tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42175465920544506212024-03-12T19:56:43.707-07:00SUNNYSIDERS The secret life of the Reception classroom at Sunnyside SchoolNicola Winslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104696180668879976noreply@blogger.comBlogger155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217546592054450621.post-55532623383739567492017-07-29T07:06:00.001-07:002017-07-29T07:06:48.279-07:00Crafty kids and missing lids<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you want to see a little learner disappear into thin air, just shout "tidy up time!" It works every time....sadly!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Without exception the call to tidy up will send little learners scurrying off to all corners of the setting in their desperate attempts to shy away from the inevitable monumental clear up at the end of the school day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Sunnyside Reception team have over the years wised up to this cunning little learner tactic, and have devised a variety of strategies to try and convince their charges that tidy up time is FUN! However, there are some little Sunnysiders who remain unconvinced that fun can be had from tidying up a toy explosion, and will consequently dream up a myriad of excuses as to why they should be relieved of any such duties. Much like the forward thinking little learner this afternoon, who managed to rope in a few of his chums to help him achieve his 'tidy up time' get-out clause.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It all began just prior to 'tidy o'clock' when Mrs Organised became aware (as she was straightening out the creative trolley) that there was a distinct lack of red crayons in each of the crayon pots. All other colours were present and correct, and upon closer inspection Mrs Organised also spotted that there were no red felt pens to be seen either. How strange thought she scanning the classroom for possible clues as to their whereabouts. As she scanned the room, her eyes fell upon the home corner where she spied four little learners huddled together deeply engrossed in something that involved much wittering and twittering and a good deal of masking tape. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Is everyone okay over there?" called a curious and somewhat suspicious Mrs Organised. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since her inquiry appeared to have fallen on deaf ears, Mrs O gingerly edged her way over to the still very preoccupied group and asked, "Children are you busy tidying at all?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like a parting of the proverbial waves, the little group stepped aside the table they were huddled round to reveal a seated little learner swathed head to toe in what appeared to be blood stained dressings. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Heavens!" shrieked Mrs Organised, addressing the embalmed little learner before her, "what on earth has happened to you?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"I've broken all my knee caps," whimpered the forlorn invalid, pointing to the 'bloodied' paper towels bound to his trousers by the classroom's yearly supply of masking tape. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Broken your knee caps? shrilled Mrs O, trying to digest the gory scene before her, "and a good deal more besides I see!"</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was now that she spotted all the missing red crayons and felt pens (minus their lids) as they lay strewn across the table and all over the floor. As the penny began to drop as to what was going on here, Mrs O suggested that everyone should work together to pick everything up off the floor before anyone else had such a dreadful accident. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"He can't tidy up with broken knee caps!" responded one of the wounded learner's accomplices. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Oh dear...is that so!" stated Mrs O, retrieving the scattered lids to the topless pens. "Well...there's only one thing for it then," she continued,......"I must phone for an ambulance straight away!" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hearing this, the maimed little learner staggered to his paper towel bound feet and croaked, "No, don't do that......can you just phone my Mummy to come and get me right now? "And"...he continued, limping his way towards his coat peg, "can you tell her to bring m' Spider-Man scooter!" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Well that's not happening", tutted an indignant Mrs O, blocking the little learners path to his belongings and peeling back the wool from over her eyes!</span><br />
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The bones in all my limbs are smashed!</div>
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I'm sorry there's no earthly way</div>
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He thinks I'll be like this all year!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fridays means book sharing morning. </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">This is a positively lovely time where the Reception learners have the opportunity to pair up and share their reading books with one another. It also affords the Team the opportunity to do a bit of eavesdropping and carry out a few observations on the little learners as they discuss the pictures in their books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was Mrs Crayon who was drawn to the two little learners seated across from her by the sink deep in conversation as they scrutinised one of the illustrations in their reading book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Making her way over to the sink and then pretending to wash up absolutely nothing, Mrs Crayon glanced over her shoulder to see that the little learners were poring over a very colourful and busy park scene. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In it were two children of unequal size and weight getting nowhere on a seesaw with the smaller and lighter child clinging on for dear life as it hung precariously in mid-air! There was a young man blasting on the whistle slung round his neck trying to retrieve his apparently deaf dog, who was running in the opposite direction with an irate gentleman's flat cap in its mouth. A baby in a pushchair was screaming blue murder since the Mr Whippy she was undoubtedly enjoying moments before, was now busy melting in the grass. A small boy was hotfooting it back to his mum as the football he'd just booted across the park had frightened a tabby cat from out of a bush which happened to be the home of a nesting blackbird. Across the middle of the page a mother duck leading her brood of six ducklings to safety, was desperately trying to navigate her way past the deaf dog and the jet propelled tabby. And all the while two ladies with bouffant hairdos and heavy makeup were sat on one of the park benches chatting nine thousand to the dozen, absolutely oblivious to the mayhem going on around them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Whilst the two little learners were not at all impressed with the overly made up and "not very helpful chatterboxes" on the park bench, they were also terribly concerned about the little and desperately sad chappy, whose balloon was ascending into the stratosphere because he'd unfortunately let go of the string. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As Mrs Crayon continued to wash and scrub imaginary paintbrushes and paint pots, she heard one of the little learners impart to her reading partner that, "If you let go of the string of your balloon....it will go up, and up, and up, and up, and up, and up, until it gets to heaven....and then you won't ever see it again, and that's that!" Anxious to hear how the little learner's friend was going to react to this very definite statement, Mrs Crayon clasped the sink and leaned over to hear the second little learner clear her throat and say, "Well.....if you like God you can ask him to come down and get it for you!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, it's worth a try!!</span><br />
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<br />Nicola Winslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104696180668879976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217546592054450621.post-50450086076617583052016-11-13T13:06:00.000-08:002017-01-16T11:52:51.490-08:00POOEMS LAUNCH<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A huge thank you to everyone who came along to <a href="http://www.quayarts.org/">Quay Arts Newport Isle of Wight</a> to be part of the launch of <span style="color: magenta;"><b>Pooems</b></span> - <span style="color: #666666;">A humorous anthology of animal poo. </span>It was a wonderful afternoon of song and verse. Great fun was had by all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Copies of POOEMS are available for purchase at <a href="http://www.malvernvillapublishing.com/">http://www.malvernvillapublishing.com/</a></span>Nicola Winslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104696180668879976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217546592054450621.post-41135656536362442942016-10-28T06:51:00.000-07:002016-10-28T06:51:46.717-07:00POOEMS A humorous anthology of animal poo<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am currently taking a break from Sunnysiders as I'm sinking all my energy and time into launching my first book. <b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">POOEMS</span></b> <span style="color: #444444;"><i>A humorous anthology of animal poo. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mrs Crayon's typing fingers are a twitchin'. The rhyming cogs in her head are whizzing round at centrifugal speed. She is gripped by an overwhelming urge to grab her paintbrushes and start doodling!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So what on earth is prompting this sudden outpouring of creativity? Well, it's poo if you must know! Yes poo! Whilst quite by coincidence, the word poo is bandied about left, right, and centre by the Reception learners at Sunnyside School, due to the fact that it's currently the rudest word they know, it has nothing to do with this, but everything to do with the fact that THE NATIONAL POO MUSEUM has just opened it's doors to the public, a mere stones throw from Sunnyside School at the <a href="http://www.isleofwightzoo.com/">Isle of Wight Zoo</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What's all the more exciting about this unique happening, is that THE NATIONAL POO MUSEUM is the brainchild of Dan Roberts aka 'Daring Dan Recycle Man' one member of a group of brilliant artists from <a href="http://www.ecclestongeorge.co.uk/">Eccleston George Public Artists. </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sunnyside School has been fortunate enough to have worked with this talented team on a number of occasions over the years, from making art on the beach, to helping to create an outdoor classroom in the grounds of Sunnyside School. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is Dan's incredible inventiveness that has continued to impress and inspire Mrs Crayon, and as a result she has dedicated several stories and rhymes to 'Daring Dan' alone. So having already written about his hair-raising attempts to fly, and his ingenious clean up operation following a rather unfortunate cooking episode, how the blazes could she not put Biro to paper and conjure up a rhyme to celebrate the fact that thanks to Dan and the Ecclestone George geniuses, Whippy Cove has a poo museum!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Daring Dan collects it all.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Teapots, saucepans, Dan's not fussed!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's all treasure in Dan's head,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And so he piles it in his shed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pencil shavings, chicken wire,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A stethoscope, a camera </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">lens,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He made the somewhat odd decision,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was Dan's unique intention,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And so he packed his home-made tent,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To scour the land for excrement.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dan gathered poo from all around,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You'll be amazed at what he found!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From animals of every species,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He bagged a dollop of their faeces.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now, whilst this might seem rather queer,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And trapped within, in all their glory,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They tell a fascinating story.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But then arrived the perfect day,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You'll never look at poo the same!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And once you've seen this pooey show,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then no doubt you'll become a fan,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'Cheesus' had his last meal with the shepherds. They had beer and croissants and garlic bread. Then 'Cheesus' </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">went to another place, it was some woods in Germany. Everyone liked 'Cheesus' except for one of the shepherds. One of the shepherds had a chicken and it went 'cockerly-dooderly-doo' four times and the army came and took 'Cheesus' away and put him in a cage under a bridge. Then someone opened the door and 'Cheesus' got out and the army made him carry the plus sign up the hill and 'Cheesus' didn't have his T-shirt on. The army put spikes on his head and screwdrivers in his feet. After three days it rained and 'Cheesus' went to prison, but before he went he said 'hello' to his friends Peter and Harry, then everyone said Amen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Be it bears, bunnies, monkeys, sheep, or even strange one-eyed yellow creatures sporting blue dungarees, little learners love them all......a lot!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Reception team at Sunnyside School know this fact only too well. For whenever this treasured menagerie of fluff and stuffing comes into school, and winds up lost amongst the classroom paraphernalia, (as it so often does,) there is always tears and tantrums from despairing little learners, until they are reunited with their fluffy friends once more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And it was a fluffy friend related melt down that caught Mrs Very Jolly and Mrs Crayon by surprise today, as it happened right in the middle of Mrs Very Jolly reading Julia Donaldson's 'Monkey Puzzle' to the class. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As the group listened attentively to the tale of a young monkey who looses his Mum, a little learner sitting at Mrs Very Jolly's feet, suddenly burst into floods of tears, and with head in hands deeply lamented the loss of his penguin. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As Mrs Crayon comforted the distraught little learner, he revealed that his much loved penguin had gone missing from home, and as he had no clue as to it's whereabouts, he was fearful that he'd never seen his flightless friend again. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When the little learner informed Mrs Crayon that his penguin wore a scarf, was no taller than a pencil and had glittery eyes, she was completely satisfied they were dealing with a stuffed toy, and not a real live penguin. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With a description to go on, the rest of the group then sprang into action and began producing a ton of hand drawn 'missing penguin posters', all </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">pleading for folks to be watchful and alert in case of a penguin sighting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And so the hunt is on dear readers for a small, sparkly-eyed penguin, possibly carrying a suitcase but definitely wearing a scarf. It's worth noting that a</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s he has no prior knowledge of the great outdoors, he will more than likely appear a little disorientated.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Should you spot him, he answers to 'Penguin', and according to his owner, "he really likes fish cakes!" </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My penguin packed his bag one day</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And left his home to run away.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He didn't tell a single soul</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That exploration was his goal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He took no compass or a map,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(He's not a forward thinking chap.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His destination was unclear,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Not my penguin's best idea.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He set his sights on who knows where,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(This reckless penguin didn't care!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But recklessness comes at a cost,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'Cause now my penguin's very lost.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He's left no clue, no single trace,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is the most perplexing case.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He may have moved to warmer climes,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(He's dreamt of that a thousand times.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He could have found a place to stay </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On a fishing holiday.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Perhaps he jumped on board a bus</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And just forgot to contact us.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Either way he isn't here</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And for his safety I now fear.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's only one thing I can do, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And that's to ask each one of you,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Please keep your eyes peeled every day,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In case my penguin comes your way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">HE'S BLACK AND WHITE,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">HIS EYES ARE BRIGHT,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">HE WADDLES LIKE A DUCK,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">NOW PLEASE DON'T LAUGH,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">HE WEARS A SCARF,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">TO HELP BRING HIM GOOD LUCK.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">HE'S VERY DIM,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">BUT I LOVE HIM,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I WANT HIM BACK WITH ME,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ONCE THROUGH THIS DOOR,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">HE'LL 'AVE WHAT FOR,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">AND FISH CAKES FOR HIS TEA!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thank you for your cooperation</span><br />
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Nicola Winslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104696180668879976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217546592054450621.post-41330095964122992862016-01-30T11:20:00.001-08:002017-05-20T14:09:03.918-07:00Porky pies and pointy fingers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are days when the Reception classroom at Sunnyside School resembles that of a busy accident and emergency department, as wave after wave of little learners come hobbling in from outside, nursing all manner of injuries and seeking some first aid attention. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As we have seen before in previous Sunnyside stories, this first aid attention usually comprises of the now legendary dampened paper towel applied to the injured area, or should that particular remedy fail to work it's mystical magic an ice pack straight from the fridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Following this treatment and a few gentle words of comfort from the grown ups in the setting, most little learners are immediately cured of their aches and pains, and will miraculously leap to their tiny feet, and head for the outside once more before you can say 'Florence Nightingale'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, every now and again an accident may occur during the school day which will turn out to be a little more serious than the usual bumps and scrapes, and it may even involve real blood! Just like </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">today, when a little Sunnysider stood before Miss Kind with blood trickling from one of his nostrils. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After sitting her completely unperturbed patient on a chair and pinching the soft part of his nose for a bit, Miss Kind asked the little learner if he had done anything to make his nose bleed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Um....I think I didn't," said he, stealthily sliding his bloodstained pointy finger behind his back.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Well...I wonder what on earth could have caused your poor nose to bleed then?" queried a deeply suspicious Miss Kind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The little learner thought for a moment, and with Miss Kind's thumb and forefinger still clasping his nose, he squeaked, "I think it's 'cause my Mum shouted at me!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well....there's nothing like blaming a bit of nose picking gone too far on your Mum, thought Miss Kind, as she struggled to suppress a giggle.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My Mum can shout,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her voice doth travel miles.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She will indeed,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Your tender ears,</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make no mistake,</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's hard to take,</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her mighty decibels! </span><br />
