Good afternoon everybody! (The chickens and I are sitting together in the Peace Orchard waiting to see if we can hear you all saying your good afternoon back just like you do in our assemblies at school!)

You have all made me smile so much this week with your amazing rainbows and tales of interdependence within our community. I have heard about …

• Rainbow tuned bells being played and heard by some very happy neighbours
• Children and families cheering up neighbours with food, chocolates, and messages via Skype
• Children setting up virtual nail painting salons
• Trumpet playing through the window of granny and grandad’s house
• Electronic messages being sent to our friends in care homes
• Families helping to ensure that our vulnerable neighbours or the homeless have enough food
• Children having their haircut for The Little Princess Trust
• Cake baking and rainbow painting for parents who work at the hospital
• Helping supermarket staff to collect boxes
• One little boy playing his violin in the sunshine to give his neighbours a moment of joy (- he played Mozart’s ‘La ci darem la mano’ which means ‘There we will give each other our hands’)
• Children spotting the tiny changes that are happening outdoors every day and sharing images of the wonders of nature with family and friends
• And finally, all those that joined in with our show of support for our key workers last night at 8.00 pm

Amazing efforts from you all and I think you will all enjoy looking at everyone’s rainbows. They  have also brought incredible joy to our community this week …

https://youtu.be/dhRD4aF9yrQ

I have also filmed a story for you with the help of the wonderful Miss Barnes. We have included pictures as it is a longer story but I wonder if you can work out why I chose this story this week? 

https://youtu.be/N5fXROzCf8o

Keep shining out like the little beacons of light in the Mousehole harbour everyone, stay sheltered and safe and have a lovely weekend. 

Mrs Smith ☺️ 

 

Starfall Phonics has some great games and stories to read. Meet Zac the Rat and Peg the Hen. Have a go at reading the sentences yourself before clicking on the ear symbol to hear it read back to you. If you click on the character of each page it will also do something funny! Some of the stories include split digraphs that we have not learnt in school but have a go anyway if you like. We have read stories 1 to 8 in class. Revisit some of these and then try a new one. 

Starfall Phonics

I was so pleased at how much you loved my last story that I have another one for you! This time I’m reading Abigail by Catherine Rayner. This is a great book to remind us not to give up and to remember that there’s always someone there to help us. Get comfortable and enjoy.

Story time with Mrs Bracey. Book 2

We hope you have been thinking about your number pairs. You can practice number pairs by recording additions or counting objects using the part part whole method – look at your learning packs to remind you of different ways to do this. Test out your number pairs to 10 with this game …

Save the Whale Number Pairs game

Find out some dinosaur information by watching Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures. Use this information to write a dinosaur riddle. Look at your home learning packs for an example. Think about the features of your dinosaur, their colour and what they like to eat. Remember to use your tricky bugs to help with your sentences. Try and remember some of the new vocabulary we’ve learnt at school too, such as herbivore, carnivore, extinct, fierce etc.  Test it out on a family member – someone in your home or Skype somebody to see if they can guess your chosen dinosaur! 

Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures

Hi Skipper F. Seeing as you’re not here to enjoy a story time with me I’m bringing story time to you! Enjoy a story told by me by clicking on the link. I’m reading Lost and Found with a special Skipper F friend. Get comfortable and enjoy.

Story time with Mrs Bracey

Tuesday is usually our PE day in school so why not try and independently put on your PE kit and join in with the dinosaur yoga on Cosmic Kids! Don’t forget to stretch first. Whilst you’re stretching have a conversation about the effects of exercise on your bodies. What do you notice as you exercise? What happens to your heart beat, the colour of your  cheeks, the temperature of your bodies? 

Tiny the T-rex yoga

Good morning everybody! I am sitting in a very quiet school and missing you all desperately so I thought it would be a great idea, until we are all back together again, to run our Monday morning assemblies through the blogs for now and to invite our Foundation children to join us for the first time this year! I will send you a message every Monday morning, share the theme for the week, you can then share your creations and thoughts with me directly and we will then celebrate these ideas together on the blogs on a Friday afternoon – just like we do in our Celebration Assembly in Years 1-4. Please remind your grown-ups that they have an email to help them to support you with your assembly job each week.

So, for this week I wanted to share with you a story that was in the news a few days ago about a project that school children across the country are now taking part in. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51988671

While you are reading it with your grown-up, I wanted to share a quote that we often use in our assemblies …

I thought this would be an ideal project for us all to join in with and that your task this week could be to make a rainbow that can be seen from your home along with a message to make your neighbours smile.

Along with pictures of your rainbows this week I would also love to hear of any good news stories that you have found. We can now see ‘interdependence’ so clearly all around us and your grown-up can help you to understand this if this is a new word for you.

I can’t wait to see your photos and to hear your stories (your grown-up will help you to share these with me). It will be almost as good as the smiles and chats we share on the gate! I will reply to any messages that come in and I will share all the highlights in our celebration on Friday.

Take care Team Damers 🙂

Mrs Smith x

Dear Skipper F,

We are missing you all lots. After only 2 days without you we feel lost. It’s been so lovely to keep up with what you’re up to on EExAT. Please keep the pictures coming and don’t forget you can comment here on the blog. Now it’s the weekend take some time to rest and relax with your families and don’t worry about the learning packs until Monday. School doesn’t feel the same without you all and we think about you often.

Much Love, Mrs Bracey and Mrs Holt