Good morning all,

I loved our ‘ chat’ on Friday morning – it was lovely to have so many of you get involved. Well done to those of you who had to persevere with technology – I hope you’ve managed to get these blips sorted. Thank you for staying muted unless I asked you to unmute (Teams runs better this way), great use of the ‘Raise / Lower Hand Buttons’ and good to see many of you use the ‘Chat’ option to communicate. Success!

Now hopefully lots of you are moving over to using Teams this week; I will continue to put the work on this website all week too just in case you’re having problems with Teams but hope to move over to Teams completely next week so do try and get used to using it!

We will be holding 3 daily meetings with some group lessons in ‘breakout rooms’ along the way.  We will have a catch up TEAMS meeting at 1pm today to discuss the morning’s work and to go through the afternoon task with a final TEAMS meeting at 2.45pm to say goodbye and see how your day has gone.  I have included a suggested timetable for how you could organise your learning below around the meeting and breaktimes.

Monday on Teams:

9.20am Morning meeting for all (approx 15 mins)

9.40am Year 3 Maths Group (if you usually complete Year 3 maths tasks, this is you! I will hopefully be technical enough to invite you into a Breakout Room….!)

1pm Afternoon meeting for all (approx 10 mins)

2.45pm End of day meeting for all (approx 10/15 mins)

NB: This schedule will increase as we all get used to using Teams. 

Your learning for today is below – enjoy!

1. Spellings

Spend 10 minutes revising the spelling list from last Tuesday (available on ‘Spellings’ page) – test tomorrow! Challenge: If you’re confident, learn two new words from your year group list below. 

Years-3-And-4-Word-Mat

Year-2-Word-Mat

2. Maths

There are new objectives today and a new powerpoint. To complete today’s activity you only need to look at the powerpoint on the ‘Varied Fluency’ slides. The ‘Reasoning and problem solving slides’ will help you tomorrow.

Remember – if you want to save on printing, you can read the questions on the screen then record your answers on paper ( a bit like in-class when you present your work in books).

Year 2 PPT-Make-Equal-Groups-Sharing

Year-2 Task – Make-Equal-Groups-Sharing

Year-3 PPT-Multiply-2-Digits-by-1-Digit-1

Year-3 Task Multiply-2-Digits-by-1-Digit-1

Year-4 PPT-Factor-Pairs

Year-4 Task Factor-Pairs

3. English – continued from Friday

Your task is to now write your story down; it can be handwritten or using the computer to type it if you prefer! You may add pictures (illustrations) too.

Don’t forget your challenges:

Year 2: Capital letters and full stop perfection please!

Year 3: Use expanded noun phrases (powers of 3) at least five times! e.g. the shadowy-brown, angry, grizzly bear.

Year 4: Start sentences with fronted adverbials at least three times (remember the comma) e.g: With an ear-splitting roar, the shadowy-brown, angry, grizzly bear began to chase Elliot and India. 

Whole class challenge: Include speech!

Here is a Bitesize link to learn about editing and improving: Editing & Improving

4. PE

Joe Wicks is delivering his home school workout three days a week this lockdown – you can access today’s work-out on his You Tube channel:

Joe Wicks You Tube Channel

Also, check out the School Games activity challenge I’ve posted in everyone’s class today.

5. Reading

Make sure you spend 20 minutes reading for pleasure today. If you already do this at bedtime, you may enjoy David Walliams Book Club which is happening at 11am today!

Remember – you can do these in any order, it’s up to you.

See you on Teams at 9.20am!

Miss Whit 🙂

Happy Friday! Possibly a snowy one too if the weather forecast is to be believed… so if that’s the case, I will make a request that you build a brilliant snowman and send me the evidence! Fingers crossed.

Today’s tip: If you are using Reading Eggs, Year 3 and 4 will need to choose Reading Eggspress once they’ve logged in. Year 2’s – you will possibly prefer Reading Eggs but you can challenge yourselves to Reading Eggspress too as you are such super readers!

Tip 2: Spend 5 minutes looking back over this week’s spelling lists (from Tuesday’s lesson).

Task One: Maths

Today’s tasks follow on from yesterday so use the ‘Reasoning and problem solving slides’ on the powerpoints to give you some help.

Year 2 PPT 10 x table

Year 2 Task – Reasoning

Year 3 Powerpoint Related Calculations

Year 3 Task – Reasoning

Year 4 PPT Multiply 3 numbers

Year 4 task – Reasoning

Task Two : English. L/O: To write a story.

I’ve absolutely loved receiving some of your films and audios telling your stories. They have been a real treat to see / hear so thank you.

Today’s task will be continued / completed on Monday too so don’t feel you have to do it all in one go.

Your task is to now write your story down; it can be handwritten or using the computer to type it if you prefer! You may add pictures (illustrations) too. Here are our key targets:

Year 2: Capital letters and full stop perfection please!

Year 3: Use expanded noun phrases (powers of 3) at least five times! e.g. the shadowy-brown, angry, grizzly bear.

Year 4: Start sentences with fronted adverbials at least three times (remember the comma) e.g: With an ear-splitting roar, the shadowy-brown, angry, grizzly bear began to chase Elliot and India. 

Whole class challenge: Include speech!

Good luck!

