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7 years ago
Posted on 23rd Apr 2020 by

Blow us away with these end-of-the-week challenges!

ENGLISH – Write a weekly forest school diary – just like we would at school. You could do this from your window or during your daily exercise outdoors. If you can’t get out then describe one of the rooms in your house.

Describe what you could see, hear, feel, touch and smell and use sentences to write about this.

Use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. Make sure your reading can be read back by others! Tick off these key features of good writing!

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 On the line? Cartoon Finger Clipart Can you read it back?
 

 

 

 

MATHS – Do you have measuring scales in your home? Look closely at them and discuss how they work.

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Use some of the objects you measured yesterday and use standard measurement to record how much they weigh. For example, the apple weights 100 grams.

Use the scales to measure during a cooking activity. I made pizzas today using 600 grams of flour with some of our keyworker’s children.

Leftover easter chocolate? Me neither! But if you have you could make these using scales . . .

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chocolate-rice-krispie-cakes

Cooking with kids: Chocolate cornflake cakes recipe | BBC Good Food

If you want an extra challenge visit  https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/mostlyPostie/index.html

A standard measuring game. Put the parcel on the scales and help your child to read the weight in grams and kilograms. (Select the ‘in steps of 100 grams’ button).

 

BE ACTIVE – Copycat dance!

Stand facing your child. You move and your child copies you. You can start in slow motion and then get faster so it is trickier! Take turns at being the leader.

 

PROJECT – Watch this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThZj9TEMwgE

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Write a fact file about Christopher Columbus. Draw a picture to illustrate him. (You can research images of him.)

 

Think about some key facts:

Where and when was he born?

Why was he famous? What was his occupation?

What did Columbus discover?

How did he travel?

7 years ago
Posted on 22nd Apr 2020 by

Thursday’s Challenges are here…

ENGLISH – Yes you guessed it…we are going to continue with Jack’s story today. Up the beanstalk we go….

Watch and read the next 2 Chapters 7 and 8. Encourage your child to recall what has happened to Jack so far…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-ks1-jack-and-the-beanstalk-pt7/z6mykmn

Draw the biggest, scariest castle that you can imagine…

Haunted Castles | Scary For Kids

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Here’s some pictures to help.

Write sentences or label your castle with phrases describing what it looks like.

MATHS – Non-standard measurement. Using the balance scales made on Monday can you measure and record the weight of a set of objects?

You will need a set of objects for example a fork, TV remote, apple, rubber, cup.

You will need something to measure them against – like buttons or pasta.

How many pieces of pasta does the apple weigh? How will you know? You will know when the two buckets on the balance scale balance – they are in line/ parallel with each other.

Make statements – The apple weighs 32 pasta pieces.

BE ACTIVE – Watch this ballet. Discuss and describe this type of dance. Do they move at the same time? Do they move in the same way?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bntjn7XQH70

 

Can children copy some of the moves? Can they describe what the ballet dancer is doing with parts of their body?

Play the music again and allow your child to free-style in a ballet style!

PROJECT – Look at this artwork.

First Landing of Christopher Columbus

Columbus, the Indians and the 'discovery' of America

What does your child notice? What is happening in the background? Foreground? Who do you think the people are? What are they wearing? When is this artwork set? What did the artist want you to think about? What do you feel when you look at the picture?

Could you recreate your own piece of artwork based on Christopher Columbus? You could use whatever media you have – paint, pencils, natural materials from the garden, junk modelling materials.

7 years ago
Posted on 19th Apr 2020 by

Summer Term Monday’s Challenges

 

We hope you have enjoyed the Easter break as much as you could.

 

Here’s the solution to that EGG MATHS CHALLENGE –

3 eggs in the brown basket, 2 eggs in the red basket and 5 in the pink basket! How did you do?

We have received some lovely emails showing us how you are being ‘stay at home’ superheroes! Thank you for all the hard work that you are doing at home. Please continue to share this with us in the coming weeks. If you want either of our emails please contact A2134@telford.gov.uk

This week’s spellings are

  • get
  • just
  • now
  • came
  • oh
  • about
  • got
  • their
  • people
  • your

Please recap the spelling from before the Easter break. Here are some ideas about how to teach the spellings:

Look at the words, cover them, write them from memory and check them again!

Can your children use the words and write them in sentences?

