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NURSERY – Fun and Learning at Home

Good morning everyone

We hope you all had a good weekend. Some new idea’s to try at home………

Playdough

Why not get your child involved in helping to make playdough, it’s a firm favourite at nursery. L.1. Through creative play, I explore different materials and can share my reasoning for selecting materials for different purposes. For an easy non-cook recipe please click here.

The Benefits of Playdough

Fine motor development:
The properties of play dough make it fun for investigation and exploration as well as secretly building up strength in all the tiny hand muscles and tendons, making them ready for pencil and scissor control later on.

As part of simple, tactile play it can be squashed, squeezed, rolled, flattened, chopped, cut, scored, raked, punctured, poked and shredded! Each one of these different actions aids fine motor development in a different way, not to mention hand-eye co-ordination and general concentration.

Having a wide range of additional extras to use while playing extends the investigation and play possibilities endlessly. Poking in sticks provides a challenge and a new physical skill.

Squeezing through a garlic press leads to wonder and amazement at seeing it change shape, as well as using a gross motor movement to accomplish it.

Sticking in spaghetti requires a delicate hand and can lead to threading and stacking pasta shapes or beads over the top.

Providing boxes and containers with various shaped compartments can lead to cooking play, sorting, matching, ordering and counting, all naturally and without pressure to learn.

By providing objects from nature with a wide range of textures, colours and shapes, children can have multi-sensory experiences and engage with the world around them in a whole new way.

List of additional extras needed to create a play dough free play kit!

This is by no means a comprehensive list, but all of these elements can be used to create plenty of exciting, open-ended play times:

toy creatures
straws
rolling pins, plastic knives, scissors, pizza cutters
cupcake cases in different sizes
coloured and natural feathers
pine cones, sticks, bark, leaves
muffin tins, egg cartons, chocolate boxes,
small cups and shot glasses
alphabet, number and shape cookie cutters
pasta shapes
shells
buttons
glass pebbles
toy vehicles
wooden letters and numbers
fabric, netting and ribbons
match sticks and lolly sticks

Have fun!

P1 Assembly

Enjoy today’s assembly from Fischy Music! (It says 4th May on the title here but that seems to be a little mistake).

Fantastic Home Learning in P2M

Good morning everyone:)

Thank you so much for all the amazing learning you have been sending me. You have all been working so hard and I am very impressed with all your efforts. Well done everyone! Here are a few more examples of the fantastic learning that has been going on during lockdown. Stay tuned for more learning on the blog at the end of the week.

Stay safe and have a great week:)

You worked so hard making this board for Captain Tom Moore’s 100th birthday. You should be very proud of all your hard work. Well done!

You worked really hard to make cakes for your family. They look delicious and you look so proud of yourself. Well done!

You worked so hard to practise multiplication Phoebe. Well done!

You did a great job creating your own picture of a badger for Topic. I can see you have put so much effort into this Paul. Well done!

P1 Home Learning 11.05.20

Hello P1! We hope you had a lovely weekend.

Ms Boyes posted a picture of daffodils on the blog a couple of weeks ago. Did you get their name right?

Ms Boyes took a picture of these flowers in her garden- can you find out what they’re called?

Here is our new Grid for this week:

P1 Home Learning Grid 6 11.5.20

Here are the attachments to go with the blog:

Mrs Martin’s Technology Grid

Collins-Big-Cat-Reading

Listening sheet Looking

Tricky Words 31-60

minibeast-hunt 11.5.20

It’s been great to receive your emails and photos. Remember you can let us know all about your Amazing Activities by emailing the school:

wleastcalder-ps@westlothian.org.uk

Ms Boyes, Mrs Forbes, Mrs Grieve, Mrs Murdoch

Primary 7/6L and Primary 7S

Good morning everyone. Here is your learning Grid for this week along with the required resources. We will be on Teams each day to help when needed or just to check-in. You can also send us more of your wonderful work to provide you with feedback.

Mrs Lewis and Mrs Stewart.

11.05.20 Home Learning Grid Primary 76L and P7S

Article of the Week

Blooms_Reading_Activities

The Great Science Share – Week 2

How did you get on last week? Did you get a chance to listen to and identify the birds around you?

I’ve been trying to talk to the wood pigeon that sits on my roof – coo – COO – coo – coo – coo – coo, (yes I think being at home is making me slightly coo – coo.)

This week we are celebrating the 200^th birthday of The Royal Astronomical Society which should inspire you to think about space, the universe, stars and planets. What are the questions you want to investigate this week?

How is a meteorite formed?

Will we ever be able to live on other planets?

What would a world without gravity be like?

What did the Hubble Space Telescope see on your birthday?

Can you make a rocket at home?

Is there something else you would like to investigate or make?

Share your investigations with me on your Teams page or email them into school. You can write, draw, take pictures of what you have done, make a poster, anything you like.

Have a look on The Great Science Share website if you’d like some other ideas and resources:

https://www.greatscienceshare.org/getinvolved2020#weekly-themes-2020-wk2

Have fun stargazers!

Mrs Beattie

PE Home Learning – Underarm Throwing

Good morning everyone,

Our Sports Day training this week is all about the Underarm Throw. Between now and Friday complete the 6 different activities on the grid as well as getting 60 minutes of exercise each day.

Underarm throwing

More information about our Sports Day will be released soon!

Mr. Millar

A little message from the primary staff

Amazing home learning P3/2C

Hi P3/2C,

I hope you are staying safe and well.

Thank you for all of your wonderful home learning that you have sent me. I have been so impressed with all your effort and am excited to see what you send me next. Here are just a few examples.

Reminders:

There is a national Sumdog competition which starts today and runs through until next Thursday.
Big Cat Readers is a great resource with different levels of reading books for you to try with comprehension activities. You will find more details on the blog and on home learning grids.

If there is anything I can do to help, please get in touch by sending an email through the school office with the attention of the class teacher.

Have a lovely weekend,

Take care,

Miss Cameron

NURSERY- LiFT at Home

Hi all 🙂

Here are some activities you can do at home to support the LiFT (Learning is fun together) training we started to introduce in nursery (at stay and play). These are simple listening games which will support your child’s learning as they move into Primary 1, as they help develop their listening and concentration skills.