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<br />Nicola Winslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104696180668879976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217546592054450621.post-54783353332318124072016-01-16T10:13:00.000-08:002016-02-18T14:05:23.297-08:00Tambourines and underpants<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Happy New Year everyone! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Believe it or not, it's the start of the Spring term. However, there was nothing Spring like about the weather today, far from it, as rain soaked little learner after rain soaked little learner was catapulted through the classroom door on a chilly and very gusty wind first thing this morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Strangely, this combination of high winds, heavy rain and dripping children occurred last year at this time. It failed to dampen the spirit of the little Sunnysiders of the day, and it failed to quash the excitement of the current cohort upon their return to school following the Christmas break. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With the festive season a dim and distant memory, the time has come for the little learners to launch into a brand new topic, which for the next few weeks will be the rhyming stories of Julia Donaldson.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As well as revelling in the wonderful world of, The Gruffalo, Stickman, Superworm and Tiddler, to name but a few, the little learners will also be focusing on learning more phonic sounds. Their next step will be to learn to blend these individual sounds to make words. Some children find this easier than others, so the Reception Team are always trying to devise fun ways in which to help all little learners achieve this skill, like involving puppets for instance during their phonic activities, or hungry lions no less!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And it was hungry lions that sprang into Mrs Very Jolly's mind when she stumbled across the remains of one, while crashing about (in search of pipe cleaners) in the far reaches of the store cupboard today. She hadn't found a real lion of course, it was one of Mrs Crayon's creations (from a few years ago now) made to support a variety of literacy activities, including learning phonic sounds and letter names. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The idea was for the little learners to feed 'Lester' lion (as he became known,) a diet of letters and sounds by posting them straight into his open jaws, so long as they were able to say the sound and name the letter correctly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The children loved Lester, and they made it their mission to ensure that he had plenty of letters and sounds to eat each day. They also made it their mission to ensure he had plenty of other things to eat, especially at tidy it up time! </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was only when the Reception Team spotted that the draws and cupboards in the classroom were strangely bereft of equipment and materials, and that tidy up time was taking an extraordinarily short amount of time to complete, did they put two and two together and realise just what their crafty pupils were up to. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lester's bulging belly, along with the little learner's uncharacteristic willingness to tidy up after themselves, should have provided the Team with all the clues they needed to determine the whereabouts of the contents of their classroom! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyway, after reminiscing with Mrs Very Jolly about 'Lester The Lion' and deciding it was high time they either repaired him or created a new one, Mrs Crayon set off on a mission of her own, and that was to pen a poem celebrating their beloved phonic friend and his remarkable ability to consume a classroom!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Better late than never Mrs C! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Roll up come see our lion,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">You're in for a surprise,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">When you see the size of him,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">You won't believe your eyes!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Our lion's always hungry,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">So his jaws stay open wide,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">And to see all that he's eaten,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Why not take a peek inside!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A pair of underpants,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A length of cord,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Roll of tape,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A squishy grape,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A popped balloon,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A scary dinosaur!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oh wait there's more,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lurking underneath.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A spotty dice,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A ton of rice,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Four conkers in a row.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Racing car,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A small guitar,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A necklace and a ring,</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A set of scales,</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A map of Wales,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A <i>Ninja Turtle</i> thing!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A rubber duck,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A dumper truck,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's very nearly it,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well fancy that,</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A policeman's hat, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And someone's PE kit!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now that you've seen our lion,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We hope you are impressed,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It seems to us there's nothing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That our lion can't digest!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Should we forget to feed him up</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our lion will complain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So when tomorrow comes around,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">'</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">K</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nock, Knock, Knock, we're knocking at the door!<span style="font-size: large;">'</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No, the little Sunnyside learners haven't accidentally locked themselves out of their Reception classroom, no.....these are the words to one of several songs they're busy learning and practising each day in preparation for the Sunnyside Nativity performance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To help these tiny little thespians get into the Nativity mode, the home corner has been transformed into a stable. In the stable, (a large painted cardboard box complete with wood effect finish,) there is a lamb, (stuffed of course) a manger, (in which lays a swaddled baby doll,) and a mound of Nativity costumes to facilitate a spot of Nativity role play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From the moment it was created, this humble shelter has been a great hit with the little learners, and the queue to don a shepherd's tunic and, or, a pair of jewel encrusted angel wings, has at times stretched the length of the classroom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This afternoon as Mrs Crayon was hastily fashioning some gold, frankincense, and myrrh for the three Kings to present to the Baby Jesus in the Nativity production, a little learner approached her and boldly announced that he was going to make and wrap a telescope to give to the baby "Cheesus". His proclamation subsequently caused the waiting nativity role players to abandon their spot in the queue and to start scouring the classroom for items to wrap up and give to the baby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After half an hour of feverish parcel wrapping, baby Jesus' crib was crammed with parcels containing; one large magnet, a dry wipe pen, various farm animals, a set of pastry cutters, an empty box of cappuccino sachets, a glue stick, a plastic lemon, a hole punch, Mr Potato Head, and Mrs Crayon's glasses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All this gift wrapping sparked much talk of birthday celebrations among the participating little learners, and the discussions soon turned to the all important milestone of turning five. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"And when is your birthday poppet?" asked Mrs Crayon to the little learner beside her struggling to wrap an ironing board. "Well...!" he began, wrestling the sellotape dispenser, "Mummy keeps telling me when it's my birthday....but I keep don't knowing!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mrs Crayon on the other hand, is at the stage now where she makes a point of 'don't knowing' her birthdays! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, from birthdays to Christmas, and the Sunnyside crew (young and old) would like to wish you, dear readers, a very merry Christmas, and a very happy New Year!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When is my birthday Mum?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When is my birthday mum?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'Cause I don't know</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had a birthday once before,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But that was long ago.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I feel I'm due a birthday soon,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But don't know when,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although I've asked you lots before,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm asking you again!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When is my birthday mum?