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Wednesday 22nd April 2020

Posted: Apr 21, 2020 by: Greg Hobson (GHobson) on: Class 1

Morning all!

Here are a couple of snaps from my house, showing Brego getting even more sleep!





Anyway, back to education! Here is today's list of suggested activities:

- GoNoodle -

- Phonics - 

Please would you practice the 'ew' sound today from Chew the stew! Have a go at writing down these words using your superb 'Fred fingers'!

few
chew
chewy
screw
unscrew
brew

- English -

Today, for English, we are going to be focussing on grammar! The aim of the lesson is to start to be able to tell the difference between different types of sentences! We know lots about questions and exclamations. We use statements every day, however, commands are very new to us. Click here to look through a presentation exploring different sentence types. After that, click here to have a go at making a poster using different types of sentences (the activity is explained at the end of the presentation) and use this page to help you remember the various sentence types. 

- Break -

- PE - 

Throughout the summer term, I would be teaching athletics and tennis to the children. While at home, I am going to leave this open-ended for you and make this a repeated PE 'job' for the coming weeks.

If you have the facilities and space to do tennis, teach your children balance and coordination, by balancing a ball on the racquet while walking and jogging, get them to bounce the ball like a basketball using the racquet, try to encourage good eye to hand coordination by getting the children to drop the ball with their non-dominant hand and hit the ball after a bounce with their dominant hand.

Encourage a good grip of the racquet by showing them either the frying pan grip or the axe grip. Use a swingball if you have one!

After a while, try to feed them throws and ask them to hit back to you with control.

Encourage a forehand style shot and work up to a backhand shot.

Once they have shown understanding have a game where you shout out forehand or backhand and they have to return the ball using the correct shot type. 

Other shot types could be practicing the volley (hitting the ball without it bouncing) or the smash (hitting a ball in an over arm style above head height shot).

Always encourage control over power, as balls in next door's garden will soon halt PE play in these days of social distancing! 

Over the coming weeks, try to get to a level where you could have a rally of five or ten simple shots with your child and incorporate moving to the ball where space allows it.

Where athletics are involved, track and field style events could be replicated at home through the use of jogging and running as track events or the use of makeshift hurdles. Field events could be trying to improve and progress the throwing technique, working on jumping, both high and long. 

This is an open-ended PE task that is open to interpretation and adaption to fit your needs. Most of all, have fun!

- Lunch - 

- ICT - 

Log onto Purple Mash!

1. Explain to the children that we are looking at a type of computer program called a spreadsheet today. Spreadsheets are used for organising information. For example, if you were planning a tea party you could enter into the spreadsheet all the things you will need to get for the party and who you were going to invite. Can they think of any other things that could be stored in a spreadsheet for organising a party? (menus, gift list, entertainments).

2. Many people make lists on paper but the advantage of using a spreadsheet is that it can also do calculations for you. Explain what this means e.g. you could enter the cost of the different things that you will need for your party into the spreadsheet and then easily calculate how much money you will need to buy them all.

3. The aim today is to open a spreadsheet program in Purple Mash called 2Calculate and to learn how to enter information and do some simple calculations.

4. Click on 2Dos at the top and then open 2Calculate. Show that when it starts, there is a smaller screen in the middle with different choices. The labels at the top (‘Sheet’ and ‘Lesson’) are called tabs. For today we are going to click on the ‘Sheet’ tab

5. Click on the tab. This also gives a few choices but for today click on the first one: an empty sheet with big ‘rectangles’.

6. Ask the children to colour in different ‘rows’ and different ‘columns’ to teach them the difference. Afterwards, let them create a picture of their choice using the colours!


Thanks again for the lovely message you all sent me and thank you all for the emails letting me know what you are up to!

Cheers, and stay safe!

Mr. H.

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