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Weekly Connected Curriculum Challenge - How to Grow and Care for Plants
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 7:49am
How to Grow and Care for Plants
Find something growing in your garden or in the park during your daily exercise time – look at the grass or a flower– DON’T PICK IT! Leave it growing in the ground to show everyone you care for living things. Talk about what you know about plants. You could describe what it looks like or say how it has grown.
Challenge Choices
If you are a scientist you can use a computer to find out about flower grow using your knowledge of the story, ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ and by looking at videos on the internet like these:
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO 'THE NEEDS OF A PLANT'
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO GROVER TALK ABOUT PLANTS
CLICK HERE TO WATCH A SUNFLOWER GROW
If you are a singer you could learn a new song like this one and sing it to your family
If you are a dancer you could pretend you are a plant growing and move along with the music.
If you are an artist you could paint or draw a picture of a flower using the colours that you see. Look at the beautiful painting my daughter made below.
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If you are a speaker you can use words to talk about what you have seen and learned. You could make a video describing your favourite flower and talk about how it grew.
WATCH THE VIDEO OF ME TALKING ABOUT A FLOWER I FOUND
There are lots of things to keep you busy there. Remember to choose your favourite and send in photos or videos of your learning by Friday
From Mrs Ganner
Welcome to this week’s learning
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 7:42am
Hello Nursery!
It’s lovely to be back on the Nursery blog. It’s my turn to be posting lots of activities and challenges this week and Miss Heritage is busy thinking of some more fun things to do with you next week.
‘Nursery, Nursery what do you know? Teach me all about how plants grow’
These are challenges to complete any time over the coming week:
Connected Curriculum Weekly Challenge
This week I want you to complete one or more of the challenges on the list. You’re choosing your favourite ways to show me and Miss Heritage what you have learned over the past few weeks about growing and caring for plants.
Reading Weekly Challenge
We are going to read through the story ‘The Tiny Seed’ by Eric Carle and as I read it I want you predict what will happen to the seeds. After that you will be able to tell me all of the interesting things that happen in the story and create drawings with initial sound labels on them.
Vocabulary Weekly Challenge
This week our vocabulary challenge will be learning new verbs. We are going to learn about how the seed moves in ‘The Tiny Seed’ and play games using a vocabulary spinner.
Then you are going to complete one of the verbs action challenges to show me how you move. You can use the vocabulary spinner too.
Home Learning
Send any photos or videos of the challenges you complete at home to me by Friday 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 daily phonics and maths challenges :
Maths Daily Challenges
As well as looking for and describing the flowers you see this week, we are going to be creating and drawing them. Then I want you to count how many petals, label them and compare them.
Phonics Daily Challenges
This week is a ‘show me what you have learned’ week in phonics. We are going to have daily challenges using our knowledge of some of our favourite nursery rhymes. There will be lots of challenges to choose from for each Nursery Rhyme. You will be able to show me that you can say the initial sound of objects and create rhyming strings by the end of the week.
I’m so exciting about learning together at home again. I hope you are too!
From Mrs Ganner
Monday sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 17th May 2020 @ 7:12pm
Good Morning Year 1 and happy Monday!
I hope you all had a lovely weekend. I know it has been a long time since we have been in school and sometimes your home learning might feel a bit tricky but keep up the amazing work and don’t give up, as the more practice you have at home, the easier your learning will be when we eventually go back. Fingers crossed it won’t be too long until it’s safe for us to be in school.
Sentence of the day
Well done to all of those children who completed Friday’s sentence of the day.
On Monday Jack came home with a handful of magical beans. His mother was furious and she threw them out of the window.
Today’s sentence of the day focusses on those tricky words that you looked at on Friday. Are they all spelt correctly in this sentence?
Cud the elephants stand on thair heads?
Did Misus Green ask Mista Green for some cake?
Ow wow shouted the peepul when the dolphin flipped in the air.
Phonics
Let’s start our phonics by quickly recapping those tricky words. Write your tricky words onto scraps of paper and place them around the room. Play the tricky word video. When the song says the tricky word go and stand on that word.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbcZnb2iz1c
Today’s phonics will be focussing on those consonant blends that have three letters. Watch this video and see if you can spot the three letter blends that we are looking at today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YfuGb8f7Jo
Challenge one – When you have watched the video write down all of the three letter blends that you saw. Practice saying the blends so that you are confident in how they should sound when you read a word.
thr scr spr spl str shr
Challenge two – Look at the words below. Can you sort them into the three letter consonant blend groups?
strictest throbbing thriller strum stretcher splinter
throne scream sprout
splashing straw shrill
thrash shredder splitter
Can you think of any other words that can be put into the different consonant blend groups?
