Hello, Bonjour, Hola
We spent a busy day working with the key worker children today! We all felt a lot chillier when went outside to play and we noticed the wind blowing a lot. Some children enjoyed going on a mini creature hunt and we managed to find all the creatures on our list apart from a lady bird and a worm! Some great spiders were made! Did you try to make a mini beast creature at home? Were you able to find a lady bird we thought it might have been too cold today?
We also made paper aeroplanes, designed them, decorated them and then had a competition.
We voted on which design we liked, how the plane flew through the air, how it landed and we measured the distance. It was fun and we even made some trophy’s to give out. Maybe you could do this at home and have a competition with your family!
Points awarded:
10 points for the plane spinning or looping in the air
3 points for the plane that landed the right way up
2 points for a plane landing on it’s side, nose or back
and we measured the distance it flew with a measuring tape. (you could use your feet to do this)
Count up the points for each person playing this game
award your home made medals or prizes!
Folding paper planes and adding a paper clip on the front…
We have realised how important it has been for you all to take part in a cooking activity. So this weekend why not try to make some cakes at home for tea. You can choose the recipe with your mum’s form a cookery book or perhaps buy a box mixture to make at home. Your challenge is to do as many of the skills by yourself! grown ups please support your child by allowing them to put the ingredients into the bowl including cracking the egg~ the delight on children’s faces when they achieve this is lovely to watch! Support them to follow the instructions on the packet mix or from a recipe book.
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- Follow the instructions
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- Find a recipe in a cooking book
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- Pouring all by myself
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- mixing all by myself
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- cracking an egg all by my self
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- Spooning the mixture all by myself
The skills needed to cook cakes require children to think about hygiene: washing hands, they use their muscle control for big hard mixing movements and for much finer spooning movements. They use maths skills and techonology skills to weigh out the ingredients and they can decorate their cakes creatively; the whole process develops focus and concentration to complete the task in hand. Don’t forget washing up and drying up the equipment used can be both fun and a muscle building controlled exercise. (all of these skills will help your child with their handwriting eventually!) Of course eating your cakes is a fun and often a social time.
Just a little reminder for coming into school next week.
Your child will need wellie boots.
You can bring them in and take them home each time as we will always play outside!
Please remember that your child has grown during their time at home so any boots they may have at school may not be their correct size!
On hot and sunny days please provide a hat and apply sun cream in the morning before coming into school.
Our story today is called “Honey Biscuits” enjoy! This story has a recipe you might like to try.
Mrs heap, Mrs Coleman and myself have had a lovely week seeing, chatting and playing with some of you and we are looking forward to more fun next week. We have loved hearing from others of you who are at home through so please all keep sending us photos of the super activities you have been sharing with your families.
We hope you enjoy this weekend
Mrs Penn, Mrs Coleman and Mrs Heap