Good Morning boys and girls!

I wonder what Joe will be dressed up as today for our daily PE session:

Now it is time for Literacy and today we are going to be using ‘Old MacDonald had a Farm’ as our context for learning:

Please have a look at pages 22 and 23 of the Exciting_Learning_Opportunities_Home_Learning_Collection booklet and complete some of the activities:

• Research facts about farm animals.  Read the fact bubble on page 22 then use the internet or non-fiction book to find out facts about your favourite farm animals.  You can write your findings in your jotter.
• Make your own farm.  You can build a model, draw a landscape or create a collage.  Check out the ‘Mini locations‘ section on page 23 for some ideas and things to think about when making your farm.  Here are some ideas:

• Together you can talk about how farms support our communities. What role does the farmer play? Think about what animals produce.  You could look at what food you have at home.  Where does it come from?  Check out the ‘All About Farms’ section on page 23 for some questions to talk about.
• Learn about animals and their young.  Sometimes baby animals have a different name from their mummies.  Can you find out the names of all the different farm animals and their young?

Let’s finish by watching and listening to a story about a very lazy farmer… Here’s ‘Farmer Duck’ by Martin Waddell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gug6P8l1q6c

We will be back in time for Elevenses with David Walliams.  Remember to keep an eye out for this week’s assembly presentation being posted on the blog.

Mrs Bryce and Mrs Topping

Afternoon boys and girls!

Following on from last weeks ‘Silly Face Sandwich’ theme, today we will be making ‘Wacky Face Weetabix’.  Time to have another wee rummage around the kitchen and get creative!

We cannot wait to see your creations!

To finish up this afternoon, lets have another Cosmic Kids Yoga Adventure with Colonel Crockles the Crocodile!

See you tomorrow!

Mrs Bryce and Mrs Topping

Hi boys and girls!

We hope you enjoyed your reading tasks this morning.  Now it is story time with David Walliams:

https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

For Maths today we are going to be learning how to compare lengths and heights using particular words to describe the differences.

We use certain words to compare the lengths and height of objects, such as:

• long, longer and longest
• short, shorter and shortest
• tall, taller and tallest

Please visit BBC Bitesize using the link below and watch the videos before completing the activities:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zf4vbdm

Activity 1

Length or height?

Lengths are usually measured sideways, like the snakes above. Heights are measured upwards, like the giraffes standing on the ground.

Can you find pairs of objects around your home to compare and see which is the shorter of the two and which is the longer?

Compare your height with someone in your family. Who is the taller and who is the shorter?

Activity 2

If you can, print off this activity to complete at home.  If you are unable to print it out, you can write your answers inside your jotter.

Measure Activity 2

After all that hard work, let’s get outside and do the daily mile.  Check out more Daily Mile At Home Challenges below:

Have fun and we will be back after lunch time!

Mrs Bryce and Mrs Topping

Good morning everyone. Thursday again and time for some literacy activities!

First let’s warm up with Joe.

Remember to have a rest and a drink before reading.

Last week we were learning about  question words.

Which question words can you remember?

• Listen to this fun song about the “Five W’s” to help

• Can you think of any other question words?
• Now watch and listen to the clip below.

• Now open up the activity sheet below
• Read the answers in each of the speech bubbles on the right
• Ask a family member to help you

Questions activity

• Next think of a question to match each of the answers
• Try to use a different question word for each one
• Draw 4 speech coloured bubbles in your jotter and write the correct question word for your questions inside

Finish off by choosing one of the fun question words games below

http://www.eslgamesplus.com/question-words-game/

Mrs Topping and Mrs Bryce

Good afternoon, I hope you have all had a fun morning. The weather isn’t great today so I have a fun indoor activity for you to do. All you will need is a large tub that will hold water or you can even do this in your kitchen sink. Some washing up liquid or shampoo, whisks, food colouring and glitter (optional).

All you need to do is fill your tub or basin with water and the soap. You add your colour and then whisk! Look at the patterns you are making and how it slowly changes colour.

Once you have whisked up your bubbles you can have fun playing. how do the bubbles feel in your hands? Can you make any shapes in the bubbles? How about hiding some small objects in the bubbles and using only your hands try and guess what they are.

I hope you have fun with your bubbles and cant wait to see all your pictures.

Kirsty

Bonjour les enfants!

Last week we finished our lessons on the days of the week in French.

• Today we will begin learning about the weather in French
• First think about the different types of weather words in English:
• sunny, rain, snow, foggy, windy, hail, hot, cold etc

• Let’s begin learning the French vocabulary by watching and listening to the clip below

• Now ask a family member to help you work through the power point below

Weather 10_06_20

• We will finish off by listening to this fun weather song

• Can you draw a picture of the weather today and label it with the correct French word?
• Remember to share it with us by posting it on the blog or emailing it!

Mrs Topping and Mrs Bryce

Hello again everyone. Hope you enjoyed your writing task this morning!

Don’t forget to listen on to a story at 11.00 with David Walliams

http://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/category/elevenses/

Today we will continue with our work on Data Handling. Last week we used information we collected about creatures at the pond and then shapes to organise into a table.

Today we are going to look at pictograms or pictographs. This is another way of organising and displaying information to make it easier for us to to read.

Watch and listen to the clip below as coloured blocks are used to make a pictograph.

• Think about the information in the pictograph
• Ask a family member to help you use the  pictograph to answer the following questions:
• Which colour is the most popular?
• Which colour was least popular?
• How many green and yellow blocks are there altogether?
• How many red and blue blocks are there altogether?

• Now look at the pictogram below.
• Think of some more questions could you ask about the information shown in the pictogram?
• Ask a family member your questions

• Now look at the smarties below
• Have a go at constructing a pictogram of your own to show the different colours
• Record it in your jotter
• Or you could use real smarties or other sweets to create a pictogram of your own                                                           
• Think of some questions you could ask a family member about your pictogram

• Finish off by answering questions on some simple pictograms
• You can choose pictograms showing pets, fruit, ice cream and lots more

http://www.wldps.com/gordons/Pictograms.swf

• Choose the Vertical Pictograms option Unit = 1

Have fun!

Mrs Topping and Mrs Bryce

Good morning boys and girls!

Hope you are ready for PE with Joe this morning:

Now it is time for PM writing!  Today we are learning more about words and sentences.

Have a look at the story above and ask the children to:

• read the sentences with help from an adult.
• talk about the extra information that the writer has added in blue.  What does it tell us that we didn’t already know?
• identify who, where and when
• identify the sentences that tell us what happened first, then and after that.
• read the last sentence and identify how the writer felt when the bird flew away and why.

Next, take out ‘The Bird ans the Cat – Activity 5’ from you pack:

recount_bird_and_cat-activity5

The purpose of this task is to write a simple recount about The Cat and the Mouse with support.  First, read the words that label the picture then read the tricky words.  Using these words to help you, you are now ready to write your story.  If you want to draw your own picture on the back, that would be lovely, but please do not feel you have to.

Take your time.  Remember capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.  We look forward to reading your stories!

Mrs Bryce and Mrs Topping

Good afternoon boys and girls.

Hope you enjoyed your Oral Narrative activity about “The Rainbow Fish”.

Today for art why don’t you try making a rainbow fish of your own.

Here are some ideas.

You could draw, paint, make a collage or even a model fish.

Make your rainbow fish as colourful, shiny and sparkly as you like!!

We would love for you to share them with us!

Mrs Topping and Mrs Bryce