Hello, Bonjour, Hola

We spent a busy day working with the key worker children today! We all felt a lot chillier when went outside to play and we noticed the wind blowing a lot. Some children enjoyed going on a mini creature hunt and we managed to find all the creatures on our list apart from a lady bird and a worm! Some great spiders were made! Did you try to make a mini beast creature at home? Were you able to find a lady bird we thought it might have been too cold today?

We also made paper aeroplanes, designed them, decorated them and then had a competition. 

We voted on which design we liked, how the plane flew through the air, how it landed and we measured the distance. It was fun and we even made some trophy’s to give out. Maybe you could do this at home and have a competition with your family!

Points awarded:

10 points for the plane spinning or looping  in the air

3 points for the plane that landed the right way up

2 points for a plane landing on it’s side, nose or back

and we measured the distance it flew with a measuring tape. (you could use your feet to do this)

Count up the points for each person playing this game

award your home made medals or prizes!

Folding paper planes and adding a paper clip on the front…

We have realised how important it has been for you all to take part in a cooking activity. So this weekend why not try to make some cakes at home for tea. You can choose the recipe with your mum’s form a cookery book or perhaps buy a box mixture to make at home. Your challenge is to do as many of the skills by yourself! grown ups please support your child by allowing them to put the ingredients into the bowl including cracking the egg~ the delight on children’s faces when they achieve this is lovely to watch! Support them to follow the instructions on the packet mix or from a recipe book.

The skills needed to cook cakes require children to think about hygiene: washing hands, they use their muscle control for big hard mixing movements and for much finer spooning movements. They use maths skills and techonology skills to weigh out the ingredients  and they can decorate their cakes creatively; the whole process develops focus and concentration to complete the task in hand. Don’t forget washing up and drying up the equipment used can be both fun and a muscle building controlled exercise. (all of these skills will help your child with their handwriting eventually!) Of course eating your cakes is a fun and often a social time.

Just a little reminder for coming into school next week.

Your child will need wellie boots.

You can bring them in and take them home each time as we will always play outside!

Please remember that your child has grown during their time at home so any boots they may have at school may not be their correct size!

On hot and sunny days please provide a hat and apply sun cream in the morning before coming into school.

Our story today is called “Honey Biscuits” enjoy! This story has a recipe you might like to try.

Mrs heap, Mrs Coleman and myself have had a lovely week seeing, chatting and playing with some of you and we are looking forward to more fun next week. We have loved hearing from others of you who are at home through so please all keep sending us photos of the super activities you have been sharing with your families.

We hope you enjoy this weekend

Mrs Penn, Mrs Coleman and Mrs Heap

Hello Everyone 

I hope that you had a great day in the rain! My garden will be delighted and I am so pleased I can have an evening off water all of my plants.

I have had some wonderful phone calls with families and children today. Its lovely to hear the exciting things you are doing at home. I will continue to phone everyone else on Friday,  I look forward to speaking to you all soon. 

Tricky word games in the sunshine, What a lovely active idea.

I love the way that you can use paving for so many ideas:- reading words, identifying letters shapes, hopscotch, number lines …the list is endless!

I had a lovely conversation with a parent today about shaking foam finger work.. WE LAUGHED together about the mess it can make at home!.. so I thought about other activities that develop finger strength and handwriting without a pen and paper!!!  I wonder if any of your children would consider making a fruit crumble handwriting work!!!

Click here Making a Fruit Crumble info.  Making fruit crumble involves lots of fine motor control skill such as chopping and rubbing.  Have fun if you wish to make a crumble. 

I have added a new story today and it was a brand new story for me.  I like finding stories which have been read by the author. Enjoy 

Have a lovely Thursday and  I wonder what cooking activities you will explore together?  You will all have different recipes which are your family favourites. I look forward to finding out the range of cooking ideas you all LOVE. 

Keep Smiling and Enjoy your Time Together Miss Butler, Miss Breakwell and Miss Lofthouse

Good morning all

I really enjoyed the fact that today has been cooler and a little bit rainy! We hope that you are all having a good time at home !

Another group of children joined us in school toady and we had a lovely time seeing each other and playing safely in and outside! I feel so proud how proud the children have all managed the new way we are working superbly! We even found some snails in the rain and Alfie and Lucas  were excited as the snail climbed up their arms! Here are some photos from today.

Today we enjoyed finding snails that came out in the rain at the end of the afternoon and I would like to remind you of the mini beast hunt sheet. Click on the blue writing to see the mini beast hunt sheet: My Garden Creatures hunt 2

Your challenge today is find your own way to make a mini creature!

Can you make a worm or snake from an old sock! What will use to stuff it? Can you decorate it you may be allowed to sew on some buttons or  just draw!

Could you make your own snail? Will you draw spiral shell? Can you curl paper to make a snail ? Could you use a sock and box? You can think of your own way to make one!

How could you create a spider and his web?

Will you paint it? Will you cut out a body and add 8 long legs?

