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Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 9:35am
Good morning year 6. I hope you enjoyed writing a DAD (description, action, dialogue) sentence yesterday and you noticed that I had misspelt fierce and apprehensive yesterday. I asked you also to see if you could improve the word 'walked'. You could have used stumbled or trudged.
Today the sentence I am going to write is an action sentence using an expanded list and powerful vocabulary, making sure I keep the atmosphere needed for a spooky story.
Tom and Ahmet knew it was too late to turn back now! A dare was a dare!
Cautiously, Tom lifted the old, tarnished gate latch; the gate swung open, forced by the wind that had whipped up a strange force around them, they both clung on to each other, trembling, as they made their way to the ancient, warped front door and both stopped simultaneously and stared at the strange, yet familiar, symbol right in the center.
Can you spot the spelling mistake?
I have also included a 5/6 spelling in my sentence can you find it?
What do you think the word simultaneously means?
EXTRA! EXTRA!
Can you add some dialogue? What might Tom say to Ahmet? What could he reply?
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 9:32am
Yesterday’s English challenge
Well done to all the children who managed to send in their English challenge from yesterday. It was lovely to read such positive things about you all. I have attached some super sentences that really cheered me up J
Today’s English challenge
Today, I would like you to use the words below to create your own sentences. They don’t need to be about you, they just need to make sense! If you find it a little easy, why don’t you try and write your sentences as questions?
Class, climb, fast, many, sugar
Here are my examples:
The children in the class were extremely noisy.
Robert ran very fast down the hill.
How many times should you brush your teeth each day?
Is sugar good for you?
Maths Challenge
1. How many faces does a cuboid have?
2. 59 - ___ = 43
3. 6 x __ = 60
4. I have 30p in my pocket. I only have 3 coins. What coins could I have?
5. 300ml + 200ml = _____
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 8:21am
Hi everyone!
Join in with singing our days of the week song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtQcnZ2JWsY
Yesterday we look at pictures from the book 'Jaspers beanstalk' and you talked to your adult about the order and sequence of the story by saying what Jasper did on each day.
Today I would like you to think about the order of your day.
Take a look at the picture below and discuss with your adult what you do at different times of the day.
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Talk about your morning and evening routine: What do you do first, next, last?
Can you draw pictures to show the order of the things you do at these times of the day?
Don't forget, we love to see your learning so make sure you send your pictures to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 8:07am
Good Morning Reception!!
Today you are going to do something really exciting and make your very own information book about the minibeast that you found lots of information about. Remember I asked you to choose a minibeast from the text ‘Mad about Minibeasts’ and do some research and write some facts on the sheet below:
Watch the first video where I am showing you how to fold a piece of paper into a book that will have 8 pages. Pause the video at each point to make sure you fold the paper carefully. Ask a grown up to help you this, it may get a little tricky!!! The second video shows you how I used my information to write it in my little book. My cat Buffy decided to join me at this point and have a nosy at what I was doing!!!
Make your book as creative as you want. I cannot wait to see what they look like.
Good Luck!!!
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 1:43pm
Hello,
Today we are going to focus on halving . Can you remember what halving is? When you halve an amount or cut something into half, what do you do? What happens?
Don't worry if you have forgotton. Have a look at the following links to help you remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVaxiJB6Fls
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p017kztf
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z6bq6sg
Challenge 1
1. Half of 4 2. Half of 6 3. Half of 10 4. Half of 12 5. Half of 18 6. Half of 2
Challenge 2- True of False
1. Half of 4 is 2 2. Half of 6 is 4 3. Half of 10 is 7 4. Half of 12 is 6 5. Half of 8 is 4
6. Half of 20 is 10 7 Half of 16 is 9 8. Half of 18 is 9. Half of 40 is 20 10. Half of 2 is 1
Challenge 3
1. Miss wolfenden bought 12 cakes. She shared the cakes with her sister so that they both had half the amount. How many cakes did they each have?
2. Madeleine was waiting for 10 hair bobbles to arrive through the post. She opened up the box and only found half of the amount had been delivered. How many did she get?
3. 14 children wanted to go to the zoo only half of the children were allowed to go. How many went?
4. Hassan had 10 sausages on the plate. His dog ate half. How many did he have left?
5. There were 8 fish fingers . Jack and Kirsty made a fish finger sandwich, sharing the fish fingers equally. How many fish fingers did Jack have on his sandwich?
Thanks
Miss Wolfenden and Miss Riley
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 10:43am
Good morning Year 2!
How are you all getting on with your connected curriculum/ science challenges? I would love to hear how you are finding our recycling topic.
Yesterday’s sentence of the day:
The children loved playing football so we decided to play it again.
