No Pens Week; Wednesday 10th February

 Hello Hedgehogs,

It's Wednesday - at the moment, it's easy to forget what day it is, so I thought I'd remind you! I've enjoyed the work you've sent me so far this week. There have been some interesting Marine Biologist meetings and some marvellous attempts at flag semaphore!

On this Wednesday, I give you...

Job 1: The penultimate chapter of our story.

Job 2: Four jobs over four days
Choose one each day - you can choose the order you'd like to do them in.

Click here for the Bear Hunt story

Click here for the recipe

Click here for some under-the-sea yoga poses

Click here for the practice sequence

(Parents, pick and chose as you like from the below)

Clip 1

Clip 2

Clip 3

Clip 4

Whale Song *

* I don't recommend listening to all ten hours. 

Optional Job 3: Go Outdoors

See you tomorrow, Hedgehogs :0)

From Miss Nash

No Pens Week: Tuesday 9th February

 

Hello, and a very warm welcome to Tuesday.

How much snow did you get, Hedgehogs? Over here I had about.... 20 snowflakes. Just about enough to make a footprint. 

Here is No Pen Tuesday for you:

Job 1: Chapter 18 of our story

Job 2: Four jobs over four days
Choose one each day - you can choose the order you'd like to do them in.

Click here for the Bear Hunt story

Click here for the recipe

Click here for some under-the-sea yoga poses

Click here for the practice sequence

(Parents, pick and chose as you like from the below)

Clip 1

Clip 2

Clip 3

Clip 4

Whale Song *

* I don't recommend listening to all ten hours. 

Optional Job 3: Go Outdoors

Click here for 'That's Not My Puppy'

Click here for the template and examples.

Have a terrific Tuesday!

From Miss Nash

No Pens Week: Monday 8th February

Welcome to Week 6 and the final week of this half term.

Hedgehogs, you are doing a brilliant job of your learning. You've been putting a lot of effort in and trying your best. I've had so much good work sent to me - it makes me smile. 

This week, things will be similar, but different. We are going to complete a 'no pens' challenge. This means that a lot of your learning will be talking and thinking about how to explain your ideas. 

You can send me photos of you at work and your grown-up can tell me how you get on.

Each day there will be a chapter of our Mantle story.

In addition, each day choose one of the other jobs (below) to complete each day. I thought I'd put all four jobs up every day so that you can decide when you will complete which jobs. You could even do two of these jobs one day, and none of them the other day. Or all four jobs one day, if you really like. As long as all four Mantle chapters and all four other jobs are done at some point, it's fine!

I will also post an optional outdoor activity each day. 

In between times, please keep reading!

Job 1: Chapter 17 of our story.

Job 2: Four jobs over four days
Choose one each day - you can choose the order you'd like to do them in.

Click here for the Bear Hunt story

Click here for the recipe

Click here for some under-the-sea yoga poses

Click here for the practice sequence

(Parents, pick and chose as you like from the below)

Clip 1

Clip 2

Clip 3

Clip 4

Whale Song *

* I don't recommend listening to all ten hours. 

Optional Job 3: Go Outdoors

Have a good Monday, Hedgehogs!

From Miss Nash

Friday 5th February

HHello Happy Hedgehogs and Super Squirrels

Welcome of Forest School

How has your first week of February 2021 been?

Visit virtual forest school here

Thank you to those of you that completed the Big Bird Watch, I have submitted the results to the RSPB and together we have made even more progress towards our bronze certificate. We are over halfway now so well done! Let's see if we can complete enough challenges between us this week to achieve the bronze certificate.

Wild challenges to complete

As we have spent the last few weeks looking at and listening to birds I thought we could move on to looking at trees as these are so important to birds for many reasons. Can you think why? Not only do they provide food sources like nuts and berries but birds also like to build their nests in trees. February to August is the time of year that birds build their nests so you could start looking out on your walks to see if you can spot any birds' nests. If you do see any, please can you send me a picture? I shall be looking out on my walks and also at forest school to see if I can spot any. 

