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Connected Curriculum Learning-Plants and growing
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 11:32am
Hello,
So far we have looked at seasonal changes and we have noticed the changes that have happened around us, in our environment, because it is Spring. Hopefully you have drawn the changes that you can see e.g. plants growing and have 'had a go' at writing about them.
Today we are going to be thinking about what a plant needs to grow , we are going to labelling the different parts of a plant and thinking about their function . To help us know more about this I want you to watch the following links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUBIQ1fTRzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSBcMYYEwtM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLhTgTwbYMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP5jnuvMqxQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD60-3rqPXg
I hope you have an idea of what a plant needs to grow and what the different parts of a plant is called.
Challenge 1
What does a plant need to grow? Can you draw a picture to explain what you know?
Challenge 2
What would haappen if a plant did not get any sun or water when it wwas growing? How do you know?
Challenge 3- copy and complete the sheet
Challenge 4-copy and complete the sheet
Challenge 5
When you out in the garden or walking as part of your daily exercise then have a look for all the plants you can see and see if they are on the plant hunt sheet.
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 11:28am
Good morning everyone,
I hope you all had a good weekend and are ready to work hard on your learning (and your wellbeing!) this week.
Today's challenge has actually come from a website that Mrs Hughes sent to me to look at so thank you Mrs Hughes!
Today I would like you to think about resilience which means keeping strong and bouncing back even in a difficult situation. I'd like you to design a Shield of Strength.
Think about what your strengths are, especially the ones that can help you at the moment while we're not in school, and write or draw (or both!) onto a shield. Here is my shield that you may want to use for help: 
I have attached a template of the shield in case you want to use it but otherwise you can just fraw a shield on a plain piece of paper.
As always I would love to see your challenges so please send them to EALhomelearning@ravensbury.sch.uk
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
Thank you to Shawnakaye who has sent me a couple of photos of things that make her smile!
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 10:44am
Good Morning Year 3,
Here's the answers for Friday's work.
Sentence of the day:
This term, we were supposed to be learning about ‘Can I grow lettuce on a mountain summit?’ in our Connected Curriculum.
SPAG activity:
Conjunctions -
I put on my shoes and I went out to play.
I can’t eat my sweets until after dinner.
I can’t go out tonight because I have to stay in and do my homework.
It had been a long time since I had last played football.
I was going to eat the sweets but I saved them for my sister.
She was kind to me although she wouldn’t let me play with the Lego.
Maths activity:
Place value: Five hundred and fourty eight
Problem solving: Money in total = £4.43
+ - x ÷
78+28 = 106
630-60=570
7x3=21
30 ÷3=10
Reasoning: Part whole model: No because 131 + 70 = 210
Today's activities:
Sentence of the day:
Today was the start of a knew day. i couldent believe my eys becos I saw a flower pop out of the ground and shoot up all the way to the sky I fort to myself, this is a bit like jack and the beanstalk_
In green:
-I needs to be a capital letter even if it is not at the start of a sentence.
-Eyes is spelt incorrectly, it needed another e
-You need a full stop after beanstalk.
6 unmarked errors.
SPAG activity:
The words a and an come before nouns and adjectives in a sentence. Use ‘a’ with a word that starts with a consonant e.g. a bridge. Use ‘an’ if the word that follows starts with a vowel e.g. an apple.
Put an 'an' or 'a' in these sentences in the right places:
I always eat ____ banana or ____ biscuit at break time.
The story was about ___ kind ogre who helped ____ angry man.
She had ____ argument with _____ friend from school.
They sat under _____ oak tree for ____ hour on ____ wollen rug.
Add an adjective to these noun phrases that will work with 'a' or 'an':
a _______ spider
an ________ door
an ________ man
a _______ day
a ______ bus
an _______ box
Maths:
How many 5's make 45?
Which of these numbers is not a multiple of 5? 35 70 53 65 15 90
Round 372 to the nearest 100.
382 + _____ = 582
What is five times eleven?
Which is not in the 8 times tables? 32 8 40 88 94
That's all for today. Come back tomorrow for answers and some new activities! We are really impressed with all of your learning. Keep emailing to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Speak soon!
