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Thank you to two of our children for sharing their ‘Try at Home Family Challenge’ video clip. They went on a bear hunt at the weekend! Please watch their video to find out more….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=zodJA_vjgSw
For more information or if you would like to share your versions of going on a bear hunt please look at the previous Blog post below.
Thank you to one of our nursery girls for accepting the Try at Home ‘Family Challenge! She has made a fantastic book, detailing her adventure. She passes a river and goes through a forest just like in the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’! Please have a look at the video we recorded this morning, of her reading her story to find out more. Well done indeed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxfdQthUiQs
Please see previous Blog post for more information.
Last week we published a Blog post about our latest Box Clever topic, the extremely popular story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ by Michael Rosen. Today during group time the Red afternoon group discovered a video of a family acting out the story, when looking for an animated version and we love it!
This version of the story is slightly different, by adding in a mountain in place of the snow and mud, but that made it all the more exciting! We also enjoyed the repetition of the rhythm of the footsteps as the family walked.
After group time we had a try of acting out part of the story with Miss Collins. Can you watch and listen and tell which part of the story we were acting out?
https://youtu.be/yfBvg7XkH9A
We plan to add more parts of the story over the next few weeks but we need some help, so here is the family challenge for you to try at home……
Can you record a part of the story, while narrating the words? Miss Wilkinson and Miss Kelly can help you download the footage from your camera or mobile device, memory card etc in nursery to add it to our video clips (files will probably be too large in size to send by email).
We can’t wait to to see who will join in helping us make our very own digital version of ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ by Michael Rosen.
As you will know BEYC is a Digital School and as well as ensuring digital technology is thoroughly embedded in children’s learning experiences we also highly value the importance of online safety. Tuesday 6th of February is Safer Internet Day 2018 and at BEYC, children will be learning about what this means during group time that week. Activities include videos, PowerPoint presentations and picture cards all about keeping safe online based around three little monsters Puff, Ness and Fizz.
“The resources for 3-7 year olds aim to facilitate discussion with the youngest internet users, at a level which is age appropriate and reflects the diverse range of experiences they will have had online so far. Some children within this age range may be online without ‘knowing’ it i.e. watching their favourite cartoons or movies on services such as Amazon or Netflix, but will still spend the majority of their time offline. Others will be able to name specific games or websites that they frequent, and will have a deeper understanding of what being online means, through using a range of devices at home, or through having older siblings.
The learning outcomes within this pack therefore extensively cover life offline, as well as online, and focus on the children’s immediate family and friends, and familiar surroundings, in order to introduce the concepts that are being explored this Safer Internet Day – such as our connections, our emotions, our personal interests, and what it means to keep ourselves safe.”
There are resources for parents/carers and a film clip on the UK Safer Internet Centre site.
Please click on the link below to access the materials.
You can also click on this link to DigiDuck-eBook from ChildNet.com.
It is an educational e-safety story in PDF format aimed at children aged 3-7 years old.
In November we shared a Blog post about an exciting new literacy app we are beginning to use in nursery called ‘Our Story’. We would like to share the digital books children have been making in nursery to develop key vocabulary of the Nativity story. The digital books can be opened on Ipads that have the ‘Our Story’ app downloaded. Once you download the link you click on the up arrow at the top right of the screen to ‘open in’ and you then select ‘Copy to Our Story’.
We have also attached PDF copies of the digital books to this post which can be opened on any device to revisit learning at home.
However we will need to send individual emails to those who want to access the digital book files to download the stories directly into the app. Please let Miss Wilkinson know if you would like to access them by emailing her so she can forward the digital books onto you. eva.wilkinson@westlothian.org.uk
Please see the information below from the Blog below from 17.11.17 post for more information.
Try at Home Literacy Ipad App.
Friday, November 17th, 2017
We are beginning to use a fun literacy Ipad app called Our Story to help develop language skills through creating digital books and we would like to share our digital ‘Our Stories’ with you at home. The digital books will aim to help develop vocabulary by focusing on key words from children’s topics of interest. Children will take photos, video clips, record their voices and be supported in tying the text in order to create their digital book.
“The stories that you create can be sent to another iPad which has the Our Story app installed. This will be exactly the same story as the one you created. The person who receives this story can then view it and if they want can edit the story, and even send it back to you. For those who do not have an iPad you can send them a PDF file (i.e. pictures and text but no sound) which can be viewed or printed. We provide a range of printing options which include the possibility of creating small booklets.”
The App is a free download
If you would like support in using this app please see Miss Wilkinson or Miss Kelly.
Our Story Website: http://www.open.ac.uk/creet/main/projects/our-story
We are helping children to acquire new vocabulary through an innovation called ‘Box Clever’.
It has been developed by speech and language therapists and aims to help children store new vocabulary systematically. It aims to increase the way children access newly learned vocabulary in general communication, through play scenarios. Box Clever focuses on nouns, then adjectives, then verbs and then moves onto using the new vocabulary in play and general every day interactions.
Our first Box Clever topic is ‘Nativity’. Children are handling the Nativity characters and relevant objects through play and at group times. Vocabulary is reinforced throughout the nursery.
20-25/11/7 Week 1. Naming words.
27/11-1/12/17 Week 2. Describing words.
4—8/12/17 Week 3. Doing words/actions.
11-15/12/17. Week 4. Sequencing, retelling stories.
Please look on the ‘Try at Home’ table for a leaflet of the words we are focusing on each week.
We are on week 2 from today, describing words.
A digital book will accompany each weeks words, made by the children using the Our Story App. Please see Blog post from 17/11/17 for more information. Our Story Blog Post
Week 1 words.
Week 2 words.
Our Story printable books and links to Our Story digital books (you must download app to access) coming soon.
Please leave a comment below or on the Twitter page where this post is duplicated and let us know how the ‘Try at Home’ is going.
We are beginning to use a fun literacy Ipad app called Our Story to help develop language skills through creating digital books and we would like to share our digital ‘Our Stories’ with you at home. The digital books will aim to help develop vocabulary by focusing on key words from children’s topics of interest. Children will take photos, video clips, record their voices and be supported in tying the text in order to create their digital book.
“The stories that you create can be sent to another iPad which has the Our Story app installed. This will be exactly the same story as the one you created. The person who receives this story can then view it and if they want can edit the story, and even send it back to you. For those who do not have an iPad you can send them a PDF file (i.e. pictures and text but no sound) which can be viewed or printed. We provide a range of printing options which include the possibility of creating small booklets.”
The App is a free download
If you would like support in using this app please see Miss Wilkinson or Miss Kelly.
Keep an eye out for our Nativity digital book coming soon! We can share it with you via email.
Please come and have turn of our Promethean AcitvPanel today and tomorrow. It is in the foyer for all our parents, carers, brothers and sisters to investigate. Miss Wilkinson and Miss Kelly will be there at the beginning and end of the sessions to help you try it out! Please tell us what you think, ask questions and share what educational Apps you enjoy playing at home.
Now we have our fantastic new Promethean ACTIVEPANEL
up and running, we have been exploring it’s features in our groups. Please have a go next week when it will be accessible in the foyer at drop off and pick up times and tell us what you think!
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