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Tuesday 5th May 2020

Posted: May 5, 2020 by: Greg Hobson (GHobson) on: Class 1

Morning all,

I hope you are all staying well!

Here is today's list of suggested activities:

- GoNoodle - 

- Phonics - 

Well done for having a go at the 'kn' sound yesterday!

Here are a few more words to practice:

knight
kneel
kneecap
knot
knuckle
knock

- English - 

Thank you for all the lovely ideas you have come up with for our portmanteau animals! SO far I have seen a Cheetorilla! A Pangotiger! And a Bunicorn!

Amazing ideas!

I know one or two of you have already done a piece of writing about your animal but that is today's task. 

This may take more than one day to write.

I would like you to describe what your new animal looks like. (one paragraph)

And I would like you to tell me about where it lives, what its habitat is like and what it does. (two paragraphs)

Here are a couple of resources to help with your writing! A Woolf sheet that gives you clues on what to do and a word mat with lots of words to help you!

- 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 -

- Geography - 

Recap on how to use atlases, maps, globes and online mapping.

Talk about where Netherthong is and where London is. Can you find them on maps?

Explain that London is our capital city and is where lots of important people and companies do business and make important decisions. There are lots of important buildings in London too, such as Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, St. Pauls Cathedral, London Stock exchange, The Bank of England and Wembley Stadium!

Weather permitting, you could head out and do a field sketch of the Netherthong area. What can you see?

Now, using google maps and this London presentation have a go at doing a field sketch of the London area.

Afterward, discuss the similarities and differences!

Thanks for all your continued support!



Cheers

Mr. H. 

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