We hope you are all well. Please remember as you go about completing this home learning that our priority is reading, writing and maths so use your time to complete the tasks set for those. Pick and choose from the other subjects e.g. science, music and art; there is no expectation to complete them all.

English tasks

We are continuing our English topic on The Firework- Maker’s Daughter’ by Philip Pullman.

Lesson 1: To be able to retrieve information.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/the-firework-makers-daughter-to-retrieve-information-e0af6c

Lesson 2: To be able to make inferences.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/the-firework-makers-daughter-to-make-inferences-eaf1af
Lesson 3: To be able to use fronted adverbials.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-identify-and-use-fronted-adverbials
Lesson 4: To be able to identify the key features of an action scene.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-identify-the-key-features-of-an-action-scene
Lesson 5: To be able to write an action scene.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-an-action-scene

Spellings 

As part of the online lessons, there are weekly spellings set. This week’s are:

On SUMDOG, you will find set spelling challenges to be completed. In addition, below is a copy of the Y1 and Common Exception word lists for you to learn at home.

Year 1 CEW colour by similar letter pattern Year 2 CEW colour by similar letter pattern

Maths -National Oak Academy

The Maths lessons follow on from the maths home learning set last week. Please follow the link to access the videos.
Lesson 1: To be able to read the temperature on a thermometer.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-be-able-to-read-the-temperature-on-a-thermometer
Lesson 2: To estimate and measure in litres.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-estimate-and-measure-in-litres
Lesson 3: To solve word problems that involve litres.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-solve-word-problems-that-involve-litres
Lesson 4: To compare millilitres and litres using fractions.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-compare-mililitres-and-litres-using-fractions
Lesson 5: To be able to use millilitres.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-use-mililitres

Please continue to check MyMaths where you will be set a series of tasks, challenges and competitions to complete each week as well as logging into Sumdog to develop your maths skills.

Science (2 weeks)

This week, we would like you to plan and complete a fact file on Worms! You can use the internet and books to support your research.

Here are a couple of websites you could use to complete your research:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/gardening_with_children/didyouknow_worms.shtml

https://schoolgardening.rhs.org.uk/Resources/Info-Sheet/Worm-fact-sheet

Family Science Activity – Friday 19th June 2020

Balloon Car Racers

https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental/balloon-car-racers – to watch the video

The activity –  Make cars which are propelled by balloon power.

ExpeRiment with designs and see what factors affect how fast or how far your car goes.

Learn how a balloon car works just like a rocket.

https://www.rigb.org/docs/ballooncarracers_infosheet_1_1.pdf – to view the information sheet

What to do:

• Make a balloon car based on the instructions Mark gives in the video.
• Decide how you will judge what makes a ‘good’ car – is it how far it goes or how fast it goes?
• Investigate what happens if you have bigger or smaller wheels (you can use other types of lids or make wheels from cardboard and use blu-tac or glue to attach them to the kebab skewers).
• Investigate what happens if you change the design of your car in other ways – you can watch the video again for inspiration for other designs.

Going further challenge:

• Measure how far your car travels using a tape measure.
• Time how fast your car travels ½ a metre – would double the speed be the time that your car would travel 1 metre? Test it out.
• You can find the speed of your car in metres per second using a stopclock and a tape measure: Measure the distance the car travels (in metres) then dividing that distance by the time it took to travel (in seconds).

Computing

Please go onto www.hourofcode.com/uk Please complete your own Worm World on scratch on the ‘Imagine a World’ task using the knowledge that you now have from completing your research on Worms. It would be lovely to see some of these, so please feel free to send a photo or link to our class email!

Music

Week 4- Cat and Duck

Listen to this short piece of music and find a picture of a clarinet

https://youtu.be/UXqGkjiD-1k

Close your eyes and imagine the cat prowling around.

Can you prowl around like a cat hunting?

Now listen to this short piece of music and find a picture of an oboe.

https://youtu.be/o9jLrLKKBMU

How does the duck move differently to the cat?

