Hello everybody!

We hope that you had a good Thursday? The rain changed the feel of the day but the gardens and the things we are growing appreciated this! Have you managed to try any of this week’s challenges perhaps making some crumble to have with custard or ice-cream, or have you looked closely at what happens when you left celery sticks in  coloured water,did you make a potion?? If not you could try some these over the weekend they are all on the web pages from this week!

Joyful June activities for the next 3 days:

Friday: create a list together of some memories that make you smile!

Saturday: do something fun all together today

Play hide and seek! Make sure the seeker counts to 20 before coming to find you! You can play in your house or in your outside space!

Sunday: Enjoy trying a new recipe or cook your favourite food (dad’s and grandad’s might like to choose their food favourite today!)

Every Friday I play a game of bingo on the whats app video with my family across the country and it is great fun! You could play bingo with your family too! You can play all kinds of bingo: colours, numbers, letters, superheros Here is a simple video to show you how to make a simple grid. You could make a small grid at home to play this game.

Today’s story is: Everybody has a body by Jon Burgerman.

Challenge: can you draw your own shaped character like the author of this book suggests! We would love to see them so please send us a photo.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend with some time in the sunshine  but if it continues to be rainy still explore outside with your wellie boots on and maybe use your umberella too!

Mrs Penn, Mrs Heap and Mrs Coleman

Good morning everybody

We hope you enjoyed your day yesterday! We had a super day with some children making crumble, and playing outside in our garden and at forest school. Funnily enough these children enjoyed making potions at the muddy kitchen for us all to try did you try making potions at home as well?

This afternoon at Forest school Kieran had the idea to make a stick man. He found some sticks and Mrs Breakwell helped him to attach them with string and he added some googly eyes!

We thought that you could make a stick creature yourself! You will need to collect some sticks and possibly add eyes and clothes. You can tie the sticks with string or pipe cleaners, you may choose to use some mud and mould it into a creature adding leaves and flowers as eyes! When we created our garden compost at home I made a compost mud creature to watch over it! The following images may inspire you to try and make a creature. 

Take a photo and send it to me I love to see them!

Joyful June daily challenge: Thursday

Send a photo to someone who might need cheering up!

Today’s story has to be “Stick Man” by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

A note for the nursery children who have not been able to join us at school Miss Butler has began to set up and make some ZOOM video story sessions. We would like to do some too! So I will phone and email you inviting you to join us for a story and a game some time next week!

Have a super Thursday

Mrs Penn, Mrs Heap and Mrs Coleman

Good Morning Everyone 

I have been very busy today phoning families, zooming story groups and watching the key worker children cook apple tarts… You have all been so busy learning in so many different ways.. 

Today I have met a range of teddies at our zoom story session and then I had a lovely surprise and had an email showing that the teddies were having a drinks at the dinner table in someone’s house! I wonder what your teddy could be doing in your house? Climbing a tree, having a bath, looking in the fridge… EVEN riding you bike or trucks .  You will have to send me a photo to let me know …!

I have also seen that more of you have been able to make salt dough after getting hold of the ingredient….FLOUR!!! it never seems to be on the shelf.

I can’t wait to see what they will look like painted….

Last week I set a challenge about  finding things outside that matched a colour wheel. This family found so many different items across the colour wheel, Great Hunting. 

We have spoke about play dough and how we can make shapes and characters … BUT this is NOT playdough its fondant icing and icing eyes.  Its an alien with VERY long legs and I can see he has THREE eyes!!

Today’s challenge links to the teddy snack pictures.. I wonder if you could take your own photos of your teddy or favourite car, truck or train … on an adventure somewhere… in your house, in your garden or during your walk!!  I wonder where they would travela nd what they would do?  I CANT WAIT TO SEE YOU PHOTOS. 

It reminds me of a story I love…called THE NAUGHTY BUS… I will add the video clip so that you can share it at home. I will read story next time we meet on Zoom!

Keep Safe and Keep Smiling and having fun together. Miss Butler , Miss Lofthouse and Mrs Breakwell

Good Morning Everyone 

Yesterday I went home with a HUGE smile on my face because I was at last able to see and talk to some of your children because of the trial of our new Zoom Story Sessions. I will be contacting everyone across the next few days asking if they would also like to join a Zoom story session. 

Thank you for bringing your teddy’s to say Hello to us and for showing your new bags, homemade pegs, your Peppa pig books and your birthday presents.  Your engagement with our short session made my day, I enjoyed every moment. Thank you. 

I will add today’s story onto this page so that you can share it at home in your own time.

Do you remember this Dough Disco Dance we did at the start of lock down….. Can you remember it?  I wonder if your coordination skills have improved after all of the physical activities you do each week. ENJOY……

I am so impressed at your balancing and riding. 

