Calais here we come!

Oh my goodness! Well done Class 3, only 16 miles left to go to reach Calais – let’s see whether we can reach Calais by the end of Friday!

Class 1 sharing post

Thank you to everyone who has kept me updated with all the wonderful things you have been doing during the last 2 weeks. Please keep them coming. I know everyone (children and staff) are enjoying seeing what you have all been up to.

Have a look at what your friends have been doing. Make sure you read the lovely Easter messages from some of your friends!

Maisie also sent in a video of her brilliant, indoor assault course:

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12.5 miles to go! Can we make it in time?

Come on Class 2, get running! We need to do 12.5 miles and then we’ve made it back to Canberra.

You can do it!

Illustrations – DrawWithRob

I’ve already had some fantastic illustrations already – based on the DrawWithRob draw-along videos.

Here’s Ellowyne’s Gregosaurus:

 

Maisie has already done a Greg and a Kevin:

 

Alex has even drawn her whole family as stegosauruses:

Rob Biddulph does a draw-along every Tuesday and Thursday.

Here’s his website if you want to do any of other (or any of his future ones)

http://www.robbiddulph.com/draw-with-rob

 

 

Well Done Maisie, Elliot and Archie!

A massive well done to Maisie, Elliot and Archie for today’s Spelling Shed Hive Challenge – you beat me!!!  You have earnt a well-deserved price for being super-spellers!  A special mention to Emily – as she did brilliantly on games 3 and 4, which were all Year 5 and 6 words!

Final Spring Term Spelling Shed ‘Beat Miss Relph’ Challenge tomorrow!

Hive Game – results

Here’s the results from today:

Game 1:
1.) Archie Y – 213,556
2.) Miss Relph – 212,832
3.) Elliot – 211,984

 

Game 2:
1.) Elliot – 283,440
2.) Miss Relph – 157,672
3.) Archie – 94,272

 

Game 3:
1.) Miss Relph – 204,756
2.) Elliot – 203,208
3.) Emily – 63,188

 

Game 4:
1.) Maisie – 390,968
2.) Miss Relph – 289,296
3.) Elliot – 128,856

 

Well done everyone – there were some very close games in there. There will be some more games on tomorrow.

 

Elliot, Archie and Maisie have all earned themselves a prize by beating Miss Relph today!

 

Prizes will be awarded when we return to school.

PE with Joe Wicks: Fancy Dress Friday!

For those of you who have been exercising with Joe Wicks – let’s see if we can get as many as possible joining in tomorrow morning, and remember it is in fancy dress! Don’t forget to send photos of you in your outfits doing the exercise to your class teachers (and what tough work it is – my legs are still aching!)

Hive Game – Reminder

A reminder that if you want to take part in today’s hive games, the info is below:

Today, there are 4 hive games scheduled:

 

Game 1 (slightly easier) – 1:30pm – 761649
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:35pm – 297612
Game 3 (hard) – 1:40pm – 410630
Game 4 (v. hard) – 1:45pm – 157041

 

Remember, anyone who can defeat Miss Relph in any of the games will win a prize! We have 5 winners so far!

The first game is due to start in just over an hour.

Mistake in yesterday’s EBM answers

There’s a mistake in the EBM answers for yesterday.

 

Question 2 should read 432 and not 342.

 

 

Thank you to Maisie for pointing it out to me!

 

Reflection Time and Prayer

We are approaching a very important Christian festival, that of Easter.  So I thought that it would be good to remind ourselves of the Easter Story in the Bible.  Watch the following video that retells the Easter Story: (click the picture to take you to the story)

How does the story make you feel?  Happy or Sad? Or both?  Sometimes stories can be both sad and happy, and sometimes  stories are hard to understand. Are there things in our lives that we don’t understand? Are things happening even now that are difficult or make us sad?

The Easter story reminds us that, even in difficult times, there is always hope.

Prayer of the Day

Dear God,
Thank you for sending Jesus into our world to teach us about your love for us.
Help us this Easter to celebrate the joy of his resurrection and the joy of your presence with us.
Amen.