Have a look at this short video it might give you an idea!

Don’t forget to send me a photo of the mini creature you choose to make!

Don’t forget to send me a photo of the mini creature you choose to make!

Our story today is about a spider! “The Very Busy spider” By Eric Carle

Have a great Thursday,

Mrs Penn and Mrs Coleman and Mrs Heap

Good Morning … Another HOT day … We had to use so much water to ensure that our plants had a good long drink.

Will it be another warm day tomorrow so you can explore water fun activities or will the weather change?

I‘ve linked today’s challenge to counting quantities…I wonder if you could play a  listen and Spray Counting Game – Write numbers on the ground with chalk and then ask your child listen for how many claps and then spray that number with water or because tomorrow might not be as warm! listen to how many claps and collect the correct quantity of your toys. 

Even more fun is playing this game with grapes or chocolate buttons! 

A second challenge links to designing your own badge …Look at this batgirl suit . She is wearing her own batman badge. What badge you make for yourself? 

Have fun with these two challenges

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I loving seeing your challenge picture…I love the excited faces… The cakes look very tasty. Well Done. Chocolate chip cakes have been a HUGE hit at school. Also the children loved finding out how to crack an egg on their own, it was a great interest. 

Mrs Heap has added another new recipe  Ching Ching has explored. When you manage to find the ingredients you might enjoy following it together. We will be making scones in a weeks time at school.  The Scone Zone with Ching Ching (1) scone zone (2)scone zone (3) click the blue words here for the recipe. Enjoy and maybe you can have jam and cream on top!

Enjoy your Wednesday and Keep Safe and keep smiling  From Miss Butler, Miss Loft house and Mrs Breakwell

Hello all!

Yet another lovely day in the sun!

We hope you enjoyed yourself at home maybe having some water fun?

We had a super day in school keeping safe and playing together!

We enjoyed the cooking activity at school today and Mrs Heap has been busy with Ching,  Ching  this time she has been making scones click the blue writing and follow Mrs Heap’s instructions to make scones! There are 3 sheets to open!  The Scone Zone with Ching Ching (1)    scone zone (2)    scone zone (3)

Today’s challenge tray games: 

Collect things outside for I Spy – Memory Game

 Collect items from around your house: you could choose food items, or toys, or random items play I spy something beginning with>>>>>> on the tray. Can you and your family locate the object on the tray?

See how many items you can remember: look at the items for one minute and then cover it over with a tea towel, can you remember them all??

Hide the items from the tray around the room or garden go on a hunt to find them all you must know how many objects you need to find to return to the tray!

At school we finish the day with a story so here is a story for you to enjoy with your family. Yesterday the story was about a Rainbow fish; today’s choice is about a Fish who could wish! Enjoy! What would you wish for??

Take care at home and we hope those in school today will have fun!

Mrs Penn, Mrs Heap and Mrs Coleman

Hello Everyone   Good Morning its Tuesday,  we had another HOT day on Monday! I wonder if you explored water fun in the heat?

Fun swinging in Forest School

Paint mixing became a strong focus using BIG pieces of paper!

 In the afternoon we made our chocolate chip cup cakes … A Busy Monday in school.

Then I opened up my email and You’ve had a BUSY few days at home…

Thank you again for sharing your wonderful learning .

WOW such busy active learning…filled with spirals and water fun!!!

Today’s challenge links to a photo I was sent and today’s learning at school.

If you had a circle – or a paper plate what would you create….. The list of ideas are endless…but What will you choose to make?

Does your child create lines… Its a form of thinking known as a  ‘schema’  lines are often considered a very mathematical exploration… There are lots of different schema’s.

What items does your child choose to independently line up… Where do they line up their item? On the window sills, across the floor, on the edge of tables?  Its all really interesting and a deep form of thinking, this is why if items are moved from a line they have made they can become upset… its hard thinking they are doing,  making these lines.  

I wonder if your pets like to have a wash!

Keep Enjoying your active learning and  Keep Smiling   Miss Butler 

Hello everyone!

We hope that you all enjoyed a super hot Monday! We were in school enjoying some inside and outdoor activities. Some of you are coming into school today and tomorrow so we felt it would be good for you to see what you will be doing

In the morning: Foundation stage garden and snack

Lunch Time

 In the afternoon: making chocolate chip cookies

Play and then tidy time get ready to go home

Story time.

It was lovely to open some more photos of your holiday fun! Here are some from Thomas for you to look at. Have you been to the same place ever?

Your challenge today is to enjoy some water play in your garden or outdoor space:

 Water painting: you can use paint brushes, rollers and even old tooth brushes to paint with. This fun activity will allow your arms to strengthen, you can do really long strokes or fine and small strokes. Will your marks disappear in the sunshine?

Can you travel holding a cup of water without spilling it from one end of your garden to the other? Try different sized containers can you do it on your head? Can you place some obstacles in your pathway to negotiate? Collect the water in a bucket so you can reuse it. Have a race with a family member!!

