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Books to share with your children.

Books to share with your children.

Children being exposed to books beyond which they can read is an important part of the curriculum, so at school adults regularly read to the children. It inspires imaginations, models how to use fluency and expression when reading, introduces new vocabulary, supports comprehension plus many, many more things.

Here is a link to books to read aloud for children to follow and listen to. 

Top 10 storytimes to enjoy age 3-7.

The Book Trust has lots of interactive picture books to share.

Epic is the leading Digital Library for children under 12.

They are currently offering a Free 30 Day Trial.

If your child has read all of the Read Write Inc books on Oxford Owl then this link will take you to all the other Phonics based sets of books including Oxford Reading Tree and the Project X books, many of which are written by fantastic authors such as Julia Donaldson.

Reading at Home

Reading at Home

For those of you beginning to run out of books for your children to read or for you to read with your children, over the next few days we will be suggesting places where you can find many more. 

With the emphasis very much being on reading for pleasure.

Whilst your child continues to read to you- books that they can decode using their phonics, there is no reason you cannot enjoy a wider variety of books together!

I've received a lovely update from Freya's mummy. Freya has already managed to create her portrait of the queen and it is fantastic! Freya and her family are planning a forest walk to hunt for materials to make a hedgehog and Freya has had two special visits from the Tooth Fairy within the last three weeks! Wow! Freya has also celebrated her birthday over the weekend and look at that beautiful cake and sleepover set up for Freya and her little brother to enjoy. Happy birthday Freya! Love from us all in Calder Class xx

Look at Lewis in front of his dad's huge lorry! He even had a ride inside. Well done Lewis, its lovely to see your smiling face.

Summer Term Week 5

Week 5 Maths Tasks 

Make sure you click on Summer Term Week 3 (w/c 4th May) (at the bottom of the page)

Year 1

Year 2

                                     

(These links can be temperamental. If they do not work just search for White Rose Maths, Home Learning and then either Year 1 or Year 2)

and don't forget

⭐TT Rockstars

⭐ Hit the Button

⭐ Learning to tell the time

Week 5 English Tasks (plus daily reading) 

Year 1 English Tasks

Year 2 English Tasks 

A Tale of Two Feathers Comprehension (There are 3 levels of questions - the children can choose which level they would like to attempt)

Spellings - Suffixes '-ment' and '-ness' 

The suffix '-ment' is added at the end of a noun which denotes an action or a process, for example, the action of wonder would become wonderment. The suffix ‘-ness’ changes an adjective to a noun and means ‘the state of being’, for example, the state of being happy or sad. 

Can your child add the correct suffix to the following root words and spell them correctly both with and without the suffix?

happy
astonish
excite
wonder
bewilder
sad

Week 5 Wider Curriculum Tasks

History - Here are 3 pictures of Queens, do you know who they are? Look at the pictures, what clues do they have to help you guess when they were on the throne? Do you know which Queen came first? How do you know? Do you know which Queen came second? What helped you to work it out?

   

Science - What is a food chain? Watch the video and learn all about different animals and plants and how they make a food chain. Then see if you can answer the questions on the quiz. 

Art - Look at these famous portraits of the Queen, which is your favourite and why? 

By Peter Blake

By Andy Warhol

By Lucian Freud

By George Condo

Why don't you have a go at creating a portrait of the Queen? You can choose any style and use any thing you want to create it. I can't wait to see your finished pieces!

Forest School - Click on the link and choose an activity or two, Forest School Activities perhaps the children can lead the adults, as some of these activities are ones the children have done at school.

Mrs Gay says that clay can be substituted for mud and water and to please make sure you have parental supervision if using any tools.

Picture News - Picture News Virtual Assembly

Story: An Italian architect designs a new way of living.

Question:  If you could live anywhere, where would it be?

🌟Mrs Burton's Ongoing Project - Who is your hero?🌟

When I was in primary school I did a project all about my hero. It took me weeks! I learned lots of facts, made a booklet, drew and cut out pictures, and I can still remember facts about Gary Winston Lineker now! So it's your turn, choose someone who you admire, learn all about them, then show what you know in whatever way you want e.g scrapbook, PowerPoint, poster. This should be a project you work on over the next few weeks rather than complete in 1 session.

I have received another lovely update from Charlie's mummy, sharing his learning from this week. Look at that beautiful painting- and I love to see you all helping out mums and dads with the chores! :) 

'Charlie has had lots of fun this week with his English challenge, he particularly liked the naughty pixie....I wonder why???  He learnt about the Ocean and the animals and plants that live there and write what he thought it would be like to be a glo-fish.  He wrote to his best friend Rueben and painted him a picture of Steve from Minecraft using paint sticks and posted it to him.

He’s also had fun baking, dressing up and washing the cars with his brothers which we all got extremely wet!!'

Keeping Active

Keeping Active

Don't forget to keep active! 

Here is a link with lots of great ideas to try, something for everyone!

PE ideas to do at home

This week I have set a battle between the sexes. So, it's boys versus girls! Who can rise to the challenge? Watch out for the result next Tuesday!

Well done to Freya, Harry, Max, Lydia, Isabelle D, Henry, Charlie and Lily who I can see have been working on their times tables this week

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Isabelle has been very busy doing lots of fun learning tasks at home. Here is a lovely message from her mummy telling me all about it!

We've done far too much baking and been on quite a few bike rides, one past Grandmas to deliver a letter Izzy wrote her. 

Izzy and Daddy made homemade chicken pizza for everyone's dinner and a lemon cake for pudding, they were very tasty.

We've been on a micro habitat mini beast hunt and found Riley is scared of spiders just like Daddy! Izzy caught 2 wood louse in her bug catcher, these were her favourite mini beasts that she found. So she has painted a picture of one. 

For one of her English tasks she went back a little further in the pictures to choose the guitar picture as shes learning to play one. She is still having lessons online and has been learning incy wincy spider and over the rainbow. She asked me to send you a video of her playing too.    

Izzy and I have both create artwork in the style of her favourite artist and she's said "I bet Miss Watling can't guess who it is?!" And she's written a little about why she likes them.

Can you guess who the artist is that has inspired Isabelle's work?

Super job Isabelle!

New resources added to Oxford Owl - Read, Write Inc phonics.

New resources added to Oxford Owl - Read, Write Inc phonics.

Oxford Owl have added these new resources to their website.

There are Speed sound slide shows for all three sets.

There are Speed sound practice sheets to print. 

Click this link to take you to their Read, write inc page.

There are also Speedy green word slide shows as well on this page if you scroll down towards the bottom of the page.