Author: Scott Grason-Taylor

Good Morning Adventurers – another sunny day!

Scott Grason-Taylor

Thank you for all the ‘Hello’ videos you’re sending in. It’s lovely to see you! Keep them coming.

Are you ready to get busy? (more details are on Tapestry)

Today’s activities:

Handwriting – practise the letter ‘Kk’, it’s a tricky one!

Maths – key skills, 10 questions in 10 minutes.

               Continue to practise the times table challenge.

               Division by sharing. To help, use objects or draw images and then write the division sentence.

English – join me for shared reading of ‘Meerkat Mail’ as we follow Sunny’s adventures. Then, write a postcard from Sunny about a place he has visited. I chose Antarctica.

Nature – take a moment outside to listen to all the beautiful birdsong. Can you identify any of the birds? What do they look like?

I hope you have a lovely day and enjoy doing some of the tasks. 

Mrs Roe

Wednesday 6th May 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good Morning Leaders.

Another beautiful day with sunshine to warm our hearts. As you will know, it is VE Day on Friday and I know that Mrs Burton has been posting lots of VE ideas for you. I was wondering whether you were planning to do anything with your families, and I would love to hear. Send me a message, video or photos to let me know your plans – can’t wait to hear.

English

Have a look at the clips to give you some more ideas for your comic strip or animation. If you are animating, you will need some patience to capture the movements – if you do too much at once it won’t necessarily work.

https://tinkerlab.com/easy-stop-motion-animation-kids/ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=173&v=_nKmvEzxcKc&feature=emb_logo 

Remember not to rush, you have the rest of the week to finish your project.

Maths

Diagonal Addition Investigation.

Look at the green square which contains the numbers 2,3,12 and 13.
Do you notice anything about the sum of the numbers that are diagonally opposite each other?

Look at the pink square.
What happens this time when you look at the numbers diagonally opposite each other?
What about the yellow square?
You could try with other squares which have four numbers in them.
Can you find a reason why what you notice, happens?

Look at the squares shaded red. They form the corners of a large 3 by 3 square.
If you add the numbers diagonally opposite each other, what do you notice with this larger square?
Can you find a reason why what you notice, happens?

What happens for squares of different sizes?

Geography – What is a Biome?

Today I would like you to investigate biomes. You can use the clip below to help you.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z849q6f/articles/zvsp92p

Once you have found out, choose one type of biome and carry out some further investigation. You can present this information however you wish.

Wow! It’s Wednesday.

Scott Grason-Taylor

Snails are beautiful and here is a link to a beautiful picture of a snail created by the famous artist Matisse

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/matisse-the-snail-t00540

I am also including a link to a lot of activities from the gallery in London where you can see this art work:

https://www.tate.org.uk/kids

I have had a go at creating my own copy of Mr Matisse’s Snail. You could use any paper pieces you have to create your own snail. He called his art form “painting with scissors”

As with Bug Quiz,look at all the features of the text: the index,contents page,labels,photographs and page numbers.
Go slowly with the sounds and use your sound mat to help you.
Revisit “W” on Geraldine the Giraffe”

and have a look at this one on double letter.Always useful to chat about.

Happy Reading

 

I would like to introduce you to my Bugs. They have lots of legs and lots of spots. You may be able to spot some doubles. You can write and draw some maths pictures.
Bugs like sweets.
But the are not so very good a sharing.
Have a go at sharing. Perhaps you could do it with some of your toys.
In some of the pictures the bugs have not shared equally. They do not have half each. This is not fair.
Count carefully and check.
Happy Counting

Wednesday 6th May 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning Discoverers, 

I hope that you managed to enjoy the sunshine that we had yesterday.

Today in English, I would like you to think of a setting (place) that you character was travelling to, in your ‘Adrift’ story. I want you to imagine what it might look like there: it may be space, a desert, a made up land etc. 

I would like you to draw the setting, including as much detail as possible. Enjoy taking your time, and experimenting with colour. 

Here are the answers for yesterday’s maths questions, and your next set for today 🙂 I hope that you enjoy marking your own work, and seeing how many you get correct. Remember, if you didn’t score too well, aim to get one more correct, you can do it! 

In french today, you are moving on to writing the French translation of ‘Wednesday’. Remember, you can watch Monday’s video to help you. Create a poster of the translated word, and display it somewhere around the home, for all to see.

Enjoy your day,

Mrs Taylor 

Happy Tuesday! – 5th May

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning Learners and families!

If you haven’t already voted for your favourite story from last week, then today is your last day to do this! Login to Tapestry and select the Let’s Vote update – its easy to do!

Today in English, we are going to play a game of Character Guess Who – describe in detail anyone you like (a super hero, a book character, a family member, a teacher) but don’t say their name. The other person has to guess who you are describing! – It’s fun!

Yesterday in maths we counted in 2s and today we will count in 5s – practise makes perfect!

In phonics we will focus on the au sound – as in the word haunted.

Let’s make some VE day bunting and flags today to prepare for Fridays celebrations!

Have a happy day, whatever you are doing and keep sending in your messages and videos on Tapestry!

Keep smiling as always 🙂

Best wishes,

Mrs Brown 

Good morning everyone! It’s a lovely sunny morning.

Scott Grason-Taylor

‘ Every day is filled with dreams and wishes’.