Task Three: PE

Make sure you get some exercise today although I know many of you have been on some lovely long walks in the winter sunshine this week – well done. It’s so important to get fresh air and raise your heart rate!

You may have your own plan to exercise but if not, you can find links to a Joe Wicks workout from last summer here:

Joe Wicks workout

I will also set another challenge to those of you who enjoy counting steps… can any of you hit 10,000 steps today? Enjoy!

Task Four: Art

Create your own ‘front cover’ for your story. Perhaps you will be inspired by the one I showed you earlier in the week for Stone Age Boy. Use whatever materials you have at home to create your illustration.

I’d love to see your final pieces of art!

Finally, here are the answers to Mr Butler’s quiz from yesterday:

Dragonflies Super Mega Ultra Important Super Fun Quiz ANSWERS!

1. What are the names of the three types of ukulele discussed in the video?

Concert, Soprano, Bass

2. Can you order the ukulele types from smallest to largest?

Soprano, Concert, Bass

3. What 2 materials are ukuleles usually made from?

Wood or plastic
4. How old is the smallest ukulele used in the video?
100 years old

5. Which company made the Soprano Ukulele?

Ladies of Hollywood

6. What did ladies used to have when they played ukulele that they probably wouldn’t have now?
   Really loooonnnnggggg finger nails!
   7. What isn’t 100 years old on the Soprano ukulele?

The strings

8. What 2 animal parts used to be used when making ukuleles?

guts (the strings) bone (the nut)

9. What is the difference between ukulele bass strings and other types of ukulele string?

Bass ukulele strings are much thicker

10. How long ago were bass ukuleles invented?

About 30 years

11. All the ukuleles had the same number of strings. How many strings were there?
    4

Thank you for logging in this week and keeping in touch with me. I hope you all have a fun, safe and happy weekend.

Miss Whit xx

Today’s top-tip from me…. READ as much as you can during lockdown. Reading is incredibly powerful to children at your age – it will teach you new words, take you to new places, teach you new writing tricks, help you with spellings and fill your imagination with brilliant things. Read, read, read. I will be 🙂

Second Tip – look out for Task Four today!

Task One: Maths

There are new objectives today and a new powerpoint. To complete today’s activity you only need to look at the powerpoint on the ‘Varied Fluency’ slides. The ‘Reasoning and problem solving slides’ will help you tomorrow.

Remember – if you want to save on printing, you can read the questions on the screen then record your answers on paper ( a bit like in-class when you present your work in books).

Year 2 PPT 10 x table

Year 2 Task

Year 3 Powerpoint Related Calculations

Year 3 Task

Year 4 PPT Multiply 3 numbers

Year 4 Task

Task Two : English. L/O: To tell a story orally. 

Hopefully you’ve all managed to have a go at planning your own story based on yesterday’s story starter and front cover -if not, do yesterday’s lesson first.

Today I’d like you to have a go at a speaking and presenting task. Your challenge is  to tell your story, just like the Stone Age people might have done, without writing anything down. 

Tips: Use your story plan from yesterday’s lesson to help you.

You can tell your story to your grown-ups, your teddies or even phone / video call a family member or friend who you think might enjoy listening to your story.

But my ultimate challenge…. FILM yourself telling your story and SEND ME the film! I’d love to hear all your voices telling me your stories.

Task Three: Music

Here is our brilliant Mr Butler’s music lesson.

In this video Mr Butler describes 3 different ukuleles that he likes to play. They are made of different materials and have different musical purposes. Your task is to watch this video twice. The first time, your task is simply to watch the video. The second time, you are allowed to take notes. Pay particular attention to any specific facts or figures that Mr Butler talks about… they might be coming up in the Special Mega Ultra Important Super Fun Quiz below…

Mr Butler’s lesson (YouTube Link)

Dragonflies Super Mega Ultra Important Super Fun Quiz

1. What are the names of the three types of ukulele discussed in the video?

2. Can you order the ukulele types from smallest to largest?

3. What 2 materials are ukuleles usually made from? 4. How old is the smallest ukulele used in the video?

5. Which company made the Soprano Ukulele?

6. What did ladies used to have when they played ukulele that they probably wouldn’t have now? 7. What isn’t 100 years old on the Soprano ukulele?

8. What 2 animal parts used to be used when making ukuleles?

9. What is the difference between ukulele bass strings and other types of ukulele string?

10. How long ago were bass ukuleles invented?

11. All the ukuleles had the same number of strings. How many strings were there?

Answers will be published tomorrow!

Task Four: Dragonflies Video Chat!

We are very busy getting ready to see you on Teams Video Calls throughout your school day and we are hoping to have our FIRST CHAT on Friday morning! I’ll confirm this as soon as possible.

To get ready for this, I’d like you to have a think about something you’d like to share with everyone; it could be something about Christmas, about your work or something we might enjoy learning about you. I’d like everyone to have 2 minutes or so each so we can hear each other and feel like we’re back in class! If you don’t want to do this and would prefer to just listen, that’s fine too. It will also be a great way for our new pupils to get to know us all – I know you are all buzzing to meet Maia, Evan and Elsie! So get thinking – what would you like to share for our first meeting? I’M SO EXCITED!!!!

Warm hugs,

Miss Whit xx