Super learners!
It was lovely to see lots of you at our Zooms last week.
Thank you for sending me photos of your learning and playing at home.
Don’t forget this week’s Zoom theme is nursery rhymes. Which is your favourite?
Have a happy and healthy week.
Week commencing 01 February 2021: Home learning
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Book of the week- Click here to watch the story Dear Zoo or read the book if you have it at home.
Questions to discuss- Why was the elephant sent back? Which animal was described as being too fierce? Why do you think he kept the puppy and not any of the other animals? |
| Phonics- th
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Look at the picture. What can you see? |
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6, 7, 8!- Week 2.
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 1. Activity: Click here for today’s activity. If you do not have a printer, draw and make your own memory cards. This will work just as well for the activity! |
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| Tuesday | Phonics- ng
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Play Musical Blending. Activity 2: Read the sentence and have a go at writing your own sentence using one of these words. |
| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6, 7, 8!- Week 2.
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 2. Activity: Click here for today’s activity. Take photos of your pairs and send them to your class teacher(s). |
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| Wednesday | Phonics- ai
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Play the Picnic on Pluto game on Phonics Play. Activity 2: Look at the pictures on this document. Segment and write the words to match the pictures. You could print these phoneme frames, or draw your own. Parents: If you are unsure, click here to view the words. |
| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6, 7, 8!- Week 2.
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 3. Activity: Click here for today’s activity. |
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| Thursday | Phonics- Tricky word – my
Click here to watch today’s phonics video. Activity 1: Tricky Word Puzzles 3. Can you put the letters in the correct order?
Activity 2: Tricky Word Hunt Activity 3: Rainbow writing tricky words. Choose some bright coloured pens or pencils to practise spelling all of the phase 2 tricky words (the, to, I, no, go, into) and the phase 3 tricky words you know so far (he, she, we, me, be, my). Below is an example of how to do rainbow writing.
Words |
| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6, 7, 8!- Week 2.
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 4. Activity: Click here for today’s activity. If you do not have a printer, you could draw your own domino circuit. This will work just as well for the activity! Handwriting Click here to practise the letters a c d g |
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| Friday | Understanding the World with Professor Myers; Friction Experiment-
Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers. -Using a variety of toys, carry out your own friction experiment. Before you carry out your experiment, remember to predict which toys you think will travel fast or slow. You could sort them into two groups. – After the experiment, draw and label your results. |
| Story time- The lion who wanted to love with Mrs Burke **Challenge** When listening to the story, see if you can hear the rhyming words. Questions to discuss: 2. What did he do to show he was very brave? 3. How do you feel when you help someone? |
Story Link activities to select throughout the week
Literacy
- Retell the story using a story map.
- Dear Zoo is a ‘lift-the-flap’ book. Make your own ‘lift-the-flap’ book. You could choose your favourite animals to be underneath each of the flaps. Then, write a sentence underneath each flap. For each sentence try to write the name of the animal and a describing word.
- What pet would you like? Draw a picture and try to write a sentence.
A writing reminder…
How did your child find the writing activity? Remember, it’s okay for things to be spelt phonetically. It is important that your child grows into an independent learner. Encouraging your child to write the words as they sound rather than always spelling them correctly. We encourage the children to use their own skills, rather than copying an adult.
Understanding the World
Choose an animal from the book. With the help of an adult, research and find out information about that animal.
Where is its natural habitat? What does it eat? What does it like to do? When the animal lives in a zoo, what does a zookeeper need to do to look after it?
You could use this website or find one of your own.
Maths
1. Choose two or three animal toys. Go on a hunt around your house for different containers. Explore which containers your animals will fit in. Can you explain why they fit in some containers but not others?
2.Patterns are everywhere! Can you recognise any of these animal patterns? Draw your own animal pattern on a piece of paper.
Expressive Arts and Design
Make a lion mask.
Resources:
Paper plate
1 sheet of Yellow and orange paper
Scissors
Glue
Instructions:
1. Cut out the inside of a paper plate, leaving only the outside circle.
2. Cut strips of yellow and orange paper.
3. Glue the yellow and orange paper to the paper plate circle, creating a lion’s mane.
4. Make sure they give a loud ROAR!
Physical Development
- Get moving and dance along to these songs!
