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Here are some ideas to try at home. Make some ice cubes and paint with different colours. Use your recycling to make music. use petals and fruits to make sensory water play. Use a mirror for children to study their face and draw a face portrait.  

This week we are looking at the area of Personal, Social and emotional development.  This supports children’s development by helping them interact effectively with others and develop positive attitudes towards others and about themselves.  Here are some helpful activities you can do at home to support this area of development: ·         Personal development (Being me) – how we come to understand who we are and what we can do, how we look after ourselves. ·          Social development (Being social ) – how we come to understand ourselves in relation to others, how we make friends, understand the rules of society and behave towards others. ·          Emotional development (Having feelings ) – how we come to understand our own and others’ feelings and develop our ability to ‘stand in someone else’s shoes’ and see things from their point of view, referred ...

Welcome to this weeks blog post.  Here are some more ideas of activities to try at home. Nature picture frame Sorting sticks by length

"Play or exercise a child’s body doesn’t know the difference. But their mind tells them when they are having fun.” In the Early years foundation stage guidance the section physical development covers a broad range of movements and attributes that support children to development their muscle strength. Here are some helpful activities you can do at home to support this: Uses scissors support children using a one handed tool which is statement is the early years foundation stage guidance. Playdough cuts easily therefore giving the children a sense of achievement and supporting those finger muscles.  Make an obstacle course using cushions, chairs, clothes airers, duvets, blankets, pillows and encourage your child to move around, over, under, between, in different ways. This promotes children moving freely.   Playing a game a “Simon Says” is a great way to discuss how about body reacts to doing different forms of exercise one after each...

Hello, welcome to this week’s blog.  Here are some ideas of activities to try at home.  Don’t forget to share some pictures with us. We all love making bubbles, why not experiment to see if you can make gigantic bubbles! Now we can buy pasta again, try making paint brushes with some spaghetti! Matching numeral to quantity, if you don’t have cards you can make your own. Music, great for well-being and for learning to differentiate between sounds, this is a skill they will need later to help with phonics.

Today’s Blog has been written by Alina. Sing songs such as 5 little monkeys, 5 little speckled frogs, 5 little men in a flying saucer etc. Songs will help children develop speech and language and if you choose songs with numbers in them this will also help children become aware of numbers and later on learn to count. Here are some links with a few songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j6AZhZFb7A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSC-gHBU_d0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E3p_51tJx0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZw9veQ76fo Maths is more than just numbers, is time, size, volume, position etc. To help with this, talk about what day it is every day, look at the calendar, ask them, what do they think the weather is doing. You can draw numbers on the pavement and ask your child to sit on a number such as 5, 2 6 etc, this will help children learn to recognise numbers. Play with blocks and Lego and ask the children to stack them ve...

Hello! This week we have continued making up our activity bags, we have loved seeing all of the photos and videos.  We try to put out a bag as often as we can, we will email you when a new one is available. Here are some more ideas that you might like to try at home. Playing cards. A simple household find that can be used in so many ways to promote number. Bingo, snap, order 1-5 or 1-10, find two the same, turn over two cards which is more, which is less? Which card comes next in a sequence? So many possibilities! Lids, lids and more lids!  We love lids at Pre-School Collect some flowers and greenery, place in a small shallow bowl, half fill with water and place in some string with a knotted end into the water. Once ready stick in the freezer, as soon as it’s frozen fill to the brim with water, this will make sure the flowers are completely iced over. Remove from the freezer once frozen, pop off the bowl and hang from the string in some trees!...