LOOK at the braveness of this cyclist balancing on a raised wooden bridge!! 

We completed a memory game today during our zoom meeting…

I wonder how many items you can remember when you create your own memory game at home? 

Have fun remembering games that we have previously played and exploring the new shapes and designs that you can form using playdough. I wonder what you will form?

Today’s zoom story … Enjoy hearing it again. 

Keep Smiling,  Keep Safe and Keep enjoying your active learning.  Miss Butler, Miss Lofthouse and Mrs Breakwell. 

Hello everyone!

What a lovely day we had yesterday with those whose turn it was to come into school. The children enjoyed some cooking activities and playing in and outside. Forest school was the most popular choice of favourite activities!

We cooked cookies and made apple crumble. Here is the recipe for apple crumble if you would like to try this at home. The children were encouraged to cut up the apple safely and to make the crumble enjoying rubbing in the flour and butter with their fingers! This recipe only makes a small quantity!

Apple (or fruit) Crumble 

Ingredients:    1-2 Apples(or other fruit)                   Flour: 2 table spoons                                  Sugar: 1 table spoon    Margarine: 1 Table spoon        Small foil tray

Method:    Wash hands

Cut up the apple into small pieces and place in foil tray

Add butter and flour to the bowl

Rub these together with your finger tips

Add the sugar and mix in

Pour onto the apple

Bake for 20-25 mins until light golden brown 180c or gas mark 6

Joyful June activity: Wednesday

Be good to yourself give yourself a treat. What will you choose to treat yourselves mums and dads?

Maybe to sit and quietly read a book or magazine without any interruptions!!

How did you get on with the challenge yesterday to make a nest?

Today at Forest school the children loved creating potions to turn the grownups into goonies and zombies! Can you create a potion at home. You will need some water and items from the garden to add to it: grass, petals, leaves and even mud! You may also need to make  wand to create the magic for your potion to work! Words you might use mixture, potion, spell, abracadabra, mix, stir, mystery and magic! Go on have some fun!

Today’s story is called “Meg and Mog” by Helen Nicholl and Jan Pienkowski

What does Meg use for her Spell??

We wish you all a very happy Wednesday

Mrs Penn, Mrs Heap and Mrs Coleman

Good Morning Everyone

I hope that you enjoyed a music, singing and dancing  session yesterday at home.. At school I was introduced to music from the New Troll film…. ALL NEW TO ME! I didn’t know a single word… I have a lot to learn!

I wonder how your painting went today on your salt dough? We painted outside in the sunshine,  it dried so much quicker. We have another coat to add next week.

Today we worked with sheets of card and everyone came up with different ways to use their card.

• Drawing pictures
• Making a magic wand and decorating it with gems
• Designing a Peppa Pig baby

I wonder what you would make if you were given a sheet of white card? … The children requested the other items to complete their own projects… They are just BRILLIANT.

The children also had great fun playing in the mud kitchen … I wonder if you have a piece of mud in your garden which could be your mud kitchen… They made their own pretend food with natural ingredients.

In the afternoon we went to Forest School and we explored the new hammock and traversing rope… You need to have great upper arm skills to be able to  pull yourself along the rope.

Have a great day and I wonder what you would make and design from a piece of card…. Cutting card is also a hard physical skill so I suggest that you explore your children’s cutting skill before you start designing.

Find out…What can your child cut totally independently?  How does your child hold their scissors?

If they still use two hands, find a softer/ easier material for them to cut and demonstrate how to hold the scissors in just one hand. It takes time and LOADS of practice to use scissors in one hand. Cutting is another brilliant handwriting activity. 

Another story read by the Author … ENJOY .. Another new story for me!

Enjoy your Day and Keep Smiling and Keep Safe  Miss Butler, Miss Lofthouse and Mrs Breakwell.

Good Morning everyone

I hope Monday was a good start to the week! Mrs heap and I spent the day with the key worker group who are exploring birds this week! Most of the children seemed keen to make a nest. Mrs Heap suggested a paper weaving activity and others created a nest from materials they found outside.

Challenge: make a nest.

Which animal will you create a nest for? Birds: robin, duck, eagle  or maybe a larger extinct animal like a dinosaur!

You could use cardboard to create a shape and fill it with nest like materials: shredded paper,feathers and so on

Maybe you would like to make a real mud nest with leaves, grass and moss collected from a daily walk

Perhaps you would like to try weaving a paper nest; you can use a circle shape

Watch this short video showing some nests

Joyful June  activity

Tuesday :Ask each other why you feel grateful at the moment.

I think that I feel grateful that I have a garden I can sit in and grow vegetables and flowers!

I wonder what you will talk about together?

