This is a very different start to the summer term !

Mrs Dunnett and Mrs Duncan have been missing you all 🙁

We have enjoyed receiving  your news via the emails that families have been sending in to balmullops.enquiries@fife.gov.uk.   We have been replying to each email received recognising the learning and sharing ideas for next steps.

We will post a selection of photographs received from families on the blog  maintaining privacy by not identifying the children in the photographs. Please advise if  you would prefer your photographs not to appear on the site. 

We received lots of lovely examples of children learning outdoors  through play.

Developing numeracy /gross motor skills/turn taking playing hopscotch.

Being creative/ problem solving/ story telling.

Using the outdoor environment as a stimulus for art.

Olivia is creating  her own book of flowers developing her emergent writing skills and sharing her knowledge about the features of books.

 

Offering a variety of tools and materials to create helps the children to develop their fine motor and pre writing skills as they represent some of their ideas and learn to communicate information.

These experiences through play directly relate to the curriculum development we normally record in your child’s Personal Learning Plan.

Early Level Writing

‘I can make marks on paper and other surfaces using different materials’

‘I can explore making shapes, patterns and symbols’ Lit 21b

‘I am beginning to use a variety of tools for mark making to communicate my information’

‘I can make marks and symbols on paper and other surfaces to represent some of my ideas and communicate information’ Lit 9b, 26a,31a

‘I am beginning to attempt to make marks and symbols that are familiar to me’

‘I can write some letters that are familair to me -e.g. letters from my name’ Lit 12, 13, 21a

 

 

We had some lovely examples of children exploring craft, design and engineering as they used different materials to construct models.

 

We are looking forward to sharing your learning next week. Maybe you saw something interesting on a walk or in a story. Mrs Duncan saw  a funny little door. Who might live in this tree? Could you use your imagination and draw a picture of the character and what inside might look like ?  Do you know any stories where the characters live in a tree?