Well done Class 1! We Have Made it Back to Ditton Priors!

Brilliant news……… Class 1 have made it back to Ditton Priors!

Well done everyone. That means we went to Shrewsbury (Charles Darwin’s birthplace) and back a total of 10 times!

We will be doing another running challenge next term. More details to come after the Easter break.

 

Daily Activities – 2.4.20

Hello Class 2! There were lots of photos sent yesterday so be sure to look at the sharing page.

Let’s have one last big effort with the running, we only have 17.5 miles to go!

Daily Activities 2.4.20

Year 1 – Rhyming Bee Game – Click below

https://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games/words-that-rhyme-with-ug.html

Year 1 – Rhyming Shark Poem – Click below

https://education.abc.net.au/res/i/g.php?url=collection/rhymes/?animal=shark

Year 2 – Homophones – Sentence Game – Click below

https://wordwall.net/resource/42552/english/match-up-homophones

Year 2 – Homephones Quiz – Click below

https://wordwall.net/resource/44676/english/homophones-quiz

Year 1 – Maths LEGO measuring – Click below

Measuring using LEGO sheet

Year 2 – Maths Measuring Questions PowerPoint & Worded Problems – Click below

Year 2 Lengths worksheets & answers

Year 2 Length Worded problems

Easter Story PowerPoint, Story picture sheet & Easter Basket Craft – Click below

Easter Story Powerpoint

Easter Basket Craft

 

Oops! Mistake on planning!

Please note that there has been a mistake on the planning for the Year 4 Maths today. Please find the corrected plan here!

Good Morning Brown Clee!

It is lovely to see the sun shining over the hills this morning and listening to the birds chirping – Spring is definitely here!  Can you list any other signs of Spring or see any in your gardens?

There are 2 more days left in this Spring term, and from catching up on the class news pages there are still some distances to go with the class fitness challenges!  I am about to do my morning work out with Joe Wicks – and am going to join in tomorrow’s fun with fancy dress!  I wonder who else will work out with Joe in fancy dress on Friday?

Have a good day and keep those photos coming in – they really brighten up my day!

Class 4 – Activities at Home – 02.04.20

Before you start today, check out yesterday’s answers.

 

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.

 

 

There will be 4 hive games today:

Game 1 (slightly easier) – 1:30pm – 761649
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:35pm – 297612
Game 3 (hard) – 1:40pm – 410630
Game 4 (v. hard) – 1:45pm – 157041

 

Today’s games will be open to Class 3 again, and remember, anyone to beat Miss Relph will win a prize! We have 5 winners so far!

 

A Battle of the Bands between Hawks and Falcons started yesterday- which will end on Friday (at 15:00).

Scores (and top 3 contributors) as of this morning:

 

Early Bird Maths

EBM – 02.04 

 

Problems of the day

Day-9-Thursday-2nd-April-2020

Bar Models

Questions 1 and 2 with bars

Questions 3 and 4 with bars

 

Challenge of the day

This question is much harder than it seems!

How many squares are there on a chessboard?

English

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

1.) I haven’t got time.
2.) Could you pass me the salt?
3.) Until I’d seen it, I didn’t really quite how big Mt. Everest was.
4.) Before you go, put the chickens away.
5.) My brother, who is called Carl, had unfortunately run out of money because he’d spent it all yesterday whilst shopping with his friend.
6.) I’m here.
7.) I like ham sandwiches, but chicken is probably my favourite.
8.) The house on the top of the hill seemed like it actually had chicken legs…
9.) He’s upstairs, reading.
10.) I jumped.

 

Writing

Your writing task for English over the next few days will be very purposeful.

With the on-going isolating we are all having to do, it would be nice if as many of you as possible could write a letter to the residents at the care home.

 

Try and plan your letter carefully (think particularly about what you want to put in each paragraph). Remember, the first paragraph should introduce why you are writing (to see how they are doing).

As well as asking them questions about how they are doing, and how things might be different for them during these times.

You may choose to then talk about things you have done since school closed, what you like and dislike about it, what you’re looking forward to doing when it’s over

 

Ideally, I would aim for about one page of A4 for your letter.

