Hello Everyone

Well here we are at the end of another week! It has been good to have the opportunity to play with you in school but we know that you are all still doing amazing activities at home! Please take time to upload the photos of your activities because we love seeing them and sharing them on our web page.

Joyful June (even in difficult times) activities for the next few days:

Friday: Make a plan to do something fun with your family

Tonight Mrs Penn is playing a virtual game of bingo and having a quiz with her family on the whats app video call and her family are in Bristol, Reading and London~ this will be fun!

Saturday: Appreciate the joy of nature

Sunday: Do 3 things that will bring joy to other people today.

I hope you are enjoying these Joyful June challenges I am!

Today in the Key worker group the children made a paper bag puppet. Some children made kite puppets, others animals and we even had a Yoda puppet! At the end of the day we had a puppet show in our puppet theatre made from a box. The puppets sang songs and even did their own dances. This weekend you could make a paper bag puppet and have a puppet show. Mum’s and dad’s and brothers and sisters can make one too! You could make tickets and possibly make popcorn too!

Today’s story we have been showing all week in school. It is called “While we can’t Hug”. Watch this together and talk about how we can, and have been showing each other that we care and love each other even when we can not hug!

We wish you all a happy, safe and joyful weekend see you on Monday

Mrs Penn, Mrs Coleman and Mrs Heap

Good Morning .. I think I should call you Active Hunters instead of active learner after seeing the photos you sent me yesterday…. YOU REALLY took on the challenge of hunting for frozen toys .. I LOVED the CONCENTRATION and DETERMINATION in your faces. You are all just BRILLIANT .

Others are still hunting for snails and finding LOADS in old pots. As the rain comes we should all find more snails .. I wonder how many you can find ? 

Look at these FANTASTIC learning pictures.. The determination is fabulous … But I think we would all have that feeling if our items were placed in ice !!!

  AT LAST!!!… GREAT ACHIEVEMENT FEELING! 

LOVING THE PEPPA PIG and hand Prints

Your wonderful salt dough items could be left plain or if you wish could be painted with poster paint or acrylic (if you have any!) and secured with PVA glue when the paint is dry. 

 Physical  Learning also continued :… Jumping and riding …..TWO Great Photos of your fun as a family. 

I thought very hard today to find a challenge which would include your brothers and sisters and challenge your thinking and theirs so you can ALL explore a challenge together…  I used to complete this activity as a team challenge in previous schools, see what you think. It might take a while for you to collect all of the ingredients. The ice required can be ice cubes from your ice cube containers. We always wrapped the final bag in a tea towel as it was cold to touch.

I wonder have you all ever made ice cream in a bag?

While you are collect these ingredients I’ve added a different  Hunting Challenge .

I wonder if you can find a rainbow of things outside in the rain!! or sun depending on the weather over the next few days. There are so many more colour outside at the moment. How many different colours can you find? 

A story for you I hope it makes you ALL Smile.… Enjoy and see which bits make you all smile and laugh…..

Have a wonderful day and I will be phoning more families today and tomorrow.  I look forward to  having the opportunity to say hello to some and sing Happy Birthday to others who will be 4 yrs old very soon!! 

From Miss Butler , Miss Lofthouse and Mrs Breakwell.

Good morning everyone

We hope that you all enjoyed yourself yesterday? We played with some of you at school and had a great day staying safe but really enjoying ourselves. Here are some photos; like on Tuesday we cooked flap jack and we were impressed with the muscles you used to mix and squeeze and flatten the ingredients! We hope you enjoyed eating them?

Joyful June 2020: June 11th remember to say something positive today! 

It was so lovely to hear so many children yesterday with such lovely manners! A credit to you all we heard so many pleases and thank yous!!!!

It is so important to develop finger strength as this will help your child later with their writing. We noticed that the children loved the challenge of squeezing the syrup bottle~ they found it hard but kept going and laughed hen they succeeded! Here are some fun finger strength activities for you to try at home: 

Challenge try at least 2 of these activities today!

Rock, paper scissors           

Tommy thumb rhyme       

 Thumb war   

Do you remember the dough disco activities we played earlier this year? Here is a video to remind you, get all of your family to join in with this challenge!!

What about trying some of these fine motor finger activities?

I have chosen” Lima’s Red Hot Chilli” for our story today. Enjoy!

Have a lovely Thursday please remember to upload some photos of the things you are doing at home we love to see them

Mrs Penn, Mrs Heap and Mrs Coleman

Hello everyone!

