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Friday 24th April 2020

Posted: Apr 23, 2020 by: Greg Hobson (GHobson) on: Class 1

Morning all,

I hope you are all well and safe!

Could I ask a favour? Could you all send me an email just to let me know how you are getting on during this tricky time?

If I don't hear from you I'll be in touch. Cheers!

Here is today's list of suggested activities:

- GoNoodle -

- Phonics - 

Log onto Spelling Shed and have a go at the 'ew' and 'aw' sounds that we have been working on this week. 

- Maths - 

A bit more multiplication in maths today! Start by chatting about the times/multiplication sign! X Make sure to show the difference between add + take away -  and equals = !

Hit this link to have a peek at a few slides (up to number six) discussing the method of multiplication with groups. 

After, have a look at these grouping questions. 

Answer these multiplication sentences using grouping to help you.
Set your work out neatly in your books.

1.  4 x 2 =          2.  3 x 3 =         3.  5 x 2 =         4.  3 x 2 =

5. 7 x 2 =           6.  3 x 5 =         7.  2 x 6 =         8.  4 x 3 =

- 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 - 

- RE - 

Before Easter, you did some lovely work about a message in a bottle!

Today, we are going to explore the question: What is a prophet?

A prophet is a messenger of sorts, somebody who would deliver messages from god.

Watch this story of Jonah and the Whale by clicking here!

Did Jonah do as God asked? 

What did he do instead? 

What message was Jonah given to pass on?   

What did Jonah do afterwards?

What does this story say about how God feels when people do bad things? 

Does God stop loving them?

Thanks for all your hard work!

Mr. H.

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