Out and about in Shropshire

Challenge 1: To travel the length of the River Severn

Wow – A lot of you have been adding super distances to our total over the last few days.  Between us we’ve covered another 47 miles!

Only 56 miles to go.

Keep it up Class 3!

 

Sharing page – 27.4.20

Thank you for sharing all your work and activities, it’s so nice to see what you are all doing at home.

Well done for working so hard.

Handwriting in Class 1.

I have recently had a couple of queries regarding handwriting. I thought it may be useful to share the information with all Class 1 parents so everyone is aware of the school’s handwriting policy. Reception are taught to write with lead outs only. Year 1’s progress to using lead ins and lead outs. Here are a couple of links which explain it in more detail. Year 1link- https://www.teachhandwriting.co.uk/continuous-cursive-beginners-choice-3.html Reception link- https://www.teachhandwriting.co.uk/cursive-letters-beginners-choice-3.html I hope this helps. If you need any further information please do not hesitate to ask. Alternatively you can refer to the handwriting policy which is on the school website. Many thanks N.fox

Spelling Shed – Leader Boards

Here’s the leader board from Spelling Shed.

Zak still out in the lead! Can anyone overtake him?

 

Here’s the group leader board:

Class 4, the highest scoring class – just in front of class 2! However, Year 2 are currently the highest scoring year group in the school!

Class 1’s Sharing Post

Another productive day for the children in Class 1. I have really enjoyed seeing what you have all been up to. Great work everyone!

Hive Games – Reminder

There will be 4 hive games today:

Game 1 (slightly easier) – 1:30pm – 995990
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:35pm – 896366
Game 3 (hard) – 1:40pm – 506927
Game 4 (v. hard) – 1:45pm – 543040

Miss Relph will only be joining some of our games each week from now on.

 

Here’s a reminder on how to join a game (remember you need to be waiting at the loading screen at the time the game starts).

 

The first game is due to start in 1 hour.

Reflection Time and Prayer of the Day

Good Morning Brown Clee!  I hope you had a good weekend and managed to make the most of the fabulous weather!  We seem to have a few cloudy, damp days ahead of us, so hopefully the activities that the teachers are posting on the website will help with keeping you in a purposeful routine.

Today I thought it would be nice to reflect and ponder over another page from Charlie Mackesey’s book “The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse”.  So take a look at the following picture and words, and have a moment to see what it makes you think about.

Does it make you think about the weather, and that there might be dark clouds above but they will pass and the sun and blue sky will come back?  Or does it make you think it could be referring to that when things get tough, or when you are going through tough times, be optimistic, as these tough times will pass and happiness will return?  It’s making me think at the moment, that we are going through a difficult time, away from friends and family and school, but that these difficult times will pass, and we will be back together again.  There is always hope and faith. Let me know what you think!

We have 2 birthdays to celebrate from the weekend!  Yesterday it was Penny’s 6th birthday and Chloe’s (Class 3) 8th birthday, so please join in and sing to wish them a happy birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PENNY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHLOE

Prayer of the Day

Dear God,
Thank you that you are always with us in every situation.
Please help us to share our worries with someone when we are finding things difficult.
Please help us to realise the importance of talking.
Please be with those for whom life is difficult at the moment.
Please help us all to help other people.
Please help us always to look for hope.
Amen.

Daily Activities – 27.4.20

Good morning Class 2! I hope you have all had a wonderful weekend, enjoying the lovely weather we have had. It’s not quite as nice this week, unfortunately.

Thank you for the posters that have been sent to me over the weekend. If you want to do one today and send it, please do. Don’t forget to hold the poster in your photo.

Daily Activities 27.4.20

Year 1 Phonics – Click below for PowerPoint

Adding ing Year 1

Year 2 Phonics – Nessy video: l as el, al, le

Year 2 – Spelling Frame Activities

https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/85/8-The-l-sound-spelt-%E2%80%93el-at-the-end-of-words

Year 1 Maths – Week 2 Lesson 1: Find a half (2)

 

Year 1 Maths Work

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/

Year 2 Maths – Week 2 Lesson 1 – Compare lengths

 

Year 2 Maths work

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

English – Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch : Mr Grinling’s New Packed Lunch

Titanic PowerPoint:Starting the Journey – Click below

Titanic Starting the Journey

Thomas Andrews – Titanic’s Designer

 

Real footage of Titanic Departing

 

Titanic – Boarding scene from the film

Class 4 – Daily Activities – 27.04

Good morning. Before you check out today’s activities, here are yesterday’s answers.

