Class 2
Friday 8th May 2020 - V.E. Day Celebrations
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Today is V.E. Day remembrance day, this is a significant anniversary of V.E. Day and many celebrations had been planned across the country to recognise the heroic actions and sacrifices made by people at the time. So today, we’re a little ‘off timetable’ as it’s a bank holiday and here are some activities that you might want try at home, and maybe you could have your own celebration for V.E. Day!
Have a look at this video clip and have a go at answering the questions:
- How long did World War II last?
- What does V.E. stand for and can you work out what anniversary we are celebrating this year?
- Who appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to celebrate with the people?
- How did the British people celebrate V.E. Day?
- How long after the war did rationing continue?
Have a look at this photo and talk to your adult about what you can see:
- What are people wearing?
- What can be seen at the back of the photo?
- Why can we not see many men there?
- Do people look happy or sad?
- What sort of street is the party on?
- Is there evidence of food or music?
Other activities that you might like to do today…
- Design a medal for the returning heroes
- There will be a moment of silence at 11am to mark the sacrifice made by those who served during the war, why not join in?
- Have a look at this information from English Heritage – you can make special wartime recipes or even learn to swing dance!
- Make some bunting to decorate your house, you can find a template here
- On your daily walk today, could you visit the war memorial?
- At 3pm, people are also being invited to take to their doorsteps to raise a glass and clap during The Nation's Toast to the Heroes of World War Two.
However you celebrate, let me know by sending in your photos!
Enjoy the bank holiday weekend. See you here on Monday!
Mrs B x
Remote Learning Thursday 7th May 2020
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Well what a short week we have had this week! Today, I got an envelope through the post … It was a mystery to what was in it or who had sent it but I did recognise the writing on the front it was from my sister. Inside was the loveliest little present. Here is what she had sent me …
It brought tears to my eyes as this has been the longest time we have spent without properly seeing each other! I video called her to thank her and felt better for seeing her! Little, thoughtful things like these can make a huge difference to people! Maybe you could make something for someone special and give it to them, just something simple to let them know you are thinking of them!
Here's the suggested timetable for today:
E.R.I.C. - Everybody Reading in Class for 20mins (remember to record your reading in your reading record)
Active time - Joe Wicks is showing a PE lesson at 9am (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ)
Don’t forget GoNoodle:
Science
PSHE
Break – Have a look at the clouds, what shapes or objects can you make?
PE
Computing
Science
Although animals are all different, they all need the same things to survive. What are those important things that all animals, including humans, need to survive? Research these and make a nice poster to explain this. Hint: there are only three elements. Try this website for help …
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/zx38wmn
Next, I would like you to complete this sheet, filling in the boxes with the information that you have found. Here is an image of the work:
PSHE
VE Day tomorrow is all about remembering and celebrating what happened at this important historical event. I would like you to write down some memories and happy times that you can remember. This can be recent or past memories. Can you talk to anyone in your house and ask them what their favourite memories and happy times have been? Are they similar to yours? Here is a way that you could display your ideas …
PE
How did you get on developing your coordination and balance last week? This week we are going to look at your control when hitting the ball.
Make sure you are holding the racquet correctly, dominant hand near the bottom of the handle, firm grip with fingers wrapped around the handle. When we are hitting the ball, we need to make sure you are sideways on, swing the racquet from back to front. When you swing the racquet, it goes from racquet knee height up to chest height. You must make sure you move your feet to get next to the ball.
Next, feed the ball up for yourself and try to hit it gently forwards, thinking about the correct technique. Then, throw the ball up into the air and allow to bounce once before hitting it.
Ask someone to feed to ball to you using an underarm throw, making sure it bounces before it gets to you then return it to them. Fancy something a little trickier? Try aiming the ball when you hit it into something like a hoop.
If you don’t have the facilities to do tennis at home, you could always use your hand as a racquet.
Computing
On Purplemash, we are going to carry on looking at coding. A bug is a problem in a computer program that stops it working the way it was designed. Debug/Debugging is where you look for any problems in the code, fix and test them.
