Learning Advice for Parents
Developing Fine Motor Skills
Developing fine motor skills helps build the foundation for important future skills like writing and self-care. Fine motor skills involve the use of the small muscles that control the hand, fingers, and thumb. Allowing your child to make things themselves will help them to strengthen these skills. They can tear, scrunch, stick and even use child safe scissors.
The pictures we show are ideas only, your child may have their own ideas of what they want to make and how they want to make it. It is ok if it doesn’t look perfect, especially if they have made it themselves. The learning is in the doing so please don’t make it for them.
Learning Focus
Developing Fine Motor Skills
In our story today Elmer is lots of different colours. Can you collect some recycled materials from around the house to create a colourful hat?
Your colourful hats that might look like these…
Or your child may want to follow their own interests; animals, vehicles, characters etc.
Can you make marks on your hat using a pencil, crayon, pen or paint brush?
Can you use scissors to carefully cut materials to go on your hat?
Promoting Independence
When we are at school and we play outside we have to wear a hat, this protects us from the sun. Here are some pictures of some Nursery children and Nursery grown ups playing in the garden with their hats on;
I wonder what your school hat will look like?
We have a no hat, no play rule! So, we would like you to practice wearing a hat when you go outside so that you are ready for when we start back at school.
Active Learning
Mosquitoes Can't Bite Ninjas
Guidance
Story Time
Elmer
Did you enjoy our stories last week? Check out our digital bookshelf to listen to your favourite ones again. Just like last week, page 1 is the stories read in English and on page 2, they are read in Thai.
We Love to See Your Learning!
We really love to see videos and photos of what you have been doing at home. The best way to share this with us is via the Seesaw App. You should have received communication about how to download and login to the app. If you have not received this, please email the ISIT helpdesk- helpdesk@patana.ac.th
Resource Packs
If you have picked up your child's resource pack, they may already be very excited to explore what's inside. Whilst there may be times that we encourage the use of certain resources, we would love for your child to have access to these, whenever they wish. Below are some ideas about how you can enhance this learning.
Home-School Communication
We hope that you enjoy engaging with our Nursery Blog.
If you have any concerns or queries about your child’s learning, please do not hesitate to contact your child's class teacher via email. They can then arrange a mutually convenient time to meet via MS Teams. Our class teachers always welcome the opportunity to discuss your child’s needs and progress.
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