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Class 2 Activities

Class Activities 2020 – 2021

Storytime

Friday 26th February

  • Literacy: To re-tell a story.

Write Superworm.  Use your plan from yesterday.  Make sure your writing is beautiful.  Don’t forget capital letters, full stops, finger spaces, adjectives and commas in a list.  Try to use conjunctions such as and, but, so, then, because.

Superworm paper

Superworm paper 2

  • Spelling test of the words practised each day this week.

 

  • Numeracy:
  • Please complete assessment sheet. Please don’t help your child with this sheet.  Read the questions to them but don’t help them do the work.  It doesn’t matter if they get them wrong or can’t do them. This informs my planning of where the children are in their learning.

Friday Maths Brain Boxes

Friday Maths Bright Sparks

Friday Maths Clever Clogs

Friday Maths Master Minds

Friday Maths Smarty Pants

Friday Maths Whizz Kids

  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-2-times-table-with-bridget-the-lioness/zrrx92p

Do a TT Rock Star sheet. Please time your child, they only have three minutes to complete as many as they can.  They’re supposed to beat their last score so keep a note of them.  If they don’t finish the sheet in three minutes don’t worry, we rarely do in class either!

Friday TT Rock Stars

  • Music: The Oak Academy Session 3. Pulse and rhythm.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/understanding-how-sound-is-represented-by-symbols-64w62t?activity=video&step=1

Friday Music

Friday Music 2

Send photos!

Thursday 25th February

  • Phonics:

Complete the /oi/ sheet.  Look carefully at the sound and the letters that make the sound.  Can you think of words that have this same letter pattern and make the same sounds?  Write them beautifully on the lines.

Thursday Phonics

  • Literacy: Listen to “Superworm” and re-tell the story.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKN76BhTbkg

Talk about the story today and plan your re-tell.  Write your re-tell tomorrow.  Read my story first if you need some ideas.

Thursday Literacy My story

Thursday Literacy Story Plan

  • Numeracy:  To solve problems. How many more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ26vlvfPLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L79SDvWdcLM

Thursday Maths Brain Boxes

Thursday Maths Bright Sparks

Thursday Maths Clever Clogs

Thursday Maths Master Minds

Thursday Maths Smarty Pants

Thursday Maths Whizz Kids

  • History: To sequence the story of a significant historical figure.

Look at the power point about Neil Armstrong and why he is an important historical figure.  Make a time line of his life.

Thursday History Neil Armstrong Power Point

Thursday History Whizz Kids and Bright Sparks

Draw pictures or write sentences about what happened on each of the dates (the answers are in the power point).

Thursday History Clever Clogs and Smarty Pants Cut the pictures out and stick them in the right order on the time line.

Thursday History Master Minds and Brain Boxes Look at the power point and write down the important things that happened in 1966, 1949, 2012, 1930 and 1969.  Can you put the dates in the right order?

Wednesday 24th February

  • Phonics:

Complete the /ow/ sheet.  Look carefully at the sound and the letters that make the sound.  Can you think of words that have this same letter pattern and make the same sounds?  Be careful they make the right /oh/ sound. Write them beautifully on the lines.

Wednesday phonics

  • Literacy: Reading activity:

Smarty Pants and Clever Clogs please use your word flashcards to absolutely and totally learn these words by heart.  No sounding out allowed, learn them by sight.  Knowing these words will really help their reading as we use them a lot.  Time yourself, how fast can you read them?  If you’re really good try reading them upside down!  This is a skill only teachers have!

  • Read your reading book and talk about the story to your adult.  Where is the story set?  Who are the characters?  What happens at the beginning?  What happens in the middle?  How does the story end?  Did you like it?

 

Bright Sparks, Whizz Kids, Master Minds, Brain Boxes please complete the reading comprehension.

Wednesday Reading Brain Boxes.pdf

Wednesday Reading Bright Sparks

Wednesday Reading Master Minds

Wednesday Reading Whizz Kids

  • Numeracy:  To recognise place value. Make the highest/lowest number.

Cut out the number cards.  Make two-digit numbers.  Talk about big numbers and little numbers.  Look at the difference between 52 and 25.  Which one is bigger?  Why?  Talk about how many tens the number has and how many ones it has.  Cut out the tens and ones pictures and match them to the numbers you make.  Choose three different number cards and experiment making the biggest numbers you can and the smallest numbers you can.  Do the same activity with other number cards.  Take photos of your child playing with the resources and send these back to school please.  Keep the resources somewhere safe so we can use them again at a later date.

Wednesday Number Cards Resource

Wednesday Tens and Ones Resources

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-2-times-table-with-bridget-the-lioness/zrrx92p

Do a TT Rock Star sheet. Please time your child, they only have three minutes to complete as many as they can.  They’re supposed to beat their last score so keep a note of them.  If they don’t finish the sheet in three minutes don’t worry, we rarely do in class either!

Wednesday TT Rock Stars

 

  • Computing: To use technology purposefully to create, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content.

 

Use your DBPrimary account to draw a picture of an alien.  Go to your home page, scroll down to your Blog and click on the pencil.  Use the paint palette to create your picture.  Experiment with the different tools to create the best alien you can.  Once you’re happy with your creation click the save button so I can see them on your page.

 

Tuesday 23rd February

  • Literacy: Spelling:

Please practise your new spellings that are in your pack.  Practise them every day for a test on Friday.

Write them out in different ways so they get stuck in your brain: small letters, capital letters, rainbow letters, bubble letters, make a pyramid out of the word.

Group 1: tall, taller, tallest, slow, slower

Group 2: after, mother, father, another, together

Group 3: grander, grandest, fresher, freshest, quicker, quickest, taller, tallest, slower, slowest

Group 4: church, turn, return, surprise, nurse, purse, burst, Thursday, Saturday

Group 5: all, ball, call, walk, talk, always, small, wall, fall, altogether

  • Phonics:

Complete the /ur/ sheet.  Look carefully at the sound and the letters that make the sound.  Can you think of words that have this same letter pattern and make the same sounds?  Write them beautifully on the lines.

Tuesday Phonics

  • Numeracy:  To position numbers on a number line.

Go through the slides on the power point and talk to your child about why the number is placed where it is.  Look at the beginning number and end number of the number line.  Talk about halving the number line and which number would be half way, quarter way etc.  Work out what each little division is worth and figure out where your number will go.  Complete worksheet for your group.

Representing Numbers on a Blank Numberline Lesson PowerPoint

Tuesday Maths Whizz Kids

Tuesday Maths Master Minds

Tuesday Maths Brain Boxes

Tuesday Maths Bright Sparks

Tuesday Maths Clever Clogs

Tuesday Maths Smarty Pants

 

Do a TT Rock Star sheet. Please time your child, they only have three minutes to complete as many as they can.  They’re supposed to beat their last score so keep a note of them.  If they don’t finish the sheet in three minutes don’t worry, we rarely do in class either!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-2-times-table-with-bridget-the-lioness/zrrx92p

Tuesday TT Rock stars

  • PE: Dance “Thursdays Party Dance”

https://www.facebook.com/DurhamClsSSP/videos/774084959860077/

See if you can join in with the dance moves.  Do it until you’re fabulous.  Send photos!

Check out the other PE ideas you can try to keep yourself fit.

Key Stage 1 Physical Activity Timetable Week 14

 

 

Monday 22nd February

Welcome back Class 2!  I hope you’ve had a lovely holiday and you’re ready to launch into our new topic: Moon Zoom.

  • Literacy: Handwriting:

Please use the sheet to get your letters perfect.  Look carefully at which line my letters sit on and which line they touch, make your letters look exactly like my letters.  Don’t forget to write the date too!

Monday Handwriting

Watch the video as I show you where to put your letters.

  • SPAG: To use apostrophes for contractions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zcyv4qt

https://youtu.be/gubPH3WEurg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xE-vw2ctqo

Watch the videos and then complete the sheets.

 

Smarty Pants + Clever Clogs: Cut the words from the bottom of the sheet and stick in the right places.

