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Monday 20th April, 2020

Panda Class Monday 20th April 2020

Hello Panda Parents/Carers, I hope you are all well and have had a good Easter break.

Thank you so much for your continued positivity in continuing to support your child’s learning at home. The sunflowers are all doing well and getting quite tall! I will send some pictures on ClassDojo.

I have put together some links for this week’s learning.

There are links to:

How to use the correct letter formation when forming lower case letters. If at all possible, please do all 26 over the next couple of weeks. This uses the Read Write Inc rhymes too which your child will recognise.  I really believe that using the correct letter formation from the start is far easier than having to undo ‘bad habits’ in later years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmUH2TCsfIc

Talk for Writing – This is in the form of a booklet which guides children and their adults through guided literacy exercises. This is a great resource and starts with a text and then followed by lots of ‘talk for writing’, so important for early writers.

https://www.talk4writing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Reception-Unit.pdf

In Maths this week we are looking at Composition using the Part / Whole Method. (Adding 2 numbers to find the whole/total). To put this in to more context there is a link to The Main Areas of Early Years Maths (From the National Centre for excellence in the teaching of Mathematics) Then there is a link to a YouTube video showing the Part / Whole model for adding.

https://www.ncetm.org.uk/resources/52500

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fc3x3nF0Rg

I hope you have a great week – if you need any help/support at all please do contact me through ClassDojo.

Best wishes

Mandy Turner

 

Monday 20th April, 2020

Rhino Class – Learning Project WEEK 3 (20th Apr – 24th Apr) – Viewpoints

Hi Everyone,

I hope had time to relax and enjoy the beautiful weather over the Easter break. It is a pleasure to welcome you back to the website and hopefully you are ready to get going again with your learning. Remember, as well as completing some of these activities is is important to read daily and practise your x tables as much as possible.

Please click on the link below to access the Rhino Class Learning Project for this week:

Week 3 Learning Project – Viewpoints

This week’s project again includes weekly tasks for Maths, Reading, Writing and Spellings and a cross-curricular / topic project. All web links and instructions are included in the document. Please choose at least one activity from each section per day. 

Use the links below for some Reading Comprehension Activities:

Garden Birds Differentiated Reading Comprehension Activity

Weekly spellings – please access the spellings to learn this week below. Week 3 should be learnt each day and then tested on Friday.

Year 3 Summer 1       Year 4 Summer 1

Please click on links below to access Year 3 and 4 Common Exception words and activities:

Common Exception Words – Year 3 and 4

Year 3 and 4 Spelling and Activity Sheets

Looking for more maths?

Try the x tables challenge… Ultimate x Table Challenge

You can also access some video lessons on fractions for lower key stage 2 on the NCETM website. Use the following link: Fraction lessons

The BBC Bitesize website also offer some great games and activities that can be used learn all aspects of maths. Use the link: BBC Bitesize

If fancy being active, then click on the link below for a daily workout from the body coach Joe Wicks. Each day, he will continue to stream a live 30 minute PE lesson for pupils access at home at 9am. There are also a wealth of 5/10 min workouts specifically aimed at children which are great.

Joe Wicks – Workout Sessions

It was great last week to see so many examples of the work the children had completed as well as photos of them working, so if you like to share your child’s work with me (for rewards and feedback), again this can be done via the Class Dojo portfolio. As usual, if you have any queries, please continue to contact me via the Class Dojo app.

I will also set some daily challenges on a Tuesday and Thursday and send the link out via Class Dojo around 8am each day.

Kind regards and keep well

Mr Glover

Sunday 19th April, 2020

Working From Home Y5&6 Monday 20th April 2020

Hi everybody, welcome back to the Summer Term. It’s time to get back to a routine of focusing on your school work at home so here’s your daily timetable for your first day back. Let me know if you have any problems during the day and if you can send me any examples of how you’ve been getting on so that I can award any class dojos.

Daily Timetable Monday 20.4.20

9:00 Morning physical exercise: You can either watch somebody online, (eg, Joe Wicks) to copy from or, if you would prefer, you can do your own exercise routine.

 

9:20 Spelling Shed: We are currently in 48th place in the world. How far up the league table can we get in the next 15 minutes. Your spellings for the this week are the same as those that you’ve had during the Easter break. You could also practise some of the expected Y3&4 or Y5&6 words though too.

 

9:35 English: (Look carefully at the final slide which tells you which piece of text about Usain Bolt YOU need to be reading)
English Lesson 1 Monday 20.4.20
Usain Bolt Biography

 

11:00 Maths:
Y5 Maths Monday 20th April
Y5 Maths Monday 20th April Activity 1
Y6 Maths Lesson 1 Monday 20th April
Y6 Maths Lesson 1 – Monday 20th April Activity

 

1:00 Reading Time: (Complete your reading record)

 

1:30 Science: (If you are struggling to do this investigation because of a lack of resources at home – don’t worry, spend your time learning about thermal conductors and insulators)
Lesson 6 Science – Materials Keeping Cool
Differentiated Investigating Materials Activity Sheet (PAGES 1 and 2)

 

Enjoy!

