1 April 2020: Home learning
Day 8 of your home learning pack
Phonics
Writing captions or sentences. Before your child puts pen to paper encourage your child to say the sentence and count the words in the sentence – this is a good chance to talk about where the finger spaces would go. Once they have done this, they are ready to write! Encourage your child to then check their writing.
Maths
Was your child able to complete the repeating pattern? You could make your own patterns using objects at home. We had a go too – can your child tell you how to continue the pattern we have made?
Literacy
Did your child write a book review? Please email photos or comments.
If you have any questions we are here to help and will respond to emails during school hours: scholesf2@spherefederation.org
31 March 2020: Hall of (home learning) Fame
Lilia and Lleyton have been very busy today working on their expanded noun phrases. I think the art work is amazing – well done! If anyone else would like their work posting, just send it over and prepare yourself for fame!
Toilet Roll Challenge
Some of you may have seen online that people were challenging each other to see how many ‘keepy uppies’ they could do with a toilet roll – it was an online, social media trend.
Well, one of our class got in touch with their effort and challenged Mr Freeman and myself to better it.
Here’s the challenger’s effort (we have his consent to post this)…
Challenger 1 – who actually wasn’t very well at the time
Followed by our responses:
Mr Catherall surprised himself….
And Mr Freeman’s football skills shone through…
Have a go and see if you can beat us.
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.
