Category: Latest News

Tuesday 28th April 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor
Good morning Discoverers,
 
I know that you worked fantastically yesterday, so well done, and thank you ? 
 
In English today, we are moving on to writing our fourth paragraph, where we will snatch away the hope from our character, and the reader! We are creating a roller coaster of emotions. In my paragraph I wrote about the eagle flying back to its home, and giving the impression that Jane would be alone forever. I know that some of you planned stories that were different to the original film, and to my version, so feel free to create a paragraph which captures your plan if you would prefer. Also, I am basing the amount of paragraphs we write, on my story, but if you find that you would like to write less or more than this, that it also fine to do. 
 
 
Check out the answers for yesterday’s maths questions, how did you get on? I could already see some fantastic answers from those of you who shared them with me, so thank you and well done! Here are today’s questions, I will upload the answers with tomorrow’s questions. Good luck! 
 
 
In Geography today, I would like you to think about Sleights, and what you think could be added to it, to make it a better place to live. Can you create a list of things that you would like to have in the village, with reasons why? I have created a short list of things. Feel free to use these ideas, or create your own. 
 
 
I am looking forward to seeing your work,
 
Have fun,
 
Mrs Taylor 

Hello Monday – 27th April

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning Learners and families.

I hope you have all enjoyed the weekend!

Today’s home learning suggestions are as follows ;- (more details are on Tapestry)

In maths, we are counting today. How high can you count? Can you count backwards too? Mrs Brown is going to count how many dandelions she sees on her daily walk today. What can you count?

In English, we are going to retell our favourite stories to someone in our house. How much detail can you remember? Is it in the right order? Does it make sense? Use language like first, then, after that to help you.

In Phonics we will be looking at consonant clusters (our favourite). The words are on dandelions today, what could be better!

Science – plants – A dandelion theme today. Follow the link on Tapestry and read the facts to find out more. How many different flowers and plants can you spot on your walk today? Can you name them? Can you draw them?

Check out Sumdog for some new challenges that have been set today.

This week we will vote on our favourite story – just like we do in class. We may not be in the classroom but we can still do our favourite things. Tune in on Tapestry tonight at 6pm for story number 1.

Thank you to everyone who sent in a video ‘hello’ message, it was lovely to see everyone’s smiling faces.

Keep your pictures coming in and keep in touch.

Keep smiling 🙂

Mrs Brown

 

 

 

Monday 27th April 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor
Happy Monday Discoverers, 
 
I hope that you had a lovely weekend, in the beautiful sunshine.
 
In English this week, we are continuing to write our ‘Adrfit’ story. You previously wrote your second paragraph, which focused on describing your character. Now, you are going to move on to writing the third paragraph. This paragraph is where you begin to introduce the problem to the reader. My paragraph touches upon Jane being lonely, and wanting a companion. It comes before the paragraph where we give the character, and the reader hope, that the eagle is visiting with good news. 
 
 
This week in maths, we are going to focus on the four main operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I have created eight questions for you, each of which require you to use formal written methods. I have wrote the questions in the format of the written methods, so if you simply copy them into your maths books, you should be able to work them out as they are. This is similar to what we do during our 10 in 10, at the beginning of each maths session. I will upload the answers here tomorrow, when I give you your next set of questions. 
 
 
For our foundation subject this week, we are going to focus on Geography. I want us to think about the village that we live in, Sleights, and consider what we could bring to the village, to improve it. Today though, I want you to simply create a list of everything that Sleights already has. For example: a post office. I have included a picture of my list, but I know that you can think of other things to add to it. 
 
 
Have a great day,
 
Mrs Taylor 

That Friday Feeling! – 24th April

Scott Grason-Taylor

Hello everyone!