2. Make a paper chain snake. This is a great funky fingers activity!
Resources:
Paper (any colours you’d like to use)
Scissors
Stapler
Glue
Googly eyes
Instructions:
1. First, decide on which colours you want to use. You could use two or three colours and try to make your snake a repeating pattern, for example, red, orange, red, orange.
2. Cut strips of each colour.
3. With an adult, use a stapler to connect the chains.
4. Add a head by cutting out a triangle and gluing it to the first chain. You could also add a tail!
5. Glue googly eyes on the head and add a red tongue, then you’re done!
Playdough
Here are some recipes for playdough.
Or
Zooms
Don’t forget to join in your zoom session! Get ready to sing some of our favourite nursery rhymes.
Zooms
Hello Reception.
We are really missing you all and are looking forward to seeing and chatting to you at our Zoom sessions this week.
The Zoom session you were invited to is a recurring session during term time. Please join at the same day and time with the link that you were sent.
This week be ready for a ‘Scavenger Hunt’. We will ask you to go and find different things in your house to show and chat about.
Here are some extra stories to enjoy this week.
The little book of manners with Mrs Burgess.
The Gruffalo’s Child with Mrs Burke
Have a brilliant week of learning and fun!
Remember to email photos of your learning to
Week commencing 25 January 2021: home learning
Hello Reception
Well done – you have done so much learning so far.
This week, you will be learning about one of my favourite books.
Here is your learning – stay happy and healthy!
| Monday
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Book of the week- Watch the Gruffalo or read the book if you have it at home.
Questions to discuss- 1. How does the mouse feel when he sets of on his journey through the woods? 2. Do you think the mouse likes the other animals: owl, fox and snake? 3. Why do you think the mouse tells the other animals he is going to have tea with the Gruffalo? 4. Do you think the Gruffalo is afraid of the mouse? |
| Phonics- qu
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Have a go at reading this sentence. Did you spot today’s new phoneme? Activity 2: Can you work out the missing phonemes for these ‘qu’ words? Write the words in a list. |
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| Maths- Number 7
Click here to watch today’s maths video. |
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| Tuesday | Phonics- ch
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Write the words to match these pictures. You could print these phoneme frames, or draw your own. Parents: If you are unsure, click here to view the words. Activity 2: Have a go at writing this sentence. Parents: Read the sentence aloud. |
| Math – Number 7
Click here to watch today’s maths video. |
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| Wednesday | Phonics- sh
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Have a go at writing this sentence. Parents: Read the sentence aloud. |
| Maths- Number 7
Click here to watch today’s maths video. |
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| Thursday | Phonics- Tricky words – was
Click here to watch today’s phonics video |
| Maths- Click here to watch today’s video.
Activity 1: Play ‘Guess the Shape’ with an adult. Describe a shape, remembering to say how many sides and corners it has and to be specific, e.g. “It has 4 sides. It has 4 corners. It has 4 equal sides.” See who can guess the most shapes correctly. Activity 2: Go on a 2d shape hunt around your house. What 2d shapes might you find? If you have access to electronic device, take photos of the shapes you find. |
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| Friday | Understanding the World with Professor Myers – RSPB Bird watching
Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers. Activity 2: Follow these instructions and make an apple bird feeder.
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| Story time- Veggies Assemble
Click here to watch today’s story read by Miss Marsden. Sit back, relax and enjoy the story. 2. Why did Supertato blush at the end? 3. Who helped Supertato to get free? 4. How did Supertato call for help? 5. Why couldn’t we hear what the evil pea was saying when Supertato captured him?
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Story Link activities to select throughout the week
Literacy
Can you write a recipe for Gruffalo Crumble? Write a list of all of the ingredients you will need. Think about the things that the mousemight find in a deep dark wood.
Can you make a sign to warn people about the
Gruffalo ? What would you write on your sign? Think of some interesting warning words.
