Good morning everyone! I hope you have had a good weekend.
Keeping Active
Today’s Joe Wicks session can be found using the following link:
We use lots of songs from the “The Learning Station” in the nursery. This one is an exercise song which encourages children to move their body in different ways as they follow the instructions in the song. Here is the link to this song:
Items of interest
Have you visited Edinburgh Zoo lately to watch the animals in their enclosures. You can watch the following animals through the live webcams: panda, penguins, tigers, koala and the Rockhopper penguins. Here is the link to the zoo:
https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/koala-cam/#koalacam
Fun activites
An easy indoor bowling game
You can use any empty juice bottles to make the skittles (you can even decorate them before using them) and rolled up socks for a ball! You can count the number bottles that you and your child knock over to see who manages to knock over the most over a number of turns. Use the language of you have scored more or I have scored less to help develop you childs’ understanding of number and quantity.
Memory game/Kims Game
Have a look around your home and gather some items together household items or even some of your child’s favourite items, place them on a tray, cover them with a tea towel and see how many they can remember! You could then try taking an item away at a time and see if your child can work out what is missing?
Lets get creative with junk modelling
Have a look at these photos posted below and see some junk modelling ideas using recyclable materials from in and around your home. What materials do you have…? I wonder what you could make. Maybe you could add some pictures to your learning journal of your completed work!
Grow your own tomatoes
- Fill a pot with soil and put slices of tomatoes on the soil.
- Cover the tomato slices in more soil and water.
- In 2-3 weeks small seedlings should appear.
- Then transfer them into a bigger pot and watch them grow.
- Maybe parents could take photographs as the plants grow and upload these to your Learners Journey.
Useful tips for parents
Here are some useful tips on things they could try with their kids if they are having any problems with; sleeping, toilet training and independence.
How to deal with sleep problems.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zk2t2sg
Top tips for toilet training.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdv9382
How to help your child be independent.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrg8gwx
This is the link to West Lothian library membership enabling you to access books online:
Have a good day everyone and stay safe!!
