Dragonflies and Daisies

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Milk and Cookies - Cupcakes

This week at home have a look at the cupcake sequencing activity on page 22 of the home book.

Then how about baking some cupcakes of your own. You probably have a recipe already but just in case here's a really good one. http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/easypeasycupcakes_74799.shtml

As you know we are all willing to taste you creations.

Village - Bedtime Stories

In Our Dream Pillow sessions we have been listening to Dream Pillow Lullaby. Creating a bedtime ritual or routine helps baby settle. In a similar way teaching our children to relax and be still for a small portion of time each day will really help them develop the ability to rest, a very important thing to learn.

This week why not create your own bedtime book. You could find or draw pictures of bedtime objects or try to depict your routine in photographs. You might like to laminate the pages so that baby can hold.

http://babyparenting.about.com/cs/sleeping/a/sleepbook.htm

For those of you experiencing difficulties with bedtime and more importantly sleeping, I can highly recommend Elizabeth Pantley's book "The No Cry Sleep Solution". Some fantastic tips that really helped me back in the days when I was exhausted with a baby who refused to sleep. (Now 8 and still apparently needs less sleep than me.)

Young Child week 12

Quite an academic session yesterday. The kids did brilliantly. We constructed a Musical stave on the floor with 5 black ropes. We were able to see that there were 5 lines and 4 spaces. Big black note heads were placed in the third space: the note C.

This week at home you are reinforcing the note C by sticking and drawing C in the correct position on the sheet provided. Make sure you bring them back next week to class.

Alternatives to Shaving Foam

What a great Imagine That class we had today. It was so cold at the centre that one by one all the adults snuck back into the room and thought that I would let them all just sit and watch at the side. Surely you should know me better than that by now! After a few minutes of dancing with scarves and tapping the sandblocks everyone felt a lot warmer. The children certainly enjoyed the parents taking part along with their siblings.

Home activity this week says to explore the possibilities of shaving foam. For those of you who fancied an alternative, as promised, I have found a link to bubble painting. Be sure to show us any great works of art you produce. http://www.bigeyedowl.co.uk/painting-activities.htm

Remember too that next week we are all coming together for the whole class.

Magic Flute

Today in our Young Child class were learning about Mozart's Opera, "The Magic Flute". If you want a recap or some more information, here is a link to Classics for Kids website, where you can listen to a programme all about it. http://www.classicsforkids.com/shows/showdesc.asp?id=207

The sheet of characters given to you in class can be coloured, cut out and each one stuck on a lollipop stick to produce a set of puppets. Have fun using the puppets to retell the story.

Also this week, use your note heads to make some different melodies, with high and low sounds. Be sure to use the stickers to create one which you can bring back to class next week, where we will play them together.

New Term, New Year

Classes start back this week. All courses continue after Christmas for 6 more weeks.

See you all back in class x