Art

Art Challenge Feast Days

We have two important Feast Days in our Church calendar for June.  The 19^th June is the Feast of the Sacred Heart and 29^th June is the Feast Day of St Peter and St Paul.

For your art challenge this week I would you to do a creation linked to either of these Feast Days.  

The Sacred Heart of Jesus is an object of devotion and always falls 19 days after Pentecost.

As you know, St Peter was given the ‘keys to heaven’ by Jesus and was our first Pope and in Matthew Ch16v18 Jesus said ‘And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church.’  He is also the Patron St of fishermen. St Paul changed from not believing in Christianity to spreading the word through the letters that he wrote. Naturally, he is the Patron St of writers.

Ideas to inspire you:

Alternatively, you could do artwork to do with the Patron St that you have been linked to in school (England St George; Scotland St Andrew; Ireland St Patrick: Wales St David), or the Patron St of your home country.

However, if this doesn’t appeal to you, then 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.

We hope you are all well and continuing a rhythm of home learning. Please remember as you go about completing this home learning that our priority is reading, writing and maths so use your time to complete the tasks set for those. Pick and choose from the other subjects e.g. science, music and art; there is no expectation to complete them all.

English tasks

We are continuing our English topic on The Firework- Maker’s Daughter’ by Philip Pullman.

Lesson 1: To be able to find the meaning of words

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/the-firework-makers-daughter-to-find-the-meaning-of-words-year-2-wk4-1

Lesson 2: To be able to make inferences

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/the-firework-makers-daughter-to-make-inferences-year-2-wk4-2

Lesson 3: To be able to identify and use different sentence types

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-identify-and-use-different-sentence-types-year-2-wk4-3

Lesson 4: To be able to identify key features of a recount

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-identify-the-key-features-of-a-recount-year-2-wk4-4

Lesson 5: To able to write a recount

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-write-a-recount-year-2-wk4-5

Spelling

As part of the online lessons, there are weekly spellings set. This week’s are:

On SUMDOG, you will find set spelling challenges to be completed. In addition, below is a copy of the Y1 and Common Exception word lists for you to learn at home.

Maths -National Oak Academy

The Maths lessons follow on from the maths home learning set last week. Please follow the link to access the videos.

Lesson 1: To be able to identify halves, thirds and quarters of shapes

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-identify-halves-thirds-and-quarters-of-shapes-year-2-wk4-4

Lesson 2: To be able to identify fractions of shapes with different numerators https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-identify-fractions-of-shapes-with-different-numerators-year-2-wk4-5

Lesson 3: To be able to identify unit fractions of quantity

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-identify-unit-fractions-of-quantity-year-2-wk5-1

Lesson 4: To be able to identify fractions of a quantity and shape

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-identify-fractions-of-a-quantity-and-shape-year-2-wk5-2

Lesson 5: To be able to identify equivalent fractions

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-be-able-to-identify-equivalent-fractions-year-2-wk5-4

Please continue to check MyMaths where you will be set a series of tasks to complete each week as well as logging into Sumdog to develop your maths skills.

Science

Now that you have found out about the parts of a plant and how pollination happens, we would like you to design a garden. Find out about what plants are the best for attracting bees, how a water feature can attract wildlife and cheap and eco ways to encourage mini beasts to visit.

Here are some top tips for your design:

1. Water- Bees need water to drink and frogs and dragonflies may visit
2. Wildflowers- Butterflies and bees are drawn to areas of wildflowers.
3. Put up nesting boxes.
4. Include a bird table and bath.
5. Plant trees.
6. Grow a hedge.
7. Make a wilderness area.
8. Somewhere to sit and enjoy it all

Family Science Activity – Friday 12th June 2020

Candle chemistry

Safety advice for parents

• Do the activity on a table which is cleared of any other flammable objects or materials. Use your judgement as a parent to decide whether or not to let your child light the candles on their own.
• Make sure you’ve blown out any candles after doing the activity. Don’t move a lit candle when doing this activity. Don’t allow your child to touch the wick or candle until it has completely cooled.
• Don’t leave a lit candle unattended at any time. There’s more extensive safety advice on using candles from the UK Fire Service here: http://bit.ly/BeFireSafe

The activity

• Make a blown out candle relight as if by magic.
• ExpeRiment to find out how long a candle will burn in different amounts of air.
• Learn about the chemistry of how a candle burns.

https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental/candle-chemistry

What you will need

• At least one tea light or other small candle.
• Gas-powered cooker lighter (or long handled matches).
• Glass jars or glasses of various sizes.
• Stopwatch (maybe the one on your smartphone) or other way of measuring time.

