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Date: 7th May 2020 @ 12:56pm
Good Morning Year 4!
I hope you are all having a great week!
Don't forget to visit the Year 4Home Learning Page to find your tasks 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!
Tomorrow we will be posting our weekly celebration of our home learning, so send us your updates on the Y4 email! We will also be announcing the Readers of the Week of Lexia and ActiveLearn, so make sure you have logged on!
Stay safe,
Miss Bryce :)
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 12:22pm
Good afternoon year 3.
All your home learning tasks are available via the link https://padlet.com/missfaragher/kj2clvf5jjlr98k1
and the answers from yesterday's sentence of the day and fluent in 5.
Enjoy your day.
The year 3 team
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 10:36am
Good Morning 5CB! I am so proud of you all, for working so hard both at home, and in school (for those couple of children who are in still in school).
The work you have been sending me has been amazing, and has really cheered me up this week. I am writing the celebration post today because tomorrrow is a bank holiday, however, I am not going to write the winners of this weeks reading challenge, or the reading plus challenge, until tomorrow evening - to give you a fair five days to complete it.
The children this week, that have demonstrated outstanding learning are:
Jennifer
Jessica
Akin
Jackson
Victoria
What amazing work you have all emailed me! Look below for some pictures of their learning.
Please send in your heart photographs - we only have 7 so far, and Mrs Thewlis wants to make the video this weekend. y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have a brilliant three day weekend, take care, and stay safe.
Miss Brookes
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 10:28am
Good morning,
Yet another lovely sunny day! I'm looking forward to getting out in the sun later although I actually got a little bit sunburnt yesterday! Remeber that suncream!
Today's challenge is a creative one, I'd like you to try a bit of origami. Origami is the art of folding paper and while it can be a bit tricky, it's also quite a nice relaxing activity once you know what you're doing and you end up with something that looks amazing. You could even make a few things and use them to decorate your house!
What you need for all origami is a square of paper, either plain or patterned. If youre not sure how to turn a piece of paper into a square then have a look here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPxi1dIWRws
Then you could take some time to decorate your paper if you like before you fold it.
Then this is a fairly simple one to get started, a butterfly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWjEYlMZnhE
Just follow each instruction carefully and the good thing about watching a video is that you can rewind it as much as you like! If you're not a fan of butterflies then feel free to have a look for something else on the Red Ted Art channel.
Here's my butterfly that I've just made. It's not perfect but it's the first time I've ever done it so I was quite impressed with myself!
As always I'd love to see pictures of what you've made or of any past challenges, e-mail EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk to send them or even just to let me know what kind of challenges you prefer so I can make sure I'm doing ones that people like :-)
Past challenges
Thanks to all the children who have sent me pictures, you've all been very busy which is great to see!
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Date: 7th May 2020 @ 10:28am
First of all I want to say a huge thank you and well done to everybody who has logged on to Lexia this week and has continued to read at home. I am very impressed! There has been a few children who have moved up a reading level this week on Lexia. Well done to Daniel, Andrew and Hashim who have received certificates! I can't wait to see who receives certificates next week. Keep up the hard work :)
Miss Hamer
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 10:17am
Good morning Year 2,
Today is the last day of learning this week as tomorrow is bank holiday! I am excited for a long weekend break in the sunshine. Hopefully I can find more objects from the hunt sheet this weekend. I have added pictures of what I have found so far. Can you beat me?
English challenge
Today I would like you to look at the picture attached of the busy street and pick out objects (nouns) in the picture and write down adjectives to describe them in your book. For example, sharp teeth (sharp = adjective, teeth = noun)
Extension: Now you have thought of your adjectives and nouns, can you put them in to a sentence?
Maths Challenge
Using the greater, less than and equal symbols (< > =), I would like you to complete the number sentences independently:
3 < 7
27 ___ 35
38 ___ 48
8 ___ 11
60 ___ 60
9 + 3 > 6
14 + 7 ___ 25
12 – 3 ____ 9
16 + 10 ___ 26
Miss Hamer
Story Adventure The House on Haunted Hill Part 4
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 10:01am
Ok year 6 were are round the back of the old house now so let's see where today's adventure takes us...
You continue to walk around the back squelching through the cold mud and then you see a small door next to an open window.
As you get nearer, the wind blasts through and catches the door, swinging it open. You peer inside and see that it leads down into a dismal and dank cellar. You don’t fancy the idea of descending into such filthy depths.