Can the adult write some sentences and the child read them and underline the words which are spellings?

Can children give definitions for some of the words. If one is tricky research a definition online. (Make you own dictionary!)

Hide the words around the house, when they find them tick them off the list?

Play pairs or snap with the words by writing two of each onto paper!

Play ‘spelling bingo’ by creating a grid and pulling words out of a hat!

Write the words in creative ways; using felt-tips, paint, cereal, spaghetti, crisps!

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Can your child say the sounds, when seeing the different ways that they can be written.

This video will help with the way the sounds are pronounced.

 

 

Monday’s Challenges

Please remember to read books daily and look at tricky words. Please look at phase 2, 3 and 5 digraphs on a daily basis.

There are lots of games and resources on www.letters-and-sounds.com

There are some Year 1 Home Learning Mathematics challenges on this website –

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/

and you can access a lesson a day. (Start at week 1 – Weight and Mass) There are videos to teach your child and activity sheets with questions to complete.

 

This week we will be beginning an ongoing project about Christopher Columbus!

ENGLISH – 

Listen to the first part of this well known traditional tale -Jack and the Beanstalk

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-ks1-jack-and-the-beanstalk-pt1/zjnc7nb

To see the writing as you listen, click on the blue speech bubble and click on the largest Aa.

Can you describe how the cupboard would look in your daydream. Remember to use lovely descriptive language like Jack.

            Eg.   ripe, yellow cheese

              creamy cakes and ginger biscuits

Can you draw your cupboard and write descriptions of your most amazing meal ever.

 

 

MATHS – This week we will be focusing on weight which will support The White Rose activities (link above.)

Today we would like you to make your on balance scales.

https://jdaniel4smom.com/2018/05/make-homemade-balance-scale-to-weigh-chickens-activity.html

What do these scales measure? Why does each bucket need to be the same? Test your balance scales out using objects. Can you use language to describe what you have found out and compare objects? For example, the duck is heavier than the strawberry. The strawberry is lighter.

BE ACTIVE – Animal Yoga https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/sites/default/files/2020-03/WT-WILDLIFE-YOGA.jpg

As an extra you can research the animals and write fact files about them! Draw the animals and labels the parts of their bodies. What do they eat? Where do they live?

Can you think of your own animal to make into a wildlife pose?

On YouTube there are examples of children doing this type of yoga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oGR5xucItI

PROJECT – Watch this clip about Christopher Columbus.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhpchbk/articles/znchkmn

Read and discuss the key facts with your child. Ask your child questions about what they have heard? How long ago was Christopher Columbus alive? What was Christopher Columbus famous for? Nowadays, why do people disagree with what Christopher Columbus did? Where did Christopher Columbus want to visit? Who paid for the ships Columbus would use? Can you remember the names of the ships? Which continent did he discover?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

7 years ago
Posted on 02nd Apr 2020 by

Fabulous Friday Challenge

 

  1. Have a tricky word Easter hunt! Get your child to write tricky words on paper shaped like eggs and hide them around your house and garden! Can they find them all and read them !  Possibly use them in a sentence? Words to use:

come   what     two     little     when      have      their      all

   there   ask  where    some   they    your   here    was

 

 

 

These songs can be found to help learn them too – you can find them for other phases 3,4 and 5. They are all really useful.

2. Project –  Draw or paint a rainbow to put up in your window IF you’d like to say a big thank you to our key workers and spread some cheer.

If you need some help you might want to look at this video – but please feel free to be as creative as you want to.

 

3. Our final Easter Maths challenge for the whole family.

This could be good fun if you used Mini eggs – 3 different colour and use 3 different containers.

Eggs in Baskets

Age 5 to 7 

There are three baskets, a brown one, a red one and a pink one, holding a total of ten eggs.The Brown basket has one more egg in it than the Red basket.

The Red basket has three fewer eggs than the Pink basket.

How many eggs are in each basket?

We will give you the answer when we come back with your daily challenges after the Easter holiday. Have fun and don’t eat all the eggs until you have solved the problem.

 

Miss Reese and Miss Hullin want to wish you a safe and happy Easter.

You have all worked so hard trying to complete our challenges that we think you all deserve a break over the next 2  weeks – your normal Easter break! (Yes – you too grown-ups!)