Today’s English challenge
Today’s challenge is going to be a little bit different. I know that this is possibly a difficult time for you at home and I sometimes have my down days too. It is totally normal! In day to day life, I bet you hear lots of compliments from your friends and it might make you feel good about yourself. Today I want you to write down 5 sentences and include 5 things that make you feel proud of yourself. Remember, it doesn’t have to be anything big and there are no incorrect answers. Here are my sentences:
I am proud that I have finished my jigsaw this week and I have started a new one.
I am proud that I have finished my suduko puzzles without support.
I am proud that I have been on a run three days in a row because I sometimes find running tricky.
I am proud that I have managed to do lots of school work.
I am proud that I have been recycling more items.
Maths Challenge
Well done to everybody who has been logging on to TTRockstars. Today, I would like you to try and beat your time from last week. I know you can do it.
Miss Hamer
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 10:06am
This is just a quick blog post to remind you about Lexia and activelearn.
-To get on lexia you need to go to this website https://www.lexiacore5.com/register or download the lexia app. When you get to the page which says teacher email please type in lexia@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk .The website will then take you to your own log in page where you can enter your log in detalis provided in the pack.
Lexia will help your children to practice their reading and phonics.
- To get on activelearn you will need to go to this website https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0. When you get to this page you can log in with your log in details provided in your pack. The school passcode is ppsk.
On this website there are lots and lots of books for your children to read as well as reading and comprehension games for them to play.
The Boy at the Back of the Class Chapter 10 Part 2
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 10:03am
Hi everyone! Well here is the next instalment of our story-part 2 of chapter 10.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=PqmcYvQ
Questions
On page 10, what country did Ahmet go to and where did he stay?
Why do you think Ahmet and Ms Hemsi used pictures to explain Ahmet’s story?
Does Ahmet like living in England? Use evidence on page 112 to support your answer.
How do you think everyone felt after hearing Ahmet’s story?
What question would you have asked Ahmet?
Why didn’t Mrs Khan want the children to ask Ahmet questions without checking with her or Ms Hemsi first?
Wednesday sentence of the day and phonics :)
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 9:52am
Good Morning Year 1! We hope you’ve had a great week so far. I have loved looking at all of your home learning pictures! I think this weeks celebration is going to be a long one!
Sentence of the day
Well done to all of those children who spotted the mistake! The time connectives were in the wrong order! It should have looked like this…
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Here are Gerards and YuXiangs sentences, well done boys!
Now look at today’s sentence. Look at the green for growths, have I used the correct grapheme (phonics) to spell the words?
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Phonics
Let’s have recap of yesterday’s phonics. Sort these words into the correct sound category. I have two for you…
Can you think of any other words to put into the categories?
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Watch the video and see if you can guess what todays sound will be?
For today’s phonics challenge I want you to make your very own phonics ai family bingo game.
First you will need to make a bingo card for all of your family with different ai words on – remember they must all be different otherwise everyone will win!
Next you need to write down all of the words that you will call of pieces of paper and fold them up.
Then when your family are ready to play you can take a piece of folded paper and call the word, they will need to cross of the word on their bingo cards if they have it.
Finally if you want to play extra games, make extra cards so that you and your family can take it in turns being the bingo caller.
Good luck!
Hope you all have a great day. Don’t forget to email us if you have any questions or super learning!
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 9:26am
Good morning year 6. Today we are going to continue to look at Spooky Stories and the sentence you are going to explore would be ideal for you to use at the start of a Spooky Story to hook in your reader.
As the feirce wind howled around Tom and Ahmet, the moonlight giving them limited visibility, they aprehensively walked up the uneven path and approached the ancient uninviting gates which guarded the monstrous house beyond.
Can you find two spelling errors? They are quite tricky!
I have also missed out an important piece of punctuation. CLUE- It is used to separate adjectives.
I would also like you to think of a better word than walked.
Write out your sentence and send it to us at our email address or Tweet us your sentence.
EXTRA, EXTRA!!
Could you now add to my sentence using DAD - I have written the description now you can add an action from the characters then some dialogue?
Date: 28th Apr 2020 @ 1:21pm
Hello,
Today's maths challenge is going to be based on doubling. We are all really good at singing the doubling song to help us remember out doubling facts. It seems such a long time since we last sung the song together so have a go at singing it to your adults. If you would like to sing more doubling songs then follow the links and have a go at learning something new.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At0quRa90rs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U2QLjqripY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9YQ4phTB0E
Challenge 1
1.Double 6 2.Double 8 3.Double 9 4.Double 4 5.Double 3 6. Double 1 7. Double 5
Challenge 2
1. Miss Wolfenden bought 4 cakes. she needed double. How many cakes did she need?
2. Mrs Hughes has a 'double it' machine. She put 9 biscuits in it . How many came out?
3. Jessica bought 5 lollies. Her mum made double the amount. How many cakes did her mum make? How many altogether?
4. Jack built a tower 12 bricks high. Tom built a tower and used double the amount of bricks. How many bricks did Tom use?