Do you:
Go down into the cellar
Climb through the window
So year 6 we have another choice to make! Who will be the first to answer and make the choice? You can respond with your choice either on Twitter or through our email...
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 9:59am
Good morning,
Well done Faith from 2CC who e-mailed us yesterday in record time to correctly tell us that it was the French flag and the capital is Paris. She also knew that my name is in French is mon nom est (or you could also have had je m'apelle)
Here is today's flag. Can you tell us the country and capital city? What is the main language that is spoken in this country? Bonus point if you can tell us any of the other languages that are spoken here too!
Have a lovely day,
Mrs Glover
The Boy at the Back of the Class Chapter 16
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 9:49am
Good morning year 6. Another lovely day for you to enjoy. Maybe you could listen back to all the chapters on your headphones in the garden!
Here is chapter 16 for you and some questions to answer after.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=4WEHE5w
Chapter 16 Questions
On page 169 why is Michael worried about ‘The Greatest Plan in the World’?
On page 170 find and copy a word that means encouragingly?
On page 171, why couldn’t the narrator imagine meeting the queen?
Why did Ahmet get suspicious of his friends on page 172?
Why did they suggest the narrator wrote the letter to the Queen?
Do you think you will find out the name of the narrator by the end of the story?
Thursday Sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 9:43am
Good Morning! What a lovely day we had yesterday, I hope you enjoyed the sunshine! It looks like it’s going to be like this for the rest of the week! Hurray!
Sentence of the day
Here are the answers from yesterdays sentence. Well done to the children who managed to find where all of the capital letters go, even those sneaky ones that I tried to trick you with.
The glorious bug hotel was in the corner of the over grown garden. It was the perfect place for a bug hotel. Bugs came from far and wide to see the bug hotel and one Sunday the most important bug of all came to visit.
If you found that a little tricky or need a reminder have a look at the poster to remind yourself when we need capital letters.
Have a look at today’s sentence. It has a few different green for growths, can you solve what all of them should be?
a sunthlower needs worterand sunlite to grow. It needs to bea the right temperature, if it istoo cold or too hot the sunflower cud die.
Phonics
Let’s review some of the phonics that we did yesterday. Can you sort these words into words that belong on planet nonsense and words that belong on planet real? I have taken away the alien pictures this time so you need to have a read and think about whether it is a real or nonsense word.
Todays phonics focusses on phase 5 tricky words. Let’s start by listening to the tricky words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeIbtzh-ALM&t=21s
Today you have three challenges again
Challenge one: Make yourself a tricky word mat just like this one. Remember to spread the words out so that they are easy to read and find. If you have chalks you could even make a giant word mat outside.
Challenge two: Ask your grown up to say a word out loud and you need to find it with your fast fingers or feet on the word mat.
Challenge three: Find some scraps of paper and write the tricky words on them, one word per each piece of paper. Now stick the words around a room or around your garden. Listen to the tricky words on the youtube video, when it says a tricky word run to that word. Remember to keep listening as the tricky words change quite quickly!
I hope you all have a lovely day in the sunshine. Stay safe x
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 8:58am
Good morning Year 5!
Another beautifully sunny day, I wonder if you'll go on a little walk or a bike ride today? Livvi and Asaph did some baking with Jon yesterday and made lemon shortbread, it was very tasty! Let us know what you get up to!
We've another few activities ready for you today, so check back on this blog post to make sure you don't miss anything!
Tomorrow we will all be having a day off to celebrate 'VE day.' It stands for 'Victory in Europe," and celebrates the end of the second world war in Europe. We've attached some extra VE activities for you all, that are entirely optional, if you want something to work on tomorrow. Miss Brookes' street is having a 'social distancing party.' They are all standing outside their houses for a 2 minute silence at 11am, and then sitting in their front garden to enjoy a coffee/tea and cake! Hopefully the weather stays sunny for it.
Don't forget to check your class blog later for the celebration post, and please continue to email us your heart photographs - each class has sent in 7 so far.
y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
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Mrs Hodges here!
The final Sentence of the Day of this week, click the link below:
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=YEjWo2i
Well done to Ganesa for another fantastically corrected Sentence of the Day that she emailed over earlier on! Click the link below to see my purple pen sentence!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=S8rkfhI
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Miss Wendt here!