A BIG THANK YOU for all the super work you completed yesterday – it was lovely to see it all on Tapestry.

We have another packed day of learning if you wish to have a go.

Handwriting – practise the letter ‘Dd’.

Maths – Key skills 10 questions in 10 minutes.

               Keep practising for the times table challenge.

               Everyday arrays, these images can help us solve multiplication problems and we can find lots of arrays around the house. How many can you find?

English – Let’s continue our shared reading of ‘Meerkat Mail’ then write a post card from Sunny as he visits a different place or country. (I did mine from the Amazon Rainforest)

Art – I decided it was time to get my paints out and use my new drawing pens to create an observational picture of the wild flowers I picked on Sunday.

Enjoy the sunshine – you could even set up your classroom outside!

Mrs Roe

Tuesday 5th May 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good Morning Leaders.

I have seen some fantastic stories and settings so far which makes me excited for what will be produced by the end of this week; the creativity is flowing. I’m sure there will be some amazing things to look forward to.

English

In English this week, you have a choice. I would like you to either end up with your story in a comic strip or, if you have the facilities, to have a go making your story into an animation. For either option you can use your story setting from last week to help you.

Today is the time to decide which option you are going to choose and make a start. I will continue to upload things to help you but would like you to decide how you are going to go about this task and which part you feel that you want to do first.

Here is information about both animations and comic strips. Have a look and make your choice. You may want to make a start today too but remember you have the rest of the week to complete this so there is no rush – build up your comic/animation over the course of the week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/art-and-design-ks2-stop-motion-animation/zr67kmn

http://pivotanimator.net/

https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-creator

 

Maths

Have a go at this game today. Choose your ‘bot’ and see if you can win the challenge -use your knowledge of the four operations.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?a=activity10

 

Problem Solving – Computational Thinking

There are some fantastic free resources available as schools are currently closed. Here is a resource from icompute for you have a go at.

You will need to be systematic and logical to solve the problem. Good luck!

A Final Request for ‘Hellos’

Scott Grason-Taylor

You may have seen on Tapestry, I have been asking for you to send in videos of you saying ‘hello’ to your classmates. 

You can send a quick video, a drawn picture, a written message or even just a picture of you smiling, and I will be sending these to everybody who has submitted. 

This will allow you to see everybody, who I know you are missing, and make each other smile 😀 

This is a quick reminder, that tomorrow will be the last day to send something to me, before I pass them on to you. 

Here is a picture from our last school trip: I love to see your happy faces. 

Tuesday 5th May 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning Discoverers, 

Thank you for sharing your work yesterday, it was such a pleasure to see your engagement with the tasks I have been setting for you. 

In English today, you are going to use your emotion graph, which you created yesterday, to write some speech sentences. 

Please can you watch this video, and then write a speech sentence, for each of the points in the story that you labelled on your graph yesterday. I have included an example for you. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-YFmLctwDY

Well done to those of you who sent me in your answers for the maths bonus question. The answer was: Red flower = 20 and blue flower = 5. I saw that many of you got this correct, so well done 😀

I have also uploaded the answers for yesterday’s questions, and set you your next ones. Don’t forget to mark them and let me know how you got on. 

In French today, please can you create your poster of Tuesday’s translation, and put it up somewhere in your home for all to see. You may want to tell your family members, that you will be giving them a quiz at the end of the week, so that they make sure to pay attention to your poster. I have included an example below:

Have a great day everybody,

Mrs Taylor 

Tuesday the 5th of May-Snail Race

Scott Grason-Taylor

I had so much fun in the garden with my new friends,the snails.

Here is my suggestion for learning today:

Have a look around your garden for some snails. I hope that you can find 2 or three. You may have to look in cool,dark places to find them.

https://www.countryfile.com/wildlife/insects-invertebrates/guide-to-britains-slugs-and-snails-how-to-identify-common-species-and-protect-your-plants/

Once you have found them,set up a race track.
Be very gentle with your snails.

Draw a start line. Make a label to say “Start”
Draw a finish line. Make a label to say “Finish”
Pioneers can write this.
Give your snails a name.
Get a timer on your phone or click on this link:

https://www.online-stopwatch.com/rocket-timer/

Shout “GO”

and your snails will romp off.

Who is the fastest?
Make a medal for the winner of the race.

You could try running the race on different surfaces.
Do the snails prefer grass or lunchbox to race on?

Return your snails to where you found them.
I have had so much fun watching my snails so I have included all my videos!
Happy Racing

Focus on 12

Yesterday’s Numberblocks and the Legs question was all about 12 and different ways to make 12.
My suggestion for today is to play around with the different ways to split 12.
I have got out an egg carton and some baking trays. You could draw circles and use counters or use paper plates. This will introduce ideas linked to sharing and to multiplication.
You could colour in squared paper or use lego.
Try setting 12 out in 3 lots of 4.4 lots of 3,6 lots of 2,2 lots of 6,12 lots of 1.
Look at the shapes that you can make-different rectangles
You could write number sentences for what you see.

 

How Many Legs?

Get out in the garden again and do some leg counting. 

This guide groups garden creatures by the number of legs they have.

You could make your own guide by drawing the creatures you find and writing how many legs they have.

Can you find them all?

Can you find 12 Legs?

https://www.rspb.org.uk/globalassets/downloads/discoverenjoy/families/ground-minibeasts-id.pdf

Happy Learning