📚 As part of World Book Day, the children always love to be given their book token in school. This year I have been given a digital book token for parents/carers to save onto their phones and use in participating stores. The children can get one of the £1 books using this token or they can get money off the other World Book Day books. This can be used until March 28th.
Enjoy 🙂 and remember to send in your extreme reading photos
Mrs Hinton
Hello hello P3,
Things to Note this week:
Since this year has forced us all to become Google Classroom experts we are going to try to use it a bit more in p3, especially for homework
Next week everyone will have their spelling homework as per usual, however it will be on GC instead of being stuck into jotters as well as a numeracy task. This just means we are being a little more eco friendly and homework instructions are always accessible even if the blue jotter goes missing or if I accidentally miss a jotter in my marking pile! If this isn’t ideal as I know some families are trying to minimise screen time or don’t have access to an online device I will keep paper copies in school that can be requested.
Can blue jotters please be handed in on Friday of this week so I can mark work, see who needs new jotters and get them back out for homework roll out next Tuesday.
In terms of reading, reading books have been handed out to everyone unless your child is working on Read, Write Inc books as we are reassessing to see where they are in their learning post lockdown so we know where to start them now we are back. These children will receive a reading book next week.
Thank You 
Miss Ramsay x
World Bood Day is Thursday 4th March, but we are not able to dress up or bring in items from home this year. We have lots of fun activities in class and our home activity is EXTREME READING.
Reading does not have to be done in your bed, or on your sofa or a carpet in school. I bet you have lots of books at home that you enjoy over and over again. This challenge is to think of somewhere a bit unusual to read your favourite/or current book. Ask someone to take your photo in your creative space (s) and send them to me at k.hinton@mgfl.net. There may even be a small prize….
The extreme reading location can be inside, or outside. Previous entries have included on a canoe, on top of a fridge, upside down and in an outside den. This is designed to be a wee bit of fun and hopefully I can create a display of all your wonderful photos in our school library.
Submit photos from 4th – 11th March
Enjoy 🙂
Mrs Hinton
As Chinese New Year festivities go on for up to 15 days we thought we would share some more activities and ideas you could try at home.
Did you know exploring different traditions helps your child develop acceptance and cultural awareness?
Why not watch this clip to learn more about Chinese New Year? Before watching maybe ask your child what they already know about Chinese New Year? After watching find out what they have learnt about the celebration.
Chinese New Year cuisine is as varied, colourful and as exciting as everything else to do with the celebration. If we were at nursery, we would take the opportunity for children to try different foods from China and expand their taste buds. There is lots of well-known examples available in the local supermarket that you can try. You could try lots of pick ‘n’ mix bowls with common Chinese food at home. Spring rolls, prawn crackers, rice, noodles, dumplings, sweet and sour chicken or tofu, as well as many other common dishes. Or you could opt for a healthy snack, an orange which symbolise wealth, apples are for peace and tangerines are for good fortune.
Our chart we shared yesterday displayed the Chinese alphabet. We hope you had fun finding letters from your name.
Today we are sharing a chart displaying Chinese numerals. Can you find your age? Or the number written on your front door?
Have fun discovering the Chinese numbers.
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This week our story of the week is “Ruby’s Worry” by Tom Percival. Please click on the link below to access the story and some great ideas for learning experiences and opportunities for your child to open up about any worries they might have.
Be kind to yourself parents and carers, we know how tough it can be juggling life with young children and not always being able to spend quality time with them in your busy day. When you can, take 5 minutes and listen to a story together.
Remember if you complete any of the tasks we would love to see your photos!
Good Morning everyone!
I hope you are having a good week! Maybe you made pancakes yesterday? Some of you might have bought them from a shop! Don’t worry if you didn’t have pancakes because we will be back in nursery very soon and I think we should have them for snack!
Pancake Tuesday is celebrated every February along with Chinese New Year.
Chinese New Year was celebrated on the 12th February. For some people, it is a very important festival where families spend time time together. Celebrations can last more than two weeks!
Each year is represented by a different animal- the story of how this begun can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/chinese-new-year
Why don’t you find out what animal 2021 is represented by and find out what the animal was the year you were born?
Here is the Chinese alphabet, can you see the start of your name? Why don’t you try and copy it? Remember to show us because we would love to see it!
Good Morning ☺️
I hope you are all safe and well.
Today is Pancake Day 🥞
Whos making yummy pancakes today? Either for breakfast or lunch or after dinner? We would love to see your pancakes . I know at nursery when we make pancakes the boys and girls love to see the pancakes flip up in the air.
Here is a simple recipe to make your own yummy pancakes to try at home.
Set your frying pan over a medium heat and carefully wipe it with some oiled kitchen paper.
When hot, cook your pancakes for 1 min on each side until golden, you can keep them warm in the oven whilst you cook more.
Remember and stay really safe when frying your pancakes, use your good listening to adults and stay back from the hot cooker and oven. And enjoy 🥞🥞
Good morning everyone, here is Mrs Donnelly reading this weeks story, “The Fish who Could Wish”.
Hope you all enjoy!
