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Date: 5th May 2020 @ 12:42pm
We have had some new players on the NUMBOT website and app!
Well done to everyone who has started playing the games. If you haven't had your log in details yet you can get them by sending a request in to our home learning email:
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Here are the players who have played so far:
NNH
Ott E-101, Jay Milliplex, Bolt Numberclone, Vesper Sigma-1
NVG
Gold Aeroplex, Tiny Earthtron, Merigold Digitar, Sparky Hydra-2.1, Junk Stellatronic, Z.O.E Autopod, Joy Stellastar, Krypton Aqualon, Stone Ultramorph
Keep watching updates on the blog to see who has been playing these fabulous number games! Will you join the robot number challenges?
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 10:21am
Good morning everyone,
I don't know about you but I can't wait to get out in that sun so today's challenge is one that can be done outside if you like.
Today we are focusing on having a growth mindset and doing this through yoga. Having a growth mindset means you have a positive attitude to your learning and know that just because you may find something difficult and you can't do it yet, you will get there as long as you don't give up!
Here are 5 different growth mindset yoga poses to try. Please feel free to try as many or as few positions as you like and send any pictures to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
Thank you so much to the pupils who have sent in pictures of their shields of strength from yesterday, it really makes my day to see what you've ben doing!
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 10:03am
Good morning everyone,
Do you remember our visit to the Imperial War Museum? Well they have a brilliant website full of photographs of VE day! I have been finding out lots about VE day this week with my little girls, who are only in Year 3 so they really don’t know as much about WWII as you all do! We have really enjoyed looking at old photos of the V.E. day celebrations- Who were the women in Trafalgar Square fountains on V.E. day? Click below to see if historians ever found out! I just keep imagining how relieved and happy the people must have been after 6 long years of war! I have found 6 weeks of lockdown tough at times!
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/10-photos-of-ve-day-celebrations
What fantastic first hand sources they make of this time. Can you imagine what the people are thinking using your knowledge of this period? Perhaps these could help you with your VE day challenge this week? You could imagine interviewing some of these people or writing their diary or letter home. Enjoy investigating!
The Boy at the Back of the Class Chapter 14
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 9:50am
Good morning year 6. The sun is shining today and I hope you make time to go outdoors safely for your hourly exercise.
Here is chapter 14. It is getting really exciting now and I can't wait to find out what the friends get up to trying to help Ahmet.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=xc2tfSi
Questions
The Boy at the Back of the Class Chapter 14
On page 153, what were the problems with the ‘Top Secret Mission’?
What was the problem with Tom’s plan? (Page 154-155)
What was the problem with Josie’s plan? (Page 155-156)
What was the librarian Mrs Finnicky like? Use evidence from the text to help support your answer with evidence. (Page 158-160)
On page 161, find and copy a word that means instantly.
Tuesday Sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 9:20am
Good Morning! Today looks like it’s going to be a sunny day J Hopefully you can enjoy the sun and do some of your learning outside.
Sentence of the day
Here are the answers for yesterday’s sentence of the day. Well done to everyone who managed to put the time connectives in the correct order.
First fill your flower pot with twigs and dried leaves
Next find a shady area of the garden
After that put some stones in your flower pot to stop it flying away
Then add some sugar to the pot
Finally peek inside to see which bugs have visited your hotel
Today’s challenge is to put in the missing full stops in these sentences. Remember full stops come at the end of a sentence. So your phonics to read the sentences yourself and find where the full stops belong. Good Luck
The creepy crawly bugs found the bug hotel_ It was warm and had all of their favourite snacks inside_ The spiders liked the dark corners and made their webs there_ The butterflies liked the bits in the warm sun where they could flutter their wings_
Phonics
Let’s make sure your brains are up and awake before we find out todays phonics challenge. How many tricky words can you remember from yesterday? Put on a 2 minute timer and see how many you can remember. Did you manage to spell them all correctly?
Todays phonics challenge focusses on the oa sound family.
Here are some pictures and words, can you sort them all and match them to the correct grapheme?
Here’s a tip – you might want to write out the word to match the pictures so you can test which grapheme looks right e.g. is it croe,croa,crowe,crow?
Hope you all have a lovely day
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 8:41am
Good morning Year 2,
I loved reading your questions yesterday. I have also received some brilliant book reviews. Great work Year 2!
English challenge
Spot the conjunctions:
Can you read the sentences below, write them down in your books and underline the conjunctions?
