame more parents didn’t come along.
If you didn’t manage along, see what you missed here STEM in Glenwood presentation
We are developing fine motor skills as we chop, spread and peel snack.
We are loving being back and learning both indoors and out!
Our first pick of the season
#GrowYourOwn #LearningForSustainability #StrawberriesFromTheGarden #TheyLookSoTasty
26.07.19
This year we have developed a strong community link with @asda Newton Mearns. We continued to develop this link with a visit to the store. The children learned how to use the scanner at the tills and described it as “the best day ever!” Thank you to Leigh @AsdaCommunity
27.07.19
We had a visit from Miss Cunningham’s brother Paul and his Guide dog Mikey. We learned about how important having a guide dog is to support people who are blind and how we should not distract them when they are working. We all loved the chance to meet Mikey.
We have been learning how to stay safe with a real fire. (26.07.19)
Congratulations and good luck at school to all the children leaving Glenwood. We had a wonderful day celebrating!
Robslee Road is closed possibly until 20th September, due to essential Scottish Water works and this may affect your journey to Glenwood. See attached for full details.
In order to meet the needs of our families by 2020 when early learning and childcare entitlement for all children will almost double, a new much larger building is planned for Glenwood. The new site is adjacent to our current centre in Eastwood Park. Building work begins approximately 8th July. This is an exciting time for us and we look forward to working with the builders to involve the children as much as possible in the work. Their will be windows on the fencing around the site for us to view the progress.
Naturally there will be some disruption while this work is taking place. There will be construction traffic near our centre and a number of restricted areas. All construction vehicles will enter the site through Eastwood Park and will minimise entry during peak times. Parking at the allotments will be reduced as this area will be cordoned off.
In order to minimise the impact of this work for the coming year we suggest considering alternative ways to travel to nursery instead of the car where possible. There will be an number of identified safe pedestrian routes through the park and if you can consider walking or cycling to nursery or even part of the way, this will ease congestion. There are some alternatives to parking at the allotments including Eastwood Park, the pavilion, Woodfarm Road or even Rouken Glen Park and walking the fairly short distance from there.
Click here for a plan of the site.
Glenwood Contractor Site and Compound
All services providing early learning and childcare in Scotland must be registered with the Care Inspectorate and are regularly monitored and awarded grades. Inspections are unannounced. We recently had an inspection and we are delighted to share with you the inspection report. Please take some time to read this.
www.careinspectorate.com/berengCareservices/html/reports/getPdfBlob.php?id=302598
Glenwood Family Centre were inspected in two aspects, Quality of care and support and Quality of staffing and we were graded excellent for both.
I am sure you will recognise that the commitment and professionalism of the staff team are a real strength of our centre and we strive to continue to maintain excellent standards in ensuring the highest quality care and support for all our learners.
We have noticed some changes!
Our seeds have started to change.
“Look, our plants are growing!”
“We need to give them water so they grow bigger.”
Lots of excitement with the changes to the seeds.
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