Miss Humphreys, Miss Faragher and Miss G :)
Story Adventure The House on Haunted Hill Part 1
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 10:28am
The House on Haunted Hill
An Adventure
By B.G. Waldram
You shake your head as you march up the creepy hill.
How did you get yourself into this mess? The wind whips up and blows fiercely at you as if trying to keep you away from reaching your destination. You shiver and pull your coat up around your neck, desperately trying to keep the cruel wind out. You tell yourself that the shivers down your spine and the goose bumps that have popped out all over your body is due to the cold but deep down you know it’s because the house is now in sight.
The colossal gates stand guard and the house sits behind them all sinister and spooky. You ask yourself again why you were foolish to take up the dare: ‘Who is brave enough to enter the Midnight Mansion and retrieve the Ruby Heart?’
Are you brave enough to enter this adventure with me?
You smile to yourself as you recall the moment when you stood up and declared that you were worthy of the challenge.
All the others were amazed at your bravery. Several of them cheered joyfully, happy that they weren’t attempting the foolish challenge. Several girls came and kissed you on the cheek whilst the boys clapped your back heartily. There was no way of backing out now.
Hours later, you had left the warmth of your friends behind and you are now alone, trudging towards the mansion.
You arrive at the gates and push them open; they creak noisily as if crying out to all the ghosts of the night. You stand in front of the massive house, staring at the uninviting front door. Will you try it or do you want to go around the back?
Front door Around the back
The first to answer and choose either the front door or to go around the back of the house will decide our fate!
Monday sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 10:17am
Good Morning! I hope you all had a lovely weekend! I went on a lovely peaceful walk and made some cookies to eat when I got back.
Sentence of the day
On Friday you were challenged to think of as many adjectives as you could to describe the bug hotel. Here are some brilliant examples of children using adjectives to improve the sentence. Well done!
This week, your writing challenge is to write your own set of instructions on how to make a bug hotel. So, today’s sentence of the day challenge is to put these instructions in the correct order. Write the numbers next to the sentences along with first, next, then, after that and finally.
______fill your flower pot with twigs and dried leaves
______find a shady area of the garden
______put some stones in your flower pot to stop it flying away
______add some sugar to the pot
______peek inside to see which bugs have visited your hotel
Phonics
Today’s phonics is all about those tricky words! Watch the youtube videos and write down any words that you don’t know or that you just find a bit difficult. These will be your words to practice today!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2dx65u59aw – phase 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R087lYrRpgY&t=11s – phase 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NOzgR1ANc4&t=3s – phase 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbcZnb2iz1c – phase 5
Write down the tricky words twice and play a game of pairs or snap or ask someone at home to hide the words around your house and go on a word hunt.
There are also lots of tricky word games on phonics play. Like this one…
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5/train-your-brain-ph5
Have fun and don’t forget to send us your pictures!
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 9:49am
Hello,
Well I am very pleased to say it is a sunny Monday morning. I don't know about you but I woke up really early today because the sun was shining brightly through my window. I hope it says sunny all day because it always makes me feel happy and ready for learning. Before you start your maths today I want you to do some counting exercises. Let's get out brains working this morning!
Counting exercises
1. Star jumps- count forwards from 0-50
2. Hopping- count forwards in steps of 2 from 0-30
3. Jumping with 2 feet together- counting forwards from 0 to 100 in steps of 10
4 Balancing on 1 leg- count backwards from 30 to 0
5. Body twists- count backwards from 100 to 0 in steps of 10
Today I want you to write the long date. Make sure you underline it with a ruler! Then I want you to have a go at drawing a number lime from 0-30. See if you can copy this. if you have a printer you can print one out from the file at the bottom of the page labelled number line.
Today we are going to use a number line to solve addition word problems. Remeber when we add amounts together the number gets bigger and we move fo the right on a number line.
Read this problem below
Miss wolfenden buys 10 apples from Tesco. She then drives to Morrisons and buys 6 more apples. How many apples does she have altogether?
Click this link to have a look at how to work it out
http://www.showme.com/sh?h=uCEZ22q
Now have a go at solving these word problems
1.Miss Riley buys 5 packs of felt tips from the supermarket. She then goes into school and finds 7 more packs . How many does she have altogether?
2. Mrs Hughes buys 12 oranges for the children in breakfast club. Mrs Thewlis buys 7 more oranges and brings them into breakfast club. How many oranges are there altogether. There are 20 children in breakfast club. Have they bought enough oranges?