We could buy pens or we could buy pencils.
Sarah opened the door but she did not go outside.
The people put on their coats and they went to town.
Bob likes walking when he is on holiday.
Lucy started to cry because the bird ate her ice cream.
Don’t forget to check back tomorrow for the answers.
Maths Challenge
How many different ways can you make 68p?
How many different ways can you make 43p?
How many different ways can you make 26p?
Remember we do not have a 3p, 6p or 8p…
Miss Hamer
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 4:39pm
Good afternoon Year 6,
For this week's Connected Curriculum task we will be going back to 1945 again! This week would have been a special celebration in school as Friday 8th May had been made into a Bank Holiday to mark the 75th anniversary of VE day. As we have spent much of our time finding out about WWII this year, I thought it would be fun to celebrate this week with a special V.E. Day challenge.
Click the link below for more information and good luck! Remember to send in your competition entries and email or tweet us too!
https://ve-vjday75.gov.uk/dan-snows-ve-day-challenge/
REMINDER: We've updated your home learning to hopefully make it a bit easier for you to access everything.
From today onwards we will be uploading activities onto a Padlet Page (thanks for the idea Year 4!)
You can access this page here: https://padlet.com/y6homelearning/nxkcu8zxxd8kmxo7
Let us know what you think!
The Boy at the Back of the Class Chapter 13
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 4:00pm
Good afternoon year 6. Here is Chapter 13 for you to join in with.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=jBCgmGG
Don't forget to summarise the chapter in ONLY 3 sentences and predict what the children might plan to do to help Ahmet.
Story Adventure The House on Haunted Hill Part 2
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 3:17pm
Well Maddison was the first to respond to we are heading round the back.
You walk around the back, careful not to step into the stinking puddles that seem to be everywhere. It is darker round the back as the house’s tall spires block out the bright moonlight. You hear a rustle and spin on your heel, nothing.
You walk on but hear the rustling again. This is doing nothing for your nerves. You realise you are trembling before you have even entered the house.
Do you want to investigate the source of the noise
Or
Continue to find a back door?
Another decision to make...
Who will be the first to answer?
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 12:22pm
Good Morning Year 4!
I hope you are all well and have had a lovely weekend! There are lots of new and exciting activities for you to complete this week on the Year 4 Home Learning Page...
Click on the link below to find your learning activities for this week:
https://padlet.com/mr_leverton/jg6rbkql3b7elw1f
We now have a new feature on the page, so you can 'like' each task you have completed! Just click the heart symbol on the task you are working on! Let's see how many likes we can get!
I know lots of you are working so hard on all of your tasks, so well done and keep up the good work! I can't wait for our learning celebration when we are back in school... I'm sure I will be very impressed! Don't forget you can contact your teachers on the y4 email if you have and questions or updates to share.
Stay safe,
Miss Bryce :)
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 12:21pm
Happy Tuesday !
Hello everyone,
We hope you are ready for more addition challenges today! It is going to be a bit trickier and more of a challenge so we are going to do it step by step today so do not worry. Lets get out brains working and do some counting exercise like yesterday. Ask your adults to join in. I am going to get my family to join in all week. Why don't you send in your videos they would be lovely to watch at the end of the week. Today you can watch Joe, Miss wolfenden's son working out.
1. Joe Joe's Jumping Jacks - see video . Can you count in steps of 5 to 100?
2. Miss Wolfenden's wiggles- wiggle your body using your different body parts from 0 to 100.
3. Bethany's bounce the ball- Can you bounce a ball backwards from 50 to 0?
4. Callum's kick backs- Can you count in steps of 10, forwards and back from 0 to 100?
5. Frankie's claps- Can you count how many claps you can do?
6. Maddie's mountain bikers- Can you count in steps of 2 from 0 to 30? If you can do that really well then count backwards from 30.
Todays learning
So today we are going to continue with solving addition word problems using an number line but instead of counting forward in steps of 1 we are going to use a different strategy called bridging through ten. To do this really well we need to know are number pairs to 10.
Chhallenge 1
Say your number pairs to 10. Don't worry if you have forgotten, it's ok. Listen to the songs in the links below to help you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch7KzI3n2Zk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJFbJxXYaLw
Challenge 2
let's have a go at solving simple additions using a number line but we are going to bridge through 10.
What is bridging through 10?
