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Thursday 26th March, 2020

Y5&6 Highlights from home! (Week 1)

It’s been great to see so many of the Y5&6s keen to continue their learning at home this week, working independently through their timetable of activities. Many children are practising hard on their spellings and we our class is currently in 39th place in the WHOLE WORLD on Spelling Shed! Can we make the top 35 by practising every day from 9:30 – 9:45am? If you all do your bit, you will zoom up the leaderboard!

Here’s a few highlights from this week’s pupil’s activities at home………..

Amy has been busy with separating her mixtures in Science.and also finding time for some forest school and painting activities in her garden.

Science at home

Amy enjoying forest school time

Amy’s outdoor painting

Henry and Bethany have been busy on Spelling Shed after a bit of ‘Joe Wicks’ morning exercise, which Harvey and Nelly are also demonstrating. Harvey has also enjoyed finding time to do some quality digging in the garden. Chloe and Bethany have been catching up on their ‘angles’ maths work whilst Nia and Nelly have been doing the same with fractions, decimals and percentages.

Working at home

Bethany, Nia, Nelly and Chloe hard at work on their maths

Harvey and his workout

Nelly’s morning exercise

Harvey on the digger

Reuben, Zoe, Ruby and Jack have worked really hard on their Famous Five stories.

Reuben’s Famous Five and the Case of the Pathetic Policeman

Zoe – Famous Five story

Ruby’s continuation of her story

Jack Munn – Famous Five and the Case of the Funfair Frenzy

Dante, Henry, Nelly and Amy have been working hard on their Crime and Punishment topic.

Dante hard at work

Amy – Crime and Punishment

Henry – Crime and Punishment

Nelly’s topic work

Isla has been busy cooking in the kitchen as well as keeping an ecosystem diary. Also being creative in the kitchen are Chloe, Bethany, Nelly and Cameron.

Isla’s ecosystem

Isla cooking

Cooking

Jack, Harvey, Chloe, Zoe, Bethany, Nelly and Dante have been producing some pieces of art work.

Art Work

Reuben has produced a design for a message from Jesus about the Coronavirus pandemic in RE, whilst Amy has created a wonderful prayer from the perspective of Jesus. Nelly and Zoe have also been thinking hard with their messages from Jesus.

RE

Cameron has been following written instructions to construct a new punch bag in his garage and then continuing his physical activity by using it!

Cameron’s new punch bag

Many of the children have been keeping on top of their spellings by asking somebody in their home to give them their weekly spelling test.

Spellings Week 1

Keep it going! You’re doing great!

Thursday 26th March, 2020

Poetry Challenge Completed!

Well done to all those that completed today’s poetry challenge. You have created some excellent Kennings based on the squirrel video you were asked to watch. They were really well written and I could see how closely you had watched the video.I particularly the use of alliteration.

Click on the link below to view the poems:

Squirrel Kennings

Thursday 26th March, 2020

Today’s Poetry Challenge

Morning Rhino Class,

Fancy a challenge?

Today I would like you to have a go at writing a special type of poem called a Kenning.

Kennings were first used in Anglo Saxon times. The famous Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf uses many kenning phrases, for example:

  • Body = bone-house
  • Ship  = wave-floater

Today, we can use Kennings to describe everyday people, animals and objects, for example a kenning about a dog could be:

face-licker
ball-chaser
stick-carrier
water-drinker
tail-wagger
floor-sniffer

and so on……

Can you write a Kenning poem about the squirrel in the video below? Remember each line of the poem needs to contain only two words (noun – er verb) e.g risk-taker. Remember to send your poems via Class Dojo and I can post them on the website to share. Have fun!

Wednesday 25th March, 2020

Working from home Y5&6 Jaguar class – Thursday 26th March

With the weather being so lovely today, hopefully all of the children managed to get some ‘down time’ in the garden or on a carefully chosen walk somewhere. Knowing our weather, it will probably snow on Friday!

School shall be open tomorrow as we are hosting the children whose parents are key workers. Therefore, if you have not already done so, please feel free to collect your child’s books (Sketch, RE, Topic, Science) from the reception area at any point during the day. I shall also leave out some paper for you to share as well as many of you will have been doing lots of printing at home.

Well done to Harvey who was awarded the 5 Dojos for his fantastic art work this afternoon. All of the other children who sent me their attempts were given 1 Dojo each!

Tomorrow’s timetable.

Daily Timetable Thursday 26.3.20

9:00 Joe Wicks ‘The Body Coach’

https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html

9:30 Spelling Shed –

WELL DONE EVERYBODY! YOU’VE NOW STORMED INTO THE LEAD! (Lucy, Nelly and Cameron were the highest scorers today – 2 DOJOS EACH)

1. Year 5 & 6 Myddle 119,537,020
2. Year 5 Baschurch 85,072,744

9:45 English – Continuation of the Famous Five and the Case of the ……… story (Solving the problem in the story)

English Lesson 4 Thursday 26.3.20

11:00 Maths –

Y5s Adding Decimals   

Maths Y5 Thursday 26.3.20  

Maths Y5 Thursday 26.3.20 Adding Decimals

Y6s Properties of shapes (Angles)

Y6 Maths Lesson 4 Angles 26.3.20

Y6 Maths Lesson 4 Angles Activity 26.3.20

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Reading (Complete your reading record)

1:30 RE – Christianity (Salvation)

RE Salvation Lesson 1

Tuesday 24th March, 2020

Working from home Y5&6 Wednesday 25th March

Hi everybody,

Why oh why does the weather start being beautiful whilst we are all confined to our homes for most of the day? It’s just typical of the British weather. Anyway, I hope everybody is okay and the children have found plenty of extra activities to do on their days at home as well as their timetable of learning.