3. Madeleine found 8 lollypops in the cupboard. She then went to the shops and bought 6 more. How many did she have altogether? She then shared them out equally between her and her friend. How many lollypops did they each have?
4. There are 14 cakes in the cake tin and Callum put 8 more in the tin. How many are there altoghether?
5. There are 7 birds singing in the trees. 10 more birds land on the branch. How many birds are there altogether?
6. 16 cars are red, 5 cars are blue, 7 cars are yellow and 14 cars are pink.
How many cars would there be altogether if ........
a- The pink cars and blue cars were together? b- The red cars and yellow cars were together?
c- The red and the blue cars are together? d- The yellow and pink cars are together?
e- The red and pink cards are together? f- The blue and yellow cars are together?
7. There are 5 children in the swimming pool and 9 more children jump in. How many altogether?
8. 3 people get in a coach and 17 people join them. How many altogether?
9. Buzz lightyear collects 6 toys and puts them into his cart. He then finds Woody, Bo peep, Forky, Ham, Wheezy and Gabby in Als Toy Barn. He puts all the toys in his cart and takes them home. How many toys are in the cart?
10. Faiz builds a tower that is 9 bricks tall. Courteous builds a tower that is 6 bricks tall and Michael builds a tower that is 4 bicks tall. They join all the bricks together to make a really tall tower. How many bricks high is their tower.
Happy counting
Miss Wolfenden and Miss Riley
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 9:48am
Good morning everyone!
Last week's reading challenge was to read 5 books on reading plus! Since we have been off school, there has only been around 11 children at most, per a week, on reading plus. Last week, even more of you took part! I'm excited to say that 21 of you accesssed Reading Plus last week! That's nearly double the amount of the week before. Well done everyone.
This week, we are focussing on the number of words you read, rather than the amount of books.
Can you read more than 3,500 words this week?
Good luck!
Miss Brookes
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 9:41am
Good morning Year 2!
I hope you have all had a lovely, restful weekend. I am so glad that the sun is back out for a few days.
It was brilliant to see you add adjectives to your sentences on Friday’s challenge. Well done!
Here goes the long Monday morning blog…
English Challenge
I love watching films and I seem to get attached to characters quickly. I am constantly shouting questions at my TV wanting to know more! For example, does Elsa stay in the Enchanted Forest or does she go back to Arendelle?
Today, your challenge is to watch a short video clip from Literacy shed. I would like you to really think about the main character and how she might be feeling. If you were to meet her, what sort of questions would you like to ask her? I would like you to write down 5 questions that you would like to ask and don’t forget to use your question marks.
https://www.literacyshed.com/bubbles.html
Maths Challenge
Today I would like you to complete your fluent in 5:
1. 60 = 24 + ___
2. Half of 6 = ___
3. 90 – 47 = ___
4. Double 16 = ___
5. 30ml + 60ml = ___
Well done to the children who have been using TTRockstars! I am very impressed. Don’t forget you could also use fun websites such as top marks to keep you busy!
Reading Challenge
Can you write a book review on your favourite book or a book that you are currently reading? Write down a few sentences to answer the questions below:
What is title of the book?
What is the book about?
Would you/ would you not recommend the book to your friends? Why?
What words has the author used to make the book more interesting?
Can you think of a more exciting ending for the book?
I would like you to read at least 3 books on Lexia this week. You could even write your book review on one of them. I can’t wait to give out more Lexia certificates at the end of this week!
Vocabulary challenge
Vocab detectives!
This week, I would like you to read the article attached below. With support from an adult, pick out some words that you may not have come across before. I would like you to write down what you think the word might mean. I would then like you to research the word to see if you were correct. Whilst reading the article, I noticed some words that you may struggle with such as aluminium, landfill and decompose. Have a look yourself and make some notes as you read.
https://www.coolkidfacts.com/recycling-facts-for-kids/
Miss Hamer’s weekly challenge
I have attached a brilliant outdoor hunt sheet that I would love to share with you all. There is a number next to each photo based on how difficult the objects are to find. I would like you to make a tally chart of how many times you see the objects on your daily walk and then work out the total using the numbers on the hunt sheet.
Have a great day.
