Hello Everyone – May Already!!!
Mrs Dunnett and Mrs Duncan have loved receiving emails sharing your learning with drawings, videos and photographs.
We will share a selection each week on the blog highlighting the learning and sharing ideas with our friends. Please advise if you would prefer your photographs not to appear on the blog.
Flags
We received a great video showing shape, pattern recognition and memory skills naming flags for different countries. Lots of concentration required developing this skill – well done!
Can you find the flag for any countries that you have visited or countries where any friends and family live?
Design your own flag – for your family, your pets or toys. What shapes and colours would you use?
Use a maps to find places you have visited in Balmullo, Scotland or other countries around the world.
You could draw a map or a plan of your room or garden. You could turn it into a 3d map adding different features!
Plants
Ewan sent in a photograph of plants he is growing in his garden.
Do you know the name of these plants? Could they turn into flowers, fruit or vegetables? Can you remember what the different parts of a plant are called and what a plant needs to grow? How tall will your plants grow ? Make a simple chart to record the height.
‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ by Nick Butterworth is a nursery favourite. On the last page you will find some questions and activity ideas.
Days of the week feature in this story. We have been singing songs in the nursery as a fun way of remembering them in order. There are lots of different tunes -which one do you prefer? We would love to see a film of you singing along!
‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle also features days of the week. You can go back to the blog post on March 26th 2020 for the link to this story.
We can see the focus and care taken as you observed and recorded all the details working on this drawing. Great work!
Outdoor Fun
It has been such lovely weather – did you notice the shadow in the photograph ? Why do you get shadows? A fun activity could be to take turns drawing around each others shadows. Who is bigger?
This looks like a tricky balancing activity – do you remember we did this in the nursery with bean bags? What do you think was most difficult. You could design an obstacle course indoors/outdoors for a challenge – you could send in a plan of your course.