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'Cause I regret,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Me ears are on the blink,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And so I forget.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I feel I'm due a birthday soon,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But don't know when,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although I've asked you lots before,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm asking you again!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When is me birthday Mum?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'Cause I'm not sure,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can't recall the date,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because I'm only four.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I feel I'm due a birthday soon,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But don't know when,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Although I've asked you lots before,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When is me birthday Mum?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I haven't got a clue.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I sense my constant asking tho'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Is really testing you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can't remember days and months,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And yet I've really tried,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They seem to go straight in one ear,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And out the other side!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of asking you this question now,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the one hundredth time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I'm sorry if I've driven you</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Completely round the bend!</span><br />
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Nicola Winslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104696180668879976noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217546592054450621.post-56702450085432040372015-12-03T13:40:00.001-08:002015-12-11T13:33:02.236-08:00Ills, Pills, and Daffodils<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>hanks to some persistent blustery weather, the Sunnyside School garden is currently carpeted throughout with Autumn leaves blown in from all corners of Whippy Cove bay. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Positioned alongside this frenzy of mixing, stirring, pouring, and conjuring this afternoon, was a warmly dressed Mrs Very Jolly and a small group of equally swaddled little learners, studying the latest mound of Autumn leaves to be deposited into the Sunnyside garden. Armed with </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">magnifying glasses, binoculars and home-made telescopes in some cases, Mrs Very Jolly and her little band of investigators, examined the structure and features of individual leaves under their various lenses. As well as studying the leaves, the little learners had great fun ordering them by size, colour and shape, and when they'd had enough of that, they threw them into their potion pots and smashed them to bits with wooden spoons!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the midst of all this investigating and pulverising of leaves, Mrs Very Jolly became aware of a tap, tap, taping on her arm. The tap, tap, tapper was a little learner dangling an earthworm in her non-tapping outstretched hand. Desperately trying to suppress the need to jump seven feet in the air in response to said worm, Mrs Very Jolly tried to encourage the little learner to send her wriggly friend on his way by popping him onto the grass. As the little learner did so, she informed Mrs Very Jolly that her Granddad was sad. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Oh dear, I'm sorry to hear that. "Why is your Granddad sad?" Mrs Very Jolly asked, keeping a watchful eye on the somewhat disorientated worm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Well.....slugs made holes in his flowers," reported the little learner giving her worm friend a shove to help him along.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Ah, yes, slugs.....they certainly can be trouble when it comes to flowers," sympathised Mrs Very Jolly. "So what did Granddad do about it?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Well," began the little learner, "he gave his flowers some flower pills, and....they're all better now!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Having had first hand experience of troublesome slugs herself, a very intrigued Mrs Very Jolly couldn't help wondering whether Granddad's 'flower pills' would also help restore her unsightly lawn following the constant excavation antics of her resident pesky Mole. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Are your flowers full of holes?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Are they disturbed by pesky moles?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Are you overrun with strangulating weeds?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">You can cure your flower ills</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">With my Granddad's flower pills,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">They're the answer to your cultivation needs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Be it mole, or slug, or snail,</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Flower pills will never fail</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To send pests packing, that's a guarantee.</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then the Garden you once adored</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Will be magically restored,</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You could open up and charge an entrance fee!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pop flower pills around your soil,</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And you won't ever need to toil.</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Simply wait and watch your vegetation soar.</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Be it Daisies or Daffodils,</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dose 'em up with flower pills,</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And be the envy of the folks who live next door!</span></div>
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Nicola Winslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104696180668879976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217546592054450621.post-4096691094061618372015-11-10T12:17:00.000-08:002015-11-10T12:19:10.210-08:00Missing heads and spotty bottoms<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span>t may well be early November, but </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Christmas was on everybody's minds in the Reception Class at Sunnyside School today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Whilst it isn't time just yet to dust the cobwebs off the nativity donkey and his fellow four-legged stable friends in preparation for the Sunnyside Christmas performance, it is time however to think about......Christmas cards! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As part of an exciting whole school fundraising project, little learners throughout Sunnyside School have the opportunity to see their original artwork turned into high quality full colour printed Christmas cards, which parents and carers will be invited to purchase in the coming weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So this very afternoon, as marvellous images of snowmen, Father Christmas, Christmas trees, Christmas Robins, Christmas<i> Ninja Turtles</i>, and Christmas <i>Power Rangers</i> began to emerge from the specially provided paper, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the classroom was also buzzing with a great deal of Christmassy chit-chat from the participating little learners</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. And it was while Mrs Crayon was overseeing their artistic endeavours, she learned that these little artists have never seen real snow before, or at least they don't remember seeing real snow in their short lifetime. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mrs Crayon then began to reminisce about an afternoon in early March, several years ago now, when a significant amount of snow unexpectedly fell out of the sky during the school day, and after it had stopped and settled, the euphoric little learners of the day were able to head out into the garden to build their very own snowman. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And what a magnificent snowman he was! Sporting Lego Bricks for eyes, tangerine peel for a nose, ivy twigs arms, a flowerpot hat, and a pair of spotty pyjama bottoms for a scarf, he stood tall and resplendent in the wintry sunshine. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He stood tall and resplendent for a mere thirty seconds, because in the time it took Mrs Crayon to reach for her camera in order to photograph this snowy vision, his head had departed his body, and completely vanished into thin air. Both Miss Kind and Mrs Caring, who'd been in the garden with the little learners the entire time, couldn't account for this puzzling occurrence, and the little Sunnysiders themselves were as equally baffled by their snowman's sudden lack of head. However, when Miss Kind and Mrs Caring posed the question, 'Who broke the snowman?', the garden was immediately filled with hurling accusations, and a great deal of finger pointing, as a somewhat guilty looking group began blaming one another for carrying out the dastardly deed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After several minutes of listening to a chorus of, 'It wasn't me, I didn't do it!', Miss Kind and Mrs Caring suddenly became aware that the once portly body of the snowman was busy shrinking in the afternoon sunshine. Consequently, the race was on to fashion a new head for their ever diminishing snowman before all that was left of him was his pyjama bottoms! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To this day, it remains a complete mystery as to the circumstances surrounding the apparent evaporation of the Sunnyside snowman's head, so as Mrs Crayon delighted in yet another depiction of Father Christmas as a <i>Nijna Turtle, </i>she decided it was high time she paid homage to this unresolved whodunnit. </span>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If it wasn't you or me?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well someone's knocked his block off </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And it's such a tragedy. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He's got a nice round body, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But sadly there's an empty space </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He once stood majestic, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And as tall as a tree,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, someone round here did it</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And it's such a mystery.