We have had a lovely day in school enjoying playing, talking and laughing with some of you; remembering to keep each other safe! Like you, at home, we explored our sense of smell playing Mrs Heap’s smell game: Know your nose~which was great fun! We had time to play outside and do some cooking. I have uploaded a few photos for you to see.

We cooked chocolate flap jack ! Here is the recipe:

Chocolate Chip Flap Jack

Ingredients:  83g porridge oats    42g soft brown sugar     42g butter      1 tbsp golden sugar

( this makes a small amount)

Method

1. Heat oven to 200/180c fan/ gas 6
2. Cream the sugar and the butter
3. Mix in the porridge oats
4. Add the syrup
5. Add chocolate chips
6. pull mixture into a ball with your hands
7. Press mixture flat and score it with a knife
8. Bake for 15mins until golden brown.

Joyful June: June 10th

Today take a photo of something that will make you happy

I wonder what you will choose. You may like to send to me to look at too!

We played for a short time with some small rainbow balls. We had fun rolling ,kicking and throwing the balls outside and then chasing them until they stopped before rolling them again! Brooke called this game the “chase the ball game!” try it in your garden or at the park!

Today’ challenge is to use your sense of touch!

Words that you may find useful to explore: smooth, spiky, bumpy, made of metal or wood or plastic, feels hot, feels cold, squashy and squishy and so on as you describe what you are feeling.

Today’s story is called “A Squash and A Squeeze” by Juila Donaldson. These are good descriptive words to describe how things feel or textures but how are they used in this book?

Have a happy Wednesday

Mrs Penn, Mrs Coleman and Mrs Heap

Good Morning Active Learners… You are being so active and also keeping me up to date on the things that you are doing at home. THANK YOU, I just love to see your learning. It makes me smile as a look at the fun you are having.  Remember you can use the up load button on this site or you can send images or just a message to me via the admin email address. admin@haytorview.devon.sch.uk

Look at this FANTASTIC design work . You all saw the first stages when it was being painted . The little building started off as a garage but then it changed into a little duck house complete with pond, a wall to sit on!  Building your own small world area is WONDERFUL learning. 

Look at this threading,  completed with such concentration and fine finger control using a plastic needle and a needle made from folded masking tape.

The idea of making dinosaur fossils!! …gave me an another idea…!!

I wonder have you ever completed the Frozen toy break -out or HUNT?! You choose a container, put some small plastic toys in it, fill with water and freeze it. Once they are frozen, ask your child how could they release them from the ice?

I also wondered if the collections you are still finding on your walks could be captured and pressed in the salt dough?

Your photos also show me how PHYSICALLY active you are being every day.   Which is so important ..

Activity challenge: I wonder…
How many hop, skips, jumps, catches, balances or movements can you do
in a minute?  1 minute is a LONG TIME when you are hopping!!

New Story read by the Author .. I REALLY like to hear the Authors reading their own books...

Enjoy the story …he reads it  very well……….. and remember it is best to be yourself…

Have a great day and remember to have fun and enjoy yourself,  from Miss Butler, Miss Lofthouse and Mrs Breakwell

Hello Everyone

Monday ended up being such a sunny day after the morning showers. Thanks you for your birthday wishes and for sharing your lovely photos. I can see that again you have been engaged in a  wide range of Active Learning with your families. I’ve enjoyed seeing how you are sharing your learning with your brothers or sisters. 

Your threading photos show great concentration

There was so many different ways to thread….. The hole punch picture shows that you can create your own items to thread ing holes…..BUT

Today I wonder if you could make your own beads….or other salt dough item?

Enjoy your day and Keep being safe and having fun..

Another Beautiful Photo was sent in today of a child just sat relaxing and enjoying the joy and beauty of the world. 

Keep smiling and have a GOOD Tuesday.from  Miss Butler, Mrs Breakwell, Miss Lofthouse

Hello everyone!

We hope that you all enjoyed yourself on Monday! Did you try any of the physical challenges? We did in the Key worker group! The children especially liked the tape on the floor activity and as the day went on the tape pattern changed from a ladder to a zig zag which kept on getting longer! The children were so clever to think of different ways to balance along the tape including walking backwards at which Mrs Penn failed!!

Talking with Miss Shopland and she found a sheet from “Action for Happiness” entitled:

Joyful June (even in difficult times)

Each day I will post the happy activity for the day. Tuesday 9th June:

Find the joy in music today sing play dance or just listen!

Listen to this piece of music it always makes me feel happy the images are beautiful too! What would your choice be?? I think you will make up a great dance!

Mrs Heap came up with a Smelling challenge : “know your nose!” for us to try in school! She put some different items into individual pots and asked each person to close their eyes to guess the smell! It was fun and quite tricky at times! She had smells of lemon, vinegar, curry spices, soap powder, talc, ginger, chocolate and so on. Try this challenge at home. See what things you can guess just from their smell alone! Test your family who has the best nose!

