Author: Scott Grason-Taylor

Thursday 14th May 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Hello Discoverers,

Thank you for showing me your poem starters yesterday, they are sounding amazing. I can’t wait to see the finished results.

Today, in English, I would love you to finish writing your poem. There are no rules: it can rhyme or not rhyme, it can be as long or as short as you want, and it can have a silly twist. Poems usually include lots of description. Think about the adjectives, similes and metaphors that you used within your setting description, and try to think of some that will fit into your poem. 

Also, if you looked at the link earlier in the week, it talks about the use of repetition in a poem, see if you can repeat a line, or a verse, to make it catchy and memorable. 

Here is the link for Michael Rosen’s youtube channel, I know that you loved his ‘Chocolate Cake’ poem, so thought you might like to see more. https://www.youtube.com/MichaelRosenOfficial

I have also included this example for you, to show that a poem can be written however you want, and decorated how you want. 

Most importantly, have fun writing it!

 

Here are your answers for yesterday’s fraction questions. How did you find adding and subtracting fractions? 

Today, we are moving on to looking at: finding fractions of amounts. 

In my example, I have completed the first one for you, to show you how to find the answer. I have then continued to show my working, but not the answer, for the following three questions, and then the remaining four I am hoping you will be able to manage yourself. 

Remember, to find a fraction of an amount, you simply divide the amount by the denominator (number on the bottom of the fraction). 

Have a go, and let me know how you get on. 

In science, we have been looking at food chains. You have watched clips about different food chains, and yesterday focused on a farm. Today, I would like you to consider a food chain that may be occurring in your garden, or your nearby grassy-area. Which food chain may be there? 

Spend some time outdoors, observing the producers (plants) and consumers (animals) that you may see. The predators may not be in sight, as they like to catch the consumers off guard. You may be able to think about which animal might like to eat the consumer, without seeing them. 

You can write names, or draw your food chain. 

Here are some examples for you:

Have a wonderful day,

Mrs Taylor 

Hello Learners – Thursday 14th May

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning everyone,

 

I hope you are all ok. The sun is shining today!

Todays suggested learning on Tapestry today is as follows;-

In Maths, we will be finding a quarter of a number today. Using the same activity as Monday we will split the objects into 4 equal groups today!

In English, we will used the colour information we gathered yesterday to write a colour acrostic poem. There are easier and harder options to try! Don’t rush this is will take some thought!

In phonics today we will look at the split diagraph o-e, as in the words home, nose and cone.

Let’s do some PE today as the sun is shining! Let’s practise our throwing and catching skills! You can use a ball, an apple, a teddy or a rolled up pair of socks! There are some video clips to practise throwing techniques or just to play some fun games! Enjoy!

It is lovely to hear from you whether you are doing these activities or creating your own!

Please keep in touch! (keep smiling)

Best wishes, 

Mrs Brown

 

Can You Save Floyd,the Fireman and the Rhinocerous from the tree?

Scott Grason-Taylor

All the things are stuck in the tree and they need to get down.
We’ve tried a rocket.
We’ve tried a zip wire.
Now let’s try a parachute.
I have collected some materials to make a parachute. Which one will work best?
Try different material and different shapes and sizes. Can you save Floyd,the firemen,the rhinoceros and Mitch,his cat ?

 

Here is a little game to play with a number line,a dice and some magic beans.
We started with 6 beans. Roll the dice and give away the correct number of beans.
The winner is the person who gets rid of all of their beans.
You could just play or you could talk about each calculation.You could write down each subtraction !
That’s up to you and your Pioneer.
We just had fun and the counting just happens.

Here is the link to a Numberblocks episode about bigger numbers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0007gcv/numberblocks-series-4-24-land-of-the-giants
Its a good one.
And here is a number square game that you might like to play when it is quiet and it is snowing and hailing:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/chopper-squad.

And a great song,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dJWfQHF8Y

Happy Counting

That’s Maths Magic

Here is your new reading book.
Over the next few days I will add links to help you focus on ee and oo.
The most important thing is to enjoy reading together so get comfy and have a nice time.

Pop over to Tapestry to see the videos and more photographs to help you.

Happy Learning

Thursday 13th May 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good Morning Leaders.

What a high scoring game last night – I think I’ll need to make things harder!

