Tuesday 24th March

Dan HatfieldMonday 23 Mar 2020 15:08

Ms Julie is at home with her two children!

Wake up and shake up with Ms Rachel and friends - which teachers can you see?

When a child dances, they learn about how their body can move. They experiment with travelling motions such as walking, sliding and jumping, as well as other movements like twisting, bobbing and bending. Dancing uses different muscles than simply standing and walking around does, which strengthens them. Through dance, children learn to coordinate and control their bodies and the movement helps them develop spatial awareness.

These are some ideas for learning at home today. Parents please remember that there is no expectation to complete all of these! Keeping a routine for your child and maintaining contact with school are the most important thing. Please feel free to leave a comment by clicking the icon 'Add Comment' at the bottom of the blog to let us know how your child is getting on!

Exploring texture!

Texture is all around us – and using the tactile sense is an important part of the child’s sensory play and observation. Encourage your child to use their fingers, hands and other body parts to find out how different textures feel. You could also use academic language (in your home language) to describe them.

You can create different textures by adding foods such as salt, flour, oats, cereals, soil, leaves or breadcrumbs) to your favourite colour of paint.

If you don’t have paint at home try exploring texture with pencil or crayon rubbings like this… You can try rubbings of leaves, zippers, lego….anything really! See how many different textures you can find.

Snack time! This week, we'd like to share pictures of children eating healthy fruit snacks at home. If you have any, please email them to Mr Dan (daha@patana.ac.th) and he will add them to the blog over the next few days.

Look who is in our healthy snack gallery this week!

Cosmic Kids Yoga - excellent yoga exercises for young children!

Yoga is a great way to develop gross motor skills such as balance and core strength. It’s also great for developing mindfulness, listening and attention.

Lunch time - make sure your Mummy and Daddy are washing their hands properly before they eat!

Phonics time!

Identifying initial sounds in words is a very important audio skill in phonic development. Hearing the sounds in words comes before recognising phonemes (letters). Without these audio skills, children can not blend and segment sounds in words. This is why ‘tuning into sound’ is such an important stage in early reading skills.

FS1 - Can you find one object to match each sound in your name? Below, we have found sounds for P-a-t-a-n-a. Can you take your own photo of the things you have found and put it on ILD for your teacher to see?

'Wizard words' are words that occur regularly in our reading books which contain uncommon sounds that we have not yet taught the children. While uncommon, these words can be blended like any other word once the sounds are known: e.g. for the word 'go', the children can identify the sound that they already know (the 'g') and we explain that the 'o' can sometimes be an 'oa' sound.

FS2 - Look through a storybook from home - how many of our Wizard Words can you find? Could you make a tally chart to see how many of each one you can find?