P7 Info W/B 30.3.20

Hi all,

I hope everyone is safe and well in this difficult time.

This is just a short post to remind children to check into Glow  and Google Classroom for daily tasks this week. A new task board has been put up today.

Next week is the Easter break so no new tasks will appear in that time.

If anyone has problems logging in, please email me at:

S.Brunt@mgfl.net

Many thanks,

Miss S Brunt

 

Let’s go on an adventure with Auntie Mabel and Pippin..

‘Come Outside’ is another one of our favourites within nursery. The series aims to encourage young children to learn about the world around them. The theme is something that the children are already familiar with, such as water, wood, paper, boots, spiders, street lamps etc and Auntie Mabel helps to answers those questions that curious little minds have.

Here are a few videos that you and your child may like to visit..

(You might even remember these videos from your own childhood!!).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poem for Nursery Children

Here is a lovely poem we would like to share with you all. Nursery rhymes and poems can support the development of language and communication skills from an early age. Rhymes can help them understand and learn about different sounds. This is an important part of developing those early years literacyNursery rhymes and poems can support the development of language and communication skills from an early age. Rhymes can help them understand and learn about different sounds. This is an important part of developing those early years literacy skills.

Poem for Nursery Children

 

Hello from Nursery!

Hi everyone,

Hope we are all well and keeping safe! We miss you all and don’t quite know how to fill our days without all your little people keeping us busy.

We will be posting on here hopefully quite regularly and sharing some things that your children enjoy while at nursery with us.

Our first share for today is a Youtube channel that you may be familiar with called Cosmic Kids Yoga.

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

We use this within nursery to have some quiet time usually after lunch and the children engage with this so well. Yoga is beneficial to children both physically and emotionally. Physically it enhances their flexibility, coordination, muscle tone and their spacial awareness. Emotionally it helps them to relax and relieve any anxiety they may feel. It will also help them to concentrate and focus on any tasks they may have later in the day. Most importantly it can help them sleep better at night – worth a go I think! 

Our personal favourites at nursery are:

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Frozen

Trolls

Popcorn the Dolphin

There are lots of different videos that you can all get involved with as a whole family! Please share any photos or videos of you doing yoga with us via email!

Stay safe everyone and please do not hesitate to reach out to any of us.

Loanhead Nursery x

P4 Assembly 20th March

Primary 4 worked amazingly hard on their assembly which was for last Friday.  Sadly then never had their usual audience and parents were unable to come along and see them.

I took a wee video and some photos so they can share their learning with you.

Enjoy

Mrs Hinton

Glow Troubleshooting

• I checked all pupil usernames and passwords last week and was able to log into Glow but if there are issues please email me at k.hinton@mgfl.net.

• CANNOT ACCESS GOOGLE CLASSROOM? – It works best on Chrome browser and you need to have a google account logged in. If there are 2 or more children in the house then you may need to make a new google account with glow email (ending in @mc.glow.scot) and have that logged in. I know this is annoying but should save time in the long run – different versions of Chrome require different things.

  • The google classroom app will not work, you need to use the google chrome browser and Glow.
  • Google classroom work can be done on paper/jotters and handed in by uploading a hwhoto of the work and sending it within the assignment (there is a small video I made about this in most Google Classrooms)
  • Midlothian Glow and Google Classroom help page is now up and running, if you have no device to access google classroom you can also request to loan a device from this link. https://sites.google.com/mc.glow.scot/distancelearning-parentcarer/

• Sumdog and Education city can be accessed online without Glow if you have issues.

• If you get locked out of Glow, it usually only lasts ten minutes before allowing you to retry.

I will try to update this with common troubleshooting issues the more that I come across. Thanks for your patience,

Mrs Hinton

Dear Parents…

Dear parents,

You might be inclined to create a minute by minute schedule for your kids. You have high hopes of hours of learning, including online activities, science experiments, and book reports. You’ll limit technology until everything is done! But here’s the thing…

Our kids are just as scared as we are right now. Our kids not only can hear everything that is going on around them, but they feel our constant tension and anxiety. They have never experienced anything like this before. Although the idea of being off of school for weeks sounds awesome, they are probably picturing a fun time like summer break, not the reality of being trapped at home and not seeing their friends.

Over the coming weeks, you will see an increase in behavior issues with your kids. Whether it’s anxiety, or anger, or protest that they can’t do things normally – it will happen. You’ll see more meltdowns, tantrums, and oppositional behavior in the coming weeks. This is normal and expected under these circumstances.

What kids need right now is to feel comforted and loved. To feel like it’s all going to be ok. And that might mean that you tear up your perfect schedule and love on your kids a bit more. Play outside and go on walks. Bake cookies and paint pictures. Play board games and watch movies. Do a science experiment together or find virtual field trips of the zoo. Start a book and read together as a family. Snuggle under warm blankets and do nothing.

Don’t worry about them regressing in school. Every single kid is in this boat and they all will be ok. When we are back in the classroom, we will all course correct and meet them where they are. Teachers are experts at this! Don’t pick fights with your kids because they don’t want to do math. Don’t scream at your kids for not following the schedule. Don’t mandate 2 hours of learning time if they are resisting it.

If I can leave you with one thing, it’s this: at the end of all of this, your kids’ mental health will be more important than their academic skills. And how they felt during this time will stay with them long after the memory of what they did during those weeks is long gone. So keep that in mind, every single day.

Stay safe. x

From all of us in the Loanhead Primary Community