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Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 9:14am
Good morning!
How did day 1 of our exercise challenge go ? Here's one of our exercise superstars playing basketball.
Well done to you if you also did some exercise !
If yesterday didn't quite happen for you, that's ok . Today is your day ! Let me know how you get on:
Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Mrs Harriott
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 9:07am
Good Morning Reception!
I am SO impressed to already see lots of fantastic work being emailed in from yesterday!! You are becoming superstars at careful counting and addition! Well done!
Let’s get ready for our maths learning this morning by listening and working out to our 'Count to 100' song below and taking part in today’s fluent-in-five!
This morning we have a very special task to complete…
We need to help the pirate to count his treasure! Take a look at the ‘1-15 Pirate Counting’ video below and help the pirate to count his golden gems!
Yo-ho! Fantastic! What number did you count to? How much treasure did the pirate have? How many gems would the pirate have if you added one more?
Today I would like you to take part in your own treasure counting activity!
You will need:
Tray of sand (or shredded paper)
Coin Cut-Outs (see attachment link – or make your own!)
Treasure Chest Posters (see attachment link)
Activity:
Parents begin by hiding the bronze coin cut-outs in the tray of sand/shredded paper or around the house!
Place the ten-frame poster showing the pirate looking for bronze coins alongside the tray. Children need to look for the bronze coins in the sand and place them onto the ten-frame as they find them. Ask children how many they found and ask them to carefully count and point to each one!
Repeat the activity by hiding the silver coins in the sand. Again, ask children to find them and place them onto the ten-frames to count! For the gold coins, ask children to find them and place them onto the lower-ten frame. The pirate has already found some gold coins so children can count on from ten to find the total number of gold coins!
Next steps:
Provide children with simple addition calculations i.e 2+ 2 and see if children can work this out using the coins and ten-frames! Encourage them to write this as a number sentence!
Don’t forget to email in pictures of your work or to tell us about your learning at receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk! We can’t wait to hear from you! J Good luck!
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 9:02am
Your online learning is now available on
https://padlet.com/missfaragher/kj2clvf5jjlr98k1
Hope you have a lovely day. Remember to email us your work at y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
P.s. We've started a new tournament on TT Rockstars for 3RH against 3LF. See if you can help your class win!!
Love,
Miss Humphreys, Miss Faragher and Miss G
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:57am
Happy Tuesday everyone !
How did you get on with yesterday's quiz question ? Well done to Naomi, Zarak, Maddison , Heer and Ganesha who all used their research skills to find the answer : The Taj Mahal, India.
Many of our winners also found additional information about the history of the building ! Great work 
Today's building is :
Can you find out what it is called and which European city it is in ?
Let me know your answer: Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Mrs Harriott
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:51am
Good morning Year 5!
I think today is the last day of this incredibly warm weather we've been having - I never thought I'd say this, but I'm quite looking forward to some rain as the garden really needs it! So I hope whatever you get up to today, you manage to get some fresh air in the sunshine!
In case you missed it yesterday, remember that in addition to each daily blog post, you have a weekly Reading Challenge and a selection of Connected Curriculum activities. You can find them in the blog posts from yesterday with those names as the title.
Remember to email across your learning today so we can see what you've been doing!
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Mrs Hodges here!
Just a Sentence of the Day from me today, but before I post that, remember to check out the links I posted yesterday to help you research the arguments for and against bullfighting:
“The Matador” Film Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXiTv7QrUh4
Bullfighting Information:
CBBC has a whole section on bullfighting, where you can find out what happens in a bullfight, different people’s opinions for and against it happening and a reporter’s experience of a bullfight.
More information can be found on Kiddle:
https://kids.kiddle.co/Bullfighting
Right, onto the sentence! Remember to check back later to see my purple pen:
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=CdKZ3mC
How did you get on with today's sentence? Click the link below to see my corrected sentence!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=IDwaRc0
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Good Morning Year 5 from Miss Brookes!
I hope you all had a fabulous start to your week, and thank you to everyone who has sent in their learning so far. There's quite a bit from me today - maths, GVP and science!
Maths
Here is today's fluent in 5:
Here are the answers, how did you do?
GVP
Here is today's GVP:
Here are the answers:
Science
As we have finished our Space unit, this half-terms science would usually go back to the autumn term, and continue with states of matter. As that is mostly experiments, we have changed things around slightly so that you can do an experiment at home with your grown ups and siblings instead (they may not be states of matter related!) Make sure you send your results in and take photos if you can.
