Amber has been working out! She has also been using her imagination to create some fantastical trees and plants. Here are some of her photographs.
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Andreas, Harrison and Ella Keeping Busy!
Thank you to those who have sent in their work for the notice board. Ella has been busy with activities and learning about Mary Webb. Harrison and Andreas have taken up some extra research to add to their Mary Webb project. Well done everyone.
Harrison’s Research on Mary Webb
Andreas’ Mary Webb Facts
Rabbits – Home Learning for Thursday 30th April.
Good morning – I hope the week is going well for your all so far.
I have loved seeing the work that you have been doing on your Shropshire project. More on that today please.
Handwriting and Spelling: Can you look at your spellings again for this week. Please copy out the individual words but make them more interesting – use your best handwriting then write them using different coloured pencils (or pens if you have really pointed pens) and make a display out of them.
English: BBC Bitesize are offering a great English class this morning. Please access this via the www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/homelearning. Click on your year group and the correct day.
Maths: White Rose maths is also providing some great lessons – please do your year group lesson today and then back to TTRockstars please. Let’s crack those times tables!
Project: I have included some information on Shropshire history and legends for you. I would like you to create your own cartoon strip of the events that are explained in the pages. (We did this to explain the Battle Of Hastings and the Battle of Shrewsbury) see if you can come up with about 8 pictures using your best drawing and some short sentences to describe what is happening. The legends are sometimes a bit funny – you need to pick just one of them for your comic strip. LEGENDS AND HISTORY OF SHROPSHIRE
Shropshire Map: with the lovely maps that you started on Monday, please add the location of the legend or historical event that you are using for the comic strip.
Reading: Please continue with Reading Eggs – I have also given a link here to a short piece of reading and some comprehension questions. These are inter-active and I have selected the Sedna The Sea Goddess OR Nasreddin’s Visitors. For Year 2 please do the task about Canada’s Tallest Tree.
https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/330/reading/sedna-the-sea-goddess1.htm (Sedna The Sea Goddess)
https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/330/reading/visitor1.htm (Nasreddin’s Visitors)
https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/200/reading/tallest-tree1.htm (Canada’s Tallest Tree)
Have a wonderful day!
Mrs Cooke
Reading at home
Oxford Reading Tree have made most of their reading scheme available for free online. This is one of the reading schemes we use at school and we hope that you find it useful to help your child with reading at home.
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page
Well-being Wednesday – from Mrs Viner
Well-being Wednesday
Hi everyone, it’s Mrs Viner here checking how you are getting on in this strange and unusual time!
I am sure that you are making the most of being at home, but I also wanted to remind you that it is important to keep your mind and body happy and active!
This can be achieved in a variety of ways. 🍴🏃😴
Firstly, by eating a healthy balanced diet and drinking plenty of water. Food is really important as it fuels our bodies, so we have lots of energy to run and jump around!
Secondly, you need to do some physical exercise. When you exercise your heart rate increases and your body releases chemicals called endorphins – which make you feel happy and motivated.
Lastly, sleep is really important as it gives our bodies rest and allows it to prepare for the next day.
Did you know, that every living thing sleeps from the smallest insect to the largest whale. Some animals spend as much as 20 hours a day sleeping!! 😴
I would love if you would send me your ideas of how you are keeping yourselves feeling happy and keeping active. Here are some ideas to get you started.
- Can you create a healthy plate of food? You could draw the different food or create a menu. If you are a budding chef maybe you could prepare the food for someone in your house. (Always check with an adult before hand).
- What exercises have you been doing? Rhys and I have started the Couch to 5K. Could you create your own exercise video like Joe Wicks? Tell me about the places you have explored for your daily exercise?
- Could you find out how much sleep other animals get? Who sleeps the most in your house? For any of our top mathematicians, could you record how much sleep you get every night over a week? Then put it into a graph or/and find the average amount of sleep you get?
So, over to you…please send your ideas to viner.l@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk
Take care and stay safe 😊
Rabbits – Home Learning for Wednesday 29th April
Good Morning Rabbits
Thank you for sending in your work. I do enjoy seeing all the things that you have been doing.
This morning,
Spellings and Handwriting: please have a go at some of your new spellings: Write them out and then write a sentence containing each of the words. There should be ten sentences. Please see the spellings page for your words.
