RCW: Blog items
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 8:25am
Good Morning Reception!!
This week we have started a new story ‘The Very Busy Spider.’ If you have not managed to listen to it, click on the video at the bottom of this blog where I am reading the story.
Pick some of the animals from the story and write some super sentences describing them.
For example,
The goat has two pointy horns on the top of his head.
It has a white beard at the bottom of his face.
Miss William’s and Miss Cogger’s Phonic group you may want to write some captions like this…
The cow is big.
Cow is black and white.
Love Mrs Iqbal
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 8:17am
Good Morning Reception!!
Let us start today’s phonic activity by singing one of our phonic songs. Choose one from the list below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BELlZKpi1Zs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi1dwHp1ppU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwOQvh_mJ4w&t=120s
Today we are going to carry on thinking about the sound igh. This sound is a trigraph. A trigraph is three letters that make one sound.
Can you read these words…?
Can you add sound buttons under these words…?
Play quick write. Your grown up will say one of the words above, can you write it on a piece of paper?
Today’s practise and apply activities are:
Can you add the correct word in each sentence?
Can you circle the word with the correct igh spelling?
Can you label the pictures using the igh sound correctly?
Can you read the alien words?
Love Mrs Iqbal
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 11:28am
Good morning everyone,
I hope you all had a good weekend and are ready to work hard on your learning (and your wellbeing!) this week.
Today's challenge has actually come from a website that Mrs Hughes sent to me to look at so thank you Mrs Hughes!
Today I would like you to think about resilience which means keeping strong and bouncing back even in a difficult situation. I'd like you to design a Shield of Strength.
Think about what your strengths are, especially the ones that can help you at the moment while we're not in school, and write or draw (or both!) onto a shield. Here is my shield that you may want to use for help: 
I have attached a template of the shield in case you want to use it but otherwise you can just fraw a shield on a plain piece of paper.
As always I would love to see your challenges so please send them to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.sch.uk
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
Thank you to Shawnakaye who has sent me a couple of photos of things that make her smile!
Why doesn't a spider get stuck to its own web?
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:43am
Good Morning Reception!
Did you enjoy the Very Busy Spider story? If you haven’t watched it yet – the link to the video is here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfL0g-XRxnA&t=45s
In the story, the spider is VERY busy spinning her web! After reading this story, I thought it would be a great idea to participate in a science experiment linked to spider’s webs!! Spiders catch their prey in a web (like the fly in the story!) Spider’s webs are extremely sticky so that bugs stick to them and cannot move!
But… why doesn’t a spider get stuck to its own web?
This is what we are going to investigate!
In this experiment we are going to create our own webs and test whether our fingers stick like the fly or do not stick like the spider!
You will need:
Sticky Tape
Cooking Oil
Step one: Spread out the tape sticky side up.
Step two: Ask children to walk their fingers across the tape. What happens??
Did your fingers stick?? That is like the bugs on a spider’s web.
Step three: Now, put some cooking oil on the children’s fingers and do the same – walk their fingers across the sticky tape.
Do their fingers stick now? No! Spiders have natural oils on their bodies that keeps them from sticking to things.
I hope you enjoy this experiment!
Please email in your pictures and results to the reception home learning email (receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk)
Have fun!!
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:40am
Good Morning Reception!
I hope you have had a lovely weekend and are ready to take part in some exciting maths learning today!
First, let’s warm up with our maths songs and today’s fluent-in-five questions!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVzXKfr6e8&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Ajq682yrA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGetqbqDVaA
Today we are going to be focusing our maths learning on measuring weight.
Take a listen to a catchy measurement song below. We have listened to this weight song before in reception; it’s about a big, heavy elephant!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cjPApFuGLM
When we practise measuring weight in reception, we often have turned into ‘human balance scales.’
This is where children stand with their arms placed to the side of us with hands spread. Place an item on each hand and ask children to tip to show which item is heavier and which is lighter. Use balance scales to check the children’s estimations.
Children could also hold buckets or bags in each hand and place items inside to feel which has the stronger downward pull.
