Monday 4 May 2020
Welcome to Week 3 of our Summer Term!
Check out your class teacher’s video messages for this week:
Story: If you like Roald Dahl, then you might like to listen to
The Magic Finger (part 1), read by Mrs McCormick (part 2 will be posted tomorrow).
Barry the Fish with Fingers
Good morning, Nursery! We hope that you all had a good weekend and found something fun to do. Mrs Beesley enjoyed reading a bit more of her favourite book and Mrs Long helped to bake a rainbow cake. What was your favourite part of the weekend? Did you have video call to say hello to any of your family and friends? It’s great to keep in touch with each other.
This week’s story will be another one of our favourites (we have so many!). It’s called ‘Barry the Fish with Fingers‘ by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet.
Watch it using the link, or if you have it at home, read it together. Ferdie and Fern enjoyed sharing the story earlier.
Here are some activities that you can try that are linked to the story.
Health and self-care – Can you practice putting on your gloves? We do this in nursery when we are going outside. Remember to wiggle your fingers into each finger space. There are 5 on each hand. Can you count them?
Creative – Finger painting – If you have paint at home you can practice some finger painting. Cut out the shape of a fish and fill it with a colourful finger paint patterns. How many colours will you use?
Sing together – The fish in the ocean. We enjoy singing this at nursery, try it at home.
Mathematics – Draw around your own hand or your child’s and cut it out. How many fingers can you see ? Fold down the fingers one at a time and ask your child to count how many now. Use more than one hand to extend to 10.
‘Under the sea’ counting game – Visit Topmarks and you will get onto the website home page. Select ‘Early Years’ and there are lots of interactive counting activities to play, including this underwater counting game.
Get active – Join in with the finger song and get active.
Watch – Do you like fishcakes ? Have you ever wondered how fish cakes are made. What do you think the ingredients are ? Maddie finds out here.
We are enjoying seeing your photos, but just an email would be great. Our email address is scholesf1@spherefederation.org. We would love to hear about what you have been doing. Also, we are happy to answer any of your questions too. Remember to visit our Class News Page again on Wednesday and Friday for more updates and activities. (Posts are also now available to view the night before from 7 o’clock.)
Have fun!
4 May 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
Words to read:
Can you count the syllables?
Words to write:
bank spot step from
Remember to use your phoneme fingers!
Phonics Activity: Read the sentence and draw a picture to match.
Maths
Sing the ‘number bonds to 10’ song
Draw or paint some ladybirds. Give each ladybird 10 or 5 spots. 
How many spots on one side, how many on the other?
Talk about the calculation on both sides of the ladybird.
Challenge:
Each ladybird must have the same amount of spots on each side. How many different doubles have you got?
Can you record your number sentences?
Literacy
Story of the week: What the ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story. Can you spot the rhyming words?
Draw and label the animals from the story.
Other ladybird themed ideas!
ladybird biscuits
Keep it coming…lovely home learning
We have had lots of photos and emails this week, thank you! The money task has been very popular, playing shops is a great way to use addition and subtraction in real life; adding items together and working out change. Younger and older siblings have also joined in. Writing messages to each other is also a great way to stay connected – some were even delivered, spreading happiness all around!
Art/music: Hall of Home Learning Fame
Today, we asked children to create a piece of art based on some music. Leiyah chose Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
Year 5,6 Quiz of the Week!
This week, we’ve decided to end the week with a little bit of fun. So, we’ve made a video quiz of the week. Check it out here.
It’s a mix of general knowledge, a recap of some previous learning and a bit of fun! We’re hoping you’ll play along as a family, or maybe against other families and will enjoy 10 mins of trivia and silliness.
If you like it, get in touch and we’ll do a weekly edition published every Friday.
Enjoy!
Hall of (home learning) Fame
Hello and welcome back to another special edition of the Hall of (home learning) Fame #HoHLF
Today’s entrants have been super busy this week and even found time to email their class teachers with a few pics – how kind of them! Seriously, if you haven’t emailed us yet, please do. We’d love to hear from everyone!
Here goes…
Alfie sent a picture of his time capsule and told me that his favourite song is Will We Talk? by Sam Fender. Thanks for being in touch so often, Alfie. Well done – you’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame! #HoHLF
Ellis and his family had already started creating their own time capsules – great idea! Well done – you’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame! #HoHLF
Heath was practising his spellings using this great resource and also found time to make a time capsule. Well done – you’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame! #HoHLF
Amongst lots of other learning, Lucy created her own time capsule. Well done – you’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame! #HoHLF
And our final entrant smashed her topic learning – check out how good her outline of the UK is! Awesome work, Annabelle. Well done – you’re in the Hall of (home learning) Fame! #HoHLF
That’s all for this edition. Stay tuned for more.
Send photos to your class teacher’s email address accompanied by #HoHLF. Terms and conditions apply*.
If you want a challenge, I wrote this article with a clear idea in my head about my audience (who I’m aiming it at) and purpose. What was the purpose of this article? Did it work? How did my audience affect the style I wrote it? Would I write the same if this was a more srious article? Or, aimed at people I didn’t know?
*Terms and conditions: you must send a picture to be entered into the Hall of (home learning) Fame. Winners will be posted on this section of the website and will receive their prize as soon as they read it. The prize is a virtual high five from the Year 5,6 team.
Hall of Home Learning Fame
Thank you to Alex who has sent me what he has been working on today. Here are his thoughts on the article he read called ‘Car Compositions.’
‘I think I would like it if people made cars with different sounds even though I don’t actually know what sounds they mean. The BMW i4 will be launched next year with different sounds to make the lives of pedestrians ‘’less chaotic and more beautiful’’. It would be cool if cars could make more sounds than just an engine. I really like cars, especially supercars and hypercars. The person who is making the sounds is the composer of the music from the Lion King ( I wouldn’t really like lion king music in my car. )’
Alex also set me a photo of his art work.
Charlie sent me this message also:
‘The article I am going to talk about is called: Minecraft upgraded. The update introduces ray-tracing to the game. For ray-tracing you need a seriously powerful computer. Ray-tracing has been used in CGI movies for years. I chose this article because I play Minecraft.’
Jessica has been enjoying her learning at home. She has created her time capsule and created her own line graph showing the changes to her heart rate after exercise. She has even found time to make sure she is looking glamorous!
Week 6 Home Learning Pictures
Wow, we have received lots of lovely emails this week showing us all the amazing and exciting learning you have been doing from home. You have all been working so hard and should be really pleased with yourselves. Please keep sending emails with updates about how you are getting on and please email (scholesf2@spherefederation.org) any questions you may have about your child’s learning.
We have particularly enjoyed seeing your predictions for the floating and sinking experiment set by Professor Myers as well as your wonderful story maps for The Smartest Giant in Town.
Hall of Home Learning Fame
Eve has independently baked this amazing carrot cake, painted some rocks and even had a go at tie dying a t shirt.
