Keeping Active

Today’s Joe Wicks session can be accessed through this link:

Mindful Movement for Young Learners

Lisa Thomas Prince, an outreach specialist with the Centre for Healthy Minds, shares a practice for young learners to promote well-being.

Story

Everybody Worries is a  bright and friendly picture book, children learn that it’s okay to worry about coronavirus. Fun rhyming couplets keep the tone gentle and supportive, and you will find plenty of ideas for dealing with coronavirus in a positive way. Everybody Worries offers your child the reassuring message that this crisis will pass, we are there for them, and we will get through this together. The link to this book is:

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/jon-burgerman-everybody-worries-free-ebook/

A Tiger Who Came To Tea is a lovely story about a Tiger coming to a little girls house for tea.

Has a tiger ever visited your house for tea? What do you think they could eat? Maybe he would like some cakes!!!

Lets get Baking (just in case)

Recipe idea: chocolate crispy cakes

If you’re looking for an easy place to start, why not try making this old favourite together!

To make about 12 crispies, you will need:

• about 100g of chocolate
• 50g of butter
• 2 tablespoons of golden syrup
• 100g of cornflakes or puffed rice cereal

Melt the chocolate in a large bowl in the microwave, then add the butter and syrup – then get your child to start stirring the mixture while you give them the cereal to add gradually.

Judge between you when you’ve added the right amount. You want to add just enough that every flake or bit of puffed rice is well covered in chocolate.

Help your little one to spoon the chocolate crispy mixture into paper cases.

If you’re feeling creative, your child could add small sweets or raisins to the top of each cake before they set.

Understanding the correspondence between the number of cakes and the number of toppings needed is  a really useful  skill for early maths.

Leave the cakes to set, then enjoy!

Creative Activities

Puppet show

Retelling and creating stories are key literacy skills for children. It helps them to understand, organise and sequence events and builds creativity! It is also a great way to capture their interest… especially those who maybe don’t enjoy sitting, looking at books as much. A great way to help develop these skills is by using puppets. Don’t have puppets? Don’t worry… you can use soft toys and figures or even make your own!

Choosing a familiar story or creating your own, why not put on a puppet show with your little ones? You could hide behind the couch or use a box as your puppet theatre! If you are able to take any photos or have any stories to share, we would love to hear about them on your child’s Learning Journey!

Making Leaf Pictures

I hope you managed to collect some leaves, small stones and twigs out on your walk with your family. If not maybe you could do it today or over the weekend. Here are some ideas of what you could do with them. Please remember you can share your creations with us on your Learning Journals. Mums and Dads if you cannot access this please let us know via the school email address.

Developing Listening Skills

Have fun identifying sounds and playing listening games about the weather. Get your child to lay down on the floor or somewhere comfortable. Ask them to close their eyes and use their listening ears. See if they can guess what the sounds are before the children tell them. Use this link to access the session:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/eyfs-listening-skills-weather/zvrcf4j

Have a great weekend everyone!!!!!