When we teach weight, we encourage children to use the language of heavy, heavier, heaviest, light, lighter, lightest to compare items. To avoid misconceptions that bigger items are always heavier, we provide some small, heavier items and some large, lighter ones. Below, I have posted some fun ideas for measurement activities at home!
Busy Bag Challenge:
Use a basket or bag to collect lots of items around your house.
Once you have found lots of items, can you sort them by weight?
Balance scales activity:
Give children an item, for example, an apple. Challenge them to find things which feel heavier and lighter than the apple and sort them into sets.
Ask children to use the balance scales to check their estimation.
Are all the heavier things larger than the apple?
Can they find anything which is larger than the apple but lighter?
Ask children to use cubes or similar objects to balance an item on one side and adding cubes until the scales balance. How many cubes are the same weight as an apple?
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:20am
Good Morning Reception!!
Let us start today’s phonic activity by revising Phase 3 tricky words. Use your Phase 3 tricky word mat and play fastest finger first. Grown ups say a tricky word, who will point to it the fastest...?
Sing the tricky word song. Write the Phase 3 tricky words on scraps of paper and put them around your room where you can see them. Each time you sing a tricky word in the song point or stand near the word. Click the video link at the bottom of the blog for the song.
Today we are going to think about a new sound. This sound is a trigraph. A trigraph is three letters that make one sound. Our new sound is…
Watch this show me video where I am going through the trigraph igh:
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=17KwBOq
Today’s practise and apply activities are:
Can you make some igh words using the letters on the sheet? Time yourself, how many will you be able to write in 1 minute…?
For example, on the sheet I can see bright and might.
Can you label the pictures with the igh words…? Mrs Iqbal and Mrs Cooper’s Phonic groups choose three words and write some super sentences.
Can you find the igh words in the wordsearch?
Play the game Dragon’s Den on Phonics Play. Click Phase 3 and find the sound ‘igh.’
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/dragons-den
Love Mrs Iqbal
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:09am
Good Morning Reception!!
This week we have a new story all about a very busy spider. Listen to the video at the bottom of the blog where I am reading the story for you.
Can you remember all the animals in the story? Tell your grown up all the animals that were in the story. Use the story PowerPoint to see if you remembered all the animals.
Mrs Iqbal and Mrs Cooper’s Phonics groups – Use a piece of paper and make a story map of the story. Use the animal pictures attached to the blog or you could draw the animals. Look at my story map to give you an idea…
Miss Williams and Miss Cogger’s Phonic groups – Match the animal to the word. Cut out the animal pictures and read the words and match the picture to the correct words.
Love Mrs Iqbal
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 10:21am
Hi everyone and Happy Friday! I can't believe it's already the end of another week. I hope everyone is working hard and staying safe.
I got the idea for today's wellbeing challenge yesterday when I saw the most amazing rainbow in the sky. It was the brightest colours I've ever seen and I could see the whole arc. There was even a faint second rainbow next to it!
Photos don't really show how amazing it was but you can see how vivid the colours are:
The rainbow made me feel happy when I saw it and I thought it might make other people happy too! So today's challenge is to take a photo of something that makes you feel happy. You could find something in your house or do it on a walk. It could be a person, an animal, an object or even something that you've made. Anything that makes you feel happy or positive. If you don't have a camera, phone or tablet of your own then ask an adult if you can borrow theirs but please be careful with it!
If you'd like to share your happy photo then please e-mail it to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk, I'd love to see it and then I can post some of them and spread the happiness around!
Have a good weekend,
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
Thanks to A who sent a photo of himself doing the breathing exercises I set yesterday, I hope they helped you feel nice and calm.
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 8:14am
Good Morning Reception!
Today is Friday yay! So you know what that means….. CHALLENGE FRIDAY!!!
I have posted four challenges below for you to take part in, see how many you can complete!
Challenge one: Numbots!!! Why don’t you log-in to Numbots and see how many levels you can complete?? Try and beat your high score!
