Continuing from her success in the garden, Emma has been exploring what plants and insects look like under a microscope. These are excellent photos Emma – I wonder what else you could look at?
Author: Jen Whittingham
Chef Dominic
Another member of Owl Class has been cooking up a storm at home. This time it is Dominic who has made some delicious looking pizza and a curry. Do you do deliveries Dom?
Jamie’s cycling circuit
Jamie has used the nice weather recently to design his own cycling obstacle course at home. He even persuaded his mum to have a go. Well done team Collins!
Blue Peter Badge winner
Exciting news that Elizabeth in Owl Class has been awarded a Blue Peter badge for music. She is a keen clarinet player and has also been learning to play the piano. I wonder if anyone else in school has one? Maybe you would like to ask an adult to help you to apply for one? Well done Elizabeth – we are very proud of you.
Congratulations Elizabeth!
Chef David
As well as completing all of the home learning tasks, David has been very busy at home making some delicious looking iced buns – one of my favourites! He also wrote a brilliant letter to Captain Tom too. Well done David.
Monday 27th April – Dragonfly Class
Good morning everyone!
I hope you’ve all had a restful weekend. I’ve had a very funny one! A little while ago I bought Briar a present for her 5th birthday (because doggy birthdays are important too!). This weekend we’ve had great fun using it.. it’s a doggy trailer for my bike! It attaches to my bike and I can take her with me. Today we bumped into Katie and her family on our travels who saw our very happy dog wind-surfing her way around the back lanes. I have to admit, it’s a bit heavy to pull her up the hills but it’s a fab work-out! Plus, it made a lot of local people smile…!
I’ve had a catch-up with Mrs O too – she sends all of you her love and is missing the fun and laughter of our classroom very much. I certainly can’t wait to be back in the classroom with Mrs O!
Here’s todays learning activities:
- Reading: Hopefully your are all enjoying daily reading of some sort everyday. As an extra, check out this activity – it features one of my favourite poems as a child!
Challenge: Could you rewrite the poem in your own words?!
- Spellings: Access the link below for your year group and learn the set list. You could print the handwriting sheet OR present it in your Homework Pack.
3. Maths: Access White Rose Maths and complete the tasks for Summer Term Week 2.
Remember – if you find it too tricky (or easy!) feel free to try the daily lesson from a Year 3 (or Year 5/6) page. This is completely fine to do 🙂
4. English:
Access and follow the Bitesize links below (or spend time on your poem from the reading acivity!)
Other ideas for Monday:
- PE: 9am Joe Wicks workout. Also, improve your Standing Long Jump through these links:
- Languages: French Supermovers – Try out this fun task!
- TT Rockstars: The Inter House Tournament Round 4 begins! Play ‘Battle’ to earn your team points.
Have a great Monday,
Miss Whit 🙂
Friday 24th April
We’re at the end of another sunny week – well done to everyone who is trying some of these activities, but remember there is no pressure to do so. I’ve loved hearing stories of your different ways of home learning! Torin emailed yesterday – he has been learning times tables using car registrations eg. AK57 means he has to solve 5×7. Brilliant! What would mine be? J555…
In other news, in school this week I had a lovely surprise involving our classroom plant. The plant was gifted to me by Mrs Bullock (who some of you may know) about six years ago. It has survived all this time with its deep green leaves…. but check this out – it’s flowered! 🌷This has never happened before – I’m not quite sure what I’ve been doing wrong for six years but isn’t it pretty! 😆
Here are your final activities for the week:
- Reading: Log into Reading Eggs and follow the activities. Alternatively, spend time reading your own book too.
- Spellings: Access the link below for your year group and continue to learn the set list. You could print the handwriting sheet OR present it in your Homework Pack.
Year 5 Summer Week 1 Spellings & Handwriting
Year 4 Summer Week 1 Spellings & Handwritin
Challenge: Test your family on your words!
3. Maths: Access White Rose Maths (website) using the link below, please complete Lesson 5. Each lesson has a short teaching clip, an activity and the answers. You could print the sheet or simply write your answers on paper or in your book (as we do in class).
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/
4. English:
Continue / finish your St George’s Day task from yesterday. I’ve already seen a great piece of work from Izzy!
The story of St George can be found here:
You have a choice of English challenges today – but all with the same purpose – to retell the story of St George.
Option 1: Retell the story in 100 words!
Option 2: Choose part of the story to rewrite as a playscript.
Option 3: Act it out and film your drama!
Remember to send them to me if you can.
Other ideas for Friday:
- History / Geography: The summer term topic is due to be Ancient Greece. To get you started, find out about Greece as a country today. Perhaps you could design a fact file page on the country for a tourist. Where is it? What’s the climate like? What money is used? What is it famous for? Maybe you’ve been there – what can you tell us about it?
- PE: This sunny weather usually means we are in full swing of athletics and rounders! Can you practise two skills in particular today: 1) Sprinting – can you find a space to complete 10 sprints? If not, run fast on the spot for 30 seconds, rest 10, then repeat.
- 2) Catching – if you’ve got a ball 🎾 brilliant! Practise on your own or with someone; try one handed and two handed catching! Can you catch single-handedly left and right?
- TT Rockstars: The Inter House Tournament continues! Play ‘Battle’ to earn your team points.
Have a good weekend, help at home and remember to carry out acts of kindness whenever you can.
Missing you all,
Miss Whit 🙂
Elizabeth’s Amazing Art
A lovely piece of artwork has been sent in by Elizabeth – an excellent shaded sketch of an Ancient Greek vase. Great work; I love the detail.
She has also created a great wordsearch using this week’s spellings if anyone would like to have a go at it. Great work Elizabeth and thank you for sharing it.
Berry Bootcamp and a bit of Beethoven
Dominic has been very busy designing his own bootcamp work out. See if you can set up something similar and have a go. It looks very good Dominic; I loved the dramatic finish too.
Dominic sets the pace at Berry Bootcamp
Also attached is a clip of Dominic playing a beautiful piece of music by Beethoven called Fur Elise. Great Dominic and thank you for sharing.
There is a ‘crown’ winner!
Thank you to Han for sending in photos of her ‘crown’…. you can imagine how excited I was to find Han had tried out the crown on her dog too. Too cute!
