Time for Hazelnuts to fly... #davegrohl

Where has the year gone...?
In two more days I cannot believe I will say "Goodbye!" to my little (or not so little now) Hazelnuts and also to East Harling Primary... so we had to do a grand departure...

For some time now... around October/ November, I have known that we will sing "Learn to Fly" by the Foo Fighters as our Busking Day song (before knowing much about the event!). It seemed the perfect song; the Hazelnuts would be all grown and ready to fly the nest and into Year 1.

It wasn't until looking closer at the words that I thought we might need a bit of adaptation; some words were very big for us 4 and 5 year olds. So with an "educational" twist and some "Here's some we prepared earlier" cardboard guitars, we set out to 'Rock!'

At this point I will laugh and pride myself that one Hazelnut is "super at rocking out on stage"! Yeah!

So here are some excerpts of our 'jamming' with Mr Canning, who we cannot thank enough for bringing his real guitar and helping us (especially as I am tone deaf and cannot play a thing)!

 Jamming session 1: deciding on staging locations...

Rocking to an audience- There were a lot of audience members!
 

Thank you to everyone who came to watch, especially on such a hot day! Owing to this we kept it short and sweet-
Thank you for your donations which will all go to our whole school charity, East Anglian Air Ambulances!

A little something I found..

I am sure that none of my Hazelnut parents would ever say this to their child, but I found this poster and thought it worthy of sharing! To "fail" is to learn- we would not learn anything if we simply achieved all of the time. And for those who do find some things easy, learning to fail is a very important lesson in life. It makes us question, assess, analyse- whether it is examining why the stack of blocks fell to answering a calculation incorrectly.

I hope you find these tips useful... for us all, not just the children ;)