Miss Hamer
Jack and the Beanstalk display Reading Challenge
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 9:25am
Hello,
Happy Monday Morning! We hope you all had a lovely weekend and are ready for some learning challenges this week. Miss Fish is helping the Key Stage one staff to create a Jack and the Beanstalk display in the shared area and we need your help! We are making 120 leaves for the beanstalk, one for each child, which we will decorate when the children return back to school. We thought it would be a lovely idea if each child writes something positive about reading and sends it into school. The staff will then type up your work and add it to the leaves when they are completed. Maybe you could write about your favourite book or favourite author. Sometimes it is nice to read about some of the exciting vocabulary that you have read, maybe you could share that! You can email your work in or take a photograph of the writing and send it in. It is up to you! Each leaf is going to be the size of an A4 piece of paper so you have plenty of space to write your ideas down. If any of your brothers or sisters or even your adults want to join in, they can! If they are younger they might want to draw a picture or write about their favourite character, that's fine. We want to celebrate the schools love of reading so you can be as creative as possible. We will be giving prizes for creativity and presentation so take your time! We can't wait to see the work. Happy reading!
Thanks
The Key Stage One team
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:47am
Good morning Year 5!
May the 4th be with you everyone! (groan...that's Asaph's - who loves Star Wars - FAVOURITE joke, and today is the day he can actually say it!!)
We hope you had a lovely weekend, it looks like the sunshine is returning this week, hooray! Perhaps you'll be able to go on a short walk, bike ride or have time outside in your yard or garden this week. Fresh air is always fantastic for our minds and bodies, especially at this time we find ourselves in!
Are you ready for this new week of learning? We can't wait to see what you get up to, remember to email us on Y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk to show us!
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Mrs Hodges here!
Right, before the first Sentence of the Day for this week, I'd like you to have a watch of this amazing video from Tim Peake - a British astronaut who spent 185 days on the International Space Station in 2015-2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfxYBw2Sxo
Isn't it amazing how differently water behaves without gravity! I just love watching it!
So, for today's sentence - click the link below, and remember to check back for my purple pen video later on this afternoon!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=kmBuV8a
Good afternoon!
How did you get on with today's sentence Year 5? Click the link below to see my purple pen corrections!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=E3580aO
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Hello from Miss Wendt!
I did laugh at Asaph's favourite joke! I do quite like Star Wars...I'm not a big fan, but I like the special effects in the films and I must admit, I do have some Stormtrooper pyjama bottoms!
Thank you to the children who emailed over the weekend with their work. Wow, hard work at all times from Year 5! Well done Yousef and Ganesa, I will share your work on Friday!
Here are today's fluent in five questions! I will catch up with the answers and another challenge later!
And here are the answers! Thanks to Ganesa who has sent in her work today!
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Good Morning from Miss Brookes!
Wow, it didn't take long for a 'May the 4th' joke to appear! Much to my Dads horror (who loves the Star Wars films), I have never managed to see a whole movie. I've seen bits and pieces of them...but whenever my Dad puts them on at home, I fall asleep during it, every time! Oops.
Today's GVP is continuining from Thursdays lesson on Adverbs of Possibility. Thank you to the children who completed the least certain-most certain scale. Can you beat your high score of how many Adverbs of Possiblity you can remember in 30 seconds? Don't forget to email us your score - Jessica won on Thursday's lesson (well done, Jess!)
I'm looking out for who can make the silliest, or funniest of sentences today - so don't forget to email them along!
Here is today's video:
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=XJ2TzWq
Here is a dice for you to use if you don't have one: https://nrich.maths.org/6717
Why doesn't a spider get stuck to its own web?
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:43am
Good Morning Reception!
Did you enjoy the Very Busy Spider story? If you haven’t watched it yet – the link to the video is here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfL0g-XRxnA&t=45s
In the story, the spider is VERY busy spinning her web! After reading this story, I thought it would be a great idea to participate in a science experiment linked to spider’s webs!! Spiders catch their prey in a web (like the fly in the story!) Spider’s webs are extremely sticky so that bugs stick to them and cannot move!
But… why doesn’t a spider get stuck to its own web?
This is what we are going to investigate!
In this experiment we are going to create our own webs and test whether our fingers stick like the fly or do not stick like the spider!
