Hello Everyone 

I can’t believe how beautiful the weather has been this week…Super Sunshine. I went for a walk at 8am yesterday morning,  the bird songs are clear and now sound so loud because we don’t have many cars on the road, It’s such an stunning sound. Have you heard the bird sing on your walks?  What is also amazing is how the flowers and new leaves just shimmer in the morning light.

I wonder if the sun is shining on Friday you might wish to explore learning outside again but this time looking at water. I am sure some of you will have already been exploring water outside and inside!! Water is always a HUGE interest  because of its sensory properties and calming  effect.  

I have pick 2 of the 100’s of water activities you might wish to explore. I’m sure you will have fun with water what every activity you choose. Even just washing your mum & dads car or washing the dishes,  is fun learning.  

•  Have you tried painting with water outside on you path or on your patio.  Maybe you, your mum, dad or older sibling could even paint around your hand with water to make a shape.  You might even be able to paint, lines, a picture or even letters in your name.

  

  Wait and watch how they explore the water.

  

  What will they create?

  

  Where will they paint?

  
  
• I wonder if you could make your own garden soup or perfume with tree blossom  or flower petals. Collect petals that have blown off trees in you garden or you find on your daily walk.  Bring back your treasures and mix them together in a bowl of water in the garden or on your balcony. Mixing garden potions are always fun.

I wonder if any of you feed the birds in your garden? What do you feed your birds? Or maybe you feed the ducks on your walk?

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2019/04/identify-bird-song/ 

The website is GREAT because you can click on each bird image and hear their individual bird songs and calls.  Enjoying listening to the sounds. I wonder if you will be able to name any birds?

Leo Leonni is one of the authors we would have been looking at this half term. You might know his stories they always have many layers of personal and social learning. Click on the arrow and the story will play. 

If you are having difficulty accessing or using bug club,  Please do let me know. I will help however I can. Next week we will start to look at this terms told story ‘ The Enormous Turnip’ …Mrs Breakwell has set  all  of the FS staff a challenge of growing our own vegetables. I have NEVER grown vegetables before and  I am not sure my lettuce, carrots and radishes will grow ENORMOUS or grow at all!!! I will let you know. 

How are your Pea plants growing? 

Enjoy the Amazing Weather together as  a family.

Keep Safe and Keep Smiling Miss Butler, Mrs Breakwell and Miss Lofthouse

Hello All Good Morning 

The weather keeps getting better and better. What a fabulous day it was yesterday. I hope that you all managed to get outside in the garden or for a walk. I wonder if you found any flowers in your garden or on your walk? 

Last week I wrote about the Baking because you had been sharing with me how much your children were enjoying baking cakes, and biscuits.  Baking covers All areas of learning, Maths, Literacy, Physical development, Concentration, Science, Creativity,  Personal and Social development  etc … as well,  you have the wonderful smells of baking and then you get to eat the end results!! 

I have been sent photos of someone cooking their own LUNCH..  Cooking requires so many fine motor /physical and concentration skills; mixing, cutting, grating, pouring, chopping etc 

Have you ever made your own sandwich for lunch? …spreading  your own butter on bread and adding your own topping…? Or added your own topping onto your own pizza and grating additional cheese?

I wonder what you have cooked?  I’ve  added the recipe just in case you would like to try…

Recipe 

I’ve have also had some new DEN pictures sent to me…I love the way that you all adapt to this building challenge and make these den’s suit your needs. Brilliant. What also makes me smile is how many siblings are working closely together. Fantastic Fun being able to share learning.

Today’s challenge was inspired from assault course photos a family had created at home. When completing an assault course …children are actually handwriting…but they don’t know it because they are having FUN. To be able to write and draw children need to have strong upper arm muscles and a strong core.

I wonder if you, your brother or sisters and your parents can Crab Walk????  A core strengthening activity 

Crab Walk Game ……
You need

An area of floor or grass and a bean bag or small soft toy.

How to do it

Get your child to sit on the ground with their hands and feet on the floor, fingers pointing behind them, raise their bottom off the floor to make a table shape. In this position get them to walk backwards, like a crab, to a destination and back again. Put a beanbag or soft toy on their tummy – make sure they keep their bottom up otherwise the toy will fall off!

