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 

GOOD MORNING Happy Wednesday

What a LOVELY afternoon I had yesterday as I was able to hear some more of your voices again. I will continue to phone families to say HELLO over the next few weeks so that we can keep in touch. However, if you have any questions or wish to share your child’s play we are here and ever so happy to receive messages and photos regularly. We will email your child back so that we can continue to keep in touch and have an awareness of their interests. 

I was sent some lovely photos of your bug hotels and stick homes….. Have a look.…  Remember every bug hotel, house or tower will be different. You might also like to build one with your brothers or sisters.

When I got home from work, I went on a walk, it was such a beautiful evening. Look what I spotted!  

I know others have seen horses on their walks…

I know that YOU! spotted a horse on your scavenger hunt.

What do you notice on your daily walk? 

Last week Miss Lofthouse set an outside scavenger hunt challenge. Her new hunt is like a rainbow…You can complete this hunt inside or outside.. 

• Find something Red
• Find something Yellow
• Find something orange
• Find something green
• Find something blue
• Name a fruit that is red
• Name an animal that is yellow
• Name a vegetable  that is orange
• Name a plant that is green
• Name a flower that is purple
• Name something outside that is blue…!

Mrs Heap has designed a garden hunt, she been in her garden today, it was a beautiful day and she has created you a quiz about flowers. Click on the blue words below to see Mrs Heaps flower search Garden Flower Search

I heard yesterday that some of you are concentrating for LONG periods of time when playing with playdough…Playdough is brilliant in helping you become very creative and in strengthening your fingers. Well Done, Great Learning. 

Today’s Story :- Planting a Rainbow:- click on the arrow to listen to the story.

I collected daisies and buttercups on my walk to press

 All you need to press flowers is 2 pieces of kitchen paper and a heavy book. Have you ever pressed a daisy or buttercup? What do you think will happen?

Practical active FUN learning is all around your child as they play and experiences daily life. Keep having fun learning in an exciting active way. 

From Miss Butler, Miss Lofthouse and Mrs Breakwell.

Hello everyone

As I type it is a beautiful sunny morning so it seems that you are set for some lovely fun in your outside spaces today! I wonder if yesterday you were able to try out the Natural History Museum link to getting worms to the surface and if you did how many worms came up? If not, take a look at this today and have a try~ please send me some photos of you trying this!

Miss Butler has posted 2 new worm related activities on the Base1 foundation stage post. The first is a link to You Tube telling of the story “Superworm” which I am sure some of you will know but it is worth listening to again; if you have this book you can read along with the video. The second activity looks really fun as you can make your own jelly worms!!

I would like to remind you of the song we sometimes sing at school “there’s a worm at the bottom of my garden” several versions of this can be found on You Tube I liked the Mr Tumble version! Take a look and sing along!I wonder if you can find out something interesting about worms?

What do they like to eat? What do they not like to eat?

From my phone calls I know many of you are still trying to remember all your phonic sounds and tricky words which is great! Why not set a challenge that you are timed as you say the sounds and or the tricky words using a digital timer: most phones have a stopwatch timer on them! Can you get faster? This will mean the number will get less!

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 26 30

30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

I hope you are still drawing lovely photos to make people smile and putting them in your windows. We would like you to send us your pictures so we can create a card for Captain Tom to celebrate his 100th birthday and his amazing walks he does each day around his garden!

Please have a lovely day with your families keeping safe and trying some of the challenges!

Mrs Penn, Mrs Heap and Mrs Coleman

Good Morning Happy Tuesday 

I hope that you enjoyed the Sunny Monday in your garden or on your one walk a day.

How many worms did you manage to find?

I’ve added the link to National History Museum again with the 2 minute clip about worms it also has an explanation on how to bring worms to the surface in your garden.  The  funny story about worms is still up on yesterdays page         https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/earthworm-heroes.html

These pictures show the process… step by step. WELL DONE.

Today’s story … You might already know it. 