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Perhaps there is a snowman thief</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We don't know who to blame.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Or even whatshisname.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But he just don't look the same!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I</span>t's been translated into at least 40 different languages. It's consistently used by Early Years practitioners as a teaching aid. It's won numerous awards, and as sure as eggs is eggs, it has thrilled little learners everywhere since it's publication in 1969! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hurrah, for Eric Carle and his wonderful picture book, </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Very Hungry Caterpillar,</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> for it is story of the week this week for the little Reception learners at Sunnyside School.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With it's simple text and distinctive collage illustrations, this fabulous story covers an array of educational themes - counting, foods, the days of the week, and the life cycle of the butterfly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it was the concept of transformation (from 'hungry caterpillar to 'beautiful butterfly') that team member Mrs Crayon, found herself exploring with her group of little learners today, as they cleverly fashioned their own hungry caterpillars from empty egg boxes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having established that a caterpillar's remarkable journey begins as a tiny egg, the conversation then focused on the next and most fascinating stage in the life cycle, that of the cocoon or chrysalis. Whilst they snipped and glued, painted and decorated, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mrs Crayon was keen to find out if her industrious group knew anything about the mysterious goings on deep inside a caterpillar's cocoon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has to be said the little makers struggled to offer any insights regarding cocoons, and just as Mrs Crayon was about to enlighten them herself, a budding entomologist in the group put down his glue stick and pipe cleaners and announced, "I know about cocoons I do! A caterpillar goes in one to have a think!" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perfect, thought a completely outdone Mrs Crayon! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He dreams of foreign travels,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But until that special day,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Where no more a caterpillar will he be.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With a waistline twice the size of you and me!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now, inside while he is shrinking, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You know he's busy thinking,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The consequences will be tragic,</span></div>
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Nicola Winslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104696180668879976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217546592054450621.post-81397847041931649272015-10-17T12:51:00.000-07:002015-10-17T13:23:09.367-07:00How do you dos and supermarket blues<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Reception Team is thoroughly enjoying getting to know their new charges, and as always the information they gain about each of them will go on to inform the weekly planning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few days ago, as part of all this vital getting to know you business, the little learners participated in a circle time, focusing on the things that make them happy. When the Team asked the question 'what makes you happy?' around the circle, the vast majority of these teeny tiny learners reported that they felt truly happy when their Mummies came to collect them from school each day. (Nothing unusual there, and completely understandable given that the vast majority of these brave little Sunnysiders are just four years old.) So, as the subject of today's circle time was centred around the things that make us sad, the Team naturally assumed that they were about to hear expressions of woe and heartache from little learners desperately missing their Mummies . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It therefore came as quite a surprise when the first little learner in the circle to respond to the question, 'What makes you feel sad?' did so by announcing that, "Spiky things and going to <i>Tesco</i>" caused him a great deal of grief and upset. Confident this surprising declaration was going to be a one off, the Reception Team was astonished to hear a second little learner announce that he too was saddened by spiky things and going to <i>Tesco, </i>as was the next....and the next little learner in the circle. Fearing she was in the presence of thirty downcast supermarketphobes, Mrs Organised asked if there was anyone else in the circle who wanted to share something that made them sad, but, that didn't involve spiky things and or, a shopping trip to <i>Tesco</i>. When a little hand shot into the air with it's owner squeaking in desperation to be chosen, Mrs Organised felt duty bound to check first that he wasn't about to say 'spiky things and going to <i>Tesco'. </i>"I'm not going to say that," assured the little learner, "I'm going to say sharks, and going to <i>Morrisons</i>!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deciding she was dealing with a class of future online shoppers, an undeterred Mrs Organised decided they would all revisit this subject again at a later date! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Goes on for miles and miles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">We've been trapped in here for hours!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've aged another year!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh, just bung things in the trolley Mum.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And let's get out of here!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't scrutinise the bargains,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Or the buy ones, get one free,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is simply not for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">But, uh-oh! Look what's happened,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My Mum has spied a friend,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And now that they are chatting</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I fear my life will end!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have the perfect cure though, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If we give up eating food!</span></div>
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Nicola Winslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104696180668879976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217546592054450621.post-68580547200113290032015-09-19T12:38:00.001-07:002015-09-19T12:38:45.693-07:00Jingle bells and jungle yells<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is now the turn of the 2015-2016 cohort of Sunnysiders to tell their story and to share their thoughts and feelings about life at 'big school'. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There to guide and s</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">upport them as they journey through the Reception Class at Sunnyside School, are team members Mrs Very Jolly, Mrs Organised, Miss Kind, and Mrs Crayon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As always, a busy and eventful year awaits little learners and grown ups alike, so in order that the coming days run safely and smoothly the Team's immediate focus is on 'settling in' procedures and establishing the routines and rules of the setting. In addition, through a host of fun filled activities, the Sunnyside Team will be helping the little learners to develop their sound awareness and listening skills. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With that in mind, the little Sunnysiders participated in a game on the Smart board today with the emphasis on getting them attuned to the sounds around them. As they listened to a mix of environmental and animal sounds, the group was required to identify and name each of them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was all going swimmingly with excited little learners recognising sounds left right and centre.......until that is, they were exposed to the famous cry of none other than Tarzan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has to be said that both Mrs Very Jolly and Mrs Crayon were a little surprised to hear the famed ape-man amongst the mewing cats and grunting pigs, not to mention the chugging combine harvester and the ka-chings of a cash register. So, as</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> a deathly silence fell amongst the somewhat bewildered group, Mrs Very Jolly thought she'd help them out by setting Tarzan off again. And again...and again. And just as a despairing Mrs Crayon was contemplating sticking Lego bricks in her ears</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to protect them from the annoying yodels of the loin-clothed jungle hero, a little voice piped up and announced, "I know what it is.......it's Father Christmas!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So there you go....before we've whipped the baubles from our Christmas trees, and slung the decorations into the loft for another year, Santa Claus has already shed his iconic scarlet coat, popped on a fetching loincloth, and is merrily swinging through the Chewing Gum trees in a jungle far, far, away!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You're sure of a big surprise.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You'll find it hard to spot him there</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because he's up so high.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You'll hear his jungle cry!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not everybody knows this fact,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But Santa's not one man.</span></div>
