For this week’s home learning, please access your Teams accounts. Any problems, email me on: whittingham.j@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk.
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For this week’s home learning, please access your Teams accounts. Any problems, email me on: whittingham.j@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk.
See you there!
We will be meeting again on Teams today and you should have received invites to the following meetings:
9.20am – all (introduction)
9.40am Year 3 Spelling Test & Maths lesson
10.10am Year 4 Spelling Test & Maths lesson
10.40am Year 2 Spelling Test
1pm – all (afternoon introduction – optional but I will introduce Science task)
2.45pm – all (close of day / sharing – optional)
Organise the rest of your day yourselves with regular breaks. Year 3 and 4 – remember that you are having a taught maths session so save your maths until then!
Task One: Handwriting & Spellings
1. Learn this week’s spelling list below (recommended learning time 20 minutes). See how many you already know first, then learn ones you don’t.
2. Print the spelling sheet if you can to practise your handwriting by copying each word / letter join carefully. Think about the size of each letter too! Take your time to improve your writing.
Task two: Maths
Today you are all looking at the ‘Reasoning’ parts of the tasks… Year 3 and 4 – remember you will be having a live teach with me!
Year 2 PPT-Make-Equal-Groups-Sharing
Year-3 PPT-Multiply-2-Digits-by-1-Digit-1
Task 3: English
Thank you for sending me your brilliant writing over the past week. Today you have a grammar session, see the links below. Remember: work through the Powerpoint ideas and answers first, then have a go at the Task.
Year 2 Grammar PPT – Writing Lists
Year 3 Grammar PPT – Consonants
Year 4 Grammar PPT – Fronted Adverbials
Task Four: Science
If you can, open this on your Teams ‘Daily Tasks’ page as you can write on it and I can mark it!
Other tasks:
See you on Teams!
Miss Whit x
It was lovely to speak to so many families yesterday and hear about things you’ve been getting up to. I was very impressed by how many of you had already completed much of your homeschooling too!
Here are today’s activities:
Task One: Spellings
Task two: Maths
Today’s tasks follow on from yesterday but they do get a little trickier.
Remember – if you want to save on printing, you can read the questions on the screen then record your answers on paper ( a bit like in-class when you present your work in books).
Task 3: English
I would love to be teaching you the start of this topic face-to-face but instead I’ll have to be patient and hope you send me some great results by the end of the week!
Here is a useful word mat to help you get creative for this Stone Age story plan:
Task Four: Reading
Spend twenty minutes reading your own book from home OR use Reading Eggs. If you need your log-in for this, ask your grown-ups to email me and I will send you passwords.
Other tasks:
For example:
“Here is a fine example of a Stone Age knife made from flint. The knife would have been made with the bare hands of Stone Age people by chipping, trimming and sharpening. It was thought to be a difficult skill which could easily have ended with missing fingers! This knife is thought to have been made and used around 13,000 BCE in England.”
Stay warm & I’ll speak to you all soon.
Miss Whit xx
Dear my fabulous Dragonfly Class 🙂
I’ve so many things to say to you but can’t decide where to start! THANK YOU for logging into this website this morning – it’s a great start to the next step we’re having to take. Next, I hope you’ve had a lovely Christmas and spent time resting and enjoying yourselves – I’ll update you on mine later. Finally, I want you to know how sad I am that we can’t be in class together this morning – I was (as always) so looking forward to seeing my team of favourite people.
But be assured, we’ve lots of tricks up our sleeves over the coming days to make sure we all get to see as much of each other as possible – keep checking in on this website for more updates as they come.
Today the teachers are getting everything in place so bear with me for now as ‘home schooling’ will look a little different to last summer. We hope to be video-calling, teaching and sharing your work and faces in lots of ways as soon as possible!
For today I’ve created a timetable and tasks below just to get you back into the swing of things. Follow your year group tasks but if you find something easy, feel free to move up to the next year group challenge or take it down a level if it’s tricky.
Task One: Handwriting & Spellings
1. Learn this week’s spelling list below (recommended learning time 20 minutes). See how many you already know first, then learn ones you don’t.
2. Print the spelling sheet if you can to practise your handwriting by copying each word / letter join carefully. Think about the size of each letter too! Take your time to improve your writing.
Challenge level: Write each word into a sentence.
Year 4 Spellings & Handwriting Week One
Year 3 Spellings & Handwriting – Week One
Year 2 Spellings & Handwriting – Week One
Booster Group Spellings & Handwriting – Week One
Task two: Maths
Have a look at the task for your year group below. There is a powerpoint to support each activity too. Remember, don’t worry if you find it tricky – ask for help if you can or ‘save it’ as a task to ask me about when I speak to you all this week.
Year 3 Task – comparing statements
Year 4 Task – 11 and 12 times tables
Task 3: English
I can’t wait to teach our new English topic to you all. But for now, I’m going to keep it a SECRET! Mwahahaha….
So for today, here are the grammar tasks we do regularly:
Task Four: Stone Age
Dragonflies, I set you a mission! Your task is to use recyclable materials (preferably cardboard!) to create yourself replicas of weapons or tools that you think Stone Age people may have used – please remember health and safety rules and discuss your plans with a grown up first. Remember, Stone Age people were among some of the first humans so their needs would have been very basic. They didn’t have metal, knives or electric – you need to think carefully about this!