It is when children recognise how number bonds to ten help them to add numbers with a total greater than ten and up to 20. Provide children with number lines and ten-frames for them to see practically how to bridge ten. Ask yourself the following questions.
How many do you add to the first number to make ten? How many more do you need to add after getting to ten?
How can you use number bonds to ten to help add numbers? How many more do you need to add to the ten-frame to make ten? How many more do you need to put in the second ten-frame?
Have a look at this image and see if it helps
look at how I worked out the first one! 8+4=
http://www.showme.com/sh?h=2yZHRrM
Finish of the questions and then have a go at the bridging through 10 activity card in the blue box at the bottom
Challenge 3
Now let's see if we can do the same thing with addition word problems. I will talk you through the first one. Make sure you have your number line to 20 ready!
1. Peter bought 6 cars from Tesco. He then went into Morrisons and bought 8 more. How many altogether?
Sometimes it is easier to write the addition sentence too! 6+8= This is how I worked it out
http://www.showme.com/sh?h=w2OAKPo
2. Mrs Hughes bought 7 pencils from the shop. Mrs Leadbetter gave her 9 more pencils. How many altogether?
Can you write the addition sentence to match? if Mrs Highes took half of the pencils how many would she have?
3. Joshia found 8 smails in the garden. He looked under a log and found 5 more. How many snails did he have altogether? Miss Wolfenden found a small tank that has enough space for 10 snails. Is the tank big enough?
4. Michael found 4 red bilkes. Miss Conway gave him 7 more. How many bikes did he have altogether?
5. Miss Wolfenden picked up 1 biscuit from the kitchen. Miss Riley gave her 10 more. How many did she have altogether?
6. Frankie found 5 toys in his toy box. His mum gave him 8 more. How many toys did he have?
7. Madeleine got 1 Easter egg. The Easter bunny brought 13 more. How many eggs did she have?
8. Jack bought 2 boxes of smarties. He was then given 16 more boxes. How many boxes did he have altogether?
9 There are 4 balls in Frankie's ball pit. His dad throws 10 more balls into the pit. How many balls does he have?
10. There are 3 cushions on the settee. Joe bought 8 more. How many altogether?
Don't forget to email your videos into school!
Miss Wolfenden and Miss Riley
Connected Curriculum Learning-Plants and growing
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 11:32am
Hello,
So far we have looked at seasonal changes and we have noticed the changes that have happened around us, in our environment, because it is Spring. Hopefully you have drawn the changes that you can see e.g. plants growing and have 'had a go' at writing about them.
Today we are going to be thinking about what a plant needs to grow , we are going to labelling the different parts of a plant and thinking about their function . To help us know more about this I want you to watch the following links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUBIQ1fTRzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSBcMYYEwtM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLhTgTwbYMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP5jnuvMqxQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD60-3rqPXg
I hope you have an idea of what a plant needs to grow and what the different parts of a plant is called.
Challenge 1
What does a plant need to grow? Can you draw a picture to explain what you know?
Challenge 2
What would haappen if a plant did not get any sun or water when it wwas growing? How do you know?
Challenge 3- copy and complete the sheet
Challenge 4-copy and complete the sheet
Challenge 5
When you out in the garden or walking as part of your daily exercise then have a look for all the plants you can see and see if they are on the plant hunt sheet.
Story Adventure The House on Haunted Hill Part 1
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 10:28am
The House on Haunted Hill
An Adventure
By B.G. Waldram
You shake your head as you march up the creepy hill.
How did you get yourself into this mess? The wind whips up and blows fiercely at you as if trying to keep you away from reaching your destination. You shiver and pull your coat up around your neck, desperately trying to keep the cruel wind out. You tell yourself that the shivers down your spine and the goose bumps that have popped out all over your body is due to the cold but deep down you know it’s because the house is now in sight.
The colossal gates stand guard and the house sits behind them all sinister and spooky. You ask yourself again why you were foolish to take up the dare: ‘Who is brave enough to enter the Midnight Mansion and retrieve the Ruby Heart?’
Are you brave enough to enter this adventure with me?
You smile to yourself as you recall the moment when you stood up and declared that you were worthy of the challenge.
All the others were amazed at your bravery. Several of them cheered joyfully, happy that they weren’t attempting the foolish challenge. Several girls came and kissed you on the cheek whilst the boys clapped your back heartily. There was no way of backing out now.
Hours later, you had left the warmth of your friends behind and you are now alone, trudging towards the mansion.
