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!

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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

Look at the different Den’s that have been built in people’s homes. You can make a den inside or outside. One family even had their lunch in their den, WHAT FUN!  Keep finding different ways to make yourself and your toys a den. Enjoy yourselves. 

What fun you seem to be having in your dens both at home and in the woods!