Author: Meg Cooke

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Well-being Wednesday – from Mrs Viner

Well-being Wednesday
Hi everyone, it’s Mrs Viner here checking how you are getting on in this strange and unusual time!
I am sure that you are making the most of being at home, but I also wanted to remind you that it is important to keep your mind and body happy and active!
This can be achieved in a variety of ways. 🍴🏃‍😴
Firstly, by eating a healthy balanced diet and drinking plenty of water. Food is really important as it fuels our bodies, so we have lots of energy to run and jump around!
Secondly, you need to do some physical exercise. When you exercise your heart rate increases and your body releases chemicals called endorphins – which make you feel happy and motivated.
Lastly, sleep is really important as it gives our bodies rest and allows it to prepare for the next day.
Did you know, that every living thing sleeps from the smallest insect to the largest whale. Some animals spend as much as 20 hours a day sleeping!! 😴
I would love if you would send me your ideas of how you are keeping yourselves feeling happy and keeping active. Here are some ideas to get you started.
 
  • Can you create a healthy plate of food? You could draw the different food or create a menu. If you are a budding chef maybe you could prepare the food for someone in your house. (Always check with an adult before hand).
  • What exercises have you been doing? Rhys and I have started the Couch to 5K. Could you create your own exercise video like Joe Wicks? Tell me about the places you have explored for your daily exercise?
  • Could you find out how much sleep other animals get? Who sleeps the most in your house? For any of our top mathematicians, could you record how much sleep you get every night over a week? Then put it into a graph or/and find the average amount of sleep you get?
So, over to you…please send your ideas to viner.l@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk
 
Take care and stay safe 😊
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Rabbits – Home Learning for Wednesday 29th April

Good Morning Rabbits

Thank you for sending in your work.  I do enjoy seeing all the things that you have been doing.

This morning,

Spellings and Handwriting: please have a go at some of your new spellings:  Write them out and then write a sentence containing each of the words.  There should be ten sentences.  Please see the spellings page for your words.

English:  Please access www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize.  There is an English lesson for today – click onto your year group.  Then please do the Karate Kat game – you can find this on the year 2 page.  For year 3, please click on English and the task “How to write statement sentences”.

Maths:  for today’s lesson I would like you to follow the white rose maths on www.whiterosemaths.com/homelearning.  Year 3 are going to do a lesson on problem solving with fractions.  Year 2 are using the four operations with length.

Project:  To continue your work on Shropshire, I would like you to find out where Mary Webb lived (when she was in Shropshire) and add this to your map.  Can you also add Ruyton XI Towns  and draw a small sketch of the school.  You will then need to start a new page for “Wildlife of Shropshire”.  Do a title and then use the resources that I have included here to draw and label a range of insects and birds that are native to Shropshire.

https://www.shropshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife-explorer   you can then click on any of the categories to find out more about our native animals and birds.

http://www.shropshirebirds.com/index/gallery/gallery-2019/  this shows lovely photographs of birds that were found in Shropshire.

 

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Rabbits Spellings for w/c 27 April

Year 2:  Please copy each word and then write each word into a sentence:

station  fiction   motion  nation  national  section  addition  subtraction  potion introduction

Year 3:   Please copy each word and then write each word into a sentence:

enough  young  touch  double  trouble  country  courage  rough  tough  cousin

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Rabbits – Home Learning for Tuesday 28th April

Good Morning Rabbits and I hope you are all well.

Handwriting: To begin with today – please practice your super handwriting by copying out this lovely poem by Mary Webb – more about her later!

In April

In April, in April
My heart is set
Where the pansy and the violet
And the daffodil,
And close-folded lilies grow
In borders dark with melted snow.
Wakening there from wintry sleep
With every bud I sunward creep.
The empurpled crocuses, that dare
With delicate veins the dawn-cold air,
Cradle me in their chalices
Amid the golden sediment.
Sunward – towards the sun
empurpled – means they are purple
Maths:  please look at today’s White Rose maths on www.whiterosemaths – home learning.  Make sure you click on the year group that you are in.
English:  Please follow the lesson on BBC Bitesize – home learning for your year group and the day today.
Reading:  I hope that Reading Eggs are co-operating with you this week – we had a few problems last week.  If you can access it, have a look at the books set for your year group.  Also, this is a lovely website – an international on line library where you can select your own reading material.  It is easy to navigate – if a little bit ‘busy’ on the pages.  This link will get you to the page of choices for your age group. http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SimpleSearchCategory?ilang=English
Project:  I would like you to write up a report on Mary Webb – the author of the two poems that we looked at today and yesterday.  I have attached some information about her life and her writing.  If you can read over these or even do your own research, then write up a report that includes:
  • Her name, age, date of birth and place of birth
  • Her books and poems – include the titles and maybe some brief information about the story
  • What happened to her in her life, getting married, getting published (which was hard for a woman at that time)
  • Any information you find on The Mary Webb Society.

http://shropshirehistory.com/characters/marywebb.htm

Biography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Webb

Have a good day!

