Reflection Time and Prayer of the Day

Good News: The Resurrection

Yesterday we thought about the Easter Story, when Jesus was crucified on the cross to save us all.  This day is now known as Good Friday?  What a strange name!  What was good about it?  Can you think of anything?

Today we are looking at Easter Sunday, which was when Jesus’ was resurrected.  Watch and listen to this short story by clicking on the picture:

Easter is a time of mixed feelings: sadness, confusion and loss, but also happiness, hope and joy. For Christians, Easter is a joyful time and reminds us that sadness does not last for ever.  So as we break up for our Easter break, away from each other, let’s have a moment to reflect and think to the future, the joy of being back together.

Easter is also a time of new starts, and so is Spring; so to put a smile on your face, what better way than sharing one of my favourite Spring songs – please join in!

SPRING CHICKEN

Prayer for the Day

Loving God,
Thank you that when awful things happen
sadness does not last for ever.
Thank you for the surprise beginnings
that today will hold in store.
Amen.

 

Daily Activities – 3.4.20

Good morning Class 2! I hope you have all had a good week. We need to run 4.5 miles by the end of the day if we are to get to Canberra on time! Come on Class 2!

Look out for some Easter activities and a final look at Australia later!

Daily Activities 3.4.20

Music – Tiddalick the Frog – Click below

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/music-ks1-tiddalik-the-frog-1/zj9spg8

ICT- Coding BBC Bitesize/Turtle Logo/Scratch Junior – Click below

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z3tbwmn/articles/zykx6sg

https://turtleacademy.com//lessons

https://www.scratchjr.org/

 

Daily learning 3.4.20

Happy Friday everyone!

Well done for all your hard work over the last 2 weeks. I have really enjoyed seeing all the amazing things you have been up to.

After today, we have 2 weeks off for Easter. I hope you all have a lovely Easter break. Fingers crossed we have some nice weather and can all be out in the garden.

Daily learning will be back on the Class 1 news page, Monday 20th April.

Take care and look after each other!

Mrs Fox

Daily Learning:

Forest School

Mrs Rollings has suggested a scavenger hunt. She has asked you to find:

1) A feather

2) A skeleton of a leaf from last year

3) A leaf emerging from a bud.

4) Something unusual or pretty (must be natural.)

5) Can you see a mini beast that has been in hibernation or has hatched out in Spring (for example: a bumblebee, a ladybird or a butterfly.)

Have fun and please share your photos. I am sure Mrs Rollings would like to see what you have found.

Year 1 spellings:

Ask your mum or dad to test you on your weekly spelling list. (Remember it is a test so they can’t help you.) Let me know how you get on!

 

PE:

Click on the following link for yoga.

Dance:

Try the second part of the BBC move it mini-beast- ‘Digging for worms.’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g6vs7

Maths:

Weight and capacity- Lesson 2 https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/

Activity sheets: Y1-Spring-Block-4-WO2-Measure-mass-2019

I hope you have a great day! Keep me updated as to how you get on!

Class1@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk

Mrs Fox

Good Morning Brown Clee!

What a strange way to end the Spring Term – no Well Done Assembly, House Point Presentation or Easter Celebrations! But every day is a new day and takes us a day closer to being back together – whenever that may be!  So for the first time ever I’d like to present a virtual Well Done Certificate to the entire school community for being absolute superstars in working together, communicating together to ensure the school partnership carried on!

The teachers will be setting the last day’s activities for the term – so please enjoy!  We are so thrilled with the response from children and parent in carrying out the activities that the teachers are posting.  We appreciate the challenges, such as having children in different year groups, having working parents or other commitments, but every single thing that you have done has been brilliant – thank you and well done!

I’d like to wish everyone a restful Easter; it will be different as we will all be at home with family rather than heading away for holidays or day-trips.  But living in the beautiful Shropshire countryside is a definite bonus – so I look forwards to hearing all about the fab things you get up to when we get back together, in whatever format that will be on April 20th.

I’m about to go and get myself ready for Fancy Dress Friday with Joe Wicks – see you there!

Class 4 – Activities at Home – 03.04.20

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 – 876630
Game 2 (slightly harder) – 1:35pm – 511161
Game 3 (hard) – 1:40pm – 287580
Game 4 (v. hard) – 1:45pm – 303337

 

Today’s games will be open to Class 3 again, and remember, anyone to beat Miss Relph will win a prize! We have 7 winners so far!

 

This week’s Battle of the Bands between Hawks and Falcons will end today (at 15:00).

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

 

Maths

Early Bird Maths

EBM Q

 

Problems of the day

Day-10-Friday-3rd-April-2020

 

Bar Models

Questions 1 and 2 with bars
Questions 3 and 4 with bars

 

Challenge of the day

By removing just three lines can you turn these 5 squares into 3.

There should not be any lines left over.

 

English

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

1.) The blue and white house.
2.) His friend, Kevin.
3.) It’s over there don’t touch it.
4.) Why are you here?
5.) Pass me the salt it’s over by the pepper.
6.) In the dark wood.
7.) Without even thinking.
8.) We only have 30 seconds to get out you need to hurry up.
9.) Before the neighbours arrive.
10.) Whenever you’ve got time.

 

Writing

When you have finished your letters to the care home, email them over to me.

 

P.E.

Your P.E. task for today is to create your own game/activity/obstacle course (anything which would required significant physical activity to complete).

As always, send me any pictures or videos of what you complete.

 

As today is our last day before Easter, I will post the answers to today’s activities this evening (by 7:00pm).

 

 

 

Yesterday’s answers

Here are the answers from yesterday’s questions:

EBM

 

Problems of the day

 

Bar Models

 

Challenge of the day

If you were just to count the small squares, then you should have got 64. However, there are not just small squares. Here’s a pictures showing a 1×1 square, a 3×3 square and a 2×2 square:

When we start exploring these different sized squares, there are 49 2×2 squares, 36 3×3 squares, 25 4×4 squares, 16 5×5 squares, 9 6×6 squares, 4 7×7 squares and 1 8×8 square.

Therefore, there are 64 + 49 + 36 + 25 + 16 + 9 + 4 + 1 (or 204) squares on a chessboard.

 

Does anyone notice something interesting about all of these numbers?

 

Here’s a video showing all these possible different squares you can find:

 

Sentence / Fragment / Run-on

1.) Sentence
2.) Sentence
3.) Sentence
4.) Sentence
5.) Sentence
6.) Sentence
7.) Sentence
8.) Sentence
9.) Sentence
10.) Sentence

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:

IMG_057

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