Monthly Archives: August 2020
Language Skills (Secondary)
Good morning everyone,
Our theme today for home-school learning is summer.
Here are some activities to choose from:
- Read and or listen to some poems. https://childrens.poetryarchive.org/explore/?key=&type=&poet=&theme=127&form=&age=
- Read and or listen to some poems and think about what they mean. https://childrens.poetryarchive.org/explore/?key=&type=&poet=&theme=127&form=&age=
- Research acrostic poems and create your own about SUMMER. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4mmn39/articles/ztdvw6f
- Research haiku poems and create your own about https://www.youngwriters.co.uk/info/other/poetry-types/haiku-poem
- Create a poem about summer (it doesn’t have to rhyme).
Read the following poems about summer (they may also give you some ideas for your own poems):
Summer Days
I’m looking for a hot spot.
A what spot?
A hot spot.
I’m looking for a hot spot.
To lie out in the sun.
I’m looking for a hot spot
To play and have some fun.
I’m looking for a hot spot
To hit a ball and run.
Oh, I’m looking for a hot spot.
A what spot?
A hot spot.
I’m looking for a hot spot
Now summer has begun.
Anne English
Summer Song
By the sand between my toes,
By the waves behind my ears,
By the sunburn on my nose,
By the little salty tears
That make rainbows in the sun
When I squeeze my eyes and run,
By the way the seagulls screech,
Guess where I am? At the ……!
By the way the children shout
Guess what happened? School is ……!
By the way I sing this song
Guess if summer lasts too long:
You must answer Right or ……!
John Ciardi
Good luck!
Laura Leathem (Language and Communication Teacher)
Thursday, 13 of August of 2020
Welcome back Red Class 😀
It was lovely to meet you all yesterday. We all had a really nice day yesterday. I live you the activities for today.
– We start our circle time singing “Good morning Mr. Rooster” – super simple songs”
What is the day today?
Can you tell me how does the weather look like today?
Here some of our favourite movement songs. You can use this ones or any other of your preference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amJ87z5jVAc
Life skills – tidy up your rooom. Remember to put toys and games away after playing with it
Maths – Puddle Jump
Take a small stack of paper and cut a puddle shape out of several at once to save time. Write numbers on it. Depending on your child you can write 0-5, 0-10, 10-20, , 0-100 by tens, 50-60….
The idea is jump on puddles following the right order. Once on the puddle kids can jump on it as many times as the number shown.
Fiddly Fingers – Use clothes pegs to catch the pompoms
STORY – Today for story time have fun with one of your books, Tell me which one is your favourite.
Sign of the day – Don’t forget to be practicing the sign of the day
Music – Go to the Music section and choose one of the activities that your Music teacher prepared for you. Have fun J
Sensory – Time to go outside. Tell me what you can hear. Can you hear the birds? Can you hear people talking, can you hear the cars….
Dance – Go to the Dance section and choose one of the activities that your Dance teacher prepared for you. Have fun J
HWB – It’s time to go outside and get some fresh air. Take some toys to play in your garden.
I am looking forward to see you all again on Friday
Blue Class Thursday 13th August
Good Morning Blue Class. It was lovely to meet you yesterday. I hope that you enjoyed your first day back at school. No school today but I will see you all again tomorrow.
2. Maths:
3. Fiddly Fingers:
Why don’t you make a picture by finger painting.
Literacy:
5. Story
6. Go and have a look at the sign of the day section and practice some of your signing.
7. Sensory – why not try a taste test.
8. Health and wellbeing: try some relaxation.
Group 3 Circle Time Thursday 13th August
PE 13th of August 2020
Hi everyone, hope you liked PE yesterday and ready for another activity today. Next are 3 games easy to follow you can do at home. Have fun.
Game 1: Pirate Ship
Roles : Chose a captain to give instructions to rest of players. All players start with 3 points. Every time a player makes a mistake loses 1 point. First to zero loses, change captain. Captains instructions are as follow:
Port – crew jump to the left (or stretch left arm).
Starboard – jump to the right (or stretch right arm).
Stern – Jump backwards (or stretch arms up).
Bow – jump forwards (or stretch arms forward).
Climb the rigging – pretend to climb a rope ladder.
Man overboard – one star jump (or move your knees)
Scrub the deck – crouching down, pretending to clean the floor (or lean forward, head or knees).
You can use as many instructions as you want from 2 to 7 to adapt your needs.
Game 2: Opposites
Roles:
Get a ball or some socks rolled in a shape of a ball. Stand in a circle with one person in the center who has the ball.
Center person says catch or drop when throwing the ball.
If catcher does incorrect movement they lose 1 of 3 points.
When you get to 0 change person in middle. You can also try new instructions – head ball, kick ball, “slap” ball…
Game 3: Bucket Rounders
Resources – 3 balls or rolled socks, a bucket, 4 markers (anything you can safely put on floor.
Roles:
1 batter, 1 or 2 fielders.
Bowler (Fielder) throws 3 balls to batter who can volley, bat or kick ball away.
Fielders and batter must not move until all 3 balls are out on field.
After third ball is played batter then runs around marked space trying to return to starting point before all 3 balls have been returned to the bucket.
Is the fielder job to return balls to bucket before batter returns to starting point.
Remember to keep yourself save and be aware of surroundings. Make shore you have a safe area to play and have fun.
Welcome Group 5 – Wednesday 12th August
Group 9 – 12th and 13th August
Wednesday 12th August – Group 6
Good morning everyone! Lets start with Morning Circle.
Movement: Can you join in with the Music man?
On a Wednesday we have Literacy and PE. Head over to those sections on the Blog and choose an activity of your choice.
We are all looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!
Group 7 – 12 August 2020