On this page, you will find a number of short videos of the Snow Adventure that you can use for training purposes – please note, they may not be exactly the same as the class running order for face-to-face classes as some songs and activities have had to be adapted to the online environment.
Teacher Checklist_Snow Adventure
Online Teacher Checklist_ Snow Week
Remember, when delivering classes, we want them to be fun. When parents are enjoying themselves – they re-book! Make sure you are smiling and do throw in anecdotes of your own experiences with your own children – it makes us seem human and more relatable.
For each Adventure, parents get access to an Online Adventure and on that page, they get a weekly Information Topic. This week’s topic is are Sleeping Tips by age and information on Co-sleeping, – so do point these out to parents and encourage them to discuss issues around these topics with other parents on our Private Facebook group.
Signing Activities
At most sessions, we will do some baby signs, and we use a mix of BSL, ASL and Makaton. For baby signing, it doesn’t really matter which signs parents use, so long as they are consistent, as they are not likely to be signing to anyone else, just to their baby. We are moving more towards Makaton signs and if there is not a video to accompany the sign you are learning, you can usually find it on You Tube.
Here are the details of the signs that you will need to learn for this session. You will have some signing cards that you can hand out to parents at the class. You may decide to put them on the mats so they have them for when they arrive, or you can hand them out as and when you get to the activity in the Adventure. Be sure to ask parents not to let babies eat the cards (as you know everything usually goes in babies’ mouths! and make sure you warn them to take off the clips holding the cards together and put them somewhere safe where baby cannot get hold of them as they may present a choking hazard.
Snow Adventure_ Weekly Baby Signs
Running Order Instructions
Snow Adventure Running Order
Here are the songs that you will do for this session. There are a number of differences according to whether you are doing face-to-face classes with the parachute, or online, or face-to-face without parachute. Items marked (no parachute) are the online versions, or without parachute.
And finish off with….
Bubbles –
No More Wiggles – Action Rhyme
Chat time that you need to facilitate – Dress Up this week is Snowman or Reindeer headbands
Here are the details of this week’s Home Activity and Natural Exploration Area
Here is the video of the Snow Adventure and shorter videos of aspects of the Adventure