Monday SPAG Smarty Pants and Clever Clogs

Bright Sparks: Apostrophe Ants   Monday Spag Bright Sparks

Whizz Kids: Andrew Apostrophe  Monday Spag Whizz Kids

Master Minds: Missing Apostrophe  Monday Spag Master Minds

Brain Boxes: Contraction Detective Monday Spag Brain Boxes

 

  • Numeracy:  To count in steps of 2 and 5 from 0 and in 10s from any number forward and backward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AnoVea8UCM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_yUC1NCFkE

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-2-times-table-with-bridget-the-lioness/zrrx92p

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-5-times-table/zhbm47h

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-10-times-table-with-webster-the-spider/zm32cqt

Also use your number square to count in 10s from any number forwards and backwards.

Monday Maths Bright Sparks

Monday Maths CLever Clogs

Monday Maths Hundred Square

Monday Maths Master Minds and Brain Boxes

Monday Maths Smarty Pants

Monday Maths Whizz Kids

  • Science: To describe the properties of a material using scientific vocabulary.

Monday Science 1st two pages only.

Vocabulary: hard, soft, rough, smooth, rigid, flexible, opaque, transparent, shiny, translucent, absorbent

Introduce the different words and what they mean.  Use the word mats to help with definitions plus the video.  Children often mix up smooth and soft.  Smooth can be hard (think of a plate) Smooth can also be soft (think of velvet).  But soft can’t be hard.  Transparent is see-through and clear.  Translucent is see-through but blurry.  Compare them to a normal window and a bathroom window or glass and plastic where you can’t see clearly through it.  Find objects around your house that match the definitions for each word.  Take photos of the words next to the objects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=340MmuY_osY

Monday Science Brain Boxes

Monday Science Bright Sparks

Monday Science Clever Clogs

Monday Science Master Minds

Monday Science Whizz Kids

Monday Science Smarty Pants

Storytime

 

Friday 12th February 2021

 

Phonics: or (shut the door).

To think of as many words with this sound in it and write them on the sheet.

Friday Phonics

Literacy:

Write a book review about The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch. Remember to think carefully about what happened in the story and why you liked particular parts.

Friday Literacy Clever Clogs and Bright Sparks

Friday Literacy Master Minds and Brain Boxes

Friday Literacy Smarty Pants

Friday Literacy Whizz Kids

Y1 – Lexia or TT Rockstars.

Friday Y1 TT Rock Stars

Numeracy – Y2 – Statistics Rising Stars assessment.

Friday Rising Stars Y2 Statistics

Music

Creating simple patterns (thenational.academy)

Click on the 1st Link

Thursday 11th February 2021

Phonics: ar (Park the car).

To think of as many words with this sound in it and write them on the sheet.

Thursday Phonics

Literacy

Design a menu for Mr Grindling.

 

Smarty pants– Cut out the food and stick onto Mr Grinding’s picnic basket.

Thursday Literacy Smarty Pants

Clever clogs– Write what foods you think Mr Grindling would like for a starter, main course and dessert.

Thursday Literacy Clever Clogs

Bright Sparks and Whizz Kids– Draw a picture and write the foods you think Mr Grindling would enjoy for his lunch.

Thursday Literacy Whizz Kids and Bright Sparks

Master Minds and Brain Boxes– Draw the foods and write sentences telling me which foods Mr Grindling would enjoy eating for his lunch.

Thursday Literacy Brain Boxes and Master Minds

Numeracy Y1 and Y2 Rising Stars assessment.

Measurement: Please work through as much as possible, adults may help with the reading.

Thursday Y1 Rising Stars Measurement

Thursday Y2 Rising Stars Measurement

Geometry: Again continue to work through as best you can.

Thursday Y1 Rising Stars Geometry

Thursday Y2 Rising Stars Geometry

DT: Easy & Fun Handprint Crab Craft For Kids | Crab crafts, Animal crafts, Handprint crafts (pinterest.co.uk)

Card provided in home learning packs. Either use googly eyes from home or draw on some eyes. It would be lovely if you could send the finished crabs back into school so we can use then on a display.

 

Wednesday 10th February 2021

 

Phonics: oo (Look at a book)

To think of as many words with this sound it and write them on the sheet.

 

Literacy: Lighthouse Keepers Lunch Story Sequence.

Please watch https://youtu.be/PLOHgft8LTs

Master Minds and Brain Boxes – Mr Grinling’s Diary

Whizz Kids – Mr Grinling’s Diary with days of the week already wrote in.

Bright Sparks – Mr Grinling has had a busy day.

Clever Clogs and Smarty Pants – Tell the Story.

 

Numeracy Y1 and Y2 Rising Stars assessment.

Multiplication and Division: You may read the questions to your child, try to encourage your child to work out the answers independently.

 

Fractions: Again as above. Just try your best!

 

RE Judaism

Places of Worship – Power point paper copy.

Please look at this power point and read it with your child. The focus is to learn the names of objects and furniture in a Synagogue.

Brain Boxes, Master Minds and Whizz Kids – to design your own Synagogue, draw your plan and label the objects.

Bright Sparks, Clever Clogs and Smarty Pants – to label objects in a Synagogue.

 

Wednesday 10th February 2021 – All Worksheets

Tuesday 9th February 2021

 

Phonics: oo ( Poo at the Zoo)

To think of as many words with this sound it and write them on the sheet.

 

Literacy Y1 and Y2 Rising Stars assessment.

Reading: Please encourage your child to read the text as independently as possible then answer the questions that follow.

 

Numeracy Y1 and Y2 Rising Stars assessment.

Addition and Subtraction: You may read the questions to your child, try to encourage your child to work out the answers independently.

 

PE Zumba

Home Resources – Durham & Chester-le-Street School Sports Partnership (durhamcls-ssp.co.uk)

Type the above into the web browser.

Click on Durham and Chester-le-Street School Sports Partnership.

Resources drop down – Click on – Home Resources.

Scroll down and click on – Videos.

Videos – click on – Zumba routines.

Click on – Merengue Rhythm routine 2.

ENJOY!

Please send me some active photos if you can. It would be great to see you all in action!

Tuesday 9th Feb 2021 – All Worksheets

Monday 8th February 2021

 

Phonics: oa (Goat in a boat)

To think of as many words with this sound it and write them on the sheet.

 

 

Literacy Y1 and Y2 Rising Stars Spelling and SPaG assessments.

Please note that these assessments are to be completed totally independently unless otherwise stated.

Spelling: Adult to read the script as it stands and child to write the spelling as they would sound it out.

 

SPaG: Rising Stars assessment.

Please complete work on sheets.

 

Numeracy: Y1 and Y2 Rising Stars assessment.

Number: Please work from the sheets provided.

 

Science Y1 and Y2 Rising Stars assessment.

Science: Living things and their habitats.

Please complete work on the sheets.

 

Mon 8th Feb – All Worksheets

Monday Year 1 Literacy & Numeracy

Tuesday 9th February 2021

 

Phonics: oo ( Poo at the Zoo)

To think of as many words with this sound it and write them on the sheet.

 

Literacy Y1 and Y2 Rising Stars assessment.

Reading: Please encourage your child to read the text as independently as possible then answer the questions that follow.

 

Numeracy Y1 and Y2 Rising Stars assessment.

Addition and Subtraction: You may read the questions to your child, try to encourage your child to work out the answers independently.

 

PE Zumba

Home Resources – Durham & Chester-le-Street School Sports Partnership (durhamcls-ssp.co.uk)

Type the above into the web browser.

Click on Durham and Chester-le-Street School Sports Partnership.

Resources drop down – Click on – Home Resources.

Scroll down and click on – Videos.

Videos – click on – Zumba routines.

Click on – Merengue Rhythm routine 2.

ENJOY!

Please send me some active photos if you can. It would be great to see you all in action!

 

 

Thursday 11th February 2021

 

Phonics: ar (Park the car).

To think of as many words with this sound it and write them on the sheet.

 

Literacy

Design a menu for Mr Grindling.

 

Smarty pants– Cut out the food and stick onto Mr Grinding’s picnic basket.

Clever clogs– Write what foods you think Mr Grindling would like for a starter, main course and dessert.

Bright Sparks and Whizz Kids– Draw a picture and write the foods you think Mr Grindling would enjoy for his lunch.

