We would like to wish everyone a happy and safe time during the Spring Break. We hope you are staying safe and taking care of each other. Remember there are lots of ideas for you to do at home on the blog – just scroll down! We miss you very much and hope to see you again very soon! Take care, have fun and stay safe!
This is the last post as we stop for Easter break.
All the staff are missing the children and families and are thinking of you all at this time. Please take care and remember boys and girls, to help around the home, just as you all do in our early learning class.
If you go out on your daily walk, why not enjoy a number hunt…
On the first day, how many 0’s can you find? Then work your way up the number line. This is something that can be adapted to suit all age groups. You could record how many you see when you get home. What number had the highest count? What was the lowest?
Please re-visit our previous posts – visit favourites or try out some that you haven’t experienced yet.
Take photos and send them to our facebook page – all the staff love to see what you are doing.
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 🙂
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
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.
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!
Thank you to the Little Pink Co who have made this lovely colouring sheet for our pupils. You can find more colouring in sheets on their FB page https://www.facebook.com/littlepinkco/
If you don’t have a printer you can trace the image onto paper or open the image into Paint and colour it on your computer/tablet.
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.
Children love to hear the same story over and over again, it helps them learn about books. First
they will notice the pictures, then they will learn to turn the page, and before you know it they’ll
be finishing the sentences then reading along with you. Rhyming books are brilliant for that
because they can start reading along without even noticing.
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!
