Well done everyone you have made it through another stint of home schooling!!! We really hope that this is the last time and we cannot wait to see all the children in school next week. We hope they’re really excited to see each other and get back in, but we also realise some may be feeling a little anxious. Please try to reassure them that we are planning lots of lovely activities over the next few weeks to get them settled back in and we’ve prepared a lovely warm welcome for Monday.
For the rest of this term, we will have forest school and gardening activities on a Tuesday morning. Please come to school for the whole day in some warm, older clothes that you don’t mind getting a bit mucky and some old trainers is fine. We will try to go out whatever the weather so please dress appropriately (layers are good!) If you bring wellies or extra layers, please just bring in a named carrier bag. These will stay outside under our veranda area – so please remind your child to collect them at the end of the day too.
We will have PE with the Crossbar coaches outside every Wednesday afternoon so please come in your PE kits for the whole day as before.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we can’t wait to see you all on Monday. Parents – have a little celebration this evening too – you’ve earned it!!!
It’s Friday, which mean one thing. Time to test the old brain cells with our maths skills.
Maths
Time to warm up those brains. Practise your times table by playing Hit the Button. Can the children make sure that if they are on the x3, x4,x8 , x6, x7, x9 or x11 that they also practise the division side too.
They could always access their Times Table Rock Star Accounts to practise too.
Premiership If you emailed me your child’s score I will email you telling you whether your child has moved on to the next times table or needs to look at the same times table as last week. They are ordered below.
We always follow Premiership with a mental arithmetic test. Usually, I play them an audio clip of a lady reading out the questions. They are timed so all you need is hit play!
If you can’t get the audio above to play, then I’ll attach the questions and the answers below. With the first 10 questions, the children get 5 seconds to answer after the question is repeated. On the last five questions, the children get 10. We have tried to encourage the children to listen to the question the first time and jot down anything they think will help and once the question is repeated, then they can answer. If they have jotted notes down to help, then they can always return to the question if they have finished another question quite easily.
Usually on a Friday we don’t do a whole Guided Reading session but rather get the children to have 20-30 minutes of quiet, independent reading. It allows the children a little down time and is considered a mindful activity. Perhaps, even play some some calming music in the background to help them relax during this strange time. If you want, send us in a photo of the children reading and we can print it off and stick them to our reading journal wall!
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We are continuing with out topic of Judaism but this time we are specifically focusing of a Jewish holiday known as Passover. If you didn’t finish/do last weeks work on the Passover, then please look back at last week’s post.
If you did, I’m setting a very simple reading comprehension based on the Passover. This is because the next lesson is more of a discussion based activity and I may as well wait for all of you guys to be back in class to do it.
To celebrate World Book Day we have made a silly video challenge for you!
Various members of staff have recorded a fun poem, each with a silly disguise – can you guess who they are?
Each member of the Pontesbury team who took part is listed below (and one member appears twice) – can you guess which video belongs to which member of staff?
Mrs Giles Mrs Travi Mr Boffey Mrs Smout
Miss Gwilliam Mrs Hilditch Mr Langford Miss Roberts
For the final part of our work on instructions I would now like you to plan and write your own set of instructions.
You can write instructions for anything you would like to teach us how to do. It could be how to play a certain game, how to bake something else, how to build a den, how to catch a fish anything you are really good at.
Please use the flowchart sheet or a piece of paper to plan your work today. Think about the things people would need, and the order in which they need to do everything. Think about any safety tips or special words you might need to use.
Today, is officially World Book Day! We invite you to celebrate books and authors and encourage you to find pleasure in reading today. Reading takeover begins!
Share a story live events have a World Book Day special for you at 10.30am. Live event
Some ideas to help you celebrate:
Make a reading den
Dress up as your favourite character
Design a bookmark or some bunting around the theme of your favourite book
Make some cookies or a cake inspired by a story you know
Recreate the front cover of your favourite book (display it in your window for our book hunt)
Make your own story book with illustrations or non-fiction book with lots of facts
Act out your favourite story or story scene.
Play the Guess Who? Game. For 2 or more players. One person thinks of a character and describes them, revealing one clue at a time and others have to guess who! Eg I skipped though a wood…I went to see my Grandma…I wear a red cape…I was nearly eaten by a wolf!
The authors and illustrators of the £1 books have some fantastic activities and challenges for you in their masterclasses. Choose the one you would like to take! Author Masterclasses
Whether you are a Paddington fan or a Harry Potter fan, there is an activity pack for everyone here on the World Book Day Website
There are lots of great book related quizzes here: Caboodle
We are looking at ordering fractions using a numberline today. It’s really important to look at the number lines carefully before you try and write the answers down. What is the end number? What fractions have you been given to help find the answer? Remember that 1 means 1 whole and that there are a lot of ‘mini’ numbers which come before the number 1. Rememebr that when the numerator and denominator are the same, that means 1 e.g 3/3, 4/4, 8/8.
Please follow the PP below to give you a little understanding to today’s lesson.
Spellings- Please practise this weeks spellings and see if you can try and use them in sentences.
English- Please see Mrs Hilditch’s post.
Guided Reading- I know we have quite a few animal lovers in our class so I thought this reading comprehension would be appropriate. It’s based on a vet called Noel Fitzpatrick who has done some incredible life saving operations on animals. Please pick an appropriate level. Noel Fitzpatrick Differentiated
Today we are looking animals which have a backbone (known as Vertebrates.) We have got a couple of animal skeletons on the PP where the kids need to find the back bone and then by looking at the skeleton, can they guess what the animal was?
A very simple way to remember all the animals which have a backbone (because there are some that don’t!) is the acronymn FARM B– Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Mammals and Fish. I would like the children to create a poster about these 5 groups and what are the other features these animals have e.g. lays eggs or have live babies etc? Please look at the PP to help you. You can create it however you want but it would be lovely to have some so I can stick them on the Science wall when we all get back together again.
