Home learning resources May 2020

Week 4:

 This week we're focusing on your child’s personal, social and emotional development.

Missed previous  weeks 1 - 3 ? Click on the button below, the activities are all still there

Sit in front of a mirror with your child. The idea is to use the mirror to explore different facial expressions that are connected to different emotions.

Talk with your child about how they are feeling that day, going through the different emotions and creating a different expression in the mirror after you've said each one eg., a smile for 'happy', a frown for 'sad'.

 Encourage your child to join in and create different facial expressions with you, asking them how they are feeling with each one to encourage them to express different feelings. 

There are many emotions that could be posed in the mirror  -  happy, sad, scared, excited, cross and shocked.

Before the activity begins, you need to use the pen to section the paper into 12 boxes.

In those boxes, you will need to draw six different facial emotions (2 of each face) eg., a smiley face,  shocked face, angry face etc. 

Once you've drawn the faces, cut them out so that you have 12 little squares of paper, each with a face on it.  Spread the squares out, picture side down on a flat surface.

Explain the rules of the game to your child.

You will take turns to turn over two of the pieces of paper to try and find a matching emotion pair.  The person with the most pairs at the end wins. 

Remember to talk to your child about the different emotions as they're paired up, how each one makes us feel.

Talk with your child about their family members, friends from nursery etc. Those maybe that they haven't seen for some time due to the current circumstances. Where possible, encourage your child to talk about the things they enjoy doing with those people, special times that they've shared and so on.

Play games or use toys to support sharing and turn taking

 Talk to your child about all the things you love about them, the things that they do that makes you feel happy. This helps with your child's self-awareness and seeing themselves in a positive way. Where they are able to, ask your child what they like about you.

Story of the week: 'Giraffes can't dance ' by Giles Andreae

Songs of the week: 'If you're happy and you know it'  and Barefoot Books 'My friend Robot'