The Boy at the Back of the Class Chapter 10 Part 1
Date: 28th Apr 2020 @ 12:45pm
Good afternoon year 6, what a great day I am having today in school. I didn't want to miss reading chapter 10 so I have done it in school with two special guest appearances. See if you can tell who it is as I am reading with them.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=sQ4QrpY
Can you think after hearing the first part of Chapter 10 what else Ahmet might talk about and where are the rest of his family?
CC - The Anglo Saxons and Vikings - TASK 2
Date: 28th Apr 2020 @ 12:16pm
What was an Anglo Saxon Settlement like?
Hi Year 4, I hope you're all ready for some more CC learning! This is the second task on our new topic, so if you missed last week's scroll down the blog until you see it!
This week we are going to explore where the Anglo Saxons lived, these are called 'settlements'. Watch the two short videos below to find out the information you will need to complete your task!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zc3b4wx - Why the anglo saxons came to Britain.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/znjqxnb - A tour around an Anglo-Saxon settlement.
Activity - Use the information to draw and label (or design and make!) your own Anglo- Saxon settlement. Watch the video carefully and make notes of important features!
We'd love to see your creativity so don't forget to email your pictures to the Y4 email or tweet us!
Date: 28th Apr 2020 @ 11:36am
28.04.20 - MATHS - WEEK 2 TASK 2 - ANGLES (Properties of Shape)
Over the next few tasks we will be looking at ‘Properties of Shapes’. This week we will begin with angles! Read the information below carefully, you may have heard of some of these angles before!
Click on the links below to learn more about different types of angles. (make sure flash is enabled to load the links!)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zb6tyrd/articles/zg68k7h
http://flash.topmarks.co.uk/651 - when you have finished watching the intro click ‘skip intro’ and select ‘Make and Measure’ to explore measuring with an online protractor!
Activity: Look carefully at the 'Obtuse and Acute Angles' worksheet attached, complete the task in your exercise book by writing the correct name of each angle.
Tuesday Sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 28th Apr 2020 @ 10:03am
Good Morning! It was great to see you all up and busy doing your home learning yesterday, we had so many emails and pictures to reply to which really made us smile! Well done!
Sentence of the day
Here are the answers from yesterday’s sentence of the day. Lots of you spotted the mistakes so well done. Here are my corrections as well as some of yours that you have sent in.
Courteous's sentence of the day! Well done Courteous!
For today’s sentence I’m going to write some instructions. But are the time
connectives in the right order? Time connectives tell us which order to do things in. They are really important in instructions because they help us do them in the right order. Put on your detective hat, what have I done wrong?
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Phonics
Lets have a quick read practice of those tricky words from yesterday. Look at the video and turn the sound off! Can you read the tricky words? Give yourself a point for every word you read correctly? How many points did you get? Can you beat your score?
Watch the video below to find out all about todays phonics…
We hope you all have a lovely day. Don't forget to send your home learning and love heart pictures into us at y1homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 28th Apr 2020 @ 9:57am
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In the story ‘Jasper’s beanstalk’ Jasper planted a bean and waited for the bean to grow.
Hopefully the weather will stay fine this week, so when you go outside have a look around and see if you can spot things that grow.
What plants, trees or flowers can you see outside or in your garden? You can use the 'plant and flower hunt' sheet attached to see which ones you can spot.
Talk and describe to your adult what you can see.
How long do you think it has taken for the plant, tree or flowers to grow?
How do you think it has changed?
You could draw a picture or take photographs of the plants / trees you find.
It would be great if you could plant your own bean /bulbs / plants / flowers or vegetables at home and watch them grow. You would then be able to see how it has changed over time.
I am going to plant sunflower seeds in my garden and watch to see how tall the sunflowers will grow!
You could even try planting pepper seeds or apple pips and watch to see if they grow too!
Have a look at the picture below for some creative planting ideas.
You can also use the links and activities below to find out some more about growing and planting:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/how-does-your-garden-grow
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/joinin/down-on-the-farm-grow-your-own-article
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwCe3zzNzL8
Date: 28th Apr 2020 @ 9:55am
Good morning Year 2
It has been lovely receiving all of your wonderful heart photos.Keep them coming!
English challenge:
Can you spot the mistakes?
the childrn lovd playng football so we desided to play it agayn
Reading
Don't forget to make use of our online reading activities such as Active learn and Lexia. Well done to the children who have been logging on to Lexia. It is great to see that you are all working hard at home!