You will need:
Sticky Tape
Cooking Oil
Step one: Spread out the tape sticky side up.
Step two: Ask children to walk their fingers across the tape. What happens??
Did your fingers stick?? That is like the bugs on a spider’s web.
Step three: Now, put some cooking oil on the children’s fingers and do the same – walk their fingers across the sticky tape.
Do their fingers stick now? No! Spiders have natural oils on their bodies that keeps them from sticking to things.
I hope you enjoy this experiment!
Please email in your pictures and results to the reception home learning email (receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk)
Have fun!!
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:40am
Good Morning Reception!
I hope you have had a lovely weekend and are ready to take part in some exciting maths learning today!
First, let’s warm up with our maths songs and today’s fluent-in-five questions!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVzXKfr6e8&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Ajq682yrA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGetqbqDVaA
Today we are going to be focusing our maths learning on measuring weight.
Take a listen to a catchy measurement song below. We have listened to this weight song before in reception; it’s about a big, heavy elephant!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cjPApFuGLM
When we practise measuring weight in reception, we often have turned into ‘human balance scales.’
This is where children stand with their arms placed to the side of us with hands spread. Place an item on each hand and ask children to tip to show which item is heavier and which is lighter. Use balance scales to check the children’s estimations.
Children could also hold buckets or bags in each hand and place items inside to feel which has the stronger downward pull.
When we teach weight, we encourage children to use the language of heavy, heavier, heaviest, light, lighter, lightest to compare items. To avoid misconceptions that bigger items are always heavier, we provide some small, heavier items and some large, lighter ones. Below, I have posted some fun ideas for measurement activities at home!
Busy Bag Challenge:
Use a basket or bag to collect lots of items around your house.
Once you have found lots of items, can you sort them by weight?
Balance scales activity:
Give children an item, for example, an apple. Challenge them to find things which feel heavier and lighter than the apple and sort them into sets.
Ask children to use the balance scales to check their estimation.
Are all the heavier things larger than the apple?
Can they find anything which is larger than the apple but lighter?
Ask children to use cubes or similar objects to balance an item on one side and adding cubes until the scales balance. How many cubes are the same weight as an apple?
CBeebies Reading Challenge - Monday 4th May
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:30am
CBeebies Reading Challenge Monday 4th May
Today Angelica Bell is going to read ‘Nobot the Robot with No Bottom’. What a funny title and what a funny book! It made me giggle when I read it. Another reason I like it is because the animals are very creative with their uses for Nobot’s bottom! Tell your grown-up what you like about it and why.
Can you send me some photos of you using an object in interesting and different ways?
Night night sleep tight
From Mrs Ganner
Weekly Vocabulary Challenge ‘Baby Animals’
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:28am
Describe the Baby Animals Weekly Challenge
I bought this book from Home Bargains last week for you. I know how much you like animals. You might have some animals like these at home. We call them pets. I haven’t got any pets but if I did, I’d love to have a dog. Dogs are silly and they like cuddles, which is a bit like me! Tell your grown up what you know about pets. How do you look after them?
Watch and listen to the Show Me Video and join in pointing to the words as I read the story. You’ll need your listening ears too because I’m going to ask you lots of questions.
http://www.showme.com/sh?h=9hZkYee
Use the Superhero Speaking Cape Symbols from class to help you (see photo below)
Pause the video: Can you use shape words to describe the animals?
Shape Vocabulary –describe the shapes – round, circular, tall, pointy, wide,
Pause the video: Can you use texture words to describe the pictures?
Texture Vocabulary– fuzzy, soft, fluffy, silky, squidgy, smooth
Challenge:
Find groups of objects in your house and sort them by shape or texture. Can you describe your objects using interesting vocabulary? I’ll post the groups I found on Friday
I hope you find lots of objects to put in your groups. Maybe you could have some spiky objects or some hard objects. Make sure you send in photos or videos of your learning to
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have Fun
From Mrs Ganner
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:20am
Good Morning Reception!!
Let us start today’s phonic activity by revising Phase 3 tricky words. Use your Phase 3 tricky word mat and play fastest finger first. Grown ups say a tricky word, who will point to it the fastest...?
Sing the tricky word song. Write the Phase 3 tricky words on scraps of paper and put them around your room where you can see them. Each time you sing a tricky word in the song point or stand near the word. Click the video link at the bottom of the blog for the song.
