Home Learning during Lockdown

Starting the week beginning 11^th January activities will be put on the Seesaw learning platform and produced as a paper pack weekly. You can collect your paper pack from school each week on a Friday - our timeslot for collection is 10.45 - 11.10. Children can then either upload a picture/evidence of their work for teachers to look at and respond to through Seesaw or return work on a Friday when you collect work for the following week.

Week beginning Tuesday 5th January

In Literacy we will be writing a recount about our Christmas holidays. We will be particularly focussing on using adjectives (describing words) and writing longer sentences with conjunctions (because, but, etc.).

In Phonics we will be focussing on the /n/ sound - n as in nail, ne as in gone and nn as in funny.

In Maths we will be introducing multiplication, the X sign and beginning to learn facts for the ten, five and two times tables.

In our Number Sense mental maths we are focussing on 0 (zero), especially that when we add or subtract 0 the number remains unchanged and when we subtract the same number the answer is 0. 

Year 1 will need to do the activities on Dolphin's page as they will part of the Year 1 bubble over the lockdown period.

Happy Friday Turtles!

Today I am going to ask you to finish off as much as you can , ready for Monday.

Don't forget to practise our two class poems, as we will have to film them next week.

As the other classes have been making hats and headbands for filming, could you please find a Christmas hat at home if you have one (please don't go out and buy one specially grown ups) or make yourself a hat or headband to wear. If you can't make one, we'll make you something at school.

We are planning to film on Wednesday, so bring it with you that morning - or you can wear it to school everyday if you want!

Now....

The quiz answers!

1. a mushroom

2. a poppy seed head

3. a shell

4. a conker case

5. the centre of a sunflower

6. a feather

 Have a great weekend and see you on Monday!

Happy Thursday Turtles!

Every Thursday morning in school we start with 

PSHE  that's personal, social, health and emotional

Get your grown up to tell you the story of The Lion and the Mouse - there is a lovely version here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F2dNzIf4jo

Now, think about these questions..

What are the differences and similarities between a lion and a mouse?

How was the lion behaving when he let the mouse go? Were you surprised?

What qualities did the mouse show in deciding to go back and help the lion?

Even small people can be brave, helpful and decisive.

Literacy

Make an animal alphabet - think of an adjective to describe each animal and write it in your book, for example bold bear, busy bee, cuddly cat,  digging dog, enormous elephant ...

Now write five sentences using some of them.

Next week we will be writing the Christmas story at school so don't forget to finish off your word banks and story maps.

Numeracy

Year 2  Today I would like you to practise subtraction or take away calculations.

Mrs Crossman gave you a sheet to practise , make sure you have done it. Are your numbers around the right way?

Go here  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zjh7mfr

Watch the video and do the activities. If you can't print the sheet off, ask your grown up to help you write  them in your book. Remember to write all the numerals correctly!

Year 1   Today we are going to think about doubles. How many doubles do you know already?

Have a look here for some activities and game to do.

If you have a dice at home, play this game - roll the dice, can write double the number of spots you see, for example, roll a six and you write 12,   

Double 6 is 12.

Does one number come up the most? We'll compare results next week.

Phonics 

Year 1 and Year 2 please practise reading 'alien' and real words.

Here are lots of games you can play 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8wsIajrsZE    a you tube video to practise

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5/picnic-on-pluto  Picnic on Pluto - choose phase 5, all words

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/alien-escape?phase=3  Alien Escape

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/odd-and-bob?phase=5   Odd and Bob

It's Wide Awake Wednesday!

So let's start with some wake and shake! Grown ups click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ9q4U2P3ig

Numeracy

Let's start with minute maths.

Next Year 2 is counting in 2's - which we do need to practise, counting up to 30 and back.

If you need some help look here and do the activity and play the game.

If it's a bit tricky, put some pairs of object together in a long line - you can use socks, shoes, gloves, stones, conkers, counters, leaves - and then count them in 2's. 

Write your even number counting in 2's in your red book. (Grown ups - 2 4 6 8 and so on) up to 30

Now comes the odd numbers ( we did those last week) - starting at 1, count up in 2's from 1. You can use your objects to help you.

Write your odd number counting in 2's (Grown ups - 1 3 5 7 9 and so on) up to 30.

Don't forget to write  your numbers the correct way round!

Now practise counting in 5's up to 50 and back.

Activities and help is here

This is a little trickier to do at home, as you will need to find 50 objects! In your book draw sets of five spots together and use them to help you count and write 5's up to 50.

Year 1

Just like yesterday, but instead we are going to do 1 less.

Pick a number card from 11-20 and make the number using your sticks and stones.

Take one away to show one less. Record in numeracy book e.g. 11 -> 10, 15 -> 14 etc.