Challenge three- Now its time to go on a blend search. Read the story on https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/4/interactive-story-book
How many different words with the three letter consonant blends did you find?
Hope you all have a lovely day!
Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 4:38pm
At the start of this term we set a reading challenge to see who would be the Star Reader of the Week in each class, based on the activities completed on Lexia and ActiveLearn.
The winners of this week are….
4AR: 4JB:
Honour! David!
Well done, fantastic reading! Both winners will get to choose from the class prize boxes and decorate a biscuit when we are back in school.
Who will be the champions next week???!
Well done to everyone who has been on their Lexia and ActiveLearn accounts this week. Usernames and passwords can be found in your Home Learning Packs. If you are having trouble logging in please contact your teachers at y4homelearning.manchester.sch.uk so we can help.
Stay safe and keep working hard,
From the Year 4 team xxx
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 4:31pm
Well done to all our Year 4 learners this week! We know how hard you are all working… keep it up! Thank you for everyone who has sent us in updates so far, we love seeing and hearing about what you have been up to! Great work this week :)
If you have updates to share with your teachers please email them to y4homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 4:18pm
What a wonderful week of learning for 5HW! You make us proud every single day, you all deserve a huge well done!
My favourite time of the week is to look back at all the emails and messages to celebrate the amazing learning that has taken place. This week we have practiced new skills, baked, designed and researched!
Here are the Outstanding Learners for this week:-
Lilly-Anne
Ganesa
Rhianna
Alissia
Maddison
Come and see what they've accomplished this week!
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 3:12pm
Here are this week's Reading Plus Winners:
Most Lessons Completed: Alissia with 6 lessons at 80% or above! Well done, Alissia!
Most Words Read: Rhianna with 8,658 (how many have you won now? You always seem to be reading the most words! Well done).
This week's reading challenge was to read 5,000 words! Well done to all of the children who managed to complete this, a lot of you were very close!
The following children managed to reach this target:
Rhianna
Alissia
Sam
Dylan
Well done everyone who took part!
Enjoy your weekend,
Miss Brookes
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 3:05pm
5CB, I am so proud of all of the hard work you are putting in at home in these challenging times! We've been off school for nearly six weeks now (excluding easter half term), and yet I am still seeing pictures of you smiling and of all of the wonderful work you are completing at home. You all deserve a huge well done!
This week, the following children emailed in their work and are our outstanding learners:
Akin
Auryn
Denico
Ivory
Jessica
Jennifer
Zana
I've attached some pictures of their work below.
I'd love to see work from more of you guys so please do not hesitate to email them in - or to even email and say a hello! I'd love to know what exciting things you are getting up to at home. Tomorrow we're doing a 'family bake off' in my house. The theme is "summer holiday" and I will make sure to show you guys the results on Monday so you can help judge the winner.
I'm a proud of each and every one of you.
Enjoy your weekend,
Miss Brookes
y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:50am
I can't believe it's Friday!!! This week has flown by!!!
What a lot of amazing home learning we have seen this week!!!
Well Done Everyone!
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Have a lovely weekend!!!
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:43am
Good Morning Year 2,
I just want to say a huge THANKYOU to you all for working so hard at home this week. It really does make my day when I receive your emails showing me what you have been up to. Of course you are all SUPERSTARS but this week I would like to give a huge shout out to one person in particular. Well done to Faith for working so hard this week. Yesterday she even went to the park to make a video of her completing the active Maths challenge.
Lexia superstars
Huge well done to Hao Yu, Oscar and Andrew for climbing the Lexia ladder this week! I am so impressed with your hard work! Please find your certificates attached :)
Home learning
Here are few pictures of some of you keeping busy at home.
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:33am
Hello,
Well we got there . it has been a busy week in school and I am very pleased that it is Friday! I hope you are enjoying playing your TT rockstars game. If you are finding it a bit tricky then have a go at learning your timetables with this different website too. It is www.timetables.co.uk. You can buy ponies and cars with the points you win from knowing your timestables. Have a look at it I know my nieces Elva and Lyla are loving playing it.
