Good Afternoon RS!

We have found some fun Elmer Art that you may like to do. Please scroll down to see a finished family of Elmer Elephants!

To make an amazing elephant you will need a large washed out milk bottle. You will need to ask mummy or daddy to cut the bottle in half and cut four legs so your elephant can stand up. Please remember to leave the handle on for the trunk!

Next you will need either PVA glue or Pritt Stick to cover your bottle so you can stick as many different colours on as possible! Finally when dried you can draw on your eyes.

Please see the video below which is one of Elmer’s wonderful stories:

Good afternoon RS

It’s the start of a new week and I hope you all had a lovely weekend!

The Philosophy Man has provided the following link for things to think about and discuss while we are at home during this time. Please do have a look at the link below:

https://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=N18Lt&m=3j8hGY3B_dOnNa4&b=G0MfozxrSkWqEvoatqdSug

Mrs Price has a lovely idea for you to do at home. She has been inspired by the beauty of our natural environment and suggests you create a picture made entirely from natural materials. I love the work of sculptors who have been inspired by nature, such as Andy Goldsworthy and Barbara Hepworth. See if you can find out about their work and what inspired them!

From Mrs Turk

Little LEO Albert, says…

https://www.wwf.org.uk/earthhour

I will be supporting Albert and WWF by taking part in Earth Hour 2020. If you would like to join in too you can click on the link above which gives you all the details about Earth Hour and some ideas about how you can have fun whilst taking part.

Stay safe and thank you.

Hello boys
It has been lovely to hear from some of you and see all the work you have been doing ! It has been nice to see some sunshine this week and we hope you have been out in your gardens enjoying it. We wondered if you have noticed the flowers starting to bloom? Maybe you could draw or paint one?

Art and Understanding of the World
As Easter is approaching, we thought you might like some Easter crafts ideas and a link to the Easter story.

Copy and paste into browser:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/religious-studies-ks1-the-christian-story-of-easter/

Maths
There are lots of patterns around your home and garden… can you spot any? How about repeating patterns? Here are some that we found around our homes:

Here is a game you might like to play.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-matching

Literacy
How many traditional tales have you and your family read? Maybe you could discuss the characters, setting and events with your family?

Let us know how you are all getting on, we love seeing photos of you all. We miss those little faces!

During these uncertain times, the boys have continued to have a lovely week at school. It is sad that the necessary  school closures mean that the children are not together and we will not see each other for the foreseeable future. However, the positive is that it enables opportunities to read, create art, dance, play and spend time as a family. I have already received emails containing fantastic pieces of home learning, which I will respond to and offer support daily.

Welly time was enjoyed by the other half of RS this week:

During Music:

Please find the Maths homework below based on what the boys have been learning this week:

Could you please set up a shop at home (if you have a toy till, you could use this) and buy some items such as sweets that cost less than £1 or 50p. Use a range of coins and practise counting in ones, twos and tens. Have fun!

Maths homework tasks amongst other things will continue to updated each week.

Superlearners!

Planting sunflower seeds:

I will miss seeing the boys everyday but I look forward to keeping in regular touch with you all via email and the blog. Have a good weekend.

Take care,

Mrs Starkey

What an action packed week we have had! We have celebrated British Science week, which started with an exciting science assembly watching chemical reactions:

This was followed by worm workshops where the boys held worms and learnt about their habitats. They learnt that worms are invertebrates which don’t have a backbone. They boys ate biscuits imitating how worms eat by not using their teeth! We have some worms in class that we are looking after for the next two weeks.

Throughout the week, the boys have been taking part in the Zooniverse project to try and identify endangered spider monkeys in videos taken by drones to help a scientific algorithm:

The boys also investigated floating and sinking and learnt the different materials that float and sink.

Outside the boys had fun making their own bubble wands and blowing bubbles of different shapes and sizes:

Half of RS enjoyed welly time this week, the other half will be going next week:

During Literacy we reenacted ‘The Three Billy-goats Gruff’ and wrote the story:

In Maths the boys listened to the story ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’ They have been learning o’clock times and learning about what happens at different times during the day. Later in the week we also looked at half past times, where we remembered the term ‘half’ that we learnt last week.

For this weeks Maths challenge,  please draw some clocks with numbers 1-12. Please then add a minute hand and a hour hand to display different o’clock times. We have been drawing the hands in class and the boys have learnt that the hour hand is shorter than the minute hand and that both hands need to start from the middle and be drawn in a straight line. If you would like an extra challenge, please draw some half past times. Please write the times you made by commenting on this post. Have fun!

The Starboys for next week are as follows:

Monday: Patrick

Tuesday: Zachary

Wednesday: Zain-Amor

Thursday: Aarav

Friday: Alistair

The challenge for next week is: Check your drawers at hometime.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Starkey and Mrs Aldridge

This week we celebrated World Book Day. The boys had lots of fun being dressed up as Traditional Tale characters. They boys took part lots of literacy activities. This included contributing towards writing a class book and making a class quiz about Traditional Tales. The boys attended a World Book Day assembly where they shared their class book and class quiz. Here are their fabulous costumes:

In Maths the boys learnt about halving. They halved numbers and shapes. They discovered that you can only halve even numbers when halving the numbers into whole numbers. We looked at odd and even numbers and counted in twos.

The Maths activity this week is as follows:

Please use the game below: Press the ‘Halves’ button to start and select ‘Halves to 10’. If you want to progress further then move onto the next level. You can use objects to help work out the answers, for example: half of 10, count out 10 objects, you can then use the method ‘one for me, one for you’ to find half. Have fun!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Here are some picture from the boys’ child initiated learning time:

Reading Traditional Tales

The Starboys for next week are as follows:

Monday: Jacob

Tuesday: Mylo

Wednesday: Nathan

Thursday: Nikhil

Friday: Oliver

The challenge for next week is: share with others

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Starkey and Mrs Aldridge