As this activity is quite demanding only ask your child to go 2 to 3 metres at their first attempt, as the child’s endurance increases you can increase the distance.

To add variety you can add an obstacle course or follow-my-leader to the game.

Click on the spider to listen to the story…. I hear that some of you don’t like Spiders!!

Remember you can still send in your drawings, scribbling, mark making and pictures so that we can send Captain Tom a Happy Birthday card,  100 yrs old, what a special day. 

Keep Enjoying your days at home. Stay Safe and Keep Smiling

Best Wishes Miss Butler, Miss Lofthouse, Mrs Breakwell

Hello Everyone

What a beautiful sunny day Wednesday turned out to be! I was in school but was able to enjoy the warmth and catching up with staff and parents I was able to phone!Mrs Breakwell told me how she was enjoying being at home with her little girl but would occasionally like 5 minutes peace to herself! I am sure lots of the mummies will be feeling like this in these very strange times! This reminded of a lovely story written by Jill Murphy about the large family so I have added it for you all to enjoy!

Today I have been sent some photos of your learning at home! It is good to see that you have been trying to get worms to the surface by using water and stamping the ground!

I have liked seeing that a lot of your fun learning is taking place outside. It was wonderful to see these photos of making rainbow foam! Its so easy you need a bowl, a whisk, washing up liquid and food colouring just add them in a bowl and whisk to see how many bubbles you can make!

So much learning is going on in this fun activity! Physical skills to whisk and use your fingers to explore the foam. Being creative by Adding colours and watching which new colour emerges. Being imaginative by adding small cups, plates junk containers to make a cafe to serve drinks to your family! By Using your small animal toys to make up stories as you create an adventure through the bubbles! You can use shaving foam to create a similar effect! Why not have ago and upload the photos of your bubbly foam!

It was lovely to see this happy collage! The backing for this picture looks like a piece of fabric and what lovely items have been found to cut out and stick on! Thank you and well done I think this photo will brighten up the card for Captain Tom!

Could you make a picture to make us all feel happy with the things you can find at home and in the garden? Have ago and send us a photo !

The warm sunshine yesterday inspired some of you to go on a creature hunt and to draw your own pictures of flowers as was suggested by Mrs Heap’s lovely flower photos, I know that I am going to see how many different flowers I can spot on my daily walk tomorrow! Do you think I can find a flower for each colour of the rainbow? You could try this as well and we can see what we managed!

Thank you for all the lovely fun activities you are sharing together, stay safe

Mrs Heap, Mrs Coleman and Mrs Penn

Hello All

What a beautiful day yesterday turned out to be! During our daily walk my dog Ollie was so warm he went for a paddle in the cool water of a stream! I did not join him but watched as he tried to pull a fallen tree out of the stream which made us smile! because Ollie is a little dog who thinks he is big!

Yesterday I had some messages about what you are finding in your garden. Although our challenge was around worms many of you are finding other creatures as well! Perhaps today you would like to use the attached garden creatures hunt sheet to tally how many of each creature you can find or you can make your own sheet up with the help of your families! Please click the blue writing below:

My Garden Creatures hunt 2

Mrs Heap has been busy in her garden and on her daily walks she has been enjoying the flowers she can see. She has made a sheet of some of the flowers she has found and she thought you would like to see them and see if you can see similar flowers in your outdoor spaces or on your daily walks! Please click on the blue  writing below link below:

Garden Flower Search

Challenge: make a model of a flower with your construction kits, can you use play dough to make a flower or carefully look closely at a flower to paint and draw. think about the number  and shape of petals , the stem, the position of the flowers and so on

Making your own number flowers. Counting the petals.

Please keep sending me photos and messages about your learning and I will always write back to you! Brooke sent me a picture of the tunnel she made for her guinea pigs.

Maybe you have a pet at home and you could make something to make them feel cosy or as my children did when they were little create an obstacle course for your pet to negotiate!

As ever please enjoy this lovely day and stay safe

Mrs Penn, Mrs Heap and Mrs Coleman