We will start this week with some teacher news!! Home learning further on in the blog!
Mrs Cass
HOME LEARNING
Dear all
Here is our home learning for the week including our weekly family science activity and music exploration. We so hope that you enjoy this learning together. We are looking forward to seeing the castles you have made! May we take this opportunity to say that there is no need to complete all of the learning below! The focus should be on maths, some aspects of the online English learning and reading and then maybe you could choose one other project to do from the home learning ideas? Or more if you want to obviously! Make this time at home enjoyable and treasure the time you are together having fun! Remember that you can send us a piece of the children’s work or an activity that they want to share every week on our new class email addresses:
Turtleclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
Pufferfishclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
We would love to see what the children are getting up to at home!
Don’t forget to look at Sumdog for maths, reading and spelling challenges which will be updated each week. See also mymaths for maths challenges.
English reading and writing
Listen to a version of the book here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXgW9UCgpc8
In this weeks sequence of lessons you will be learning about the story of ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea.’ You will be doing some phonics focusing on the sound ee (feet), ea (tea) and y (happy) as well as some spellings linked to the story.
On day 1 you will be predicting the story, day 2 committing the story to memory and drawing a story map, day 3 identifying and writing questions (revisiting skills we have learnt in class), day 4 and 5 starting and completing writing a story.
If it is a bit tricky or moves too fast for your child just focus on the key phonics being taught, or one version of the sound that your child knows e.g. ee, and on verbally retelling the story and writing some simple sentences or key words. Maybe you could just work on one day of the online learning? Do what you feel your child can cope with. At the very least you can enjoy listening to the story on you tube.
https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/english/the-tiger-who-came-to-tea-year-1-wk4-1
https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/english/to-commit-a-story-to-memory-year-1-wk4-2
https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/english/to-start-to-write-our-story-year-1-wk4-4
https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/english/to-write-the-end-of-our-story-year-1-wk4-5
Reading
We attach the link below because we feel it has some useful ideas. See page three. We are sure that you are doing many of them already!
Menu of reading response ideas KS1
Also see the Collins connect PDF (see blog post for link) for access to lots of books to read online.
ONLINE READING COLLINS CONNECT
Spelling
Choose a set 1 or set 2 and practise spelling.
Set 1: was, have, are said
Set 2: looked, called, asked, people
We know that you will have had some of these spellings before but revisiting and consolidating will ensure that you can use them independently in context in your writing.
Maths
Watch these videos. We hope that you have been having fun with the online maths learning. Remember to do what you can. There is no expectation to complete it all!
LO: To identify patterns within a sequence of numbers
To compare numbers within 100 on a place value chart
To order numbers within 100
https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/maths/to-order-numbers-within-100-year-1-wk4-3
To order numbers within 100
https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/maths/to-order-numbers-within-100-year-1-wk4-4
To identify patterns within a sequence of numbers
Science
This week we are going to learn a bit more about where some minibeasts in our environment live – their habitat.
Have you ever wondered where worms live? What they eat?
Make your own wormery. It’s really easy! Use the website.
https://schoolgardening.rhs.org.uk/Resources/Activity/Mini-wormery
Topic
We have learnt so much about castles! Can you make a model of a castle out of junk in your home? Can you add some of the defensive features that castles had to keep invaders out? Have a look at some photographs on line or use your imagination to create your own fantasy castle fit for a knight or princess. The links below show different ways you could make a castle but you can let your imagination run riot and use whatever junk you have at home!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BfmWyeZU38
Music
Persons with Long Ears
Listen to the violin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQfgeutobG8
Is this music sad or happy?
Which kind of animals might have long ears?
Art
Art Challenge Famous Landmarks:
For this week’s Art Challenge I would like you produce some art that is linked to a famous landmark. Your landmark can be natural or man-made. It can be a drawing, a sculpture made from recycled materials, a collage, something made out of pebbles and twigs , it could be drawn on a tablet or made out of Lego, or indeed else that you can think of. I have even seen Big Ben made out of socks! Let you imaginations run wild!
Here are a couple of ideas:
However, if this doesn’t appeal to you can still send any other art work to me and I will post that on the Blog too.
Please email your artwork to me:
n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk
Thank you
Keep creating and keep safe!
Mrs Pearson
Family Science Activity
Balancing Structures
The activity – Make a balancing toy.
Experiment with the design of your toy to find out what affects whether or not it balances.
Learn about the centre of mass of an object and how it relates to whether or not something balances.
https://www.rigb.org/docs/balancing_sculptures_infosheet_0_0.pdf
activity worksheet in full
What you need:
- A carrot or similar vegetable
- Kebab skewers
- Marshmallows and/or other jelly type sweets, or small pieces of carrot or similar hard vegetables.
- Plasticine or blu-tac
- 500ml soft drink bottle or washing up liquid bottle
Stage 1: Cut a piece of carrot about 3 cm long. Stick a kebab skewer into one end of the piece of carrot and break the skewer so that you have only 2 or 3 cm of it sticking out. Try to stand the carrot piece up on the end of the kebab skewer – you should find this very difficult, if not impossible to do.
Stage 2: Stick a kebab skewer into each side of the carrot so that they point downwards at about 45 degrees. Then stick a marshmallow or other jelly sweet onto the ends of the skewers, as shown in the picture below. Place this on top of a bottle and you should find that it balances.
Get children to investigate what happens when you slide the marshmallows up and down the ‘arms’ of the sculpture and if you add more marshmallows. Stick an additional two or more kebab skewers into the carrot and challenge children to add at least one item to each skewer and still keep the sculpture balanced.
Questions to ask children: With just central part of the sculpture: why doesn’t this stay balanced? Before showing them stage 2: do you think we can use more kebab skewers and anything else to help it balance? Why do you think it balances like this? What can we change? (position of skewers, items pushed onto the skewers, position of things on skewers) What do you think will happen if we change these things? What do you think we need to do to make sure our sculpture balances?
Going further:
Try making some animal-shaped balancing toys: http://bit.ly/AniBalance
Make a balancing butterfly: http://bit.ly/BalanceButterfly