Author: Meg Cooke

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Rabbits – Home Learning for Wednesday 24th June

Good Morning Rabbits – Happy Wednesday!

I am sitting at my computer with a lovely cup of tea – what is your favourite drink to have while you work?  Why not let me know later today – are you allowed to drink while you think?  We have to be careful of drinks near computers but I have a big desk and keep the drink well away from the wires.

Now I am not going totally mad – I have a reason for asking about drinking – I saw a group of Cappucin Monkeys at a zoo in Borth – Mid Wales – and they had tea as their favourite day time drink!  I am going to get you to look at the odd types of food and drink that these wild animals have.

So for today you have English, Maths, Handwriting and Project:  Let’s start with handwriting:

Handwriting:  Please do some fine motor skills today to improve your pencil control.  Take a sharp pencil and draw around some items from home – a cup or knife, your own hand or perhaps a piece of jewelry – when you have made 3 patterns, take another pencil or a different colour and go over the shape freehand.  Keep doing this and try to keep the lines perfect.

Maths:  For today I have found some activities that look at shape for Year 3 and Measuring for Year 2 (but you can look at both sheets if you are feeling brave!)

Year 3:  1366

Year 2: 7110

English:  Please look at the film from the clip attached:

Year 2 : https://www.literacyshed.com/thewaybackhome.html

Please select one of the activities that you can do today.  You can then select another for tomorrow.

  • Write a recount of the adventure.
  • Write a holiday brochure page for their destination.
  • Write dialogue between the boy and the alien.

Year 3: https://www.literacyshed.com/catchit.html

Please select one of the activities that you can do today.  You can then select another for tomorrow.

  • Tell the story from a meerkat’s point of view.
  • Create an internal monologue for the vulture.
  • Describe the beautiful setting of the African plains.

Some help with the work:  A RECOUNT is a piece of writing that tells the things that you did – a little bit like a story – but you write it as “I went there, I did that”.  Not a diary entry – but like a short story.

An INTERNAL MONOLOGUE is a speech but it is really what the character is thinking (Internal means inside and monologue is something one person says)  So you can write this in a thought bubble.

a DIALOGUE is speech between two characters – you could set this out like a play – you write the character’s name in the margin and then the things that they say. You DO NOT use speech marks when you are writing a play.

Project:  As I mentioned, the moneys in Borth Zoo drank tea (I think I am very connected to these creatures through our mutual love of tea!)  here is a link to a film about the Capuchin monkeys and the things that they eat.

  1. Can you list all the foods and drinks that this cheeky monkey eats in the wild?
  2. How are they able to search for such a variety of food?

Civet Cats Get Tipsy

The Asian civet cat love to eat small rodents, birds, snails and scorpions. From time to time, they get the chance to enjoy their favorite drink: palm juice. And usually only when it’s started to ferment and has developed an alcohol content. If the civet cats drink a little too much palm juice, they get drunk – and fall out of their trees!

Can you imagine a cat falling from the tree?  I would love to see your drawings of this happening.  Can you draw me a cartoon of the cat getting tipsy and falling?

Finally I have a clip for you to look at – just to show you one of the most beautiful creatures on our planet (that’s not just according to me!)  You just need to watch this film.  I hope you enjoy it.

 

 

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Rabbits – Home Learning for Tuesday 23rd June

Good Morning Rabbits

I hope you are all well and ready for some great learning today.

Brainteaser:  please have a go at this – how can you work out the answer?

How many squares can you see

Grammar:  Have a go at completing this task:  You can select the level you think best suits you.  Differentiated Activity Sheet Expanded Noun Phrases

English:  This activity is for you to use some of your imagination and referring to a wild animal, write a Haiku poem.  Watch this instruction video to help you to understand about these types of poems.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb6RC0zB_-4

Now you can plan your own.  Use this sheet to help you assemble your ideas:

Haiku Planning Sheet

Haiku Rules Poster

Can you begin to write your Haiku?  What would your animal be – I might write one about an Eagle as they are my favourite wild animal.

Maths:  I have the following work sheets for your to do today:  If you prefer, you can access the BBC Bitesize Maths lesson.

Year 2 maths lesson

Year 3 maths lesson

Project:  we will continue today with the investigations into wierd and wonderful creatures.  Yesterday you were beginning some diary notes – as if you were an explorer.  Today, you are going to continue with this for one new animal species:

Please look at the youtube clip and make notes on the details about this animal.

Now you can write up your next diary entry as if you are the explorer who has first discovered these crazy creatures!

Now look at this piece of information about an amazing man who lived a long time ago.  He was called Lord Rothschild and he lived in a huge mansion in Tring which is in England, close to London.  He was quite mad, and had lots of amazing animals roaming on his lawn.  Look at the photographs in the link below.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/03/20/that-time-lord-walter-rothschild-drove-a-carriage-pulled-by-six-zebras-to-prove-a-point/

I would like you to have a go at drawing the lawn at Tring Park – I have put a link to the photographs that are of the grounds now – I would love you to add drawings of some wildly weird animals that you would like to have striding around your lawn if you were living here.

I hope you enjoy your learning today.  Let me see the lovely things that you have been doing!

Mrs Cooke.

 

 

 

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Rabbits Home Learning for 22nd June

Good Morning Rabbits

Welcome to another week of learning.  I hope you are all well and happy.

I was very excited to find a bag of model toy animals last week – I like to collect odd stuff that I can use for work.  It got me thinking about this week’s project.  In my bag of animals I had some very weird and wonderful creatures and I know we have done a project on animals before – but this one will be all about bizarre creatures that exist in our world.  I think it will be fun!

To begin with….

Spelling and Handwriting:  please do some practice on your handwriting – I have some words for you to learn for spelling this week so use this as your handwriting for today.  The link below is a spelling and vocabulary game – you can do a new task each day this week.

Panda Polar Bear Gorilla Lion Elephant Anteater Cheetah Squirrel Tiger Fox

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/vocabulary/intermediate-to-upper-intermediate/wild-animals

English:  Please view the Oak Academy English lesson for this morning.  You will find this on this link: https://classroom.thenational.academy/year-groups/

I have some additional English activities that link to our topic, you can access them through these:

link:  https://www.funenglishgames.com/worksheets/wordsearches/animal.html

https://www.literacyshedplus.com/en-gb/resource/catch-it-ks2-activity-pack

Maths:  Please use the sheets linked here to continue working on measurement and shape.

Project:  Wild animals can be strange.  Have a look at this clip which shows and ocarpi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJv6AUPxS84

 

This short film gives you LOTS of information about this animal.  I would like you to do the following:

You are an explorer.  You can give yourself a name if you like.  You are travelling around the the word and you come across this animal (Ocapi) for the very first time.  Your task is to create a travel diary this week. You will write it as if you are discovering new creatures in the wild and they have never been seen by anyone in England before.  You need to make a very careful record of each creature that you will come across.

Your diary must include lots of details about how the animal looks – you can use the descriptions given in the film.

Your diary must include where you found the creature (also in the film)

You need to make a sketch of the creature and explain what animal it is most like.

You will then need to do the same for the next animal – please watch this film and repeat the diary activity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj67rHawDTg

Keep the diary entry safe as you will need to add to this tomorrow.

 

Have a lovely day!

 

 

 

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Rabbits – Home Learning for 19th June

Good Morning Rabbits

So it’s Friday!  Happy Friday everyone.

Spellings:  For today, Year 3 need to do a spelling review of the words that are on your list.  Year 2 did the spelling task earlier on.

Grammar: Please have a look at the grammar exercises for your year group.

Grammar Task  (Year 3)

NelsonGrammar_Conjunctions  (Year 2)

Maths:  Please access MyMaths or do the sheets attached:

PSHE:  As you know, it is Father’s Day on Sunday (also the longest day of the year).  I imagine many of you are preparing something for your Dad or special person; here is a lovely poem that you might use if you want to make him a card.

When I scratched my knee,
Or if I bumped my head,
When I was afraid of the dark,
Or that thing under my bed,
When I cried in the night,
Or even in the day,
You were there for me
To make it all okay.

Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/father

Reading:  Here is a lovely clip of a sweet story about a bear and his dad.  Have a look a the amazing art-work (illustrations) that go with the story.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p019gl16

 

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Rabbits – Home learning for 18th June

Good morning Rabbits

Well we are galloping towards the end of another week.  Time is flying!

Here is another brain-teaser to get you wide awake this morning:

Riddle

Music:  Please follow the session for your year group:

Year 2: . Wake up https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=5idAk316hpY&feature=emb_logo

2. I like the flowers https://www.singup.org/singupathome/relaxing-soothing

3. The Doubling song https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=I4pJiHOlAgE&feature=emb_logo

Listening Minute of Listening – Sound Map Listen carefully to the sounds around you. Use the worksheet to draw a map of where they are and describe their sounds. https://d1ovsp3jtaqdje.cloudfront.net/uploads/2018/01/MOL_Sound_Mapping_New.pdf

Year 3: Singing 1. I left my luggage (Day 4) https://www.nycos.co.uk/daily-activities/ This is a lot like a rhyme we have done in music lessons!

2. ‘Chumbara’ (Day 9) https://www.nycos.co.uk/daily-activities/

3. As the sun rises on a new day https://www.singup.org/singupathome/sign-language-makaton

4. Aint gonna let nobody turn me around https://www.singup.org/singupathome/empowering-inspiring

5. I have a song to sing https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=100&v=QpdQrp2is4A&feature=emb_logoSSomething to think about https://www.outoftheark.co.uk/ext/pdfs/outoftheark-at-home/SongActivity-I-HAVE-A-SONG-TO-SING.pdf

Listening Drumming Styles around the World Compare the ways people create different music with drums across the world. How is Japanese Taiko different from Brazilian Samba? Use the worksheet to write as many differences as you can.

Taiko – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbbp7rNTj7o Samba – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQLvGghaDbE

English:  You have lessons on line – you will be following either Oak Academy or BBC Bitesize so please continue with those lessons.

Maths:  I have the white rose maths links below.  If you would rather, here is a link to some different types of worksheets:

Year 2 Measuring

Year 3 maths

Project:  I hope you enjoyed the cartoon version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  For today, I want you to do a little research about Midsummer.  I have provided a link to information and I would like you to answer the questions on the sheet.

Summer Solstice

Summer Pudding:  here is a recipe for a traditional English pudding that we eat around this time of year  https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-summer-pudding

See if you can gather some of these ingredients and make your own some time.

Midsummer Traditions:

Did you know that Midsummer is also the celebration of St John the Baptist Day?  Have a look at this short piece of writing about the old English tradition.

England[edit]

In late 14th-century England, John Mirk of Lilleshall Abbey, Shropshire, gives the following description: “At first, men and women came to church with candles and other lights and prayed all night long. In the process of time, however, men left such devotion and used songs and dances. The church fathers decided to put a stop to these practices and ordained that people should fast on the evening before,

Fasting is not eating any food – would you like to go without food all day on Saturday?  No, nor would I!

The Solstice means that the sun is out for the longest time – we have the longest day.  Can you list all of the things that you would do in the 16 hours of sunshine that we are going to have on Sunday?

Have a lovely day

Mrs Cooke.