I have set the Debug challenge: chimp as your first task. There are videos at the start of each challenge which explains each task. If you click the hint button, it will show you how to code each object. Any problem, just let me know. I have also set Fun with fish and Bubbles as tasks so you can apply your new knowledge of debugging. Good luck!
Chimp Debug Challenge
Fun with fish
Bubbles
Here is the Lego challenge for today! Remember to email me your creations! If you don’t have Lego, don’t worry any construction material will do …
Have a lovely weekend, enjoy the sunshine and stay safe!
Miss H
Wednesday 6th May 2020
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Happy Wednesday everyone! I hope you are all well. My legs are aching today as I thought it would be a good idea to run back home from school yesterday! It was a total of 6.5km – so good training for next week’s Race for Life. How are your plans going for the event? Thank you for all your sponsorship donations so far, we are now at £600, which is amazing.
So the suggested schedule for today is as follows...
E.R.I.C. - Everybody Reading in Class for 20 mins
Active time - Joe Wicks is showing a PE lesson at 9am or Go Noodle
Maths/Literacy - do this in batches of 20 mins each, build in breaks.
R.E.
Maths
LO: Missing numbers
- 23 + 59 =
- 78 – 40 =
- £1 - 35p =
- 30 ÷ 5 =
- Write fourteen in digits.
- Partition 136 into 100s, 10s and 1s
Can you remember what the fancy maths word for opposite is? Click here the see if you were right. You’ll need to think about opposites today. It’s really important to know your fact families. Once you know one fact, you actually many others, take a look…
If 12 + 7 = 19, then 7 + 12 = 19
And 19 – 7 = 12 and 19 - 12 = 7
We’ve been really good at these in class. I’ve found this online fact family game you can play here:
Once you’ve done some work on this game, you should be able to use these skills to work out missing number problems. I found this lovely poem to help you remember what to do…
Have a go at these missing number problems, remember the poem – it will help you!
English
Did you enjoy doing the Litz Blitz from yesterday? Well here’s one more…
1) What type of word is underlined:
Quickly, Mrs Barker ran around the playground.
2) Write in the 4 missing capital letters:
next tuesday is our race for life day.
3) Spot the spelling mistake:
because could frend
4) Fill in the missing word:
Simon has _________ the cake.
5) Make the contraction for 'has not'.
I hope you enjoyed reading the Mousehole Cat story and looking at the wonderful pictures. Can you retell the story to your adult – just talk the story, don’t write anything down. Can you retell it without too many ‘erms’ and ‘ers’, It’s not easy to do that! Challenge your adult to retell the story too, if you need to look back at the story just go to Monday and Tuesday’s blogs. If you can talk the story, you can draw the story…
Today, I would like you to create your own Mousehole Cat story map using pictures and some words, if you wish. We did this activity when we wrote our Katie Morag stories. You can use the story board template here or just use a plain piece of paper and layout your story as you wish. You can use stickmen pictures if you like or as much detail as you want. When you have completed your story map, you should be able to ‘read’ it as if it’s a written story!
R.E.
Why Do People Pray? This is the question we’ve been thinking about over the last few weeks. Many people, who believe in God, pray because God wants them to tell Him what is on their minds. Even though Christians believe that He sees and understands our situations better than we do, He still wants to hear from us in our own words.
There are five sorts of prayer.
- Praise. We praise God when we tell him how wonderful He is.
- Thanksgiving, or telling God, "thank you". We thank God for all the wonderful things He does for us. He gives us life; He gives us food, clothing and shelter; He gives us good people in our lives to help us and to take care of us.
- Telling God that we are sorry for what we have done. We tell God we are sorry either when we have hurt one of the people God has created or when we have done some sort of damage to God's beautiful creation. We tell God what we have done and that we are sorry that we did it.
- Asking for help. We ask God to keep us safe, to give us courage in tough times, or to give us the things we need to be strong and healthy. God always wants to hear from us when we are afraid or in trouble and need help.
- Asking God to care for another person or part of his creation.
Jesus taught His followers how to pray. He thought it was important to talk to God. Do you know about the special prayer that Christians have? It is called the Lord’s Prayer. Here is it – read it with your adult and discuss what you understand about it:
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be your name
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done
On Earth as in heaven
Give us today our daily bread
Forgive us our sins
As we forgive those who sin against us
Lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil.
