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Health Week, Friday – Virtual Sports Day

The whole school are dong a Virtual Sports Day today, Friday 12th June, so let’s all take part.

Try your best to do each one of these activities then get your Mummy or Daddy to put your score in the comments section by clicking on the comments link (red writing) on the left of this post.

I wonder which group will get the most points:

Butterflies  Grasshoppers    Ladybirds  

I hope the weather is nice so you can have your sports day in your garden, Good Luck everyone!

Hopscotch

Draw a hopscotch pattern. Do 3 hops, 1 scotch, a hop and a scotch and then turn (in 7,8) to come back. This is counted as one point. You can do this without drawing the hopscotch pattern by just doing the actions…3 hops, 1 wide jump, 1 hop, 1 wide jump, turn wide, then 1 hop, 1 wide jump, 3 hops and turn.

Target Rolling

You will need 3 large 1 or 2 litre bottles with maybe a little water to keep them stable and a small ball or toilet roll. Measure a course 5 of your own large Strides. Place the bucket at the end. Throw or roll your ball to knock the bottles over. Time how long it takes to knock over all the 3. You can have an adult send the ball back each time to help you.

Tattie and Spoon

You will need a spoon and a small potato. Measure out a course 10 large strides long. Use your own strides. Count how many times you go up and back to the start. If you drop the potato pick it up and continue.

Sock Throw

Using 5 pairs of socks or small bean bags measure out a course 5 of your strides long and place a bucket or container. Throw all 5 pairs and count how many get into the bucket. After your 5 attempts collect all your paired socks. Continue by throwing your 5 pairs again as above. Count how many pairs of socks land in the bucket within one minute. (60 seconds)

Wall push/Press up

You may choose between a full push up on the floor or a press up using the wall. Whichever you do remember to keep your body really strong and straight by pulling in your stomach muscles. Start with straight arms and slowly bend you elbows only. Go to about half way and then push yours arms straight.

Count how many press ups you can do in one minute. (60secs)

Speed Bounce

You will need either a broom handle, a long cushion or pillow, a skipping rope, some shoes or something you can jump over. Start on one side and jump over and backwards. Count one for every jump. Count how many jumps you can do in one minute. (60 secs)

Be careful to make sure you jump high over the item.

Cushion Head Balance

You will need a bean bag or a small cushion. Measure a course 10 of your own large strides long. Start at one end with the cushion on your head and walk up and back to the start. Count this as one. Count how many times you go up and back in one minute.

If the cushion falls off put it back on and continue.

Jumping Jax

Count how many Jumping Jax you can do in one minute.

Wellie Wanging

You will need a wellie or a large old shoe. Holding the wellie in one or two hands throw the wellie as far as you can.

Measure the distance using your large strides.

The History of Welly Wanging!

Wellie (or Welly) Wanging is a sport where contestants toss a Wellington boot as far as possible within the border from the starting line. This unusual sport became popular in Upperthong, Holmfirth in Britain as a form of distraction for villagers. They lived in a rural village where they needed to create different and imaginative games to while away the time. Welly throwing, also known as welly hoying, welly wanging and boot throwing, is a sport in which competitors are required to throw a Wellington boot as far as possible. There are four standard techniques for Welling Wanging – one handed (most common, using a single hand to toss the wellie), double handed (used with a large-sized wellie with both hands), between the legs (used by beginners, throws the wellie from between the legs while facing towards the target) and backward throw (throws the wellie over the head while facing away from the target). Choose your own Welly Wanging style!

Family Fun

Obstacle Course

Design an obstacle course either in your garden or in your house.

Use as many different mini activities as you can. You can include things like skipping, speed bounce, jumping or hopping on, over or under pieces of furniture and any of the activities we have been doing over the term such as yoga balances, skipping or jumping foot patterns or even some ball skills.

Either make a short video of you completing the obstacle course and put it on twitter or email it to Miss Copeland or draw a design of your obstacle course with labels for each of the activities and arrows to show the directions.

If you can time yourself and some of your family members completing the course too.

Have lots of fun but please be careful and ask a parent or older family member to help.

Post Your Results

Post your results by clicking on the comments link in the left.

