Good Morning Rabbits

I hope you had a good weekend.

I have been thinking about this week’s learning – it is almost the end of term and we need to do some fun things before we break off for our summer holidays.

Spellings:  Our words for this week are as follows:  You know what to do!  Write them out, three times, pick the best version and repeat that version.  Check you have used the correct spelling for each word please!

• feel
• felt
• kneel
• knelt
• knife
• knives
• half
• halves
• calf
• calves

English:  This week we will concentrate on Persuasive Writing. This is where you write either a speech, an article or a brochure that persuades people to do what you say, to visit where you are advertising or to think about something from your point of view.

Today you are going to plan a speech.  Please have a look at this short film about plastic pollution.  You might like to make notes.

Please make a list of at least 5 things that are important about the Plastic Pollution Problem.

Now you are going to decide which is the MOST IMPORTANT POINT

Begin your speech with something that you might say to a group of people – “Hello!”  “Good morning”  “Thankyou for coming to hear me speak today”

Then you state what the five main points are going to be.  Write down what you are going to tell them about.

Then pick your MOST IMPORTANT POINT.  You need to write words that tell the truth, but also persuade the audience to do something – you must use some powerful words such as these:

WE HAVE TO ….

YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT…..

IT IS VITAL THAT WE ALL ……

Now that you have begun your speech you can continue with each point.

The end of the speech needs to sum up all that you have said – You can do this by saying the following:

“I hope that I have shown you how important it is to stop polluting the planet.  We all have to work together to ………..”

Maths:  I want to continue with the idea of climate change so maths today is related to real life.

Plastic Waste Maths

Good morning Rabbits and Happy Friday!

Today we will finish off some writing based on Little Boat. You will do some maths and a spelling task plus some music.

Spelling:  with your spelling words I would like you to create a crossword. You write out one of the words and use the letters in that word to write the next one – that made no sense?  Well look at the attached document (using different words) and see what I mean.

R A B B I T

Maths:  Please have a go at the maths sheets – you can time yourself to see how much you can do in 10 minutes.

MATHS FRIDAY

English:  I would like you to complete some expanded noun phrases linked to Little Boat. You can make up your own sentences but they need to have the following:

A noun (the boat, monkey, soldiers, sea)

A verb (sailing, drifting, playing, fighting, hanging, flying)

A positional phrase (towards the …  behind the … from the … behind the …)

Two adjectives to describe the noun

Please also look at this attached sheet:  Time Conjunctions

MUSIC:  I have the links here to the lessons provided by Mrs Hineson.  I hope you enjoy your day.

Mrs Cooke.

Music for home schooling WB June 29th

Good morning Rabbits – thank you for sending me some of the lovely work you have been doing.  It is great to keep in touch with you while you are home.

I hope you enjoyed the science task and the healthy tasks – it is sometimes good to remind ourselves to take good care of our minds and bodies.

Handwriting – have a go at writing out the spelling words from this week please.  This time, make them into a spiral – start with the words in the middle of the page and turn your page around and around to make a spiral of different words.

English:  The Little Boat film is still our main inspiration for writing this week.  You have done some work on thought bubbles and what the boat might be thinking as it moves along the sea.  Today, I would like you to think about the way the boat is slowly broken then slowly re-built.  I would like a paragraph (or two) that describes what happens to the boat.  You will need time connectives such as “next, then, after that, before long, after a while”  and you will then need to write down all the damage that took place.  The boat’s sail was torn, the bomb broke the wood and left a hole in the side.  Then do the same thing with the sequence of events that re-built the boat.

Maths:  Please take a look at the pages from UR Brainy.  These rely on you using your logical maths thinking to fill in the numbers and maths operation to solve the maths sentences.  You will soon get into the swing of this.

MATHS JUNE 2

PSHE:  we have thought about our bodies, our minds, our skin and today we are thinking about our eyes.

Consider what you do to protect your eyes?  Do you do anything?  If you wear glasses, you might be protecting them from straining when you read or watch T.V.

Have a look at this clip from youtube.

Your eyes are delicate – they need to be taken seriously!

I would like you to make a drawing of an eye (it can be your eye or someone else’s eye)  Here is another clip to help you to help with the drawing.

When you have drawn your eye, can you add a box of information on how you can care for your eyes – use the information in the film to help you.

Have a great day!

Mrs Cooke

Goodness me Rabbits – its the end of June!

