Home Learning

On this page you will find suggested activities you can do at home with your child to help support their learning in all curricular areas.

The activities will be kept in line with what we will be learning about in nursery. This will help to support and extend your child's learning at home and will ensure your child can continue learning if your family are self isolating.

We hope you find these activities helpful 😊

Celebrating success!! Here are some of your photos from this weeks home learning. Well done everyone, great work!!

Here is a link to the Parent Club Website https://www.parentclub.scot/

This is a great website with lots of advice and support for parents with children of all ages.

Celebrating success!! Here are some of your photos from last week. Wow, lots of amazing work!! Well done everyone!! ⭐⭐⭐

Here are some of your snowy day photos that you sent us. It looks like you have all had great fun in the snow. We are all very impressed with your snowmen, well done everyone!! ❄⛄🥶

We have been busy this week in nursery finding different ways to make repeated patterns. Below are some photos of patterns we have made and examples of some you could try at home.

In nursery this week we had fun exploring with ice. We found lots of ice blocks all around the garden. We decided to get the paints out and paint the ice. It was interesting to see the way the paint reacted to the ice and made its own patterns.

We also found ice blocks with things frozen inside them such as leaves, sticks and some toys. We had great fun trying to work out how to get them out!

Did you find any ice at home this week? Do you know how ice is made? I wonder if you could find out? How does ice melt? Could you make your own ice experiments?

There are some parts of the world where it is completed covered in ice and snow. The Arctic and Antarctic are 2 of these places. Can you find these places on a map? Maybe you could use a non-fiction book or the internet to find out about these places, what does it look like? Do any animals live there?

https://youtu.be/b-9xDztBhzE - Here is a link to a video A walk in the Arctic.

As always you can send me photos of any ice you have found, experiments you may do or information you have found out. Have fun!

Can you identify the numbers along with Miss O'Neill? Below are the links to the videos

https://youtu.be/YPL_qDJMEVc

https://youtu.be/IwjPSV3lPug

Happy Burns' Day everyone!!

We hope you are having great fun celebrating.

In nursery we would usually be celebrating with our Nursery Burns' Supper and of course our infamous Scots Day show! Which unfortunately we're not able to do this year 😔

Mrs Watson and I have made videos of the dances that we would be learning in nursery (please see the links below). Perhaps you could have a go at home with your family.

You can send me videos or photos of any of your Burns' Day celebrations or your dancing. Have fun! lforbes@haddingtonps.elcschool.org.uk

https://youtu.be/rxdSBB1vCWY - Scottish dance 1

https://youtu.be/ua-x9VeEVM8 _ Scottish dance 2

Home Learning 25.01.21.docx

Here is our Home Learning for this fortnight 25.01.21.

To access the home learning click on the link and select request access 😀

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10wTcPek_rKJrRenUsW25cAPlR4wSd-Wo/view?usp=sharing

Wow! How amazing was it to wake up this morning to all this snow! I hope you all get the chance to get out and about and enjoy this fantastic weather.

Here are some ideas of games/activities you can do in the snow.

My boys and I took some time away from home schooling and working from home for a bit today to enjoy some fun in the snow and build a snowman.

I wonder if any of you have built a snowman? You can send me some of your Snowy day photos lforbes@haddingtonps.elcschool.org.uk

Have fun!!!!

Why playing is important

Children need play to survive and thrive. Play is a life-enhancing experience which fosters resilience, the ability to handle stress, challenges and setbacks. “Just playing” can help build children’s capacity to cope with highly stressful situations.

Play builds health and wellbeing – being active through play helps physically and emotionally, contributing to their health and happiness

Play builds resilience – playing boosts children’s confidence, creativity, problem-solving skills and perseverance, enabling them to cope with stress and challenges through life

Play builds friendships – playing allows children to interact with others, develop relationships, deal with conflict, and learn respect and tolerance

Play builds communities – playing allows children to learn about the world around them, make connections, and develop a sense of identity and belonging As they grow and develop, play offers children the opportunity to develop a range of physical, emotional and social skills, helping to make sense of the world they find themselves in. - Play Scotland

Below is a link to the Play Scotland Home Play Pack. This gives you a little insight into the importance of play, tips for parents, ideas for activities and how you can support at home and links to some helpful websites.

https://www.playscotland.org/resources/play-scotland-home-play-pack/

Here are some videos of Mrs Skirving and some of the boys and girls at nursery making some bird feeders from our home learning sheet to put out in our nursery garden.

https://youtu.be/1gAJ-u8K-LU - Part 1

https://youtu.be/Kcq6fW7b6hc - Part 2

https://youtu.be/DpymsZ_JSyI - Part 3

We would love to see some of your bird feeders!

I've posted below our Bird Feeder recipe book if you want to make your own, follow the instructions.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-teachers/schools-birdwatch/ - Here is a link to the RSBP website for more activities and information on birds.