Todays suggested Home Learning is as follow;- (see Tapestry for more details)

  • Maths – you have done so well with your data handling this week – todays task is to use some Scaled Pictograms to retrieve information. Do not be put off by the word Scaled it simply means that each picture is worth more than one. Have a go and see how you get on – it is a great skill to learn.
  •  English – think of some WOW words today. WOW words make our writing even better! What is the best WOW word you can think of? Use some story books to help you!
  •  Phonics – the ir sound today. Read the real and pseudo (alien) words – we love to do this in class!
  •  Art – Bubble Art – We have been thinking about bubbles in our story this week, so today sketch them, draw them, paint them even make them! have some fun with this.

I have received a lot of video messages to say ‘hello’ to each other – thank you so much! I will send these out at 12pm today on Tapestry – I can’t wait! Please remember to respect the privacy rules and not share these outside Tapestry.

Enjoy the sun today and keep in touch whatever you are doing!

Have a lovely weekend

Keep smiling 🙂

Mrs Brown

Friday 24th April 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

It’s Friday Discoverers,

I bet you are ready for a rest, after all of your hard work this week. 

In English today, I would like you to write the next paragraph in your story. This second paragraph will capture the description of your character. Remember to refer back to your plan, where you described your character, using adjectives, similes and metaphors. We will be continuing to write our story next week, so take your time, and think carefully about how you want to structure your sentences. 

Yesterday, you were able to determine a pattern within your results, and create a graph to represent this. You may have found that boys have a better memory than girls, or that girls have a better memory than boys. You may have found that the older the person, the better their memory, or the younger the person, the better their memory. Whatever results you found, I want you to try another challenge on your family, to see if you find the same pattern. You can think of your own challenge to test their memory, or I have a suggestion for you.

Say a two digit number out loud and ask your family to repeat it, then a three digit number, and then a four. Keep going until they are unable to repeat the number, or until they repeat it incorrectly. Record how many digits they were able to repeat, so that you can compare the results afterwards. Remember to challenge each person in your family individually, so that they don’t have an advantage when it is their turn. 

 

Lastly, in art you have been persevering with your animal drawing, and have produced several copies of the same animal, but including improvements each time. I was astounded with what you produced yesterday. Today, I want you to look at all of your drawings, and then focus on the progress you have made. Then, write down all of the things that you are proud of, and that you like about your final drawing, and the things that you have improved on the most. I want you to be as proud of your pictures as I am, because they are amazing.

You are all superstars, have a great weekend,

Mrs Taylor 

It’s Friday,Pioneers !

Scott Grason-Taylor

We have made it to Friday. Congratulations. Here are some suggestions for learning:

Play! Play! Play! Play! Play! Play!

Here is a little maths idea that you can adapt and extend to suit your children. Select numbers that you may have been working with when estimating and counting this week.

It can lead to some great maths chat.

Useful phrases are,”I wonder…”,””How do you know? ,”Can you check?”

Remember to continue your estimating too.

Happy Counting

 

Read the book together. Look for capital letters. Look for any sounds the are on the sound map. Take it slowly.
This book has the -ng sound.
Here is the link to Geraldine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQshNmncnBs
Happy Reading

 

My Hand Wrting suggestion in Nn and Mm

Video on Tapestry

And we have done a little song for the weekend. It is a bit crazy. I hope you have fun watching.

Have a wonderful weekend and dont forget…

Play! Play! Play! Play!

Thursdays news – 23rd April

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning Learners and families!

I hope you are all well today!

Todays home learning is as follows (more details on Tapestry)

  •  In maths, see if you can read some information using my pictogram. Then, use your own from yesterday to write some questions of your own.
  •  In English today we are looking at the Bubbles story and thinking about who Gabby met a long the way on her adventure. Who will your character meet a long the way and what will they be doing?
  • Phonics – today is the oy sound. Watch Geraldine the Giraffe search around her home for oy sounds.
  • RE – The Creation. The Bible teaches us that God created the World in 7 days. Play and singalong to a lovely tune to learn more.

Further to Mr Grason’s email yesterday I logged onto Oxford Owl to access reading books. It is very simple to do and totally free. You can choose your child’s reading level to suit all abilities! Give it a try!