Let’s see which group gets the most points:

Butterflies          Grasshoppers           Ladybirds  

If you want Miss Copeland to share any photos of you doing your sports day just email them to:

KCopeland@westfield.n-lanark.sch.uk

Health week, Thursday – Healthy Teeth

We know how important it is to keep our teeth healthy, listen to this fun song that reminds us …

We need to keep our teeth healthy and strong by:

• Brushing our teeth twice a day, in the morning and before we go to bed.
• Eating lots of healthy foods and not eating too many sweet treats
• Drinking water or milk and not too much sugary drinks
• Visiting the dentist twice a year to get our teeth checked

Here is a wee story with a funny ending to remind you how to brush your teeth…..

Here are some art and craft ideas you could maybe do to remind you to brush you teeth:

Wednesday – Let’s get active! 

Being active and exercising will keep us healthy and it is so much fun….

There are lots of different things you can do to keep active and stay healthy.  You should try to be active every day for at least an hour.

• Why don’t you make a chart and give yourself a sticker or colour a box every time you do something active.  Maybe you could:
  • Go for a walk
  • Go on a bike ride
  • Go on your trampoline
  • Go on your spacehopper
  • Take your scooter for a ride
  •  Run around your garden
  • Do a cosmic Kids Yoga programme
  • Practice some dance moves/play party games to music (musical bumps/statues etc)
  • Do some action songs on youtube (e.g. See the little bunnies sleeping, head, shoulders, knees and toes, We’re going to the zoo etc)
  • Make an obstacle course for you and your family to complete
  • Play throwing and catching with someone
  • Play football with someone
  • Play target games e.g. skittles, basket ball, tin can alley
  • Play hop scotch
  • Or just learn a new active skill……

• This would be a good time to learn a little bit about time.  Maybe your Mum or Dad could time you to help you begin to understand how long things take:
  • How many of each of these things can you do in 10 seconds, then 30 seconds, then 1 minute:
    • Jump
    • Hop
    • Run between two targets/wall to wall in a room
    • Throw a ball in the air and catch it
    • Throw balls in a basket/paired up socks in a washing basket
  • These are great activities to practise counting too!!!

Tuesday – Today let’s look at Washing hands.  This is obviously an essential time for children to learn how to wash their hands properly and to understand why we need to wash our hands:

• Talk to your child about when they should wash their hands normally:
  • after going to the toilet
  • before eating
  • after playing outside
  • after touching pets
  • if you have coughed or sneezed
• This is the poster your child will have seen around the nursery and an example of the correct way to wash hands:
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  Some ideas to reinforce the importance of washing hands:

  Make some dirty/clean hands and design some germs:

        
  Experiment to show how germs are on your hands and need washed off:

  

  Put glitter on your child’s hand and get them to shake hands with every family member to show how easily germs can spread….

  

  then try to wash the glitter off, this will show your child how much easier it is if you use soap to get the glitter off (sugar or salt would also work to give the idea if you do not have any glitter).

This would have been health week if we were in nursery so let’s get healthy. We will have a different healthy focus every day:

• Monday – Healthy Eating
• Tuesday – Washing Hands
• Wednesday – Get Active
• Thursday – Healthy Teeth
• Friday –  Virtual Sports Day

MONDAY – Let’s start with Healthy Eating, here is a wee song to get you in the mood.

https://youtu.be/-JldSBUQB34

There are lots of things you could do to help you learn about healthy eating:

• Make two groups, a healthy group and a treats group.  Talk about what each group means. Now get a grown up to put 10 things from the cupboard or fridge in a bag for you and you can take them out one at a time and decide to put them in the healthy group or treats group.
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• Keep a healthy eating chart for the week and add a sticker or colour a box every time you eat something healthy.
• Draw or paint pictures of the healthy foods you love the most.
• Fruity snacks: encourage your child to help make healthy snacks (while doing this reinforce the correct vocabulary e.g. skin, pulp, seeds, flesh etc):
  • Make a fruit salad, encourage your child to cut the fruit using either scissors or a knife (with supervision)
  • Make Fruit kebabs: chop up fruit and put onto a kebab stick to make fruti kebabs (this is a great activity for making patterns too)
  • Fruit smoothies: encourage your child to chop up fruit and blend them with fruit juice to make fruit smoothies.
• Where do fruit and vegetables come from?  This is a great talking point even just for the funny answers children give.  Talk about where your child thinks fruit and veg comes from.  Perhaps showing the images of fruit trees and plants will convince them fruit and vegetables don’t just come from the supermarket.
  • Discuss how certain fruits need very warm weather all the time to grow so they come from hot countries