A nice thing to do this weekend, might be to take a trip to a museum…but they’re all closed I hear you cry! Lots of museums are offering virtual tours so you can visit them from the comfort of your own home. Have a look on the internet and see which museums you would like to visit.
I love the artist, Vincent Van Gogh, so I’m going to take a trip to the Van Gogh museum this weekend:
How exciting that we are now able to have a peek into the various museums, even when they are closed during this difficult time. Some of the museums around the world have decided to open up their virtual doors. Why don’t you take a look?
When children “act out” a poem or nursery rhyme, they learn to love its rhythm and rhyme and they begin to see in their imagination the story that has been created. Children will grow as readers by connecting feelings with the written or spoken word.
What you’ll need:
Poems or nursery rhymes that your child will enjoy. Use these clips if you don’t have any suitable rhymes at home. Your child may know Incy Wincy Spider so it’s a good one to start with. Once they have got the idea you could move onto the second clip.
As you share the poem or nursery rhyme, talk about the characters and what parts your child likes and dislikes. Can they make any connections – does it remind them of anything or a real-life experience?
Challenge – Can your children start to act out the nursery rhyme and play the part of a character? Why don’t you get involved too and make it a family story or nursery rhyme.
Can you design a chart with each of the days of the week on it? Each day, have a look outside and see what the weather is like. Can you draw a picture of the weather for that day? How many different types of weather did you record?
You could have two boxes for each day and record the weather at two different times to see if there were any changes.
What weather do you like?
What do you do like to do when it is sunny?
What do you do when it is a rainy day?
Ask everyone in your house what their favourite weather is. What is the most popular?
This is a fun game using an ordinary remote control. Children press the buttons and shout out an instruction, which controls the people in the room:
Play- walk forward
Rewind- walk backwards
Fast forward- run quickly
Pause- everyone freezes
You can also add some more functions, eg slow motion button, fast forward super speed, or let the children’s imaginations decide what other commands are on the magic remote control!
Hello everyone! We know that this is a very difficult and stressful time for all of us. Not being able to see our friends, some of our family or not even being able to play outside for long isn’t easy! If it gets to us a little bit too much, here are some ways to help us stay calm…
And remember – talk to your mummies and daddies, they always know how to make us feel better!
All the staff have all been seeing lots of rainbows in windows when they have been out their daily walk. We know that some of you have painted and coloured a rainbow too!
Emmy from ELCC with her rainbow and bear. Thank you for sending in!
We thought that you might like to SING a rainbow. Click on the link below.
Why don’t you make a rainbow – using stones which you can find in the garden or when out for a family walk. Paint the stones and make your own rainbow. Put it in the garden for everyone to see.
to listen to David McKee read the story of Elmer (literacy). If you are working, you might want to use this as a bedtime story and link it to the discussions you have had about the colours of the rainbow.
Why don’t you make your own Elmer the Elephant. You could use junk material to create your own 3D Elmer.
Please share what you have been doing with all the staff. Leave a comment on our blog and we will reply.