How are you?  All well and ready to work today?  You are doing so well sticking with this home learning.  So for today – here are your tasks:

Reading:  I am keen that you all keep on with your reading books – but I have found these lovely stories for you to read – select the level of difficulty that you think you would like to have.  *  **  ***

*  https://www.shortkidstories.com/story/cookie-crumbs/

**  https://www.shortkidstories.com/story/a-full-moon-goes-bananas/

*** https://www.shortkidstories.com/story/hummingbirds/

English:  To continue work from the plan that you made yesterday, we are going to construct the first part of the narrative.

BEGINNING:  you write the following paragraphs:

1:  A description of the boat, and where it is sailing at the start.  You could write this from the boat’s perspective – remember you need to use “I”  if you are doing that.

Add sentences that describe how the boat moves – think about using adjectives and verbs – how it moves might be described by the direction, the motion that it has in the water, or you could think about how the boat might ‘feel’ if it is a character – is it a brave boat?  Is it a curious boat – adventurous?

2:  A narrative of where the boat would like to travel, or where it is likely to travel.  You put this part of the language into future tense “the boat might go to ….. the boat will travel to ….. the boat will be ……”

3:  A third paragraph to transition between the first location of the boat’s journey and what happens next.

PLEASE DON’T DO ANY MORE!  I have a plan for tomorrow which needs you to stop where you are now.

Maths:  BBC Bitesize lesson is set for today.

Maths Games:  I have also found this activity which might be fun if you like doing extra maths.  https://thirdspacelearning.com/blog/fun-maths-games-activities-for-kids/#13-3-best-outdoor-maths-games-and-activities-to-do-at-home-

PSHE – Health

You were thinking about skin and learning about soap yesterday.  Today we are going to do more about health but this is about exercise.

We have been doing Joe Wicks through the holidays and I am also doing this curious kids’ workout now some of the children are back at school – have a look:

For today – I would like you to design a great work out around the house.  You don’t need to stay in one place, but you need to use your home in interesting ways.

For example, climbing up and down stairs is great exercise for your large muscles in your legs and bottom and tummy.

Plumping cushions and pillows is great for your arms.

Sweeping or mopping is excellent for pectoral muscles (in your chest) and your back.

SO … please have a look around your home (and outside) and complete a work out routine that has 9 different exercises.

When you have the exercises planned you need to fill in the chart attached with the details.  You can then share this with your friends!

Exercise Log

I have added my own exercise idea to start you off.

Have fun today.

Mrs Cooke.

Good Morning Rabbits

It has been rather nice to have so many back in school last week and it was particularly nice to look at the work we are all doing and to know that wherever you are, in school or at home, you are doing the same thing.

This week in English we are going to look at writing a narrative.  It is a bit more of a challenge as there is much more actual writing to do and I think we all feel quite tired after a while.  So we will break it down into handy bitesize pieces.  Today is Planning:

We will watch the film clip from The Literacy Shed.  This is a story of a little boat.

https://www.literacyshed.com/little-boat.html

Task 1:  – write a list of the things that you remember from the film – do this quickly – don’t think too much.

Task 2:  – look at the list and try to put some thoughts into an order.  Draw three columns on a page (or 3 big boxes)  Box 1 is Beginning  Box 2 Middle  Box 3 End.

Sort the things that you remember from the film into the correct box – whether it was at the start, the middle or the end.

Task 3:  – watch the clip again and add to your planning box.

Keep this safe for tomorrow.

Maths:  Gosh some of this maths work is getting hard!  For today please can you access the BBC Bitesize Maths lesson.  We will be watching on line with you.

Spelling:  here are some spelling words for you to learn.  Please can you write these out 3 times each in your best handwriting.  Thank you.  They all contain a silent letter – can you spot which letter is not sounded out in each word?

island
answer
write
wrapper
knife
knock
thumb
doubt
half
calm

PSHE Project:

Part of our PSHE curriculum is about health.  It is so important at the moment as we are all trying our best to keep healthy and avoid any illnesses – particularly nasty viruses.

I would like you to think today about the ways in which you keep your skin healthy.

Consider this…

1.  What you do in the hot, sunny weather. 2.   What you do in the cold, freezing weather. 3.  What you do to keep your skin clean. 4.  What your body does to keep your skin healthy.

Can you answer these questions?  I am sure you remember the things to do in summer – did you say sun lotion, hat, clothing to cover you?  What about cold?  Clothing, lip moisturiser?

Your body is amazing and it uses sweat to help clean you, and oils on your skin to protect from too much dirt getting on you.

So when we wash we use soap – have a look at this next link and see if you can set up your own experiment on “WHY DOES SOAP WORK?”

why soap works

Have fun!

Mrs Cooke.