Haytor View

Community Primary School & Nursery

Learning together ~ enjoying success ~ aiming high ~ celebrating difference ~ enriching community

Haytor View

Community Primary School & Nursery

Learning together ~ enjoying success ~ aiming high ~ celebrating difference ~ enriching community

Good Morning lovely children and families…  The telephone calls and email messages this week have been overwhelmingly beautiful in every way. I miss your laughter and chatter everyday and hearing the bounce in your voices brings a smile onto my face.  I pass on my thanks and gratitude for the way in which you have all engaged with the on line sharing of learning. ( If you are finding uploading onto the Haytor View site difficult please use the admin@haytorview.devon.sch.uk  instead and just add into the message bar: message for Miss Butler )

Look at these photos of deep concentration, they show wonderful learning in their facial expressions and body positions….SUCH STRONG BRAIN CONNECTIONS BEING BUILT!!  I love watching deep engagement in learning. You will notice it so often when your child’s tongues pop out and their gaze is fixed when completing a task.

Do you remember one of challenges I set in the first days of lockdown? I asked if you could try to put elastic bands on top of a pot … I wonder if you are faster at this challenge now?…. Can you remember how to place the bands over the top of a pot?  It will strengthen your fingers.

Stretching an elastic band between fingers ready for the challenge.

It was so sunny yesterday afternoon and evening, which was lovely again.. So if you manage to go out on a walk, I wonder if you find a collection of item, daisies, sticks, leaves etc. I wonder if you can create or copy a repeated pattern? ( copying is the easier skill)

You might even want to use your toys or fruit pieces to make a repeated pattern. You could even draw or stick a repeated patterns onto a flag for your garden. 

Look at this ACTIVE phonic picture which  I was sent yesterday. What a wonderful approach to active reading…. You need to be able to juggle managing your physical body alongside the skill of reading words. The family also adapted the game so that her younger sister could take part by naming colours as she came down the slide.  I will create some new physical reading challenges for next week…  I wonder if you can think of some different physical challenges which you really enjoy and then do let me know. We can all share your great ideas.

If you have created or told  any Story Squares, please do keep sending them to me.  I am putting them together so that I can record them. Some families are creating mini books. You can make your own mini book very easily from paper and 1 cut. We use this process at school it  is easy and so quick.

Today’s story is a PERSONAL favourite of mine and it is read by the author! You are ALL authors of your own stories. This is why story squares are so special. Enjoy this familiar story. I wonder  when you hear it  you can remember it being  read at school and the loud voice I use!! It often makes you all jump.

I will not be posting home learning this Friday because it is a special  bank holiday but I will be back with more challenges on Monday. Enjoy the long weekend. Keep Safe and Keep Smiling. Miss Butler, Mrs Breakwell and Miss Lofthouse.