You arrive at the gates and push them open; they creak noisily as if crying out to all the ghosts of the night. You stand in front of the massive house, staring at the uninviting front door. Will you try it or do you want to go around the back?
Front door Around the back
The first to answer and choose either the front door or to go around the back of the house will decide our fate!
Monday sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 10:17am
Good Morning! I hope you all had a lovely weekend! I went on a lovely peaceful walk and made some cookies to eat when I got back.
Sentence of the day
On Friday you were challenged to think of as many adjectives as you could to describe the bug hotel. Here are some brilliant examples of children using adjectives to improve the sentence. Well done!
This week, your writing challenge is to write your own set of instructions on how to make a bug hotel. So, today’s sentence of the day challenge is to put these instructions in the correct order. Write the numbers next to the sentences along with first, next, then, after that and finally.
______fill your flower pot with twigs and dried leaves
______find a shady area of the garden
______put some stones in your flower pot to stop it flying away
______add some sugar to the pot
______peek inside to see which bugs have visited your hotel
Phonics
Today’s phonics is all about those tricky words! Watch the youtube videos and write down any words that you don’t know or that you just find a bit difficult. These will be your words to practice today!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2dx65u59aw – phase 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY&t=11s – phase 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NOzgR1ANc4&t=3s – phase 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbcZnb2iz1c – phase 5
Write down the tricky words twice and play a game of pairs or snap or ask someone at home to hide the words around your house and go on a word hunt.
There are also lots of tricky word games on phonics play. Like this one…
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5/train-your-brain-ph5
Have fun and don’t forget to send us your pictures!
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 9:49am
Hello,
Well I am very pleased to say it is a sunny Monday morning. I don't know about you but I woke up really early today because the sun was shining brightly through my window. I hope it says sunny all day because it always makes me feel happy and ready for learning. Before you start your maths today I want you to do some counting exercises. Let's get out brains working this morning!
Counting exercises
1. Star jumps- count forwards from 0-50
2. Hopping- count forwards in steps of 2 from 0-30
3. Jumping with 2 feet together- counting forwards from 0 to 100 in steps of 10
4 Balancing on 1 leg- count backwards from 30 to 0
5. Body twists- count backwards from 100 to 0 in steps of 10
Today I want you to write the long date. Make sure you underline it with a ruler! Then I want you to have a go at drawing a number lime from 0-30. See if you can copy this. if you have a printer you can print one out from the file at the bottom of the page labelled number line.
Today we are going to use a number line to solve addition word problems. Remeber when we add amounts together the number gets bigger and we move fo the right on a number line.
Read this problem below
Miss wolfenden buys 10 apples from Tesco. She then drives to Morrisons and buys 6 more apples. How many apples does she have altogether?
Click this link to have a look at how to work it out
http://www.showme.com/sh?h=uCEZ22q
Now have a go at solving these word problems
1.Miss Riley buys 5 packs of felt tips from the supermarket. She then goes into school and finds 7 more packs . How many does she have altogether?
2. Mrs Hughes buys 12 oranges for the children in breakfast club. Mrs Thewlis buys 7 more oranges and brings them into breakfast club. How many oranges are there altogether. There are 20 children in breakfast club. Have they bought enough oranges?
3. Madeleine found 8 lollypops in the cupboard. She then went to the shops and bought 6 more. How many did she have altogether? She then shared them out equally between her and her friend. How many lollypops did they each have?
4. There are 14 cakes in the cake tin and Callum put 8 more in the tin. How many are there altoghether?
5. There are 7 birds singing in the trees. 10 more birds land on the branch. How many birds are there altogether?
6. 16 cars are red, 5 cars are blue, 7 cars are yellow and 14 cars are pink.
How many cars would there be altogether if ........
a- The pink cars and blue cars were together? b- The red cars and yellow cars were together?
c- The red and the blue cars are together? d- The yellow and pink cars are together?
e- The red and pink cards are together? f- The blue and yellow cars are together?
7. There are 5 children in the swimming pool and 9 more children jump in. How many altogether?
8. 3 people get in a coach and 17 people join them. How many altogether?
9. Buzz lightyear collects 6 toys and puts them into his cart. He then finds Woody, Bo peep, Forky, Ham, Wheezy and Gabby in Als Toy Barn. He puts all the toys in his cart and takes them home. How many toys are in the cart?