Today we are going to going to solve a mixture of Addition and Subtraction problems based on what we have learnt so far. Remember the strategies we have used so far. We have used the bar method, counting on and back on a number line, using concrete objects to add and takeaway and we have used are knowledge of number facts to help us! let me know if you bridge through ten!
Challenge 1
8+8= 7+3= 10-5= 15-5= 12-3= 6+4= 10+10+10= 5+5+5+5+5= 2+2+2=
15-2= 18+5= 23+7= 19-9= 14-11= 30-10= 20-11= 14-6= 17-13= 13+6=
Challenge 2- Missing numbers
6 + = 12 8+ =10 4+ = 12 7+ =12 13+ =20
10- =3 13- = 16- = 13- -= 8 21- =
Challenge 3
1. David bought 8 fish and 5 crabs and put them in a basket. How many things did they put in the basket?
2. Miss Wolfenden made 12 cakes and Courteous ate 9. How many cakes were left?
3.Jane went to the shop and bought; a broom, a mop, some soap, a bucket, washing up powder and pegs. How many things did she buy. Each item cost 10p . How much did the shopping cost?
Thanks
Miss Wolfenden and Miss Riley
The Boy at the Back of the Class Chapter 21
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:30am
Good morning year 6- can you believe we are on chapter 21 already. If you have missed any just go back on the blog to look for any chapters you may have missed. This chapter gave a lot away about the narrator of the story. Did you pick up on the clues yesterday?
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=4XD190q
Today I would like you to write down as much as you know about the narrator so far. Are they a boy or a girl? What do they look like? What are they interested in? Who do they like? What sort of character traits do they have? Brave for example. Remember to give evidence from the text to support your answer where possible.
You might need to look back at other chapters to help you remember everything about them. I will award 5 house points for the person who responds with the most detailed description.
Send your work to...
Year 6 @ Ravensbury
@Year6Ravensbur1
y6homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:23am
Good morning Year 2,
We have reached the end of another week of home learning. Go us!
English Challenge
Yesterday we looked at suffixes and adding them to the end of words. Today our main focus is going to be looking at adverbs. I would like you to look at the sentences below. They all include a verb (something someone is doing). In the missing space, I would like you to add an adverb (describing how someone is doing something) of your choice. Remember, we usually add the suffix -ly when looking at adverbs. Don’t forget to add CL, FS and FS to your work.
the crowed laughed _____ at the comedians jokes
the baby cried ______
I was walking _____ down the road because I was late for work
the turtle crawled _____ through the grass
it was raining _____ outside so the children had to stay in
Maths Challenge
1. Magazines cost £1.50p. Beth buys two magazines. How much money does she spend?
2. If Abbie goes on holiday for the whole of July and August, how many days will she be away for?
3. Tom says his cake has to be in the oven for 1 hour and 30 minutes. He puts the cake in the oven at 10 o’clock. What time will he take it out of the oven?
4. I have no edges. I have just one curved face. What shape am I ?
5. The farmer has 16 animals. He says a quarter of them are pigs. How many pigs does he have altogether?
Check back on Monday to see if you were correct!
Connected curriculum challenge answers
On Monday, I gave you a true or false challenge all about recycling. Here are the answers:
- The statue of Liberty is covered by 80 tonnes of recycled copper and bronze plating. TRUE
- only 75% of waste is recyclable but we only recycle 30% of it. TRUE
- recycling 100 cans can light up your bedroom for two weeks. TRUE
- old CDs are used to lay roads. TRUE
- I can recycle objects by putting everything in the same bin and letting the bin man separate them. FALSE
- products made of more than one material cannot be recycled. FALSE
- Everything can only be recycled once. FALSE
Have a lovely weekend :)
Miss Hamer
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:21am
Here is some more of the learning that has taken place this week in 3LF.
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Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:19am
Good morning and happy Friday! End of the week already! Fingers crossed we get some sun this weekend.
My last wellbeing challenge of the week is a creative one in case you want to spend some time on it over the weekend.
I’d like you to design your own face mask. As we know, face masks are being worn by many people at the moment to keep help them safe. If you had to wear one, what would you like it to look like? You can have whatever you want on it and make it as crazy as you like!