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Nicola Winslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104696180668879976noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217546592054450621.post-66042508921027630932015-08-24T11:51:00.001-07:002015-11-22T12:27:28.244-08:00Mops, socks and little men.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As we have learned from previous Sunnyside stories, "Do you know?" moments are special. These enchanting and spontaneous utterances are simply a piece of information that a little learner feels compelled to share. As far as the Sunnyside Team is concerned, a "Do you know?" moment brings an extra ray of sunshine to the school day, not to mention and smile and giggle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was Mrs Crayon who was in receipt of this particular little gem, whilst she was on her knees, (in every sense of the word) thinning out books in the book corner on the last day of term. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After scrutinising Mrs C's attempts to sort her dangerously listing tower of hardbacks, the little learner in question sidled up to the weary practitioner and said, "Do you know?.....my favourite story is Snow White and the three seven wolves!" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Convinced that her jaded ears were tricking her, Mrs Crayon was keen to push for some clarification. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Sorry...did you say, Snow White and the three seven wolves?" she asked, as the little learner thumbed through a stray copy of Percy Thrower's '<i>Practical Guide to Roses'. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Yes!" stated the little learner, studying Percy's tips on dealing with troublesome aphids.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"That's...the three seven wolves?" persisted Mrs Crayon, still believing her ears to be blocked.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Yes!" reaffirmed the little learner, somewhat irritated at her teacher's apparent lack of understanding.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A bewildered Mrs Crayon was curious about the number of wolves involved in this version of the Grimm brothers' legendary fairy tale. Was it three, or was it seven? Could it be thirty seven? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"None!" came the emphatic reply, "Not one!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As the little learner plonked Percy and his aphids back on the listing pile, and sauntered off, doubtless in disgust that a grown up could be so woefully ignorant of her beloved storybook, a re-energized Mrs Crayon was certain there was a poem to be had out of this surprising twist of fate for the celebrated, singing domestic. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, with not the slightest notion of how to shoehorn wolves into a half decent rhyme, (try finding a word that rhymes with wolves) Mrs Crayon nevertheless vowed she would, (in some form or another.) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Said Snow White to herself one day,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm tired of washing socks and hats,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of mopping floors and brushing mats.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm going to leave these little men,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To start my life over again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And all I'm taking are my pets.</span></div>
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Nicola Winslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104696180668879976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217546592054450621.post-14811315460868767302015-08-06T02:21:00.000-07:002015-08-06T02:21:11.627-07:00Jelly facts and fish stings<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Believe it or not, it's the end of the academic year! And at the end of the academic year, what went up....must now come down! This means display boards must be stripped, dingle dangles must be removed, and draws and cupboards must be emptied and tidied. It is also time for the team to reluctantly bid farewell to the current Reception Year cohort and wish them luck as they </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">journey towards their brand new class. Yes...Year 1 is beckoning the little<i> Sunnysiders </i>of 2014-2015!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As Mrs Crayon was busy wrenching staples from all the classroom's display boards this afternoon, she was accompanied by a willing and helpful party of little learners armed with magnets, picking up the growing mound of extricated staples on the floor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As they all toiled away, the subject of the imminent six week holiday came up for discussion, and the group began to share with one another their plans for the long break. Whilst some little learners were venturing to foreign parts, others were staying put and looking forward to spending time on the Island's beautiful beaches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"You better watch out for jellyfish!" informed one little learner as he freed his magnet of a ton of staples, "Jellyfishes kill you, you know!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The little learner's grim warning came as a result of an increase in jellyfish sightings in recent weeks, when they have washed up on beaches around the Isle of Wight. It also</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> prompted an abrupt end to all the holiday chit-chat and for the debate to centre around the issue of jellyfish. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The little staple gatherers immediately launched into an exchange of far out claims regarding how many of these gelatinous creatures they'd seen on the beach, as well as their size and proportions. As the little learners tried to outdo one another with claims more and more fantastical, i.e. the beach being littered with jellyfish 'as big as a bedroom', </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mrs Crayon couldn't help wondering if some of these jellyfish sightings were in fact supermarket carrier bags shamefully washed ashore in Whippy Cove Bay. Nevertheless, she was keen to find out if the group knew anything factual about jellyfish other than they can kill you, and they grow to the size of a one bedroom apartment. As it turned out<i> they</i> didn't, however, a little learner playing close by saved the day when he joined the magnet monitors, offering to share some or his own jellyfish insights. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I know about jellyfish I do," he declared to Mrs Crayon as she descended the dizzy heights of the 2 step ladder she was using.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Do you indeed," she said, happy to be reunited with terra firma again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Yep!" the little learner told her assuredly, "I know they sting you with their nettles!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What a wonderful way to end the school year thought an appreciative Mrs Crayon, grateful for this new jellyfish fact. After all, it is also thanks to this particular cohort of little theorists, that we have an understanding of why humans have eyebrows, what a camel stores in his humps, the true potential of kittens, and how to keep the ducks happy! We have also discovered some extraordinary facts about our Queen, horse tack, and the perils of purchasing rabbits. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the essence of a nettle-wielding jellyfish ditty began to formulate in the far reaches of her mind, Mrs Crayon felt totally indebted to these clever little people for inspiring her to produce another year of <i>Sunnyside</i> doodles and rhymes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy holidays little learners! Happy holidays dear readers!</span><br />
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Nicola Winslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104696180668879976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217546592054450621.post-71140810948293078042015-07-22T01:43:00.002-07:002015-07-22T15:10:25.847-07:00Bare heads and beanstalks<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>hat does a beanstalk and a pair of spectacles have in common?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The new topic in the Reception Class at Sunnyside School is 'growing', so the Team has magically transformed the home corner into a garden centre complete with real shrubs and cut flowers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This overabundance of vegetation in the classroom has dramatically affected the humidity levels sending them sky high so creating the ambiance of a tropical rainforest! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just to add to this jungle experience, a few weeks ago the little Sunnysiders planted their own Runner Bean seeds. Every day since then they have dutifully and enthusiastically nurtured their bean shoots to the point where the tendrils of this quintessentially British vegetable plant are now nudging the light fittings!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to a variety of non-fiction books on growing plants, the little learners have also enjoyed reading a selection of story books with tenuous links to flora and fauna. Like the very traditional <i>'Jack and the Beanstalk'</i> for instance, and the not so traditional, yet hilariously funny, <i>'Jim and</i> <i>the Beanstalk'</i> by Raymond Briggs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Briggs' version of small boy climbs ridiculously tall beanstalk and meets grumpy giant, Jim, just like his famous predecessor, also encounters a none too cheery towering ogre, only this one is extremely short-sighted, toothless, and rather follically challenged. In order to help the poor chap feel better about himself, Jim spends a great deal time shinning up and down the ridiculously tall beanstalk supplying the giant with false teeth, wigs and, yes, spectacles in return for gold coins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This wonderful story has really appealed to the little Sunnysiders' sense of humour, so much so it sparked an entire afternoon of crafting spectacles from pipe cleaners no less! In no time at all the classroom was filled with bespectacled little learners stomping about the setting yelling "Fee-fi-fo-fum!" at the top of their voices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As Mrs Caring was busy fitting glasses to little learners and attempting to reform all the squashed and misshapen ones, a little learner interrupted her endeavours with a "Do you know?" announcement. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Do you know?" said she, peering through a pair of fluorescent green chenille spectacles, "The other day I went to the big hospital for my eye competition!" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Your eye competition?" questioned Mrs Caring, thinking she must have misheard the little learner due to all the "Fee-fi-fo-ing!" going on around her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Yes!" confirmed the little learner shoving her homespun specs further up her nose. "And.....I hadded to wear wooden glasses!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The little learner went on to describe in great detail the tasks she was required to perform during her "eye competition", and she was adamant that she was made to do it all wearing glasses made of solid wood. When the little expert on eye examinations had finished sharing her knowledge with Mrs Caring, she went to share with Miss Kind, and then again with Mrs Crayon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While thirty pairs of little learner eyes furnished with a myriad of brightly coloured tufty specs was a truly inspirational sight today, Mrs Crayon was completely captivated by the notion of eye wear carved from the wood of a large tree that bears acorns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She then began to ponder how the admen of this world might try to persuade the masses that wooden glasses are the next must-have. And as she pondered, Mrs Crayon penned the following.