Hello everyone

Hi everyone,

We hope you have all had a great weekend and enjoyed getting out in the fresh wintry air.  Let's hope we get a sprinkle of  snow this week.

We have love seeing all your amazing home learning you have been sending in. Keep sending all the wonderful things you are up to by emailing them to j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk and  headteacher@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk. 

Last week we explored shapes through a variety of activities. We went out on a shape hunt around the school grounds and spotted lots of different shapes. We made some shape monsters and did some shape printing. We then turned our shape printing into things. We had great fun playing the pizza shape game. We also went to soft play and built with the large 3d shapes. In the playground we drew lots of shapes with chalk and played a game of jumping into the correct shape. We enjoyed playing the games of guess the shape. We closed our eyes and picked a shape and described it e.g. it has 3 sides and 3 points, its a triangle. We did lots of describing of shapes. At snack time we had a variety of different shaped snacks. On Tuesday we had Mr Treble and we went on the large climbing apparatus. We were amazing at climbing up, down and across  the frame and the ladders. Throughout the week we have enjoyed playing with the puppet theatre and making up our own puppet shows, we enjoyed making play dough shape cakes and decorating them with gems, playing with the magnetic shapes and constructing dog homes with the shapes and plastic dogs, sharing lots of stories and playing outside.  

 

This week we are going to be exploring China and Chinese New Year with a variety of activities including some yummy food tasting. If you have any resources to support this theme at home, please do bring them in. 

Things you might like to do at home 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. It's really interactive and guarantee to make you smile.

In the home learning packs that have been coming home, we have included the Read Write Inc cards. At the moment we are just learning the picture names through a variety of games like hide and seek, fishing the picture etc.

Rainbow Salt Tray:- 

WHAT YOU WILL NEED?

You will need 5 basic things to create your very own Rainbow Salt Tray: about 100g cooking salt, sticky tape, coloured paper, a tray (see below for some ideas) and a paint brush.

1. Cut the paper to fit and cover the base of the tray in order of the colours of a rainbow.
2. Place sticky tape over the joins of the paper to avoid the salt moving underneath the coloured paper.
3. Cover the paper lightly with salt.

Tip: Only a small amount of salt is required for this activity as too much can make it harder to see the drawings.  You can also make your tray any colour you would like, possibly your child’s favourite colour, whatever motivates or interests them!

Ice boats Water play:

WHAT YOU WILL NEED?  

You will need food colouring, straws, sticky tape and craft foam for the sail as it is water proof and light.  You will also need containers for freezing the water in; I reused some empty yoghurt containers and just cut the height down to size.  I added yellow and red food colouring to the water to make this sensory play a bit more interesting.

• You can basically use any materials to make the sail for the boat but do keep in mind that it needs to be light and well balanced with the size of the ice boats as the sail can flip the boat upside down if it is too heavy.
• I added the straw sails to the ice boats when they were partly frozen.  You could alternatively use blu tac or plasticine at the bottom of the container when adding the water.

Maths Challenge:- 

Can you find....

 

1 toothbrush

2 spoons

3 books

4 socks

5 shoes 

February Get Fit

To help combat the lockdown, winter blues and to inspire your household this February to get fit...Here at the Prince of Wales School we are challenging all children to increase their fitness throughout February - and beyond.

You could try something new everyday like: trampoline, stretching, yoga, ball skills, Joe Wicks or dancing. 

To help motivate your child to walk, run, cycle or scoot we are challenging the school to record how many KMs we can travel in the month. 

Fill in the form below every time you do some exercise and help us to reach our target -

https://forms.gle/SwuMPDbEudZhZFE26

There will also be competitions between each class to see which year group travels the furthest. 

Please share any photos and videos of anything that gets your child moving.

Thank you in advance for your contiunued support.

Warm regards,

Ms C Browne - PE Subject Leader

c.browne@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk

Notices

We love seeing all the lovely home learning you are all doing so please do email it in to j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk and headteacher@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk

Please always remember you can  call or email  us anytime if you have a question or need anything.

My email is: j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk 

On Tuesday 9th February I am doing a virtual zoom Purple Mash information session at 7.30pm. A link for this session will be sent out on Tuesday afternoon. Please see email sent on Friday for more details.

We break up for half term this Thursday (11th February) and return back on Monday 22nd February.

Take Care and Keep smiling

Julia, Helen, Colleen, Sharon and Karen