We have discovered that it is fun to add smells to play dough you can either add herbs to some old dough or make a new batch adding a smell to it!

Today’s story is of course a smelly one!! Enjoy!

We hope to see some of you today to do some cooking, gardening, painting and so much more!

Take care and have fun

Mrs Penn  Mrs Heap and Mrs Coleman

Hi Good Morning Everybody. 

I hope that you have all had a GREAT weekend. Sunday was a lovely and got warming across the day. I saw familiar faces on my walk! It was nice to see you out with your families.  I  also was very lucky, my family drove from across the country to see me for a day for the first time since the start of Feb. Only 5 of us could meet outside at distance but it was great to see them. They came to celebrate my birthday, which is today!! Its lovely to share time with families and I know two children wanted to do threading this week to send presents to family members they miss,  so I though we could all think of threading items we could find at home.

Do you remember the bubble liquid recipe and the lovely threaded bead wands…

I wondered if today you could find all the different things you could thread at home… Pasta, cheerios, buttons, beads…   Have fun searching for things at home to thread.  You can make your own needle from masking tape so it is easier to push the thread into the holes. 

What about threading things you find outside?

Have fun searching and making holes… Do you have a hole punch so you can make your own things to thread? 

This week in school we will be:

I will also be able to talk to some more of you this afternoon.. I can’t wait to say hello  and chat. 

Enjoy your day and remember to have fun. From Miss Butler, Mrs Breakwell and Miss Lofthouse

Hello All

We hope that you all enjoyed yourselves over the weekend. The weather was more mixed and a little chilly at times but the sun did find moments to shine which always brightens us up!

This week, like last week, allows you to come back into school to play with your friends in a small group and safe environment. It was so lovely to see most of you and we enjoyed watching you play and have fun creatively learning! This week we have a fun session planned for Tuesday and Wednesday. I hope you agree when you look at the following images:

Now, you need to keep having fun at home as well! We thought it might be fun to explore some physical activities developing your control over your large and small body movements. All the activities listed will provide an element of challenge, skill, precision and fun

Place some tape on your floor like a ladder:

Can you jump from tape to tape: 2 footed jump

Can you hop on one leg then the other from tape to tape

Can you do a giant step from tape to tape

Can you stand with one foot on one tape and how far can you stretch the other foot to another tape without falling over!

What happens if you arrange the tape as a zig zag or in a circle can you still manage all the above challenges is it harder or easier?

What about creating a laser beam walk through! You could make this part of a Ninja game!

These next activities require more precision!

Today when I (Mrs Penn) took my dog for a walk on the beach I kept noticing the different sizes of stones and pebbles. If you are able to find pebbles on your next walk to the woods or beach and bring them home you can have great fun turning them into little creatures!

The recent rain showers have been helping my seeds and small plants grow nicely! I can now see 4 baby courgettes and I have eaten some radishes home grown! (My big girl Annie said she did not like radishes but she tried a home grown one and said it was “okay!”) I can also see 3 sunflower plants growing taller! It is so exciting. Are your seeds growing if you planted some take some photos and send them so I can see!

Today’s story is about a little boy who helps his grand dad in the garden. It is called “Oliver’s Vegetables!” by Vivian French enjoy

We hope you all have a lovely fun packed Monday with some smiles a long the way

Mrs Penn, Mrs Coleman and Mrs Heap

Good Morning Everyone 

What a Wonderful day I had playing with the children that came to school and then reading and looking through photos of the wonderful adventures you are having at home. You all make me feel so totally proud to know you and your families . You are all so dedicated to support your children and I love the depth of engagement I see and hear on the phone or via email.. You all have just made my week so special,  so a HUGE Thank You from me,  Miss Butler.

I also know some of you are getting very brave and HOLDING more bugs even snails! Well done

Our fun Handwriting sessions have been a hit….

Today’s challenge links to scissor skills shown here and ideas created by the group when they saw all of the tubes we had collected.

I wonder what you could create using a kitchen roll tube or a wrapping paper tube?  The list is endless… BUT what will you make?

Today I was sent a photo that was stunning and shows a child in deep contemplation about the beautiful and excitement of our world… We all need times like these to just stand and look out at the sea and world….. and think.

I’ve added one of OUR favourite stories and the boy uses a tube like toy in the story…Do you remember what is is? Have fun recalling this story at home and can you recall the actions…look up, look down , look all around….

Have a lovely weekend and Enjoy Yourself

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