Lickety Mums Blog 2!

2022-07-13T11:48:41+00:00

Tuesday 6th April 2021 The 2nd and 3rd Lickety Mums sessions covered a wide range of topics, including word processing, podcasts and knowing what's real and what's fake, on the internet. There was also plenty of time for discussion about things to do in Glasgow and the trials and tribulations of being moved house during the pandemic. Find links to all the websites and resources we looked at below. We also started the Licketypit Playlist, at Aya's suggestion, which you can listen to below too! Next time we'll be joined again by Dr Soumi Dey, for a session on online safety. We're looking forward to learning more about using social media safely and finding out exactly what 'internettiquette' is! See you then, Ruby & Shona :) Block One Schedule 4. Monday 19th April, 7-8pm 5. Monday 3rd May, 7-8pm The sessions are currently full but please get in touch if you would like to join a future block. Block 2 starts on Friday 7th May, 4-5pm. Mum's Tip Lydia shared advice on how she supports her children to use social media safely. By having open dialogue with them about what they are sharing, they always tell her when someone leaves a comment or likes their posts, so she can check it's someone [...]

Lickety Mums Blog 2!2022-07-13T11:48:41+00:00

Storyplay City Ceilidhs

2021-03-30T12:03:41+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog Storyplay City edition, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Turns! turns! turns!  What a line-up we had for our fabulous final sessions! After 9 weeks playing together, singing together, exploring together, rhyming together and laughing together we were all looking forward to celebrating together! A ceilidh is an excellent way to celebrate because it is a kind, lovely and relaxed way to share all things creative and to be our wonderful selves surrounded by friends… just like our Licketyspit Porridge & Play sessions on Zoom! And what better way to say thank you than to celebrate YOU! Below we've shared everyone's fantastic turns... a huge thank you again to everyone who's participated in our sessions, we hope you'll join us again in three weeks time for plenty more fun! In the meantime... KEEP PLAYING! Thursday Thursday 25 March 2021 🖋️ A poem about Licketyspit by Emmanuel Licketyspit is where we have fun, Licketyspit we are never done! Magic Ball, Baking and Flying Balloons too I love playing, how about you? We run, jump and spin now everyone join in! We have fun too when a whole turn people do  Lickety Lickety Licketyspit! Licketyspit Licketyspit! Lickety Lickety Licketyspit LIck-ety-spit! Now my poem is [...]

Storyplay City Ceilidhs2021-03-30T12:03:41+00:00

Storyplay City Week 7

2021-03-17T13:33:22+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog Storyplay City edition, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. 🎼🏴‍☠️🎵🏴‍☠️🎶 We are the PIRATES BOLD, We don't give a monkey if it's cold We are not AFRAID if the world is BIG We don't care a button and we don't care a fig... WE ARE PIRATES!!! 🎼🏴‍☠️🎵🏴‍☠️🎶 Arrrrrr! We had such a fantastic time in last week's pirate-themed Storyplay session where we dressed up as pirates, sang the Pirate Song, and went on an adventure with the Magic Ball... Catch up on where we ended up in all of our sessions below! ☠️  🗺️  ⚓ Saturday Saturday 13 March 2021 🏴‍☠️ ‘My name is Captain Cold and I like ice cream!’ Anaya 🦜‘Hi, my name is Pirate Lily, I love boats and my favourite adventure is Magic Ball. I love porridge and play!’ Sayeh 🏴‍☠️ ‘Name: Ghost Pirate. My favourite food is Spaghetti and I live in a dark cave!’ Lawand 🦜 ‘My name is Captain Rainbow and I like rainbow and I’m going to hop on my unicorn!’ Ayesha 🏝️ The Pirate Chronicles  🏝️ It was a wet and wild adventure in the Magic Ball this week! We landed aboard a stormy ship ⚓️ and hurriedly ran [...]

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Storyplay City Week 6

2021-03-15T15:29:58+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog Storyplay City edition, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. This week at our Big Porridge & Play Online session our play was inspired by some excellent news for the children of Scotland! Scotland is incorporating into law the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), which will make sure that: ⭐ Children’s rights are as important as grown ups’ rights! ⭐ Children will have to be consulted and asked about their thoughts and opinions! ⭐ Children will be listened to and taken seriously! Great, isn’t it??!! To celebrate it, we thought we'd create a Children's Rights Cake recipe for the Scottish Government, and hopped into the Magic Ball to deliver it to Nicola Sturgeon herself! Thursday Thursday 4 March 2021 We started by becoming fantastic chefs through the power of dressing up and creating a fabulous recipe to bake a rights cake, including rights that are particularly important to our children, such as… ⭐ the right to LOVE that Felicia put in ✨ the right to PLAY suggested by Donald ⭐ the right to EDUCATION as Abdullah and Amir pointed out ✨ the right to be CARED FOR (and some strawberries from Arshiyan [...]

Storyplay City Week 62021-03-15T15:29:58+00:00

Lickety Mums!

2022-07-13T11:48:50+00:00

Wednesday 10th March 2021 The first first block of Lickety Mums sessions started on International Women’s Day! 💃 It was a joy to come together with some of the Mums we see at our Porridge & Play sessions for a Mum-centred hour of discussion, skill sharing and good vibes! We started off stretching to I am Woman by Helen Reddy and danced our way out to Respect by Aretha Franklin! In the middle we did an introduction to the 5 Digital Rights and introduced couple of resources for developing digital literacy as a family. The Net Aware website for digital safety lets you search for Apps and learn about safety rating and how to make them even safer. Their tips for parents are also well worth a look. We also had a quick peek at Google's Internet Legends games and videos, which we'll come back to next time. Shona and Ruby were joined by Dr Soumi Dey, a Mum and specialist in children's emotional literacy, who'll be coming back to deliver a presentation at a future Lickety Mums Session. We can't wait to see you all again next time! Block One Schedule 1. Monday 8th March, 7-8pm 2. Monday 22nd March, 7-8pm 3. Monday 5th April, 7-8pm 4. Monday 19th April, 7-8pm 5. Monday 3rd May, 7-8pm The sessions are currently full but please [...]

