Hello everyone!

Yesterday I began to make phone calls to all the children in Base 2 and it was so lovely hear your voices and chat with  your mums and dads. I am in school on Friday and will continue to phone everyone in Base 2 for a lovely catch up chat!

I have had some amazing photos sent of the fun things you have been doing at home and you can view some of these on the Foundation Stage Blog. Thomas is enjoying a daily walk and has had the idea of collecting items to bring back home and then he has used his maths skills to sort and count the items! You too could do this! The next time you go out for a walk take a small bag to find and collect different items like:

Fat sticks and thin sticks short and long sticks,  feathers , something red yellow green

different shaped leaves  and so on.

Bring them home and sort , count or arrange them to make a picture? Can you make a snail or a butterfly?? Or set a trail for a family member to follow leading to a surprise or maybe your own home made den!More activities can be found: https://www.getoutwiththekids.co.uk/activities/doing/activities-walking-woods-kids/ and the woodland trust web site!

I also learnt that some of you have been writing letters to each other! May be you could draw a picture for a neighbour or friend as a surprise! You may get a surprise back!

As ever stay safe and enjoy having fun with your families

Mrs Penn

GOOD MORNING!

I hope you are all FULL of energy today! 

Yesterday at our team meeting Miss Lofthouse wondered if we could set a Physical Challenge for all of the FS children on their daily walk….. So today I am setting a physical challenge which you could explore inside or outside during your one form of exercise a day.

What you will need for the challenge inside is a roll of masking tape or DIY tape.

Place a LONG  strip of masking tape onto the floor and you are ready!!

How many different ways can you move along this line?  

• Hop
• Jump with feet together
• walk toe to heel
• wiggle on you tummy
• walk backwards
• How many different ways can you think of to travel along the line?
• Can you think of more than 10?
• I wonder if you can use these different moves alongside your favourite song ?…You might start to dance along the line!

How many different ways of moving can you use on your daily walk? 

• Skip
• Jump
• galloping
• walking sideways
• Jump then Hop
• Walking on tip toes
•  How many more way of moving can you use on you daily walk?

Keep Smiling, Keep Safe and enjoy today’s physical challenge. Miss Butler

Hello All

It is a bit chilly today but the sun is shining which always makes me smile! 🙂 

Make a den at home! Have fun creating a den!  Can you rise to the challenge to create a den from things you have around the house like sheets and pegs and how many of your family members can fit in your den? (see the Home Learning page Foundation stage base 1) 

Are you managing a daily walk? Perhaps when you are on your walk  set your self and your family some  challenges:

Can you run to the next lamp post?

Hop while you count to 20!

Skip along while you recite the alphabet song!

Jump over any cracks you can see in the path !

Walk around a tree forwards and then backwards!

Try out some of you own challenges and email me to let me know what you have have invented to do during your daily walk!

If you are staying inside try this challenge:

make a line with some masking tape or ribbon and think of how many ways you and your family can cross the tape using as many body movements as you can!

Take care and stay safe

Mrs Penn, Mrs Coleman and Mrs Heap

It was lovely to see that Guy has made a super treasure box which he has proudly put in 10 golden coins! I wonder if he has found some more treasure over the Easter break!

Good Morning, Thank you for all of the messages, questions and photos that I have already received, you have all been doing so much over the Easter Break. It is so important to be happy and enjoy what you are doing.

I got home after work yesterday and started baking, smiling to myself as I had messages from family who were also baking! I had also been talking to many families across Monday afternoon who have all been baking together at home over Easter.  What have you enjoyed cooking or baking together? I would love to see photos…..before you eat everything!  It also made me smile as families mentioned about your love of licking out the bowls….THE BEST BIT!!!   I will try to share images and simple recipes across the week.

Today’s challenge, which you might want to try…… Can you create a den, fort or cave using everyday items? 

• pegs
• sheets / blankets
• chairs or table
• indoor clothes drier
• cushions 
• Tape and paper for the sign.  What will your den or fort be called?  

I wonder….??? Will you build a den just for yourself or one which you can will fit all of your family inside? What would you want to put inside your den? 

I created dens with my youngest  nephew over the Easter Break…these were via video links!! I must say virtual dens are harder to make but also GREAT fun!! At one point we were all hiding in dens!! It was very funny…. Enjoy having fun today and let me see what you manage to create. Each one will be completely different… which is perfect. 

Best wishes and Keep Safe and continue to SMILE. Miss Butler

Hello, I hope that you all had a Happy Easter 

It was so wonderful to hear so many of your voices on the telephone today. You made me smile so much. I will try to speak to everyone else tomorrow as I didn’t manage to say HELLO to everyone today.

I am pleased to hear about the fun that you are having together as families, being happy and smiling is one of the most important things for everyone at the moment. Keep enjoying spending time together engaging in things that make you all happy.

I have found a few sites that you might like to look explore.