Master Minds and Brain Boxes– Draw the foods and write sentences telling me which foods Mr Grindling would enjoy eating for his lunch.

 

Numeracy Y1 and Y2 Rising Stars assessment.

Measurement: Please work through as much as possible, adults may help with the reading.

 

Geometry: Again continue to work through as best you can.

 

DT: Easy & Fun Handprint Crab Craft For Kids | Crab crafts, Animal crafts, Handprint crafts (pinterest.co.uk)

Card provided in home learning packs. Either use googly eyes from home or draw on some eyes. It would be lovely if you could send the finished crabs back into school so we can use then on a display.

 

 

Friday 12th February 2021

 

Phonics: or (shut the door).

To think of as many words with this sound it and write them on the sheet.

 

Literacy:

Write a book review about The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch. Remember to think carefully about what happened in the story and why you liked particular parts.

 

Y1 – Lexia or TT Rockstars.

Numeracy – Y2 – Statistics Rising Stars assessment.

 

Music

Creating simple patterns (thenational.academy)

Click on the 1st Link

 

 

Ongoing activities throughout the week: TT Rockstars and Lexia

 

 

Friday 5th February

  • Literacy:
  • Spelling test of the words practised each day this week.

 

  • Numeracy:
  • Please complete assessment sheet. Please don’t help your child with this sheet.  Read the questions to them but don’t help them do the work.  It doesn’t matter if they get them wrong or can’t do them. This informs my planning of where the children are in their learning.

 

  • Music: Pulse

 

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/understanding-pulse-cdk38c?activity=video&step=1

 

Send photos!

Thursday 4th February

  • Phonics: Today we have a task assigned on DB Primary linking to our phonics work in class. Please head over to the portal and log in to complete. We automatically get your marks in the onli work book – Keep up the good work Class 2 🙂

 

  • Literacy: What type of sentence is it?

Types of sentence power point

Watch the power point on the website about commands, exclamations, questions and statements.

Complete the worksheet.

Thursday Literacy Sheets

  • Numeracy:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-10-times-table-with-webster-the-spider/zm32cqt

Do 3 TT Rock Star sheets and return to school.  Please time your child, they only have three minutes to complete as many as they can on each sheet.  They’re supposed to beat their last score so keep a note of them.  If they don’t finish the sheet in three minutes don’t worry, we rarely do in class either!

Thursday Numeracy Sheets

  • DT:

Make two booklets.

Cut each of the sea border papers into 4 so you have small pages.

Decide if you’d like one lined booklet and one plain booklet or two booklets with a mixture of each.

Staple one of your booklets together.  Trim the pages so they are neat.

Hole punch the other booklet and tie it with string.

Fill your booklets with pictures and writing about the seaside.

Send photos!

Thursday DT Sheets

Wednesday 3rd February

  • Phonics: Today we are looking at the /ai/ sound. Watch the video below and think about different words which have the /ai/ sound in them. Complete the worksheet practising our handwriting and formation of the digraph.

ai Worksheet

  • Literacy: Reading activity:

Smarty Pants and Clever Clogs please use the word flashcards from last week to absolutely and totally learn these words by heart.  No sounding out allowed, learn them by sight.  Knowing these words will really help their reading as we use them a lot.  Time yourself, how fast can you read them?  If you’re really good try reading them upside down!  This is a skill only teachers have!

T-L-3924-Year-1-Common-Exception-Words-Flashcards_ver_2

T-L-3925-Year-2-Common-Exception-Words-Flashcards_ver_3

Bright Sparks, Whizz Kids, Master Minds, Brain Boxes please complete the reading comprehension.

Wed Brain Boxes Reading

Wed Master Minds Reading

Wed Whizz Kids Reading

Wednesday Bright Sparks Reading

 

  • Numeracy:  Adding 10s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYNqWmkkxaY (counting in 10s song)

Watch the video on the website to use a number square to add 10 or multiples of 10.

Complete the sheet.

Wed Maths Brain Boxes

Wed Maths Bright Sparks

Wed Maths Clever Clogs

Wed Maths Master Minds

Wed Maths Smarty Pants

Wed Maths Whizz Kids

 

  • RE: Judaism

Find out about Rosh Hashanah.  Watch the video

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02n2jc5

Fill in the missing words on the sheet.

RE Worksheets

 

Tuesday 2nd February

  • Literacy: Spelling:

Please practise your new spellings, remember to use the right group.  Practise them every day for a test on Friday.

 

Write them out in different ways so they get stuck in your brain: small letters, capital letters, rainbow letters, bubble letters, make a pyramid out of the word:

Children find these really hard at first but persevere as the repetition is good for learning spellings.

  • Numeracy:  Addition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9tjBUiXs0 (keep singing this song to remember your number bonds)

 

Use the number line to add the numbers.  Always start on the big number and count on the smaller number.  Never count the number you start on.  Brain Boxes keep hold of the 100 square as you’ll need it again on Wednesday.

Tues Maths 50 number line

Tues Maths 100 Square Hundred Black and White

Tues Maths Brain Boxes Tues Maths Clever Clogs and Bright Sparks

Tues Maths Master Minds

Tues Maths Smarty Pants

Tues Maths Whizz Kids

  • PE: Zumba

Home Resources – Durham & Chester-le-Street School Sports Partnership (durhamcls-ssp.co.uk)

Put the above into your web browser.

Click on Durham and Chester le Street School Sport Partnership

Resources drop down, home resources

Scroll down and click “videos”

Videos – Zumba routines

Merengue Rhythm Routine.

Please send photos!

 

Children’s Mental Health Week

This year’s mental health week is all about ‘Expressing yourself’ so start with talking about your child’s feelings – see the slides below for some super cool activities to do both at home and school.

Mental Health Week – Feelings EYFS & KS1

Monday 1st February

Happy February!  Thank goodness January is over!  Not long til Spring will be here in all her gloriousness

  • Literacy: Handwriting:

Please use the sheet to get your letters perfect.  Look carefully at which line my letters sit on and which line they touch, make your letters look exactly like my letters.  Don’t forget to write the date too!

Mon Handwriting

SPAG: Subordinated conjunctions

A subordinated conjunction joins two sentences (or clauses) where one sentence can stand by itself but the other one can’t.  Watch the video that explains this.

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/parts-of-speech-the-preposition-and-the-conjunction/introduction-to-conjunctions/v/subordinating-conjunctions

 

Then think of some sentences that use subordinated conjunctions.

 

  • Smarty Pants: Write three sentences, each sentence to have the word “because” in it.
  • Clever Clogs: Write five sentences, each sentence to have the word “because” in it.
  • Bright Sparks: Write three sentences, each sentence to have the word “because” in it.

Write three sentences, each sentence to have the word “after” in it.

  • Whizz Kids: Write two sentences, each sentence to have the word “because” in it.

Write two sentences, each sentence to have the word “after” in it.

Write two sentences, each sentence to have the word “before” in it.

  • Master Minds: Write three sentences, each sentence to have the word “because” in it.

Write three sentences, each sentence to have the word “after” in it.

Write three sentences, each sentence to have the word “before” in it.

  • Brain Boxes: Write two sentences, each sentence to have the word “because” in it.

Write two sentences, each sentence to have the word “after” in it.

Write two sentences, each sentence to have the word “before” in it.

Write two sentences, each sentence to have the word “when” in it.

 

Examples:  I went to school because it was Monday.

Lucy ate strawberries after she had her lunch.

It was snowing before I went to bed.

I will be a teacher when I grow up.

Monday Spag

 

  • Numeracy:  Odd and Even

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kHtGbnYKGc

Sing the song and watch the power point to explain odd and even numbers

Odd and Even power point

Complete the sheet.  You will need objects to count.

Monday Maths Brain Boxes and Master Minds

Monday Maths Bright Sparks and Whizz Kids

Monday Maths Clever Clogs and Smarty Pants

  • Science: Living and Non-living Things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFGydQHh0KA   (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAWcBSZ0klw    (song)

Complete the sheet.

Mon Science Brain Boxes and Master Minds

Mon Science Bright Sparks and Whizz Kids

Mon Science Clever Clogs and Smarty Pants

Storytime – Tiddler

 

 

Friday 29th January

  • Literacy:
  • Spelling test of the words practised each day this week.

