Hello everyone!

I hope you are all well and enjoying the sunshine. Stay safe, wash your hands and keep your distances but don’t stop being happy.

Remember your R-Time skills when you are talking and listening to each other and keep practicing your handwriting!

I’ve added another Bug Club game for those who have finished the last one and I am watching your reading closely. I will give everyone who can read their book fluently and then completes the activities a new book. Hopefully, I will be able to leave a little message as well so look out for these.

Today is Roast day and Stay and Play, so why not keep a food diary today and record everything you eat and then dig out another game to play together. Do you know which foods you eat give you protein? Do you know what our bodies use protein for?

Look after yourselves and each other.

All the best

Iain F.

Good morning base 2,

We are now on day 4 of home learning and I hope all is going well.  As I keep saying, please make sure you are taking regular breaks and are learning some new home skills to support the rest of your family.

Luca, James and I have been doing Joe Wicks – well James has, Luca runs around and my bump doesn’t seem to let me do half of the exercises but I do what I can.  However, we are making the most of the nice weather and go into the garden for fresh air and to explore (Luca likes to watch the ants – he tries to eat them though!).

For today I would like you to complete the following:

English

Following on from yesterday’s learning of ‘Synonyms and Antonyms’,  I would like you to complete the word web attached below.  From the book you are reading you need to choose three words (try and choose some challenging words) and place them in the middle of each web.  You then need to research synonyms of these words.

I would like you to then rewrite the sentence your chosen word has come from and try replacing it with a synonym. Repeat this twice for each web.

Discuss the following questions with your family at home:

*Does the sentence have the same effect on you?

*Does the word change the information to mean something else?

Word Web

Maths – Please go onto:

Discovery Education > KS2 > Maths > Addition and Subtraction (lower) > Videos > Mental calculations: subtraction.

• Start by watching the video.
• Click on activities.
• Complete two of the subtraction activities depending on how comfortable you feel with it.

> Please continue with your reading.

> Please continue with your times table practise.

(https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/)

> Please continue with your Easter project.

>  Don’t forget to see what Harold has been up to: https://www.coramlifeeducation.org.uk/harolds-daily-diary

Make sure you let me know how you are getting on or even upload some photos.

If you have any questions, please contact the school via their e-mail address and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Take care, Mrs Cousins.

Good morning!

Reporting from my garden this morning as the sun is out!

Have you been active this morning? This morning Harry and I worked together to do our own circuit training with different activities. Can you help us to find a new station to keep us active? I look forward to seeing your suggestions!

After the Easter we will be investigating sharks. Check out the National Marine Aquarium Live feed at  https://www.aqua.org/Experience/live. Can you spot the Blacktip Reef Shark? Have a go at drawing the shark. Can you find out three facts about the Blacktip Reef Shark? Send me your facts and pictures through the website 🙂

After doing you phonics phoneme speedy reading today, why not create your own word hunt?

happy, sky, yak, butterfly, dry, funny, spotty, bunny, yellow, yesterday, yucky

All of these words have the letter y in but it can make different sounds. Read the words together then write down the words onto different pieces of paper. Take it in turns to hide the y words around your home. Time each other to see who can find and read all of the words in the quickest time!

Something new for you…

Life Education

Harold – our happy, healthy giraffe mascot  and a favourite with children – will be posting a daily blog: Harold’s Daily Diary!  Here’s the link to it: https://www.coramlifeeducation.org.uk/harolds-daily-diary.  Each day he’ll be giving you positive, fun messages about what he’s doing to stay happy and healthy while he’s off school, separated from his friends. He’ll invite the you to join in with activities he’s doing.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the Home Learning or if you need any further support. I will do my best to reply to you swiftly.

Have a great Wednesday!

Miss Hall 🙂

Good morning all, 

I’d like to start by sharing my first thought of the day with you – I wonder how many others (of the 1.4 million people who took part) have woken up with slightly achy legs today following Joe Wicks’ P.E. lesson yesterday?!

Maths tasks for the day is more rounding decimals! Today I have put together some challenge questions for you to discuss with family members at home. Click on the word Maths the word document:   Maths 

Keep practising your times tables as much as possible, chalks in the garden are a brilliant way to practice, especially when the sun is out 🙂 

For Literacy today, please write your own relative clauses about mythical beasts. Look back at the relative clause videos from the last two days to remind yourself of what a relative clause should include and where the punctuation is needed. If you have not yet started your mythical beast research, you could write a sentence about a Minotaur, a Griffin, a Fairy and a Merman. I have uploaded the 5/6 words list below, please include as many words as possible. Year-5-or-6-Spellings-Whole-Year-Tick-Box

I hope you are all finding time to read at home and record your comments into your contact book. It is important to make times in the day to do this – when you do it will need to fit with your family.