Here are a few facts and ideas to get you started:
Please feel free to send in any photos OR be ready to show off your creation in an online lesson very soon.
Other tasks:
Dragonflies – I hope you all know how much I’ll miss you today BUT I look forward to seeing your lovely faces (on screen!) very soon.
Sending you all the biggest virtual hug,
Miss Whit xx
Here is our class timetable for 2021 🙂 Remember, PE is on Monday and Friday. Homework is due in on a Tuesday which is also the day of spelling tests.
Homework will usually be sent out on a Wednesday. Any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Task One: Reading
Aim to read every day and record your reading regularly in your Reading Record. Remember – you can make your own notes as well as your grown ups!
Task Two: Maths
Complete at least one level on the maths sheet sent home. D = Developing, E = Expected, GD = Greater Depth.
Task Three: Spellings
Select your spelling group below and learn the spellings in a way that works best for you. You will be tested on the Week One list on Tuesday 9th January.
Remember – if you want to learn spellings for weeks ahead, you can! Also remember that if you would like another spelling challenge you can keep learning words from your year group lists.
Weekly test list:
Year 4 Spellings – Week One to be tested 9th January
Year 3 Spellings – Week One to be tested 9th January
Year 2 Spellings – Week One to be tested 9th January
Curriculum lists to keep working on if you have time (not tested):
Welcome back to a brand new term in Dragonfly Class! There are lots of fun things planned this autumn term and I hope you are all full of energy and enthusiasm to get busy with our learning.
An overview of this term’s topics and learning can be found here:
Overview Autumn 2020 Dragonflies
As you can see, much of our learning will be exploring the theme of ‘Rainforests’; our classroom will slowly be turning into a jungle!
Here is our weekly timetable so that you know what each day looks like (it may change sometimes but usually it will look like this):
Timetable for Children Autumn 2020 Dragonflies
Homework will usually go out on a Wednesday each week. Currently we will not be using Homework Books (due to Covid) but a new homework sheet will be sent home each week with your tasks and passwords.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any queries. I look forward to a productive autumn term in class!
Miss Whit 🙂
Well – you’ve DONE IT!! It’s been the most bizarre end to our year but we’ve finally made it to our summer holidays. So for today, as we always would, I want you to have FUN!
Some ideas:
🌟 Write a letter to your future self! What advice would you like to give yourself for September? What kind of things do you think it would be worth remembering on your first day back? What have you been proud of and what would you like to achieve next?
🌟 Create a piece of art that shows something about you right now; perhaps things you’ve been doing or something to reflect your feelings.
🌟 Bake / cook something to celebrate your final day!
🌟 Enjoy a walk where you can think about all the things you have achieved at Ruyton (you might need a very long walk to remember them all!)
🌟 Watch your favourite film or listen to your favourite music 🎶 I’m loving Moana at the moment!
🌟 Turn off your computer screens… challenge yourself to go make some memories!
Thank you for giving me such a lovely year of teaching. I’ve got such happy memories teaching you all and you’ve just added another year of reasons why I have the best job in the world. I can’t wait to see you all become Owls in September; have a happy, healthy and fun-filled summer and I’ll see you soon.
Lots of love,
Miss Whit xx
Good morning all,
Today we will be holding the Year 6 leavers assembly online; I will say a big “good luck” to our Year 6 from you all! I am sure they are all looking forward to their next step and starting Year 7 – the Purple Bubble in school are looking so grown up!
We’re missing you very much in school this week – it is probably my favourite week of the school year but it is not the same without a class full of Dragonflies! I’d love to hear some of your summer plans? I currently plan to pick up my guitar again (which I haven’t practised in ages) and hopefully get away camping with friends 🤞 fingers crossed the sunshine comes back!
Here’s today’s activities:
In Orange Bubble we are going to make a wordsearch with them!
2. Maths: White Rose Maths links can be found below. I’ve also added Lesson 4 for this week as we will not be doing normal maths in lessons tomorrow.
Year 3
Year 3 Lesson-3-Answers-Pictograms
Year 4
Y4 Lesson 3 Answers – Describe position
Y4 Lesson 3 – Describe position
Y4 Lesson 4 Answers – Draw on a grid
Year 5
Y5 Lesson 3 Answers – Converting units of time
Y5 Lesson 3 – Converting units of time
Y5 Lesson 4 Answers – Timetables
3. Reading : Enjoy your own reading books this week – get ready for a summer of reading!
4. English:
Bitesize – Bitesize English
Have a great Wednesday.
Miss Whit 🙂
Good morning all,
Here’s today’s activities:
In Orange Bubble we are going to make a wordsearch with them!
2. Maths: White Rose Maths links can be found below. I’ve also added a block of work on My Maths for those of you who enjoy it too. Remember to watch the video and learn first!
Year 3
Year 3 Lesson-2-Add-and-subtract-capacity
Year 4
Y4 Lesson 2 – Complete a symmetric figure
Y4 Lesson 2 Answers – Complete a symmetric figure
Year 5
Y5 Lesson 2 Answers – Imperial units
3. Reading : Enjoy your own reading books.
4. English:
Bitesize – Bitesize English
Have a great Tuesday!
Miss Whit 🙂
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