 

  • Numeracy:  Making amounts with coins

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/revisiting-the-value-of-coins-65jp2r?step=2&activity=video

 

How many different ways can you make a pound with different coins?

 

Coin investigation

 

  • Plus the assessment activity please. Please don’t help your child with this sheet.  Read the questions to them but don’t help them do the work.  It doesn’t matter if they get them wrong or can’t do them. This informs my planning of where the children are in their learning.

 

  • Science: Seaweed

https://youtu.be/Eq4GiBkavTo

Watch the video and power point about seaweed.  Can you write some facts about seaweed?

Thursday 28th January

• Literacy: Speaking and Listening

Watch the Julia Donaldson story: Sharing a Shell.
Talk about the story:
What happened?
Do they notice any rhyme or repetition?
What happens when they grow?
What does sharing mean? When do they have to share? Is sharing a good thing?
What does ungrateful mean?
What does shy mean?
What does proud mean?
How does Brush help? Why is he an important character in the story?
Talk about the moral of the story and what a good friend does.

Write down what your child talks about and e-mail to school. Thank you.

• Numeracy: Counting coins
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/counting-money-in-a-set-of-coins-65h32d?step=2&activity=video

Watch the video and carry out the activities.

Complete the coins in the jars sheet.

Also do a TT Rock Star sheet and return it to school. Please time your child, they only have three minutes to complete as many as they can on each sheet. They’re supposed to beat their last score so keep a note of them. If they don’t finish the sheet in three minutes don’t worry, we rarely do in class either!

 

• Art: Natural Art
Go for a walk in your local area. Look for interesting items. Can you make patterns using the items? Arrange the items in artistic ways, experimenting with shape, pattern, colour and line. Take photographs of the finished artworks from above. If you can’t get out to collect your items, use items from your garden or just interesting items from the house. Check the pictures for ideas.

The best education is always done outdoors Alana

Excellent work Alana

Excellent gymnastics Harry

Wednesday 27th January

  • Literacy: Reading activity:

Smarty Pants and Clever Clogs please use the word flashcards from last week to absolutely and totally learn these words by heart.  No sounding out allowed, learn them by sight.  Knowing these words will really help their reading as we use them a lot.  Time yourself, how fast can you read them?  If you’re really good try reading them upside down!  This is a skill only teachers have!

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Bright Sparks, Whizz Kids, Master Minds, Brain Boxes please read a book from home or from the internet and do a book review for me please.

Wed Brain Boxes Book Review

Wed Bright Sparks Book Review

Wed Master Minds Book Review

Wed Whizz Kids Book Review s

 

  • Numeracy:  Money: Notes

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/coins-and-notes-6wup4t?step=2&activity=video

 

Now it’s time to look at the notes.  You will need £5, £10, £20, £50 notes.  Use real ones if you have them or use the pictures in your pack.

Coins and Notes Word Mat

You will also need the worksheet to use during the lesson.

Wed Maths

This is more of a practical lesson so I would like a photo of your child using the notes returned to me please.  Keep the notes as we’ll need them again later.

You can do the quiz if you’d like to.

Also do a TT Rock Star sheet and return it to school.  Please time your child, they only have three minutes to complete as many as they can on each sheet.  They’re supposed to beat their last score so keep a note of them.  If they don’t finish the sheet in three minutes don’t worry, we rarely do in class either!

Wed TT Rockstars

  • PSHCE:
Listen to the story and discuss how the kid and the potato feel.

Talk about the feeling words ‘bored’, ‘frustrated’, ‘irritable’ and others that the children come up with.

Encourage the children to consider what people look like when they are bored or frustrated, and how they might recognise these feelings in themselves or other people. Discuss how the ability to manage frustration is essential if we are to be successful in reaching our goals

 

Consider how they could overcome boredom (‘beat boredom’) and frustration (‘foil frustration’) and create a list of ideas.

 

This experience could then be used to discuss feelings and introduce the key ideas of ‘persistence’ and ‘overcoming frustration’. Ask the children:

  • Did you keep going when you were fed up or wanted to stop? • What helped? (For example: things they thought to themselves and things that others did or said.)
  • How did you feel when you were getting fed up? (Link to overcoming impulsive behaviours.)

Some of the strategies that children may suggest may include, for example:

  • keep the goal in mind – see the big picture;
  • say encouraging things to yourself
  • imagine the end result;
  • set yourself a reward for completing the task;
  • set yourself a time challenge;
  • break down the task and set time scales for each bit;
  • break down the task and promise yourself a reward for completing each part of the task;
  • have a break, do something completely different, sleep on it, walk around;
  • ask others for help;
  • talk through what you are doing;
  • receive feedback from others.

 

Children can make posters featuring all the things that we can do to overcome frustration and help ourselves keep going when things are difficult.

Wed PSHCE poster

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-money/zht4nrd

(Nice Super mover routine for money if you’d like to copy the link and put it in your web browser)

Excellent gymnastics Naya.  I’m loving the outfit too!

 

Gorgeous work Lily

Tuesday 26th January

Good morning!

  • Literacy: Spelling:

Please practise your new spellings, remember to use the right group.  Practise them every day for a test on Friday.

 

Write them out in different ways so they get stuck in your brain: small letters, capital letters, rainbow letters, bubble letters, make a pyramid out of the word:

Children find these really hard at first but persevere as the repetition is good for learning spellings.

 

  • Numeracy:  Money: Coins

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/revisiting-the-value-of-coins-comparing-value-74rkcr?activity=video&step=1

We are going to be looking at money this week.  You will need 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p coins.  Use real ones if you have them or use the pictures in your pack.  I’m going to use the older coins because they have the numbers on them but the new coins have been included too to look at and talk about because children will come across these in real life.  Keep the coins as you’ll need them later on in the week.

You will also need the worksheet to use during the lesson.

This is more of a practical lesson so I would like a photo of your child using the coins returned to me please.

You can do the quiz if you’d like to.

Also do a TT Rock Star sheet and return it to school.  Please time your child, they only have three minutes to complete as many as they can on each sheet.  They’re supposed to beat their last score so keep a note of them.  If they don’t finish the sheet in three minutes don’t worry, we rarely do in class either!

Coins and Notes Word Mat

Tues maths coins

Tues Maths

Tues TT Rockstars

  • PE:

Zumba:  Have a go at the video!

https://durhamcls-ssp.co.uk/home-resources/#B6BC10A7CCFFBD51!34424

Click on videos, Zumba routines, Cumbia Rhythm Routine.

Monday 25th January

Good morning my gorgeous people.  Don’t forget to pick your packs up from School and return any work you did last week.  I’d rather have some work than no work, so if you haven’t done it all, don’t worry, bring in what you have done so I can see it please and put it in their school books.

  • Literacy: Handwriting:

Please use the sheet to get your letters perfect.  Look carefully at which line my letters sit on and which line they touch, make your letters look exactly like my letters.  Don’t forget to write the date too!

Monday Handwriting

SPAG: Verbs

A verb is a doing word or an action word.  E.g. talk, skip, think, do, be, make, sing etc

https://youtu.be/DzmmSbLwOGo (video explaining verbs)

https://youtu.be/ineCCpqpZrM (Verb rap)

 

Work through power point on website to show children examples.

Verbs power point

Complete worksheet.

Monday Spag Brain Boxes

Monday Spag Bright Sparks

Monday Spag Clever Clogs

Monday Spag Master Minds

Monday Spag Smarty Pants

Monday Spag Whizz Kids

  • Numeracy:

Last week I found my children weren’t very confident with their number bonds.  I want them to know the numbers that make 10 without having to work it out.

10+0

9+1

8+2

7+3

6+4

5+5

https://youtu.be/lD9tjBUiXs0 Listen to this song every day and join in to learn your number bonds.

Cut the numbers out and stick the pairs of numbers together that make 10.  If you found this too easy try the number bonds to 20 too.