Now, play this game with your grown up. Each pick a number card from 0-20. Which number is bigger/smaller? How do you know?  

There are activities here on 1 more and 1 less to practise.

Phonics

Year 2  /i/ sound  – word building - hymn, mystery, gypsy

Now compare the 4 spellings and put in your book with the headings – i, ui, e, y -  and then write these words under the correct spelling.

grin, build, hymn, mystery, trip, locket, racket, biscuit

Year 1 – one sound, different spellings –  blue, do, true, to, glue,

Write spellings in your book, ie.        word        spelling

                                                           to               o

                                                         loot              oo

Literacy

Today you are going to make a story map of the Nativity in your book . I have drawn one to help you (sorry about my drawings!). You can add any words or names next to the pictures that you think would be helpful.

STEM / Science

I really enjoyed seeing all your trees that you built yesterday, some were even taller than you!

Today and tomorrow you have this challenge...

Your astronaut has blown off course and is about to crash land. Can you build him or her a safe landing pad?

Make or find an astronaut - it could be a toy you already have, a ball or if your grown up is feeling brave a hard boiled egg!

Find a variety of materials for constructing a landing site - cardboard box, plastic bottles, bits of packaging, old newspapers or magazines, fabric.

Drop your astronaut from the same height onto your different surfaces.

What happens when they land? You can put your landing pad inside the box to stop it from bouncing / rolling off.

Does your landing pad save your astronaut?  If it is a hard boiled egg, does it crack?

Which materials made a good landing pad? 

Why do you think these materials were good to use?

Can you think of a good way to compare different landing pads.

We will be talking about this investigation next week at school, so you may want to write down your results to remind yourself for then.

It's Tuesday Turtles!

Good morning everyone! Thank you for the emails and photos you have been sending, I am really enjoying looking at them .

Numeracy

As usual we will start Tuesday morning with minute maths - just do one!

Year 2

Last week we started using the tens and ones - sticks and squares, to help us work out our number sentences. Please do these number sentences in your red books, drawing the tens and ones underneath to help you.

Don't forget you can use the things you collected yesterday to do them practically.

12 + 12 =                                       35 + 22 =                                28 + 11 =

41 + 28 =                                       19 + 10 =                                 61 + 28 =

56 + 21 =                                        55 + 41 =                                85 + 13 =

73 + 15 =                                        20 + 20 =                                48 + 31 =

Year 1

Pick a number from 11-20 and make it, using the things you collected yesterday. 

Add one to show one more.

Record in your red book e.g. 11 -> 12,

                                            15 -> 13 etc.

Can you do all the numbers? Now do your sheet that looks like this one.

Phonics

Year 2

/i/ sound  - word building jacket, locket, racket, kitchen

Just like last week build or make these words using scrabble tiles, magnets, letters written on paper and write them in your book - best handwriting!

Then, grown up could you please say this sentence slowly, whilst the child writes it in their book, without looking at the words made / written previously!

Dictation I put my racket in my jacket. 

Now check your writing.

Year 1

one sound, different spellings –  broom, crew, food, flew, moon, grew

Make these words using scrabble tiles, magnets, letters written on pieces of paper or anything else with letters on. Sort them into two piles - ew and oo words.

Can you make up a silly sentence using them?

Literacy

I hope you enjoyed writing your letter to Father Christmas yesterday. Don't forget to ask your grown-up to put a stamp on it and post it for you.

I would love to see a picture of your letter.

Today we are going to think about the Christmas story or Nativity story.

You can watch the story here

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/presenters-nativity-story or 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/lets-celebrate-christmas

List all the words you  can think of to do with the Christmas story (  grown ups you may need to explain why some aren’t related! ). 

Use the picture above to help you think of some.

Use these words to create a word bank or list to use over the next few days. Do this on a separate piece of paper so it can be used to help you with your writing. Draw some little pictures next to the words to remind you what they say.

Remember capital letters at the beginning of names and place words.

Science

A Christmas STEM ( science, technology, engineering, maths ) challenge! 

I used a cardboard tube, a piece of card cut from a box and some plastic cups from my kitchen for mine. 

Can you build a Christmas tree?

How high can you get it? What do you need to think about as you build it? How could you make it better?

Ask your grown up to take a picture of yours and send it to me.

I have been enjoying watching the garden birds from my kitchen window, as I'm not allowed to go out for walks.

Have a look out of your windows, can you see or hear any birds?

Draw a detailed picture of a bird you can see, or if you can't see any, draw one of an owl (like Plop) , in your book.

No cartoon drawings please - think about the animal drawings we have done in art.

Write three facts about your bird to go with your drawing.

Where does it live - it's habitat?

What does it feed on?

Is it a night bird or a day bird?

We will finish The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark next week.