Click on the arrow so that you can listen to the story of  Superworm

Click on the arrow to watch the clip. How to make jelly into Worms. 

You might not have as many straws as they demonstrate because of the plastic waste but you might have a couple somewhere in your house.  If your can’t make worms, what other ice cube trays do you have at home so you could try making different jelly shapes?

Twig tower block

Today’s Den and Bug Challenge.… On your walk today or from what you can find in your garden, gather some sticks and find an undisturbed, sheltered spot outdoors. Pile up the stick and stuff the gaps with smaller twigs and dry leaves. You will be building a home for ladybirds and woodlice who will love to crawl into the crevices and hide among the leaves.

If you have time and would like to draw a HAPPY picture for your windows to cheer up people on their daily walk, please  do send a photo to us. We would like to use these HAPPY pictures to say Happy 100th Birthday to Captain Tom. He has walked 100 lengths of his garden for NHS Charities and our fantastic NHS workers. He is still continuing to walk.. I will print and post all of the HAPPY drawings I receive as one large card from us all at the end of the week.

Thank you again for sending me your photos, we love to see all of the exciting things that you are doing at home. Keep sharing your learning. We will always write back to you.

Enjoy your Tuesday From Miss Butler, Miss Lofthouse and Mrs Breakwell.

Hello Everyone!

We hope you all had enjoyable weekends? Did you manage to go on a daily walk? If you did, like us, you must have seen what the rain on Friday and Saturday has done to the plants, trees and flowers!

I saw that they all seemed to have grown taller and fatter and seemed even greener! I also noticed as I went up my garden to my compost heap more garden creatures out and about! I counted 10 snails on the top of the compost heap!

I wonder have you noticed any garden creatures in your gardens, on your balcony or on your daily walks?   What have you seen?

Why are these small creatures so important to our world?

Miss Butler has found a funny story about a diary of a worm. Please go onto Foundation stage home learning base 1 and you will be able to click on the YouTube video and watch and listen to this story. Or google YouTube diary of a worm!

There are some fascinating facts about worms  on the Natural History Museum website. Watch a short information video about worms (2 minutes), it is fascinating and will inspire you to try and encourage worms to the surface so you can really see them!

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/earthworms.heroes.html( if this link does not connect go to You Tube “show a bit more love to the humble earthworm-Natural History museum” to watch the video!)

It was good to continue to phone many of you on Friday, those of you who were out I will try to phone again on Wednesday when I am next in school. Since these calls I have been delighted to see your photos of your home learning  ~ thank you for taking the time to up load them.  It seems that you have enjoyed using the white boards and pens please send me some photos of your whiteboard creations!

  Thank you for sending your rainbow drawings!

Most of you will have seen the wonderful fund raising Captain Tom has been doing for NHS charities. What a hero! Miss Butler and I thought it would be a lovely gesture to send him some of the drawings you have been doing or could do for his 100th birthday! Keep drawing special pictures and please send them to us so we can send them to captain Tom! This is a lovely challenge I feel!!

As ever, have a good day and stay safe

Mrs Penn, Mrs Heap and Mrs Coleman

Here is a selection of the fabulous activities you have been up to at home!

Hello everyone!

Its our first wet day for some time but I think the gardens, fields  woods and parks are all thankful for this rain! You can still go outside and jump in puddles if you have wellie boots on and maybe use an umbrella as well!

When I have been taking my dog for a walk I have enjoyed looking at pictures of rainbows in peoples windows they are all very different and it makes my walk very interesting! Your challenge over the weekend is to draw or paint a picture to put in your window to help brighten everybodies day as they past your house or flat as well as saying a huge thank you to all the people who are working so hard to care for others and the NHS!  It would be lovely to see the pictures you create so maybe you could upload them so I can see them!

Carry on sharing books together and reading your bug club books!

Have an enjoyable weekend continuing to keep safe together

Mrs Penn, Mrs Heap and Mrs Coleman