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PLEASE LOOK AT THE HOME LEARNING PAGE FOR WEEKLY PHONICS/SPELLINGSFriday 10th July
Work at Home Ideas
Continue revising multiplication and division by looking at www.espresso.co.uk
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Go to Maths -> KS1 and then use the Times Table Tester section. Answer the multiplication and division questions for 2X, 5X and 10X and possibly 3X. There is also a separate Multiplication and Division section with videos and activities.
Literacy / Topic Ideas
Following on from our acrostic poems here is a different style of poem. Use the senses as the start of a line and finish it with some words about summer remembering to include some adjectives. You can use the templates below or write in your Work at Home books or on a piece of paper.
I see...
I hear...
I smell...
etc.
Beach Habitat Reading Comprehension
Friday 3rd July
Work at Home Ideas
Please revise division. In school we learnt two methods for division:
1. sharing, either with real objects or by drawing pictures
e.g. 12 ÷ 2
Here are 12 pieces of Lego to share between 2 friends. Lets share them out equally. Make sure you count them out carefully in turn, i.e. 1 for you, 1 for me, 1 for you, 1 for me.
Draw two circles for the two friends and then draw a cross for each piece of Lego, again making sure you count them out carefully in turn, i.e. 1 for you, 1 for me, 1 for you, 1 for me.
2. counting groups
e.g. 50 ÷ 10
With larger numbers it become impractical to share so we can count groups instead. We count how many groups of 10 are in 50. We count up 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and hold up a finger with each group of 10. So we will end up holding up five fingers so there are 5 groups of 10 in 50.
Hopefully your children can also explain this to you!
You can write out some division questions in your Work at Home book, or on some paper. we would only divide by 2, 5 or 10 (and possibly 3) at this stage.
Literacy / Topic Ideas
A couple of weeks ago we suggested writing an acrostic poem based on the word lighthouse. See if you can make another acrostic poem either using your class name
K
I
T
T
I
W
A
K
E
or the word SUMMER or SEASIDE.
Poppy has written a lighthouse poem and drawn and written about some of her memories
Friday 26th June
Work at Home Ideas
Please revise counting in twos and the two times table.
Literacy / Topic Ideas
It was lovely to see you all this week and I hope you enjoyed meeting up with some of your friends again.
Carrying on with what we were talking about write down and draw your memories of Burnham Infants from all three years. This might be about your teachers, your friends, trips, lessons you enjoyed, clubs you took part in. This is something good to keep and look back on in a few years time.
Friday 19th June
Work at Home Ideas
Please revise counting in fives and the five times table.
Literacy / Topic Ideas
Can you write an acrostic poem about a lighthouse? An acrostic poem is when you take a word and use each letter to be the start of a line (either one word or a descriptive phrase about the topic).
e.g.
Looking out over the stormy, grey waves
Imagining the sailors that I have kept safe
Greeting people with my bright, twinkly lights
High up on the jagged, sharp rocks
T
H
O
U
S
E
I would love to see your finished poems so please email them to me.
Following on from water safety last week here is a reading comprehension on the topic.
Friday 12th June
Work at Home Ideas
Please revise counting in tens and the ten times table.
Literacy / Topic Ideas
Following on from the non-fiction work about lighthouses here are some ideas for creative writing about lighthouses. Look at the website below and the picture of the lighthouse. Choose one or more of the activities such as the story starter, perfect picture or sick sentences to complete.
Louis has been finding out about lighthouses and made one out of Lego
Mya has been learning about lighthouses
Milly has been doing a very tricky puzzle and looking after a hedgehog
Poppy has been learning about growing plants
Friday 5th June
Work at Home Ideas
Keep practising your addition and subtraction this week. See if you can use your knowledge to solve some word problems. Have at look below for ideas.
Literacy / Topic Ideas
Following on from Grace Darling can you find out more about lighthouses? Can you find out some information about the Burnham lighthouses? Record some facts in your yellow books.
Friday 29th May
Work at Home Ideas
In Maths we would be recapping addition and subtraction if we were in school. When we add or subtract we have been using Dienes equipment (ten sticks and ones cubes) or drawing pictures of the Dienes to help us. (Your child should be able to explain this!) We had also moved onto a more formal column method for adding and subtracting with two 2-digit numbers. There are lots of ideas in the document below. If you can't print it you can always write some number sentences ("sums") in your yellow book.
Literacy / Topic Ideas
We would be moving onto a seaside theme in school. Can you find out information about lighthouses and Grace Darling?
Mya has been painting some beautiful pictures
Milly has been working on her Maths this week
Poppy has made a bridge and a Barbie house
Friday 22nd May
Work at Home Ideas
As next week would be the Half Term holiday I am not adding anything new this week. Hopefully you will be able to get out and enjoy the sunshine.
Check back next Friday for new ideas.
Mya has been to the beach
Poppy has been out for a walk
Milly has been hunting for fossils
Friday 15th May
Work at Home Ideas
You may want to continue working with money, practising recognising coins, adding coins, making totals using different coins and giving change.
