I wonder how many of have had your Sports Day at home? We are delighted to share this super video of one of our pupils enjoying an obstacle course at home with her big sister. It looks like great fun and the course was even created by the girls themselves. Super work both of you and thank you so much for sharing your video.
Why not have fun making some noise? You can make our own musical instrument using elastic bands and some junk boxes. If possible, find different sizes and thicknesses of elastic bands which can then be put around a box. You can cut a sound hole in your box under the elastic band, a bit like a tissue box. Better still if you have an old tissue box and the hole is already made for you.
Some things to try out-
• Can you make the sound louder/quieter?
• What happens when you use a smaller/thinner elastic band?
• Can you feel and see the band vibrating?
• What happens if you touch the band when it is vibrating?
If you don’t have elastic bands at your house, why not try using empty, dry juice bottles or a crisp cardboard tube to make an instrument? Add rice, lentils or pebbles from outdoors, put the lid on (don’t forget this bit!) and you have a shaker ready to play along with any music you enjoy.
If you have been joining in the Thursday night clapping, you may already have created your own drum kit using pots, pans, lids and wooden spoons. Try a metal spoon or a plastic ladle to see what sort of noise that makes.
We will be keeping our ears peeled for some great bands in Annan over the next few days.
Some of our staff have been enjoying looking at your photos. Mrs. Irving left a message for Alfie:
“What a super Chef you are Alfie! Your pizza looks mighty tasty….it is making my tummy rumble.”
Mrs. Kirkpatrick loved the photos the children shared with their letters:
“Aw lovely photo Sophie x I’m glad you enjoyed reading your letter” and
“So pleased you liked your letter Seth x”
We all love to see your photos so please keep sending them to us. It’s great to see those happy smiles on your faces.
I wonder if any of you have been getting any post recently? Seth and Sophie were both excited to get their own letters today from Mrs. Kirkpatrick and they wanted to share these photos with us.
Thank you so much to Seth and Sophie for sending us their photos. It’s so lovely to see such happy smiles. We hope that lots of you will be receiving post this week and would love it if you sent us a photo. Please send it to the school office and let us know whether or not you’re happy for us to add your name. It would be great to see lots of your smiling faces on the blog.
This week’s “Rhyme of the Week” is “Rock A Bye Baby” which you can listen to by clicking on the link below. We hope that you enjoy singing along with this gentle rhyme boys and girls.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-rock-a-bye-baby/zbwgscw
One of the main events during the summer term is our school and Nursery sports days. Whilst we aren’t able to come together to enjoy lots of fun activities, we will, along with the school, be holding a week long event instead.
We would like to share this video of us all trying out a little fun activity at home to give the children ideas of challenges to try themselves and we suggest that they ‘have a go’ at a few of them during week beginning Monday 1st June. These are just suggestions that, of course, can be adapted and the children may also want to invent their own activities which we would love to see.
You could organise your ‘sports day’ for any day between Monday and Thursday of week beginning June 1st, depending on weather. Why not share it with other family members during a video call to make it an event for the children?
We would love you to send photos or videos of your event so that we can share them on our blog. Please send them to the school address below by the end of Thursday June 4th so that they can forwarded to us to share.
gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk
We look forward to hearing from you and hope that you have lots of fun.
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A recent addition to our rhyme and singing time has been this beautiful stretchy song band which was kindly created and donated by Mrs. Jardine.
The band is made from an interesting mix of colours and textures of fabric, providing a sensory experience and encouraging the children to focus as the band is moved round while they sing. It is motivating and fun, encouraging group participation and great social interaction as the children talk about which section of the band has stopped at them, how it feels, looks and what they like about it.
Thank you so much to Mrs. Irving’s Mum for spending so much time sourcing the materials and putting them together. This must have been quite a challenge but your hard work is greatly appreciated by everyone.
It was lovely to hear from Alfie’s family that, just like Kyla, they too are out on painted rock hunts. We love these super photos that Alfie sent us and his Mum explained what they had been doing.
“After a walk hunting for painted rocks this one gave Alfie the idea for dinner. We made our own pizza dough & sauce then Alfie decorated his pizza with lots of vegetables to look like himself. “
I wonder who left that painted stone that inspired you? Your pizza looks absolutely delicious Alfie and it looks just like you. What great skills you are learning to be making your own dough too. Very well done and thank you so much for telling us all about your adventures. It’s great to hear from you.
Mrs. Gray has been looking at the photo of Kyla’s great work:
“Love your painted stones Kyla. My favourite is the Ladybird. I keep a look out for them when i out walking. Thank you for sharing them with us.”
I wonder if Mrs. Gray will find any of your stones?
With future plans for school and Early Learning and Childcare settings outlined recently by the Scottish Government, we understand that this will be an anxious and uncertain time for parents and carers.
For that reason the Scottish government has produced a “Question and Answer” document to support you at this time. This document covers some of the key questions that you will have regarding the safe reopening of schools and Early Learning and Childcare settings. This information has been published on the Scottish Government’s Parent Club website which can be accessed through the link below. We hope that this will help to answer some of your questions.
https://www.parentclub.scot/topics/coronavirus/easing-restrictions-in-scotland
