Curious George is beginning to recognise numbers. Help him find the numeral, written number and find that number of animals. A fun game to play on your devices using the following link:
Rumble in the Jungle is a lovely story that introduces all the animals in the story. You can choose to read the story, read along with top tips or read along with singing. Using the top tips is a great way of engaging your child more with the story and they explore the pictures etc following the tip. Enjoy!
Make your own pair of fabulous binoculars with this creative art and craft kids activity. They are easy to make and great fun to use! Maybe you could use them to go exploring in the garden looking for mini-beasts, flowers or what ever you can see. Watch the video below to see how to make them yourself:
Remember that you can access lunches from the school between 12 noon and 1.30PM. Come along and pick yours up between these times the staff would love to see you.
Lets Get Active
Today’s Joe Wicks session is available through this link:
Dancing
Twist and Shout is a fun dance that the grown ups sill know as well. Why don’t you get everyone to join in!!! Access this through the following link:
To make an M&M science rainbow, you will need the following materials:
M&Ms
Plate
Water
I started by putting some M&Ms onto a plate.
My kids arranged the M&Ms in a large circle at the outside edge of the plate.
It’s a bit hard to see in the picture below, but the next step is to gently add enough water to the middle of the plate until the water is touching all of the M&Ms. Be careful not to add the water too roughly or it will cause some of the M&Ms to move out of the circle.
Then just watch. Over the next few minutes, a beautiful rainbow will form right before your eyes!
Sensory Play activities
Ice
Freeze some of your child’s favourite toys, figures or cars in a container with water overnight. Give them an object to hit the ice with and watch them have lots of fun getting their toys back!
Story
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy
Hairy Maclary’s friends join him for a walk until, with a sudden yowl, a wail and a howl, they all run off. What could have caused such a scatter of paws?
Literacy
Letter sounds and letter blending.
Another activity that introduces the letters by name and sound. Blending the letters sounds together to make nonsense words, all part of early reading skills.
Have a great day everyone and remember lunches are available at the school from 12 noon to 1.30PM.
Numeracy
Pattern
This is a fun activity that you can do indoors or out all you need to do is collect some loose part materials weather it is beads, gems, leaves or stones and make your very own patterns or shape creations.
Have a great day everyone and remember to share your pattern making on your Learners Journeys.
Today’s Joe Wicks session is available through this link:
Mrs Anderson, from the school not the nursery, has been doing Yoga for the children. If you want to give it a go follow the link below:
Story
Elmer the Patchwork Elephant
Elmer is different and he’s definitely not like any other elephants. Is being different a good thing or bad thing? Let find out!!!!
https://youtu.be/wdyo4ykh2WA
Lets Get Creative
Make your own Elmer
All you need:
Empty plastic milk bottle containers
scissors
PVA glue
paint brush
brightly coloured tissue paper
googly eyes
1. Cut around the bottom of the milk bottle handle and continue around the bottle to create Elmers legs and trunk and begin covering the surface with pva glue.
2. Stick tissue paper squares all over the “elephant” until he is completely covered. You could use sweet wrappers, newspaper, magazines, music manuscript anything you like, you can create your elephant.
3. Once you have covered your elephant give it a coat of PVA to keep the paper nice and smooth and make it a little waterproof. Then you can add goodly eyes and draw on ears and a tail.
Numeracy
Bunny Ride is a fun game where the children move the car as it drives along the road to collect the carrots for the bunny. Children will be developing their fine motor skills, counting and number sequencing as they play the game.
https://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/busyday/drive/
Literacy
Alphablocks is available on CBeebies. This Alphablocks video looks at the letter/ sound ‘a’, introducing both the letter name and sound. It uses different letter sounds blended together to form words containing the letter ‘a’. Use this link to access the video:
Being Eco-Friendly is a way of caring for your environment. Every little thing you do to stay eco-friendly makes the earth smile. You’re adding years to her life. This video clip explains to children the importance of being eco-friendly and how easy it is to make simple changes in things we do every day to make changes to reduce our impact on the earth.
Joe Wicks session for today is available through this link:
Balloons
Another fun way to get the children moving and having fun. Suitable for multiple children (and adults can get also get involved).
Blow up some balloons and then get them to burst them by stomping, squeezing, sitting or even body slamming them – no pins allowed! This is great fun – and will really tire them out. This activity is perfect for indoors or outdoors on the grass.
Being responsible
Getting the children to do a chore without realising they are helping
If you’re trying to get on with things in the kitchen, fill a bowl or bucket full of lukewarm soapy water and let your wee one have some fun with bubbles. They could use the water to clean their toys or you could give your little one some plastic cups and bottles to make waves, whirlpools and waterfalls. Your kitchen floor may get a wash as well! This is also a nice activity for outdoors if the weather is nice.
Measuring
Make a height chart
Make a height chart with your child. This can be done using left over wall paper or a piece of wood, as in the picture. Mark our the measurements in centimetres and meters along one edge of the paper. Once you have marked the measurements let the children decorated their chart, they could make it into a tree, a ladder or what ever they like. You can record the height of all family members on the height chart and over the next few weeks/months revisit this regularly to see who has grown and by how much. A great way of introducing the language of measurement as we see who is tallest or shortest. How much taller are your wee brother or sister? Or you are how much shorter than me? You could even bring this into nursery when we get back to show us how much you have grown since we last saw you.