Hello everyone, looks like it's going to be another lovely sunny day. Hopefully you will be able to get outside for some fresh air; the children who live next door to me have just got a new trampoline and paddling pool. I am very jealous, I might even see if I can order a paddling pool for me!
Here are today's fluent in five questions.
And here are the answers!
For Spanish today I want to recap on something we know quite well. Next week I am going to look at a new topic with you, but for today I want to consolidate our learning about food.
I think we all have quite a lot of food vocabulary, but in case you can't remember any (and that does happen!) I have attached a word mat to download and inserted the image below!
We are going to think about how we say our likes and dislikes today. We use the phrases:-
Me gusta - I like
No me gusta - I do not like
Me encanta - I love
So for example, if I wanted to say I love cheese (which is very true!) in Spanish, I would say me encanta queso!
I have attached a powerpoint with lots of examples, and a series on images below that will help.
Why not email the Year 5 team and tell us what you like and dislike? En Espanol por favor!
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Good Morning Year 5 from Miss Brookes!
I wonder if this is how Mrs Hodges feels? Knowing that today is the last working day of the week - it is a very strange feeling, but it must feel ordinary for Mrs Hodges!
Today's GVP is our recap of the week, plus a quiz to test your knowledge. Don't forget to check back at about 1pm for the answers, and if you want me to mark any, please feel free to email them across at y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=Oi8QR1c
So here are the answers (I completely forgot about this part!)
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=iwC3ZbM
Enjoy!
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 8:28am
Good Morning Reception!!
Have you enjoyed the story ‘The Very Busy Spider’ this week…? Adam did not like it very much because he hates spiders!!!
Today I am wondering what if another animal landed on the fence and started to do something else....???
What would it be…?
What would it do…?
What other small creatures could have landed in the farmyard….?
Today I want you change the main character; the spider in the story and think about the questions above… Create a new front cover using a new animal. Here are some ideas…
Bee - busy collecting pollen from flowers
Caterpillar – busy munching leaves
Butterfly – busy flying around
Worm – busy wriggling in the soil
Use the minibeast wordmat to think of other small creatures that could land on the fence.
Your new front cover can go on the sheet that I have attached on the blog or you could design it on a piece of paper.
Mrs Iqbal and Mrs Cooper's Phonic groups I want you to write a sentence describing your new animal and what it is doing. Try to make your sentences longer by adding the connectives 'and' or 'because.'
Love Mrs Iqbal
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 8:19am
Good Morning Reception! Happy Thursday J
Here are your fluent-in-five questions for today!
Can you work them all out in 2 minutes? Can you beat your time from yesterday?
Today in maths, we are going to be following on from yesterday’s learning of measuring capacity! Please refer to yesterday’s blog if you did not see it! We are going to work out the capacity through using potions! Take a look at the slides below and see if you can select the correct measurement!
Will the Wizard needs your help to find the right potions!
Take a look at the potions before.. which potion is full?
Well done! The potion on the right is full J
Now, take a look below… Which potion is half full?
Which potion is empty?
Fantastic! The potion on the left is half full!
The potion in the middle is empty!
Oh no! Hocus the cat has mixed up the potions… can you help to put them in the correct order? Which potion has the least?
Well done! The potion in the middle has the least!
Now…Which one has the most?
Brilliant! The potion on the right has the most!
Can you draw a picture of the three potions below and put them in the right order, from the least to the most?
Can you help the wizard by making your own real-life potions? We would love to see them!
Have fun ordering and making potions! Don’t forget to send in your learning – your teachers love to see your work J
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 8:18am
Good Morning Reception!!
Let us start today’s phonic activity by getting active with a Jack Hartman song. Click the link at the bottom of the blog.
Today we are going to continue thinking about the sounds oa and igh that we have learnt this week.
How many words can you read in 20 or 30 seconds…? How many words can you read in 1 minute…? Ask a grown up to time you!!!
How many alien words can you read…? Ask a grown up to time you!!!
Today’s practise and apply activities are:
Play Word Treasure Hunt using the oa and igh words. Write or print the words and have two containers or buckets with the sounds oa and igh written on them. Hide the words around the space where you are working inside or outside. When you have found a word read it to your grown up and place it in the right box/container. Watch the video where Adam is showing you how to play the game.
Play the oa and igh woodland board game.
Play the oa and igh roll and read game.