Challenge two: Double Ladybirds! Draw a ladybird template, fold it in half and open it again. Paint spots on one side of the folded paper – make sure you count how many there are! Then, fold and press the page together! Open it back up… have you doubled your spots? How many are there all together now?
Challenge three: Doubles scavenger hunt: Can you hunt around your house or garden and DOUBLE your items? For example…. double one sock! Double two apples! Double three shoes! Can you write the number sentence underneath?
Challenge four: Tube and cars experiment: Using plain white paper, can you create a number line 1-20 just like on the picture above? All you need to do is find an old tube of kitchen roll, place it above the paper and send some toy cars down it! Simple! Test how far your car can travel! What number did your car reach? Can you use another car and reach a larger number??
I hope you enjoy your challenges!
I can’t wait to see how many you can complete… have fun!
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 10:02am
Good morning everyone,
I hope everyone enjoyed some relaxing colouring yesterday, here is a picture of mine. It isn't quite finished yet but I had a nice relaxing hour doing it last night:
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Today's challenge is to do a mindfulness breathing activity. Mindfulness can help you relax and be in the moment, appreciating everything that's around you.
Just one breath
Find a relaxing place where you won't be disturbed. Sit in a comfortable position, either with your legs crossed or any comfortable posture. This activity can be done in as little as one minute, but you can also do it for longer periods of time.
Begin by setting a timer for one minute.
Start breathing deeply in and out. Notice how the breath feels as it moves in and out of your body. Notice how the air feels on your skin. Pay attention to any sensations that you notice or any sounds that you hear.
Take another slow deep breath and see if you can imagine how the breath moves down into the lungs and then back up again. Thank your body and breath for giving you life and keeping you healthy.
Take one more deep breath and hold the breath for a moment - then release it.
If any thoughts worry you, try and imagine your thoughts immersed in a white, puffy cloud and push the thought cloud out of your awareness.
Afterward, notice how you feel after taking this one-minute break.
If you want to tell me about your experience or send any photos of yourself doing the activity then e-mail me on EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk.
There are more simple instructions below.
Mrs Glover
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 8:07am
Good Morning Reception!!
Today you are going to do something really exciting and make your very own information book about the minibeast that you found lots of information about. Remember I asked you to choose a minibeast from the text ‘Mad about Minibeasts’ and do some research and write some facts on the sheet below:
Watch the first video where I am showing you how to fold a piece of paper into a book that will have 8 pages. Pause the video at each point to make sure you fold the paper carefully. Ask a grown up to help you this, it may get a little tricky!!! The second video shows you how I used my information to write it in my little book. My cat Buffy decided to join me at this point and have a nosy at what I was doing!!!
Make your book as creative as you want. I cannot wait to see what they look like.
Good Luck!!!
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 8:03am
Good Morning Reception!!
Start today’s phonic activity by picking one of your favourite songs from this week. Below I have put the links for the ones that we have done this week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zKr44iBFT0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKsIi1MH4lw
Today we are going to carry on thinking about diagraphs. Remember a diagraph is two letters that makes one sound. We are going to think about the diagraphs ai and ee.
Watch this show me video where I am going through some words with ai and ee in them:
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=KX4xuSG
Today for your practise and apply activities I want you to choose your own learning. I have attached some activities to this blog. You can do one activity or more than one it's up to you. What will you choose...?
Play popping balloons PowerPoint. How many balloons can you read and pop in 1 minute or even 30 secs…? Ask a grown up to time you!
Try the ai or ee writing activity.
Play the ai and ee woodland board game.
Can you spot the ai words that are hiding in the minibeast woodland picture…? Write a list of the words and choose three to put into sentences.
Play the game called Picnic on Pluto by clicking phase phase 3 and choosing ai or ee or any other diagraph from this week that you want to practise. https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/picnic-on-pluto
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 7:58am
Good Morning Reception!
Today I would like you to practise your letter formation, focusing on the letters v, w, x, y and z.
