Category: Class

Friday 21st May 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good Morning Leaders.

Another beautiful day! Can you believe it’s half term already? I’m not sure where the weeks have gone but it does mean that you can either have a week doing activities with your families or you might like to try one of the activities that will be posted over the course of the week.

If you’ve ever wondered what something is on your daily exercise, now is the time to find out. Have a look at the WWF BioBlitz activity and you can download a spotter app for free.

Happy spotting!

English

Writing a letter to your children or grandchildren.

We often hear older people say ‘when I was a child…’

Today, I’d like you to imagine you are that person and write a letter to your next generation. You might want to start your letter with that phrase.

Maths

Percentage Puzzles

Today it’s time for you to put your fractions and percentages together to have a go at writing some riddles.

Mug Cake – D&T/Science

As it’s Friday I thought it might be nice to have a treat. Make this delicious chocolate mug cake and learn about the science of Microwaves ovens. Experiment with the other ingredients to customize your mug cake. What will you add to give it a whole new flavour?! 

https://www.kiwico.com/diy/Science-Projects-for-Kids/3/project/Magic-Mug-Cake/3025

Thursday’s News – 21st May

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning everyone,

I hope you are all ok and that you all enjoyed the sunshine yesterday!

Today’s suggested learning activities are as follows – (more details on Tapestry)

In Maths, we are looking a different ways to shade a shape using a certain fraction.

In English (I’m quite excited about this) we are going to have a go writing our own poem. This can be about whatever you choose. See Mrs Brown’s poem about Tractors.

In Phonics there is a consonant cluster challenge – our favourite!

In History, we have enjoyed learning about Queen Victoria so much in class, i thought I’d introduce you to Queen Elizabeth 1.

Have a good day whatever you do and keep me posted as always on Tapestry!

Keep smiling 🙂

Mrs Brown

 

Good Morning Adventurers – another beautiful day!

Scott Grason-Taylor

I hope you all managed to enjoy the sunshine yesterday, it certainly helps to put a smile on our faces!

I had a lovely walk on the beach last night and couldn’t resist a peek in the rock pools. I didn’t see any crabs but found a star fish. I was really excited!

I’m really excited about our learning today and hope you are too!

I can’t wait to see and hear your poems and have a look at your wonderful art work.

Here’s today’s activities, if you wish to try them (All information on Tapestry)

Handwriting – practise the letter ‘Ww’.

English – finish writing your poetry booklet and please share it with me.

Maths – key skills for Year 2 and Year 3 then try adding fractions. Can you solve the Rubik’s Cube challenge?

Art – use colour and pattern to bring your pictures alive!

Don’t forget it’s French Thursday!

Enjoy your day.

Mrs Roe

Thursday 21st May 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning Discoverers,

I hope you slept well, after a beautiful, sunny day yesterday. 

Today in English, you are going to continue writing poetry, but this time you will be using a different poem to help you. The poem is called: Three Mice, by Charlotte Druitt Cole. 

This poem is a little longer than yesterdays’ but,  each pair of lines does end in rhyming words. 

You can choose to change only a few words of the poem, or you might like to rewrite it all. You could even change the animal within the poem, like I saw that some of you did yesterday. 

Enjoy getting creative.

Today in maths, you are going to be focusing on taking fractions away from whole numbers.

When you do this, you need to remember that the whole number, is simply the complete amount of parts that are available. For example: 1 – 1/3, the 1 represents 3/3 as this is equal to one whole. So you would simply complete 3/3 – 1/3 and your answer would be 2/3. 

Have a go, and use my examples to help. 

 

Today in French, you are going to be creating your poster, which displays the months July – December in French. 

Yesterday, you decided to either create a poster which would have space to include all twelve months, or create two separate posters, with six months on each. 

Remember to include a picture for each month, which can help you to quickly identify the month you have written.