What to do

https://www.rigb.org/docs/candlechemistry_infosheet_0_1.pdf – for information sheet about the activity.

Going Further

Learn more facts about fire: http://bit.ly/FireFacts

Make a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher for your candles: http://bit.ly/CO2Ext

Watch a video on how candles are made: http://bit.ly/CandlesMade

Use a candle to suck water into a glass like Josh does at the end of the film: http://bit.ly/WaterCandle

Music

Week 3- Bird

Listen to this short piece of music and find the picture of the flute.

https://youtu.be/088ZRWNmpYk

Is the pitch of this music low or high?

What do you think the bird is doing in the story?

Can you find some everyday objects that make a high pitch?

Religious Education

Following the celebration of Pentecost in our Church calendar, we would like you continue to reflect upon our Mission and how we can ‘use the gifts God gave us to make our world a better place’.

Just as the Holy Spirit had appeared to the Apostles of Jesus and gave them hope while they were in Jerusalem, we would like you to consider how YOU can use the power of the Holy Spirit to support and encourage others.

Can you complete ONE of the following activities, to explore how we can continue God’s work on Earth as His followers?

– Design a logo for a charity that you feel could be made in order to support others. You can be as creative as you like! Can you include symbols of the Holy Spirit?

– Research one of the following organisations: CAFOD, Christian Aid, Missio. What is special about this charity? How do they put the needs of others first?

– Create a new school Mission Statement for St. Peters – what else can we do to help others in our community and the wider world? Which actions do you feel would be most important?

– Paint a picture of Oscar Romero. How did he follow the values set out by our school Mission Statement? Can you include key facts about his work?

– Write a letter to your local priest. Could you suggest any ways in which you could support the Church in raising money for good causes, in the future? E.g. by helping in a bake sale or coffee morning, once it is safe to do so.

ART-Key Stage One

For your art challenge this week I would like you to do a creation linked to a Nursery Rhyme or book.  This could be a collage picture of Humpty Dumpty made out of egg shells, a wanted poster of the Big Bad Wolf, or the witch from one of my favourite books, ‘Room on a Broom.’  You may even do your art in the woods, such as leaving the Gruffalo’s footprints or make a small stick house. It can be a picture using any materials or a 3D creation.  Let your fantastic imaginations go wild!

WOW! CHALLENGE:  Learn the Nursery Rhyme or a page from the book and perform it to your family.

Ideas to inspire you:

However, if this doesn’t appeal to you, then 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

We hope you are all well and enjoying this beautiful weather. Please remember as you go about completing this home learning that our priority is reading, writing and maths so use your time to complete the tasks set for those. Pick and choose from the other subjects e.g. science and art; there is no expectation to complete them all.

English- Oak National Academy

This week’s English lessons continue to come from the Government’s online school, Oak National Academy. This week’s lessons follow on from the previous home learning that we have set. The lessons start with a teacher explaining the lesson and setting the tasks; the children can click through at their own pace, pausing the video when needed. All they need is a pencil and paper. We have found that the best internet browser to use for the lessons in order that the videos work is Google Chrome.

Lesson 1: To be able to retrieve information

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/the-firework-makers-daughter-to-retrieve-information-year-2-wk3-1

Lesson 2: To be able to retrieve information-part 2

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/the-firework-makers-daughter-to-retrieve-information-year-2-wk3-2

Lesson 3: To be able to identify the key features of a setting description

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-identify-the-features-of-a-setting-description-year-2-wk3-3

Lesson 4: To be able to identify and use commas in a list

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-identify-and-use-commas-in-a-list-year-2-wk3-4

Lesson 5: To able to write a setting description

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-write-a-setting-description-year-2-wk3-5

Spelling 

As part of the online lessons, there are weekly spellings set. This week’s are:

On SUMDOG, you will find set spelling challenges to be completed. In addition, below is a copy of the Y1 and Common Exception word lists for you to learn at home.