To support our next History topic, please log on to Discovery Education Espresso, go to KS2, History, Anglo Saxons, Factfiles. Here you can read the information about each area of Anglo-Saxon history. You could record your favourite fact from each fact file into your contact book. 

I hope you have another fab day, I’ll be working out with you all (and Joe Wicks) again at 9 am. 

Keep uploading your learning – everything I have received so far has been just brilliant.

Miss Shopland

Wednesday 25^th March 2020

We’ve made it to Day 3.

I hope you have all enjoyed your first few days of home learning. I hope you have started to feel like you have begun to get a routine going.

Today in Mr Whitty’s household, as well doing our learning, we got out into the garden to explore a little bit. We came across squirrels, bees, daisies (made daisy chains – love making daisy chains!), snowdrops and oak leaves which had fallen to the ground over winter. We even found an old bench at the very bottom of the garden buried behind a pile of old shrubs and bushes. Bethany (you all remember Bethany I hope!) and I are going to fix it up by sanding it down and getting it ready to paint.

I will upload pictures as soon as I can so you can see how our project is progressing.

Something new to do or explore

Is there anything in your garden or home that you could repair, recycle or upcycle (with an adult) as part of an ongoing project? If so, I would love to hear or learn about it (don’t forget to upload pictures too).

Discovery Education

I hope you have all logged onto Discovery Education, If not and you are having difficulties, please email the school and the message will be passed on to me and I will get back to you with a solution.

On the front of the learning packs received towards the end of the week, there was a username and password for a resource called ‘Discovery Education’. On Discover Education you will find lots of different resources to support your child’s learning. Check out the section ‘Espresso’ – ‘KS2’.

I hope you have been able to log into Discovery Education. Today, I would like you to do the following activity.

Once in the section KS2, please go to ‘Maths’ – ‘Addition and Subtraction (lower)’ – Videos – Mental Calculations: Addition – Watch the video and have a go at the activities afterwards.   

Have fun learning and happy exploring….

Things to continue with

Handwriting/Spelling

I have uploaded some handwriting/spelling resources. It includes the Year 3 and 4 statutory spelling list, along with another list of words we use every day called High Frequency Words or HFW spelling list. You do not have to use the spelling and the handwriting resources together but it works well using both together.  The best thing to do is to only choose about 5 or 6 spellings at any one time and focus on those until they are learned rather than trying to learn too many at once.

Times Tables

Keep learning your times table. All the hard work is paying off!!! (https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/)

Bug Club

Keep going with Bug Club. I have updated everyone’s Bug Club account. Your login details are in the front of your home and school contact books on page, Wc 30^th September 2019. I will be allocating activities on Bug Club for you to complete over the next while.

PE/Dancing

If you are following Joe Wicks – Well done – We did it as a family today and my goodness we were so tired by the end. We were doing it on catch up as we could not do it at 9am. So, if you miss the one at 9am, Joe saves the session to his Youtube channel so it can be accessed anytime.

Dancing with Oti Mabuse is live on her Facebook page where you can learn a dance routine. This goes live at 11.30am each day.

Topic

Continue with your Easter Topic learning. This is a project type task and it should take time to complete. Please see the previous post – Easter Home Learning for more details. To see the progress your project is making, you can create a photographic diary if you take pictures of the different stages of your learning. This would be something I would love to see uploaded to the website for me to see.

You are an inspiration to me and to each other. Well done each and every one of you and thank you for keeping in touch via the website. It looks great. I look forward to receiving more from you over the next few days. Any questions, please write in and I will get back to you soon as possible.

Take care and be safe,

Mr Whitty

Good morning base 2,

Please make sure you are taking regular breaks and are learning some new home skills to support the rest of your family.

Something new….

Life Education

Harold – our happy, healthy giraffe mascot  and a favourite with children – will be posting a daily blog: Harold’s Daily Diary!  Here’s the link to it: https://www.coramlifeeducation.org.uk/harolds-daily-diary.  Each day he’ll be giving you positive, fun messages about what he’s doing to stay happy and healthy while he’s off school, separated from his friends. He’ll invite the you to join in with activities he’s doing.

For today I would like you to complete the following:

> English – Please go onto:

Discovery Education > KS2 > English > Grammar and Punctuation > Synonyms and Antonyms

You need to watch the video, take both quizzes and complete the activity.

>  Maths – Please go onto:

Discovery Education > KS2 > Maths > Addition and Subtraction (lower) > Videos > Mental calculations: addition.

• Start by watching the video.
• Click on activities.
• Complete two of the addition activities.  You can choose which ones depending on how comfortable you feel with it.

> Please continue with your reading.

> Please continue with your times table practise.

(https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/)

> Please continue with your Easter project.

Make sure you let me know how you are getting on or even upload some photos.

If you have any questions, please contact the school via their e-mail address and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Take care, Mrs Cousins.