Our music teacher, Mrs Hindson, has very kindly produced this music lesson for the children in Hedgehog Class this week.
Thank you Mrs Hindson!
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Hedgehogs Home Learning – Tuesday 23rd June
Hello Hedgehogs,
Did you have a good start to the week? The weather is supposed to be nice and sunny this week so I hope you’ll all be able to get out and about and enjoy the sunshine.
Here are today’s home learning tasks:
Phonics:
This link will take you to the phonics lessons:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw/featured
Reception, your lesson will be uploaded at 10am. Year 1s, your lesson will be uploaded at 10:30am. If you feel like you need a bit of extra practice there is another lesson at 11:00am that focuses on blending sounds. After they have been uploaded the videos are available to view at any time throughout the day.
If you’re struggling to concentrate for the full video, try doing it in sections and have a break between each bit.
Fine Motor Skills:
Have a go at one of the activities from the grid below.
Handwriting:
Practise your handwriting and learn how to form the zigzag letters.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgjj6sg/articles/zydty4j
Maths:
Reception: This week your learning will be based on the book ‘Zog’. Today you will be helping Zog count up all his stars.
Day 2: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/
Year 1: This week you will be practising counting to 100, partitioning and comparing numbers
Today you are partitioning numbers
Video: https://vimeo.com/430317914
Worksheet: Lesson 2 – Partitioning numbers
Answers: Answers – Partitioning numbers
English:
Reception: Today you will listen to the story of The Crocodile Who Didn’t Like Water, by Gemma Merino. You will answer questions about the story, justifying your answers with the word ‘because’ to support your communication skills. You can extend this lesson by researching dragons and considering how they differ from crocodiles.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-justify-an-answer-using-the-word-because
Year 1: Today you will have a chance to create your own creature. You will need to think carefully about the different parts of its body.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-create-a-creature
Topic:
Do you know what a baby cow is called? Have a look at this powerpoint on Farm Animals and Their Young and then test your knowledge and see if you can match up the farm animals with their babies Farm Animal Babies.
If you have any problems or any work you’d like to send us to see please contact Nikki in the office and she will forward it onto us. We love seeing what you get up to!
Have a great day!
Miss Horton 🙂
Dragonfly Class – Tuesday 23rd June
Good morning Dragonflies,
She has a name! 🐾 We’ve decided to call our new pup ‘Nell’ (or Nellie) which suits her because she has huge ears that remind me of my childhood favourite ‘Nelly the Elephant’! Your grown ups might remember that one 😆
Here are today’s other activities:
- Spellings: This week’s lists are on the links below. Challenge: write them out as handwriting practise today.
Year 3 Spellings & Handwriting
Year 4 Spellings & Handwriting
Year 5 Spellings & Handwriting
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.
Year 3
Y3 Lesson 2 Answers – Compare angles
Year 4
Y4 Lesson 2 Answers – Ordering money
Year 5
Year 5 Lesson-2-Subtracting-decimals
3. Reading: Read your own book for 20 minutes or so today.
4. English: Two options… 1) Find today’s Bitesize activity 2) Follow the link below for Lesson 2/5 of the Oak Academy lessons this week.
Lesson 2/5 Instruction Writing
Other ideas:
Science: The Human Skeleton
Use the skeleton labels here: Skeleton Labels
Can you draw around yourself and label the skeleton parts? You could do this using a piece of old wallpaper or get outside and use chalk on the ground (think about safety of course!)
Miss Whit 🙂
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?
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:
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.
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.
Hedgehogs Home Learning – Tuesday 23rd June
Hello Hedgehogs,
Did you have a good start to the week? The weather is supposed to be nice and sunny this week so I hope you’ll all be able to get out and about and enjoy the sunshine.
Here are today’s home learning tasks:
Phonics:
This link will take you to the phonics lessons:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw/featured
Reception, your lesson will be uploaded at 10am. Year 1s, your lesson will be uploaded at 10:30am. If you feel like you need a bit of extra practice there is another lesson at 11:00am that focuses on blending sounds. After they have been uploaded the videos are available to view at any time throughout the day.
If you’re struggling to concentrate for the full video, try doing it in sections and have a break between each bit.
Fine Motor Skills:
Have a go at one of the activities from the grid below.
Handwriting:
Practise your handwriting and learn how to form the zigzag letters.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgjj6sg/articles/zydty4j
Maths:
Reception: This week your learning will be based on the book ‘Zog’. Today you will be helping Zog count up all his stars.