For the Kingdom, the power and the Glory are Yours,
Now and forever,
Amen.
So enjoy today, Miss H will be back on the blog tomorrow and then on Friday, I’ll be doing a V.E. Day special blog.
Take care!
Mrs B
Remote Learning Tuesday 5th May 2020
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Good morning Class 2! I hope everyone is OK today. I’m sure that you are aware that it is the V.E. Day celebrations on Friday and a bank holiday. I’ll still be doing a blog that day with lots of V.E. suggestions but will respond to your emails on the Monday. Perhaps you can get thinking about what you could do on the day. Many people are trying to organise their own afternoon teas, I think I might have a go at that too. There are some nice ideas here, that you might want to start looking at.
So the suggested schedule for today is as follows...
E.R.I.C. - Everybody Reading in Class for 20 mins
Active time - Joe Wicks is showing a PE lesson at 9am or Go Noodle
Maths/Literacy - do this in batches of 20 mins each, build in breaks.
Music
P.E.
Maths
LO: Add/Subtract pairs of 2-digit numbers
- 75 + 14 =
- 78 – ? = 19
- £1 – 78p =
- 60 ÷ 5 =
- Write fifty in digits.
- Partition 164 into 100s, 10s and 1s.
How did you get on yesterday with your subtraction? Today, I’d like you to practise these skills and your addition skills with wordy problems. You will need to write down the number sentence and then perhaps show your working (for some of them, you might do your working in your head) . Let’s have a look at number 1 together: Jake buys an apple for 36p, he has 42p in his wallet, how much does he have left?
See how you get on with the rest:
English
I thought it might be nice to do a Litz Blitz today! Have a go at these:
1) What type of word is underlined:
Quickly, Mrs Barker ran around the playground.
2) Write in the 5 missing capital letters:
on friday it will be v.e. day.
3) Which word means to be glad or reassured:
relieved reflected repeated
4) Fill in the missing word:
Peter will _________ the car.
5|) Make the contraction for were not.
Now here is the rest of the story from yesterday…
Have a read of this with your adult. Look at the beautiful pictures, discuss what you like about the story. Can you ‘summarise’ what happens in the story to your adult – just the bones of the story not the details.
Now, I haven’t shown you the blurb on the back of the book. I’d like you to think about what would be a good blurb for this book. Remember, the blurb needs to be short and to the point but also persuade people to read the whole book! Here are some examples:
Have a go yourself, use some of your own books at home to 'magpie' some more ideas.
Music
Last week you used PurpleMash to compose your own seaside tune. I would like you to find some objects in your house to use as instruments to accompany your composition. Remember that our voices are instruments as well! Use the waves, wind, birds and even people as your inspiration! Try using a graphic score to write your ideas down. Here is an example. Send us some pictures of you with the objects you choose and even videos of your compositions. We will love to hear them!
PE
How did your trail making go last week? Could they find all of the hidden clues/letters/numbers? I would like you to do the same this week except, I would like you to blindfold the person who is going to be hunting for the objects. You will need to give clear instructions, using your positional vocabulary, to direct them to the objects. Good luck!
Enjoy your Tuesday! See you back here tomorrow.
Stay safe.
Mrs B x
Woof to you all!
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I hope you are all ok and staying safe. I'm still staying at home. We are having fun and having extra cuddles here.
I had a really special weekend because it was my 10th birthday! Wow, I ate so many sausages! I had loads of balloons, a sausage cake and a dinosaur party with games! We even had dog music, my favourite. Lucky for me the weather was lovely and we got to have a picnic in our garden. I wore a party hat but only for a few minutes because it made my ears tickle. My family asked me to wait to open my presents until the morning and it was hard because I could sniff the tasty treats inside! Afterwards, I had a lovely long sleep and dreamt about running and barking to the hokey cokey. I enjoy that dance and know all of the moves.
I can't wait until I see you again at school and we can chat about our time staying at home and all the things we've done with our families. I hope you and your families are ok and hope to see you woofy soon.
Love and paws,
Mr Curly Wurly xxx