Reception children have two lessons each day. The first is at 10am for those children who are learning to blend sounds together. The second is at 11am and is aimed at Reception children who can blend confidently.
Can you find fun ways to write your one arm robot letters? Can you write them using a stick in soil? Using your finger in shaving foam in a table? In salt on a tray?
English
Reception – Today you are drawing a map to retell the story from yesterday
Go on a walk around your garden or local area. What plants and trees can you see? Do you know any names of these flowers or trees? What are they like? Choose some of these to draw or paint then label their features eg colour, leaves, shape of petals, size or texture (what it feels like). You might like to use the sheet below, but you will probably find many more things than are on here!
It has been a great start to the week and I hope you are all back into the swing of things at home; mixing a bit of work with a lot of fun!
Handwriting – Please can you write out the spelling words for this week but I would like you to do this in a volcano shape. I suggest that you draw the outline of the volcano on a piece of paper and then add the words to fill the shape of the volcano.
Reading: I have two different reading tasks for you today – year 2 and year 3 but the year 3 task is quite advanced. Good luck!
Project: Today, I have set a more time-consuming challenge which should take you two days. I hope that you have enjoyed learning a little about volcanoes. You will have learned about the various vocabulary that is used, and also made a diagram about the Earth’s insides. Today, I would like you to get crafty again. Your challenge is to make an animation of a volcanic explosion. You can use either drawings, models or pictures but you have to find a way to sequence the images so that they look like an explosion happening.
Drawing Animation: we once made a zeotrope in class – a sequence of drawings that were slightly different each time but when you looked at them quickly, they appeared to be moving. Here is a short clip that shows you how to create an animation using sketches. I don’t think you need to see the whole thing – you will remember about drawing each picture slightly different –
Picture animation: you can use pictures in a sequence, if you are able to find a series of still photos of a volcano eruption, you can sequence them and do the same action of flipping the pages to show the movement.
Model animation: This is a bit more time consuming and tricky – but I think it is also a lot more fun and a wonderful challenge. If you can model a volcano from clay, playdough or other modelling material, you can make the animation using a phone camera. You need to take each picture then move the model a small amount. You can use different coloured clay or play dough for the lava flow and make it drip down the side of the volcano slowly. See what wonders you can create!
We have been asked if we can post the home learning tasks the evening before they are needed as well as on the day, so please see below for your Wednesday activities.
Reception children have two lessons each day. The first is at 10am for those children who are learning to blend sounds together. The second is at 11am and is aimed at Reception children who can blend confidently.
Can you find fun ways to write your one arm robot letters? Can you write them using a stick in soil? Using your finger in shaving foam in a table? In salt on a tray?
English
Reception – Today you are drawing a map to retell the story from yesterday
Go on a walk around your garden or local area. What plants and trees can you see? Do you know any names of these flowers or trees? What are they like? Choose some of these to draw or paint then label their features eg colour, leaves, shape of petals, size or texture (what it feels like). You might like to use the sheet below, but you will probably find many more things than are on here!
Reception children have two lessons each day. The first is at 10am for those children who are learning to blend sounds together. The second is at 11am and is aimed at Reception children who can blend confidently.
Today I would like you to learn all about the different parts of a flower. You might look at a real flower growing in your garden, or you can use the sheet below (you only need page 2 – page 1 gives the answers).
I hope you are all well and excited about learning today. I am so sorry to those who were unable to open some of the documents. I have attached the word search to the spellings page for today.
Warm up – here is a crossword puzzle for you – but you have to complete it yourself! Volcanos Crossword Puzzle You will need to look at the vocabulary that I have also provided to work out the answers!
Lava Plume Crater Magma Volcanic Fissure
English: Please see the BBC Bitesize lesson for today and the Education City grammar activity.
Maths: Please select today’s lesson (lesson 2) for your year group.
Project: To continue with Volcanoes, I have included some more information on how a volcano is formed. Take a look at the powerpoint. 6. Structure of a volcano
Can you now do one of your amazing cartoon-strips for me? I would like 8 squares each showing the sequence of the volcano’s eruption. You can use vibrant colours and you need to explain in one sentence, what is happening in each of the pictures. Remember this is an ACTIVE VOLCANO as it is exploding right now! You could give your volcano a name – something that sounds exciting or from a distant place.
For your reading – I have included a legend of a volcano – they are all around the earth and these legends that I will give you to read each day will show you where on earth they have appeared over the centuries:
I hope you had a lovely half term holiday week and that you are rested and ready for the last half term of this school year. All of your activities for today are below.
Thank you
Mrs Johnson
Fine Motor Skills
Please choose an activity from the grid below. I will put this grid on here each day and you can choose which activity you would like to do. You can also plan ahead and start collecting the things you might need for activities too.
Reception children have two lessons each day. The first is at 10am for those children who are learning to blend sounds together. The second is at 11am and is aimed at Reception children who can blend confidently.
What do you need to grow and care for a seed? Collect everything you think you will need from around your house or garden. If you have a packet of seeds you might like to then plant them and look after then every day to see what happens. These posters will help you plant your seeds. How to grow a plant posters
Perhaps you can put one pot on a windowsill, one in a cupboard and one outside. You can even have one that you don’t water and another that has no soil to see if that makes any difference to how it grows. Keep a diary of what you do to care for your seed(s) each day and to note down any changes you see.
Good Morning Rabbits and I hope that you all had a lovely half term.
I have put together some tasks for you today which will link in with the rest of the work through the week. I hope you find it interesting!
Warm Up and Spelling Words: I have included this wordsearch – please can you solve the puzzle and then write out the words three times for handwriting and spelling practice.
Engish: BBC Bitesize lesson for today on www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
Grammar: I have loaded a few activities onto Education City that will support you with some grammar learning this week – work through the tasks doing one each day.
Project: I would like you to learn all about Volcanoes this week. I have selected a few fun things to do that will get you used to the vocabulary such as the wordsearch at the start of today. Here is a lovely little cartoon clip featuring two volcanoes – you may have seen this already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh4dTLJ9q9o
The next powerpoint shows you how the earth’s crust is made up of different types of rock and materials. A Slice Through The Earth
Please can you make your own version of a slice of the Earth? You could draw it – or perhaps make it from play-dough or some other materials. See what you can find in your garden – you have probably got rocks there – imagine that they are actually tiny bits of the earth’s crust!
A Volcano erupts due to the pressure from the heat of the Earth. Can you imagine how hot it needs to be to explode like that? Have you ever seen popcorn exploding? That is the same type of thing – the heat from the pan, heats the inside core of the corn grain and the steam bursts the corn apart.
There are many legends surrounding volcanoes and for your reading task to finish off the work for today, I have set this story for you. Volcano Reading Activity
I hope you have had a lovely week in the sunshine. Next week is a half term holiday, and so there won’t be any work set here for you next week.
However, if you would like to continue home learning next week you could carry out the tasks and activities Miss Horton and I have set over the last few weeks that you haven’t had time to do yet, or even repeat those that you have really enjoyed.
Keep safe.
Mrs Johnson
Motor Skills
Please make a little marble maze today. You can use playdough or blu tack to make the obstacles and create a track from strips of paper. How tricky can you make your maze?
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