Lickety Mums!2022-07-13T11:48:50+00:00

Andre’s Turn

2021-03-05T11:13:07+00:00

In Porridge & Play we've been talking about Ceilidhs. Ceilidh is a Scottish word - in the Gaelic language - which is mostly used now to describe a Dance - with a Scottish band with maybe fiddle and accordion, where people do Scottish country dancing in big groups. BUT Ceilidhs have happened in Scotland for hundreds of years and the word Ceilidh really just means a get-together or a party! In this video Andre and Michael do a Turn where Michael is reads a poem he wrote in Scots - inspired by a Robert Burns poem called Tae a Moose! - and Andre dances the story of the poem. We hope you like it! Over to You! Maybe you'd like to do a Turn too? If so we'd love to see it and share it with everyone else in the Licketyspit Children & Families Network!   Get inspired with other CFN family creations here and here.

Andre’s Turn2021-03-05T11:13:07+00:00

Storyplay City Week 5

2021-03-11T12:32:20+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog Storyplay City edition, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. How do we move when we’re stuck in mud? Or, if the ground is covered in ice? How do we move if our legs turn to jelly? Or if everything is slowed down? How do we move when we want to use our bodies to communicate something instead of using words? This week’s session was all about MOVEMENT. We all have different and wonderful bodies that can move in all sorts of ways, and in this week’s sessions we explored how we can use movement to communicate and express all sorts of ideas and feelings. Saturday 20 February 2021 Deep in ghosty park, in ghosty town, we must walk slowly on the sticky soft ground! If a ghost comes along…. Hide under a towel! We met a ghost, in the Magic Ball, but Abdal saved the day with his knowledge of ghosty langauge! ’PAINT’ means hello in ghosty town! And ‘CABBAGE’ is ghost language for we mean no harm, we just want to leave! So we shouted ‘PAINT' and ‘CABBAGE’ out loud, but it turned out the ghost [...]

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Storyplay City Week 4

2021-03-11T12:32:07+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog Storyplay City edition, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. What brilliant Rhyming Writers you all are! This week’s session was all about RHYME, and with inspiration from our rhyming Mary Mac, Three Craws and the Big as a Bear warm up, we all dressed up and made fantastic rhymes of our own! These rhymes then turned into STORIES...read them below! Saturday 13th February 2021 Don’t fear...we’re here! The Magic Ball took us far, far away To a king’s castle where a princess lay 'I am trapped in here because I can’t rhyme And I want to get out And I have little time!’ "Don’t fear, we're here! You're already rhyming, can you not see?" We will give you more rhymes And we will set you free! A flower took a shower in the cold and frosty tower, And three stars had a little bar. There are wee little fishes that will grant you wishes and Wizzah The Lizard that dances in a blizzard! Three superheroes that are faster than arrows, a mouse in a house, a cat on a mat, three pigeons on a pig [...]

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Storyplay City Week 3

2021-03-11T12:32:50+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog Storyplay City edition, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. With Lobster McLobster & Flippity the Clownfish! Welcome to the 2021 Sea Creatures & Monsters Convention! This year we have the most exciting mix of misfits and characters you have ever imagined! This week was all about building CHARACTERS, and what fantastic characters we met at the Seawater Conventions of our three Storyplay City Groups! Thursday 4th February 2021 We love to dance! We love to sing! We're a cool gang Please let us in! Meet Norman The Nar Whale & The Queen of Octopus! And here are Piri Piranha who adores eating worms with her pals Phil The Octopus who is famous for his love of frogs and Big Fish Jessica who cannot stop eating ice-cream! The Deep-Sea Diver Dude is here too accompanied by his best pal The Sea Monkey and we saw a troupe of dancing Sharks arriving earlier too. What a fascinating group they are! Look out for Red Whale, The Incredible Half Human Half Octopus Emma, the beautiful and sometimes scary Underwater Butterfly, The Swimming Mermaid and Mr. Starfish! And...do you know the Funky Fish? Well, she’s here as well with The Fast Seahorse, The Stinging Jellyfish, The Funny [...]

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Storyplay City Week 2 – Amy & Adie

2021-03-11T12:32:28+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog Storyplay City edition, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Scots Song & Kpanlogo Rhythms! What an exciting second week...Singing in Scots and Ga, making kitchen drum-kits and dancing!! Burns Night celebrations are known all around the world and at Licketyspit we thought that we should celebrate it bringing together Scottish cultures old & new! With support from BEMIS, we were very lucky to be joined by Amy Geddes and Adie Baako. They combined Scots song with Ghanaian Kpanlogo drumming and dancing for a session like no other. Our beats were so irresistible that even the littlest ones like Sam and Daniel and Fatima and Faith had to join in! Read the blog below for a reminder of the song word, how to make a kitchen drumkit & more! 🎻 📦 At the start of the session, Amy showed us how to make kitchen drum-kits using cardboard boxes and some wooden spoons, and shakers by filling a jar half full with pasta or rice! It just shows, you can make a kitchen drum-kit out of almost anything! 🥁 Adie then taught us some Ghanaian Kpanlogo drum rhythms. A Kpanglogo is a big drum from Ghana. 🗣️ Amy told us that Scots is a very old [...]

Storyplay City Week 2 – Amy & Adie2021-03-11T12:32:28+00:00

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