If you missed a maths video/lesson or want to revisit something, here are the previous posts:
Daily Activities – 20.04
Daily Activities – 21.04
Daily Activities – 22.04
Daily Activities – 23.04
Daily Activities – 24.04

As always, you don’t have to do these activities at a set time or in a set order – that’s all up to you. Also, you don’t have to be doing work all day! Feel free to send in some pictures or videos of some of the other things you have been doing at home.

 

Spelling Shed

There will be 4 hive games today:

Game 1 (slightly easier) – 1:30pm – 995990
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:35pm – 896366
Game 3 (hard) – 1:40pm – 506927
Game 4 (v. hard) – 1:45pm – 543040

Miss Relph will only be joining some of our games each week from now on.

Maths

Early Bird Maths

This week, you will have something called a “Flashback 4” in each of your maths videos. These are similar to EBM and therefore I will only be including 5 EBM questions.

 

Year 5 maths:

Y5 maths video:

Click below to start the video clip. You can pause it if you need to.

 

Y5 maths activity:

Y5-Rounding-decimals-2020

 

Year 6 maths:

 

Y6 maths video:

Click below to start the video clip. You can pause it if you need to.

 

Y6 maths activity:

Y6-Calculating-scale-factors-2020

 

Extension – Bar Models:

Bars 1&2
Bars 3&4

 

English

Reading

Here’s today’s chapter from Pax:

Writing

There are different types of nouns. See if you can colour this in (you can use different colours than stated if you wish):

Nouns

Here’s some notes if you need a reminder.

Common nouns are names for everyday objects – e.g. pen.
Compound nouns are names formed from two separate nouns – e.g. bedroom.
Abstract nouns are names for ideas, thoughts or feelings – e.g. happiness.
Pronouns are not actually nouns but can be used in the place of a noun – e.g. he.
Collective nouns are names for groups of things – e.g. herd.
Proper nouns are names for specific things – e.g. England.

 

Daily Video

Today’s animation comes as a recommendation from Alex:

Here’s some questions to get you thinking:

1.) What did the girl always want to be?
2.) What was the girl’s name?
3.) What did her father do for a job?
4.) What did her father do with the girl’s shoes when she broke them?
5.) What do you think the girl regretted?

Science

In science, we are going to look at “taxonomy” or the classification of living things. All living things fit into different groups. The video below tries to explain this:

Don’t worry if you found some parts of this video confusing – it discusses some quite tricky science.

 

Your task in science is to find the scientific name of 10 different organisms (try not to just have animals – plants, fungi and bacteria are living things too). An organism’s scientific name is based on the genus is from and the species of that genus. For example, humans are the species “sapiens” from the genus “Homo”; therefore, their scientific name is Homo sapiens (sometimes written as H.sapiens).

Class 1 Daily learning Monday 27th April

Good morning Class 1. I hope you all had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the sunshine!

This week we will be continuing our English work on the class book Sharing a Shell. In Maths, Year 1’s will be continuing with the white rose home learning videos. Reception’s maths activities will vary slightly and will be a mixture of White Rose home learning and other activities.

Our topic work will be linked with our class book.

Have a lovely day, I look forward to seeing what you have been up to today!

Here are the links for today’s learning:

Daily activities 27.4.20

Year 1 Maths activity-

Year 1- maths activity- Lesson-2-Y1-Summer-Block-1-WO1-Count-in-10s-2020

Reception maths 1-3 spinner- number spinner

 

Rhyming words video:

 

 

 

Friday’s answers

Here are the answers to Friday’s work:

 

EBM:

 

Year 5 maths:

Please note that, for some of these, there is more than one answer and an example is given. If you’re still not sure whether you’ve got it correct, send me an email.

 

Year 6 maths:

Please note that, for some of these, there is more than one answer and an example is given. If you’re not sure whether you’ve got it correct, send me an email.

 

Bar models:

 

Class 1 update…

Here are a few more pictures of what children have been up to in Class 1.  Have a lovely weekend!

Sharing page – 24.4.20

Thank you for all the great work and photos you have sent today. If you still want to do the poster of what you miss about school and send it to me over the weekend or on Monday, that would be great.

I hope you all have a relaxing weekend!