Can you draw and label a map of the mouse’s journey through the deep dark wood? Who did he meet first in the story? Where did he find the owl?
Understanding the World
Find out about owls and some other birds of prey by watching Andy’s Secret Hideout.
Can you find out some more interesting facts about owls?
Do you have any dried spaghetti at home? How does it feel, is it hard or soft? Adults could you cook the pasta and watch it with your child. Talk about the changes. How does it feel once it has been cooked?
Now you have your own bowl of scrambled snake to enjoy.
Expressive Arts and Design
Can you make a Gruffalo or a mouse headband? Use some paper and sellotape then colour it in. You could then act out the story. Are you going to be the mouse or the Gruffalo?
Physical Development
Using your fiddly fingers thread some tubes of pasta onto a piece of string, ribbon or an old shoelace. Can you add on eyes and make your snake slither around?
If you haven’t got any pasta you could make a paper chain snake or cut out a spiral snake from some paper.
Cosmic yoga – Here is a cosmic yoga video that links toowls. It tells the story of Tallulah the owlet. We really enjoy cosmic yoga at school and we hope that you do at home too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aje33UPixE&t=552
Online Gruffalo Activities
Click here and play some Gruffalo games.
Monster maker – make your own Gruffalo – choose your own face, body and legs. What would you call the new Gruffalo? If you have access to a printer you can print it out and colour it in.
Hide and Seek – play the matching game with the Gruffalocards.
Menu matcher – is ashort quiz about the Gruffalo story.
Our learning
Hello, everyone.
You have all been doing some amazing learning at home and in school.
Zoom sessions
Next week the children who are learning from home will be invited to a zoom session with their teacher. This zoom session will be with a group of children from their class. You will find the focus of the zoom session on the website each Friday. Sometimes your child will need to bring something along with them. Your child does not have to join in with these zooms, they are optional. Unfortunately the timings of these zooms cannot be changed as most teachers are teaching in school.
Look out for the link to your child’s zoom which will be sent via email on a Friday.
Keep sending me photos of your learning and we are looking forward to seeing you all soon.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Week commencing 18 January 2021: home learning
Hello everyone
Snow again! I hope you have been out enjoying the snow (don’t throw snowballs at your parents!)
Here is your learning for this week:
| Monday
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Book of the week- Watch the story SUPERTATO or read the book if you have it at home.
Questions to discuss- Where is the story set? Who are the main characters in the story? What fruit and vegetables do you like to eat? Why is it important to eat fruit and vegetables?
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| Phonics- x
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Write a word, caption or sentence to match the picture.
Activity 2: Go to phonicsbloom.com. Choose phase 2 games. Play: Fishy Phonics |
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6,7,8!
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 1 Activity: Click here for today’s activity.
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| Tuesday | Phonics- y
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Write a caption or word to match the picture. Activity 2: Here is the link to PhonicsPlay – click here Select phase 3 then +y. |
| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6,7,8!
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 2 Activity: Click here for today’s activity.
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| Wednesday | Phonics- z/zz
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a ‘z’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial or ending sound ‘z’?
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6,7,8!
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 3 Activity: Click here for today’s activity.
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| Thursday | Phonics- Tricky words
Click here to watch today’s phonics video
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Growing 6,7,8!
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 4 Activity: Click here for today’s activity.
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| Friday | Understanding the World with Professor Myers; – Keeping warm in winter
Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers. Can you design an outfit to keep Professor Myers warm when she goes out for her winter walks? Can you think of some ways of moving to keep warm when it’s cold outside? Which one worked best?
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| Story time- Superworm
Click here to watch today’s story. Questions to discuss- How did Superworm’s friends save him? How many different ways is Superworm used in the story? Superworm finds lots of ways to help his friends. How can you be kind and helpful to others?
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Story Link activities to select throughout the week
Literacy
- Design and label your own character to match the story. You may choose to draw, paint or use real vegetables.
- Pick a character to draw and add a speech bubble. What are they saying?
Understanding the World
- Find some fruits and vegetables around your house. Sort them into different groups.
