Nursery Class

Introducing your children to yoga at an early age can help them learn healthy lifestyle habits and set the foundation for a fit future. Get your family practice started with these kid-friendly yoga poses.

Save the Children - UK Covid-19 Resource Pack 1

Activities, tips and inspiration for you and yur children during lockdown. Lots of wonderful ideas.

Squishy painting

How to paint a butterfly.

Dens 2

Activities for building dens and measure.

Online Safety at Home

Simple 15 min activities to do at home with your child.

Smoothie Recipe

The Very Hungry Caterpillar loved to eat fruit. Why don't you follow our recipe for a healthy smoothie.

Shapes

Some activities to help you learn about 2Dshapes.

Days of the Week

Listen to and join in with the days of the week and counting song. Help answer some questions for The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Pattern, Design and Playdough

Set up an exciting investigation area to explore patterns and textures. Create your own creatures or patterns using play dough.

Family First 1

Family First 2

Family FIrst is available to offer support to families by working in partnership with them.

Mrs Syme's Caterpillars Cornflour and water experiment

Lillie and Mrs Syme have spotted beautiful butterflies during thier walks. Where do butterflies come from?

Volcanoes

Enjoy some more STEM activities with St Cadoc's Nursery Class today

HOW TO MAKE A RAINBOW

Rainbow Climbing Experiemnt

Rainbow Scavenger Hunt

Rainbows are used as a symbol of peace and hope as they often appear when the sun follows a heavy rainfall. Children have been responsible for drawing most of the rainbows, which symbolise the sun emerging amid a rainy backdrop. They ultimately serve as a reminder to stay positive, so let’s make our own rainbows in a scientific way.

A Little Seed

Please have a look at our new poem for this week. Miss Chrystal is reciting it on twitter too.

Children’s language development thrives through exposure to environments of rich and diverse spoken language experiences. We grow a sense of purpose for the child by our own use of language and engaging them with a wide variety of stories, rhymes, songs, symbols and texts in different media all around them. (Realising the Ambition)

Helicopter stories 1

The benefits of Helicopter stories are:

Explore early literacy

• Creates confidences and self-assurance

• Supports the development of speaking skills as children express and share their ideas

• Developing listening skills

Skipping Ropes

Health and wellbeing is so important help the children develop movement skills during energetic play with this activity. Also think about revising or learning about 2d shapes.

scavenger hunt

Go on a scavenger hunt and use your senses, and perhaps learn new words to describe the world around you. Have fun.

Planting

During this activity learn what plants need to grow and flourish.

den building

Children enjoy making/creating their own environment, their own miniature worlds. Where they can create fantasy characters or simply act out and understand characters/roles from their own environment. They create stories that enhance/deepen their understanding of the world about them. They can experiment with language they have acquired, as well as new vocabulary they are introduced to.

Role play shop 1

By playing at shops, children learn about money, they are able to link their personal life experiences to play and to re-enact people and familiar situations, helping them to make sense of the world.

Baking 2

This is a really simple activity that has lots of different learning experiences for the children, and (hopefully) a delicious outcome at the end 😊.

Literacy ideas

One thing that you can do with your child while they are not in nursery is read them a story. It doesn’t matter what you read, just spend some time together and enjoy the experience.

Click on the links below for websites you may find useful to use at home:

Bookbug Website

BBC nursery Rhymes and Songs

Please see link including our poem.

A Little House Poem

Health & Wellbeing

Health and wellbeing is so important. This includes both physical health and mental wellbeing. Why not start each day with some physical exercise, suitable for all the family.

PE with Joe

Alternatively, perhaps some Cosmic Yoga may be more for you… we know this is a real favourite with our children in nursery.

Cosmic Yoga

Gonoodle is another favourite.

https://www.gonoodle.com/

Children may benefit from this Social Story to help them understand the current situation regarding Covid19.

Child-Friendly-Explanation-of-Coronavirus

At a time when we are all experiencing uncertain times, positive mental health has never been so important.

East Renfrewshire Council has developed a guide, Healthier Minds, to promote the mental wellbeing of our children and young people. This resources aims to help you find the information you need to develop children and young people’s talents and abilities in a way that will support them to meet life’s common challenges, develop their resilience, and have healthier minds as a result.

Healthier minds

Numeracy & Mathematics Ideas

Here are some numeracy and maths ideas for you to enjoy with your children. Engage in these activities with your child in whatever ways are best suited to your family and meet your child’s interests and stage of development.

Shape Hunt Home Learning

Number Hunt Home Learning

Topmarks – lots of numeracy games for you to enjoy with the children.

There are counting, ordering and sequencing, measure, money, shape, position and movement and data handling games. You can access these games depending on the activity you have chosen to do with your children.

Top Marks

Counting to ten songs

Number Songs

Count to 20 song.

Count down from 20

Count to 100.

Transient Art

Collect lots of random objects that you find around your house, for example, pegs, buttons, screws, nuts, bolts, fruit, packets from your recycling etc. (loose parts). Once you have collected lots of little treasures then you can sort them into categories and begin to make pictures and models of anything you would like. Use your imagination and see what amazing creations you can come up with.

Please share your piece of art with us on Twitter @st_cadocs

Drama Time!

If you have enjoyed listening to the stories with your teachers, or have read a different story with you carer, perhaps you can recreate that story through drama: make sock puppets or use loose parts as props.

Loose parts might be old scarves, pieces of fabric bedding, buttons scarves, corks, beads, stones, shells etc. anything that you have that is required can be used. These items are ideal to begin with to allow the children to use their imagination and take on many differing roles.

Language development runs through all dramatic play activities. Talking and listening skills developed through dramatic play and form the narratives which are the basis of reading and writing. Below are some websites that you can use for literacy.

Topmarks offers lots of literacy ideas for you to enjoy looking at with your children including:

letters and sounds

songs and rhymes

stories

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