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Come and view our range of spectacles </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">both standard and bespoke,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They'll last you all your life b</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ecause they're made of solid oak.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hand carved and finely finished </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they're ideal for anyone,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's just one teensy drawback, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it's a shame they weigh a ton!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You'll look and feel the business </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from your head down to your toes,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It just takes some getting used to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">all that weight upon your nose!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As sturdy as a sideboard </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">they won't bend nor will they flex,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You'll have everybody asking you </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">where did you get those specs?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Simply squirt a little polish </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and then buff them till they gleam,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whenever a Team member is approached by a little learner announcing <i>"Do you know?"</i>, they 'll automatically grab the nearest post-it note and pen in readiness to note down the little gem of information that inevitably follows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As far as the Team is concerned, <i>do you know</i> moments are special because these random, spontaneous little learner utterances invariably have nothing to do with anything, they are purely a piece of information that a little learner feels compelled to share at that particular moment. And without exception each <i>do you</i> <i>know </i>declaration brings an extra ray of sunshine to the school day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been a while since the Team has shared any <i>do you know</i> moments, so they feel absolutely duty bound to do so now. In addition to latest <i>do you knows</i> courtesy of the current little Reception learners, Mrs Crayon has penned a verse celebrating the <i>do you know</i> of a very disappointed little learner from a couple of years ago, who shared some information regarding the gender of his newly acquired pet rabbit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Something isn't right,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Something odd has happened</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">To me rabbit overnight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">When he ventured from his hutch,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">I noted instantly,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">That he'd turned into a girlie!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">But the pet shop is to blame,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">For me rabbit's change of sex,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">And I'm not sure what to think,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">About the fact that I am lumbered,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is the end of the school day. An exhausted Mrs Crayon is staring vacantly at the contents of the sink in the classroom. The sink is brimful of dirty paint brushes and paint pots. As she turns on the taps and begins to fill the sink with water, Mrs Crayon is suddenly transported back to the time when she was standing at a very similar classroom sink back in November 2012, preparing to do battle with a dozen paint brushes that were firmly welded together in a pot of hardened PVA glue. As she innocently turned the taps full on and squirted washing up liquid into the sink, a little learner appeared alongside her and told her in no uncertain terms that if she let the taps run '<i>the ducks wouldn't have any water.'</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unsure whether the little learner was referring to the ducks of Whippy Cove or just ducks in general, a somewhat conscience-stricken Mrs Crayon found herself heeding the little learner's solemn warning by turning off the taps and leaving the gluey paint brushes to soak in the detergent. In no way did she want to be the one responsible for draining the Whippy Cove duck pond, and leaving the poor Whippy Cove ducks high and dry! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As her thoughts returned to dealing with the present day painty mess in the sink, Mrs Crayon felt totally inspired by all this reminiscing about ducks and decided at the next convenient moment to write a duck poem. So after </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">washing up at home that evening (with just a minuscule amount of water in her washing up bowl) Mrs Crayon penned the following. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It happens frequently in the Reception Class at Sunnyside School. Whilst the little Sunnyside learners enjoy participating in an exciting array of activities linked to the their various themes and topics, there is always room for going off on a tangent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The tangent is almost always inspired either by little learner ideas, interests and fascinations, a comment they've made, or indeed (as in today's case).......the weather!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whilst it was gloriously sunny in Whippy Cove today, it was also extremely windy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the little learners prepared for lunch by way of their usual toileting and hand washing routine, a certain little learner poked his head over the toilet cubicle and announced to the patient (yet somewhat fidgety) waiting line, "Mum says when the trees wobble, that's when you can make kites!" Following this proclamation, everyone in the toilet line seemed to forget they needed the toilet and headed straight for the creative table hoping to rustle up some home-made kites before the dinner ladies were due to take them all to lunch!</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When it became obvious that it wasn't possible to make a kite in thirty seconds, The Team promised the little learners that if the trees were still wobbling after lunch they could make and create as many kites as they liked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the time the afternoon session began, the once wobbly trees were now almost bending double as they see-sawed back and forth in the strengthening wind. So t</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">he race was on to build a kite and start flying it before the weather had the chance to change. Amongst the reels of sellotape, the sticks of glue, the bits of paper and yards of string, a variety of home-made kites began to emerge ready for testing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As it turned out, it wasn't only the kites that were being tested this afternoon, it was also the little learners' resolve. Within seconds of launching their prized possessions into the air, they were instantly robbed of them, as sudden gusts of wind indiscriminately snatched kites from little fingers, sending them off into the stratosphere never to be seen again. (The kites that is, not the fingers.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Undeterred by this unfortunate occurrence, the little learners were cobbling together their mark two versions before any tears of sorrow could be shed. However, no sooner had they stepped outside to set their kites free for a second time, they were back in yet again clutching the only piece of evidence to suggest there ever was a kite in the first place......their piece of string.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And so it went on all afternoon: make kite, launch kite, loose kite, make kite again, until every scrap of sellotape had been ripped from it's reel, and the clock in the classroom had struck three.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As Miss Kind and Mrs Crayon bade farewell to the last little learner at the end of the day, they were informed by his Mummy that it was due to be very windy for the rest of the week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Question. What has two ears, four legs, whiskers and a wagging tail?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The little learners of Sunnyside School (that's the little school that sits proudly in the heart of the seaside town of Whippy Cove, which in turn is situated on the South Eastern shore in the Isle of Wight) are currently enjoying their topic on animals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Already this week the little Sunnysiders have met and learned all about a Tenrec, a Bearded Dragon, a Jungle Nymph and a Tawny Owl when they welcomed an animal keeper from Whippy Cove Zoo into the classroom. In addition they also met <i>Bracken,</i> a nine year old </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Springer Spaniel </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">brought into school by her owner, a veterinary nurse from Whippy Cove's very own Veterinary Surgery.<i> Bracken's</i> sweet and extremely laid-back nature allowed the little learners some quality time to get to know her. As they combed her glossy liver and white coat, they wrapped bandages around her paws and listened to her heartbeat using a real stethoscope. They also learned about the role of a veterinary nurse, as well as all that's involved in owning and caring for a pet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Consequently since encountering these animals, the little Reception learners have been keen to share information about their own pets. Once such little learner approached Miss Very Jolly this afternoon and blurted out that her cat <i>Rosie</i> had had her kittens in her mummy's bed. "Oh how exciting!" shrilled Mrs Very Jolly at a pitch audible to only small dogs and bats. "How many kittens did <i>Rosie</i> have?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Five!" stated the little learner thrusting five fingers in Mrs Very Jolly's face. "But they're a bit bitey and scratchy!" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mrs Very Jolly sympathised with the little learner then asked her what she was planning to do with her five kittens. "I'm gonna train 'em!" exclaimed the little learner with utter conviction. "You really can train kittens you know!" she went on reassuringly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stealthy reaching for a post-it note and pen (for she felt sure a little learner gem was imminent,) Mrs Very Jolly asked the next obvious question which was of course, "What are you going to train your kittens to do?" As quick as a wink, the deadly serious little learner replied, "Well first I'm gonna train 'em to do art and to bake, and then......I'm gonna train 'em to fly!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Needless to say, a giggling Mrs Very Jolly couldn't wait to pass her post-it note to her colleague Mrs Crayon, for she knew the words scribed across it would be all the information Mrs Crayon would need to inspire her next doodle and rhyme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh! And finally, in answer to the question, what has two ears, four legs, whiskers and a wagging tail?.......Well, it's a whale, surprisingly and the suggestion offered by one particular little learner when he took part in a '<i>guess</i> <i>the animal</i>' quiz this afternoon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whilst a whale with four legs, two ears, whiskers and a wagging tail has all the required elements for a delightful doodle, Mrs Crayon has nevertheless opted to go with the kittens on this occasion!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're smitten with your kitten,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But you're getting scratched and bitten,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And your furnishings are hanging by a thread,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make your kittens well behaved, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then your curtains will be saved,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, training kittens is the only way ahead.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But kittens can be versatile,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you train them to one inch of their nine lives,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paint a landscape and make dough,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Use a power drill and sharpen all your knives.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Show them how to ride a scooter,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teach them skills on the computer,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do the ironing, mow the lawn and even fly,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Show them how to trampoline, </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Play the flute and hang the laundry out to dry.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They can handle all the plumbing,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ice a cake when someone's coming,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tile the bathroom and compose a symphony,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teach them how to roller skate,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fix the hinges on the gate,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So should you want to be a teacher</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To this little furry creature,</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep the kitten training up the whole week through, </span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Though it may seem tedious,</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your pet will be a genius,</span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, he'll wind up far more cleverer than you!</span><br />
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Nicola Winslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14104696180668879976noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4217546592054450621.post-31598689855203607802015-03-28T23:39:00.000-07:002015-03-28T23:39:09.409-07:00Jolly jaunts and raisins<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">D</span>id you know that the ceremonial guardians of the Tower of London, popularly known as Beefeaters, not only eat beef, they eat chicken as well? Did you also know that the current British Monarch is actually called 'Queen Vic-Livia' and not Queen Elizabeth at all? Are you aware that Queen 'Vic-Livia' sits quietly in her bedroom each day because she is forbidden to speak to anyone.......ever? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These pearls of royal wisdom were revealed by the Reception learners of Sunnyside School today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, Sunnyside School has gone all royal by launching headlong into an exciting 'Kings and Queens' topic as part of a whole school learning experience. So to get things started, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">small groups of Reception learners participated in a brainstorming activity about the current British Royal family. It was during said brainstorming activity that the little learners delivered a whole range of fascinating if not quirky royal insights.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As well as conveying the favourite nosh of a Beefeater, the Reception learners also divulged details of the Queen's own rather specialised dietary preferences, the truth about her favourite mode of transport, the arrangements regarding the storage of her jewels, what her crown is made of, who it is that guards her castle, and the official name of her faithful and fearless husband.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Sunnyside Team are therefore delighted to share with you these hitherto unknown royal facts via the rhyming couplets of Sunnyside team member, Mrs Crayon. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She's married to Prince Charming,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pants, pants, pants, pants, pants!</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It doesn't matter how many times you say it or how often, little learners everywhere will laugh out loud the moment they hear the word pants! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For some reason little learners find pants funny. They like to talk about pants and they especially love to read stories all about pants. They even like to show you their pants when they're especially proud of them! So it goes without saying that when Mrs Very Jolly told the little Sunnyside learners that '<i>Aliens love</i> <i>underpants</i>' was story of the week this week, they responded with their usual outburst of raucous laughter as well as cries of "Ooh! Mrs Very Jolly said pants!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This fascination with all things pants subsequently lead to the reading of other stories about pants this week, (yes are there are quite a few) and it was while Mrs Very Jolly was sharing the book '<i>Pants</i>' </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Giles Andreae</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> with the group, that the focus suddenly switched from pants to........camels!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the many hilarious pictures by Nick Sharratt features a camel sporting a pair of pants on his humps. As the little learners rolled around in hysterics at this delightful vision, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mrs Very Jolly posed the question to them all of what a camel might store inside his humps. After she did so, the classroom fell uncharacteristically silent for what seemed an age as the now fully recovered little learners considered their answers. It was a huge relief to Mrs Very Jolly when eventually a </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lone hand tentatively rose skyward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Ooh! do you know poppet what a camel might store in his humps?" an excited Mrs Very Jolly asked the plucky little learner in question. Mrs Very Jolly felt sure the answer she was going to hear to this camel conundrum was going to be water (a common misconception among little learners,) so she was rather baffled to say the least when this particular little learner said........'<i>acorns</i>'! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As she tried unsuccessfully to stifle a fit of her own giggles upon hearing this completely original and slightly out there suggestion, Mrs Very Jolly was then treated to a barrage of other suggestions from the rest of the group which included, Jaffa Cakes, chicken wings, apple crumble, bananas, popcorn, spaghetti hoops, ice cream and fish fingers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whilst Mrs Very Jolly felt truly enlightened (if not a little hungry) by these camel revelations, Mrs Crayon on the other hand felt truly inspired and could instantly feel a camel poem coming on! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you're longing of an ice cream, the camel will provide,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He's got so many flavours, you will struggle to decide.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The camel's got it all, and he won't even want your cash.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which makes the clever camel.....Mother Nature's superstore! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Along with the howling gales that had swept them through the classroom door, an ill-timed deluge of rain had also managed to soak each and every one of them right through to their skin. Within minutes dripping wet trousers, skirts and tights were whipped off and hung from every surface in the Reception classroom in order to dry. Following a swift change into their P.E. kits, those undeterred little learners immediately leaped into their activities with their usual gusto and excitement.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sadly, gusto and excitement had bypassed one particular little learner at snack time today when she took part in a sandwich making activity. It was Mrs Caring who noted the decidedly irritated little learner struggling to spread a gigantic mound of butter on her scarcely visible slice of bread. After a few moments of observing her tutting and muttering, Mrs Caring seated herself next to the demoralized little learner and asked, "Can I help you poppet?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Yes please," replied the little learner casting aside her knife and slumping down in her chair. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mrs Caring took the greasy knife and began to scrape away the copious amounts of butter on the little learner's plate, and just as she was thinking she could finally detect some remnants of bread lurking beneath, the fed up little learner sat bolt upright and blurted out for all and sundry to hear, "Anyway, when I'm King, I'm not doing anything.....I'm just going to sit down all day!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When I am 'Your Majesty'</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">Then you'll never hear me tut or moan again.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">The only words I'll utter, </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #351c75;">I will be the archetypal royal pain!</span> </span></span><br />
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