I’ve attached a template if you would like to use it but don’t worry if you don’t have a printer, you can just draw one like I drew mine! Here is mine for you to have a look at, now if only I could sew…
Please send me your designs as I’d love to see them! EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
Thank you to Heer who sent me this joke:
There were two boys who were going to school and they were late.The teacher asked why they were late.One said I was looking for my money that i lost. The teacher asked the other boy why he was late.He said I put my foot on his money.
and to Tomasz for these jokes:
What is a pirate's favourite letter?
Rrrrrrrrrrrr
What do you call an alligator in a vest?
An investigator!
and to Theodosia for sending me a lovely video of her telling me jokes such as:
What do you get if you cross a tiger with a porcupine?
A slow poke!
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:05am
Good morning year 3
We have made it to the end of another week. Don’t forget to go to https://padlet.com/missfaragher/kj2clvf5jjlr98k1 for your learning. You will now see your learning is split into daily tasks, weekly tasks, tasks for the half term, links and extra learning.
Don’t forget to try an email some of the learning you complete over to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have a lovely weekend and we will speak to you again on Monday.
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:01am
Wow I can’t believe how many people are doing our quiz and emailing with such fantastic answers! Thank you to all of you, it really makes our day hearing from you.
Well done to Michelle, Heer, Ganesa, Maddison, Zarek, Faith, and Naomi who all knew that is was the flag of The United States of America and the capital was Washington DC. You named many different people such as Elvis Presley, Donald Trump and Barack Obama (sorry to the person who said Justin Bieber, he’s actually from Canada! We’ll let you off thought as you got the rest of it right J )
Since it’s the weekend I’m going to give you 3 different flags to name! I’m also looking for a link between them all. Bonus point if you can tell me which language they speak in each country.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Glover
Story Adventure The House on Haunted Hill Part 8
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 9:44am
Good morning year 6. I hope you are looking forward to seeing where our adventure will take us next. The left or the right door? We had two responses yesterday-one person chose to go through the right door and the other chose to go through the left door! The person who sent their answer first was Maddison at 1:15pm and she said we should go through the right door first. Well done to Heer for responding but you were beaten to it.
Here we go...
As you open the door on your right, you realise you are entering the master bedroom. A grand four-poster bed sits in the centre of the room. Surprisingly, the dust in this room is not as bad as everywhere else and it appears remarkably clean. A faint smell of lavender drifts from the bed and you feel relaxed and sleepy.
In one corner of the room, there is a dressing table full of bottles and books. The smell is getting stronger and you feel even more tired, the bed looks so comfortable, maybe a small rest wouldn’t do any harm.
Do you:
Lay down for a rest
Investigate the dressing table
Two choices today. Let's see who will answer the quickest.
Year 6 @ Ravensbury
@Year6Ravensbur1
y6homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 9:03am
Good morning everyone!
Happy Friday! I hope you've all had a lovely week - Livvi had a brilliant day yesterday for her birthday, despite it being in lockdown!
Let us know what you get up to today, we'd love to see your learning!
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Hello from Mrs Hodges!
Final Sentence of the Day for this week! Click the link below:
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=5gGi3km
How did you get on with today's sentence Year 5? Click below to see my purple pen which you can use to check against your corrected sentence!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=VUwMaQq
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Hello from Miss Wendt!
Thank you to everyone who has sent work in this week. I will be showing off our wonderful work in a post this afternoon, it's always great to recieve your emails.
Here is the final fluent in five for Friday! (Try saying that very quickly!)
And here are todays answers!
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Good morning from Miss Brookes!
It's Friday - can you believe that we've been doing home learning through our blog for six weeks now? (3 weeks since we've been creating a shared post). It feels as if it's gone very quickly to me!
As today is Friday, here is a link to the recap of this weeks learning, and I have attached the quiz for you to do.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=dq4Xhr6
Check back in a couple of hours for the video going through the answers. Please email me the areas of Grammar, Vocabularly or Punctuation that you want to look at next week - if there's a skill you find tricky, then I can focus on that skill for one of the videos. I want to make them as helpful to you as possible.
Don't forget to check this afternoon for the celebration posts!
How did you all get on? Here are the answers:
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=fyT06t6
Miss Brookes
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 8:12am
Good Morning Reception!
Yay, it's Friday! You know what that means... it's 'Challenge Friday!'