Today’s story links to the bird theme it is called “A Busy day for Birds” by Lucy Cousins.

Do you know any bird songs you could sing at home?

Just to finish, Mrs Heap had a surprise visitor to her garden pond! She sent me the following photo! I wonder what sounds Ching Ching would hear?

We hope that you have a lovely Tuesday enjoying the sun, we hope, and trying out some of the activities! Remember to send us some photos of your fun learning at home.

Mrs Penn, Mrs Heap and Mrs Coleman

Good Morning Everyone, I hope that you had a lovely weekend.  I picked and cooked my first home grown courgette!!  I wonder if my other vegetable plants will grow as healthy, I will have to wait a few more months! 

I wonder how well salt dough designs dried out and if you managed to paint them? 

I hope that you enjoyed the story that I posted on Friday ‘ While we can’t hug. It really is a great conversation piece which is very pertinent at  the moment,  supporting children to talk about how they are feeling about the current situation is important.

I am sure that you have all had many opportunities to sing and dance together as a family.  When speaking to families on the phone on Friday many parents were telling me how their children were singing along to nursery rhymes or their favourite music.  So today I am going to post a range of musical activities and songs.

Which nursery rhyme or song do your remember from your childhood which you can share with your child?  I was walking along the SW coastal path on Sunday and overheard a dad stating skippity doo dah as his daughter skipped. These words instantly takes me back to the Walt Disney songs….Which Walt Disney songs do you know off by heart!!!? 

Which songs from films do you always sing ? 

This is a familiar Nursery Rhyme song but with added makaton signs. See if you can copy and join in with the actions. 

I wonder if you have every made yourself a dancing ribbon which you can use when you are dancing to your favourite music. Dancing with scarves is another great handwriting activity !!! It exercises the children’s arm muscles while also being, GREAT FUN. 

Have a great Monday and let me know which music you LOVE to sing along to;  in the car, or when cooking or while you are watching a film. Keep Smiling and Keep Safe Miss Butler, Miss Lofthouse and Mrs Breakwell. 

Hello All

We hope that you enjoyed the weekend? I managed 2 lovely walks with my dog one to Parke, near Bovey Tracey, and one to the back beach at Teignmouth at both venues Ollie dog enjoyed large sticks and a swim! The sun was a welcome sight yesterday and so we did some gardening! Mrs Coleman and Mrs Breakwell have been busy working with groups of children in our school garden and it is looking lovely. They have cleared away some brambles and thinned out the carrots. I am sure we will have more gardening challenges this week!

Joyful June Challenge for 15th June:

Rediscover a fun childhood activity that you can enjoy with your children today!

What will you choose?

Chat with your child about the games you played when you were young and choose one to play.

Did you have access to screen games or not??

This week are looking forward to your company again. We have more cooking activities and outdoor fun planned! As well as time for you to choose to build, draw, paint and be imaginative!

Last week we set you challenges around being physical and using your senses we focussed on smell and touch; so today we are going to set some challenges that require you to use the sense of sight! Look at the following photos to give you ideas of things you can do.

Of course you may like to play hide and seek, another fun game from my childhood. Or you might want to hide items and give clues when your family are near. When I was a child we would say “cool, cold” when you were along way from the object and “warm, hot , burning!” when you were close to the item. You have to use your eyes all the time!

Today’s story was one my son enjoyed when he was little. It is called “Little Bear Lost” by Jane Hissey. Jane has written lots of stories about Little Bear. I hope you enjoy this animated version!

We hope you have a fun Monday playing games from the past and exploring games that need you to do good looking

Mrs Penn, Mrs Heap and Mrs Coleman

HI Everyone  We are at FRIDAY again, how did that happen! the days have gone by SO fast this week .  It has been SUPER busy.

In the Foundation Stage garden we have been clearing the weeds from the edge fence  so that we can plant clematis and honeysuckle to add more flowers in our garden. Mrs Coleman has supported the children to plant vegetables. Today we thinned out our mini carrots so that they could grow  into larger carrots which will be stronger. 

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In my garden my courgette and Beetroots plants are growing well. I wonder what you have been growing in your garden. flowers, vegetables, salad, or seedlings. Do send my some photos so that we can share these across the FS group. It will be great to see the variety of plants and vegetables in your gardens…. OR SNAILS…. 

I am sure that we are all still finding it difficult that we can not hug the people we love and share closer space. This week we have been sharing a video with the children of a new book called ‘While we can’t Hug’ 

Take time if you can to sit with your child and watch this very short film and share a conversation about  how you feel, not being able to hug  family members that you love but others things you could do.  

https://literacytrust.org.uk/resources/back-nursery-and-reception-wellbeing-resources/

Have a lovely weekend and remember to spend time engaging in things that make you smile.

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