Did you know Squirrels and Hedgehogs... that squirrels actually build nests in trees? Squirrels' nests are called dreys and they look like this. They are typically built where tree branches form a fork (like a V shape)

One of my favourite activities to complete outdoors is measuring the age of a tree. Did you know you can tell how old a tree is by cutting it down and counting the number of rings on the trunk? However, as some of you know we do not want to be cutting trees down to measure them so below is another method that you can try:  

                                

You can get a rough estimate of the age of a tree without cutting it down and counting the rings. The circumference of a tree can be used to estimate its age, as roughly a tree will increase its girth by 2.5cm in a year. So, simply measure around the trunk of the tree (the circumference) at about 1m from the ground. Make sure you measure to the nearest centimetre. Then divide the circumference by 2.5 (you may need to use a calculator to do this or ask an adult to help) to give an age in years. A tree with a 50cm circumference will therefore be about 20 years old.

Each week we usually consider the weather for various reasons. We may consider what clothing we need to wear or how the weather has made changes to our environment. I found an activity which you can do at home to observe changes in weather. You will need to find a pine cone before you can begin so you may look out for one when you go out for a walk. Where might you find a pine cone?

                                          Pinecone weather gauge

A challenge for you squirrels (How to make a barometer). Hedgehogs, you are very welcome to try this one at home. It is a fun activity (adult support required).

I hope you have a super, duper weekend

Love from Miss Swain and Daphne

And a few other things....

A music lesson with Mrs McKee.

A singalong with Mrs McKee

and...

Click here to go the Chester Zoo Facebook page. 

Click here for the yoga video

Have a good Friday Hedgehogs!

Thursday 4th February

Greetings Hedgehogs,

I read a funny news report yesterday. There is a farmer who has goats. At the moment, she is renting out her goats to people to have on their Zoom calls... so people pay her a bit of money and she puts her goats on the Zoom call with them.

 I thought perhaps I should have had a goat with me when I chatted to you yesterday. 

Job 1: Chapter 16 of our story

Job 2: Phonics

Reception Phonics:

Click here for the word search

Click here for Roll and Read

Year 1 Phonics:

Job 3: Handwriting

Please practise your long ladder letters:

• begin by forming the letters correctly with good, straight lines
• when you can do that, try to make your letters sit on the line
• when you can do that, try to make your 'l' taller than the others
• If you want an extra challenge write:
  lid
  lit
  till
  yell
  .... and make sure your small letters are small and your tall letters are tall!

(stop at the right challenge for you :0) )

Have a good Thursday, Hedgehogs! Don't forget our Zoom storytelling tomorrow (Friday):

Reception    - 10.30am
Year 1          - 11.00am

From Miss Nash

Wednesday 3rd February

 Hello Hedgehogs and welcome to Wednesday.

It seems we all enjoyed the Zoom sessions last Thursday, so let's do another storytelling Zoom session this week:

Reception:  10.30am

Year 1:  11.00am

I will send the Zoom details home soon.

Now for today's learning:

Job 1: Chapter 15 of our story

Job 2: Maths

Reception Maths:

Year 1 Maths:

Click here for the bonds to 7 search

Click here for the maths worksheet (optional to use)

Job 3: Spellings and HFWs

Reception please spend some extra time learning your sight words. Let me know if you need a new list!

Year 1 please work on your spellings. If you have reached the end of the list, choose 5-10 more very good words from your reading books that you'd like to learn to spell. 

Have a very good Wednesday Hedgehogs!

From Miss Nash

An Optional Tuesday: 2nd February

I aGood morning Hedgehogs and Hedgehog Parents!

I am looking forward to catching up with you today!

Can I please just remind you that when you log in to Zoom, have your name displayed so that I know who is in the waiting room. If the meetings are running early and you are in the waiting room already, I will let you in!

I am not setting any compulsory work today, but if you would like a few jobs to do you could:

Practice your handwriting
choose a letter family to practice: curly caterpillars, robot arms, long ladders or zig zag monsters.

Practice your counting:

Reception:
Counting to 20 and back
Counting in 2s to 10 or 20
Year 1:
Counting to 100 and back
Counting in 2s to 20
Counting in 10s to 100
Counting in 5s to 50

Practice your number bonds to 5, 6 or 7

Playing dice games
Playing pairs

Please don't forget Reverend Dove's assembly at 11am!

Have a good Tuesday,

From Miss Nash