Hello everyone

Hi everyone,

We hope you all have had a lovely weekend enjoying the sunshine. It has been lovely to catch up with lots of you over the week on the phone and whilst dropping of the chalks. We hope you have enjoyed creating lots of pictures with your chalks. 

Its great seeing all the amazing home learning you are all doing at home and look forward to seeing you adventures this week. 

Everyday Mr Spracklen has Good morning POW at 9.30, 11.20 virtual assembly and 4.00pm Evening POW. This can be accessed on Facebook and you tube and is a great way of seeing what everyone is up to. There are great guest on the virtual assemblies. 

On Friday 1st May at 5.00pm is a virtual disco. This can be accessed on Facebook and you tube. 

We have thought of some ideas you might like to do during the week. Please don't feel you need to undertake these as they are intended just to give you ideas.

Physical Challenge:-
There is Mr Treble Pe session you might like to take part in. This week is some fun games, starting off with the ABCS with a fun colour touch game! How about a little bit of garden yoga? 

Fine motor skills:-

Can you make one of the recipes from your resource pack or your favourite recipe from home? Which kitchen utensils will you need to use? How do we keep safe in the kitchen? Can't wit to see some pictures of your yummy food. This week I made wild garlic pesto and homemade pasta. It was very yummy. 

Maths Challenge:-

The Banana Challenge- Each person in the family has a banana. The challenge is to see who can cut the banana into the most pieces! Can you count how many pieces? Who has the more or less pieces? How many altogether? Ready Steady Go!

Experessive Art and design:- 

Can you make your own People who help us costume. Borrow an adult's hat to be a helmet or a shirt to be a doctors coats. Pretend you are the person who is helping. What would you do? What would you say?

Put on your favourite music and have a dance.

Literacy:- 
 

 Read Write Inc  are releasing Storytime with Nick; films of well-loved stories read by Nick Cannon, a trained actor, teacher and trainer and a wonderful storyteller.

Three stories will be published each week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday to our YouTube channel.

Join in with a daily Read write inc session Speed sounds Set 1 at 9.30am @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR21oy-9u0FghZxWgWdM4PGP8alai35ZbUA1E7AsPEsGCS-uUsjhJgfHPx8

Understanding of the  world:-

Rainbow Melting Ice Experiment: Can you predict what might happen?

Instructions of melting ice experiment

First! You will need to freeze 2 big blocks of ice. I used a simple plastic lunch box that was in a rectangle shape filled with water and left overnight. Next you will need some food coloring. I used normal liquid colour as well as a purple gel coloring because no matter how much I try I can never get my mixes to turn purple!

The rest I was able to mix from the base colors as instructed on the food colouring box which I found in the cake aisle in the local grocery store. You will also need coarse salt.

Take out seven small bowls add half a tablespoon of salt to each and a few drops of coloring then mix. Don’t be shy to use your fingers. Once you have all the colours sprinkle a rainbow on your block of ice.

We watched for a few minutes as the salt ate away at the ice to produce craters everywhere it touched and the colour from the salt went into these craters to look beautiful.

Next Week.....

VE Day - Local - Thursday 7th May 2020 -

With the national commemorations taking place on Friday 8th May 2020, we plan to hold our own local virtual #InspiredToLearn commemoration on Thursday 7th May 2020.  

Our commemoration will take the format of an #InspiredToLearn Music Concert that will run from 2pm through to 5pm, hopefully providing the perfect backdrop to another picnic in your garden. We figured that two picnics in two days can be no bad thing!?

If you or your son/daughter would like to play at this virtual concert, please email me and we will work out agreed songs and timings in advance. 

At 4:00pm, we will join together with a POW-wide rendition of Dame Vera Lynn’s ‘We’ll Meet Again’, perfect practice before the national effort on the following day.

75th Anniversary - VE Day - 

Friday 8th May 2020 marks 75 years since the guns fell silent at the end of the war in Europe. The 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe was to have been marked with a series of local and national events, including our very own #InspiredToLearn VE Street Party. 

However, with these plans now cancelled the idea of a 'Stay at Home Street Party' is encouraging people to decorate their houses in red, white and blue and have a picnic in their front garden to celebrate. 

We hope you all have a great week having fun and exploring new things. We look forward to hearing all about the great things you are up to. Please fee free to email them to j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk. We miss you all. Keep smiling and keep safe. You are all amazing.

Julia and Pre-school team