 

If possible, please complete your letter on Word (or a similar word processing program) – as I will need to email them onto the care home.

 

If you have any questions about what to include in your letter or how to set it out, then feel free to email me.

 

Art

Some of you may have seen this already, but he’s some guides on how to draw a few (rather random) things by an illustrator (Rob Biddulph). Choose your favourite and have a go! You can have a got at as many of these as you wish. I’d love to see what you all create.

Class 1 Daily Learning Thursday 2nd April

Good morning Class 1!

I have had lots of emails to say how much some of you are missing school and your friends. I hope these photos help, I know it is not the same as actually seeing your friends in person but you can see what lovely things they have been doing!

I also know a few of the children are struggling to understand why they still can’t go to school. This video clip below explains in very simple child friendly terms the need for social distancing.

 

I hope his helps. There is also a link at the end of the video to get more advice on how to talk to children about Covid-19.

Well done for  all the super work from yesterday!

Here is a link for today’s daily learning:

Thursday 2nd April

Year 1 ‘oy’ phonics game –Game Board 2 x A4       Phonics Frog Game Pieces   Phonics Frog Game Instructions       

Number bonds to 10 worksheet number bonds to 10 worksheet

Easter story:  https://youtu.be/6t5aG7AXWkM

Have a lovely day!

Mrs Fox

 

Yesterday’s answers

Here are the answers from yesterday’s questions:

EBM

 

Problems of the day

 

Bar Models

 

Challenge of the day

What you should have found with today’s challenge is that when you get to around 6 or 7 folds it’s impossible to fold in half again.

The reason for this is that each time we fold it in half, it becomes twice as thick – to point in which we can’t fold it anymore. We can all agree paper is quite thin (~0.1mm thick). However, folded in once it’s 0.2mm. Folded twice it’s 0.4mm. Folded three times it’s 0.8mm thick. Folded four times it’s 1.6mm thick. Folded five times it’s 3.2mm thick. Folded 6 times it’s 6.4mm thick. Folded 7 times it’s 12.8mm (1.28cm) thick.

 

The smaller a piece of paper is – the fewer times you will be able to fold it. Therefore, by using a large piece of really thin paper is going to be able to be folded more times.

 

Britney Gallivan holds the world record for folding a single piece of paper 12 times!

 

Interestingly, if you fold a piece of paper 10 times, it would be about the width of your hand. If you could fold a piece of paper 23 times, it would be about 1000m thick. If possible, 30 folds would get you to space (100,000m). 42 folds would be enough to get to the moon. 103 folds would, in theory, make the paper thicker than the whole universe.

 

With the dragon question, you should have found that if the dragon doubles in size each day, it will half fill the cave after 19 days. Well done to Elliot – who was the first person to send me the correct answer!

 

English

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

1.) Fragment (subordinate clause)
2.) Run-on
3.) Sentence
4.) Sentence
5.) Sentence
6.) Run-on
7.) Run-on
8.) Sentence
9.) Sentence
10.) Run-on

 

Geography / History

These 7 kingdoms along with the Green South-West region (now Devon and Cornwall) went on to eventually form the Kingdom of England. The Green region (excluding the Devon/Cornwall region) are the kingdoms which eventually went on to form the Kingdom of Wales – whilst the pink regions (along with some of Northumbria) went on to form the Kingdom of Scotland.

 

Lots of these names are still used regularly and they are all still considered regions (if no longer kingdoms) of Britain. The one which you will most likely to have seen is Mercia – as being in “West Mercia Police”.

 

 

Only 50 miles to Calais!

We’re so close! Send the distances that you record in as soon as you can, so that we can add them to the total. Don’t forget, you could cycle, run, walk, horse ride….so long as you travel in a way that keeps you active.

Class 1’s Work in Action

It looks like it has been another action packed day for the children in Class 1.

Here is what some of you have been up to…….

Sharing page

I have had lots of lovely work and photographs today. Thank you very much for taking the time to send them and for all the work you’re doing at home.

Well done everyone!