Month: April 2020

Parent Club Scotland may give you some tips for learning at home and some  useful ideas to entertain your children, especially with the two week spring break approaching 🙂

https://www.parentclub.scot/child

Here is something a bit different for you all to learn – Sign Share/Makaton. There are lots of clips available and a great tool for you and your child to learn and develop your skills.

We were beginning to learn this in ELCC before we stopped. Why not record your child/children/family and share with us on our Facebook page. This would be lovely for us all to share and celebrate achievements.  You have all the holidays to ‘give it a go’!

Please search Williamsburgh Primary School on Facebook.

Happy signing……………………..Have fun, we miss you all – the ELCC team.x

Lots of fun and games to engage your child today. Check out the link below. Children will enjoy repeating games and activities……it’s how they learn.

 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

 

Pamper day

• You can experiment as face scrubs and masks can be made from simple household ingredients or even just use a face/moisture cream. Take time together, pampering skins and perhaps painting toes and fingers.

Gardening

• For those of you who have a garden, weeding the garden can get the whole family involved and have the garden looking great.  Talk to the children about planting and how we can help our plants to survive. Sometimes the jobs that we as adults least like are the ones that the children love.

Obstacle course

•  This could be either indoors or in the garden.  Use items around the home to set up a course. You might choose to use; ropes, buckets, pots, old sheets, spoons, balls, plastic plates and toys to name just a few. Ask your child what they want to use. Children will be very creative with their ideas. They could draw a plan of their course and count the objects as they set out and change their course. They may choose to keep a score with tally marks that they can count to find a winner.

Circuits

• Circuits could be an idea too as this helps the  adults during this time where we cannot access the gyms or other clubs.  Your phone could be used as a stopwatch or set an alarm for a set time.  Add in activities like sprinting up and down garden/stairs.
  • skipping ropes
  • burpees
  • push ups
  • sit ups
  • squats
  • squat kicks
  • star jumps
  • high knees
  • lunges                                                                                                                                                You could put all these ideas into a cup and each of you pull one or two out to make up your list of exercises. Again encourage your child to offer their ideas and plan what they want to happen.