10. Faiz builds a tower that is 9 bricks tall. Courteous builds a tower that is 6 bricks tall and Michael builds a tower that is 4 bicks tall. They join all the bricks together to make a really tall tower. How many bricks high is their tower.
Happy counting
Miss Wolfenden and Miss Riley
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 9:41am
Good morning Year 2!
I hope you have all had a lovely, restful weekend. I am so glad that the sun is back out for a few days.
It was brilliant to see you add adjectives to your sentences on Friday’s challenge. Well done!
Here goes the long Monday morning blog…
English Challenge
I love watching films and I seem to get attached to characters quickly. I am constantly shouting questions at my TV wanting to know more! For example, does Elsa stay in the Enchanted Forest or does she go back to Arendelle?
Today, your challenge is to watch a short video clip from Literacy shed. I would like you to really think about the main character and how she might be feeling. If you were to meet her, what sort of questions would you like to ask her? I would like you to write down 5 questions that you would like to ask and don’t forget to use your question marks.
https://www.literacyshed.com/bubbles.html
Maths Challenge
Today I would like you to complete your fluent in 5:
1. 60 = 24 + ___
2. Half of 6 = ___
3. 90 – 47 = ___
4. Double 16 = ___
5. 30ml + 60ml = ___
Well done to the children who have been using TTRockstars! I am very impressed. Don’t forget you could also use fun websites such as top marks to keep you busy!
Reading Challenge
Can you write a book review on your favourite book or a book that you are currently reading? Write down a few sentences to answer the questions below:
What is title of the book?
What is the book about?
Would you/ would you not recommend the book to your friends? Why?
What words has the author used to make the book more interesting?
Can you think of a more exciting ending for the book?
I would like you to read at least 3 books on Lexia this week. You could even write your book review on one of them. I can’t wait to give out more Lexia certificates at the end of this week!
Vocabulary challenge
Vocab detectives!
This week, I would like you to read the article attached below. With support from an adult, pick out some words that you may not have come across before. I would like you to write down what you think the word might mean. I would then like you to research the word to see if you were correct. Whilst reading the article, I noticed some words that you may struggle with such as aluminium, landfill and decompose. Have a look yourself and make some notes as you read.
https://www.coolkidfacts.com/recycling-facts-for-kids/
Miss Hamer’s weekly challenge
I have attached a brilliant outdoor hunt sheet that I would love to share with you all. There is a number next to each photo based on how difficult the objects are to find. I would like you to make a tally chart of how many times you see the objects on your daily walk and then work out the total using the numbers on the hunt sheet.
Have a great day.
Miss Hamer
Why doesn't a spider get stuck to its own web?
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:43am
Good Morning Reception!
Did you enjoy the Very Busy Spider story? If you haven’t watched it yet – the link to the video is here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfL0g-XRxnA&t=45s
In the story, the spider is VERY busy spinning her web! After reading this story, I thought it would be a great idea to participate in a science experiment linked to spider’s webs!! Spiders catch their prey in a web (like the fly in the story!) Spider’s webs are extremely sticky so that bugs stick to them and cannot move!
But… why doesn’t a spider get stuck to its own web?
This is what we are going to investigate!
In this experiment we are going to create our own webs and test whether our fingers stick like the fly or do not stick like the spider!
You will need:
Sticky Tape
Cooking Oil
Step one: Spread out the tape sticky side up.
Step two: Ask children to walk their fingers across the tape. What happens??
Did your fingers stick?? That is like the bugs on a spider’s web.
Step three: Now, put some cooking oil on the children’s fingers and do the same – walk their fingers across the sticky tape.
Do their fingers stick now? No! Spiders have natural oils on their bodies that keeps them from sticking to things.
I hope you enjoy this experiment!
Please email in your pictures and results to the reception home learning email (receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk)
Have fun!!
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:40am
Good Morning Reception!
I hope you have had a lovely weekend and are ready to take part in some exciting maths learning today!
First, let’s warm up with our maths songs and today’s fluent-in-five questions!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVzXKfr6e8&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Ajq682yrA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGetqbqDVaA
Today we are going to be focusing our maths learning on measuring weight.
Take a listen to a catchy measurement song below. We have listened to this weight song before in reception; it’s about a big, heavy elephant!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cjPApFuGLM
When we practise measuring weight in reception, we often have turned into ‘human balance scales.’