Mon Maths Number bonds

Monday Maths Number bonds

Number bonds to 20

  • Topic: Science: Habitats

Watch the power point about the beach as a habitat.  Remind children what a habitat is.  Complete the sheet where they ONLY stick the right animals and plants into the beach habitat.  If they don’t live at the beach such as the guinea pig, gorilla and rose then put them in the bin.

beach habitat power point edited

Monday habitats Smarty Pants, Clever Clogs, Bright Sparks

Monday habitats Whizz Kids, Master Minds, Brain Boxes

 

 

 

 

Storytime – Commotion in the Ocean

 

Feedback

Friday 22nd January

Well done guys, another week of hard work.  Please hand in all your work on Monday and pick up your new pack from school.  Make sure you have a rest over the weekend.

  • Literacy:
  • Spelling test of the words practised each day this week.

 

  • Literacy: Writing a recount

Write the end of your recount.  Don’t forget to keep using your ideas from your plan.  Re-read my recount for inspiration.  Check your success criteria at the top of the paper before you begin.  If you haven’t ticked something off yet make sure you get it in before the end.

 

  • Numeracy:  This activity is an assessment opportunity for me so don’t help your child with the work today. Read the questions to them but don’t help them do the work.  It doesn’t matter if they get them wrong or can’t do them. This informs my planning of where the children are in their learning.

Friday Maths Brain Boxes

Friday Maths Bright Sparks

Friday Maths Clever Clogs

Friday Maths Master Minds

Friday Maths Smarty Pants

Friday Maths Whizz Kids

  • PE:

Gymnastics:  Continue creating and performing a simple sequence on the floor using balances, jumps and body shapes.  Please don’t do any rolls as you don’t have the safety mats to keep yourselves safe.  Show control and co-ordination.  Use space safely.  Show body tension, relaxing, stretching and curling.  Can you balance on different parts of your body?  Please take photos of your body shapes and balances and send to me.

Thursday 21st January

Nearly there!  One more day!

  • Literacy: Writing

Write the beginning of your recount.  Do the opening paragraph and half way along your plan.

You don’t need to finish today so take your time.  Make sure your handwriting is beautiful and you sit your letters on the line.  Check out the success criteria so you know what I’m looking for when I mark it.  Remember your finger spaces!

Read my recount if you need some ideas.

My Recount of Australia Zoo by Mrs Plant

Thurs Lit Brain Boxes

Thurs Lit Bright Sparks

Thurs Lit Clever Clogs

Thurs Lit Master Minds

Thurs Lit Smarty Pants

Thurs Lit Whizz Kids

Animal paper  (extra paper in here if you need it, use the second sheet please)

  • Numeracy:

Do three TT Rockstar sheets. Please time your child, they only have three minutes to complete as many as they can on each sheet.  They’re supposed to beat their last score so keep a note of them.  If they don’t finish the sheet in three minutes don’t worry, we rarely do in class either!  They are deliberately all 2x tables as they’re trying to beat their time or score.

We usually have a rest in between each sheet at school so make sure you do too.

Thurs Maths TT Rock Stars

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-2-times-table-with-bridget-the-lioness/zrrx92p

(We often put supermovers on before we do rock stars too to get their brains working)

  • Geography: Lighthouses

Read the power point to your child.

Lighthouses power point

Colour in the picture and label it with information that you’ve found out.

Lighthouse colouring page

 

An abacus is such a good idea for number bonds

Fabulous balance Oscar!!

  Excellent maths work Freddie!

  Imogen you are amazing!

Oh my word!  What fabulous PE Erica!

 

Well Done Phina for researching our topic safely on the internet

  Nice to see you listening to our music Lily.  We are looking at Handel’s Water music.

  Archie, making playdough is a skill some grown ups can’t master!  This looks like shop bought play dough!  So proud.

  Well done on your spelling test Naya!

 

Wednesday 20th January

Well done guys, we’re half way through the week!

  • Literacy: I want the children to pretend they have been on a zoo visit. Watch the video advertising Australia Zoo and pretend that you are walking around with Robert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YBRu5JFHmw

  • Use the recount plan to plan what you are going to write about. Watch my video where I show you how to fill in the plan.

Wednesday recount plan Bright Sparks and Whizz Kids

Wednesday recount plan Clever Clogs and Smarty Pants

Wednesday recount plan Master Minds and Brain Boxes

 

 

  • Numeracy:  Practise number bonds

Complete sheet

Wednesday Maths Brain Boxes and Master Minds

Wednesday Maths Smarty Pants and Clever Clogs

Wednesday Maths Whizz Kids and Bright Sparks

  • RE: Judiaism

Learn a little bit about Judiaism.  Watch the power point and videos.  Can you make a David’s star to add to our display?  Follow the instructions on the sheet.  Can you make some Hamsa designs?  Look at the sheet for ideas.

Synagogue power point

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zd9jxnb  Meet a Jewish family

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zcfgkqt    Celebrating Shabbat

Make a star of David

Use “Hamsa as ideas for patterns)

Hamsa

Use the next sheet to draw your own patterns.

Hamsa outline

Synagogue labelling

 

Tuesday 19th January

Good morning!  Here is the work that I would like you to do today please.

  • Literacy: Spelling:

Please practise your new spellings, remember to use the right group.  Practise them every day for a test on Friday.

Group 1: car, arm, are, our, were

Group 2: bow, how, town, down, brown

Group 3: car, start, park, arm, garden, artist, star, are, were, our

Group 4: buses, fishes, wishes, kisses, boxes, peaches, lunches, dresses, glasses, beaches

Group 5: copying, crying, replying, marrying, carrying, flying, trying, drying, skiing, taxiing

Write them out in different ways so they get stuck in your brain: small letters, capital letters, rainbow letters, bubble letters, make a pyramid out of the word:

 

Children find these really hard at first but persevere as the repetition is good for learning spellings.

 

Literacy:   Reading activity:

Smarty Pants and Clever Clogs please use the word flashcards to absolutely and totally learn these words by heart.  No sounding out allowed, learn them by sight.  Knowing these words will really help their reading as we use them a lot.  Time yourself, how fast can you read them?  If you’re really good try reading them upside down!  This is a skill only teachers have!

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Bright Sparks, Whizz Kids, Master Minds, Brain Boxes please complete reading comprehension activity.  Let the children do it independently first.  Tell them all the answers are in the text and not to pluck anything from the air or use their own ideas, all the answers are in the text.  They have to read the text to find the answers.  After they’ve had a good go then feel free to help them and show them where you found the answer and what you had to look for.

Tuesday Reading Brain Boxes

Tuesday Reading Bright Sparks and Whizz Kids

Tuesday Reading Master Minds

  • Numeracy:  Greater than and less than.

Teach what the words mean and match them to their symbol.   We talk about the shapes being crocodiles and the open mouth always eats the bigger number.

< Means less than

>Means greater than

E.g.  45>31

58<96

Complete the sheet

Tuesday Maths Brain Boxes and Master Minds

Tuesday Maths Bright Sparks and Whizz Kids

Tuesday Maths Clever Clogs

Tuesday Maths Smarty Pants

  • PE: Gymnastics: Create and perform a simple sequence on the floor using balances, jumps and body shapes.  Please don’t do any rolls as you don’t have the safety mats to keep yourselves safe.  Show control and co-ordination.  Use space safely.  Show body tension, relaxing, stretching and curling.  Can you balance on different parts of your body?  Please take photos of your body shapes and balances and send to me.

Monday 18th January

Hello my lovelies, don’t forget to pick your packs up from school and drop off any work you did last week

  • Literacy: Handwriting:

Please use the sheet to get your letters perfect.  Look carefully at which line my letters sit on and which line they touch, make your letters look exactly like my letters.  Don’t forget to write the date too!

1 Monday Handwriting

SPAG: Suffixes (ness)

We are going to make adjectives (describing words) into nouns (naming words) by adding a suffix -ness.  Suffixes change the meaning of words.  They always go at the end.  Examples of suffixes are “-ed”, “-ly”, “-ment”, “-ful”.  We can add “-ness” to “loud”.  “Loud” is an adjective (The “loud” car) but when we add “-ness” to “loud” to get “loudness” we need to use it in a different way.  “The loudness car” doesn’t make sense anymore because “loudness” isn’t an adjective.  “Loudness” is a noun, a strange abstract noun.  It’s not something you can touch, it’s a concept, an idea.  “Loudness” is the idea of being loud.  So a more appropriate sentence would be, “The loudness of the car was deafening”.  Children find these really hard and make sentences with the words that don’t really make sense.

