Hello everyone! 🎼
We hope you are all keeping safe and well. We are missing each and everyone of you and hope this Blog will help us to connect. 💕
In this special Bookbug Birthday Blog, we shall be marking Bookbug’s special tenth Birthday by sharing lots of special activities. We hope you enjoy this week’s Blog!
We know you can all sing Happy Birthday beautifully in English. Why not have a go at singing Happy Birthday to Bookbug in French?
https://youtu.be/F-Mn8Woi9XM
We are so proud to present a special Signalong Happy Birthday Video specially created to celebrate Bookbug’s ten years. Thank you to tracygood@signalong.org.uk
Can you learn and share the special song for Bookbug? Why not send us a video?
Why was Bookbug Created?
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/reading-and-stories/bookbug/about-bookbug
Who Created Bookbug?
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/articles/how-bookbug-came-to-life
We celebrate birthdays in different ways.
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Baking let’s you use lots of different life skills. With an adult, why not bake a cake for Bookbug? Can you follow the Victoria sponge recipe?
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-victoria-sandwich-recipe
🕯 🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯Don’t forget to add Bookbug’s ten candles!
✏️💌 We often receive lots of interesting Birthday cards with pictures and messages to mark our birthdays.
Can you make a birthday card for Bookbug?
Can you write him a special message?
🧮Teddy has come to celebrate Bookbug’s birthday. Can you feed Teddy the correct number of cakes?
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers
✏️ 🛒 Bookbug’s planning a Birthday party. He needs to write lists to help get organised.
Party Food
Party Games
Party Bags
Bookbug needs a few ideas from his friends. With adult help, can you write a list to help Bookbug?
Party Games
👄 👂 Before we followed Government Guidance, the morning children suggested we played Musical Statues and what fun we had! I wonder if you can organise a game of Musical Statues with your family? Remember to explain the rules of the game clearly so it is fair for everyone.
👄 👂 Can you play, ‘I went to the Shop?’ with your family?
- Someone starts by saying ‘I went to the shops today and bought…’ something beginning with A (e.g. apple) 🍏
- The next person continues by saying the previous item (apple) and then something beginning with B (e.g. banana) 🍏 🍌
- Continue around your family members, working through the alphabet, adding one more item to the end of the list each time. 🍏 🍌 🥕
👣 🎶 Let’s Dance with Go Noodle
As you all know, exercise is great for our bodies as well as our minds. Why not join in with this ‘I’ve got a Feeling’ dance routine? Click on the link.
https://app.gonoodle.com/activities/i-gotta-feeling?s=Search&t=i%20ve%20got%20a%20feeling%20dance
Bookbug and his Sticky Kids Workout
Bookbug likes to get moving with familiar tunes. Bookbug wants to share the fourth Sticky Kids Workout 4.
What was your favourite part of the workout?
Book Bug app
The Bookbug app helps everyone explore amazing songs and rhymes. Why not explore the Bookbug app as a family and have a Bookbug Birthday Concert? Share your concert with your friends or family.
Our Favourite Bookbug Songs and Rhymes
Mrs Laing’s would like to share this fun song called, ‘Ickle Ockle Blue Bottle.’
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/songs-and-rhymes/ickle-ockle-blue-bottle
Mrs Ac’s favourite Singing Game is Sleeping Bunnies. Can you think of your own animal and movement to create your own verses?
Mrs Kay’s favourite Bookbug song is the Jeely Piece song.
‘I remember my teacher teaching it to me. She sang and played along on her guitar. When I told my Mum about the song, she said that it reminded her of when she was a little girl. My Mum grew up up in Glasgow and lived in one of these flats. Mums and Dads would throw sandwiches out of the window to save them from walking up lots and lots of stairs everyday for lunch. I like to think of my Mum catching her lunch everyday, I’m not sure if any of her pieces made it to space though!’
To celebrate Bookbug’s birthday, I would like to share a special game called, ‘Cut the Cake.’
Everyone makes a circle with one person in the middle.
Place an odd number of objects in the middle of the circle.
🎶Sing the song;
Clap your hands together (clap hands), give yourself a shake (shake your body), make a happy circle (hold hands with the people next to you and swing them), then you cut the cake. The person in the middle ‘cuts’ between two players and they run and collect objects in the middle. The person with the most, is the winner and they become the cake cutter. To make it trickier, why not add more items into the middle of the circle.
Our Favourite Books
Miss Stevenson’s favourite book is The Rainbow Fish. She loves the book because of the beautiful illustrations and the message of the story that sharing with others makes us happy and brings a smile to others.
Mrs Laing’s favourite book is Stick Man by the author Julia Donaldson and the illustrator Axel Scheffler. She loves looking at the changing seasons and all the adventures Stick Man experiences. Mrs Laing always feels relieved that he makes it home to his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three.
✂️ Bookbug really enjoyed listening to Stick Man so we started to make him a Stick Family for a special gift.
Can you make a Stick Man? Why not take him out on an adventure and talk about what he is doing?
Stick Man is lonely. Can you make him a Stick Family? Can you make family members of different sizes? Can you order them from biggest to smallest? How many sticks did you use? Can you describe the Stick family?
Stick Man Illustrations
Illustrations are very important to help us work out words. Even as adults, we continue to use pictures to help us quickly work out messages shown in different environments.
Look at the video showing the Stick Man illustrations. Can you talk about the different seasons Stick Man experiences?
🌍 Can you describe the changing weather in each season? How do people dress in the different seasons? What happens to the trees throughout the story?
Join in with the the Seasons song.
🎭 How many ways can you use a stick? Why not work with an adult to write a list or send us some pictures?
Bookbug Sessions
On at Fife Libraries offers Bookbug sessions. Why not join in with one of the sessions by clicking the link and selecting videos? Look out for Pauline our local librarian.
👀 🧐Where’s Bookbug?
Since following Government Guidance, Bookbug has been enjoying his outdoors daily exercise. Bookbug has travelled around Newport and stopped to rest at different places on his journey. Look carefully at each photograph. Can you guess where he has stopped? Why not share your thoughts in our Comments feature? The answers will be given in next week’s Blog.
Bookbug Cosmic Kids Yoga Dance Party
We would like you and Bookbug to experience one final birthday treat with Jaime from Cosmic Yoga.
We hope you have had fun celebrating Bookbug’s tenth birthday.
Thank you for joining us and we hope to see you very soon.
Remember you can add your thoughts and ideas linked to the Blog using the Comments feature or why don’t you share some of your experiences through
newportps.enquiries@fife.gov.uk
Keep safe and keep connected.
The Newport Nursery Team
Mrs AC Mrs Kay Mrs Laing Mrs Ross
Miss Crichton Mrs Cunningham Miss Allen Mrs Beat Miss Stevenson
🖼Gallery
Mrs Laing met Lachlan cycling his bike. You were having fun balancing, pedalling and steering. It was lovely to see you and your family. 💕💕
🎶 Goodbye Everyone