And finally - for today ...

  You're the best 

get your grown up to click on the link!

Good Monday Morning Turtles

I hope you've had a good weekend . Thank you for all photos and emails last week, I loved seeing them all.

Numeracy 

Please do a minute maths, Mrs Crossman has printed three for you to do, but just do one a day. 

Year 2 - there are also some tens and ones sheets, maths challenges and a subtraction sheet to do over the week.

Let's think about tens and ones today (grown ups you may remember them being called tens and units). Last week we practised drawing tens and ones as 'sticks' and squares, to help us when working out the answers to number sentences. The tens and ones sheet will remind you how to draw the numbers as tens and ones.

Don't forget to write your numerals the correct way!

There are activities you can do on Espresso  - the link is on the school home page

Please practise counting and writing numbers up to 100

There is a hundred square and some activities here 

Year 1 You have some sheets as well from Mrs Crossman!

Today you are doing tens and ones as well.

 Pick a number  from 0 – 20 and write it in your book. Can you make the number using sticks or pencils, or straws as the tens and coins or counters or stones as your ones and then draw the number in your book. Do this for five different numbers. 

There is a sheet to do , that looks like this ...

Phonics 

Year 1 – one spelling, different sound  - arrow, crown, elbow, wow, snow, how

Build / make these words using letter cards, scrabble tiles, magnetic letters, pieces of paper with letters written on them -  whatever you have at home.

Dictation - Your grown up reads the sentence to you, a word at a time and you write them in your book. Best handwriting please!

Wow! Look, a crown and arrow in the snow. 

Don't forget to check your spellings after.

Year 2 - /oo/ sound  book, look, bush, pudding, could, would

Build / make these words using letter cards, scrabble tiles, magnetic letters, pieces of paper with letters written on them -  whatever you have at home.

Compare the 3 spellings and write these words in your book under the headings – oo, u, oul -

should, book, bush, pudding, could, cook, pull, look, would

Literacy

Today you are going to write a letter to Father Christmas in your very best handwriting!

It would be awful if your presents were wrong or were delivered to some one else!

You could start by reading the letter from  Father Christmas here  https://www.royalmail.com/christmas/letters-to-santa

Then ...

address at top,

 How to start with Dear Father Christmas– capital letters as the first letter in his name.

Don't forget to thank FC for last year’s presents.

Now on a new line - write a request for one present and why you would like that present.

Finish with Love from ...

Illustrate your letter beautifully.

Grown ups, if you post the letter, details on the website above, Royal Mail send back a beautiful reply to your child.

Turtles, you need to write all this letter in your very best handwriting!

Don't forget to practise your poem,  as there is a second one!

Christmas Eve by Judith Nicholls

I've asked Mrs Ham to print you a copy to put with your books and numeracy sheets. Please draw a beautiful Christmas tree with lots of detail on the side of the page. 

And of course start practising it for next week!

The six pictures are a weekend nature and science game for you and your family.

These photos were taken very  close up, can you work out what they are?

Send me an email with your answers!

Friday is Handwriting  day, so please use your handwriting card and practise writing your letters. 

Then practise writing your first name and family name five times - remember to put a capital letter at the beginning of each name.

Turtles have chosen two poems to learn for our end of term video.

This is the first one about summer and winter.

Please copy it carefully into your red book, your grown up has a card with the letters on to help you with your letter formation.

Don't forget to start a new line when I start a new line.

Now read your poem to yourself and then to everyone else, try to learn it off by heart ready for the video.

Draw some summer and winter pictures to go with it.

Numeracy

If you have done your number bonds - keep practising !

 We're going to carry on with part- whole models.

You know what to do, but here is a page to explain it all in case you have forgotten! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z6yh2v4

Please watch the video with your grown up.

White-Rose Maths is the scheme we are following at school parents.

Then do the activity sheet, if you can't print it out, copy it into your red book.

There is also a game to play as well.

Don't forget you can also log into Numbots!

PSHE

That means personal, social, health and emotional.

Today we are going to think about Elmer the Elephant.

You can watch the story here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUepS9yGANQ

Can you answer these questions ...

Why did Elmer leave the herd?

Did the elephants miss him? How do we know?

What was Elmer good at?

How do we know the elephants were pleased to have him back?

Can you remember what happens on Elmer's Day?

Now choose an animal and think what it might be good at, for example a seal is good at swimming, a cheetah is fast at running. 

Then think about what you are good at. You might be a good swimmer or a fast runner. 

Draw a picture of yourself - carefully, think about how we've been practsing our drawing in art and use a mirror to help. Write, under your picture, describing what you are good at.

Home Learning for 25th to 27th November

Science - Rocket Mice!