Take a look at the challenges below, you have a Maths challenge and a Phonics Challenge linked to this week's learning. You can take a look at previous blogs from this week to help you! Can you complete both challenges?
There is also a link attached below to help you in your Phonics challenge!
Have fun! We can't wait to see pictures of your super work!
Love Miss Williams and Mrs Iqbal
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 8:08am
Good Morning Reception!
Happy Friday…. Let’s celebrate all of these fantastic achievements from this week!! Well done to all of these children, you have made your teachers very happy!! :)
🌟 Outstanding Home Learners! 🌟
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 7:18am
Well done to all our super learners this week.
It has really made me smile, seeing all your fantastic learning! 😀
Thank you to all the parents who have taken time to send photographs and videos to us so we can celebrate your child’s work.
🌟 You are all Outstanding Home Learners 🌟
Remember Mrs Ganner is looking forward to doing the blog next week so if you didn’t manage to send your photographs this week, don’t worry, she’ll put them up for you next Friday!
Have a fantastic weekend and we’ll see you back here on Monday!
Take care
Miss Heritage
Friday 15th May: Phonics - Rhyme
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 7:01am
Hi Nursery!
Let’s remember some of the animals from the rhyming stories we have looked at this week…
You can remind yourself of them by listening to the stories again - just click on the picture of the book below:
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Can you act out some of the animals from the story? Enjoy moving around like the animals. For example: a jumping frog, parrot flapping/flying, gorilla thumping chest, snake slithering along the floor, mule trotting, hare hopping, dog responding to instructions (walk, stop, sit, fetch, lie-down)
This week we have found lots of rhyming pairs and created rhyming strings of words.
Now we are going to complete this fun activity, where you need to have a look at the pictures on the rhyming strips to see if you can spot the odd one out!
Watch today’s ‘show me’ for an example, then use the pictures below to have a go at finding the ‘odd one out’ yourself!
CLICK HERE TO WATCH TODAY’S SHOW ME
Good luck!
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 6:46am
Good Morning Nursery!
This week we have looked at the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. In the story the caterpillar eats through some different foods each day.
Can you remember the seven days of the week?
Let’s sing our days of the week song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtQcnZ2JWsY
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We have been looking at the sequence of events in the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.
Yesterday your challenge was to make your very own ‘Hungry Caterpillar’ and to use your caterpillar to talk about the sequence of events in the story.
I hope you enjoyed making it and talking about what the caterpillar ate each day.
Today I would like you to think about the different activities you do each day.
Here is today’s challenge…
With your grown up, talk about the different activities you do each day.
Create a caterpillar template like the example below and draw a picture or symbol of something you do for each day of the week.
Use your caterpillar to talk through the sequence of the activities you do. Remember to use good sentences when talking. Point to each day on your caterpillar and tell your family the event that you do.
Amazing work!
Well done everyone, you have completed some Marvellous Maths this week!
Remember, we love seeing your work so send your pictures to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
I hope you have a great weekend!
Miss Heritage
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 8:08pm
Let’s Celebrate!
Well this week has flown by! Thank you so much to the parents that have been able to take the time to send us your learning we really do love seeing your learning as well as the different things you are getting up to whilst at home.
What an amazing role model. This learning is presented so beautifully! It looks like you are becoming really confident using your part whole bars to help you to subtract. Well done!
Here is another example of perfect presentation. It is lovely to see you working through all of your home learning challenges. Well done!
Here is another person working hard at home with his learning. We love seeing your learning spaces and desks at home, it makes us very proud of you all!
We had to double check that this was really one of our year one children’s work! What beautiful hand writing. I think this person is definitely ready for year 2!
It’s great to see you becoming more and more confident in using a variety of methods to solve subtraction. It looks like this person is definitely getting the hang of it. Great job!
It looks like this person has really got the hang of writing their numbers using words.
Isn’t it just great that we have been able to take our learning outside? Here’s one of our year one children practicing words with different end blends whilst playing hopscotch.
Here is another person working really hard ordering their numbers. Well done!
We really love putting this blog post together on Fridays. It makes us feel so proud and pleased to see you all so busy and carrying on trying your hardest with all of your home learning. I know it feels like we haven’t been in school for ages but keep going and practicing all of your skills so that when we return we can spend lots of time creating memories and learning lots of new things.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden