Good morning everyone.  I hope you all had a lovely Easter and didn’t eat too many eggs!  Today I’m going to set you some Topic work to complete over the next few weeks that will focus on History and Geography (for Years One and Two) and on a storybook for Reception and I’ll be posting some English and Maths work daily.

Reception

English: find a storybook from home that you know really well and have a go at acting it out with your grown-up.  You could dress up as the characters or make them as paper puppets like we do in class.  If you can video your results or take photos we would love to see your stories in action.

Maths: can you do some measuring at home?  Can you find five to ten objects and put them into height order from smallest to biggest?  Can you find the smallest one? Can you find the biggest one? Which toy is in the middle?  Please send me some photos of your measuring.

Topic: Over the next few weeks I would like you to do some work on the story of Rainbow Fish.  There are lots of videos of this story being read over on YouTube so it doesn’t matter if you don’t have the book.  These are the activities I would like you to complete:

• Draw and make your own Rainbow Fish. Maybe you could do this as a mosaic?
• Write the story of the Rainbow Fish.  Remember to use finger spaces between your words.
• If you went under the sea, what creature might you see?  Can you draw it and tell me what it is?  You could make this up and be as imaginative as you like!
• Make some Rainbow Fish puppets and act out the story.
• Find out what life is like under the ocean and what creatures live there – get your grown-up to help you research this. Draw me a picture and write a sentence to go with it.
• Have a go at bubble painting.

Year One and Two

English: Over on Purple Mash I have set you ‘when I grow up’.  Please tell me about what you would like to be when you are all grown up.  Please add some images to your work and remember to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops in your writing, which I know is tricky when you are on the computer.  Year Two can you try and use some joining words such as ‘and’ ‘so’ ‘because’ to make your writing even better?

Maths: This week we are looking at measuring.  Mrs Jones set you some weighing tasks and I would like you to try measuring in length.  Year One can you find between five and ten objects from around the house and measure them with a non-standard unit (this could be lego/duplo bricks or tin cans as examples but they must be the same size). Can you write/draw in your home learning books what objects you found and how big they are and what you used to measure them with?  Year Two I would like you to do the same thing but if possible to measure your items with a ruler (please use cm to do this).  Remember to have your ruler the correct way around and to start at zero! What was the longest object you found? What was the shortest? What is the difference between the largest and shortest object? If you added up the lengths of all of your objects, how long would that be?

Topic: Over the next few weeks I would like you to find out about a significant individual from the past.  This could be a king or queen, an explorer, a scientist or someone else who has done something amazing.  Please do not choose a pop star, movie star or sports star.  When you have chosen someone (your grow-up might be able to give you some people to choose from if you don’t know of anybody) these are the things I would like you to do in your home link book. (There are some great biographies on Purple Mash as a starting point):

• Research your person. Write about them.  Tell me their name, when and where they were born, about their family and what they have done that has made them famous.  This is called a biography.  Remember to write in full sentences,using ‘and’ to join them together, and try to include an interesting fact!
• Draw/paint a portrait of your individual.
• What country are they from? Find out about this country.
• How is this place different from Cheswardine?
• Make the national flag of this country.
• Find out what food they eat in this country.  Write a recipe and/or make a dish from this country.

Good Morning. Today’s tasks are as follows:

Reception: Phonics, th ng on purple mash. Computing on purple mash ‘Left third finger words’.

For maths, with a welly boot (or something similar) can you collect a group of objects that are taller and a group of objects that are shorter. Draw these objects in your 2 groups in your home learning book.

For English can you write at least 3 sentences about the story you read yesterday (Going to the Park).

I would love to see a photo of your work.

Year 1: Phonics, aw ew on purple mash. Computing on purple mash ‘Left third finger words’.

For maths, can you select a toy a place it in your balance scales. Then, using duplo bricks (or something that you have lots of i.e spoons same size pots, nail vanishes!) can you see how many it takes to be the same weight i.e balance the scales. Draw the object in your Home book and label how heavy it was (e.g. Unicorn =10 bricks.) Next can you find and object that is lighter than that toy and an item that is heavier. Record again on your home book what the object was and how many bricks it weighed.

For English: In your home learning books Can you write a story ending for the story ‘Going to the park’ What happens to Liam and his mum in the end? Does mum ever get to the front of the queue and what are their ice creams like? What do they do after that? Don’t forget, think carefully about using neat writing and full stops and capital letters correctly.

I would love to see a photo of your work.

Year 2: Phonics, on purple mash alternative spellings er ea ou. Computing on purple mash ‘Left third finger words’

For maths, complete the weight measuring sheet below (click on blue link). You can print it out or simply record the answers in your home learning book if you are unable to print.

I would love to see a photo of your work.

Measuring weight in g

For English: On purple mash there are some questions and a joining words activity to do on chapter 1 of ‘Ned and the Detective’

Dear Class One

I hope you are planning on having a lovely Easter holiday – please don’t eat too many chocolate eggs or I will be very jealous!  I’ve found some lovely activities over on Purple Mash based around Easter that I thought you might want to have a go at over the next two weeks.  If you can’t get on there, I’ll list them below for you.

Reception – draw and paint a Simnel cake. Draw and decorate an Easter egg (could be 2-D or 3-D if you’re feeling adventurous). Do you know why we have eggs at Easter?  Make an Easter hat. Find out about the Easter story.

Years One and Two – write a letter to me about the Easter Story.  Write an acrostic poem using the word EASTER.  Find out about different Easter traditions.  You could also do the art tasks set for Reception too.

If you have an Easter egg hunt in your garden, or make anything creative, please pop a photo onto Class Dojo for us to see so that we can share your activities.  But not too many photos of you eating chocolate eggs please.

Have a lovely holiday.

Good morning.  It’s our last day of term today!  Below are today’s activities over on Purple Mash and I will be setting you a topic based project later on today, to do over Easter if you need something to keep you amused!

Topic – please do the final activity that was set earlier this week.

English – Can everyone please describe Spring for me.

Maths – Reception are looking at symmetry.

Year one and two – more money activities but these are different to the others you have been set!

Good morning.  I hope you are having an enjoyable week so far?  All activities are on Purple Mash for you to complete but please say if you are having any problems.

English – Reception – tell me about growing plants.

Year one and two please complete all about Germination after planting your seed.

Maths –  Reception please complete Star for me.

Year One and Two I have set more money activities similar to those you did on Wednesday but they are not the same!!!

Topic – choose one of the activities I set you on Wednesday to do please.

Good morning Class One.  I hope you’ve been having an enjoyable week.  This week for Topic I thought I would set you three tasks to do from your yellow book:

Make a 3-D garden based on your design from last week.

Keep a plant diary – there is a template for this on Purple Mash which I will send you or you could keep your own diary version in your yellow book.  Let me know how your seed is progressing.

Do the Rainbow alphabet based on fruit and vegetables.  Can you find 26 different ones?

The rest of your work for today is on Purple Mash.  I know some of you have been struggling to get on there so complete a task from your home learning pack instead. Remember to keep your reading and exercise up, have you been working out with Joe Wicks?

Have a lovely day and don’t forget to message me on Class Dojo if you have any questions or want to show me your work.

Good Morning Class 1.

Today’s activities:

Phonics – Using the correct sound to make a word.

English – Writing a list.

Maths – R longer or shorter Y1/2 Measuring blocks

Computing – Learning to type, Using your left little finger.

Have fun!

Good morning class one and welcome to a new week. I hope everyone is well and happy.

Today’s activities:

Phonics.

Maths – finding pairs of numbers.

Computing – coding

All the activities are differentiated into each year group. Have fun!