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LeSheffieldarning Together Sixteen pages full of funlearning at home with your Sheffield schools We want tohear from children and teachers! Email your photosand letters [email protected] 2 THESTAR www.thestar.co.uk Thursday, May21, 2020 Sheffield Learning Together TwAbtisamisacouncillorojforFirthPark,whobichhasthecitysw’s firstpublicly-ownedparkhich-donatedbyMarkFirthin1875 haIfyou’reunsuvereaboutyournextlestep,justask.FirthtmParkAcademyhehasbeenpraisedforitscareerelpadvice people and makeadifference AbtisamMohamed Cabinetmemberfor education Sheffield CityCouncil Ihavetwo jobs. Firstly Iama solicitorspecialisinginimmi- gration, asylumand human rights law. Ihelp to reunite families, representindividu- als fleeingwar torn countries and victims in human traf- ficking, domesticviolence or modern dayslavery. Secondly, Iamanelected politician representing the Labour Partyinthe Firth Park ward in Sheffield. 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Thursday, May21, 2020 www.thestar.co.uk THESTAR 3 Sheffield Learning Together Early Years #42The Rough and the Smooth As well as being huge fun, playing with dough, clay, gloop and textured materialshelps your child to strengthen muscle tone, develop fine motor skills and helps their pre-writing skills. Doughs can be easily made at home with everyday ingredients.The excitement of measuring out andmixing,and then watching ingredients transform into something new is just the beginningin these exploratory activities.Once you have produced yourplay materials there are endless directions to go withthem, frombuilding up your child’s own pre-historic swamp-land populated by dinosaurs to having agood splash/splodge andscrape about whilst exploring the fascinating properties of gloop. These activities offer huge potential for stimulating and descriptive conversation with your child of any age, supporting them to learn unusual vocabulary alongsidemany aspects of physical (fine and gross motor control) development, mathematical and scientific learning. Make gloop! It's a‘non-Newtonian liquid’, which is an unusual material that is neither asolid or aliquid, but behaves like both.Mix 2parts cornflour with 1part water, youmight needtouse your hands to mix it. Can you snap, squeeze and push the gloop? Canyou make aprint in it? Talk to your childabout how it feels. Howdoesitchange? On the #50ThingsSheffield website and app, there are videos showing how to make play dough, salt dough and fizzy cloud dough, and two aboutgloopand its properties. You’ll also findacouple of articles that explain more about children’s sensory play 50 Things to Do Before You're Fiveisnow live in Sheffield. Find the full list of activities via the website https://sheffield.50thingstodo.org/app/os# or the app by scanning the QR code. More #homeadventures createsheffield.co.uk/adventures #18Dance! Dancing is fun as well as being agreat waytoencourage yourchild to be activeand healthyh hy.Your bbybab and toddler will enjoy moving their body to therhythmand beat of different types off m music,c andd w will delight in copying your fabulousdance moves! Music and movement is something wec can all enjoy!! Children have an overwhelming drivetobe active, getting moving anduse their bodies in anyw waysa that they are able. Everytimethey wiggle and jiggle they arelearning –dancing is afun activity you #18 Musicand movement candoanywhere andwith anyone. It brings people together and you can reallyhave some fun with a with your child child of any age! Where? You don’t need totravel anywherefor this one–youcan do it fromthe comfort of your own home! Have afestival in thegarden, adisco in thekitchenorarave in the lounge! Why? Babies are Make your ownrhythm sticks with your child or use an old scarf. Children love often dancing before they can even walk, they lovetojiggle and wiggle, this is howthey show us they to dance to music and what could be better than to do it together. are engagingwiththe music. Encourageyourchild to use arhythm stick or ascarf to make patterns in the air or on the floor, swirling it round to makecircles, trail it along to make along Childrencan listen to the music and experiment with movement.Thisiswhy listeningtomusic, singing snake,throw it away and catchit. You can add bells to your stick or tie in your and dancing is brilliant for developing gross motor skills, asense of rhythm andgeneral well-being. Children whojump all over and movearound freely can practise finding space within agroup.They can scarffor more noise.Put on your favourite tunes or sing your favourite rhyme learnabouthow to control thosemovements so theydon’thurtthemselves or anyone, whilststill and dance away. Encourage your child to listen to the different tones, have loud having fun anddancing! It canhelp to encourage their control –can they stand on one leg? Can they or soft music andconduct the tunes with your very own rhythm stick. jump up high and spin around? Cantheypractise changing their body position but still keep the control? Lots of action songs require childrentopractise moving in particular ways and coordinate You can find lots of ideas on the internet of how to make your own rhythm stick their bodies.You can march in the ‘Grand Old Duke of York’, youcould“JumpUpand Down onaBig and other instruments to engage your child in music. Red Tractor’,and ‘Dingle Dangle Scarecrow’ requires movement of the arms and legs. For children, listening to musicsupportsthemtolearn rhythm. Understandingrhythm will helpyour child understand pattern, pulse and structure. They can do all ofthis without the complicationofadding language and it canhelpyour child develop their imagination andstory telling. 50 Things to Do Before You're Five is now live in Sheffield. Find the full list of activities via the website https://sheffield.50thingstodo.org/app/os# or the app by scanning the QR code. More #homeadventures More #homeadventures createsheffield.co.uk/adventures createsheffield.co.uk/adventures 4 THESTAR www.thestar.co.uk Thursday, May21, 2020 Sheffield Learning Together Primary Cookie recipe We wouldlovefor youall to getbakingthisweek. We have included arecipefor ChocolateChip Cookies. Maybeyou could eat them during ateddy bears picnic,ortea party forVEday! Youmay need agrown up to help youmeasureyour ingredients accurately and use thebakingtools. Enjoy! Ingredients 225g butter, softened (1 cup) 110g caster sugar(3/4cup) 275g plainflour (1 and1/2 cups) 1tsp cinnamon or otherspices(optional) 75gchocolatechips (optional) Heat theovento190°C /170°C fanoven. Creamthe butter in abowlwith aspoon. Addthe sugar and keep beating. Addthe flourand optional ingredients,ifusing them. Bringthe mixturetogetherinyourhands,until it formsadough. Roll thedough into smallballs in your handsand placeonthe bakingtray. From Flatten them with thepalms of your hand. Prince Edward Placeinthe oven foraround10-12 minutes,until golden brown. Primary Leavetocooland then eat!! School Wizard's Rainbow Colour Hunt Pye Bank -Writing Chilli Challenge Your challenge has been set by awizardwhose magical powers enable him to command every colour of the WonderfulWords rainbow. This challenge will require you to look closely at your surroundings... they're rarely one colour. Be a detective and inspect the detail of the world around you! 1 Draw abig picture of arainbow and colour your rainbow in. Write four different sentences using four of the ‘wonderful 2 Cut alongthe lines of the rainbow, so you get lots of words’ above. coloured semi circles. Ask an adult to help if you need help to do it safely. Write four different sentences using all sixofthe 3 Next, cut up your semi circles into small pieces of coloured paper.Put the pieces into abowland mix them