Spelling rule:  If the adjective ends in “y”, we change the “y” to “i” and add the suffix.

E.g.  Ugly –> Ugliness

Lonely –> Loneliness

Complete the worksheet.

Monday Spag Brain Boxes and Master Minds

Monday Spag Clever Clogs

Monday Spag Smarty Pants

Monday Spag Whizz Kids and Bright Sparks

  • Numeracy:  Repeated addition to work out multiplication calculations

Teach children that times tables can be written and worked out as repeated addition.

e.g 5 x 2 is the same as 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2.  They both give the answer of 10.

Multiplications are easier ways to write it down instead of a string of adds.

Work through power point on website to show children examples.

Repeated addition power point

Complete worksheet.

Monday Maths Brain boxes and Master minds

Monday Maths Bright sparks and Whizz kids

Monday Maths Clever clogs

Monday Maths Smarty pants

  • Topic: History

Talk about the seaside in the past.  Once upon a time working people didn’t get holidays so never had the time to go anywhere.  In 1871 the Bank Holiday Act was passed and suddenly working class people were able to have a “holiday”.  Lots of people went to the seaside for the day.  The fresh air was seen as very healthy too.  People who had more money could stay for a week in the new hotels that set up there.

Watch the two videos of Blackpool.  Compare what the people look like and what they’re doing.  Somethings stay the same like ice cream, donkey rides and entertainment.  But some things are very different such as the clothes, the types of entertainment, the amount of people and the transport.  Look carefully at the differences and similarities and sort the pictures into the table of past and present and both.

https://sites.google.com/site/primaryschoolhistory/victorians/victorian-seaside-holidays  (General info)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N6peInd_pI  (Blackpool in the past)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82YtdPyJ8p4   (Blackpool more recently)

 

There’s a couple of power points on the website too for further information and pictures.

Monday History Seaside then and now

PPT_ What did people do at the seaside in the past_

Seaside power point

Monday History Seaside then and now (This is the worksheet.  Cut them out carefully and place them carefully so they all fit on.)

Storytime – Picnic

Friday 15th January

Well done guys!  Another week of home learning nearly done.  Please drop off your work at school on Monday morning and pick up your new pack.  Make sure you have a rest over the weekend.

  • Literacy:
  • Spelling test of the words practised each day this week.

 

  • Literacy: Writing a story

Write the end of your story.  Don’t forget to keep using your ideas from your plan.  Re-read my story for inspiration.  Check your success criteria at the top of the paper before you begin.  If you haven’t ticked something off yet make sure you get it in before the end.

 

  • Numeracy:  This activity is an assessment opportunity for me so don’t help your child with the work today. Read the questions to them but don’t help them do the work.  It doesn’t matter if they get them wrong or can’t do them. This informs my planning of where the children are in their learning.

Friday Maths Brain Boxes

Friday Maths Bright Sparks

Friday Maths Clever Clogs

Friday Maths Masterminds

Friday Maths Smarty Pants

Friday Maths Whizz Kids 

 

  • Music:

Listen to Handel’s Water Music.

Have a discussion about the music using the below information to help you and the power point on our website.  Take a photo of your child listening to the music and make a quick note of what you talked about and whether your child liked it or not.

https://youtu.be/mAyiidg25uE

Friday Baroque Powerpoint  (I’m going to skip over Vivaldi and Bach)

Notes for parents + carers:

This was written over 300 years ago in the Baroque period.  They made complicated music for orchestras and operas.   The music was also used for complicated dances.

It is a long piece of music.  It was written in different sections and lasts for nearly an hour.  I am going to listen to a little bit of each of the movements.  There are 11 of them.  Compare them and see if you can hear any instruments.  Please don’t listen to the whole thing unless you want to!

There should be things like flutes, oboes, horns, trumpets, violins, cellos etc.  All the instruments are not in all the sections.

I was also going to talk about musical vocabulary such as pitch, tempo and dynamics.

  • Pitch is how high or low the music is.
  • Tempo is how fast or slow the music is.
  • Dynamics is how loud or quiet the music is.

The music was composed by Handel who was German.  There is a power point about the Baroque period but I am going to skip over Bach and Vivaldi and just watch the screens on Handel.  You do not need to do the quiz at the end.

The music was written for King George the First in 1717.  They played it in boats on the River Thames for the king and his aristocratic friends which is where it gets the “Water music” title from.

It was a big publicity stunt for the unpopular king to try to make him more popular with his subjects.  At the time it would have been a massive spectacle and people watched it along the banks of the Thames.  The musicians were in barges playing their instruments and apparently the river was full of boats of people listening to the music and trying to catch a glimpse of the king.

The King really enjoyed it and made the musicians play it again and again.  Apparently, they played it from about 8pm till past midnight.  They must have been exhausted.

Thursday 14th January

 

  • Literacy: Writing a story

Write the beginning of your story.  Use your ideas from your plan.  Read my story for inspiration.  Check your success criteria at the top of the paper to see what I’m looking for when I mark your work.  You don’t need to finish today so take your time.  Make sure your handwriting is beautiful and you sit your letters on the line.

Thursday The Zoo  this is my story

Thursday Literacy Brain Boxes

Thursday Literacy Bright Sparks

Thursday Literacy Clever Clogs

Thursday Literacy Masterminds

Thursday Literacy Smartypants

Thursday Literacy Whizz Kids

 

Animal paper  Extra paper in here, use the first page

 

  • Numeracy:

Do three TT Rockstar sheets. Please time your child, they only have three minutes to complete as many as they can on each sheet.  They’re supposed to beat their last score so keep a note of them.  If they don’t finish the sheet in three minutes don’t worry, we rarely do in class either!

We usually have a rest in between each sheet at school so make sure you do too.

thursday TT rock stars

  • Geography:

I want you to be able to use and understand geographical words like: promenade, harbour, shop, houses, pier, lighthouse, hill, rock pools, bay, cliffs, cave, coast line etc.

Go through the power point below and talk at length with your child about each picture. Have they ever seen one?  Or been to one? Is it a physical feature or a human feature?  Physical features are made by nature such as sand, vegetation, sea, cliffs, beach, coast, bay, cave, hill, mountain etc.  Human features are made by man such as promenade, pier, harbour, lighthouse, shop etc.  Label the picture with the geographical words that you’ve been learning about.

Thursday Geography Features of the Seaside  Power point

Thursday Geography Smarty Pants and Clever Clogs

Thursday Geography Whizz Kids Bright Sparks

Thursday Geography Master Minds Brain Boxes

Wednesday 13th January

Hello my kiddiwinks.  Middle of the week!  Keep working hard!  Don’t forget to send your work into school as I need to stick it in your books.

  • Literacy: Planning a story. We are planning the story today and writing it over Thursday and Friday.

Write the zoo story from the Orangutans point of view.  Pretend that you are the orangutan and you are telling the story.  Find the picture of the orangutan in the story for inspiration.

Orangutan picture from Zoo

Start the story in your enclosure, describe it and what you look like.  You’re probably dirty and your fur is all tangled.  You’re thin because you aren’t fed properly.   Look at the picture in the story and describe your enclosure.  How are you feeling and what are you doing?  The zoo is closed in the beginning and the place is quiet.  Write in the first person.  Pretend that you are the orangutan and use words like me, I, my.

 

Middle of the story: the zoo opens and the people come to see you, what are you doing now?  How are you feeling?  What are the people doing? Eg shouting, banging on the glass, making a lot of noise, upsetting you etc.  Keep talking in the first person, remember you are the orangutan in the story.

 

End of the story: The zoo closes again.  How will you end the story, how are you feeling now?  Does the zookeeper come to see you?  Are you fed?  Where will you sleep?

 

Use the planning sheet to draw pictures for the three sections of the story with ideas of words that you will use in the story tomorrow.  Today is all about ideas and talking through the story so you know what you will write tomorrow.  I’m not expecting any sentences today.