Mrs Cooke

 

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Rabbits’ Shropshire-themed home working from Monday 27th

I am so pleased to see these lovely word-searches, tally charts and fabulous artwork based on Shropshire Flowers and the poetry of Mary Webb.  Well done Rabbits!

Image (1) Ella’s work on Fairy-Led – beautifully illustrated.

image0 (2) Amber’s hand drawn Shropshire Map – well done – that’s very tricky!

Andreas' Shropshire Brochure

Andreas’ Shropshire Brochure

image0 (4)  Amber’s Botanical Drawingsimage1 (2) Amber’s illustration of Fairy-Led.

Harrison's Shropshire Flowers

Harrison’s Shropshire Flowers

Harrison's Lockdown Wordsearch

Harrison’s Lockdown Wordsearch

Harrison's garden tally chart

Harrison’s garden tally chart

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Rabbits – Home Learning for Monday, 27th April

Good morning Rabbits.  I hope you all had a lovely weekend.

This week, I am going to ask you to do a small project all about Shropshire.  Each day, you will have a task to do that will build into an information pack all about our lovely county.

English:  Please go on to BBC Bitesize – the English for year 2 or year 3 that is set for today.

Handwriting: I am asking you to practice your very best writing whilst making a page for your information pack and it needs a title of “Shropshire Flowers”.   I would like you to draw some pictures of flowers that are found in Shropshire and then to label them with your lovely writing. I have included the names of the flowers here, and links to the pictures that you can copy.  Please read the words carefully as they are quite new to you.  I have also included the  county flower – but was a bit disappointed – see what you think!   https://www.shropshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife-explorer/wildflowers   Shropshire Flowers

Maths:  The White Rose maths class is ready for you today.  Please click on www.whiterosemasths.com/homelearning and click onto your year for the maths lesson.

Reading: Before we finished last term, we were going to be reading some poetry by a famous Shropshire author called Mary Webb.  For today, I would like you to read the poem that I have copied here.  Read it through a couple of times and then do the task that I have set.   To help – I have included some explanations of the words that are in bold.

Fairy-Led by Mary Webb

The fairy people flouted me,
Mocked me, shouted me–
They chased me down the dreamy hill and beat me with a wand.
Within the wood they found me, put spells on me and bound me
And left me at the edge of day in John the miller’s pond.

Beneath the eerie starlight
Their hair shone curd-white;
Their bodies were all twisted like a lichened apple-tree;
Feather-light and swift they moved,
And never one the other loved,
For all were full of ancient dreams and dark designs on me.

With noise of leafy singing
And white wands swinging,
They marched away amid the grass that swayed to let them through.
Between the yellow tansies
Their eyes, like purple pansies,
Peered back on me before they passed all trackless in the dew.

Flouted means to not pay attention to following the rules – behaving badly
Mocked means to make fun of someone
Within means inside
Curd-white is really white – as white as milk
Lichened means the knotted and twisted bits of bark and moss on a tree, you say the word li-chin-d
I
dark designs – thinking of doing something mean or dangerous to someone
Tansies – are little flowers.
Task: 
  1. Find three examples of rhymes in this poem and write them down
  2. “put spells on me and bound me” – what do you think the fairies used to bind the child?
  3. When did this happen – what time of day is mentioned in the poem?
  4. Do you think they sound like kind fairies?  Explain your answer.
  5. Please draw a picture that depicts a part of this poem – what do you imagine the scene could look like?

Project: you have already begun the task with the poem and the drawings of flowers that you have completed for your handwriting.  This part is another writing / drawing task.  Please copy the map of Shropshire.  You only need to do the outline but fill a full page please.  Mark Shrewsbury as it is the County Town, and also the town or village where you live.  Leave the rest blank for the moment as we will fill it as we go along this week.  Can you then use your very best handwriting and write “Map of Shropshire” somewhere on the page.  You can then do what you like to make it more colourful or to stand out.  Let me see your maps when you have finished them please!  maps of shropshire

I hope you have a lovely day – enjoy your work and look in tomorrow for more ideas and work that you can do.