You might sort by colour, size or texture.
- If you have frozen peas in your freezer have a look at them in their frozen
state. Feel them, what do they feel like? Watch them defrost. How long does it take?
Does it defrost more quickly in different places around your house?
Expressive Arts and Design
- Draw a vegetable.
Use your own imagination or this drawing tutorial.
- Use a mash potato masher to make some super art.
Physical Development
How many pieces did you cut?
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Week commencing 11 January 2021:Home learning
Hi, everyone!
I hope you are enjoying this snowy weather and keeping warm!
Here is your learning for this week.
| Monday
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Book of the week- Watch the story Lost and Found or read the book if you have it at home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRAAQ8EWzig Questions to discuss- How is the boy feeling when the penguin first arrives at his door? Why does the penguin follow the boy? What does he want? The penguin was lonely… What does it mean to be lonely? How can we help others when they are feeling lonely? What can we do when we feel lonely ourselves? |
| Phonics- j
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a ‘j’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial sound ‘j’? Activity 2: Take turns with an adult to play ‘Roll and Read’ (j focus) click here to either print the word mat, or view it on screen. You will need a die or to draw 1-6 dots on 6 pieces of paper and draw at random from a bag. 1. Roll the dice Match to the correct row. Choose a word on the row and read it aloud. |
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| Maths- White Rose Maths: Alive in 5!- Week 2.
Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 1 Activity: Click here for today’s activity. Encourage your child to speak in full sentences when describing the number composition, for example: “There are three frogs in the pond and there are two frogs on the grass. There are 5 frogs altogether” or “There are 4 toys on the bed and there is one toy on the floor. There are 5 toys altogether” |
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| Tuesday | Phonics- v
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a ‘v’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial sound ‘v’? Activity 2: Here is the link to ‘fishy phonics’ on the Phonics Bloom website- click here Select phase 2, set 5. Try the hard level initially, change to easy if this is a bit tricky. |
| Maths- Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 2
Activity: Click here for today’s activity. |
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| Wednesday | Phonics- w
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a ‘w’ detective! Can you find anything (or anyone) in your house, that has the initial sound ‘w’? Activity 2: Write ‘yes’ and ‘no on two separate pieces of paper and put them at either side of the room. Ask your child to read these questions (click here) one at a time and then run to either the yes or the no answer. Encourage your child to point to each word on the screen as they read the question. |
| Maths- Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 3
Activity: Click here for today’s activity. If you do not have a printer, draw 5 of anything you like on a piece of paper and cut them out. This will work just as well for the activity! Click here for this week’s word list. Remember to use your phonic fingers to blend. |
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| Thursday | Phonics- Tricky words he/she
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be a Tricky Word Detective! Can you find any tricky words in the books you have at home? Activity 2: Write a sentence using one of the new tricky words. Steps to writing a successful sentence… 1.Think of a sentence. 2. Say the sentence out loud. 3. Count the words in your sentence. 4. Use your phoneme fingers to segment every word. 5. Check your sentence makes sense. 6. Have you remembered a capital letter at the start, finger spaces throughout and a full stop at the end? Activity 3: Rainbow writing tricky words- use a variety of colours to practice writing all of the phase 2 tricky words.
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| Maths- Click here to be taken to the correct web page. Choose Session 4
Activity: Click here for today’s activity. |
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| Friday | Understanding the World with Professor Myers; Exploring Ice-
Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers. -Can you carry out the ice experiments in the video from Professor Myers? Remember to make some predictions about what you think will happen first. -Can you draw and label a picture to show what you did? |
| Story time- Stickman with Mrs Burgess
Can you find the rhyming words in the story? What is Stickman made from? Go on a scavenger hunt outside. Bring back sticks, leaves, seeds or whatever you can find and make a stickperson. Stickman lives with his family. Draw a picture of your family. Story Link activities to select throughout the week Literacy Make a story map of the key events in the story Lost and Found. We practice creating these lots in class.