Wednesday Literacy Plan

 

  • Numeracy:

We are going to partition numbers in a different way today.  Look at the example on your sheet and do the rest in the same way but with different numbers.

 

Brain Boxes your extension is slightly different.  I want you to find different ways of partitioning numbers.  So far we’ve done 34 = 30 + 4  but I could also split it 20 + 14 = 34 and 10 + 24 = 34.  Look at the example on your second sheet and carry out the others in the same way.

Wednesday Numeracy Brain Boxes

Wednesday Numeracy Brain Boxes extension

Wednesday Numeracy Bright Sparks

Wednesday Numeracy Clever Clogs

Wednesday Numeracy Master Minds

Wednesday Numeracy Smarty Pants

Wednesday Numeracy Whizz Kids

 

  • PSHCE: We need to update our personal target board (Reach for the stars). Please have a think of something you need to improve on and write on the fish sheet in your pack. Start your sentence with “I want to improve” or “I want to work on”.  Make your handwriting beautiful and not too small so we can see it on the wall.  Colour in the fish with beautiful patterns but don’t colour over your writing please.  Send your work back to school or email it please so I can stick them on the wall ready for when we’re all back together.

 

Tuesday 12th January

 

  • Literacy: Spelling:

Please practise your spellings, remember to use the right group.  Practise them every day for a test on Friday.

Write them out in different ways so they get stuck in your brain: small letters, capital letters, rainbow letters, bubble letters, make a pyramid out of the word:

Children find these really hard at first but persevere as the repetition is good for learning spellings.

Week 2 Spellings

  • Numeracy:

Teach children how to partition numbers.  Basically split them up into tens and ones.

e.g.   45 = 40 + 5

29 = 20 + 9

12 = 10 + 2

7  =  0  + 7

Complete the sheet

Tuesday Numeracy Brain Boxes

Tuesday Numeracy Bright Sparks

Tuesday Numeracy Clever Clogs

Tuesday Numeracy Master Minds

Tuesday Numeracy Smarty Pants

Tuesday Numeracy Whizz Kids

 

  • PE: Show your parents our supermover moves!

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/pshe-super-mood-movers-friends-and-family/z4yq8hv

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-counting-with-john-farnworth/zbct8xs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-2-times-table-with-bridget-the-lioness/zrrx92p

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-number-bonds-with-martin-dougan/zf6cpg8

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-english-adjectives-adverbs-with-johnny-inel/znfjbdm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-english-capital-letters-full-stops/zjmrhbk

 

 

Monday 11th January

Good morning my gorgeous ones.  Are you ready for a new week!  Let’s do this!

  • Literacy: Handwriting:

Please use the sheet to get your letters perfect.  Look carefully at which line my letters sit on and which line they touch, make your letters look exactly like my letters.  Don’t forget to write the date too!

Monday Handwriting

SPAG:

Play a game where you add an animal to a list using the word and. E.g I went to the zoo and saw an antelope.  I went to the zoo and saw an antelope and a baboon and so on (if you could do them in alphabetical order, that would be an added challenge.)

Talk about conjunctions.  These are the little words that stick sentences together.  We are focusing on “and” for Smarty Pants, Clever Clogs and Bright Sparks.

Monday Spag Smarty Pants

Monday Spag Clever Clogs

Monday Spag Bright Sparks

Whizz Kids, Master Minds and Brain Boxes will look at “and”, “or”, “but”.

Monday Spag Whizz Kids

Monday Spag Master Minds

Monday Spag Brain Boxes

  • Numeracy:

Smarty Pants: Maths language: most, fewer, equal, less, more.  Read the prompts on the sheet and get your child to complete.

Monday Numeracy Smarty Pants

Clever Clogs + Bright Sparks + Whizz Kids: Numbers to 50.  Write the numbers in numerals, words and pictures.  There’s a spelling sheet for the number words so you get the spellings right.

Monday number spellings

Monday Numeracy Clever Clogs

Monday Numeracy Bright Sparks

Monday Numeracy Whizz Kids

Masterminds + Brain Boxes: Place value. Use the power point below to look at different ways to represent numbers using tens and ones.  Talk to your child about tens and ones (we don’t call them units any more like we did at school!) Complete the sheet.

Monday numeracy place value powerpoint

Monday Numeracy Masterminds

Monday Numeracy Brain Boxes

  • Topic: Computing:

Talk about searching the web.  The web is set up for adults and sometimes there are things on there that are not suitable for children.  Using google to search for things can bring up unwanted results. Using a child friendly search engine to do research is safer.  Try using Kidtopia.  The first few things usually have “Ad” in a rectangle.  Teach them to scroll down a bit and never click on the ones with Ads in.  These are more likely to put viruses on your computer.  When you’re in a kid search engine do some research on seabirds.  Take a photo of your child doing the research and make me a quick note of what they researched.

 

 

Thank you so much for your hard work this week guys.  I’ve got the work that you emailed in.  I will print this out to go in your work books at school.  If you haven’t returned any work yet, for example if yours is paper based from the packs we sent out, please can you put the work back in the envelope we delivered it in and return it to school on Monday morning.  Your new packs for next week will be available to pick up then too.

I hope you enjoyed the snow!  Don’t forget to take breaks and get outside as much as you can.  Be good, work hard and together we will do this xx  Love Mrs Plant

 

My book reading was far superior (lol) but there are better pictures here for my story.

 

Storytime – The Fish that could wish by John Bush

 

 

Friday 8th January

We made it!! Last day.  Well done everyone for working so hard.

  • Literacy: Listen to our story again, Zoo by Anthony Browne

  • Pay close attention to the characters and the animals this time.  Do you think it’s a good zoo? Are the animals happy?  What kind of personalities do you think the four characters have?  Could you fill in the table using adjectives to describe the characters and the animals.  You can use words from the text or other words you think of when you look at the pictures and listen to the story.

Friday 8th January Literacy adjectives

  • Numeracy:

Smarty pants + Clever Clogs: Follow the dots by counting in 10s.

Counting in 10s 3

Whizzkids + Bright Sparks:  Complete the counting in 10s sheet

Counting in 10s 2

Brain Boxes + Master Minds: Complete the sequences of 10 sheet

Counting in 10s

  • Topic: Use the recipe to make play dough (or use ready made if you have it at home or clay.) Can you make a crab, starfish, sea anemone, fish or shrimp? Use different techniques such as rolling, coiling, carving, smoothing and joining.  Leave them to dry in the air.  You could even paint them.  Can’t wait to see the finished pieces!  Send photos!

Friday Salt Dough recipe

Thursday 7th January

Hello.  I have put packs together for those who asked for them.  They should be with you now, if you haven’t received yours, can you e-mail me please (m.miller364@durhamlearning.net).  I’m hoping to have next week’s work ready for Friday so you will get your pack ready to start Monday or by Monday at the latest.

Literacy: Spelling.  Please practise your spellings.  I will e-mail you your child’s group so you do the right words.  Please remember which group they’re in so each week you will know which words to learn.

Group 1: lie, tie, pie, cried, field

Group 2: hay, day, stay, tray, play

Group 3: lie, tie, pie, cried, tried, dried, chief, field, thief, shield

Group 4: below, blow, flow, grow, glow, low, own, show, throw, yellow

Group 5: find, mind, behind, old, cold, gold, hold, told, every, everybody

 

  • Numeracy:

Do a TT Rockstar sheet.  Do more if you’d like to.

TT Rockstar sheets

  • Topic: Finish your research that you started yesterday about the rock pool creatures.

 

Wednesday 6th January

Hello everyone, hope you’re all keeping ok.  This is the work that I’d like you to do for today please.

Literacy: Speaking and Listening: To answer and ask questions.  Listen to the book called “Zoo” by Anthony Browne.