 

Have a great day Discoverers, and I hope you manage to get outside and enjoy the sun before it hides for a few days,

Mrs Taylor

 

There’s a Hole in My Bucket. How Shall I Mend It? Thursday for Pioneers.

Scott Grason-Taylor

Here is a suggestion for today’s maths bringing together some measuring concepts.
Use the language of comparison to build up estimation and measuring and checking.
Enjoy

 

On Tapestry are two versions of the same song by two different sets of artists.
This is not one we have sung in school but I thought that it fitted in well with this weeks work on capacity.
The Muppets had more rehearsal time than we did. It was fun

While you listen look at the pictures I have drawn. You will be able to retell the story yourself.

Enjoy and look out for my video on testing materials!

In the song, they try to mend the bucket with straw. I’m not sure that would work.
It is always interesting to look at materials and their properties.
I had fun in the garden deciding if materials were absorbent or not.
What would you use to mend the hole in the bucket?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrssgk7/articles/z9pgcdm
This link has some starting points to talk about materials
Have fun. We did!

Play! Play! Play! Play!

Thursday 21st May 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

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.

Ladybird-BW
Ladybird-C

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

Sunny Wednesday – 20th May

Scott Grason-Taylor

Hi everyone, 

The sun has got his hat on today! hurray!

Here are some suggested learning activities you can do in the sun. Further details on Tapestry as usual.

Maths, talk about fractions today and see if you can answer Mrs Brown’s questions!

In English, I have declared it Talking in Rhyme Day! See how you get on! Talk in RHYME if you have TIME!

In Phonics, take your Phonics Mats outside in the sunshine and practise your sounds!

A fun game to play today in PE – Magic Beans – It’s such fun!

I have added the song  ‘The Sun Has Got His Hat On’ Sing and enjoy!

Have a lovely day whatever you are doing!

Sending you a sunny smile,

Best wishes,

Mrs Brown

Good Morning Adventurers – The sun is shining!

Scott Grason-Taylor

What a beautiful morning! The sun is shining and the colours of nature seem to glow in its warmth. I can tell we are going to have a lovely day!

A day to enjoy with your family in the garden, going for walks or playing games outside.

If you wish to do some learning, why not take your classroom outside and try some of today’s activities:

Handwriting – practise the letter ‘Tt’

English – Start to write our poetry booklet based on the book ‘When I coloured in the world.’

Maths – Key skills for Year 2 and Year 3 then compare and order fractions.

Art – A change of plan as it’s such a nice day! ‘Ice Art’. 

More details are on tapestry with photos and videos to help you.

I hope whatever you do today, you have a lovely time.

Enjoy the sun.

Mrs Roe

Wednesday 20th May 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

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.

Butterfly-BW
Ladybird-BW

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.

Wednesday 20th May 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning Discoverers, 

Today in English, you are going to write your own poem, based on a poem called ‘Jump or Jiggle’ by Evelyn Beyer. You can use the rhyming words that you found earlier in the week, and your silly sentences from yesterday if you like, or you can start a complete fresh. 

The poem is made up of seven verses, and each verse only has two lines. Both of the words at the end of each line, in each verse, rhyme. Try to follow the same structure. 

You could stick to writing about animals, or choose something different. 

Have fun 😀

We are continuing with a similar theme to yesterday, in maths today. We are going to be adding mixed number fractions this time.

Firstly, you add the whole numbers, and then you add the fractions as you normally would. 

If you find that you can make another whole, from your fraction, you can covert this like you did yesterday. 

See my example for number six, which shows you how to do this. 

In French today, I would like you to create a poster. 

Your poster should include the French months January – June/ Janvier – Juin. 

To help us remember the months in French, it may help to include a picture for each month. For example, drawing a snowman for January/ Janvier because it usually snows. 

We will create another poster tomorrow for the months July – December, so you can choose today to leave space on one poster for all twelve months, or do two separate ones, with six on each. 

Have a great day Discoverers,

Mrs Taylor