Today, I’d like to encourage you to take part in the activities and get members of your household involved too – maths can be a multi-player game and I’m sure you will welcome the extra eyes spotting the colours for your rainbow. Many eyes make light work.

English

We are going to have a go at writing out own poem using Paul Cookson’s as a base. We are going to ‘magpie’ the line ‘Let no one steal your dreams…’

Today I want you to make a list or mind map of all the dreams that you have (I know that some of you have already been thinking about this). They can be as small or as big as you like e.g. getting muddy playing football with friends to living in a castle.

You could then start to think about how you want to group your ideas together to make verses for your poem. It does not have to rhyme – remember you can also use syllables, assonance and consonance to give your writing rhythm

Assonance
Consonance
Mind-Mapping

Maths

Fractions

Using your knowledge from yesterday have a go at the memory game to match the fractions, decimals and percentages.

There are lots of levels to choose from and you can even play against someone in your family if you would like, choose the number of players at the bottom of the yellow score box.

https://claritymaths.uk/games/memory/fractions-decimals-percentages.html

Rainbows – Art/ICT

It’s Thursday again and I’m sure many of you will be out clapping for key workers this evening. Lots of people have been painting and drawing rainbows and this has become quite a symbol in lots of windows. I’d like you to use this theme today and, when you are out on your daily exercise, take something with you to take pictures. See if you can spot all the colours of the rainbow and put them together to make a rainbow picture. Have a look at the example.

I am also going to see how many I can spot on my walk with Rolo and let’s see how many of us manage to get a complete rainbow.

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Happy hunting.

Good Morning Adventurers – Welcome to Wednesday!

Scott Grason-Taylor

Keep up the great work everybody! I just love seeing it all on Tapestry.

We had some wonderful leaf art and poetry yesterday. Great fraction work too!

Today I’ve got lots of exciting things for you to try and a new book to share with you called ‘Under the Love Umbrella’ by Davina Bell.

Mrs Burton has also posted a super DT project on Tapestry which will keep you very busy!

Here are today’s activities: (more information on Tapestry)

Handwriting – practise the letter ‘Pp’

English – join me and listen to our new story then we will start writing ideas for our poem based on this book.

Maths – Key Skills for Year and Year 3 then non-unit fraction work and a problem to solve!

Art – let’s create some more leaf art pictures. See how imaginative you can be!

I hope you enjoy trying some of these activities and have a lovely day.

Mrs Roe

It’s Wednesday – 13th May

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning everyone,

I hope you are al ok today!

Today’s suggested learning – details on tapestry – is as follows:-

In Maths today, we are are going to test our skills of how well we can spot a half! We should be experts by now! Remember a shape needs 2 EQUAL parts to be in half!

In English, we are collecting some colour information, in order to write our Acrostic Colour Poems tomorrow! I think you will enjoy this task today!

In Phonics, we will carry on with split diagraphs and focus on the i-e sound – there’s a fun sound spotting activity to do!

Last week in Geography, we researched continents and found out all about them. Today, we will investigate oceans – see if you can answer Mrs Brown’s questions about oceans today!

I think the weather is set to improve soon and the warm sun will return! 

In the meantime, keep busy and keep being kind to each other and keep smiling 🙂

I am missing you all,

Best wishes,

Mrs Brown

Wednesday 13th May 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good Morning Leaders.

It’s game day today so it would be great to see some more of you get involved this evening and some more names on our leader board. Remember – you can only give one answer per reply and each correct answer (that hasn’t already been given) will score a point.

It is so nice to see so many of you get involved with the science investigation about micro-organisms. Perhaps you could keep sending photographs and then we could share our results between those people who have taken part. I wonder whether there will be any other factors that might affect your results – what do you think?

English

Today, we are going to look a little deeper into some of the sections of yesterday’s poem.

  1. Look at the line: ‘that fires the drive inside your heart’. How does this metaphor show that Cookson feels dreams are more than just ideas?
  2. Read over the poem and select any phrases which use commands and imperatives. How does the author create a sense of hope in his repetition of these phrases?
  3. Look at the final line: ‘your only limit is the sky’. How has another metaphor been used here to show that anyone can achieve anything they set their mind to?

If you’d like help to form your ideas use the following sentences starters.

The opening line shows Cookson feels dreams are… because…

Commands are used in the phrases ‘________’ and ‘_________’. These phrases show that he feels… This allows us to understand/feel…

In the final stanza, Cookson uses the metaphor to show that…

 

Maths

Fractions

Today, you have a choice of one or both activities.

