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P 1 / 2 Share Your Learning

We are trying to find new ways to keep in touch during these strange times and would love to see and share your learning.

To help us do this we are setting up a Sway for P 1 / 2  to showcase all the amazing things they have been doing.

We need you to take photos of all your wonderful learning and email them to us.

Please email photos and comments to:

wlwestfield-ps@westlothian.org.uk

Thank you!

Ideas from Mrs Wilkes for Nursery

A few more ideas from Mrs Wilks

We have made a list of activities to try at home for the seven areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage. Any of these activities should be able to be done without needing to buy any resources. We have tried to make them open and flexible.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

  • Massage – pretend to make a cake or build a pizza on your partners back
  • Share stories – retell and act them out
  • Make bread together
  • Chop the vegetables for dinner together
  • Give your child responsibility to help with household chores
  • Look at Cosmic Kids Yoga on You Tube and join in as a family
  • Sharing a family meal and talk about your day.
  • https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

 

Physical Development

  • Threading pasta on to wool or string
  • Water play in the bath – scooping, pouring and measuring
  • Design a treasure hunt around the house
  • Junk modelling
  • Make play dough together
  • Musical movement games – Like musical statues
  • Lego and block play – Plan to build something and see if you can follow your plan.
  • Make a sensory tray with shaving foam, soap, cornflour,  jelly etc
  • Painting with water in the garden
  • Building dens and tunnels with blankets under a table

 

Communication and Language

 

Maths

  • Pairing socks
  • Playing number board games – snakes and ladders, bingo etc
  • Bigger and smaller games – Describing the 3 bears, 3 Billy goats gruff and put objects in size order
  • Add numbers to pegs and help your child order them
  • Measuring ingredients to cook
  • Sing number songs, such as 5 currant buns, 5 little ducks
  • Sorting toys by colour or shape
  • Make a bowling game with toilet rolls
  • Go on shape/number hunt around the home or in the garden
  • https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/3-5-years/counting

 

Literacy

  • Share story books and talk about what is happening on each page
  • Play lotto games – matching pictures
  • phonicsplay.co.ukPhase 1, Phase 2 phonics for those who are currently being sent home with words and reading books.
  • https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/– Oxford Reading Tree ebooks for those currently on the reading scheme.
  • Hide an object in a ‘mystery bag’ and give clues to what might be inside
  • Clap out syllables to break up your name or other words – butterfly, daffodil, sunshine

 

Understanding the World

  • Look at information books on frogs and chicks
  • Hunt for bugs in the garden and make bug houses
  • Plant seeds such as cress and enjoy watching it grow
  • Observe the weather each day and make a weather chart
  • Make a family tree – who is in your family
  • Freeze small toys in ice, work out how to get them out of the ice
  • Look at different sorts of ICT in your home e.g. microwave, remote control, phone etc
  • Feed the birds in the garden and keep a record of which birds visit your garden

 

Expressive Art and Design

  • Dancing to music – use scarves
  • Sing familiar songs and make up your own words to nursery rhyme tunes
  • Make musical instruments, shakers
  • Make your own paint with shaving foam or coloured ice
  • Make props for your favourite story and act it out together.

 

Play dough Recipe

1 cup salt

2 cups flour

2 tbsp. oil

2 tbsp. cream of tartar

1 ½ – 2 cups boiling water

Foundation School Closure Activities

We have provided a list of activities and ideas to support your child’s learning during school closure. Play is vital to the children’s learning, ensure children have a variety of activities.  Spend time talking, playing games, reading books, singing songs. Remember all 7 areas of learning are as important as each other.

Activities for kids to do at home.

  • Play with balls, catching, throwing and kicking.  Can your child make up a new game with rules using a ball?
  • Read regularly to each other
  • Practice letter and number formation
  • Play board games
  • Be creative with play dough
  • Dance along to your favourite music

 

Nursery Activities

Hope you are all keeping well. Here are some activities for today.

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The children all loved this story in nursery. You can then ask them to retell the story to you. In your pack was puppets to make which can be used when they are retelling the story,

A rhyme for today is

Five little Monkeys jumping in a tree,

Along came a crocodile as quiet as can be, {whisper]

Hey Mr Crocodile you can’t catch me

SNAP!

Four Little Monkeys jumping in a tree………….

Have fun

Free Twinkl Account

 

To support you during this period, Twinkl is offering every access to all Twinkl resources with a One Month Ultimate Membership, totally free of charge. This is available to every parent and carer during this period of disruption.

It is a fantastic resource, with lots of different learning activities.

Setting this up is really easy to do – go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code UKTWINKLHELPS