Month: June 2020

Good Morning Pioneers-Tuesday 2nd June

Scott Grason-Taylor

https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/summer-reading-challenge-silly-squad

Every year the library run a reading challenge and this year is no different.
Click on the link to see what is on offer this year.
Time spent reading is never wasted.

Happy Reading

If you are finding reading on screen a bit difficult,I would like to suggest writing a few sentences of your own,using the phonics and tricky words.
Here is a quick outline of something which might be helpful.
This is linked to Mr Wolf’s Week.
Happy Reading

 

Take time to fill in your chart. Make symbols for each day. Write a sentence to say what you have done.
My sentence does say Mr Wolf. I am saving the sentences about me for tomorrow.
I have included a picture of the tricky words to help you out.

 

Mr Puffin joined me to look for patterns on the clock face.
He spotted pairs of numbers that go together to make 13.
Can you help him to spot some more?
Write out your number sentences.
Keep an eye open for more patterns.
Mr Puffin would love to hear how you are getting along.
That’s maths magic,Pioneers!

 

https://www.mathsisfun.com/games/dayofweek.html

Here is a little fun activity .
Do you know which day of the week you were born on Pioneers?
Put your details in and take a look.

You could do it for all the family, This will get your Pioneer talking about day and date,months and years.
It’s all Maths Magic

Tuesday 2nd June 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good Morning Leaders

Yet another lovely day yesterday – I hope you managed to enjoy the sunshine as well as getting back into doing some of the activities set yesterday. Well done everyone. I really like how some of you are now using Tapestry as a dialogue for your learning – you are truly empowered, it’s awesome.?

Graphic Novel Plan – English

Today we are going to plan our graphic novel. Remember that you are going to need to be able to tell the story, including emotion, in pictures with very little, if any, text. It might be a good idea to start with quite a simple theme – you can always add more on at the end.

You can use your preferred method of story planning for this task.

Function Machines – Maths

Have a look at the function machines. Find out what happens to the number through the first machine and then what happens through the second to get to the final number.

Animal Adaptations – Science

Today, we are going to explore how animals adapt to their surroundings. We will look at how animals change their environment if they cannot adapt. In our investigation we will look at the effect of insulation on temperature.

You will need: an empty cereal box, a thermometer (either a medical or a kitchen thermometer), a plastic clear cup, some cotton wool or other types of material like paper or old clothes and some water.

Watch the video below. Remember you can watch it multiple times if needed or save the activity until you have the resources required.

https://home.empiribox.com/lessons/habitats/

A New Half-Term – Monday 1st June

Scott Grason-Taylor

Hello everyone, I hope you are all ok and have had a lovely half-term. Do let me know what you have been up to!

Today is the start of a fresh half-term and we all feel re-charged and ready to launch – like a rocket. (Did anyone see the live launch online on Saturday night? It was very exciting)

Todays suggested learning on Tapestry today is as follows :-

In Maths, we are looking at 2D shape – Let’s go on a shape hunt!

In English, we will start to think about what argument means and how we can look at both sides of a story!

In music, a song we love from Collective Worship – its one of my favourites too!

In Phonics, as there are rockets in the air – let’s play  Rocket Rescue on Phonics Play.

Keep in touch with me on Tapestry as always and don’t forget to join me at 6PM tonight for story!

Keep happy and keep smiling 🙂

Mrs Brown

Good Morning Adventurers – It’s back to school Monday!

Scott Grason-Taylor

I hope you all had a lovely break and I would love to hear what you’ve been doing. I’ve enjoyed lots of lovely walks and have taken more photos of the wonderful nature around us, which again has inspired me for some of the learning activities for this week.

Perhaps you could share your news and suggest ideas for learning you would like us to try.

Today’s learning includes: (More details on Tapestry)

Handwriting – practise the letter ‘Uu’.

English – we are going to choose three animals to research and create a fact file about them. Today we will study one animal, draw  and label a diagram of them and write down some facts that we already know.

