Good Afternoon RG!

We have found some fun Elmer Art that you may like to do. Please scroll down to see a finished family of Elmer Elephants!

To make an amazing elephant you will need a large plastic washed out milk bottle. You will need to ask mummy or daddy to cut the bottle in half and cut four legs so your elephant can stand up. Please remember to leave handle on for the trunk!

Next you will need either PVA glue or Pritt Stick to cover your bottle so you can stick as many different colours on as possible! Finally when dried you can draw on your eyes.

Please see the link below which is a one of Elmer’s wonderful stories:

Mrs Price has been inspired by the natural environment and would love you to make a picture made entirely out of natural materials. I love the work of Andy Goldsworthy and Barbara Hepworth, who were also inspired by nature. Perhaps you could make a sculpture made from the natural materials in your garden and send us a photograph, which Mrs Price could put on the Been There Done It blog.

From Mrs Turk

https://www.wwf.org.uk/earthhour

Little LEO Albert, says…

I will be supporting Albert and WWF by taking part in Earth Hour 2020. If you would like to join in too you can click on the link above which gives you all the details about Earth Hour and some ideas about how you can have fun whilst taking part.

Stay safe and thank you.

Hello Boys
It has been lovely to hear from some of you and see all the work you have been doing! It has been nice to see some sunshine this week and we hope you have been out in your gardens enjoying it. We wondered if you have noticed the flowers starting to bloom? Maybe you could draw or paint one?

Art and Understanding of the World
As Easter is approaching, we thought you might like some Easter crafts ideas and a link to the Easter story.

Copy and paste into browser:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/religious-studies-ks1-the-christian-story-of-easter/

 

Maths
There are lots of patterns around your home… can you spot any? How about repeating patterns? Here are some that Miss Gouldthorpe and Miss Barr found around their homes:

Here is a game you might like to play.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-matching

Literacy
How many traditional tales have you and your family read? Maybe you could discuss the characters, setting and events with your family?

 

Let us know how you are all getting on, we love seeing photos of you all. We miss those little faces!

Take care,

Miss Gouldthorpe and Miss Barr

I hope you are all well and enjoying learning at home. Please see additional information regarding the phonicsplay link that was included in your list of home learning activities www.phonicsplay.co.uk, which is an excellent website for phonic and literacy games. They are kindly offering free use of the entire website for home learning. Please see link below

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

or for tablets

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Phonicsplay has numerous phonics games to help teaching and learning of digraph/ trigraphs, sentence substitution, high frequency words/ ‘tricky words’ etc. The boys are familiar with many of the games that are played in class. The phases are along the left hand bar of the website. The phases that Reception are working within are phases 3 and 4. To access all the free resources please type into the home page the following details:

Username: march20

Password: home

Could you please set up a shop at home (if you have a toy till, you could use this) and buy some items such as sweets that cost less than £1 or 50p. Use a range of coins and practise counting in ones, twos and tens. Have fun!

We started learning about coins this week during Maths. We identified different coins and made different amounts using a variety of coins.

We sequenced the story of Jack and the Beanstalk during Literacy.

We talked about Spring this week and planted some sunflower seeds.

Please do keep in touch over the upcoming weeks, we would like to hear how you are all getting on. We will be continuing to post on the blog so please check back soon.

For this weeks Maths challenge,  please draw some clocks with numbers 1-12. Please then add a minute hand and a hour hand to display different o’clock times. We have been drawing the hands in class and the boys have learnt that the hour hand is shorter than the minute hand and that both hands need to start from the middle and be drawn in a straight line. As an extension, please draw some half past times. Please write the times you made by commenting on this post. Have fun!

Tuesday was all about Science.. we started off with an exciting assembly about chemical reactions and how fireworks are made. The assembly involved some loud bangs and colourful patterns!

During our Biology workshop we learnt that if an animal has a back bone it is a vertebrate. Whereas, those without a back bone are called invertebrates such as a worms.

We learnt lots of facts about worms, including why they are good for our gardens.

We tried to eat a biscuit without our teeth like worms.

We observed the worms and got the chance to hold them.

We are keeping the worms and will feed them our left over fruit.

Making bubbles:

Hunting for digraphs outside in the garden:

We started looking at time this week, focussing on o’clock and half past. We made our own watches.

During Understanding of the World, we explored different materials to find out whether they float or sink.

Star boy, W.B: 16.03.20

Please bring in a picture of your favourite superhero, this can be a famous superhero or someone you know:

Monday: George

Tuesday: Oskar

Wednesday: Rohan

Thursday: Stephen

Friday: Tommy

Our new weekly challenge starts on the 16.03.20: Check your drawers at home time.