Year 1 CEW colour by similar letter pattern

Year 2 CEW colour by similar letter pattern

Maths -Oak National Academy

The Maths lessons follow on from the maths home learning set last week. Please follow the link to access the videos.

Lesson 1: To be able to follow a route around a map

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-follow-a-route-around-a-map-year-2-wk3-4

Lesson 2: Consolidate and review lesson

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-consolidate-and-review-year-2-wk3-5

Lesson 3: To be able to relate halves and quarters to division

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-relate-halves-and-quarters-to-division-year-2-wk4-1

Lesson 4: To be able to identify the parts of a fraction

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-identify-the-parts-of-a-fraction-year-2-wk4-2

Lesson 5: To be able to identify half of a shape

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-identify-half-of-a-shape-year-2-wk4-3

Please continue to check MyMaths where you will be set a series of tasks to complete each week as well as logging into Sumdog to develop your maths skills.

Science 

Find out all about pollination and how bees and other small insects make sure that flowers make seeds. Try following these links to help you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=29&v=j-S5ui9Us7U&feature=emb_logo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy3r1zlC_IU

You can draw a poster, write instructions or paint a picture explaining how it happens. There is an example below if you would rather copy that.

Pollination close procedure

Family Science Activity – Friday 5th June 2020

Homemade Lava Lamp https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental/homemade-lava-lamp

Experiment with objects of different shapes and sizes. See what makes a difference to whether something sinks or floats in water.

Learn how an object’s density affects if something is likely to sink or float. https://www.rigb.org/docs/lavalamp_infosheet_0_1.pdf

Questions to ask children:

• Before each activity: can you predict what will happen? Why do you predict that? (For example, can you predict what will happen when we squash the tin foil really tightly?
• Can you predict what will happen if we use metal spoon instead of a plastic one?
• Can you predict what will happen if we peel the fruit?) Why does the diet drink float while the non-diet one sinks?
• What do you think will happen when we pour the oil into the glass of water? Why?
• What do you think is in the bubbles that are rising up in the lava lamp? Why do you think they sink back down again?

Going Further:

• You can give your child or children a lump of plasticine and explore how to mould the plasticine into shapes that float. Discuss what the floating shapes have in common compared to shapes that sink.
• The density of an object affects its buoyancy. You can learn more about this and how density affects whether something sinks or floats here: http://bit.ly/
• Buoyancy You can try to make a ‘density tower’ by floating liquids of different density on top of each other, as shown in this video: http://bit.ly/DensityTower
• Here’s a quick lava lamp using fizzy water – http://bit.ly/FizzyLavaLamp

Music

Week 2- Grandfather

Listen to this short piece of music and find the picture of the bassoon.

https://youtu.be/9lLHJDQxbYI

What mood do you think Grandfather is in?

How do you think grandfather might move?

How is this music the same or different to Peter’s music?

https://youtu.be/eIi_q4bNZMM

Art

Read all about it! St Peter’s are IN THE NEWS!

For this week’s Art Challenge I would like you to produce some art using old newspapers or magazines! It can be anything from cutting out shapes and creating your own abstract art, or landscape, to making something using Paper Mache. What you make can be left black and white or even painted (using watercolours is very effective). Whatever you create I’m sure you will ‘Make the headlines’ on the Art Blog!

Ideas to inspire you: 

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

Mrs Osborne: Mrs Osborne has loved watching these poppies that she has grown flower.. aren’t they beautiful! She has been making homemade pizza and has been helping her son complete his 1000 piece Beano puzzle.  

Mrs. Sumba and her family have finally finished their Titanic puzzle. It was very challenging and unfortunately, several pieces are missing! Mrs Sumba has really enjoyed going for lots of long walks and has found lots of interesting pathways on Portsdown Hill!

