Category: Class Learning

NURSERY – Fun and Learning at Home

Good afternoon Everyone

Here are some suggested activities to give a try.

Decorating stones– Decorate stones and hide them in your local community for others to find. L.I I am using my imagination to create art.

Dandelion/daisy chain – Why not try and make a Dandelion/daisy chain, how many can you join together, can you make a chain longer than you? L.I I am developing my fine motor skills and can count using 1-1 correspondence.

Ice – Can you collect natural items in a small tub and freeze them in water. Where will you put the tub to make the water freeze? Once it has frozen hang it up using string and watch the ice melt. How will the ice melt?, how long will it take? L.I I am learning about how water can change forms in different environments.

Bird feeders – Some of the nursery children have been making bird feeders using a toilet roll tube, peanut butter and bird seed. Why don’t you give it a try, they are very simple to make. Step 1: coat your tube in peanut butter, step 2: roll over a plate of seeds to cover the peanut butter, step 3: put out in your garden for the birds to enjoy. L.I I am learning how to look after the wildlife.

Stay safe and have fun

EC Nursery Team

NURSERY – Fun and Learning at Home

Counting and Measuring with Lego

For a simple activity use 20 or more lego duplo blocks in various colours and write the numbers 0-20+ on the sides of them, using a permanent marker. On the opposite side of each draw the corresponding number of dots so that they can be counted to match the correct amount. Lay them out on the floor with the numbers showing and set the challenge to build them into a tall tower in the right order. L.1. I have explored numbers, understanding that they represent quantities, and I can use them to count, create sequences and describe order.

 

Rhyming Pairs Game

Make a simple rhyming activity to help practise rhyming pairs and learn about literacy in a playful, hands-on way! L.1. I explore sounds, letters and words, discovering how they work together, and I can use what I learn to help me as I read and write.

Practise hearing and identifying rhyming words for example, making a collection of rhyming words that all belong in the “-at” family, such as “cat”, “mat”, “bat”, “sat”, “fat” etc.

This makes learning more concrete and playful. Children learn best while touching, moving and doing, rather than looking at a worksheet or set of 2D images.

Playmobile figures or small world toys are ideal for this game. Some suggestions for rhyming words;

goat and boat

man and fan

chair and bear

snake and cake

cat and hat

duck and truck

fox and box

mouse and house

car and star

dog and frog

 

Football Buzz

Football Buzz is running online sessions for children during lockdown. If you are interested in your child participating in the free online sessions you should contact: footballbuzz@hotmail.co.uk  L.1. I am enjoying daily opportunities to participate in different kinds of energetic play, both outdoors and indoors

And remember you can access more play and learning ideas at http://blogs.glowscotland.org,uk/wl/snonursery

 

‘If you see someone without a smile,

give them one of yours’

 

EC Nursery Team

 

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!

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

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 200th 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

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