Something new for this week is to revise practising counting in twos, fives and tens. If you have plenty of 2p, 5p and 10p coins you could take a handful of, for example 2p, coins and then count in twos to work out how much money you have. Repeat with different numbers of coins and then use 5p coins or 10p coins.
Below are some activities and games that use counting in twos, fives and tens.
Literacy / Topic Ideas
As this week was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale you might like to find out a little bit more about her life.
Mya has been using her shop to learn about money
Milly has been making a shop, painting and doing some science
Poppy has been finding out about Brunel and doing some phonics
Mya has been learning about telling the time
Friday 8th May
Work at Home Ideas
This week you may well want to continue working on telling the time.
A different practical skill to work on is recognising coins and using money.
- Can your child recognise all the main coins - 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2?
- Do they understand the different value of the coins?
- Can they make amounts using different coins? How many different ways can you make 10p or 20p?
- Can they add up a selection of coins? Here is a selection of coins. How much money have I got? (start by just using a mixture of 2p and 1p coins or 10p and 1p coins if your child is finding this tricky)
- Can they add amounts on two different price labels?
- Can they give change? (We would count up to do this.) Start with a small number and give change from 10p, then work up to higher amounts.
The best way to do most of these is to set up a shop. You could use toys or food containers and ask your child to make price labels.
Literacy / Topic Ideas
Look at the picture on https://www.pobble365.com/thank-you/
Talk about the picture.
- Who has written the message?
- Why have they written the message?
- Can you remember the last 5 times you said ‘thank you’ to someone?
- What did you say thank you for?
- What effect does being polite to people have?
Choose one of the follow up activities:
Perfect picture!
Can you draw what the person in the picture has said ‘thank you’ for?
Story starter!
“Thank you…” Two simple words, but such a powerful message...
Sentence challenge!
Can you describe the act of kindness that resulted in someone writing this ‘thank you’ message?
Can you focus on using good descriptions of nouns you use, including the feelings involved with the kind gesture?
Sick sentences!
These sentences are ‘sick’ and need your help to get better. Can you help by adding more interesting words?
She gave him a present. It was wrapped up. He opened it. He was happy. He said thank you.
Friday 1st May
Work at Home Ideas
It was good to speak to most of you this week and I was really impressed at all the learning going on at home. Quite a few of you mentioned a problem with printing so this week I have included some interactive games. This week in Maths we would be moving onto telling the time on an analogue clock (clock with hands). We would start by revising o'clock and half past times. We would then move onto quarter past and quarter to. If your child picks this up quite quickly you could move onto telling the time to five minutes. Espresso has a good section on time. Log onto www.espresso.co.uk using the username: student3863 and the password: sandcastle. Go to KS1, then Maths and then scroll down to find the section on Time. There are videos and games.
For Literacy / Topic you might like to find out about VE Day with your child.
Work at Home Ideas
Minute Maths- some examples of our minute maths papers. This will show you the type of progression between the levels. You can write them out for your child and adjust accordingly by making it harder/easier.
Friday 24th April
Work at Home Ideas
The Bitesize daily lessons started this week on the BBC (see iplayer). These are a daily 20 minute fun and engaging programme covering English and Maths and other curriculum subjects such as Science, History, Geography and Music. These are definitely worth watching and they links are provided to additional resources on the BBC Bitesize website.
Oak National Academy are also providing online lessons and activities.
Work at Home Ideas
Friday 17th April
Work at Home Ideas
On Monday 20th April the BBC will be launching lessons on screen. BBC iplayer and the Red Button service will host Bitesize Daily. There will be 20 minute programmes on English and Maths and other subjects targeting specific age groups. We have no more information in school about the content of these but I'm sure they will be worth a view.
Work at Home Ideas
Brunel Facts
We would have been starting a topic about Brunel and boats in school. Can you find out some facts about Brunel? Record them in your work at home book.
Friday 3rd April and Friday 10th April
Work at Home
As these two weeks would normally be the school Easter holidays we are adding some fun activities. There are some Easter cooking ideas which will help children learn about weights and measures. Children are often confused about all the different units used, such as grams, millilitres, so whilst you are cooking look at the packets and containers and talk about grams, kilograms and millilitres, litres.
If you want to find out more about Easter as a festival Espresso has videos and activities. Log in using
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password: sandcastle
and then go to KS1 -> R.E. -> Easter
Work at Home Ideas
Weekly Phonics/Spellings
Work at Home Ideas
Friday 20th March 2020
If you were in school you will have received paper copies of these.
Homework sent home on Friday 20th March
GENERAL LINKS FOR SCHOOL CLOSURE
The link below has some useful information and videos to support your child/children in their phonics learning at home using our Sounds Write programme.
Learning through landscapes
I hope you are all keeping healthy at home. Whilst school is closed I will try to add ideas for activities each Friday.
For lots of general resources visit the Espresso website. Parents have their own log in to use ...
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password - sandcastle
We hope that you are enjoying using numbots at home, please email the school if you have any issues with this.