 

Pause the video nearly straight away, just showing your child the picture of the front of the book.  What kind of book do they think it is? Fiction or non-fiction?  What do they think the book will be about? Have they ever been to a zoo?  What is a zoo?  Listen to the story.  Do they know what all the vocabulary means?  Talk about the words: masses, row, “daylight robbery”, embarrassing, wandered, “stuffing his face”, snorted, crouched, miserable, impersonation.   Look at some of the language the author uses like when he said “Everybody laughed, except mum and Harry and me”.  Was everybody really laughing?  Who is the author talking about when he says “jeered you know who”?.  What is a King Kong impersonation?  Why did mum say zoos aren’t for animals, they’re for people.  Why did he have a strange dream?  What do you think the dream was about?  Does your child have any questions about the book?  Please write down what you talk about and email to me.

  • Numeracy:

Smarty pants + Clever Clogs: Cut the numbers out from the bottom of the sheet and stick them at the top of the sheet in the right places.

Wed Maths Wk 1 Ordering numbers 1

Whizzkids + Bright Sparks: Cut the numbers out and stick them on the other sheet in the right order starting with the smallest.

Wed Maths Wk 1 Ordering numbers 2

Brain Boxes + Master Minds: Read the questions to your child and ask them to fill in the answers.  You might need some scrap paper to draw number lines.

Wed Ordering numbers sheet 1

Wed Ordering numbers sheet 2

 

  • Topic: Use the power point to find out about rock pools. Can you use the animal sheet to write facts about the creatures in the power point that you will find on our website under Class 2 activities.  Some of them aren’t mentioned, could you do some research on the internet to find out about the other creatures?  Do this extra research and writing on Thursday so this task should take two days to do.

t-sc-2549317-ks1-all-about-rock-pool-creatures-powerpoint_ver_1

Wed topic rockpool research

Welcome Back – Tuesday 5th January 2021

Hello Class 2!   I hope you had a lovely Christmas.  We are starting our new year with home learning.  I’m looking forward to seeing all your work that I will upload here regularly.  Let me know if there are any problems.  If you can’t print things out at home let me know so I can get paper copies to you.  Please email your work to m.miller364@durhamlearning.net.

This half term our topic is Beachcombers.  We will be learning all about our country’s coast lines and the creatures that live there.

Today, I would like you to do three jobs for me to get our new term off to a good start.

Literacy:  Use the Christmas 2020 sheet to tell me all about your Christmas.  Please draw a picture in the box of the lovely things that Santa brought.  Use the lines to tell me about your Christmas.  Write in your best handwriting with finger spaces and full stops.  Tell me about the presents you got, the things that you did and the gorgeous Christmas dinner you had.

Literacy Christmas

Numeracy:  Look at the bar chart of Favourite Sports and answer the 8 questions about it.  Please put your answers in a word document and email back or write on paper and email a photograph of it.

bar chart work

Topic: What do you already know about the beach?  Please record on the first sheet.  Then write me a list on the second sheet of the things you’d like to find out over the next half term.

The beach

I will put more work on for tomorrow, please keep checking back here and contact me at the above e-mail address if there are any problems.

Love Mrs Plant

 

Attendance

A massive well done to all of the children for their fantastic attendance this first half term.

Party Time

Today we had lots of fun at our Class 2 Bubble Christmas Party! Lots of dancing, food and party games. A lovely way to end the Autumn Term!

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Christmas jumper day

We had such a good day wearing our Christmas jumpers, eating our Christmas dinner, receiving our letter from Santa and a visit from the naughty elf!!

Merry Christmas!

Jacob’s Judo

We are super excited for Jacob in class 2!

Last week he did his Judo gradings test and won his Orange belt.

We’re all super proud of him.

BIG SING

Today we had lots of fun joining in with Durham Music Services Christmas Big Sing. We enjoyed listening to the brass band and joining in singing the lovely Christmas songs.

Christmas in Class 2

Christmas has arrived in class 2! We had lots of fun putting up our decorations and listening to the Christmas Story. Look at how wonderful our tree looks!

Fairy Houses

We made our lovely fairy houses… don’t they look great! We used different tools to join the materials together. We also look at how we could make the house colourful and bright for all of the fairies!

This half term we looking at the topic of Enchanted Woodland. We are having so much fun looking at natural materials and building fairy gardens as well as fairy houses.

Fractions

This week we have worked hard on our fractions. We have made mini fraction walls to help us remember all we’ve learnt.

Fishy facts

We are working so hard with our Science work at the moment. We have learnt lots of facts about different animals and how we can identify them. Take a look at our fabulous fishy facts display!

Hamsterley Forest Visit

Today we were so lucky to have Rio and Alice from OASES join us in school. They brought the wonder of Hamsterly Forest to us! We had lots of fun exploring our school grounds whilst developing our map reading skills. We also collect lots of natural materials to help us make stick animals and people. They all look so wonderful! We had such fun and cant wait to see them Rio and Alice again!

 

Memorable Experience

Today we found a fairy garden!

Mrs Miller spotted something sparkly so we went to investigate.

We were so surprised to find a fairy door and a little note.

We discussed the note we had found and thought of questions we would like to find the answer to.

How exciting!

Welcome back!

Welcome back after half term everyone! We hope you had a lovely break and are ready for all of the fun we will be having in class.

We are very excited to begin our new topic of Enchanted Woodland. Keep an eye out for all of the wonderful work we will be doing.

We are also excited to be learning about bonfire night and Guy Fawkes too.

Pumpkin

We have had lots of fun in class 2 creating our very own messy pumpkin pictures. They all look very scary!

Muck, Mess and Mixtures

Class 2 are having lots of fun making a mess to celebrate the end of their Cornerstones topic of Muck, Mess and Mixtures. They have so far helped carve a pumpkin and explore the mixture we retrieved from it. They also created spooky ghost by creating a slimy mixtures of PVA glue and shaving foam! They are looking amazing!

Sainsburys Values

A massive well done to this weeks winners of our Sainsburys Value bands. They are super stars showing off our vales in PE.

Our Virtual Harvest Festival

3D Shapes

This week we have worked super hard on our shape knowledge. We have impressed the adults in class with all of the mathematical vocabulary we now understand and can use. Ask us about it!

Art Work

Today we had lots of fun creating art using natural materials. We worked hard with Mrs Shaw and Mrs Moore to look for different things we could use to create wonderful sculptures. Take a look at our creations …..

Sainsburys Values

Well done to the children who received recognition for displaying the Sainsburys values this week! Keep up the hard work. We really are an Active 30 school!

Intra Festival

Today we had lots of fun with Chris and Darren from the SSP. We took part in lots of different mutli skills and had to try our very best to earn points. We all worked super hard. We are proud to announce class 2’s Best Girl and Best Boy ……

…. Bella and Jacob!!

Sainsburys Values

Mr Beveridge and Mrs Moore were super impressed with our Rolla Ball skills this week. Take a look at our Sainsburys Value winners …. Well done guys!

Dancer of the Week

A massive well done to Sophie who has impressed her dance club once again. We are so proud of you in school too, well done Sophie!

Music lady Jasleen!

Jasleen has been working super hard at her piano lessons. We are so impressed with her hidden talent. We cant wait to hear her play!

Well done to Jacob!

Jacob has been a little super star at judo and earn another certificate and medal! Even getting the chance to take classes at the masters class! Well done Jacob!

Sainsburys Values

Today we completed our core task with Mr Beveridge. He was so impressed that the gave us a Sainburys Value award. Look at how fabulous we are. Keep an eye out for more awards been given in PE lessons!

Bike Day

Today we had a go at riding bikes with no stabilisers on. Look at us all fly!

Jacob’s visit to Hadrian’s wall

This weekend Jacob visited Hadrian’s wall with his family. His big brother Lucas is enjoying his topic in class 3 but Jacob impressed us with his knowledge! Wow, Jacob we are so impressed with all that you taught us this morning!

Sophie’s Cheer Leading Award

We are so proud of our little Sophie in Class 2! She has worked super hard in her Cheer Leading class and has achieved an award. What fantastic work! Well done.

Muck, Mess and Mixtures

Today we had so much fun making a mess! We explored lots of different textures and talked about how they felt, smelt and looked. We even explored how they felt on our toes!

We are looking forward to learning even more about this very messy topic!

Settling in to Class 2

Over the past two days we have had lots of fun in class 2. We are all getting to know each other and the new routines in place. We have enjoyed discussing our class charter and also exploring the areas within the classroom. We have been full of busy!

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