Good afternoon girls and boys.

I hope you and your family are keeping well. Mrs Graham is missing you all already and room 6 is a very quiet place today, believe it or not I’m actually missing all the chatter!

I posted last week some ideas for activities to do at home for those already self isolating and I will copy these onto the bottom of this post too. Many of these are easy to do at home with very little resources and you can work through them in any order and at any pace.  You also have a folder of work with activities and website suggestions that you can use to learn at home as well completing any other jobs your parents and carers may organise for you.  A suggested idea of how an average day might look like is this;

• 1 numeracy task (i.e. a worksheet, website game)
• 1 literacy task (i.e. diary, book review, spelling game)
• Personal reading (roughly 15-20 minutes)
• Exercise/fresh air (i.e online exercises, playing in the garden)
• 1 other activity (i.e art, ICT, music)

Please remember this is only a suggested daily timetable to help organise your days however as each of you and your families’ circumstances are different, don’t worry if you don’t get it done! Please make sure in the days ahead you are making lots of time for play and having fun at home, this is more important than any task Mrs Graham sets you. And for parents and carers please don’t put pressure on yourselves to do it all either.

If you or your parents and carers have any questions then just let me know.

Take care of yourselves and each other and I will speak to you all soon.

Mrs Graham xx

Suggested activities

Literacy:
• READ, READ, READ
• Write a weekly diary entry telling us about what you are doing and how you are feeling.
• ‘Newsround’ find a news story that interests you online or on TV/radio and write about in in your own words. You could even draw or print off a picture too.
• Spelling practise. Use spelling words on previous week’s Blogs to practise rules. Use a variety of active spelling strategies and get an adult to test you.
• Write a mini book.
• Copy the front cover of your favourite book.
• Dictionary games. Eg get an adult to time you finding words.
• Play ‘Stop the Bus’ alphabet game.

Numeracy:
• Online/APP maths games (topmarks)
• Practise ‘learn its’/times tables
• X table/division bingo games
• Buzz

Other:
• Create a PPT presentation related to an aspect of our class topic.
• Topic art project. Choose an aspect of our class topic to do a piece of art on, Could be a drawing, painting, etc.
• Still life drawing. Choose something at home to draw i.e bowl of fruit, view from window, garden, etc.
• Easter Art. Decorate a hard boiled egg, Easter bonnet, etc.
• Home baking.