English: Please access www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize. There is an English lesson for today – click onto your year group. Then please do the Karate Kat game – you can find this on the year 2 page. For year 3, please click on English and the task “How to write statement sentences”.
Maths: for today’s lesson I would like you to follow the white rose maths on www.whiterosemaths.com/homelearning. Year 3 are going to do a lesson on problem solving with fractions. Year 2 are using the four operations with length.
Project: To continue your work on Shropshire, I would like you to find out where Mary Webb lived (when she was in Shropshire) and add this to your map. Can you also add Ruyton XI Towns and draw a small sketch of the school. You will then need to start a new page for “Wildlife of Shropshire”. Do a title and then use the resources that I have included here to draw and label a range of insects and birds that are native to Shropshire.
https://www.shropshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife-explorer you can then click on any of the categories to find out more about our native animals and birds.
http://www.shropshirebirds.com/index/gallery/gallery-2019/ this shows lovely photographs of birds that were found in Shropshire.
Rabbits Spellings for w/c 27 April
Year 2: Please copy each word and then write each word into a sentence:
station fiction motion nation national section addition subtraction potion introduction
Year 3: Please copy each word and then write each word into a sentence:
enough young touch double trouble country courage rough tough cousin
Rabbits – Home Learning for Tuesday 28th April
Good Morning Rabbits and I hope you are all well.
Handwriting: To begin with today – please practice your super handwriting by copying out this lovely poem by Mary Webb – more about her later!
In April
In April, in April
My heart is set
Where the pansy and the violet
And the daffodil,
And close-folded lilies grow
In borders dark with melted snow.
Wakening there from wintry sleep
With every bud I sunward creep.
The empurpled crocuses, that dare
With delicate veins the dawn-cold air,
Cradle me in their chalices
Amid the golden sediment.
My heart is set
Where the pansy and the violet
And the daffodil,
And close-folded lilies grow
In borders dark with melted snow.
Wakening there from wintry sleep
With every bud I sunward creep.
The empurpled crocuses, that dare
With delicate veins the dawn-cold air,
Cradle me in their chalices
Amid the golden sediment.
Sunward – towards the sun
empurpled – means they are purple
Maths: please look at today’s White Rose maths on www.whiterosemaths – home learning. Make sure you click on the year group that you are in.
English: Please follow the lesson on BBC Bitesize – home learning for your year group and the day today.
Reading: I hope that Reading Eggs are co-operating with you this week – we had a few problems last week. If you can access it, have a look at the books set for your year group. Also, this is a lovely website – an international on line library where you can select your own reading material. It is easy to navigate – if a little bit ‘busy’ on the pages. This link will get you to the page of choices for your age group. http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SimpleSearchCategory?ilang=English
Project: I would like you to write up a report on Mary Webb – the author of the two poems that we looked at today and yesterday. I have attached some information about her life and her writing. If you can read over these or even do your own research, then write up a report that includes:
- Her name, age, date of birth and place of birth
- Her books and poems – include the titles and maybe some brief information about the story
- What happened to her in her life, getting married, getting published (which was hard for a woman at that time)
- Any information you find on The Mary Webb Society.
http://shropshirehistory.com/characters/marywebb.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Webb
Have a good day!
Mrs Cooke
Rabbits’ Shropshire-themed home working from Monday 27th
I am so pleased to see these lovely word-searches, tally charts and fabulous artwork based on Shropshire Flowers and the poetry of Mary Webb. Well done Rabbits!
Ella’s work on Fairy-Led – beautifully illustrated.
Amber’s hand drawn Shropshire Map – well done – that’s very tricky!
Andreas’ Shropshire Brochure
Amber’s Botanical Drawings
Amber’s illustration of Fairy-Led.
Harrison’s Shropshire Flowers
Harrison’s Lockdown Wordsearch
Harrison’s garden tally chart
St John’s pupils in music video!
Percy and Arthur are featured in a video for the band ‘Everything Everything’, in their new song which was launched on Radio 1 on Thursday night.
Created during lockdown, the lead singer taught himself how to work the technology to create the video. The boys had to stand very still whilst they had around 300 pictures taken. Here they are in a still from the video (which you can see on YouTube).
Well done boys!