It can get a little bit tricky – why not watch the ‘show me’ video below and use the rhymes to help you to write these letters correctly!
http://www.showme.com/sh?h=gyl0v8y
You can use paper to use as you practise, or I have attached letter formation sheets to print below!
Can you send in some pictures of your beautiful writing?
Can you write a word that includes the sounds v, w, x, y or z?
Can you write a sentence that includes the sounds v, w, x, y or z?
I can’t wait to see! J
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 7:55am
Good Morning Reception!
This week in our maths learning we have been looking at doubling and halving quantities. Many of you have emailed in pictures of yourselves trying very hard with these activities so well done!
Today I would like you to have a go at these fluent-in-5 questions linked to this week’s learning!
Below I have listed ideas for some practical activities linked to doubling and halving that you can try at home:
Doubling with dominos: Provide sets of dominoes and ask the children to find the doubles. Show the children how to play dominoes and look at the doubles they make as they play
Play doubles using dice: The children take turns to roll 2 dice and score a point each time they roll a double. The first to reach 3 points wins the game.
Pebbles/cube doubles: Sit opposite your child. Demonstrate setting out a quantity of small items such as pebbles or cubes. Ask the children to double it by making the same quantity. You can also try this by holding up your fingers and asking the children to match them to make a double.
Sharing with fruit: Show the children a bowl of strawberries/grapes etc. Explain that you are going to share them into 2 equal groups so that there will be half for you and half for them. Put a handful straight onto each plate without counting – make sure that one plate has much more pieces of fruit than the other. Ask the children if that is fair. Prompt them to show you how to share the strawberries fairly by splitting them in half.
Sharing items: They could share out cards or dominoes before playing a game. Prompt the children to notice that sometimes they can make equal groups, and sometimes they have items left over!
Have fun completing your practical tasks! Don’t forget to share your learning at receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch! :)
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 10:36am
Hello everyone,
It's a rather miserable looking Wednesday out there so my wellbeing challenge today is an indoor one.
It's actually quite a simple challenge today; I'd simply like you to do some colouring. Colouring is a lovely relaxing activity that you can do on your own for some me-time or together with a family member to make it a more sociable activity.
I think most of you were given some colouring pages when we finished school but if you've already used these and don't have any more at home then good news, there is a website where you can do online colouring without having to have any colours or anything printed out:
https://www.online-coloring.com/
Or you could always draw something to colour! Anything you like.
I have a new Enchanted Forest colouring book that my husband bought me (pictured below) that I'm going to do a bit of colouring in later, maybe while I listen to a podcast or to some music to have a bit of a break from staring at a screen. I'll post a picture of my efforts tomorrow.
Remember to send in pictures of your challenges to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
A big thanks to Roderigo from Year 1 who sent me a picture of his crystal ball challenge from yesterday, some fantastic goals there!
Wednesday 29th April Phonics/Reading
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 8:25am
Good Morning Reception!!
Let us start by singing a new phonics song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKsIi1MH4lw
Today we are going to think about the diagraph ng and all the diagraphs that we have learnt so far this week. Remember a diagraph is two letters that makes one sound.
Watch Geraldine the Giraffe video showing you how to read words with the ng sound in them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQshNmncnBs
Practise reading words in the diagraph flowers. See the sheets attached to this blog. How many words can you read in 1 minute? Get a grown up to time you. I saw Year 1 doing this on their blog...Find some interesting places in your house to read the words. Where will you do your reading...?
To further apply your knowledge of reading words with diagraphs play the game Bingo. Use the template that has been attached to this blog. Grown-ups put the words in a bag or box. Pick out a word and say it if it is on the board it must be covered. To cover the word, you could use pasta shells, small toys or even raisins. Once you cover all the words, shout BINGO!!!
Mrs Iqbal and Mrs Cooper's Phonic groups: Can you put some of the BINGO words into a sentence and draw a picture about your sentence...? As an extra activity make a ng flower. Your grown up will help you read the instructions to make the flower and you can then write the ng words in each petal of the flower.
Miss Williams and Miss Cogger's phonic groups: Play quick write with some of the ng words from BINGO and do the ng sound book activities.
