Today we have our day trip to the Chiltern Open Air Museum. We will be exploring the site and taking part in activities linked to the Goldilocks story. Thank you so much for those of you who have volunteered to come with us.

Please ensure your child is wearing suitable clothing for the weather and that they have a packed lunch in a bag that they can carry.

The children will be changing for this session so will need their named PE kits in school.  Today we will continue our practice for Sports Day. Again we will warm up by pretending to look for and pick flowers around the playground - we will encourage the children to stretch and bend. 

The children will be working in colour teams on the big playground and will be revisiting the first three of the following races (next week we will move on to practice the other three races). We will be reminding the children about how to work as a team and where to go at the end of your turn:

• Javelin
• Egg and spoon
• Bean Bag on heads
• Balance bike race
• Jumping
• Water relay

To cool down we will ask the children to take part in a maths walking relay. The first person in each team needs to walk to the end of the course and pick up a numeral to show to the rest of the children in their team. They need to name the numeral and the other team members need to show the corresponding number of fingers (children to check in their teams how many fingers are being shown by each person and is this correct, then the child takes the numeral back to their team and the next person goes. Each person in the team will have a turn until all the numerals have been shown.

Today we have a drama workshop led by Perform. More details to follow.

Later in the day the children will create place mats in readiness for the Fathers Day breakfast. We will encourage them to use an appropriate pen grip and the pinch and flick technique as they work. We also encourage them to use name cards for support and look closely at the formation of each letter as they record their names.

Linked to Arthur’s question (“How did the bears scare Goldilocks?”) we will begin today by listening to the Goldilocks song. We will talk about the song and what happens in the story when the bears scare Goldilocks. Then we will warm up face muscles and our voices (singing Hickety Tickety) before teaching the children the Goldilocks song, singing a line or two at a time for them to copy. We will include actions to help the children to remember the lyrics. We will also focus on making sure that children are following the pitch of the song. When they are confident with the song, we will introduce untuned percussion instruments. Beginning with a drum or woodblock played on the first beat of each bar (the song is in a three beat pattern so the beat will start on 'Goldilocks'). We will ask one third of the  children to play their instruments on this beat whilst the rest of us sing. Next we will ask another third of the children to add further untuned percussion instruments to beats 2 and 3 (an adult will be supporting each group), again the remaining third of children will sing the song along with the video. Next we will introduce the 'Stand Up, Sit Down' game. We will use two chime bars or notes on a xylophone or glockenspiel (C, C’). We will play the two notes for the children to hear, checking that they know which is high and which is low - we will link this to the baby bear (high) and Daddy bear (low). Then we will play one of the notes and ask children to sit down for the low note and stand up for the high note. Repeat. When the majority of the children are confident we will introduce a 3rd pitch in between the two other notes (G) - for Mummy bear. We will repeat the game with children kneeling up for the new note. We will explain that this is an introduction to an activity that we will explore further next week.

Friday

Today we have the Fathers Day Breakfast. The children will be preparing toast and toppings for their visitors as well as pouring out cold drinks as needed. 

Later in the day, as part of the RE curriculum the children will be building special places/ homes for the soft toys or characters that they have brought in for Show and Tell.