Today we are going to think about a new sound. This sound is a trigraph. A trigraph is three letters that make one sound. Our new sound is…
Watch this show me video where I am going through the trigraph igh:
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=17KwBOq
Today’s practise and apply activities are:
Can you make some igh words using the letters on the sheet? Time yourself, how many will you be able to write in 1 minute…?
For example, on the sheet I can see bright and might.
Can you label the pictures with the igh words…? Mrs Iqbal and Mrs Cooper’s Phonic groups choose three words and write some super sentences.
Can you find the igh words in the wordsearch?
Play the game Dragon’s Den on Phonics Play. Click Phase 3 and find the sound ‘igh.’
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/2/dragons-den
Love Mrs Iqbal
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:14am
Did you get to try something new over the weekend? Was it fun ?
We thought we'd do something new on our blog this week - a round the world quiz! We'll post questions about somewhere around the world and you can send us your answers to Ealhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk.
Question 1
Can you name the country and the capital city for this flag?
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:09am
Good Morning Reception!!
This week we have a new story all about a very busy spider. Listen to the video at the bottom of the blog where I am reading the story for you.
Can you remember all the animals in the story? Tell your grown up all the animals that were in the story. Use the story PowerPoint to see if you remembered all the animals.
Mrs Iqbal and Mrs Cooper’s Phonics groups – Use a piece of paper and make a story map of the story. Use the animal pictures attached to the blog or you could draw the animals. Look at my story map to give you an idea…
Miss Williams and Miss Cogger’s Phonic groups – Match the animal to the word. Cut out the animal pictures and read the words and match the picture to the correct words.
Love Mrs Iqbal
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Weekly Connected Curriculum Challenge 'The Family Book - Creating Family Art'
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:08am
Creating Family Art
This week we will be learning about our families and there are lots activities you can choose to do after listening to the story I am reading for you. Watch the video of me reading 'The Family Book'
Choose one or more of the challenges that your family would like to complete with you and then send your photos to us
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Exciting Science Challenge (You need a packet of Skittles sweets)
Do the ‘skittlescope experiment’ together and use your speaking skills to find out what will happen.
First of all watch the video and talk to your family as you find out together. Explain what you think is happening and try to work out what will happen next as you watch this video. Then retell the video and carry out the experiment for yourself using your super scientist skills.
Messy Outdoor Art Challenge (see photo below)
Create a picture on an old bed sheet using paint filled balloons, your feet, hands and body! Use your hands to move the paint and draw your family’s faces. Can you write your name too? Talk to your family about completing this challenge, listen to each other and decide if this is something your family would like to do. Hope the weather doesn’t stop your fun! After creating your art, hang it up on the fence outside and see what happens when it rains next.
What happened to the colours as they mix?
Do you think your art will look the same as the children’s in your class at school? Why do you think that?
Artist’s Creative Colour Mixing Challenge (see photos below)
Use a paintbrush to experiment mixing new colours using 2 or more paints. Use these colours to paint a picture of something you like. You might want to paint your family or your house or a pet or another rainbow for your window? You can choose anything you want because you are the artist.
The picture below is by an artist called Banksy and he created it to honour the NHS workers. I love how the ‘S’ is like the Superman logo because our NHS workers are all Superheroes.
I can’t wait to see your photos!
Have an amazing time learning with your family
From Mrs Ganner
imoves fun for the body and mind
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:04am
Note to parents:
Before I post our weekly challenges I want you to join in with one of the fabulous videos from imoves with your child. They are a brilliant company who have made lots of their videos available for parents and teachers for free during this Covid 19 school closure. The videos are fun ways to teach your child about exercise and keeping your mind healthy too. One of my favourites is the worry monster but your child can choose their own.
Active Challenge
Click this link and then find a video like the one in the photo or choose one of your own
https://imoves.com/the-imovement
If you like this video you could try some of the other Active Blasts for children Ages 4-7
Have a blast!
Mrs Ganner
Welcome to this week's learning
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:01am
Hello again Nursery!
It’s lovely to be back on the Nursery blog. I will be posting lots of interesting activities and challenges this week and Miss Heritage is busy thinking of some more fun things to do with you next week.