Today's challenge is "does larger feet mean you can jump further?' I've attached a PDF to help you. You need to decide what each of the variables are (what you're going to change and what you will keep the same), there is a method page for you as well as a table of results.
Let us know what you find out on y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
June 2nd - #30DaysWild - Whole School Challenge 2 🐛☀️🐾🌲🕷
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:16am
Hello again,
Just a reminder - This month our school is going WILD! Here’s today’s challenge
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WILDLIFE TRUST WEBSITE
I found this challenge on the free 30 Days Wild app.
Today why not look for signs of new life when you go out for a walk. I saw some ducklings at our local pond over the weekend (see short video) and look closely at the photo. What baby can you see? What is this baby animal called?
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Send your photos in to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk and I'll put them up on our school blog.
PLEASE BE CAREFUL and make sure you complete the challenges with an adult.
STAY SAFE, BE ACTIVE, GO WILD!
From Mrs Ganner
We have some fabulous photos below, just in from Alissia and Keira. Great bug spotting!
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:11am
Good Morning Reception,
Here are the answer’s to yesterday’s ‘Sentence of the Day…’
I have hurt my head with a ball.
Today’s sentence of the day is…
tthe small dog had loots of fuur on his bacc.
Yesterday we started a new story called ’10 Little Pirates.’ In this book we saw 10 pirates doing lots of different things. Listen to the story again by clicking on the video at the bottom of this blog. Answer these questions about the story with a grown up:
What were the 10 pirates hunting?
What went zap when the pirates were searching for their pirate mate?
What happened to the ship when the waves went crash?
Who went chomp to a pirate?
Who said ‘coo-ee!’?
Three little pirates were wondering what to do on the barrels. If you were one of the pirates, what would you do?
Look at this picture from the story. What can you see…? Write some captions or sentences about the picture.
Remember to send in your photos/videos to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
June 2nd - #30DaysWild - Whole School Challenge 2 🐛🌲☀️🕷🐾
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:09am
Hello again,
Just a reminder - This month our school is going WILD! Here’s today’s challenge
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WILDLIFE TRUST WEBSITE
I found this challenge on the free 30 Days Wild app.
Today why not look for signs of new life when you go out for a walk. I saw some ducklings at our local pond over the weekend (see short video) and look closely at the photo. What baby can you see? What is this baby animal called?
Send your photos in to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk and I'll put them up on our school blog.
PLEASE BE CAREFUL and make sure you complete the challenges with an adult.
STAY SAFE, BE ACTIVE, GO WILD!
From Mrs Ganner
We have some fabulous photos below, just in from Alissia and Keira. Great bug spotting!
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:03am
Good Morning Reception,
Let’s start our phonics today by getting physical with Jack Hartman and the phonics workout. Click on the video at the bottom of the blog.
We will continue to think about the sound ‘ur.’ How many words can you read in a minute…? Don’t let the alien words trick you out!!!
Watch the ‘show me’ video where I am showing you how to write words using the ‘ur’ sound.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=FrCk1R2
Here are today’s practise and apply activities, which one will you choose?
Activity 1 – How many words can you think of with the ‘ur’ sound?
Activity 2 – What is the correct spelling?
Activity 3 – Play Buried Treasure on Phonics Play. Click on the 'ur' sound.
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/buried-treasure
Activity 4 – Create a ‘ur’ poster using words that you have read.
Remember to send in your photos/videos to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 7:04am
Good morning Nursery!
Can you remember the sounds we have been looking at? Have a go at playing this ‘I spy’ and see if you can spot objects beginning with s, a, t, p, i, n.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4YaF-jXWuY
You can also play I spy using the pictures on the sheet attached.
Now we are going to play a game of I spy by saying the sounds in a word and blending the sounds together to say the word.
Success spider says: Listen carefully, blend the sounds, say the word.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH TODAY'S SHOW ME CLIP
Today’s phonic challenge is to play a game of ‘I spy’ with your grown up.
To play this game you will need to find some of the following objects: hat, cat, cup, mat, dog, hat, zip, peg, pan, pig, sock, can etc.
Place the objects on a tray.
(Adults – name each object with your child to check they can name each one.)
Adult say ‘I spy with my little eye a c-u-p'
Ask your child to say the name of the object and hold it up.
Then encourage your child to say the individual sounds and blend them together ‘c-u-p, cup’.
Repeat for another object. Continue playing the game saying the sounds and identifying the object for all the items on the tray.
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Good luck playing this game and have fun!
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 6:53am
Let’s start today by counting our fingers and toes! Click on the link below to join in and sing along to a counting song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNw1SSz18Gg
Yesterday, we practised our counting skills by counting different groups of minibeasts.
Today we are going to continue to practise counting by counting the amount of spots on the ladybirds. You will then need to look at the numerals and select the number that matches the amount.
Click on the picture below to play the ladybird counting game.
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Remember to point and say a number name for each spot you count and then find the correct numeral to match the amount.
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I hope you have lots of fun playing this game!
Weekly Vocabulary Challenge – Superworm
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 12:29pm
This week we are looking at the book ‘Superworm’ by Julia Donaldson.
Ask your grown up to read this extract from the story which tells us what ‘Superworm’ is like.
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Listen carefully then join in with saying the words that describe ‘Superworm’.
Tell your grown up the words and make up some actions to go with them…
‘Superworm is super-LONG, Superworm is super-STRONG.’
Fantastic!
Challenge 1:
Your first challenge is to find something long and strong. Then have a go at making a long, strong worm using playdough. (I have attached a recipe for you to make your own dough at home)
Now watch the clip below of Miss Heritage making a LONG, STRONG worm with play dough. Listen carefully to the words I use when I am making my worm.
Can you talk about your playdough worm too? What words did you use to describe how you are making your worm?
You can use our ‘Speaking Superhero’ capes for ideas of good words to use as you are making your worm.
Challenge 2:
‘Watch him WIGGLE! See him SQUIRM! Hip, hip, hooray for SUPERWORM!
Next, tell your grown up how ‘Superworm’ moves.
Can you move like Superworm too?
Your next challenge is to practise wiggling and squirming like Superworm.
Join in with the ‘Wiggle it’ dance and wiggle different parts of your body.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh-9k8XfLzY
Can you wiggle fast, slow, high and low?
#30 Days Wild Launch Day 🌞🌲💐🕷🐛
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 12:27pm
June 1st - #30DaysWild - Challenge 1
Hello everybody,
I hope you had an amazing half term and you’re as excited to be back completing home learning challenges as I am. This month our school is going to go WILD! Yes, that’s right, our mission is to do as many wild things as we can and have fun whilst learning outside.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WILDLIFE TRUST WEBSITE
Each day I will put up a wild challenge and you can take a photo of you and your family completing it so I can put it on this blog.
Here is your challenge for today, see how many wild minibeasts you can find outside:
Send your photos in to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk and I'll put them up on our school blog.
If you'd like to choose your own challenges download this app:
PLEASE BE CAREFUL and make sure you complete the challenges with an adult.
STAY SAFE, BE ACTIVE, GO WILD!
From Mrs Ganner
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 11:12am
This weeks reading activity is to read and listen to one of the songs below. We want you to think about what the words in the song really mean. Look at the lyrics and read or sing them again.
How is the character feeling in the song?
Are they angry, frustrated, excited?
We want you to to think about why the character is feeling this way.
You might also find it useful to listen to the music, does that give you any clues about what the character is thinking and feeling.
Choose one of the songs below and have a listen, you might want to listen to one every day but don't forget to try and read the words to the song as well - these are called lyrics. Don't worry about thinking about all of the words in the song. You can stop the song and talk about it in small parts rather than the whole song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnN6glKaWdE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i66p0_wZ9F0
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 10:57am
Hello and welcome back to the start of our final half term of this school year!
As you know, Mrs Glover has been setting us wellbeing challenges to keep us feeling positive and productive over the last few months. It has been fantastic to look back at all the photos you have sent her showing your creative work!
For the next few weeks, Mrs Glover is lucky enough to be going into school each day to teach as we start opening up the school to certain year groups, so I'll be setting your wellbeing challenge.
So, here's your challenge for this week:
Can you set yourself an exercise goal for the week and try and do a different exercise each day? It could be going for a walk with your family, making up a dance , going on a bike ride, jumping on your trampoline, doing an online workout like Joe Wicks or doing 30 star jumps in your kitchen!
Use the chart below to record your exercise each day ( or just write it on a piece of paper if you do not have a printer) and send it in to:Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk . If you would like to share a photo during the week ,send it in too and I can post it on the blog for others to be inspired to try your idea !
I can't wait to see who can be an exercise superstar!
Mrs Harriott
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 10:51am
Hello and welcome back to the start of our final half term of this school year !
As you know, Mrs Glover has been setting us wellbeing challenges to keep us feeling positive and productive over the last few months. It has been fantastic to look back at all the photos you have sent her showing your creative work!
For the next few weeks, Mrs Glover is lucky enough to be going into school each day to teach as we start opening up the school to certain year groups, so I'll be setting your wellbeing challenge.
So, here's your challenge for this week:
Can you set yourself an exercise goal for the week and try and do a different exercise each day? It could be going for a walk with your family, making up a dance , going on a bike ride, jumping on your trampoline, doing an online workout like Joe Wicks or doing 30 star jumps in your kitchen!
Use the chart below to record your exercise each day ( or just write it on a piece of paper if you do not have a printer) and send it in to:Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk . If you would like to share a photo during the week ,send it in too and I can post it on the blog for others to be inspired to try your idea !
I can't wait to see who can be an exercise superstar!
Mrs Harriott
Monday sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 10:31am
Good Morning everybody and welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely week off home learning and took some time to enjoy being outdoors in the sunshine. It has been a lovely week for us, full of walks and reading books in the sunshine but now we are definitely ready to carry on our home learning and see what the next few weeks bring!
Sentence of the day
Today’s sentence of the day focusses on our tricky words. I have put a poster below so that you can check the green for growths and make sure all of the tricky words are spelt correctly.
“Oa what a beautiful day, the sun is shining and the birds are chirping” sed Misurs Potts.
In the park the noisy peepul were chatting and they lucked like they were enjoying thair scrumptious picnics from home.
Click on the folder to find the answers from today’s sentence of the day!
Phonics
Todays phonics focusses on the phase 5 tricky words, just like our sentence of the day! Let’s get your brains warmed up and ready for some challenges. Have a look at the words below and play a game of fastest finger with your grown-ups. Ask them to say a word and you need to point to it as quick as you can. Don’t worry if it’s a bit tricky at first, with practice you’ll make progress and get faster and more confident!
Challenge one – Rainbow writing! If you have a dice in your house, nows the time to get it. I not don’t worry, you can write the numbers 1-6 onto pieces of paper and close your eyes and pick a number instead of rolling a dice.
Challenge two – This is the quick write challenge! Now that you have practiced reading and writing the words your challenge is to see if you can spell them correctly without any clues. Watch the video below and when the video says a word it’s your job to write it down as quickly as you can. You can check if you have spelt them properly at the end by going back through the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbcZnb2iz1c
Challenge three – For challenge three I want you to make me some sentences using the phase 5 tricky words, just like the sentences I made for our sentence of the day. You can make them silly, funny, serious or if you’re really up for a challenge you could see if you can make a story using the different words.
Good Luck! We are excited to see your home learning again!
Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden.
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 10:16am
Good Morning and welcome back year one! We hope you all had a lovely week off and had a chance to enjoy the sunshine! It has been a lovely week for us, full of walks and reading books in the sunshine but now we are definitely ready to carry on our home learning and see what the next few weeks bring!
The home learning will be exactly the same as before the holidays. We will post a maths challenge, a sentence of the day and a phonics challenge every day as well as a reading and writing challenge once a week. You will also get a Connected Curriculum activity to do this term, this will be a bit similar to the end of term homework activities that we send home at the end of every term.
There are also lots of ways you can carry on practicing your reading at home. Here are the links to the websites below. If you struggle to get on any of them please just email us and we can try and help you.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Dont forget to send us in photos of you doing any of the activities that you are proud of and we will make sure that we put them onto the blog for all of your friends to see!
Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden :)
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 10:09am
Good morning everyone!
So many of you have participated in our Reading Challenges over the past few weeks - so well done!
To wake up our brains this week, I want you to read a book a day (5 books) on Reading Plus. I will give you until Friday afternoon, when I will post the winners.
If you have forgotten your log in details, don't worry - just send me an email and I will let you know what they are.
y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Goodluck!
Miss Brookes
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 9:58am
Welcome back!!!
We hope you have had a lovely break and ready for learning. We have spent alot of time getting the year 1 classrooms ready for your return, making sure that each child has got 1 table each and has got resource pack ready to allow each child to work independently, without adult support.
To make sure that you will be prepared for this way of working we are going to spend the maths session today focussing on writing the days of the week and practicing how to write the long date. We have done this before so do not worry. We just need to get ready for year 2!