 

Look out for more posts in 2 weeks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7 years ago
Posted on 30th Mar 2020 by

ACTIVITIES – Year 4

CURIOUS MOMENT – What can you create? – Use your imagination this week to create and build! Look around your home to find materials to build with: Legos, Duplos, Play-Doh, blocks, boxes, wood, paper, blankets, sticks, string, sand, mud etc. 1) Design and build with your materials. It can be anything! 2) Talk to your family about what you made.  3) Draw a picture in a journal or on a piece of paper and write a sentence or two about what you built and why you like it.

COOKING – Make a tasty dish at home.  Write a list of instructions on how you made your tasty treat. Draw a picture of your delicious dish.  Use your maths knowledge to write a recipe for the same dish but for half the amount.

Keep a diary of your daily activities, record what you have been doing and how you have been feeling.

Storytelling – share a favourite family memory – Talk to an adult about their childhood memories. Ask them to tell you the story and to share lots of details. 2) Draw a picture of the story. 3) Retell the story aloud to your family member. 4) Write down the story or your favorite part of the story. 

Times table rock stars – 10 minutes (recommended 2 games on studio, 2 games on soundcheck and then children’s own choice.)  Please keep challenging teachers and your classmates.

Create a times table game using scratch.  Test it out on your family. https://scratch.mit.edu/

Daily spelling and handwriting daily practise.

Physical exercise is so important.  Why not try Jo Wicks PE challenge. https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1/video

Reading has so many benefits so it is important to encourage your child to read throughout the day.  Other activities this may then lead to include writing a character description, drawing a scene from the book, predicting what might happen next or making their own alternative ending to the story.

7 years ago
Posted on 30th Mar 2020 by

YEAR 4 SPELLINGS

A Parent’s Guide to Practising Spellings at Home

Why spelling practice matters…

In Key Stage 2, the focus is on developing accuracy as well as a range of strategies for spelling.

Although teachers will highlight spelling errors to children, it is important children recognise for themselves when they have made an error and know a range of strategies for correcting inaccuracies. By this stage, children will have a range of spelling strategies that they will have been taught to draw on. Children will use the strategy which best suits their learning style and works best for them.

Helping at Home

Parents can support children by practising any spelling patterns or spelling investigations which are sent home as part of home learning and also by helping children to read and spell the Y3/4 word lists (included in this document).

Children will practise these spellings throughout the week in spelling lessons and will be tested on a Friday using some of the words from each week or others with similar spelling patterns.

We will track your child’s progress in spelling through the statutory word lists and half-termly reviews.

Remember to make practising the words enjoyable and not a chore.

Click on the link below for your year group!

https://siralexanderflemingprimaryschool.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/A-parent-guide-and-home-spellings-for-Year-4-1.pdf

7 years ago
Posted on 29th Mar 2020 by

Monday’s Challenges

PHONICS –

Write about the signs of spring you have spotted.(Just like in our Forest School Diaries!) Remember to write sentences with capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. Can you make your writing really interesting by describing the things you have seen using adjectives? Use your phonic knowledge to sound-talk the words. If it is a long word, clap the syllables in it so that you don’t miss any sounds out.

For example – I saw beautiful, pink blossom, like candy floss, growing on a tree.

If you couldn’t get outside maybe watch Sci Show for kids on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaZ2CICGuL8&t=634s

PROJECT –

Wrap up and go in your garden – if you can!  Go on a Bug Safari – don’t forget to look under rocks and stones. Stamp on the floor with your whole family and see how many worms come up to see you – this is sometimes called ‘worm charming’. Please don’t forget to return all living things back to where you found them –just as we would in Forest School.

Spring is well and truly kicking in now, and the warmer weather will bring lots of creepy crawlies out. You’ll soon notice your garden teeming with wildlife! Can you find…

a worm after a spring shower

a bumblebee looking for nectar

a spotty ladybird exploring the grass

a slimy snail in a dark damp spot

a butterfly basking in the sunshine?

Draw/paint pictures of what you find.

 

MATHS –

Listen to The 7 Days of The Week Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tx0rvuXIRg

Ask children –

What day is it today?

What day was it yesterday?

What day will it be tomorrow?

If today is Monday, the tomorrow will be . . .

Can you make a weekly diary so that children are using the days of the week? e.g. On Monday we had soup for lunch.