‘Nursery Nursery who can it be? Teach me about your family’
I want to let you know about the challenges I’m setting you this week. They are all about teaching me about your family and where you live. I will post separate blogs for each of the challenges very soon. By the end of the week the home learning you send in will show me some things that are the same as your friends, some similarities and some differences because all of our families and homes are unique to us.
Video Exercises imoves
Before learning every day why not try some funky imoves active blasts to get your body and mind ready for the challenges we set for you?
Connected Curriculum Weekly Challenge
‘The Family Book’ is all about celebrating the kinds of families we have and you can choose a challenge as a follow up to show me your learning
Vocabulary Weekly Challenge
This week we will be focussing on using the language of shape and texture to talk about the pictures we see in a book called ‘Baby Animals’
Reading Weekly Challenge
On the blog this week we’re going to share a CBeebies bedtime story every night. Each day I will post a new link for you to watch before you go to bed.
Home Learning Weekly Challenge
Send any photos or videos of the challenges you complete at home to me by Friday tea time and I’ll put them all up on the blog for you to share with your friends. This is one of my favourite parts of blogging from home so please send lots and lots of photos or short videos in.
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Tomorrow I will start setting you a daily phonics and maths challenge too, as well as posting the next CBeebies bedtime story so you can end your day relaxing with a book
Maths Daily Challenges
This week we will be using a book from our Maths area, ‘Big Round Red Balloon’ to learn about flat, 2D shapes. YOU WILL NEED TOILET OR KITCHEN ROLL TUBES ON THURSDAY SO START SAVING THEM.
Phonics Daily Challenges
This week we are going to continue to work on linking initial sounds to objects and isolating initial sounds to be able to complete lots of challenges with our families using the beginning sound of their names. We will use the book, ‘Alfie’s Alphabet’ to help us
I’m so excited about this week of learning together at home. Hope you are too!
From Mrs Ganner
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 4:36pm
This week I have been amazed at all the home learning that has been happening in Reception children's home.
Well Done children and grown ups!!!! 
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 4:34pm
Readers of the Week
At the start of this week, we set a reading challenge to see who would be the Star Reader of the Week in each class, based on the activities completed on Lexia and ActiveLearn.
The winners this week are….
4AR: 4JB:
Honour and Thecla! & David and Felix!
Well done, fantastic reading! All winners will get to choose from the class prize boxes and decorate a biscuit each when we are back in school!
Who will be the champions next week???!
Well done to everyone who has been on their Lexia and ActiveLearn accounts this week. Usernames and passwords can be found in your Home Learning Packs. If you are having trouble logging in please contact your teachers at y4homelearning.manchester.sch.uk so we can help.
We have also had lots of updates this week from children working hard at home on their learning packs, blog activities and wellbeing tasks. It’s great to see what you are getting up to so please keep sending us your messages and pictures on the y4 email!
If you haven’t already, make sure you check out the new Year 4 Home Learning Page to find all your activities and tasks. Click on the link https://padlet.com/mr_leverton/jg6rbkql3b7elw1f to explore.
Stay safe and keep working hard,
From the Year 4 team xxx
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 4:16pm
What a wonderful week of work from 5HW! We have had SO many emails this week, all celebrating learning and showing off different skills!
We love receiving your emails, it makes us so proud to see your motivation and dedication to work even when you can't be in school.
Our outstanding learners this week are:-
Ganesa, Rhianna, Kyro, Mert Deniz, Yoel, Ini and Aden
Have a look below to see what they have been doing!
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 3:20pm
Good Afternoon Year 5!
Even more of you went on Reading Plus this week - well done! Mrs Hodges, Miss Wendt and myself are so proud of you all. This weeks winners are:
Most Lessons Completed: Denico (at 10 books! Well done)
Most Words Read: Sam (6,675 words!)
Both 5HW and 5CB now have 5 wins! Who will take over next week?
Don't forget to check your individual class blogs, where we will announce who has successfully completed this weeks reading challenge.
Well done everyone,
Miss Brookes
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 11:20am
Have a look at this superwork. Both children have tried to work hard on the presentation of their work. They have been trying to write the long date. They have been writing the days of the week and months correctly. Look at how fantastic and so grown up their work is. These children are getting ready for Year 2!
Well done !