  1. I would like you to make a fraction, decimal and percentage display or table, showing equivalents of each. You can present this how you wish. You might want to make a table or make something more visual, the choice is yours.
  2. Have a go at the Tarsia puzzle. If you have a printer, you can print out the triangles and cut them out. If not, you could make your own triangles, copying the ones on the picture.

Then put your triangles together with the joining sides being equivalent.

FDP-Game1
FDP-Game2
FDP
FDP1
FDP2

Happy puzzling!

History – I have a Dream

A is for Activist led us to a list of names for us to investigate including Martin Luther King. He delivered a famous speech in which he uses the words, ‘I have a dream’.

Who was Martin Luther King and what was this speech about?

You can choose how you would like to display your information.

Wednesday 13th May 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning Discoverers, 

How did you find the maths questions yesterday? And your drawing in English?

So far in English, you have thought of lots of ideas for your poem, chosen one idea and drawn it, and today you are going to begin to think of how you may write your poem. You might like to start writing a couple of lines for it, or if you want it to rhyme, you may like to jot down some rhyming words around your theme. 

I love this poem by Michael Rosen, have you seen it? His poem has a twist, and is about a plastic bag tree. You can decide to twist your poem if you like. https://www.theschoolrun.com/poetry-writing-tips-for-kids

Well done to those of you who sent me your answers in maths, I will upload them here for you to check, it looked like you did excellently.  

Today we are moving on to adding and subtracting fractions. When doing this, if the denominator (bottom number) is the same for both fractions, you do not add or subtract them. For example: 1/5 + 1/5 = 2/5. I simply added the numerators (top numbers) and kept the denominator the same. 

 

In Science, we are looking at food chains. Today I want you to create a food chain, that has you at the end of it.

Here is another video, to give you more ideas of different food chains, this one focuses on a farm: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z2vs34j 

You can create a three link food chain, but if you want a challenge, try to create one that has four links: Producer, consumer, consumer, predator.

Good luck! 

Pioneers Wednesday – Zip Wire and Toilet Rolls

Scott Grason-Taylor

Here is another link to some phonics with Mr Thorne. He is Geraldine’s owner

ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaumAMxXEzY

You can turn the volume down on this one and use it for reading  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjmsx-XmB5w
Mr Thorne does W
Here is a link to Mr Thorne if you would like to revise this sound.

 

It Alll Began When Floyd Got His Kite Stuck in a Tree…

Afters reading the story,Stuck,I had lot of ideas of things to make to help to get things out of the tree.
I always enjoy making zip wires.
You can try different angles for your wire and add a variety of weights to see what happens.
I have used lego to make a very simple construction but I am sure that you can come up with your own wonderful ideas to help when things are stuck in the tree.
Enjoy

 

Right Pioneers,gather up your toilet rolls and count how many you have to start with.
Estimate,count and check.
Set up your toilet rolls and go bowling to play Toilet Roll Takeaway!
Write down how many you have at the start.
Throw the ball or the toilet roll.
Write down how many you knock down.
How many are left?
Have fun.
That’s maths magic.

Tuesday 12th May 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Hi there Discoverers, 

How did you sleep? Well I hope.

Thank you for sending me your work yesterday. I was super impressed to see the effort that you had put in to your poetry bubbles, and your food chains in particular, well done. 

For English today, you are going to use the ideas that you wrote down yesterday, or things around you that you were drawn to, and you are going to choose one of them in particular. You can then draw your chosen item. You may draw something specific, like a flower that you saw, or it may be more general, like the weather, or your garden, or your friend waving through their window. 

Try to focus on how you felt when you saw this, and the details that were in and around it. 

 

Did you manage to spot any fractions around your home yesterday?

In maths today, I have created some fraction numberlines for you to complete.

There are missing fractions, which I would like you to fill in.

Remember, check if the numerators are increasing or decreasing, and make sure you work out how many they are increasing or decreasing by. 

In our science, we have started to look at food chains.

You produced some excellent ones from memory yesterday, but today we are going to look at specific vocabulary which is related.

There are four words which I would like you to learn today, they are: producer, consumer and predator/ prey. Please can you watch this clip, and then create a food chain with three links, and label the producer, consumer and predator. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zbnnb9q/articles/zwbtxsg 

Have a great day,

Mrs Taylor