Afternoon update – including Running Challenge

Following on from Chloe’s lambs from earlier on in the week, here’s some photos of Aggie and some of hers:

 

Alex and her brother and sister have made a water slide in their garden:

 

Zak has been testing out the bridge he made using his bike:

and camping in his garden:

 

George Be has sent in a picture of a robin – which is nesting in his shed. You can just make out the top of its head.

and here’s a picture of George Be playing balloon tennis and George R doing his laps around his garden:

Here are some the bridges made by Elliot, Samuel and Ellowyne.

 

Here are some self-portraits by Alex, Samuel and George Ba:

 

And, some of the fantastic work that has been sent in over the past couple of days:

Here’s the scores so far on our running challenge:

Falcons with a resounding lead! Remember to keep sending in your distances – which I will add to the total. I will reveal which house is leading again next Friday.

Some of you sent in some bike riding distances (which is absolutely fine!), but, when inputting the data, I did adjust the distances slightly to ensure they were fair along with the running distances

Class 1’s Sharing Post.

What a beautiful day it has been today! It has been lovely to see you enjoying the weather and taking your learning outdoors.

I have been sent another video from one of the children in the class to show me their brilliant reading. Thank you to everyone who sends something in, I look forward to receiving them every day!

Here are some photos of what people have been up to today;

Titanic Questions

Thank you for all the questions that you have sent to me about the Titanic. I have put them all together below. We can use these to help us with our research and learning.

Hive Games – Reminder

There will be 4 hive games today:

Game 1 (slightly easier) – 1:30pm – 159505
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:35pm – 146783
Game 3 (hard) – 1:40pm – 378446
Game 4 (v. hard) – 1:45pm – 145250

Miss Relph will only be joining some of our games each week from now on.

 

The first game is due to start in an hour.

What is Coronavirus? – for children

The Shropshire Library Service have kindly shared a useful book for children on the coronavirus. It is illustrated by Axel Scheffler (illustrator of The Gruffalo) and helps explain the current ongoing situation in simpler terms.

Coronavirus_ABookForChildren

Reflection Time and Prayer of the Day

Good Morning Brown Clee!

Today we continue to think about our Value of the half Term – Thankfulness.  We have been thinking about all the wonderful things that we have to be grateful for such as the countryside, animals, birds and sunshine.  But we also have to be thankful for our health, especially at these times, when there are so many people suffering.

There is a story in Luke, in the New Testament that retells the story of the Thankful Leper.

Prayer of the Day

Heavenly Father,
We thank you for all the people who care for our needs and the needs of others.
We pray for all who work in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries today.
Please help them in their work and keep them safe.

Teach us to show our gratitude for what we have
By caring for those around us,
And for the wonderful world in which we live.
Amen.

Today is a special day for Joshua as it is his 6th birthday so please join in and wish him a happy birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSHUA

 

Class 4 – Home Activities – 24.04

Good morning. Before you check out today’s activities, here are yesterday’s answers.

If you missed a maths video/lesson or want to revisit something, here are the previous posts:
Daily Activities – 20.04
Daily Activities – 21.04
Daily Activities – 22.04
Daily Activities – 23.04

As always, you don’t have to do these activities at a set time or in a set order – that’s all up to you. Also, you don’t have to be doing work all day! Feel free to send in some pictures or videos of some of the other things you have been doing at home.

 

Spelling Shed

There will be 4 hive games today:

Game 1 (slightly easier) – 1:30pm – 159505
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:35pm – 146783
Game 3 (hard) – 1:40pm – 378446
Game 4 (v. hard) – 1:45pm – `145250

Miss Relph will only be joining some of our games each week from now on.

Maths

Early Bird Maths

EBM Q

 

Year 5 maths:

Y5 maths video:

Click below to start the video clip. You can pause it if you need to.

 

Y5 maths activity:

Y5 Activity – 24.04

 

Year 6 maths:

 

Y6 maths video:

Click below to start the video clip. You can pause it if you need to.

 

Y6 maths activity:

Y6 Activity – 24.04

 

Extension – Bar Models:

Bars 1&2
Bars 3&4

 

English

Reading

Here’s today’s chapter from Pax:

 

Writing

You should be familiar with this as we have done similar ones in class before. This is the opening sentence from the book Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz.

PDF version

Daily Video

Here’s today’s animation:


and some questions to get you thinking:

1.) What did the “device” create?
2.) What did the “device” use?
3.) Why do you think the title of the animation is “The Alchemist’s Letter”?
4.) Who was the narrator?
5.) If you could have a device like this, would you use it and why?

Art

Here’s another DrawWithRob tutorial. See if you can draw a self-portrait with some help from Rob.