Maths – Key skills for Year 2 and Year 3 then we are going to explore measure. Today we are going to measure ourselves by creating a wall chart then measure parts of our body.

DT – our project this week is links to English and we are going to make a mini beast or animal habitat box. We can make a start today.

I’m really excited about this weeks learning and hope you’ll try one or all of the tasks! I love seeing all your work on Tapestry (only teachers can view it) as it gives me a chance to communicate with you and it feels like we are back to school together!

As it’s such a love day again why not take your learning outside.

Enjoy your day.

Mrs Roe

Monday 1st June 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning, Discoverers,

I hope that you have had a wonderful week in the glorious sunshine. I’m really looking forward to catching up with you all again. 

In English, we are going to be writing a diary entry, from the point of view of a Victorian child. We looked at how school was for Victorian children, when we visited Preston Park Museum. Can you remember some of the things that we did there? 

When you write your diary entry, it will focus on a day at school.

To help you, I would like you to watch this short video. It shows you what a day at school was like for Victorian child: Maggie Johnson.

https://www.literacyshed.com/schooldays.html

Today, I would like you to watch the video, and make a list of any activities that Maggie does during the day. You can also add any school activities to your list, which you may remember from our school trip. 

 

In maths this week, we are going to be focusing on decimals. We started to look at these in class, and I want you to remember that a number after the decimal point means that it is part of a whole, like a fraction. For example, if I have 1.1m of string, this shows that I have one full metre, and 0.1 of another meter. 0.1 is the same as 1/10. 

Here I have uploaded the answers for the maths questions you completed before half term, and I have uploaded your questions for today, which focuses on adding tenths to make one whole. 

 

We are also going to be learning some science this week, which focuses on plants in particular. 

Today, I would like you to watch a video, which teaches you about the different parts of a plant. Then, I would like you to draw a plant and label the different parts. 

When you visit this link, the video I would like you to watch is called: 1. Parts of a plant. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/Mf5rhbTkHLZ3fbJzScyDvC/primary-science-plants

Have a great day,

Mrs Taylor 

Welcome Back Pioneers. Are You Ready to Learn? Monday the 1st of June.

Scott Grason-Taylor

Well Pioneers,this really is Maths magic. I love patterns and this one is a real winner for me.

Take a look at a clock. Get a grown up to draw one for you like mine. You can do loads of maths using the numbers on the clock face. I have shown you one in pattern in my video. I will show you another one tomorrow.

Can you spot any by others with your grown ups?
Use the numbers to write number sentences.

Sumdog is set up for you this week with revision questions from all areas of counting.

That’s Maths Magic

There’s lots of ideas here to do with the days of the week.
Write out the days on postits.
Can you recognise and read each day?
Try this out:Today is……………..
Tomorrow will be …………….
Yesterday was ………………..
In two days time it will be……………………….
That might be tricky.
Use the words for handwriting. Your Pioneer will spot the use of capital letters and see the difference in size when used together with the lowercase.
The spelling is very tricky. If they want to try writing them by themselves then that is gret too.
Have a go at putting the days of the week in order

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zm9hscw
Here is a lnk to help you
Over the week we are going to build up to writitng our own “Days of the Week” sentences to turn into a little book in the same format as Mr Wolf’s Week.
Look out for a special Sleights C of E version in the next couple of days.
It’s a winner!

Listen and enjoy.
Here is our story to start the week.
The story talks about the days of the week, the weather and what Mr Wolf is wearing.
Your teachers are getting together to make their own version of this story and I think you could start your preparation to do the same.
Start by making a chart.
You will need : Day of the week,weather,clothes,what can we do

By the end of the week you will have all the stuff you need to write your own story.

Here is a silly reading book to work on some of the trickier sounds. As always go slowly,especially after the holidays. Take a look back at Geraldine and the sound sheet to remind your Pioneer of the sounds. Go through the words on the first page-these are the most challenging in the book.
First,enjoy the book together and build up to spotting the sounds and known words before reading the sentences.
Happy Reading