Have a look at the Science Museum website where you will see  a video on how to do this and a template for your mice. You can draw your own mouse, or even make it into a rocket instead. Try different sized bottles - what happens?

Draw a picture in your book of your rockets and explain what happens.

Can you find a way to measure how far the rocket goes?

Art

Make three paper snowflakes - use pages from your book if you don't have any paper at home. If you would like some help check out this web site here. Please save your snowflakes and bring them back to school with you.

Numeracy

We have been practising our number bonds to ten - Year 1 and twenty - Year 2.

Visit the BBC bitesize website and watch the videos and do the quiz!

Please write your number bonds to 10 (year 1) and to 20 (year 2) in your books. Keep practising them!

Literacy

Write the book review you took home with you about your favourite book at home.

Phonics -

Thursday - look for objects or pictures with an "ow" ( as in ow I've hurt myself!) sound in them, around your home or in your books.

Hint for parents - brown, ground, town, out, cow, shout

Friday - now look for "ui" ( as in i for inch) hints - build, guilt, biscuit, built

Use these words to make five sentences with.

Don't forget finger spaces, full stops and capital letters.

Year 2 please add some adjectives to your sentences.

Play Odd and Bob to practise reading real and alien words  https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/odd-and-bob?phase=5 

Practise reading and writing your high frequency words - can you write them without copying?

A, he, she, we, said, his, the, I, for, of, are, was all, come, some, to

Welcome to Turtles!

Please find below the information from our welcome letter.

• In Year 1 and 2 (and also in Covid times) we encourage independence. The children need to come in on their own and put reading books, notes, homework etc. into the classroom boxes / trays. Generally we will not be searching through book bags. In the morning please only speak to the teacher (from a distance) with quick messages, e.g. my child is going home with someone else tonight, my child is a bit upset this morning because…, my child might need their inhaler today. If you need to have a longer discussion please contact the teacher via the school office (using the phone or school email) and we will make an alternative convenient time to meet or speak on the phone, such as after school. It is important we do know when your child is being collected by someone else as we need to ring parents if we haven’t been told.

Homework  **This is for Year 2 only.

• Reading – school expectation is that children will read at least 5 times a week for approximately 15 minutes each session. This can include time spent discussing the story. Once your child is reading longer books we would not expect them to be reading a whole book in one session. Please write in the reading diary so we know your child has read, alongside any comments you might wish to make. Reading can be recorded in the morning and evening of the same day and several times over the weekend. This year we are continuing with re-read Thursday. It is important for children to re-read books to develop fluency and expression. Therefore we will not be changing books on Thursdays.

• We keep a record of reading to enable us to award certificates for reading 5 times during the week. The class in school with the highest percentage of readers will win Orlando Owl for the week. We will be continuing with the medals – bronze for reading for one complete term, silver for two and gold for all year.

• Each week we will also send home a piece of Literacy homework and a piece of Maths homework on a Friday. These will need to be returned by the following Friday. Children will miss some of their Golden Time if homework is not returned.

• Literacy homework will be spellings one week and reading comprehension the next. Spellings will come home on a sheet and will be based on a particular spelling pattern that we will be focusing on in our phonics lessons. Please keep this at home all week and do not return until Friday as your child should be practising the spellings little and often. Over the week please help your child practise the spellings using the look, cover, write, check method. Children will also look at the spellings in class. We will be testing the children in the form of dictated sentences rather than a spelling list.

• The reading comprehensions, as explained last week, should be completed independently if possible. However, if your child is finding it tricky to read the text you may read it to them and then discuss the possible answers with them. This will begin to develop their understanding of a story. Reading comprehension can be returned as soon as it is finished or on the Friday.

• Maths homework will give some ideas for practical activities you may want to do with your child following up on what we have been focusing on in our ‘number sense’ part of our Maths work. There are also some short written activities for your child to complete. These can be returned as soon as they are finished or on the Friday. The children will be completing Minute Maths in their class. We have started all the children back on Level 1 because of their missed schooling and also to build up their confidence and speed on fairly straightforward skills. When these come home can you please check how they are doing and offer help if they seem to need it.

• This term’s topic is “Space” which is science based. Your children may like to find out more about this at home with you, but at the moment due to the Covid guidelines we are unable to have artefacts sent in from home.
• For the same reason please do not send in items for show and tell.  

• More information on curriculum and current topics will be available on the school website.

• Please make sure all uniform is named. Children bring items to school in a school book bag which also needs to be named and one small keyring attached if wanted. We do not have room for rucksacks in school.

• Please send in a named PE bags to be kept in school. Please name all parts of PE kit including daps. At the moment we are not getting changed for PE but it is always useful to have a change of clothes in school!  

• Thank you for your co-operation in these difficult times! We are really pleased with how the children have settled back into school.