Good morning all!

We hope that like the natural world you were able to enjoy our first wet day for a while?

How did you all get on yesterday with the challenges set? Please email your photos as we love to see them because we miss seeing you all.

How did you enjoy Mrs heaps video? Here is day 2. click the link as yesterday and enjoy making some music!

and click  the blue writing for the words: Day Two

As yesterday, it would be great for you and your family to stop for one minute either in your home or on your daily walk and listen to the sounds you can hear. Who heard the most? were the sounds different today? Please play this listening game:

Challenge: find a selection of items that make a noise from around the house: for example: keys, bells , two blocks, 2 spoons you will find much better ones

Hide from the person playing with you; so they can not see the sounds you are making and play each sound. Can they guess the sound ?

Can you guess more than them when it is your turn??

Make some instruments like Mrs heap suggests and play along to some of your favourite tunes and have a band time with your family!

I hope you found a collection of items to order and count yesterday and if you didn’t  you can find some today. Why not place them in different ways on a 10 grid and make ten in as many ways as you can. 

Enjoy the story I have chosen today. As Mrs Heap’s song is about a fish I felt that you needed a fish story so sit back and enjoy “Hooray For fish” by Lucy Cousins

We all wish you a happy Wednesday. Last day to up load your drawing or model for Captain Tom! Take care and stay safe

Mrs Penn, Mrs Coleman and Mrs Heap

Hello all!

I hope you all had a good Monday the weather was better than I expected and we managed our daily walk and Ollie, our dog, tried to pull a fallen tree from the stream again! Enjoy the photos below!

I believe that today is going to rainy but I hope you will still manage a daily walk in the rain. The world looks and sounds so different in the rain; so put on your rain coats and welly boots and enjoy this wet day!

Today I am excited to post the first of five musical activities devised and filmed by Mrs Heap and her husband! I will post one each day. It is a fabulous watch and will also inspire you to make your own instruments. Please  click the arrow  below to watch:

Please click the blue day one for the words to this song!

Day One (1)

When you go out today for your daily walk or in your house get everybody to stay still and quiet for a minute and after the minute talk about the sounds you could hear.

Listening skills are so important to all areas of our learning and the more we practice listening the better we will get! Listening is vital for us to hear and distinguish sounds which aid our reading as well as helping us to dance to a beat of some favourite music or tap along in time to the beat of song as in Mrs Heap’s video. Mrs Heap would love to see photos of you making music.

Yesterday I suggested you cut circles to make different moon shapes inspired by the story “Papa get the moon for me!”~ did you manage this! Did you create a full moon(whole circle), half a moon (semi circle) and did you manage a crescent shape moon and a slither of moon. This was a challenge for your scissor skills!

Practice your cutting skills by cutting out your favourite pictures from magazines or cutting up play dough!

Kieran enjoyed finding stones which became his moon rocks which he ordered by size and counted. Can you find items around your house and arrange them or sort them in your own way and count them?

I have added a very short story for you to watch. The animals in this story get very muddy! It is called “Mrs Wishy Washy.” Enjoy!

We hope you have fab day  creating music, splashing in puddles, taking time to listen, cutting and drawing but above all having fun and staying safe!

Mrs Heap, Mrs Coleman and Mrs Penn

Good Morning Everyone … I hope you are all smiling…..

It might be inside weather today listening to the weather forecast….Lets hope we can still enjoy our gardens and our one walk a day…even in the rain!! where you can continue to discover insects and new flowers. I found a centipede in my garden yesterday. He scurried away rather quickly as I disturbed his home. I also found a new wild flower (new to me!) on my daily walk. I will have to take my wild flower book with me next time, so that I can learn its name.   

This is a picture drawn by my nephew and sent to me..  He is 2 years old next month.

I love to watch how drawings develop when we give children  plain paper,  without any outlines,  and a range of mark making tools, alongside of course our time and attention. As children explore the media, they learn the movements they can coordinate and slowly learn to describe the meaning behind these physical marks. 

I wonder what picture you can create today?  Fast circular marks, dots, lines, dashes or  imaginative imagery …maybe dragon’s, superhero’s princesses….etc 

You might even create a ‘story’  from your image or marks?  Or you might cut or ask you mum or dad to cut out your image so that you can use it within your imaginative play… Using block, bricks etc  

Yesterday your challenge was to find 10 items and explore different ways of making 10. Thank you for the photos of your 10 items and lines. I thought the items you could find at home would be much more exciting than the things in my house!

We can use the items that you found and sorted in your house yesterday in today’s challenge.  I wonder if today you can use 10 items IN  YOUR PLAYDOUGH!! creating your own stories and explorations. The animals, paw patrol, cars, buttons can be added into the playdough to develop your explorations and your story telling. ( A playdough recipe is available on a previous blog page if you need it. Just scroll down the first page under FS base 1. ) 

I know some children do not like the texture of playdough on their hands but you can create small world imaginary areas from just setting out bricks  a range of boxes, tubs and old rolls of wallpaper. Rolls of wallpaper always make great roads and allows a large drawing space. 

Story Telling is SO important, for memory development , oral language, sequencing, imagination, self confidence etc.  Being able to retell a whole story in the correct sequence involves a lot of skills. We can allow the children time to explore these skills through the use of small world items in playdough or by building  mini worlds and through drawing. We also develop sequential story telling by learning a story off by heart. Repeating the same story again and again and again and again!!!!  If I asked you to retell the story of The Three Bears you could manage this with easy because this story language is stored in your long term memory.  We have to repeat traditional and new stories so that the children also have a wide range of stories in their long term memory. Last term we looked at The Gingerbread man.

This half terms story is:- The Enormous Turnip. There is also a rhyme we will learn about the story.  It will be added onto the site soon. 

Mrs Heap has created An Amazing Rhyme Time video for you to join in with. Just click the arrow below so that you can join in with her activity. ENJOY.  We will add a new Rhyme Time clip everyday this week. 

Day One (1) Click on the blue (1) for the words to rhyme ‘Horsey  Horsey’ . 

Enjoy your day and What ever story you decide to create, HAVE FUN. Remember to Stay Safe 

From Miss Butler, Mrs Breakwell and Miss Lofthouse.