Blog Author: Sarah Kinsey

What are you currently reading at home? We have almost finished reading The Jolley-Rogers and the Monster's Gold and are at a complete loss as to what to read next.  What do you recommend and why?

I have created a new battle that will complete on Friday.  Did you know that you could send me challenges?

I hope that you all had a lovely half term break with your grown-ups at home.

Here is something that some of you might be interested in.  J.K Rowling is releasing her brand new story online and  has launched a competition. She would like you to help to illustrate the book and the lucky winners…

Can you tell me what the following have in common?

Mount Krakatoa

Mount St. Helen's

Popocatépetl

And then can you tell me how Surtsey is different to the United Kingdom? Your answer to this must relate to your previous answer

I shall keep comments screened until later this…

The half term holiday is about to begin.  If you are stuck for ideas, the Wildlife Trust is about to launch it's 30 Day's Wild campaign.  If you click on this: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/ it will take you straight to their website.

Alternatively, you can try these: …

We are big fans of Michael Rosen in Year Three.  Which is your favourite poem and why?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=michael+rosen

How are you going to be kind today?

As you know this week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme this year is kindness.  One way that my son and I are going to show kindness today is by making a bird feeder to add to our growing collection in the garden!  We have been feeding our feathered friends for a number of years so we have many visitors to our garden.

This is a nice idea:

You just need to spread the outside of an empty toilet roll with nut butter and roll it in birdseed.

Or you could:

Whatever you decide to do, have fun and make exciting memories with your grown-ups

I just want you to know that I am very proud of each and every one of you. Learning from home isn't quite the same as learning in our classroom but it has been heart warming to read your comments and to see how brave and resilient you all are. Keep up the hard work and keep being your super,…

Do you remember when I gave you two text messages?  Darth Vader sent one to Luke Skywalker and Dobby sent one to Harry Potter and we had to write them out into our books but to include the inverted commas.  Below is a part of a text message that Horrid Henry (blue) has sent to Perfect Peter…

 Have a go at these.  Don't worry if you find them tough - just remember all of the things we have learned in school.  You might need to use some coins to help you solve the first challenge or you could write the different values on scraps of paper.  Lego cubes or dried pasta, for example,…

Hi everyone!

Remember that this week is Mental Health Awareness week and the theme is kindness.  How are you going to show kindness today?

Did you know that yesterday was World Bee Day? Today my son and I are going to plant some wild flower seeds that he received free with a magazine. The…

The Stone Age Boy is a fabulous book to read.  This link will take you to a reading of the book on youtube.  If the link doesn't work, just type the name of the book in youtube.

When you have listened to it, I would like you to hotseat the main characters.  This means that you will need to…