Good morning all!!!
Lets be active
Today’s Joe Wicks session is:
The opposites action and dance song gets your child moving while making them aware of the opposite actions and feelings.
Songs
Another song that will increase your child’s understanding of opposites is accessed through this link:
Games for devices
Explore with Maddie
Learn all about how seeds grow, the Earth rotates and birds fly in the Explore with Maddie game from Maddie’s Do You Know? Access this through the link below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/games/do-you-know-explore-with-maddie
Lets get busy in the kitchen
With the weather being warmer today it is important that we eat and drink foods that healthy and hydrated. Fruit is a great way to help do this as it has natural juices. Why not make a fruit skewers or smoothies. Here are some recipes for you to follow to make these at home with grown ups.
Make your own rainbow fruit skewers
Use what ever fruit you have in the house either fresh, tinned or frozen (thawed before using).
Encourage your child to cut and chop the fruit themselves developing their knife skills and hand to eye coordination. Use a hand over hand method to teach the children how to safely use the knife.
Thread the cut fruit onto a skewer. If you don’t have skewers at home you could make a fruit salad in a bowl instead.
This activity is healthy, develops fine motor skills such as hand to eye coordination, encourages risk assessment and develops awareness of keeping self safe using different kitchen equipment. You can also develop numeracy skills as you talk about size and shape. You can create patterns on the skewer using the fruit or count how many pieces of fruit each person gets in a bowl so everyone is the same.
Banana milk shake
250 ml milk
2 ripe bananas
Put the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. If you have a hand blender use a jug or bowl to blend the mixture. If you don’t have either use a fork to mush up the banana, this only takes a few minutes to get it smooth before adding it to the milk and mixing.
You can add other soft fruits as well strawberries, raspberries and blueberries all work well. These don’t have to be fresh they can be frozen, allowing them to thaw before using.
For a special treat you could add a scoop of vanilla ice cream into the blender.
Pour into glasses and enjoy!!!
Story
A nice wee easy story you can read to your child about coronavirus. By spending time with your child reading this story you can help put your child’s mind at ease as everyone is finding these times worrying and stressful including the little people! The link to this story is:
Lunches are available from 12 noon until 1.30pm at the main entrance of the school.
Have a great day and remember to keep safe by wearing sun cream if you are outside, we don’t want your skin to burn.