Sometimes, when people lose a pet, they put up posters to help find them again. Can you make a ‘lost’ poster for the Penguin in Lost and Found. Don’t forget to add lots of details describing the penguin, so that the reader knows what to look out for. What does the penguin look like? What colour is it? How big is it? The story doesn’t have any speech in it. Ask your grown up to draw out a speech bubble and pretend you are the boy from the story (perhaps you could draw him next to the speech bubble) Have a go at writing what you think he might have said when he first met the penguin. A writing reminder How did your child find the writing activity? Remember it’s okay for things to be spelt phonetically. It is important that your child grows into an independent learner. Encouraging your child to write the words as they sound rather than always spelling them correctly. We encourage the children to use their own skills, rather than copying an adult. Understanding the World Spend some time watching the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo: https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/penguin-cam/ What do you notice about them? How do they move? (perhaps you can walk like a penguin too!) Do they like to be alone or in groups? Do they live on land, in the water, or both? These penguins are in a zoo. Where can we find penguins in the wild? Ask an adult to help you find this information in a book or by using the internet. Expressive Arts and Design Build a boat for your toys! You could use any construction toys you have at home (such as lego, duplo) natural or found objects outside, or recycled food packaging. Perhaps you could tell a story about an adventure your toys go on in their brand new boat! Make a ‘Paper Roll Penguin’ You could follow this guide or, if you do not have coloured paper, create your own version using plain paper, the paper roll and colouring pens or pencils!
Physical Development Get Moving! Join in with this Jack Hartman Penguin Dance: video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf0uKmKwnKs Did you know… ‘PE with Joe’ is back? Joe Wicks is hosting his live PE sessions again from Monday 11th January 2021, 3 times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9am) You can subscribe to his channel here for alerts. A great way to keep fit at home!
Have fun this week and don’t forget to send me photos of your learning. moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
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08 January 2021:Home learning
Hello, Reception.
I hope you have enjoyed the learning activities this week.
This is what you can expect to see on your child’s class news page each week during lockdown.
The learning for week beginning 11.01.21 will be posted on Sunday 10.01.21. All subsequent weeks will be posted on a Friday evening.
As teachers are also teaching our key worker children in school, these videos may not be from your child’s teacher. However, every Friday the children will be able to enjoy a story read by an adult from their class.
Each week a menu of activities will be presented that can be completed during the week. This menu will relate to the book of the week. The activities will cover all aspects of the Early Years curriculum. There will also be the following screencasts and videos.
| Monday | Phonics screencast with follow up activities.
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Tuesday | Phonics screencast with follow up activities.
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Wednesday | Phonics screencast with follow up activities.
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Thursday | A tricky word screencast with follow up activities
Maths screencast with follow up activities |
| Friday | An Understanding the World video with “ Professor Myers” with follow up activities
A story read by one of your child’s teachers with talk time activities. |
As always your child’s teachers will be available via email for any questions. We will also endeavor contact you by phone once per week, just to check in with you.
Here are today’s activities:
Phonics
Practise the phase 2 phonemes.
(This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
Read the words and draw a picture to match the captions.
Don’t forget there are some really good games on Phonicsplay
username: sphere
password: spher3
Maths
Practise writing number 5.
Don’t forget Numbots.
Art
Have a great weekend. Don’t forget to send me photos of your home learning.
07 January 2021:Home learning
Good morning!
I hope you are all enjoying the cold weather!
Here are your lessons and activities for today.
Phonics
We will recap some phase 2 sounds.
Activities
Maths
Before the holiday we investigated the number 5.
Watch Numberblocks 5 alive!
Activities
Talktime
Talk about what is happening in the picture.
Draw a picture of you in the ice or snow.
Storytime
6 January 2021: Home learning
Good morning, Reception.
Here are today’s activities.
Phonics
This week we will recap the phonemes(sounds) from phase 2.
Practise the sounds in your phonics books.
Words to read:
Maths
Let’s recap the number 4.
Sing the number 4 song from Numberblocks.
Make a collection of objects to represent the number 4. How many different ways can you find?
Storytime
Listen to today’s story.
Don’t forget to send me photos of your learning!
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org