Mrs Pitman: It was my birthday last weekend so we took our badminton set to our local park.  My daughter, husband and I had a lovely day playing Badminton and eating a yummy picnic. I couldn’t be with the rest of my family but it was still special.

Hello again from all the adults in Year 2. Please remember as you go about completing this home learning that our priority is reading, writing and maths so use your time to complete the tasks set for those. Pick and choose from the topic, science, RE and Art; there is no expectation to complete them all. 

English tasks  

This week’s English lessons continue to come from the Government’s online school, Oak National Academy. This week’s lessons follow on from the home learning that we sent on Friday 15^th May. The lessons start with a teacher explaining the lesson and setting the tasks; the children can click through at their own pace, pausing the video when needed. All they need is a pencil and paper. We have found that the best internet browser to use for the lessons in order that the videos work is Google Chrome.

Lesson 1: To be able to make inferences

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/the-firework-makers-daughter-to-make-inferences-year-2-wk2-1

Lesson 2: To be able to make inferences- part 2

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/the-firework-makers-daughter-to-make-inferences-year-2-wk2-2

Lesson 3: To be able to identify the key features of a character description

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-identify-the-key-features-of-a-character-description-year-2-wk2-3

Lesson 4: To able to identify and use expanded noun phrases

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-identify-and-use-expanded-noun-phrases-year-2-wk2-4

Lesson 5: To able to write a character description

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-write-a-character-description-about-the-white-elephant-year-2-wk2-5

Spelling

As part of the online lessons, there are weekly spellings set. This week these are:

On SUMDOG, you will find set spelling challenges to be completed. In addition, below is a copy of the Y1 and Common Exception word lists for you to learn at home.

Maths -National Oak Academy

The Maths lesson follow on from the maths home learning set last week. Please follow the link to access the videos.

Lesson 1: To be able to give directions

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-be-able-to-give-directions-year-2-wk2-4

Lesson 2: To use the language of rotation

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-use-the-language-of-rotation-year-2-wk2-5

Lesson 3: To make predictions about rotation

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-make-predictions-about-rotation-year-2-wk3-1

Lesson 4: To be able to rotate shapes

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-be-able-to-rotate-shapes-year-2-wk3-2

Lesson 5: To identify how patterns have been created through rotation

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-identify-how-patterns-have-been-created-through-rotation-year-2-wk3-3

In addition to this, HIAS have sent some ideas for Maths Home Learning.

Click on the link to view and try these.

Mathematics in the Garden

Practical Mathematical Tasks in the Home

Please continue to check MyMaths where you will be set a series of tasks to complete each week as well as logging into Sumdog to develop your maths skills.

Science

Find out all about the parts of a plant. Draw and label plants and explain the function of each part e.g. The roots absorb water and minerals from the soil. The BBC Bitesize page linked will help you.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpxnyrd/articles/z3wpsbk

Music

Friday 29^th May

This half term we are going to be focussing on Prokofiev’s famous piece

Peter and the Wolf.

Week 1- Peter

Listen to this short piece of music and find the picture of the violin?

https://youtu.be/eIi_q4bNZMM

How does the music make you feel?

Can you move around to it? 

Art

ANIMAL MAGIC!

For this week’s Art Challenge I would like you produce some art that is linked to ANIMALS! Your animal can live on the land, in the sea or the sky. If you prefer, you can make your own mythical animal from your own imagination… or even a fusion of two animals. It can be a drawing, a painting, it can be made from a kitchen roll tube, a painted stone, made from things you find in the woods or at the beach or anything else that you can think of. I’m sure you will create something ‘magical’, as always!

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

Ideas to inspire you:

Well we have definitely had the most unusual half term that I have ever known and am sure that a break is deserved by all.

We will not be setting any new home learning over the half term period but will encourage you to continue to read, practise times tables and use it as an opportunity to catch up on any home learning you may have missed from the last few weeks.

As ever, we are missing you and thinking of you and very much remain your teachers.