Mrs Cooke

 

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Rabbits Home Learning for Friday 24th April

Happy Friday everyone (but I will admit, I had to check the day!)  It is very easy to lose track of the time and the days at the moment I am finding.

So for today, how about some fun outside?

Maths: I know that you were excellent at making tally charts and I want you to do a tally chart that can go into your newspaper.  Please draw a chart that has 5 rows (going across) and 3 columns (going down).  Your chart has to be used to tally the different types of flowers or plants, trees or shrubs or any living thing that you can see in your garden or when you are on your walk outside.  I have one that I have completed myself:  Mrs Cooke’s Tally Chart

If you can complete this – you could even do a pictogram of the wildlife in your garden and see what you can tell from this – I need to have more birds and butterflies so I need to plant some more flowers and put out some bird seed.  See what your garden is like.

The White Rose maths task is set for today and is good for you to do when you are inside.  If you look on MyMaths I have set some more simple practice tasks for you to do if you want to keep busy.

English:  I would love to read some of your post card stories and hope that you had some fun with these yesterday.  For English today, I would like you to look at the BBC Bitesize English lesson for either year 2 or year 3.  I will also ask for some writing to be done later for your project.

Reading: if you can access the site https://www.storylineonline.net/books/lotus-and-feather/.  There are many stories read by actors and authors but I have chosen this one for today called Lotus and Feather – it is a sweet story.

  • Can you remember what the lake was like at the start of the story?
  • Why was Lotus so lonely?
  • Why do you think the children began to be friends with Lotus again?
  • Can you remember how the writer described the crane?
  • Do you think the birds will return each year from then on?

Project:  To finish off your weekly newspaper today, I would like you to do some more English.  I would like you to gather 10 words that relate to your home learning this term.  I will start you off:  Tally Chart   Globe  Earth  Weather  Reading

You will then have to copy or print of the grid that I have included here:  You are going to create a word search of your own, put one letter in each square – you can read the words downwards, upwards, left to right or right to left.  Don’t forget to put the words at the bottom so that your family can find them when you have completed the grid.  Put all of the words into the grid then fill in the missing squares with random letters to confuse everyone!  Have fun.  WORDSEARCH

Finally:  Can you please write your own version of the story Lotus and Feather.  Make it quite short but please include some of the lovely descriptions that you heard or saw on the film.  You can take your time over this and maybe do some work on it next week – you might like to illustrate your story.

 

 

 

 

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Rabbits Home Learning for Thursday 23rd April

Good morning Rabbits.

Well today is a new day and a few new ideas for you to keep busy learning while you are home.

English:  I would like you to write a short story.  This is going to be a postcard story – a very short story that you write on the back of a post card.  Look at this clip and follow the advice of the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1oogkYZDVs.  It might not be possible to post them at the moment but you could build up a great collection of small stories.  I have included some pictures that might be on your postcard.

aerial photography of brown castle

childrens book cover

I have included my own little short story for you to get you started:

swan story

Maths: My maths is working well and there are tasks set for you on there. I would like you to also do the daily lesson on White Rose.  I have listed fewer tasks on mymaths as you are keeping busy with the timetable task in the project work today.

Reading: This is a lovely story read by the author Eloise Williams, you can listen to chapter 1 today and answer some questions that are written after this.

  1. Why is Elen so angry at the start?
  2. Where is she going?
  3. Why did Elen hate what she saw in the mirror?
  4. Do you think the start of the story is a bit surprising?
  5. What words did the author write that sounded like the train?

Reading Eggspress and Reading Eggs have tasks set for you.  Please make sure you use the Rabbits Group page to find the tasks.

Project: Your newspaper should be taking shape now.  Today, you are going to use your maths brains to write a timetable for what you do when you are at home and learning  or working from home.  The timetable needs to have 8 columns – leave the first one blank and then Monday Tuesday Wednesday etc to Sunday on the top of each column.

Then add times – you can do this in hours or half hours but begin when you get up – for example 07:15 – breakfast and brush teeth, 07:45, do some exercise.  You can add whatever you do on to the timetable and then publish this in your paper as an idea for others to follow while they are at home.  Make time to eat, play, learn, spend time with family and do jobs.

Please let me see the lovely work that you have all been doing!

Mrs Cooke