Tuesday 14th April, 2020

Updated handwashing advice and resources from government

Updated handwashing advice

It is essential that everyone washes their hands more often, using soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Hand washing with soap employs mechanical action that loosens bacteria and viruses from the skin, rinsing them into the drain. Drying hands afterwards makes the skin less hospitable to the virus. Hand sanitiser can be effective if soap is not available or the situation makes using soap less feasible (i.e. when outside) but using hand sanitiser provides none of the virus-destroying friction that rubbing your hands together and rinsing with water provides.

The latest guidance and video on hand washing can be found at:

The e-Bug project is led by Public Health England and has a dedicated webpage for learning resources on hand washing and respiratory hygiene.

Resources are currently available for KS1, KS2 and KS3 and can be used in various settings including schools and at home:
Monday 13th April, 2020

SUMDOG – fun maths and spelling

This motivating website for maths and spelling is being offered for free during the isolation period. I highly recommend registering for  an account following the link below as it is usually very expensive to subscribe to for schools.

SUMDOG Create an account

Monday 13th April, 2020

Rainbows and Hearts Wanted

Can you help us to create a lovely display of rainbows and hearts for when we all get back together at school?

We would love it if you could spend some of your time on a little art project for us to hang up at school to celebrate us all being together again. It could be a drawing, something made of pipe cleaners, lolly sticks, salt dough, quilling, pom poms, bottle tops, cereal boxes, tissue paper or hama beads – the ideas are endless. Just use what you’ve got at home already. Decorate your house with it for now, then bring it to school when we go back. We will create a big tree of rainbows and hearts.

Thank you and have fun.

Saturday 4th April, 2020

Easter Homework Y5&6

Y5s Easter Comprehension Homework
Y5 Comprehension homework 1
Y5 Comprehension homework 2

 

Y5s Mini Project Homework
Y5 Easter break project

 

Y5s Easter Spellings
Y5 Spellings – Easter break

 

Y5s Easter Maths Homework
Y5 Maths Homework 1 – Adding decimals
Y5 Maths Homework 2 – Complements to 1
Y5 Maths Homework 3 – Subtracting decimals
Y5 Maths Homework 4 – Decimals homework
Y5 Maths Homework 5 – Decimals homework 2
Y5 Maths Homework 6 – Decimals homework 3

 

Y6 Comprehension homework
Y6 Elvis Presley Comprehension homework – PAGES 1,2 & 3

 

Y6 Mini Project homework
Y6 Easter break project
Y6 My Transition Booklet
Y6 A Letter to my Future SelfY6 A Letter to my new Secondary Teacher
Y6 My Hopes and Aims

 

Y6 Easter Spellings
Y6 Spellings – Easter break

 

Y6 Maths homework
Y6 Angles Homework 1
Y6 Angles Homework 2
Y6 Angles Homework 3
Y6 Angles Homework 4
Y6 Angles Homework 5
Y6 Angles Homework 6
Y6 3D Shapes Homework 7
Friday 3rd April, 2020

Highlights from home Y5&6 Week 2

Well done everybody! The end of the term has arrived and you should all be proud of your achievements during the last two weeks, working from home in these difficult circumstances. Fingers crossed that we get some warm weather during the next fortnight so that you can spend plenty of time in the garden. This will allow the children to ‘play’ and be outdoors as much as possible.

Here are some of the highlights from this week’s work/activities by the children.
English at home Week 2
Maths at home week 2
Other activities & lessons at home

 

Here are the top 5 spellers from Spelling Shed today:
1st = Heidi 44 points
2nd = Ruby 41 points
3rd = Nelly 39 points
4th = Cameron 18 points
5th = Jack 11 points

Currently, we are in 13th place in the world on Spelling Shed. The new spellings to be learned during the Easter break shall be on Spelling Shed tomorrow morning, as well as the ‘Expected’ Y3&4 / Y5&6 spellings too.

As this is not the usual ‘Easter break’, some parents have asked for some work to be provided on the website so that their children are maintaining their high standards and kept busy, especially on the days where the weather may not allow for outdoor time. Therefore, even though I won’t be providing a daily timetable, I shall be putting on the website in the morning a mini project for the Y5s and Y6s to do separately should they wish to do so. Also, there shall be some extra maths activities for the children to have the opportunity to complete, based on their learning from these past two weeks.

For those children who choose to complete these activities, the rewards system (Dojos) will continue during this time and be added accordingly.

Even though I shall be busy planning next Summer Term’s lessons as well as beginning to write the children’s end of year reports, I will be delighted to be sent any examples of what they’ve produced and will of course continue to offer advice or feedback on the content of their work.

Happy Easter everyone!

 

 

Friday 3rd April, 2020

Rhino Superveg

Thanks to all of you that completed the ‘Superveg’ challenge yesterday. You obviously had great fun creating your own characters making models, making videos, making power-points and writing shorts stories and comic strips! I was so impressed, so well done!

Have a look at some of the highlights using the link below:

SuperVeg

Hope you all have a great Easter Break and I will see you back here very soon with some more activities and daily challenges after the holidays.

Take care

Mr Glover