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Time

May 3, 2023 Miss Abernethy Leave a comment

by Mrs Clark

Learning about time is an important skill for children because it is something they will use throughout their whole life.

At Glenwood, we use routines, events and play activities to link with times and seasons to help build our children’s awareness.

Calendars are a fantastic resource to encourage talk about important events such as birthdays and annual celebrations, and we use these to help our children to learn about dates, days of the week and months of the year.

We play games such as ‘What’s The Time, Mr Wolf?’ to develop children’s understanding of o’clock and the numbers on a clock face ranging from 1-12.

Having the opportunity to use clocks and watches encourages our children to record and display their own ideas about time and build an understanding of both analogue and digital time.

We make connections to the changing seasons as we access daily outdoor play and look at resources that we wear or use. This helps our children to develop an awareness of the features of the four seasons.

On a daily basis we also make use of visual timetables, sand timers for turn taking, sing songs, look at books and use online resources to help our children have a greater understanding of time. We also talk about different times of the day e.g. morning, afternoon, evening, and use language associated with time e.g. now, then and next.

We hope that this gives you some inspiration for things you can try at home!

Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Numeracy and Mathematics, Sciences

Playdough and loose parts play

June 22, 2021 User deactivated Leave a comment

The orchard bubble have been busy!

The orchard bubble has shown a great interest in making playdough over the last few weeks. The children have taken responsibility for their own learning by coming up with different ideas of how they want to create their playdough from colours and texture. “I want blue.”

“I want pink.”

The children had shown an interest in loose parts and wanted to include this in their playdough experience. By incorporating loose parts with playdough the children are developing their fine motor skills. They use a variety of movements such as pressing, rolling and stretching. This will help to strengthen the muscles in their hand which in turn will help them with their writing skills.

“I want to use leaves.”

“Oooohhh feathers.”

The children showed ownership over their creations and seemed to enjoy the fact that they could start again when one model was finished. They did show interest in taking them home so our next steps will be trying to create models with loose parts and clay.

“Can we take them home?”

Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Numeracy and Mathematics

Musicality benefits

June 16, 2021 User deactivated Leave a comment

From a very young age children benefit in all areas of their development when taking part in musicality sessions.

Literacy

Helps children understand the meaning and the sound of words.
Helps develop their listening skills (loud, quiet)
Rhyming
Syllables (clapping out)
Helps them predict
Imagination
Conversation
Follow instruction

Maths

Counting beats
Number song
Recognition of numbers
Recognition of Shapes And their names
Rhythm pattern

Gross and fine motor motor skills

Jumping, hopping, skipping and dancing.
Helps them develop and control their body movements.
Better control at manipulating objects (instruments)
Helps strengthen their muscles.
Moving the instruments in all different directions(up downside to side, front back)

Social and emotional skills

Interaction with other children.
Introduction to different kinds of music and cultural differences awareness.
Increasing confidence in performing
Sharing resources.

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Remote Learning: Pancakes

February 16, 2021 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Healthy Henry likes to eat healthy food but he says it’s OK to have a treat sometimes.

As it’s Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day, Miss Pearson would like to share her pancake recipe with you.

Miss Pearson’s Pancakes

First of all you will have to wash your hands with soap and water to make sure they are clean and dry them well. If you have an apron you can wear this as well to keep your clothes clean .

You will need:

mixing bowl
wooden spoon
tablespoon
mug
frying pan
spatula

Ingredients:

1 level mug of self raising flour
1 level tablespoon of caster sugar
1 egg
1 cup of milk for mixing
Oil for your pan

Method:

1. Put the flour and sugar into the bowl.

3. Then gradually add the milk to make a runny consistency – you might not use all the milk.

Mix until smooth.

Now we can start making our pancakes.

First of all you will need to ask an adult to help you with this part as we are going to use the cooker and we have to be very careful so we don’t get burnt .

We need the frying pan to be hot.

So put a little drop of oil in the pan and wait until it is hot.

