Category: Leaders Class

Good Morning Leaders

Oh dear – where did the sunshine go, I wonder? Let’s hope it returns soon although our gardens will be glad of the rain and I know that lots of you have been planting so keep an eye on how quickly the water will make things grow. With water in mind, ? I thought we’d have a go at something water based this afternoon – can’t wait to see your creations.

Maybe we could have our own boat race!

Graphic Novel – English

Continue working on your graphic novel so that you have a complete story by Friday.

Happy drawing. ✏️

Function Machines – Maths

Today, we are going to include algebraic expressions in our function machines. This may sound difficult but it’s not!

You are just going to use ‘n’ to express your number, which means that ‘n’ can stand for any number that you decide to use to put through the function machines.

Rubber band Boats

Have a go at making a boat propelled by a rubber band. You should be able to attach the sticks enough without necessarily needing glue if you use more rubber bands. If you don’t have spoons, see what else you could use to propel your boat; strong card or plastic from a carton

How fast can you make your boat travel? Which is the best design bottle to choose?

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/

Good Morning Leaders

I hope you have all had a nice week and enjoyed the fantastic weather. I’d love to know what you have all been doing and I’m looking forward to catching up with families this week to hear all about your adventures.

Graphic Novels – English

We are going to use all our artistic skills this week, having a go at creating our own graphic novel.

Today, I’d like you investigate different graphic novels to give you some ideas of how they work and how they can be used.

Here are some to get you started although they are books where the pages have been made into clips for you to watch.

The Arrival, Shaun Tan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAay4myoEDE

Journey, Aaron Becker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRsmuveKWuk

Visualising Shape – Maths

In Maths this week, we are going to look at shape. I thought we’d wake up our brains with a little problem solving. Have a go at seeing how much paint you will need to cover the blocks.

Happy Painting. ?

Computational Thinking – ICT

You have probably seen these types of puzzles before where numbers have been replaced by symbols. Have a go at using your logical skills to solve the problem.

Good luck!

Good Morning Leaders.

Yippee, what a beautiful day yesterday – fingers crossed for more sunshine today! It should be a good day to spot animals and insects to help with your drawings.

Don’t forget to water all those seedlings in such hot weather – watering the pot rather than the plant otherwise you may burn the leaves.

Happy spotting!

English

Writing a letter to yourself!

Sounds like a strange idea but I’d like you to write a letter to yourself talking about what is currently happening. We are then going to bury or hide your letter (like a time capsule) for you to come back to later. You may decide to look back in a year, or when you leave secondary school or even when you leave home – that’s a long way away!

Maths

Percentage Puzzles

Using your knowledge of percentages can you solve the riddles?

Pencil Drawing – Art

Today, we are going to look at adding colour to our animal.

It is a good idea to build up the colour as you go to get the tones you want. Remember the amount of pressure you put on your colour will often by the darker the colour shows.

If you’d like to, you can once again follow this video showing you a butterfly with colour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg9YfWxI3jk

Good Morning Leaders.

The weather was a little brighter here yesterday but let’s keep our fingers crossed for some sunshine today. Have you managed to spot any animals on your daily exercise? If so, you might like to use one of those today or you could go outside and find a different insect if you’d like to.

Happy spotting!

English

To help with our letter tomorrow, I’d like you to write a diary for your day today. This should give you valuable information for the letter we are going to write tomorrow.

Maths

Fraction Puzzles

Today you will need to use your knowledge of multiplying fractions. Remember to only multiply the numerator as the denominator stays the same.

Pencil Drawing – Art

Today, we are going to use our pencil skills to draw a pencil drawing of an insect or animal.

You could find an insect or animal in your garden to draw or find a picture to copy online.

If you’d like to, you can follow this video showing you how to draw a butterfly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CS1UdGc-LQ

Leave your animal just in pencil for today, we are going to look at adding colour tomorrow.

Good Morning Leaders.

I was hoping for sunshine yesterday, but it seemed to spend most of the day hiding behind clouds, I’m keeping my fingers crossed for today.

You may have seen on the news that animals are making their way into places that they wouldn’t normally be, the animals in the park and the ducks and ducklings on the road in London. A perfect time to continue are work on habitats. Keep your eyes open on your daily exercise and see what animals you spot as you go.

English

Letters can be fantastic way to record lots from things from events to feelings. With this in mind, I’d like you to choose a friend to write a letter to today.

You might want to tell them about things you have been doing and feeling during lockdown and maybe what you are looking forward to or missing.

If you are writing to someone from the class and would like it sending on to them, upload it and I will do that for you.

Maths

Fraction Puzzles

Using your knowledge of fractions and the digits 1-4 complete the investigation.

Habitats – Science

How did your micro-organisms grow? Which slice of bread produced the most and why?

We are going to start looking at animals and their habitat so this week we are going to investigate life cycles, something that you will have covered before.

You will need sellotape, scissors, an empty clear 2l bottle, stones or sand, some soil and some leaves or frozen peas.

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/