Hello All Good Morning
The weather keeps getting better and better. What a fabulous day it was yesterday. I hope that you all managed to get outside in the garden or for a walk. I wonder if you found any flowers in your garden or on your walk?
Last week I wrote about the Baking because you had been sharing with me how much your children were enjoying baking cakes, and biscuits. Baking covers All areas of learning, Maths, Literacy, Physical development, Concentration, Science, Creativity, Personal and Social development etc … as well, you have the wonderful smells of baking and then you get to eat the end results!!
I have been sent photos of someone cooking their own LUNCH.. Cooking requires so many fine motor /physical and concentration skills; mixing, cutting, grating, pouring, chopping etc
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- Mixing the eggs
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- Grating your own cheese
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- Making your own lunch
Have you ever made your own sandwich for lunch? …spreading your own butter on bread and adding your own topping…? Or added your own topping onto your own pizza and grating additional cheese?
I wonder what you have cooked? I’ve added the recipe just in case you would like to try…
Recipe
I’ve have also had some new DEN pictures sent to me…I love the way that you all adapt to this building challenge and make these den’s suit your needs. Brilliant. What also makes me smile is how many siblings are working closely together. Fantastic Fun being able to share learning.
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- Just look at this DEN.. YEAH
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- You can fit inside it….
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- We can also hide … in Dens!!
Today’s challenge was inspired from assault course photos a family had created at home. When completing an assault course …children are actually handwriting…but they don’t know it because they are having FUN. To be able to write and draw children need to have strong upper arm muscles and a strong core.
I wonder if you, your brother or sisters and your parents can Crab Walk???? A core strengthening activity
Crab Walk Game ……
You need
An area of floor or grass and a bean bag or small soft toy.
How to do it
Get your child to sit on the ground with their hands and feet on the floor, fingers pointing behind them, raise their bottom off the floor to make a table shape. In this position get them to walk backwards, like a crab, to a destination and back again. Put a beanbag or soft toy on their tummy – make sure they keep their bottom up otherwise the toy will fall off!
As this activity is quite demanding only ask your child to go 2 to 3 metres at their first attempt, as the child’s endurance increases you can increase the distance.
To add variety you can add an obstacle course or follow-my-leader to the game.
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- Aiming.. Focus, Eye Tracking and Hand Eye Coordination skills
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- Eye Tracking and Perseverance
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- CRAB WALK…. ENJOY.
Click on the spider to listen to the story…. I hear that some of you don’t like Spiders!!
Remember you can still send in your drawings, scribbling, mark making and pictures so that we can send Captain Tom a Happy Birthday card, 100 yrs old, what a special day.
Keep Enjoying your days at home. Stay Safe and Keep Smiling
Best Wishes Miss Butler, Miss Lofthouse, Mrs Breakwell