Make Learning Fun with Belmont Playcare
Topic: Frog lifecycle
Week 27th April 2020 |
Area of Learning-Language Development
Making marks/writing on different surfaces – Cover a piece of card, cut from a cereal packet, with tinfoil (no need to glue, just fold it over the edges) to create a writing surface.Encourage your child to make marks (dots, lines, scribbles) with different tools – pen, spoon etc. This helps develop their control and awareness of different levels of pressure used when writing. Don’t forget to enjoy this week’s story – “The Wide Mouthed Frog” video on Facebook! |
Area of Learning-Mathematical Development
Measuring – Collect shoes of a similar size and help your child arrange them in a long straight line, heel to toe without spaces in between.Encourage them to measure family members by lying beside the line of shoes, counting how many shoes ‘long’ they are. You can write each number on a piece of paper with each person’s name and display the page somewhere to refer to again later. |
Area of Learning-Personal, social and Emotional Development Set a challenge this week to continue to develop your child’s self-help skills. Encourage your child to make their own bed daily, put on and take off their shoes, pour their own milk for their morning cereal or butter their own toast. This continues to foster a sense of accomplishment and promotes independence. |
Area of Learning-Physical Development
Fine Motor Skills – Hand strength and coordination – Use a sock to help your child make a simple hand puppet, adding paper circle eyes and an optional long, red paper tongue.Opening and closing the frog’s mouth is great exercise for the hands, strengthening muscles and developing control and coordination. Your child can ‘feed’ the frog with some dried pasta or beans, one piece at a time – see how many pieces the frog can keep in its mouth at once!
Gross Motor Skills *Daily spurts of vigorous exercise are great – run, jump, dance, skip etc! Frog jumps – place some mats close together on the ground as lily pads. Encourage your child to crouch low with knees apart and hands on ground and then jump, straightening the legs as much as possible before landing crouched down on both feet – this takes practice! Croaking while jumping is optional. To create more challenge, move the mats further apart.This helps build core strength, balance, coordination and control. |
Area of Learning-Creative Development
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Area of Learning-World Around Us
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Wide Mouthed Frog |
Nursery Rhymes Songs
Hey ho ma deario the farmer plants the seed, The rain begins to fall x2 Hey ho ma deario the rain begins to fall, The sun begins to shine x2 Hey ho my deario the sun begins to shine The flower begins to grow x2 Hey ho ma deario the flower begins to grow.
I saw a little bird go hop, hop, hop I told the little bird to stop, stop, stop I went to the window to say ‘How do you do?’ He wagged his little tail And away he flew! |
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