Mrs Osborne, Miss Foote and Mrs Sumba.

Year 2 Home Learning Friday 15th May 2020

Hello again from all the adults in Year 2. See the post below about what some of us have been up to this week.

Please remember as you go about completing this home learning that our priority is reading, writing and maths so use your time to complete the tasks set for those. Pick and choose from the topic, science, RE and Art; there is no expectation to complete them all. 

English

This week’s English lessons come from the Government’s online school, Oak National Academy. The lessons start with a teacher explaining the lesson and setting the tasks; the children can click through at their own pace, pausing the video when needed. All they need is a pencil and paper. We have found that the best internet browser to use for the lessons in order that the videos work is Google Chrome.  

Lesson 1: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/the-firework-makers-daughter-to-retrieve-information-year-2-wk1-1

Lesson 2: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/the-firework-makers-daughter-to-find-the-meaning-of-words-year-2-wk1-2

Lesson 3: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-identify-the-key-features-of-instructions-year-2-wk1-3

Lesson 4: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-identify-and-use-adverbs-year-2-wk1-4

Lesson 5: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-write-a-set-of-instructions-year-2-wk1-5

Spelling

As part of the online lessons, there are weekly spellings set. This week these are:

On SUMDOG, you will find set spelling challenges to be completed. In addition, below is a copy of the Y1 and Common Exception word lists for you to learn at home.

Maths

Please continue to check MyMaths where you will be set a series of tasks to complete each week as well as logging into Sumdog to develop your maths skills.

National Oak Academy

These next lessons will have a teacher teaching you a virtual lesson, and activities to follow. They follow on from the maths home learning set last week. Please follow the link to access the videos.

Lesson 1: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-name-and-describe-3-d-shapes-year-2-wk1-4

Lesson 2: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-identify-2-d-shapes-on-the-surfaces-of-3-d-shapes-year-2-wk1-5

Lesson 3: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-describe-and-create-shape-patterns-year-2-wk2-1

Lesson 4: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-compare-and-sort-2-d-and-3-d-shapes-year-2-wk2-2

Lesson 5: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-describe-the-position-of-an-object-year-2-wk2-3

In addition to this, HIAS have set some weekly Maths problem solving challenges using strategies we use in school. Click on the link to view and try these.

HIAS Maths 1

HIAS Maths 2

Science 

 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

Topic (2 weeks).

Lots of you know that Mrs. Sumba’s husband comes from Kenya. For his tribe, it is the custom for the sons to build houses on the family land which they call the home. Mrs. Sumba has drawn a map of the Sumba family home.

Task 1 -Look carefully at the map and key and complete the table:

Task 2- Draw a map or plan of your family home. Don’t forget the key.

Music

Friday 15^th May

Persons with Long Ears from The Carnival of the Animals

Listen to the violin.

https://youtu.be/7JtPqqwL0gs

Is this music sad or happy?

Which kind of animals might have long ears?

Can you draw them?

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 few 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

Mrs Pitman: This week I was extremely lucky as we had a hedgehog in our garden.  Unfortunately hedgehogs numbers are declining in England now. So it really was amazing to see one.  I haven’t seen one for about 15 years. Unfortunately we didn’t get a photo as we were too busy watching it, but I’ve got a picture off the internet to show you how wonderful they are.

If you do see one in your garden or out on a walk there is a great website that you log onto to inform them that you have seen one.  This website then does a map of everywhere the hedgehogs have been seen.

Mrs. Sumba and her family are trying to do a jigsaw puzzle of the Titanic- it is very challenging!

Mrs Taylor: This week I have been finding new places to walk with my sons and my dog Mollie ( because despite the extra walks she is still a little over weight ). Having lived in waterlooville all of my life, I have still been able to discover some beautiful places I have never been before. For VE Day I joined the nation in celebrating, it felt sad that we couldn’t celebrate in the style we were hoping but we have hung out our home made bunting and had a social distanced street party. I hope you had a lovely time marking the  special day. Stay safe and stay strong.