Story
The Smartest Giant in Town
This is a story from Julia Donaldson that demonstrates the Giant’s kindness towards others. It is a lovely story that the children will enjoy.
Literacy
This kids learning compilation is perfect for learning ABC’s, Phonics, sight words and letter blending.
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:
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:
Just click on the light blue links throughout the page to access the different activities available. Something to do indoors if the weather is not so nice outside today.
To begin, colour about 1/2 cup of water with food colouring.
Take the Alka Seltzer tablets and break them into 2 or 3 pieces. Place them in a small cup or container.
Fill a glass about 3/4 full with vegetable oil. Then pour in the coloured water until the liquid in the cup is about 5cm from the top.
You don’t want it to overflow! Well, unless you want to turn it into an eruption experiment too. For this reason and quick clean up, I like to do this on a tray.
Let the children take turns adding a piece of an Alka Seltzer table to the cup. *DO NOT let them put the tablet in their mouth at any time.
Shape
This Shape Song is a groovy and interactive song for kids that introduces four 2D shapes: circle, triangle, square, and rectangle.
In your community
In your local area: When you are out on your daily walk why not have a look at different signs and environmental print in the community can your child help point out some circles or triangles or maybe they can find the letters from their name on street signs or shops etc.
Talk about the sides of the shapes are they straight or curved? Are there long sides and short sides? How many corners are there? How many edges does the shape have?
Something for Parents
Supporting Your Child’s Emotional Resilience During COVID-19: FREE ONLINE COURSE
We are living in unprecedented and uncertain times. The coronavirus crisis has resulted in wide scale and rapid changes to the whole of society that we are all adapting and reacting to. This particularly applies to children, who have found their routines, friendships and support systems radically changed and many are struggling with the physical and mental pressures resulting from these changes. Understandably for many people, anxiety levels are high.
The aim of this course is to help parents and caregivers to understand and develop emotional resilience for you and your family.
The link for this course is:
https://www.brightsparkscic.org.uk/er-covid19
Remember to go and collect your lunch from the school between 12 noon and 1.30PM.
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:
A Tiger Who Came To Tea is a lovely story about a Tiger coming to a little girls house for tea.
https://youtu.be/BXgW9UCgpc8
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:
The link for the Joe Wicks session we are using today is bellow:
Listening
In today’s Cosmic Yoga session Jaime introduces a fun game about listening. Access this through:
Lets be scientists today
An absolutely stunning Swirling Milk Science Experiment that you can try at home. In this post, we are going to discuss one of the easiest and my most preferred science experiment that you can try at home (just with products from your home). You know the best part – it just takes few minutes. This is the link to the experiment:
The Naked Egg Experiment. This is a simple science experiments for kids. Ask your child what they thing a naked egg would look like before trying this experiment. This fun project by dissolves an eggshell into a glass of vinegar solution. Thelink for this is:
Dear Zoo is a story about a child who wrote to the Zoo asking for a pet. The link to this is:
https://youtu.be/rudDGRQ9QGA
Preparation for tomorrows activities suggestions
If you are going on a walk today you could collect some leaves that have fallen on the ground. these can be green or brown leaves. Also collect some small stones and little twigs. Leave these to dry overnight to use tomorrow once you have seen the Blog.
We are running a day behind with the workouts with Joe Wicks. So the session we are accessing today was from Monday, I hope that this does not cause too much confusion with your little ones. Access this session through the following link:
In this yoga session Jaime talks about mindful eating. Instead of gobbling up our food without thinking, we savour every second. Have a small piece of something tasty handy for this one so you can join in!
Creative Activities
Tissue box monsters
You can use an empty tissue box to create your own tissue box monster. You can paint or cover your box in colour. Once you have done this you can begin to build the features of your monster. I wonder what different items you could use to make your monster individual and unique!!!
Share your creations in your Online Learning Journal.
Sensory Play activities
Cook spaghetti pasta and drain when cooked. As the pasta is cooling add a little cooking oil, this stops it from sticking together. Once it has cooled, add a few drops of food colouring or lay onto a tray and let the children paint it themselves! Your children will enjoy the experience of the pasta in their hands. Talk about how it feels and describe the texture. They can make pictures, such as faces, with it or create abstract pictures, covering your paper with glue and allowing it to dry after they have finished adding their pasta.
This can also be done with tube pasta and once dried used to make a necklace or a bracelet.
Story
“My Five Senses” by Aliki is a book about our five senses; see, hear, smell, taste and touch. Enjoy!
Senses video
A lively, educational video to help kids learn about the five senses we use to experience the world around us. Kids will love singing this catchy sing-along song. Teaches about the sense of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. This is the link to the video:
Numeracy
Let’s Compare is an interactive comparison game which focuses on the comparative vocabulary of biggest, smallest, shortest, longest and tallest
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