If you do not have a dice, you can google a virtual dice or use the link below:
https://www.random.org/dice/?num=1
Which activity will you pick…? You can do 1, 2 or all 3 of them…
Love Mrs Iqbal
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
CBeebies Reading Challenge - Thursday 7th May
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 7:23pm
CBeebies Reading Challenge Thursday 7th May
George Ezra finds out about a ‘Kitchen Disco’ tonight. The party fruit in this story did some amazing actions like ‘spins, jumps, dives, shake-it, wiggle, bouncy bounce.
Will your fruit have a kitchen disco tonight?
Can you shake it like a mango? How else can you and the fruit in your bowl move?
Night night sleep tight
From Mrs Ganner
Maths Daily Challenge - Thursday 7th May
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 7:19pm
Maths Daily Challenge - Thursday 7th May
Today were going to look at how we can create our own shapes from something I’m sure you have been collecting over the week - toilet or kitchen roll tubes. Tubes are round and curved but they are also flexible so you can squash them into whatever shape you want to create. Will you make straight edged shapes or curved? Are there any shapes that are curved and straight?
Shape Toilet Roll Challenge
Look at the picture of toilet roll shape printers and work together with your adult to make your round, curved toilet roll tubes into new shapes. You choose which shapes – it’s your challenge.
Dip the end of the shape roll into paint or food colouring or even muddy water and make prints. You could do your printing in the back garden, on the pavement, on paper or material - anywhere your grown up says you can. I had to use tomato sauce for the red in my picture and I didnt have paper so I used kitchen roll!
Talk about one of the shapes you’ve printed to see if your grown-up can guess which one it is. You’re not allowed to say their shape names! You have to describe it.
Show me your shape pictures and all of the other things you’ve been creating this week by emailing
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Another shape challenge coming up for maths coming up soon.
See you tomorrow
From Mrs Ganner
Phonics Daily Challenge - Thursday 7th May
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 7:11pm
Phonics Daily Challenge - Thursday 7th May
Today we’re going to create and make a friend to help us play a fun phonics game. Then we can practice making groups of objects that have the same sound. We’re not linking the sounds to our names for the rest of the week so when we write the letters today and tomorrow we will NOT be writing capital letters any more.
Sound Monster challenge - s,a,t
Make a sound monster, like the one in the photo, using any box you have at home. This one is a tissue box with eyes and teeth and a tongue glued on to it. I’m going to call him Sammy Sound Monster. What are you calling your monster?
Then feed your monster some objects that begin with its’ favourite sounds. The challenge is to find things beginning with ‘s’ or ‘a’ or‘t’ and let your monster snack on them! Make sure there are lots of silly sound effects too!
Remember to practice writing the initial sound too:
|
Say the sound |
name the letter |
write the letter |
|
Stretch sssssssnake |
letter s |
slither down the snake |
|
Bounce a a a apple |
letter a |
round the apple, down the leaf |
|
Bounce t t t t tower |
letter t |
down the tower, across the tower |
I’ll be back tomorrow with some more sounds to find
From Mrs Ganner
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 12:56pm
Good afternoon year 3.
All your home learning tasks are now going to be available on a new website called padlet.
Here is the link https://padlet.com/missfaragher/kj2clvf5jjlr98k1
We look forward to seeing your learning. Don't forget to send it to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Miss Faragher and Miss Humphreys
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 11:46am
Good morning year 3.
Yesterday's answers are below.
Reading
Here you can listen to the story Flat Stanley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkO_qyas7a0
Can you summarise the story in 50 words or less?
Maths
Sentence of the day
The ganges is 2,525km long and starts its journey the Himalayas. The river flows threw Nepal India and bangladesh
2 capital letters
1 spelling
1 punctuation mark
1 other mistake
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 10:44am
Good morning,
Another sunny day! 
First all of all I want to thank everyone who has sent in pictures of them doing my wellbeing challenges, it's fantastic to see and hear about how you're enjoying doing them! Have a look at the Past Challenges bit at the bottom to see some photos.
Today's challenge is another one to get you moving and do a mini workout. Sometimes it can seem a bit scary or time consuming to do a whole workout so these mini workouts are perfect if you want a quick break from doing school work or even from just watching TV if you fancy a stretch! All of these little energisers from Go Noodle are between 2 - 4 minutes long so perfect for something to wake you up in the morning or as a break from whatever you are doing.