Mrs Pallet: hello I hope you are all well, my son William & I have been busy planting seeds. We decorated pots & in Williams he’s planted “seeds for butterflies” & mine is “seeds for bees”. I have also planted cucumber seeds & the plants are doing well, fingers crossed I’ll have cucumbers which I’m really excited about as I’m not very good with plants! Hope you are all keeping busy & I’m looking forward to seeing you all very soon.

Year 2 Home Learning Friday 8th May 2020

Hi Year 2! We miss seeing you all everyday!

We’d like to share what we have been up to this week!

Miss Foote

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well! On Monday, the children and I made mini-beast hotels in school and we also had an investigation into which mini-beasts were inside our hotels. We found some fantastic insects such as spiders, a centipede, lots of woodlice and we even spotted a dragonfly nearby! I have also been planting some basil seeds, although most plants I have do not seem to last very long at all! Fingers crossed these seeds decide to grow! If not, I will keep asking Mrs Osborne for advice! I’m still going on long walks around my local area, which I know lots of you are doing as well! It is nice to get out and about isn’t it? Keep sending your photos and updates to the class email! (elephants@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk) I love seeing what you are all up to! I’ve been very impressed with all the work I have seen so far.

I hope you have a fabulous weekend! Stay safe 🙂

Mrs Osborne

I have been learning how to make fudge this week and was also delighted to see a double rainbow after the huge rain. I took lots of photos of it and thought of all our key workers who are keeping us safe.

Mrs Pitman

This weekend is the 75th Celebration of Victory of Europe VE DAY.

Today we pay our respect and huge gratitude to all the Armd Forces who fought for us and our freedom. Today I also thank my Great Grandad who fought in the 1st, my Grandad and Great Uncle who fought in the 2nd world war. My father was in the SAS and my son is now in the AAC. Do you recognise anyone from the photo?….(the young female soldier).

Please complete the reading, writing, spelling and maths tasks. Then choose one of the other activities set.

Reading

Please continue to read daily for 10 – 15 minutes. You can read books from your book shelf at home, magazines or log onto.

https://connect.collins.co.uk

Attached is a mini reading project about ‘The Snow Dragon’  by The Snow Dragon, by Abi Elphinstone & Fiona Woodcock which you can download on https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/extract/16681/The-Snow-Dragon-by-Abi-Elphinstone.html

Please complete the word reading exploration task, read aloud and discuss the text answering the questions provided.

Writing – Oliver’s Vegetables by Vivian French. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhmqiEXe8dc

This weeks writing learning is based around the book Oliver’s Vegetables by Vivian French. There is 5 days worth of writing tasks so plenty to be getting on with.

Olivers Vegetables

Spelling

On SUMDOG, you will find set spelling challenges to be completed. In addition, please continue to practise your letters and sounds using resources from www.twinkl.com and www.phonicsplay.co.uk. Below is a copy of the Y1 and Common Exception word lists for you to learn at home.

Year 1 CEW colour by similar letter pattern Year 2 CEW colour by similar letter pattern

Maths

Please continue to check MyMaths where you will be set a series of tasks to complete each week.

National Oak Academy

These next few lessons will have a teacher teaching you a virtual lesson, and activities to follow. Please follow the link to access the videos.

Lesson 1: To identify shapes by vertices and sides.

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-identify-shapes-by-the-number-of-sides-and-vertices-year-2-wk1-1

Lesson 2:  To identify right angles in shapes.

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-identify-right-angles-in-shapes-year-2-wk1-2

Lesson 3: To recognise lines of symmetry in 2D shapes.

https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/maths/to-recognise-lines-of-symmetry-within-2-d-shapes-year-2-wk1-3

In addition to this, HIAS have set some weekly Maths problem solving challenges using strategies we use in school. Click on the link to view and try these.

Year 2 Week 4 and 5 Task 1 year 2 Week 4 and 5 Task 2

Science – THE SCIENCE OF OOBLECK

https://www.science-sparks.com/how-to-make-oobleck/

Did you notice that if you make a ball with oobleck or gloop it feels solid, but if you drop the oobleck on the floor it turns liquid again? The slime is a non – Newtonian fluid as it doesn’t flow like liquids normally do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnd-2jetT1w

Cornflour gloop ( oobleck )  is made up of molecules arranged in long chains. When the chains are stretched the liquid will flow, but when you force them together they stick together to form a solid.

OOBLECK RECIPE

• Cornflour
• Water
• Food colouring – optional
• Ice cube trays – optional
• Mixing bowl
• Colander, funnel and beakers – optional, but great for messy fun!

INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING CORNFLOUR GLOOP

• Fill a cup with cornflour and add to the bowl
• Add water very slowly mixing with your hands, until you get a sticky, slimy gloop.
• If you want to make it coloured add some food colouring. ( be careful this can stain skin and clothes)
• Play with the slime and see how it behaves. Can you make it into a ball? and what happens if you throw it onto the floor?

• Can you squeeze the slime into a ball? What does it feel like? How long does the ball stay solid after you let go?
• If you used less water do you think the slime would fall faster or more slowly through the colander?

OOBLECK CHALLENGE

Can you make a giant oobleck tray and walk on oobleck?

HOW TO MAKE A GIANT OOBLECK TRAY

To make our giant oobleck tray – pour about 1 kg of cornflour into a large black tray and slowly added water until the consistency was wet, but solid when squeezed.

Computing (2 weeks)

Please go onto the site: www.hourofcode.com

The children have used this website during computing lessons in school so they should be familiar with the layout. Please select ‘activities’ at the top of the page, and click on ‘Imagine a World’ (skip past the tutorial as the children should be confident using the programme). This task is connected to the topic activity below, and the children should use the research they have found out about Kenya to support their ideas.

Task: Create a Kenyan Habitat.

Points to consider:

• Which background is suitable?
• What animals should you programme to commit a particular action?
• What could the buildings look like?
• What could the people be doing?

Please feel free to screenshot pictures of the children’s work and send to our class emails. We’d love to see their work!

Topic (2 weeks)

Lots of you know that Mrs. Sumba’s husband comes from Kenya. For his tribe, it is the custom for the sons to build houses on the family land which they call the home. Mrs. Sumba has drawn a map of the Sumba family home.

Task 1 -Look carefully at the map and key and complete the table:

Task 2- Draw a map or plan of your family home. Don’t forget the key.

RE

As part of your RE learning, we would like you to focus upon the upcoming celebration of Pentecost – this day is celebrated fifty days after Easter Sunday, to remember how the Holy Spirit appeared to the Apostles of Jesus and gave them hope while they were in Jerusalem. ​

Can you complete ONE of the following activities, to develop your knowledge of this special time in the Liturgical Year?

• Create a religious crossword that includes the following key words and symbols: wind, flame, tongue, Holy Spirit, disciples, Jerusalem. Can you add more of your own? Don’t forget to record your clues!
• Design a celebration card to spread the Good News at Pentecost – could you post it to a friend to spread joy and hope at this difficult time?
• Write a drama script to ‘act out’ the scene of the disciples as Pentecost with your family at home – what happened to the followers of Jesus?
• Make 10 quiz questions about the Pentecost story. Could you ask a friend or family member about them when you next chat on the webcam/internet, or over the phone?
• Imagine you are a news reporter who has been sent to Jerusalem to find out more about the events that took place at Pentecost. Which 5W questions (who, what, where, when, why) would you ask the disciples?
• Build a model of one of the following Pentecost symbols (flame, wind, speaking in tongues, Holy Spirit) to put on display and remind you that Jesus is near. Which resources could you use from home? Plasticine, recycled plastic, painted cardboard?
• Research the story of Pentecost on the internet, from a Biblical website. Can you draw a thought bubble and record how the feelings of the disciples changed throughout the story?

Music -Aquarium

Listen care fully to the music.

https://youtu.be/oCUtOKsmOZ8

Can you spot when it gets loud and quiet?

What might live in the aquarium? What else might you see?

Could you create an aquarium in a bowl of water? How might the animals move around?

Art Challenge