Challenge 1
Have a go at reading the days of the week and practice how to write them using the grid below. Just copy the grid into the exercise books.
| Look | Cover | Spell | Check | |
| Monday | ||||
| Tuesday | ||||
| Wednesday | ||||
| Thursday | ||||
| Friday | ||||
| Saturday | ||||
| Sunday |
Challenge 2
Can you practice writing the numerals 1- 31?
Use the number square to 50 to help you write the numerals correctly . Practice writing them in the yellow exercise book.
Challenge 3
Practice writing the months of the year in the yellow exercise books
| Look | Cover | Spell | Check | |
| January | ||||
| February | ||||
| March | ||||
| April | ||||
| May | ||||
| June | ||||
| July | ||||
| August | ||||
| September | ||||
| October | ||||
| November | ||||
| December |
Challenge 4
Have a go at writing the long date for today.
Happy working!
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 9:54am
Good morning!
Hope you had a restful half term holiday?
Well done to Heer, Ganesa and Maddison who all correctly identified the flag that was the former flag of Northern Ireland, with the capital Belfast. Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the UK along with Wales, Scotland and England.
For today's quiz , can you find out the country in which this building was built between 1631 and 1648?
Email your answer to: Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Good luck!
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 9:34am
Welcome back Year 3!
We are so looking forward to hearing about your half terms and getting to see all of your fantastic work again. Your work is available on https://padlet.com/missfaragher/kj2clvf5jjlr98k1
Remember to send your work to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Can't wait to hear from you all!
Miss Humphreys, Miss Faragher and Miss G
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 9:31am
Good Morning Year 4!
I hope you have all had a lovely half term and have been enjoying the wonderful sunshine!
We are now starting our new term, Summer 2, with lots of new and exciting learning to explore! Visit the Year 4 Learning Page to see your new tasks:
https://padlet.com/mr_leverton/jg6rbkql3b7elw1f
As always, if you have any questions, messages or photos to share with your Year 4 teachers please email y4homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
We look forward to hearing from you! Don't forget, on Friday's we will announce our Reader of the Week and post our celebration of Home Learning photos.
Take care and keep working hard, from the Year 4 Team :)
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 9:01am
Good Morning Reception!
I hope you have all had a lovely break and have made the most of the fantastic sunny weather! How did you spend your break? I would love to hear all about what you got up to in the holidays! J
Let’s warm back into our maths learning by beginning with a fluent-in-five – you should all be experts at these now!!
This term in Reception, we are going to be learning all about PIRATES!
I thought it would be a great idea to use pirates to help us in our maths learning today, I have even included an exciting pirate song to listen to below! Take a look!
This morning in our maths learning, we are going to practise our addition skills by adding together pirate items and writing the calculation down as a number sentence.
You can begin by choosing one of the items below!
See if you can draw one of the items and see how many you can make! Count out each one at a time, adding one more as you count.
Ask your adult at home to write you a calculation – Can you work this out by using your pirate items? Now can you write your own number sentence? Take a look at the example calculations below… Can you work them out?
Below I have attached a link to even more pirate addition calculations if you would like an extra challenge! Don’t forget to email in pictures of your work or to tell us about your learning at receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk! We can’t wait to hear from you! J
Monday June 1st - Welcome back Year 2!
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 8:56am
Good Morning Year 2!
Welcome back to another half term of fabulous learning. We do hope you had the chance to enjoy the sunshine and relax over the past week. If you've got any half term photos to show what you've got up to, we'd love to see them!
Your home learning this half term will be brought to you by the wonderful Miss Woodnett and Miss Wendt! Please don't worry about Miss Hamer, she is still with us at Ravensbury but she will be working with some of the children who are currently based in school.
Some of you may have already worked with Miss Woodnett in Y2 before the break so you will be very familiar with her. Miss Wendt usually works upstairs in Y5, but she did used to teach Y2 so jumped at the chance of working with KS1 again. I'm sure you will have seen her in school before.
Everything else will stay the same. There will be daily activities and weekly actvities to complete loaded onto the Padlet. There will also be science, connected curriculum and reading challenges.
Please email us your wonderful work - y2homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk - we will be celebrating your learning every Friday!
Here is your Padlet for this week, we look forward to seeing your fantastic work!
https://padlet.com/j_wendt/s63725akmfjzrsd2
Miss Wendt & Miss Woodnett