Here are a few that I like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4DnPhR9_mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KReaoKLA-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALrdpsWYoJs
Or just go to YouTube and type in Fresh Start Fitness to see a variety of mini workouts.
Remember to email EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk with any photos of you doing any of the challenges.
Have a lovely day!
Mrs Glover
Past Challenges
So many fantastic photos of what you've all been up to, well done!
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 10:39am
Good Morning year 2!
Here are yesterday’s answers:
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.
English challenge
Can you re-write the sentences in your book and add capital letters and full stops?
sarah didn’t have time to finish her breakfast because she was running late for school
the car was travelling very fast
the elephant squirted water with his trunk
sam couldn’t find his car keys
rob didn’t have enough money to buy his favourite sweets
Don’t forget to check back tomorrow for the answers
Maths Challenge
Can you write down the numerals and words for each number e.g. twenty-five = 25?
9 = ____
Eleven = _____
Sixty-six = ____
21 = ______
39 = ______
Fifty-two = _____
Twenty-seven = _____
Miss Hamer
Wednesday sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 9:43am
Good Morning! This morning I did some yoga before starting my work and my brain feels much more awake and ready for the day!
Sentence of the day
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.
Well done if you managed to find them all! Today’s challenge focusses on capital letters. Can you use your amazing reading skills and read the sentences and find where the capital letters belong?
the glorious bug hotel was in the corner of the over grown garden. it was the perfect place for a bug hotel. bugs came from far and wide to see the bug hotel and one sunday the most important bug of all came to visit.
Phonics
Let’s start our phonics today by remembering all of the different ways we can make the oa sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQFilBxEseg&list=PLqk7ar-NaBVsbHQP5lR9atB716Pva16pf
Watch the video and write down all of the ways that you saw of making the oa sound.
Today’s phonics challenge focusses on the ue vowel family. Have a think, how many different ways can you remember to make the ue sound? Write them all down on a piece of paper. Now watch the video, did you managed to find them all?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spiH4piN3yc&list=PLqk7ar-NaBVvtjk4yceMkLBMQ0Bm3RpTS
Today I have three phonics challenges for you. I wonder if you can complete them all?
Challenge one: Go on a sound hunt. How many different things can you find with a ue sound in them? Remember to use your senses, what can you hear, smell, taste, see and touch? Write them down as they will come in useful later.
Challenge two: Now it's time to travel to planet obb. I want you to make up as many ue alien and nonsense words as you can. This might be tricky at first so I have made some of my own alien words to help you. Remember alien words are aliens names so you will have to draw an alien to match them.
Challenge three: Make yourself a planet real and an alien nonsense.
Now sort your words so that the alien words can go back to planet nonsense and the real words can go straight to planet real.
Hope you have a lovely day and enjoy the sunshine!
Story Adventure The House on Haunted Hill Part 3
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 9:36am
Well I cannot wait any longer so I am going to decide where we go next on our story adventure. We had these two choices in Part 2 of the adventure...
Do you want to investigate the source of the noise
Or
Continue to find a back door
I am quite a nosey person so I have an urge to investigate the source of the noise. Here we go..
You cautiously walk towards a large, dark bush to see what is causing all of the noise. The rustling is getting louder and then stops.
You strain to hear it when suddenly a powerful dog leaps out from the bush, its ferocious attack surprises you and knocks you to the ground. Its ravenous jaws dribble saliva all over your face and then before you have time to defend yourself it snaps its mouth shut!
Your adventure is over.
Oh! Oh dear!
At least we get more chances. Tomorrow we will see what will happens when we continue to find the back door instead. Come on year 6 I need your help with the choices, as you can see mine are not always the best!
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 9:27am
Good morning !
How did you get on with yesterday's quiz question? A huge well done to Alissia and Keira who were the first to email Mrs Glover and me with their answer :
It was the flag of Portugal . Lisbon is the capital city and olá is hello in Portuguese .
Here's our question for today :
Can you name the country , its capital city and how you would say my name is for this flag?
Email your answer to us on Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 9:23am
Good morning everyone,
I have found some lovely resources to use for your VE day challenge including some nice paper to present your work. We don’t have a printer in my house so my daughters have decided to make our own border paper.
They have decorated our windows and we are looking forward to having a living room picnic on Friday to celebrate VE day whilst staying safe at home- what are your plans?
Stay safe everyone