Day 2: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/
Year 1: This week you will be practising counting to 100, partitioning and comparing numbers
Today you are partitioning numbers
Video: https://vimeo.com/430317914
Worksheet: Lesson 2 – Partitioning numbers
Answers: Answers – Partitioning numbers
English:
Reception: Today you will listen to the story of The Crocodile Who Didn’t Like Water, by Gemma Merino. You will answer questions about the story, justifying your answers with the word ‘because’ to support your communication skills. You can extend this lesson by researching dragons and considering how they differ from crocodiles.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-justify-an-answer-using-the-word-because
Year 1: Today you will have a chance to create your own creature. You will need to think carefully about the different parts of its body.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-create-a-creature
Topic:
Do you know what a baby cow is called? Have a look at this powerpoint on Farm Animals and Their Young and then test your knowledge and see if you can match up the farm animals with their babies Farm Animal Babies.
If you have any problems or any work you’d like to send us to see please contact Nikki in the office and she will forward it onto us. We love seeing what you get up to!
Have a great day!
Miss Horton 🙂
Hedgehogs Home Learning – Monday 22nd June
Hello Hedgehogs,
I hope you had a lovely weekend and that you treated your daddies yesterday! I know that some of you are back at school now and some of you are working at home. I’ve got a bubble of children at Bomere Heath Primary School and we’re all really enjoying the maths. Last week we made magic potions and wrapped each other up in toilet roll…just like in the story!! I spoke to Mrs Johnson this week and it sounds like you’re all having fun too! I hope you have a great week, please send over any pictures of what you’re getting up to!
Phonics:
This link will take you to the phonics lessons:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw/featured
Reception, your lesson will be uploaded at 10am. Year 1s, your lesson will be uploaded at 10:30am. If you feel like you need a bit of extra practice there is another lesson at 11:00am that focuses on blending sounds. After they have been uploaded the videos are available to view at any time throughout the day.
If you’re struggling to concentrate for the full video, try doing it in sections and have a break between each bit.
Fine Motor Skills:
Have a go at one of the activities from the grid below.
Handwriting:
Practise your handwriting and learn how to form the zigzag letters.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgjj6sg/articles/zydty4j
Maths:
Reception: This week your learning will be based on the book ‘Zog’. Today you will be looking at patterns and making your own rainbows!
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/
Year 1: This week you will be practising counting to 100, partitioning and comparing numbers
Today you are counting to 100.
Video: https://vimeo.com/430314213
Worksheet: Lesson 1 – Counting to 100
Answers: Answers – Counting to 100
English:
Reception: Today you will learn some features of reptiles. You will be thinking about what makes reptiles unique and choose your favourite reptile to describe. You can extend this lesson by using an encyclopedia to compare reptiles to other animal groups, talking about the similarities and differences.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-learn-some-features-of-reptiles
Year 1: Today you will listen to an information text about a fictional creature called a green-winged flay. You will then answer some questions on it.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-listen-to-an-information-text
Topic:
How well do you know farm animals? Have a go at this game What Am I? Farm Animal Game. You are given three clues and then you have to guess what animal is being described. Perhaps you could create some of your own clues and get your family or friends to guess the farm animal!
If you have any problems or any work you’d like to send us to see please contact Nikki in the office and she will forward it onto us. We love seeing what you get up to!
Have a great day!
Miss Horton 🙂
Dragonfly Class – Monday 22nd June
Good morning Dragonflies,
It will be a very different day for me today as I’m welcoming lots of children back into class! I look forward to seeing some of your faces and seeing how much you’ve grown (and how your lockdown hairstyles are looking!)
In other news, I’ve had the BEST weekend! I returned home from school on Friday to find Andrew was acting very strange… he disappeared into the living room then reappeared a few minutes later with… A PUPPY!!! Oh my goodness. I’ve fallen in love with the little bundle of gorgeousness – I just need to find a nice name! Briar is not such a fan… she currently thinks we should send her back pronto – she’s far too little to be any fun to B at all! She’s a bit grumpy and jealous! I’ll get some pictures up soon 💛🐾
Here are today’s activities:
- Spellings: This week’s lists are on the links below. Challenge: ask someone to test you on how many you know BEFORE you start learning them.
Year 3 Spellings & Handwriting
Year 4 Spellings & Handwriting
Year 5 Spellings & Handwriting
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
Y3 Lesson 1 – Right angles in shapes
Y3 Lesson 1 Answers – Right angles in shapes
Year 4
Y4 Lesson 1 – Pounds and pence
Y4 Lesson 1 Answers – Pounds and pence
Year 5
Year 5 Lesson-1-Subtracting-decimals
3. Reading Eggs: There is a task ready and waiting for you 🙂
4. English: Two options…
1) Find today’s Bitesize activity
2) Follow the link below for Lesson 1/5 of the Oak Academy lessons this week on instruction writing.
