31 March 2020: Hall of (home learning) Fame
Hello everyone
I hope everyone is well. We should all be trying to enjoy this opportunity and making sure we keep ourselves emotionally, mentally and physically happy and healthy. It’s been great to hear from lots of you. If you haven’t sent me an email yet, please do. It’s great to catch up with people!
Today is an exciting day for a few member of 56OB as they finally make it in to the highly respected ‘Hall of (home learning) Fame!’ #HoHLF
So, here goes…
This person has been working hard to keep their brain, and their body, happy and healthy. Good job! Well done – you’re officially in the ‘Hall of (home learning) Fame!’ Also, in the back ground I can see an interesting book: ‘The boy at the back of the class‘. This is next on my reading list so maybe we can compare notes next time we see each other.
Here we see an awesome home learning set up from this member of Team 56OB. Really impressive stuff here (and I loved your email telling me what you’d been up to, too). Well done and congratulations on being accepted into the ‘Hall of (home learning) Fame‘.
And finally, it’s a family affair for our next entrants. This collaborative learning approach has led to all 3 members of this household being able to learn from home. Well done and welcome to the ‘Hall of (home learning) Fame’!
Stay tuned for more entrants to our Hall of (home learning) Fame over the coming days.
Send photos to your class teacher’s email address accompanied by #HoHLF. Terms and conditions apply.
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.
Expanded noun phrases
Alfie, Amelie and Olivia have sent in their work on expanded noun phrases. It’s great to see how you’ve approached the learning in different ways. Well done.
Animal Magic!
The WWF (World Wildlife Fund) have a wonderful website that is full of great ideas to do at home. It has quizzes, videos and some creative ideas too. Have a look and see what you think.
Another fun activity is to type an animal name into Google and in the results list there will be ‘Meet a life-sized panda up close.’ Click on this and it will show you an amazing 3D moving image of an animal and you can even have your photo taken with it. I just had a tiger in my kitchen!
31 March 2020: Home learning
Day 7 of your home learning pack
Phonics
How did your child find writing the phonemes? We focus on pronouncing the phonemes with a ‘pure’ sound. For example, ‘ssss not suh’ and ‘ch not chuh’. Here are some videos on phoneme pronunciation.
Phase 3 – please note, the pronunciation of ‘z’ is American so incorrect for your child. All other phonemes are pronounced correctly.
Maths
How did your child find the teens numbers activity? Number blocks are great short videos for helping understand numbers.
Literacy
Tricky word detectives! How many tricky words did your child find? The tricky word songs are a great way to support your child when learning to read and write tricky words.
Please email to let us know how your child’s home learning journey is going.
If you have any questions we are here to help and will respond to emails during school hours: scholesf2@spherefederation.org
Wake up shake up (WUSU)
A few people have asked about WUSU…so I’ve recorded Shake Senora for you to join in with. Even my dog joined in 😂
Reading at home
We have had a few emails asking what to do when children have finished reading their school reading books.
Any books you read at home will be fine; story books, comics, magazines, dictionaries, atlases, chapter books, recipes or lists. The children don’t need to be able to read every single word independently. You can read to them, take turns, look for words they can read and talk about the book.
There are also lots of e books on Twinkl for free, ranging from traditional tales to information texts – https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/literacy/reading/reading-ebooks
Just keep reading!
Calling ALL Writing Warriors!
If your child is a Writing Warrior and would like to continue to complete the home-learning missions we can help!
We have been given Wiz’s top secret email address and will be able to email any missions completed to him. Wiz will then be able to send a new mission to your child! Just email us (Scholesf2@spherefederation.org) your child’s completed mission. We will then pass this onto Wiz and email back his message and a new mission.
30 March 2020: Home learning
Day 6 of your home learning pack
Phonics
Was your child able to blend the four daily words today? Remember, your child could use their ‘phoneme fingers’ (see video) to help them when reading words.
Maths
Did you find the subitising video on YouTube?
Literacy
Did your child help you cook or bake today? What did they bake? Did they write any instructions? Please email us any photos and comments – it would be great to see your child cooking/baking!
If you have any questions we are here to help and will respond to emails during school hours: scholesf2@spherefederation.org
Supertato!
We hope you enjoyed the weekend and found some fun things to do at home and in your garden. This week, we will be thinking about the story Supertato by Sue Henndra. You might have this story at home, but if not we have posted a link to it on YouTube.
Read or listen to the story with your child – talk about the various vegetables that they can see in the story. Are there any vegetables that they haven’t seen before? Which vegetable is their favourite to eat? Talk about evil pea and how he is being unkind to the other vegetables. It is always a good idea to revisit the story throughout the week, your child may even be able to retell the story, in their own words, using the pictures to help them.
Here are some activities that you can try that are linked to the story.
How many different ways do we eat potato? Talk about this with your child eg mashed potato, chips, jacket potato, crisps.
Make your own Supertato or super vegetable – Draw on the eyes with a marker and add a paper cape with sellotape. Send us a picture via the email we would love to see your creations.
Have a try at vegetable printing or drawing your favourite vegetable. What colour is it? What shape is it?
Sorting carrots –Which are long, which are short? Can you put them in order from shortest to longest? Use the words long, longest, short and shortest with your child. How many carrots have you got? Count carefully pointing to each carrot as you go.
Evil Pea – If you have frozen peas in your freezer have a look at them in their frozen state. Feel them, what do they feel like? Watch them defrost. How long does it take? Does it defrost more quickly in different places around your house? Use the words “frozen” and “melting” with your child.
Make a sign – tell evil pea to stop being unkind. Ask your child what they want it to say and write this for them. They can add pictures of evil pea and maybe a STOP sign.
Let us know how you get on by replying to the email address 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.
Have fun!
Chick news
If you have been keeping up to date with our chick news, you’ll know that we were going to move the chicks into a bigger cage this weekend. They love the extra space and have been running around and starting to flap their wings. The chicks are getting better at jumping too; they can now jump over the side and escape when we open the door to feed them.
They’re growing quickly and are really hungry; we’ve been filling their food tray up several times a day. This also means that they poo a lot too! Mrs Long’s first job today is to clean them out and give them some fresh water.
They’ll be going back to the farm soon to join the other chicks and mother hens. We’ll let you know when they do and post a few final photographs of them before they go home.