This is where children stand with their arms placed to the side of us with hands spread. Place an item on each hand and ask children to tip to show which item is heavier and which is lighter. Use balance scales to check the children’s estimations.
Children could also hold buckets or bags in each hand and place items inside to feel which has the stronger downward pull.
When we teach weight, we encourage children to use the language of heavy, heavier, heaviest, light, lighter, lightest to compare items. To avoid misconceptions that bigger items are always heavier, we provide some small, heavier items and some large, lighter ones. Below, I have posted some fun ideas for measurement activities at home!
Busy Bag Challenge:
Use a basket or bag to collect lots of items around your house.
Once you have found lots of items, can you sort them by weight?
Balance scales activity:
Give children an item, for example, an apple. Challenge them to find things which feel heavier and lighter than the apple and sort them into sets.
Ask children to use the balance scales to check their estimation.
Are all the heavier things larger than the apple?
Can they find anything which is larger than the apple but lighter?
Ask children to use cubes or similar objects to balance an item on one side and adding cubes until the scales balance. How many cubes are the same weight as an apple?
Weekly Vocabulary Challenge ‘Baby Animals’
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:28am
Describe the Baby Animals Weekly Challenge
I bought this book from Home Bargains last week for you. I know how much you like animals. You might have some animals like these at home. We call them pets. I haven’t got any pets but if I did, I’d love to have a dog. Dogs are silly and they like cuddles, which is a bit like me! Tell your grown up what you know about pets. How do you look after them?
Watch and listen to the Show Me Video and join in pointing to the words as I read the story. You’ll need your listening ears too because I’m going to ask you lots of questions.
http://www.showme.com/sh?h=9hZkYee
Use the Superhero Speaking Cape Symbols from class to help you (see photo below)
Pause the video: Can you use shape words to describe the animals?
Shape Vocabulary –describe the shapes – round, circular, tall, pointy, wide,
Pause the video: Can you use texture words to describe the pictures?
Texture Vocabulary– fuzzy, soft, fluffy, silky, squidgy, smooth
Challenge:
Find groups of objects in your house and sort them by shape or texture. Can you describe your objects using interesting vocabulary? I’ll post the groups I found on Friday
I hope you find lots of objects to put in your groups. Maybe you could have some spiky objects or some hard objects. Make sure you send in photos or videos of your learning to
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have Fun
From Mrs Ganner
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:20am
Good Morning Reception!!
Let us start today’s phonic activity by revising Phase 3 tricky words. Use your Phase 3 tricky word mat and play fastest finger first. Grown ups say a tricky word, who will point to it the fastest...?
Sing the tricky word song. Write the Phase 3 tricky words on scraps of paper and put them around your room where you can see them. Each time you sing a tricky word in the song point or stand near the word. Click the video link at the bottom of the blog for the song.
Today we are going to think about a new sound. This sound is a trigraph. A trigraph is three letters that make one sound. Our new sound is…
Watch this show me video where I am going through the trigraph igh:
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=17KwBOq
Today’s practise and apply activities are:
Can you make some igh words using the letters on the sheet? Time yourself, how many will you be able to write in 1 minute…?
For example, on the sheet I can see bright and might.
Can you label the pictures with the igh words…? Mrs Iqbal and Mrs Cooper’s Phonic groups choose three words and write some super sentences.
Can you find the igh words in the wordsearch?
Play the game Dragon’s Den on Phonics Play. Click Phase 3 and find the sound ‘igh.’
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/dragons-den
Love Mrs Iqbal
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:14am
Did you get to try something new over the weekend? Was it fun ?
We thought we'd do something new on our blog this week - a round the world quiz! We'll post questions about somewhere around the world and you can send us your answers to Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk.
Question 1
Can you name the country and the capital city for this flag?
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:09am
Good Morning Reception!!
This week we have a new story all about a very busy spider. Listen to the video at the bottom of the blog where I am reading the story for you.
Can you remember all the animals in the story? Tell your grown up all the animals that were in the story. Use the story PowerPoint to see if you remembered all the animals.
Mrs Iqbal and Mrs Cooper’s Phonics groups – Use a piece of paper and make a story map of the story. Use the animal pictures attached to the blog or you could draw the animals. Look at my story map to give you an idea…
Miss Williams and Miss Cogger’s Phonic groups – Match the animal to the word. Cut out the animal pictures and read the words and match the picture to the correct words.