Maths challenge:
Active maths! This is one of my favourite maths activities (and some of the children’s too). With the help of an adult, write down 8 different number sentences/challenges on 8 different pieces of paper and ask somebody to hide them around the house/garden. You have as much time as you need to find them and write down the answers in your book. Here are some examples. You can make them more simple/difficult:
- 6 x ___ = 30
- How many sides does a pentagon have?
- 58 = 82 - ___
- How many cm are in a m?
- Half 30 = ___
- How many hours are in a day?
- 24 + 12 = ___
- 80 = 62 + ___
Good Luck!
Miss Hamer
Date: 28th Apr 2020 @ 8:32am
Yesterday we read the story ‘Jaspers beanstalk’. If you haven’t had chance to listen to it, you can by using the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da6lxY_8jmU&t=18s
At nursery we are ‘Speaking Superheroes’!
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Over the last two terms, we have learnt lots of vocabulary relating to size and we use a wide range of words to describe and compare different sizes of things.
Do you remember this part of the story?
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Today’s vocabulary challenge is to look at the picture above.
Think carefully about how the beanstalk has changed over time.
Now you can be a ‘Speaking Superhero’ by using lots of great words to describe the different sizes of the beanstalk?
Can you draw different sized beanstalks?
Use your ‘Speaking Superhero’ words to describe the sizes of your beanstalks and ask your grown up to write the words you have used next to your picture.
Don’t forget to send a picture of your learning to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
I can’t wait to see your super work!
Tuesday's Maths - Drawing shapes
Date: 28th Apr 2020 @ 7:56am
Are you ready for your Maths learning today?
Join in this song and use your hands to create some of the shapes we know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2jdZ46nK-M
Yesterday we went on a shape hunt. Did you find lots of shaped objects?
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I went on a shape hunt around the garden. Take a look at the different shaped objects I found and talk to your adult about all the shapes you can see.
Now we are going to have a go at drawing some of the shapes:
CLICK HERE TO WATCH TODAY'S SHOW ME CLIP
Today's challenge is to have a go at drawing or painting the shapes you have found.
We would love to see your shape pictures so make sure you send them to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 3:31pm
READER OF THE WEEK
Attention Year 4!
Every week your teachers will be announcing their ‘Reader of the Week’, this will be based on the reading, spelling and grammar work that we can see being completed each week on Lexia or ActiveLearn.
Some children have already completed lots of activities on these sites but there are lots of you who will need to get logged on! Remember, these sites give you access to lots of different books but also help with your question and answer skills.
Everyone should have their log in details in their Learning Packs. If you are having trouble logging in please contact Miss Bryce on the Y4 email and she will help!
We look forward to seeing who this week’s winners will be… to be announced on Friday’s celebration post!
Good Luck!
From the Year 4 Team
The Boy at the Back of the Class Chapter 9
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 3:08pm
Good afternoon year 6. You are going to find this chapter a big surprise. I certainly did!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=KbTvov2
Questions
What do pomegranates look like? Both inside and out.
When did the narrator give the new boy the pomegranate? Why then?
What happened on page 93 that was so unusual?
Why do you think Ahmet attacked Brendan-the-Bully?
What was Ahmet and Brendan’s punishment? Do you think it was fair? Why/why not?
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 2:52pm
Keep active and moving with GoNoodle!
See if you can join in and complete a fun GoNoodle activity everyday!
You will find a guide to help you navigate the site in your home learning pack...Enjoy!
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Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 1:57pm
I hope you have seen the super video on the school website / Twitter of all the staff using their hands / fingers to create a heart shape. This is to show that we are all missing you very much! If you have not seen it yet, please make sure you take a look.
Here is a picture of the EYFS team making a heart shape to give you an idea!
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We have a very exciting challenge for you to do this week too...
Your challenge is to create a heart shape using your hands / fingers, take a photograph and send it to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
The photos will be used on the class blog pages online and on our school twitter account, so please make sure you are happy for us to use them on these platforms before sending it to us.
Have fun creating your picture. We can't wait to see your photo! ❤️
Love Miss Heritage and Mrs Ganner
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 1:43pm
Fancy doing a bit of art? Something creative?
Click on the link below and have a go...
https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/foundation/texture-treasure-hunt-year-6-wk1-5
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 12:03pm
You have probably completed your writing tasks we set and put in your packs so it is time to start something new. Writing a Haunted House Spooky Story!
The link below will take you to a powerpoint where you can follow the story and make your own spooky decisions
House on Haunted Hill Powerpoint B G Waldram
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/englishC6.htm
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Click on the yellow highlighted link and off you go!
Look out for more spooky stories to follow.