Here’s tomorrow’s schedule:

Daily Timetable Wednesday 25.3.20

9:00 Joe Wicks Warm ups : https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html

9:30 Spelling Shed: We are currently in 2nd place overall! Come on, catch Baschurch Y5s up!

Well done to Jack Munn and Lily Thomas who are, so far, the leading boy and girl this week in their spellings.

1. Year 5 Baschurch 81,999,026
2. Year 5 & 6 Myddle 66,671,377

9:45 English: Famous Five and the case of……. (Solving the problem in the story)

English Lesson 3 Wednesday 25.3.20

BREAK:

11:00 Maths:

Y5s Subtracting Decimals  

Maths Y5 Wednesday 25.3.20

Y5 Subtracting Decimals Part 2      

Y6s Properties of Shapes (Angles)

Maths Y6 Wednesday 25.3.20 Lesson 3

Y6 Maths Angles Activity Sheet 1

Y6 Maths Angles Activity Sheet 2

LUNCH

1:00 Reading (Use your reading records) Also, don’t forget that you could listen to a David Walliams story online.

https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

1:30 Art

Art Wednesday 25.3.20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv4hKMb797E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpcZ8lVWuwM

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

Tuesday 24th March, 2020

Vocabulary Challenge

Can you think of 10 words to describe this picture?

Send me your 10 words  via Class Dojo and I will compile a list later in the day. Good luck!

Mr Glover

A great list so far….Can we add more?

Now we have this list…

Version 3… The bigger the word appears, the more times it has been used. Well done to those who have thought of synonyms and more abstract words.

Final version. Well done and thank you to all that contributed to today’s challenge. You have done a great job exploring vocabulary.

Monday 23rd March, 2020

Working from home Y5&6 – Tuesday 24th March

Hi everyone.

Hopefully everybody had no problems with accessing the work provided from today and have managed to complete any tasks with no issues. Also, as the weather seems to have finally improved, make sure that you take advantage of that and get into the garden too.

Did you enjoy the start of the day with Joe Wicks? Hopefully that got you motivated for the rest of the day.

Here’s a timetable for tomorrow:

Daily Timetable Tuesday 24.3.20

9:00 Physical activity with Joe Wicks

https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html

9:30 Spellings (Spelling Shed)

9:45 English – continuation of your Famous Five story

English Lesson 2 Tuesday 24.3.20

10:45 Break

11:00 Maths – Y5s – Subtracting decimals (including tenths, hundredths, thousandths)       Y6 – Properties of shape (angles – YOU NEED A PROTRACTOR, WHICH ARE AVAILABLE TO COLLECT FROM SCHOOL IF POSSIBLE)

Maths Y5 Tuesday 24.3.20

Y5 Subtracting Decimals 1

Maths Y6 Tuesday 24.3.20 Lesson 2

Y6 Naming and measuring angles with a protractor activity

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Reading (Don’t forget to fill in your reading record)

1:30 Topic – Crime and Punishment

Topic – Crime and Punishment Lesson 6

What I now know activity 1

What I now know activity 2

Well done! Keep working hard!

Sunday 22nd March, 2020

Distance Learning – Don’t Panic!

Distance Learning – Don’t Panic!

We are all about to embark on something very new and very daunting. You have not opted to home educate your child, as some parents do, so many of will not have the set-up and resources to replicate school at home – and we do not expect  you to replicate school! Children work well in school, being taught, being led, bouncing ideas off each other; it will be impossible for them to do this at home and you mustn’t feel bad if what you try to do doesn’t work. Within school, teachers and children develop a very special respect for each other and this is how we get the best out of them. I know from having my own children that it can be a very different story at home when it comes to school work!  You must remember though, when you try and get them to do their homework usually, they have already done 6 hours work in school and are bound to be more tired and reluctant.

As well as you being thrown in at the deep end with this, so have the teachers. They have never had to provide learning in this manner before. They are trying to add resources and activities to the website BUT you don’t have to do it all! Some families will be in a position to do more, some less. You will not be judged on this. The teachers and TAs are also working in school on rotation to care for the children whose parents are vital in the covid-19 response. Some are very anxious and worried about doing this and the risk to their own families so I want to thank you for all your efforts to keep your children at home at this time and for the lovely supportive messages we have had send in to school.

If it works for your family to have other learning experiences such as art, music, cooking, sewing, board games, craft, sport or gardening then definitely do these! This time could be a rare chance in our busy lives to spend a lot of time with our children doing things we never have time to do.  We would love to hear from you and see what you’re up to, so please email photos or write to us at the school email addresses. We will all miss the children so much and are heartbroken that this is the way the year has potentially ended.

Good luck – we’re only a dojo away, so keep in touch!

 

Sunday 22nd March, 2020

Panda Class Home Learning 23rd March

Good morning Panda Parents/Carers,

I hope you are all well and enjoying some sunshine. I have added a link to next week’s learning and an Early Years Foundation Stage Home Learning pack which is full of different activities to keep those minds active. I will be using ClassDojo as a means of communicating with you all – thank you for the messages so far, it’s lovely to stay in touch.

Any queries at all please just get in touch I am here to help.

Overview-of-learning-23rd-March-2020

EYFS-Home-Learning-Pack

Best wishes

Mandy Turner