Inveralmond Early Years Centre and Ladywell Nursery School

Here is a copy of the letter that was sent this week relating to home learning

15^th January 2021

Dear Parent/Carer,

In these uncertain times, to support you and your child, we will send out a programme of our weekly planned learning ideas which you can choose to engage with at home. This programme will consist of a weekly learning sway and daily activities posted to your child’s Learning Journal.

This is an offer to you and your child to support you to continue your child’s learning and development at home. Additionally, during this current period of restrictions our ELC practitioners will make contact with you via phonecall and/or email to ensure that we keep in contact with you .

There is also a West Lothian Early Learning and Childcare Blog which you may find useful. This contains a wide range of ideas for play and support as well as links to many useful sites.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/snonursery/

Parent Club also contains a wide range of information and support.

https://www.parentclub.scot/topics/coronavirus

Our ELC team will continue to provide all available support to your child and family where we can during this challenging period.  If you need any advice and support in relation to your child please reach out to your child’s keyworker.

Kind regards

Dr Rhona MacKinnon

Depute Head Teacher

Story  of The Month

Pip and Posy and the Snowy Day

Week 2, describing words

snowy  cold   warm  stripy   puffy    waterproof   cosy   woollen   big  small  cross sad    happy   kind  unkind  wet dry

Rhyme of the week

Week 2 0f  1,2,3,4,5

1,2,3,4,5,

Once I caught a fish alive

6,7,8,9,10,

Then I let it go again

Why did you let it go?

Because it bit my finger so.

Which finger did it bite?

This little finger on my right!

Here is another song that has the number 5 in it

You could make collections of 5 things…5 stones, 5 leaves, 5 spoons or anything else you can think of!

Draw 5 smiley faces and share them on your Learners Journal!

Rhyme is important to emergent literacy and learning to read as it teaches children about language.

Click on the links below for stories for your child to listen too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVnIpS1IReg   Oi Frog!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imqf0NtQ77s   Oi Cat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uldum2bSFlU Oi Dog!

Please follow the link to this week’s home learning sway

Ladywell & Inveralmond Nursery School Home Learning

Hello Everyone,

Go to this Sway

Supporting Young Children’s Behaviour; information & ideas for parents/carers

Click on the above link   Supporting Young Children’s Behaviour; information & ideas for parents/carers

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all doing ok now that we are back in lockdown again.  Here are some websites sharing access to learning resources to help during this time.  Next week we will be sharing a home learning sway so keep an eye out.

Take care,

Nursery staff

Rhymers will be readers!

Keep on enjoying rhymes at home.

The rhyme we will practise for the next two weeks is

1,2,3,4,5.

1,2,3,4,5, once I caught a fish alive,

6,7,8,9,10,then I let it go again,

Why did you let it go?

Because it bit my finger so.

Which finger did it bite?

This little finger on my right.

The words in this version are a little different, can you spot them?

Can you count forwards to ten and then back again?

Do you know what number comes after 3?

Do you know what number comes before 6?

When you next go outside , see how many numbers you can spot.

Story of the Month

Pip and Posy

The Snowy Day

Week 1-naming words

snow  jumper  socks  coat  boots  scarf   mittens   footprints   snowflakes   sledge   snowmouse   snowrabbit

Ladywell Nursery

The children had a great day yesterday at our Christmas fun day.  They took part in activities if they wished to they included threading Christmas pasta, Christmas table top games, Christmas colouring in sheets, creating candy canes, stockings and making up reindeer food, listening to Christmas stories and playing party games.  They also had a special virtual visit from Santa. The children all appeared to have had a fun filled day.