Whole school ‘Quiz of the Week’
If you’re struggling to keep yourself entertained this week…why not have a go at our whole school quiz?
Holiday activities
Whilst it is the school holidays, we know that many of you continue to work. Here are a few family activities to try together. Have fun!
Build an indoor or outdoor den
It could be a majestic hidden castle, mysterious bear cave or a magnificent space rocket. Let your imagination run wild. We thought these den building ideas in the form of IKEA instructions were funny!
Parents/carers- Den building offers a range of advantages to children of all ages, from physical development to problem solving skills.
Bake Off
Have a look at some child friendly recipes on the BBC’s Good Food website. You could choose a family favourite or find something new to try. It’s always good to try new foods and discover new flavours.
Parents/carers- Following a recipe helps children to learn to read for a purpose and follow instructions.
Go on a treasure hunt
Ask an adult to hide a range of similar objects (treasure) in the garden or home for you to find, count and order.
Parents/carers- You could tell children that you have hidden 3 of one type of item. When they find one, you can talk about how many are left to find. For example, “We need 2 more now!”
Painting With Ice
We enjoy making marks and drawing with all sorts of different things at Nursery. This is always a popular activity and waiting overnight for your ice paints to be ready adds to the fun.
What you need:
1 cup of water
Food colouring
Lollipop sticks
Ice cube tray
https://www.easypeasyandfun.com/painting-with-ice/
Blowing Bubbles!
Everyone loves bubbles! Why don’t you have a go at making your own bubble mixture. Here are some instructions for you to follow or you could have a go at making a bubble snake.
Make Homemade Lemonade
See the recipe and instructions sheet below.
Parents- This activity can support your child to gain a range of skills, especially in Maths.
You can also view the bubble mixture and lemonade recipes using this link. Lemonade and bubbles
Finally, in a few weeks time, we’re going to read ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and learn about the life cycle of a butterfly. Sadly, we’re not at Nursery to do this with real caterpillars, but if you wanted to, you could order your own from insectlore. If you haven’t done this before, it’s very easy and a great experience. You’ll need a starter kit which includes a butterfly net.
Summer half-term activities
We know that it’s the summer half-term break, but in these unprecedented times we thought that we’d continue to post some ideas of activities that you can do at home, if you choose to do so.
This will be the only post for the week. During this time, you can still send emails – we would love to hear about what you get up to!
The most important message is to have fun as a family. Read together, play outside, bake, garden, watch a movie, sing and dance. Check out these den building ideas for inspiration!
You might also want to look at the ‘100 things to do inside’ by Shonette Bason.
Get creative with Hello HipHop
We have been keeping in touch with Phil from Hello HipHop. He has created some blank lettering for our school name and a guide showing how to do some different effects.
It would be nice to have some of your ideas to display on the website and in school. If you would like, you can print this blank lettering and add effects or you can create your own ‘Scholes’ graffiti art with your own lettering. Send your ideas to Y2scholeshomework@spherefederation.org
Get creative!
Y5,6 Quiz of the Week
It’s Friday which can only mean one thing…it’s Saturday tomorrow!
But also, the quiz of the week is back. Check it out, have some fun and let us know what you think.
Enjoy.
Week 9 – A message from your teachers
Over the last 8 weeks we have enjoyed seeing your pictures and sharing them on the class news. This week, we would like to share some pictures of us with you.
During the week we keep ourselves busy by planning, recording lessons and answering your lovely emails but at the weekend we like to take a break and spend time with our family, doing the things we love.
Mrs Palmer has been painting and decorating and enjoying walks in the sunshine.
Mrs Myers has been busy in her garden. She is growing lots of fruit and vegetables.
Mrs Flynn has been sewing in the garden.
Mrs Kirby has been busy making decorations for a cake.
Miss Hulme has been busy doing some mindfulness colouring.
Have a lovely half term and please email (scholesf2@spherefederation.org) a picture of your child doing something they enjoy. We are making something special to share with you all 🙂
A fantastic storyteller…
Lorien has re-told the story ‘The Gruffalo’ using props. We really enjoyed listening to it and thought you would too!
22 May 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
(tricky word focus)
Sing the tricky word songs.
Phase 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY&t=1s
Phase 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NOzgR1ANc4
Words to Read:
Tricky word countdown! Can you read the tricky words?
Phonics Activity:
Practise writing the tricky words.
Fill in the blanks using the tricky words above.
You don’t need to copy and write the whole sentence – just write the tricky word that you think is missing.
Answers
- he
- she
- we
- me
- be
- was
Maths
Literacy
Book of the week: Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson
1.Listen to the story of the week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpJumAZx1t8
2. Draw a story map of the story.
Parents: Here is an example of a story map.
Story Time
We can’t quite believe that this is the last Friday before half term. Some days and weeks have flown by, others have been harder to get through. We hope that you’ve enjoyed some of our ideas and suggestions for your learning at home. We’ve loved reading all about your adventures and can see how much you’re all learning and growing.
Our final story for this half term is read by Miss Morris. It’s called ‘Alfie in the garden’ and is written by Debi Gliori.
Alfie had a good imagination in the story; he enjoyed pretending to be different animals.
- Can you remember which animals he pretended to be?
- What noise did the rainstorm make?
- The grass made a ‘swish swash’ noise in the breeze. Can you think of another story where the grass makes the same sound?
We’ll post some holiday activities soon; these will be there for you as ideas or in case you are stuck for something to do one day and need some inspiration. We hope that you enjoy your half term, even if it isn’t quite the half term that we may have had planned or hoped for. Stay safe and well.
Home Learning
Finally, we know you all love to see photos of your friends so here are some of their smiling faces to end the week.
Can you spot…?
- a chocolate caterpillar
- a back-to-front jigsaw
- some of No-Bot the Robot’s friends
- some sheep
21 May 2022: Home Learning
Phonics
Maths
1.Count backwards from 20 using the song.
Oh no! The song seems to have forgotten the number 0! We talk lots about the number 0 being nothing but still being a number. Try to add the number 0 when singing the song.
2. The problem blob has been up to mischief – he is stopping things from being shared fairly. The Numberjacks need your help!
Literacy
Book of the week: Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson
- Listen to the story of the week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpJumAZx1t8
2. Draw who is in the story (characters), what happens in the story (events) and where the story is (setting).