Put a spoonful of your mixture into the pan and wait for the bubbles and then turn and cook the other side.

Turn the pancakes over when you see the bubbles.

I made 12 pancakes out of my mixture you could make big pancakes or small pancakes it is up to you.

Here are some ideas for toppings:

Jam
Banana
Butter
Chocolate spread (but just a little)

Miss Pearson hopes you have as much fun making them as she did.

Cooking together provides us with lots of opportunities to practise our maths skills – measuring out our ingredients, talking about colours, shapes and sizes, using a timer – as well as helping develop fine motor skills – chopping, mixing, spreading – and literacy skills as we read a recipe.

Here are some other ideas for simple cooking activities:

sandwiches
fruit salad or fruit kebabs
pitta bread pizzas
vegetable soup

Let us know what you like to cook together and show us your pancakes on Twitter @GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome

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Remote Learning: Everyday Counting

February 2, 2021 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Children learn about numbers by hearing number sequences over and over and learning the number names. Through play and everyday activities is a natural way that children will learn.

There are lots of things you can do at home with your children to learn number sequence.

When you bring the shopping home can you count how many apples/bananas/blueberries you bought?
If you have stairs. How many do you have?
How many small/big steps is it from your front door to the gate?
A scavenger hunt. Can you find 8 leaves, 5 stones, 4 sticks.

Number songs are another great way to learn number sequences. Here are some Glenwood favourites (click on them to watch a Youtube video):

Playing board and card games is another way to develop number recognition and practise counting.

Snakes and Ladders
Kids Monopoly
Snap (using playing cards)
Bingo

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

Another favourite game we play in Glenwood is Number Splat. This is a great way to develop number recognition. All you need is numbers 0-10 or 0-20 written on pieces of paper and a spatula or wooden spoon. Ask your child to splat different numbers in a random order. Why not have a competition?

Share with us on Google Classroom or Twitter how you have been practising your counting and number recognition. @GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome

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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 – 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?

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 – Independent Play

May 13, 2020 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

While we always recognise the importance of parent-child interactions and playing together there are also many benefits to independent play. This can provide opportunity for children to problem-solve, experiment, use their initiative and develop their perseverance and independence. As parents right now you may be juggling working from home, helping other children with school work and other challenging situations. This blog has some suggestions of experiences where once set up, children will have the opportunity to play independently or with siblings.

Provocations are “invitations to play”. Setting up children’s toys a little differently might invite new found enthusiasm for old toys and encourage children to use them in new and inventive ways.

Playdough

Playdough takes around 10 minutes to make and can keep for weeks in an air-tight container. Playing with dough or clay develops children’s fine motor skills, sensory awareness, language skills, numeracy skills and imagination.

Quick Uncooked Playdough Recipe:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/playdough-recipe

Cooked Playdough Recipe (this is a slightly more complicated but keeps for longer):

https://www.thebestideasforkids.com/playdough-recipe/

There are many different things you could put out to use with playdough – rollers, cutters, safety knives, safety scissors, potato mashers, cake tins, bowls, jars, cupcake cases, candles, straws, stampers, pipe cleaners, matchsticks, lollipop sticks, leaves, flowers, sticks, stones…

Den Building

Den building helps to develop children problem-solving skills, motor skills, imagination and communication skills. It is a wonderful learning experience and so much fun to play in once constructed! To build a den you could use sheets, blankets, tables, chairs, sofas, pillows, clothes pegs, cardboard boxes. Once the den is built children could take in soft toys, dolls, books, puzzles, drawing materials, torches, a picnic…

Small World Play

Small world play develops imagination, creativity, language skills and problem-solving skills. Combine a selection of resources to create an exciting new world to explore. You could use cars, trains, toy people, animals, dinosaurs, fabric, scarves, cardboard boxes, masking tape, cardboard tubes…

Dressing Up Box

Role-play helps children to make sense of real-life situations, express their ideas and imagination and develop their language skills. The imagination of children can turn anything into a wonderful new costume. To create a dressing up box you could use hats, scarves, bangles, bags, shoes, mirrors…

Creation Station

This will develop children’s creativity, fine motor skills and literacy skills. You could use different colours and sizes of paper, old wallpaper, dry erase board, chalk board, old magazines to cut out, notebooks, post-it notes, felt tip pens, colouring pencils, crayons, junk modelling materials, glue, masking tape….

Mrs Ross created all of these provocations from things she found at home, each took no longer than 5 minutes to set up. Of course, this will take a bit more time if you are able to do together with your child but this will allow them to share their ideas with you and follow their interests. Remember they may have a different vision from you so follow their lead! We hope these give you some ideas for fun you can have both together and for your child to explore independently. Please share your ideas with your child’s friends by Tweeting @GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome

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Remote Learning – Transient Art

May 11, 2020 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Mrs Wilson has been busy finding loose parts at home to create some transient art. Transient art is a term used to describe art that is non-permanent and continually evolving, where a variety of materials are used to create pictures, patterns or models.

The non-permanent nature of this art means that children can move, change and experiment with the materials used until they are happy with what they have achieved. As well as developing their fine motor skills children also grow in confidence at making decisions as they design and redesign their ideas.

Working on transient art projects is a fun way to develop creativity and encourages children to explore materials and develop an understanding of their senses.

The loose parts used provide an ideal opportunity to talk about texture, colour and size. Using loose parts also develops skills in numeracy and mathematics such as sorting, matching, counting, pattern making, exploring shapes and learning about symmetry.

Ideas for loose parts to use at home (although the list is endless).

Beads Buttons Sequins Bottle lids Corks Lollipop sticks Coins Feathers Spoons Colouring pens Cotton reels Clothes pegs Paper clips Curtain rings

Natural materials are ideal to use if creating an outdoors transient art project.

Stones Sticks Twigs Pine cones Shells Leaves Flower petals

Transient art projects to try at home

Draw a straight, zigzag, or spiral line for your child to make a pattern on.
Use a picture frame to design a picture in.
Create a picture on or in front of a mirror.
Fill a shallow tray with water and use that to make a design in.
Challenge your child to create a symmetrical picture.
Use the loose parts to ‘write’ your name.

Before you tidy away your loose parts you could take a picture of your transient art and send a tweet to @Glenwood FC #Glenwoodlearningathome

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Remote Learning – Upcycling Challenge: Create Your Own Game

May 5, 2020 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

Mrs Silvester has set you a challenge! Can you create your own dice game at home?

Remember to share your ideas by tweeting @GlenwoodFC #Glenwoodlearningathome

Here are a few ideas to get you started…

The lids from milk jugs have been used to make these little Plastic Lid Ladybirds for a number dice game. To make the ladybird draw or use some button type eyes and pen dots on your lids. To Play the game, roll the dice and match the spots or numbers on the ladybird number lids to the dice.

What are dice good for?

Dice are great for introducing turn taking and encouraging early maths skills such as: counting, matching, comparing and number recognition.

Find some more number games on the CBeebies website by clicking the link below.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/joinin/numberblocks-help-your-child-with-maths

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Remote Learning – Block Play

May 4, 2020 Mrs Husbands Leave a comment

When playing with blocks children are using a number of different skills. These include measuring, counting, teamwork, talking to each other, problem solving and many more.

In Glenwood we have recently started using the 7 stages of block play. We use the stages to determine what stage of development the children are at when using blocks. Our blocks are different shapes and sizes.

The Seven Stages of Block Play

Stage 1: The blocks are carried around but not used for building.

Stage 2: Blocks are placed on the floor horizontally or vertically (stacking).

Stage 3: Blocks are used to bridge the space between other blocks.

Stage 4: Blocks are used to enclose a space.

Stage 5: Complex structure: blocks are placed in patterns or symmetrically when building. Block accessories may be incorporated. Buildings are not generally named.