Local women carrying buckets on their heads, Malawi, Africa

Try using wet sponges and and throw them into different sized bowls or buckets add a number to each bowl or bucket who gets the biggest score!

Perhaps you would like a bowl of soapy water so you can wash your toys or even wash your big wheeled toys like bikes and scooters like a real car wash!

Today’s story is about is about The Rainbow Fish. Did you like the end of the story? Was this the right thing for the Rainbow Fish to do? Yesterday we saw the jelly fish that Alfie created can you create your own creature who lives in the sea? If you do take a photo to show us

Take care and have fun

Mrs Penn, Mrs Coleman and Mrs Coleman

Hello everyone!

We hope that you have all enjoyed some family fun over the half term break? What glorious weather we have had and we imagine that you have all enjoyed some fun outside perhaps in a paddling pool or a trip to the beach or local park or woods possibly enjoying an ice lolly or two!

This week we are excited that some of you will be returning to school either on Tuesday or Wednesday for children in Base 2. It will be lovely to play with you and see how much we are sure you have all grown!! Mrs Penn will continue to phone all of you and add a daily website post. Please keep in touch with emails and sharing your photos! Here are some recent photos you have shared, as ever we can see where you have challenged yourself and learnt new skills!

Miss Butler explained in her post just before the half term break that Jane from ASDA has managed to get some materials for us to use in school. Some things for cooking and art materials so we will have fun making cakes at school this week, we want to say thank you to Jane!

Sun awareness! Please make sure you are using sun cream and wearing a hat outside the sun is very strong at the moment. The days you come to school please could sun cream be applied before the start of the day and each child will need to bring in their own sun hat with their name in it!  Remember the slogan “slip on a loose top, slop on the sun cream, slap on a hat!” Thank you.

I have chosen a story today about a journey of a little boat! “The journey” by Neil Griffiths and Scott Mann. In the version I have chosen the story is sung to you! When you have listened to the story choose one of your toys and make up a journey story for the toy and share it with your mum, dad or brothers and sisters!  What might happen? who will your toy meet?? How will your toy return home??

We hope you have a good Monday take care,

Mrs Penn, Mrs Heap and Mrs Coleman

Hello Everyone , WELL that was a HOT week.

I hope you all had a wonderful and safe time in the sunshine.

This week the Foundation Stage Unit will be open for children in F2. We have a busy week planned.

If it continues to stay hot and sunny please can all of the F2 children coming back to school  remember to bring a  sunhat and suncream,   so we all stay sun safe.

A sunhat is necessary Sun cream which your child can apply themselves. 

We look forward to seeing you when you come in for your session. 

F1’s and F2 children who are not in school today:- I know you will have been on lots of adventures so please do continue to send through your images. admin@haytorview.devon.sch.uk  or upload the images and messages straight onto this site. I love looking through your photos and reading what your have been learning about,  it helps me consider your current interests and allows me to make suggests that might be of interest.

I wonder if you have been having more water fun games at home… more swimming or water painting to cool down.. Have you managed to get to the beach and paddle in the sea? Today I a setting you all a water challenge……..

Water transporting obstacle course!

How many different ways can you transport water and develop coordination!

Wet sponge throwing!

 How far can you throw wet sponges…which bowl/ box can you thrown your sponge into? 

                       Continue to Enjoy painting with water.

                                        Have you tried using a paint roller outside! 

I will start phoning all of the F1 families on Tuesday 2nd June,  when I am not in class. I really look forward to saying Hello to you all again.

Enjoy your Monday and Keep Smiling and have a Fun Filled day.  Miss Butler

Hello Good Morning Everyone. I can’t believe it is half term already,  time has gone so fast! So today post is the last one before a weeks holiday! A holiday that will be a lot different than usual but I know that you will still enjoy yourself together as a family. 

Yesterday I went into work to pick up a parcel from Jane our Community Champion from Asda. She was fantastic and dropped off three crates of cooking ingredients and art materials for the school. We now have all of the ingredients ready for cooking when the F2 children return on 1st June.  It was so wonderfully kind of ASDA to donate these ingredients to our school.

Again your images have made my afternoon and given me a huge smile on my face…

YOU are all brilliant learners.  I love to hear and see how you have tried so many new activities and covered so many skills.

I hope you liked today’s story! …Beautifully illustrated 

Look our ingredients are ready for 1st June … if you shop at ASDA, please do thank them… They have been FABULOUS. 

Today I listened to a song on the radio and I loved the words. You might have heard it ?  I hope it makes you smile, sing and maybe dance..

I wonder which song makes you want to dance ? Which song do you sing in your house or car?

Have a WONDERFUL Friday and half term break I can’t wait to see some of you on 1st June and to talk to everyone else on the phone. We will all be together again soon. 

ENJOY the Sunshine and have fun in your GARDEN..exploring nature...

I wonder if you can make yourself an Outdoor Memory game ?

See what you can find outside that you find interesting? I wonder what it will be?

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