Author: Mrs V

We have been having such great weather. The sun is always welcome, but have you noticed that when we are outside, some areas are not in the sun?  I wonder why that is?

All the staff are setting you a challenge today……………

Can you spot any shadows when you are outside?

Can you make shadows when you are on your daily walk or taking your daily exercise?

Can you make shadows with your toys?

Can you draw round the shadows that your toys make?

Please let us know how you get on. You can take some pictures and send them to our Facebook page or leave a comment here on our blog and someone will reply.  We are so excited to see and hear how you get on.

Good morning everyone and a very warm welcome back to our blog.  We hope everyone has had a lovely break with their family and made lots of special memories together.

The ELCC staff have been supporting in the various Hubs over the holiday period. They are missing you all so it would be great if you can leave your comments and let them know how you are getting on.

Please check our blog for suggested activities to engage your children at home. We aim to post daily.

We left you with this video last time –

Did you manage to use your singing hands? Please share with us – all the staff are interested to know how you got on with this challenge.

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

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.

Let’s start with a favourite this morning!

Have fun with numbers

• Count objects around the home.
• Choose a number, then count on.
• Choose a number, then count back.
• Adults can count and miss out a number – encourage your child to say the missing number.
• Write numbers and encourage your child to match with objects or draw.

Literacy – Read together every day

• Talk about interesting words and what is happening in the story.
• Talk about reading from left to right and show your child by pointing, how to trace the words.
• Make mistakes in familiar songs and rhymes…..have fun as your child corrects you!
• Take time to listen to your child’s ideas and opinions.

Yesterday we posted the Gruffalo. Today you can listen to the ‘Glasgow’ version read by Elaine C Smith-

Some games to try –        https://www.funbrain.com/

Talent Show

• The children loved doing this in our ELCC. If the children enjoy dancing… karate… football… tricks… magic… jokes… singing…. have them rehearse a wee show of their own making…. make a little stage area in house and have them dress up and put on a show for the family. This is great to build their confidence and self-esteem.

Material fun

•  …. any old bedding, curtains, old clothes. You can cut these up to give the children scraps to be creative with – collage creations, making outfits for dolls/figures, dressing up  themselves…..or making tents and dens. They will be limited only by their imagination!

Hello to all our families. Keep checking our Blog for activities and ideas to enjoy with your child.

Building literacy skills

Almost anything you do with your child will help develop their literacy.

Through conversations with you, they can learn new words and how to use them. There is a link below to show four key things that really help.

Playing and helping you with tasks in the home develops your child’s movement and coordination, which will help with their handwriting. They can make marks and draw pictures to show their ideas. You can let them “help” when you are reading or writing – such as a list or a TV programme guide.

The most important thing you can do with your child is to share and enjoy stories, songs and rhymes together.

• Snuggle up and read with your child every day. Have a special place to
  keep your books.
• Let your child act out the story. They might be moving but they are still
  listening.

Here are some favourite stories to enjoy with your child. You can read them over and over, Please re-visit previous posts to repeat the activities too!

Hello everyone

We have made it through our first week. We are thinking about all our families and we hope that you are all well and staying safe. We will be posting some more fun activities on our blog next week.

Ms Cochrane now has access to the Williamsburgh enquiries email account. Please use this if you need to get in contact.

williamsburghenquiries@renfrewshire.gov.uk

Remember you can get updates on Twitter and facebook –

@WBurghPrimary                         Williamsburgh Primary School

Alison Vandal and all the ELCC staff team X