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Wednesday 29th April - Dragonfly Puppets
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 8:15am
Hi Reception!!
Whilst we are learning about minibeasts, and the weather isn’t great outside, I thought it would be a lovely idea to get crafty and make some dragonfly puppets!
You will need:
Coloured paper (for dragonfly body)
White paper (for wings)
Paper straws
Glue
Hole punch
Scissors
Pencil
Your first instruction, using a pencil, create a dragonfly body template using coloured paper. Now create a wing template onto white paper (see pictures below.) Draw some lines onto the dragonfly body to help as a guide for folding.
Using scissors, cut out the templates and begin to fold the paper backwards, then up and down again, creating a concertina effect on the dragonfly body.
Use a hole punch on the dragonfly body while it is folded, and feed the paper straw through. The top of the body should hang off quite a bit.
Add glue on the underside and end of the long piece of paper hanging off the straw. Then curl it around into a circle and secure the end on the first fold on the front of the dragonfly body to make the dragonfly head. See the pictures below as a guide.
Turn your dragonfly body face down. Flatten the first fold on the body and add glue to the middle of it. Glue the dragonfly body down in the centre of the wings.
Add a googly eye or draw an eye on each side of the face of your dragonfly craft.
Ta-da, your dragonfly craft is complete! How amazing!
Please email in your pictures, I can't wait to see your fantastic creations!
Wednesday 29th April - Doubling and Halving Board Game
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 8:14am
Good Morning Reception!
Here are your three fluent-in-5 questions for the day! See how quickly you can work them out!
Today I have posted a super doubling and halving game for you to play at home!
I have attached the template onto a link below for you to print. If you don’t have a printer, you could ask an adult to help you to make your own copy of the game on paper!
The rules are simple - Simply roll the dice and move to the square indicated. Then, complete the instruction by correctly doubling or halving the number on that square. If you answer correctly, you stay where you are. Answer incorrectly and you must go back to where you came from.
Have fun! See how far you can get! Can you get to the finish?
Email in to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk, we can’t wait to see how you get on!
Date: 28th Apr 2020 @ 10:56am
Good morning everyone,
Today's challenge is all about thinking positivity and making the most of your time while you're not at school 
.
Imagine looking into a cyrstal ball 3 months from now.
Draw or write what challenges you are facing, what positive changes you want to make and what might be different in 3 months time.
Try to focus on things that seem possible to achieve like starting a new hobby, learning a few words in a new language or getting better at some of your learning like reading or times tables.
I've done mine on the computer (on MS Word) as my paper is in the study where my husband is on a video call for work so I didn't want to disturb him! But you can do yours however you want.
I've included a picture of mine below if you want to have a look!
Please feel free to tell me about any of the wellbeing challenges you have done, I'd love to see what you're all doing in your free time! You can now e-mail me on Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk to let me know (or to contact me or Mrs Harriott about any EAL home learning too)
Have a good day!
Mrs Glover
Date: 28th Apr 2020 @ 9:16am
Exciting news!
Mrs Glover and Mrs Harriott have now got an email address which you can use to let us know all your news (as well as keeping in touch with your class teacher on your usual year group email).
We would love to hear from you if you have tried any of Mrs Glover's well being challenges, would like any more EAL home learning if you usually come to us for learning or have any other news to share with us .
The address is: Ealhomelearning@ravenbsury.manchester.sch.uk
We can't wait to hear from you !
Mrs Glover and Mrs Harriott
Date: 28th Apr 2020 @ 8:52am
Good Morning Reception!
Let’s begin our maths learning with our favourite maths songs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVzXKfr6e8&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGetqbqDVaA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Ajq682yrA
Can you work out the three warm-up questions below?
Today in our maths learning, we are going to continue focusing on halving and sharing…
This is a little bit tricky to begin with - remember that when we half quantities we share them into two equal groups. Please refer to the ‘show me’ from yesterday if you are still feeling a little bit unsure.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=LGWMJXc
Below I have attached some challenges linked to halving for you to work out at home!