This is a site that has a range of different art based activities:- https://www.creativity4wellbeing.com

This is a site where your children can listen to a range of traditional told stories :- https://www.treehousetheatre.com/

As libraries are closed I have found a site where you can explore a range of books for free. You can read these books to your child or listen to the story together. Some books even have the story being told using signing.

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/storybooks-and-games/

Miss Lofthouse found a Spring Scavenger Hunt you might enjoy in your garden or during your one walk a day.

• Find a yellow Flower
• Find 3 different shaped leaves 
• Find something that is red
• Find a spiders web
• Find something that flies
• Name 2 things you see in the sky
• Find something that is long.
• Find something that grows that is green 
• Find 2 birds
• Find something purple 
• Find something that crawls.

Remember if you have any questions or wish to share any photos you can use the link on the bottom of the homepage. Please just send your message for the attention of Miss Butler.

Keep being Safe and Smiling together as a family. Miss Butler

 Tuesday

Hello everyone!

We hope that you have been able to stay healthy and safe with your families over the Easter break?

Did you get an Easter egg?

I have been with my family and we have been gardening, walking the dog, reading books and playing games like “Banana grams!”

Did you manage any of the activities we suggested you do over the Easter break?

Have your peas grown?

Please email to let us know or send a photo of something you made!

I hope you have managed some reading this Easter. This week choose one of your Bug Club books and read it everyday! (you all should still have books and you can always choose one from your library!) When you read the books please click on the bugs to answer the questions.

May we wish a happy birthday to Evelyn and Roary who both turn 4years old during this month, April!

We will post some new activities tomorrow take care,

Mrs Penn, Mrs Coleman and Mrs Heap

Hello I hope you are all keeping well?

What another beautifully sunny day it was yesterday! I hope you can spend some time in an outside space? With this in mind here are some activities you may like to try outside:

Chalking on the floor

Painting with water maybe make your own brushes from pegs!

Play memory games eg. 4 cups of different colours hide an item under each cup can you remember what is hidden under each cup? 

We have enjoyed singing “In the hairy scary castle” this half term. Use the you tube clip and teach your family the song with actions I think the clip sung by Pauline Willoughby and/or Dany Rosevear are very good.

Enjoy listening to story tellers telling our stories of this term:

     The Gingerbread man: you tube told by Tony Wilson

  The 3 little pigs

Easter Holiday activities

Make Easter eggs to hide around your house:  draw egg shapes and then decorate using handwriting patterns: zig,zag,circles, stripes,waves,swirls spend time to colour in each egg around your pattern cut out and hide for you and your family to find!

         Our new story for after Easter is “The Enormous Turnip”

( find a version of this story to enjoy)

Keep going with the letter writing practice on the whiteboards, read your Bug club books, keep counting, and match lower case letters with upper case ones!

Have fun this Easter and we will see you after the Easter weekend

Keep safe

Mrs Penn, Mrs Coleman and Mrs Heap

Hello Everyone Good Morning

I understand that some of you may have had difficultly opening up some of the documents this week. I have saved all of  the documents again as PDF’s so hopefully these will open on you phones, laptops etc. Click on the blue words for the PDF downloads for Thursday’s Challenge Bug Hunt Sheet  Monday’s Challenge Creative Thinking 

Dough Disco Finger Strengthening Fun… Remember we have used video this in class!  Have fun.

Use can your own dough or EVEN make your own dough first

I saw some lovely pictures sent from families today (Thursday 26th March) of memory work and outside exploration  So today’s Friday’s Challenge mixes the two skills together.

What do you remember seeing on your memory walk?

You can walk around your house or garden  In the house name one thing from each room or each part of the room. Again if you choose to complete your memory walk outside or in the garden . pick out 6 things you you see along the walk. When you get back to the start. See if you can recall all of the things you saw?...A harder skill CAN you remember them IN ORDER?

Easter Learning

This term we have been learning to tell and act out the Traditional Tale : The Gingerbread Man . I’ve added a link to the story that was shared across the Foundation Stage unit on 18th March. Listen again and see if you can join in with the familiar phrases.

Tony Wilson The Gingerbread Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p9Fw1CsYxA

TONY WILSON STORYTELLER THE GINGERBREAD MAN STORY This is my version of the well-known story. No matter how many times you tell it, it still causes the same kind of surprise and enjoyment. It is a favourite with the parents and teachers as well as the children. www.youtube.com

 

After Easter we will be looking at the story of The Enormous Turnip 

We had just started looking at line work before we left. Your Easter Challenge is  Can you decorate your own paper Easter Egg? . Remember we looked at various lines ….Waves,  Zig Zags, Arches, Straight lines and  Dashes. You can use pens or thin strips of paper. Remember the strips of paper need two feet! You can show your parents what I mean.  When you have designed your egg.. Remember to create your own egg hunt. Hide your paper egg somewhere in your house or garden for your parents to find. 

F2 Children Remember to access you Bug Club account 

Keep Smiling and Enjoy time with your precious family. Miss Butler