Welcome to our Summer Term. Our weekly Friday Blog will recommence this week and will help us to connect with each other. We miss each and everyone of you. Highlight the link below to make you smile! It certainly made us feel happy.
There are lots of books and resources to help you learn about the Coronavirus. We know many of us at Newport Nursery love the illustrations by Axel Scheffler.
With an adult, why not explore this book published by Nosy Crow? Coronavirus: A book for Children by Elizabeth Jenner, Kate Wilson and Nia Roberts.
https://nosycrowcoronavirus.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/co
We hope you and your families are keeping well and enjoying this beautiful weather and the great outdoors as much as you can. We are definitely doing this through our daily exercise and taking time out in our gardens.
At the end of last Term, the Team were able to provide many of you with a variety of resources in a Home Learning Pack. A selection of stories with a variety of associated activities were also sent through e-mail communication.
As many of you are aware, Newport Primary School and Nursery have their own Twitter page. Using this media, the Team have been sharing a wide variety of ideas which may be of interest to you and your family. If you are not already following us, why not create an account and join us at: Newport Primary @newport_primary (download Twitter on the App Store).
Throughout this term, the Newport Nursery Team wish to provide you with some ideas to support you and your family and to keep us all connected. You should have already received an email which gives you a wide selection of stories (eighteen) with associated Literacy, Numeracy, and Health and Wellbeing activities. There is also guidance on how to share your wonderful experiences should you wish to use these resources.
As we have been using the Glow Platform throughout the year, we feel this would be a good way for us and you to share information, ideas and experiences. Please feel free to make any suggestions of how we can help you and your family through the comments feature. We value your thoughts and opinions.
Remember any activities we post are optional because as you know, the best way to learn and develop is through play! Play enables us to develop a range of skills including communication, problem solving, imagination, co-operation and much, much more and can take place both indoors and out. The following weblinks will help your adults and carers with further practical ideas.
https://www.playscotland.org/parents-families
https://education.gov.scot/parentzone/learning-at-home/learning-through-play/
To complete our very first Summer Term Blog, why not use the Bookbug’s Songs and Rhymes app to take part in one of our favourite tunes, Sleeping Bunnies. Can you adapt the song using a different animal and movement eg. lions and ‘Roar little lions, roar, roar, roar . . .?’ If so, why not either share your ideas in the comments feature or through our school website:
newportps.enquiries@fife.gov.uk
By sending in your ideas/experiences/photographs, you are agreeing that we can then post them on our Nursery related media.
If you have not downloaded the Bookbug’s Songs and Rhymes app why not explore what it offers through the following link.
Download the Bookbug’s Songs and Rhymes on the App Store or Get it on Google Play.
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com
We look forward to sharing our personal experiences and practical ideas with you all every Friday. We are even more excited about learning about what you and your families have been exploring, creating and investigating together. You can share these special moments at anytime using the Blog comment feature, the school website and Twitter.
Please keep safe.
Special thoughts and hugs,
Mrs AC, Mrs Kay, Mrs Laing and Mrs Ross