Please send your learning to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk! Have fun :)
Date: 28th Apr 2020 @ 8:17am
Good Morning Reception!!
Let us start by singing our phonics song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zKr44iBFT0
Today we are going to carry on thinking about diagraphs. Remember a diagraph is two letters that makes one sound. We are going to think about sh and th.
Why don’t you watch Jack Hartman and sing along to these sh and th songs?
sh diagraph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfMtsRVZWfE
th diagraph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3INXFPrfJM
Adam is going to show you a new game. This game is called read and squeeze! You will the video at the bottom of the blog.
First, you must write the following words on pieces of paper: shop, ship, shed, fish, cash, that, them, thin, moth, with
Next write the following sounds on pieces of scrap paper: sh, o, p, i, e, d, f, c, a, th, t, m, n, o, w
Have 15 pieces of small playdough rolled up into small balls under each sound that you have written out on the scraps of paper. Then put the words around the sounds and playdough balls. Read a word by squeezing the playdough under each sound. It should look like this:
Once you have played the game a few times why don't you pick some words to write some sentences...
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 28th Apr 2020 @ 8:06am
Good Morning Reception!!
This week for your writing challenge I want you to go a fact hunt about one of the minibeasts in the book ‘Mad about Minibeasts.’ The book is a little bit like a non-fiction book which gives lots of information about something. By the end of the week you will make your own information book about one of the minibeasts.
Today I want you to pick one minibeast and find out some facts about it. You may use the text in the book to help to help you or ask your grown up to use Google and do some research together. I decided to find out some facts about a dragonfly, so I used that page. I used the text in the book and the picture of the dragonfly to help me write things that I have learnt about dragonflies. Then I used the internet to find some interesting facts and my question.
Which minibeast will you choose…? Attached is the sheet for you to write on. When you scroll down you will find other minibeast sheets to choose from. You do not need to print it out you might just put your writing on a piece of paper. Make sure to keep this work safe because you are going to need it again on Thursday when you make your information book.
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 11:16am
Happy Monday everyone!
I hope everyone had a lovely weekend and made the most of the lovely warm weather (I think it might be the last hot sun for a while although it seems nice so far this morning!)
Today's challenge is to do something that I have just discovered myself although my husband has been nagging me to do it for a while - Listen to a podcast.
A podcast is a bit like a radio show that you can download to your tablet, phone or laptop and listen to either while you relax or while you go for a walk. Some include music, some are educational, some entertain you and some are just good for helping you relax. You can listen to them with others or by yourself if you need a bit of me time.
This weekend I have been listening to one called Sounds of the 90s by Fearne Cotton that includes lot of music from the 90s as well as intervews with 90s pop stars. I've been listening to it while I go on my hour long walks every day and I think some of the teachers may also enjoy it!
Here are some podcasts I've found that I think you might all like, the links are under each description:
But Why: A pocast for curious kids
A podcast answering lots of questions that you may find interesting!
http://digital.vpr.net/programs/why-podcast-curious-kids
Storytime
10 - 15 minute stories (mostly for little ones)
http://bedtime.fm/storytime
What if world
With wacky episode titles such as "What if Legos were alive?" and "What if sharks had legs?," this series takes ridiculous "what if" questions submitted by young listeners and turns them into a new story every two weeks.http://www.whatifworldpodcast.com/
Noodle Loaf
A delightful offering from a music education specialist and his co-host daughter will get kids of all ages singing, rhyming, moving, and engaging in all kinds of musical games. The segments, games, and songs are so silly and upbeat that the whole family will enjoy participating. Little listeners can even add their voice to the theme song in the podcast's electronically compiled kid's choir!
http://noodleloafshow.com/
Be Calm on Ahway Island
Includes soothing stories and mindulness techniques
https://www.ahwayisland.com/
History Storytime
Fun, educational and music re-telling of historical events
https://www.historystorytime.com/
I hope you enjoy listening to some of these, please let us know about any that you particularly enjoy!
Mrs Glover