Remember, today is the last day to send me a video message (if you haven’t already) I will be putting these together to send out tomorrow. I cant wait!

You are all doing a fabulous job with your home learning, keep up the good work!

Keep smiling 🙂

Mrs Brown 

Thursday 23rd April 2020

Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning Discoverers,

I have been so excited for you to write you stories in English, after hearing about and reading some of your plans. I love how you have put your own twist on the plot! Enough of the planning now though, we are ready to write. Today I would like you to write your first paragraph. The opening paragraph to your story includes lots of description about the setting: it’s where you want to draw the reader in, and capture their attention. I have included an example of my opening paragraph, but also a copy of the complete story. I would usually share the WAGOLL at the beginning of our new topic, so I wanted to do this today to give you an idea of what your story could look like. 

In maths today, I would like you to analyse the data from your completed table. Can you answer the following questions: Who in your family, has the best memory? Who has the worst memory? Are there any patterns linked with age and memory? Are there any patterns linked with gender and memory? My results showed that the older the person, the better their memory. In order to analyse your data, it may be useful to create a graph. I would like you to create a bar graph, to represent each person’s results at 10 seconds, 20 seconds and 30 seconds, like I have shown you below:

Today will be the last day that you will create another drawing for your animal. I am so impressed with the perseverance you have shown in art this week. You have proved that you are able to take constructive advice, and use it to help you make progress, and that is exactly what I have seen so far. So for the last time, I would like you to once again, speak with a family member and ask them to give you some clear, and specific advice about how you can improve your animal drawing. Then, create you final drawing, making it the best yet. Afterwards, take a look at all four pictures, and be proud of the improvements you have made 😀 

Speak soon,

Mrs taylor 

Happy Stuff for Pioneers-Thursday

Scott Grason-Taylor

Welcome to Thursday.

Have a wonderful day and play,play,play. Here are some suggestions for things to do today:

 

Ooops! Mrs Hann Got It Wrong

Take a look at the photographs. Each one has an error,a mistake. Maybe I counted without checking. Take a close look. Can you spot what is wrong?
Make up some sums with a grown up. Get them to check them. Can they spot any errors?
Get a grown up to make some for you too. Send some to your granny.Can she spot mistakes?
Send me your pictures and I will see if I can spot the mistakes.
Happy Counting
Remember to check

Handwriting

I have done a little video to support you with capitals and lower case letter formation. Today I have done s,e,and t.

All writing is good writing.

Story Time

I had a special request from Miley to read Supertato so the video is there for you all. If you have any requests for story time please,please,please let me know. I love reading stories for you all.

 

 

Here is the next exciting part of our story Jack and the Beanstalk. I love drawing story maps and telling stories.

Here is an idea…tell me what you think…Don’t do any writing….Tell the story
Get a grown up to watch while you use my storymap to tell the story.
How does that sound?
Or just watch our silliiness and enjoy the drama
Happy Stories Y’all

Hello Learners – Wednesday 22nd April

Scott Grason-Taylor

Hello Everyone.

We are being so lucky with the weather right now. Long may it last!

Todays suggested learning (more details on Tapestry) is as follows;-

In maths, we are going to create a pictogram from the information we collected yesterday. This is quite a skill so be really proud of yourself if you manage it! I have provided lots of examples to help you!

In English, there is a delightful audio clip of some beach sounds. Close your eyes and imagine you are there.  What can you hear? How does it make you feel?

Geography today, this will help us with our story. Where will our magic bubble take us? to a different country perhaps? Can you name 4 countries in the World and find out a little bit about each one? What is the weather like there? What foods to they eat? Are there any famous landmarks (ie the Eiffel Tower is in France) 

Please remember these are only suggestions to be enjoyed if you would like to use them.

Don’t forget to send you video ‘hello’ messages in by the end of Thursday. I will put them together and send them out to you on Friday! I think this will be lovely!

Stay happy whatever you do today!

Keep smiling 🙂

Mrs Brown