Love Mrs Iqbal
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Weekly Connected Curriculum Challenge 'The Family Book - Creating Family Art'
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:08am
Creating Family Art
This week we will be learning about our families and there are lots activities you can choose to do after listening to the story I am reading for you. Watch the video of me reading 'The Family Book'
Choose one or more of the challenges that your family would like to complete with you and then send your photos to us
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Exciting Science Challenge (You need a packet of Skittles sweets)
Do the ‘skittlescope experiment’ together and use your speaking skills to find out what will happen.
First of all watch the video and talk to your family as you find out together. Explain what you think is happening and try to work out what will happen next as you watch this video. Then retell the video and carry out the experiment for yourself using your super scientist skills.
Messy Outdoor Art Challenge (see photo below)
Create a picture on an old bed sheet using paint filled balloons, your feet, hands and body! Use your hands to move the paint and draw your family’s faces. Can you write your name too? Talk to your family about completing this challenge, listen to each other and decide if this is something your family would like to do. Hope the weather doesn’t stop your fun! After creating your art, hang it up on the fence outside and see what happens when it rains next.
What happened to the colours as they mix?
Do you think your art will look the same as the children’s in your class at school? Why do you think that?
Artist’s Creative Colour Mixing Challenge (see photos below)
Use a paintbrush to experiment mixing new colours using 2 or more paints. Use these colours to paint a picture of something you like. You might want to paint your family or your house or a pet or another rainbow for your window? You can choose anything you want because you are the artist.
The picture below is by an artist called Banksy and he created it to honour the NHS workers. I love how the ‘S’ is like the Superman logo because our NHS workers are all Superheroes.
I can’t wait to see your photos!
Have an amazing time learning with your family
From Mrs Ganner
imoves fun for the body and mind
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:04am
Note to parents:
Before I post our weekly challenges I want you to join in with one of the fabulous videos from imoves with your child. They are a brilliant company who have made lots of their videos available for parents and teachers for free during this Covid 19 school closure. The videos are fun ways to teach your child about exercise and keeping your mind healthy too. One of my favourites is the worry monster but your child can choose their own.
Active Challenge
Click this link and then find a video like the one in the photo or choose one of your own
https://imoves.com/the-imovement
If you like this video you could try some of the other Active Blasts for children Ages 4-7
Have a blast!
Mrs Ganner
Welcome to this week's learning
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:01am
Hello again Nursery!
It’s lovely to be back on the Nursery blog. I will be posting lots of interesting activities and challenges this week and Miss Heritage is busy thinking of some more fun things to do with you next week.
‘Nursery Nursery who can it be? Teach me about your family’
I want to let you know about the challenges I’m setting you this week. They are all about teaching me about your family and where you live. I will post separate blogs for each of the challenges very soon. By the end of the week the home learning you send in will show me some things that are the same as your friends, some similarities and some differences because all of our families and homes are unique to us.
Video Exercises imoves
Before learning every day why not try some funky imoves active blasts to get your body and mind ready for the challenges we set for you?
Connected Curriculum Weekly Challenge
‘The Family Book’ is all about celebrating the kinds of families we have and you can choose a challenge as a follow up to show me your learning
Vocabulary Weekly Challenge
This week we will be focussing on using the language of shape and texture to talk about the pictures we see in a book called ‘Baby Animals’
Reading Weekly Challenge
On the blog this week we’re going to share a CBeebies bedtime story every night. Each day I will post a new link for you to watch before you go to bed.
Home Learning Weekly Challenge
Send any photos or videos of the challenges you complete at home to me by Friday tea time and I’ll put them all up on the blog for you to share with your friends. This is one of my favourite parts of blogging from home so please send lots and lots of photos or short videos in.
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Tomorrow I will start setting you a daily phonics and maths challenge too, as well as posting the next CBeebies bedtime story so you can end your day relaxing with a book
Maths Daily Challenges
This week we will be using a book from our Maths area, ‘Big Round Red Balloon’ to learn about flat, 2D shapes. YOU WILL NEED TOILET OR KITCHEN ROLL TUBES ON THURSDAY SO START SAVING THEM.
Phonics Daily Challenges
This week we are going to continue to work on linking initial sounds to objects and isolating initial sounds to be able to complete lots of challenges with our families using the beginning sound of their names. We will use the book, ‘Alfie’s Alphabet’ to help us
I’m so excited about this week of learning together at home. Hope you are too!
From Mrs Ganner