Instruction Writing Lesson 1/5
Other ideas:
- PE: Usually on a Monday we have our PE lessons so make a good effort on some sporting activity to day if you can! How about carrying on with the Virtual School Games activities!
- School Games Competition
2. Design a bookmark – in school today we will be thinking about making our own bookmarks to keep in class. Can you make your own original design?
Happy Monday,
Miss Whit 🙂
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!
Hedgehogs Home Learning – Monday 22nd June
Hello Hedgehogs,
I hope you had a lovely weekend and that you treated your daddies yesterday! I know that some of you are back at school now and some of you are working at home. I’ve got a bubble of children at Bomere Heath Primary School and we’re all really enjoying the maths. Last week we made magic potions and wrapped each other up in toilet roll…just like in the story!! I spoke to Mrs Johnson this week and it sounds like you’re all having fun too! I hope you have a great week, please send over any pictures of what you’re getting up to!
Phonics:
This link will take you to the phonics lessons:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw/featured
Reception, your lesson will be uploaded at 10am. Year 1s, your lesson will be uploaded at 10:30am. If you feel like you need a bit of extra practice there is another lesson at 11:00am that focuses on blending sounds. After they have been uploaded the videos are available to view at any time throughout the day.
If you’re struggling to concentrate for the full video, try doing it in sections and have a break between each bit.
Fine Motor Skills:
Have a go at one of the activities from the grid below.
Handwriting:
Practise your handwriting and learn how to form the zigzag letters.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgjj6sg/articles/zydty4j
Maths:
Reception: This week your learning will be based on the book ‘Zog’. Today you will be looking at patterns and making your own rainbows!
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/
Year 1: This week you will be practising counting to 100, partitioning and comparing numbers
Today you are counting to 100.
Video: https://vimeo.com/430314213
Worksheet: Lesson 1 – Counting to 100
Answers: Answers – Counting to 100
English:
Reception: Today you will learn some features of reptiles. You will be thinking about what makes reptiles unique and choose your favourite reptile to describe. You can extend this lesson by using an encyclopedia to compare reptiles to other animal groups, talking about the similarities and differences.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-learn-some-features-of-reptiles
Year 1: Today you will listen to an information text about a fictional creature called a green-winged flay. You will then answer some questions on it.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-listen-to-an-information-text
Topic:
How well do you know farm animals? Have a go at this game What Am I? Farm Animal Game. You are given three clues and then you have to guess what animal is being described. Perhaps you could create some of your own clues and get your family or friends to guess the farm animal!
If you have any problems or any work you’d like to send us to see please contact Nikki in the office and she will forward it onto us. We love seeing what you get up to!
Have a great day!
Miss Horton 🙂
Dragonfly Class – Friday 19th June
It’s Friday! Well done for logging in for another week.
I needed my flippers yesterday 🚴🏼♀️ going back and to from school where I got very wet, but it was great fun! Get out in the rain if you can – it can be so refreshing (Nicky will think I’m mad saying that).
I hope you all have a good weekend – mine looks like there will be lots of good food involved! So I best get running too 😊
Here are today’s activities:
- Spellings: This week’s lists are on the links below. Challenge: Have your end of week test to see how well you’ve learned them.
2. Maths:
For Friday’s fun challenges, you can spend your time on TT Rockstars or exploring Number Gym. Here are two games to play too:
4. English: Two options…
1) Find today’s Bitesize activity
2) Follow the link below for the final lesson of the Oak Academy lessons this week.
Other ideas:
- PE – spend time on your Virtual School Games challenge from Monday. Also check out this Friday Challenge activity: Primary All Stars Friday Challenge
- Topic (Ancient Greece): Aesop’s Fables
There is a book called Vita Aesopus that was first written in the 2nd century CE and says that Aesop was a very ugly slave who lived on the Greek island of Samos. At first he cannot speak but after showing kindness to a priestess of Isis, the Egyptian goddess made him not only speak but also a clever storyteller.
Read and explore about Aesop and his fables using the links below. Which fables are your favourite? Why?
http://read.gov/aesop/ – Selection of Aesop’s Fables to read online from the US Library of Congress;
https://www.umass.edu/aesop/fables.php – Other versions of the fables; https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06sdr13 – Audio versions of Aesop’s Fables; http://www.aesopfables.com/ – Other versions of the fables with audio and pictures; http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/ – A collated list of the different versions of the fables.
Have a super weekend, missing you all very much.
Miss Whit
