Hello P5,

I hope you are all well and enjoyed the long weekend. Thank you to those of you who have responded to my email, for those of you who have not yet, please check your emails and reply 🙂

I thought for all you animal fans out there I would make a change from my usual horse post and introduce you to Daisy cat instead. She was in a nice warm spot on my couch the other day and being very nosy at what I was doing 🙂

My cooking journey continued with one of my favourite dinners this week – roast beef – yum! I even tried to make Yorkshire puddings too. They looked a little strange but tasted delicious.

My garden has been filled with interesting animals this week, all enjoying the nice weather I think. I was curious to watch what I initially though was two birds fighting when I then realised it was a mother starling feeding her rather large baby starling! I video’d it for a while and from the still you can see it with a worm in its mouth about to feed the baby.

I also have a regular visit from a tiny little baby rabbit, no bigger than the palm of my hand, who has taken to hopping about the path next to my garden – it is very cute.

There was a very tired Bumble Bee on the path so I gave it some sugar water and returned it to the large flowers I have in my garden.

And lastly, I found a nest that had fallen out a tree and was lying in my front garden. Luckily, there were no eggs or baby birds in it but I was very interested seeing how the clever birds have woven the twigs together to make their nest. How they do that with just their beaks, I find absolutely fascinating!

It is a very difficult time for everyone at the moment and as we know, we should always think kind. So, I was really delighted to receive this little surprise through the post from Miss Thomson. It was very kind and thoughtful of her and really brightened up my day.

Dylan, Mr Kelly and I love a movie night and as we had never watched The Lorax before, we decided to watch it on Saturday. Dylan made the popcorn from popcorn kernels and we settled down to watch it. It really has such an eco and Global Goals message, we really enjoyed it.

That is  me for this week’s update, I am looking forward to hearing all about your week. Remember to post anything you would like me to see/check on your blogs or email. I will add a selection of posts in our Feedback Friday post too.

Take care and I hope to see you soon.

Mrs Kelly 🙂

Hi P5,

Here we are, another week into lockdown and you have been sharing lots of your work and what you have been doing, thank you very much. I enjoy seeing these updates and helping where I can. I hope you are all enjoying the Health Week activities and I am really looking forward to seeing any Sports Day activities – did you work out which one I was in the video? 🙂

I really enjoyed taking part in Fenwick’s walk500miles challenge and I have been continuing to try and walk 5km as often as I can. I am alternating between 5km, fitness and Zumba to keep fit.

I have continued with my cooking/baking journey. This week I made a steak pie – Mr Kelly’s favourite meal – and fairy cakes. I totally forgot to take a picture of the end result!

I got a new phone this week so I decided to try out the camera on it with a portrait picture of Penny and Daisy, I think it worked quite nicely – Penny was very keen to show you all her new toy. 🙂

At the weekend, we had a family game of Bingo! I managed to get a line first but didn’t win the whole game unfortunately.

It has become quite drizzly over the last few days and I was amused to see a very grumpy bunny sitting in the middle of my garden, looking very unhappy about the rain. It’s wee ears were flat against its back and it was all tucked in trying to keep dry – I am not sure why it didn’t just go for cover. Paddy has continued to be lazy and snooze in the field.

Dylan and I have been homeschooling daily and he is doing well, he misses his friends and grandparents and is looking forward to going back to school to see his teacher. I hope you are all managing ok too and remember to just do what you can when you can. It is very strange for us all and sometimes you might feel a little sad or glum about being not seeing your friends and family or being at school – this is normal and the best way is to share your feelings with someone and talk about it.

I will send you all a little message with next week’s Learning Grid so remember to look out for it.

Take lots of care and I look forward to seeing your updates on your blogs or email.

Mrs Kelly