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Date: 18th May 2020 @ 9:24am
Good morning !
Hope you have had a fantastic weekend.
Mrs Glover set us a tricky flag challenge on Friday ! But, we love a challenge and Naomi 
correctly identified the flags as Demark (Danish), Norway ( Norwegian) and Sweden ( Swedish) and the connection is that sometimes these countries are grouped together with Finland and Iceland and called Scandinavia.
Well done also to Michelle, Heer , Ganesa and Zarek who also got most of the information right ! Great work !
How about this one for today: Can you name the country and who lived in the same area around 5000 years ago?
Good luck everyone !
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 9:20am
Good Morning Reception!
I hope you have all had a lovely weekend. Can you email and share what you have enjoyed doing the most?
Let’s warm up for our maths learning this morning by listening to some of our favourite maths songs and completing the fluent-in-five questions below…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Ajq682yrA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MVzXKfr6e8&t=3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc&t=17s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGetqbqDVaA
We can show our numbers in many different ways! Take a look at this Jack Hartman video below to remind you of the different representations!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAQ2HTqTl2w
Today in our maths blog, we are going to be looking at how our numbers are represented in ‘tens frames’ and using them to help us with our early addition skills! Thinking about numbers using frames of ten can be a helpful way to learn basic number facts.
Here is a link to a website which helps children to develop addition skills using a ten frame. Click on option ‘4. Add’ https://www.nctm.org/Classroom-Resources/Illuminations/Interactives/Ten-Frame/
You should see this on your screen:
Let’s work this first one out together! We have to use the tens frames to work out 7 + 7
In the first tens frame, I am going to count 7 counters, and then select ‘done’.
As the addition calculation is 7 + 7, I need to add another 7 counters into the second frame…
Now I have to ‘combine’ both tens frames together. This means we have to move over the blue counters to fill the tens frame so that we can clearly count all of the counters in an easier way.
Now that I have dragged over my blue counters, I can clearly see that the top tens frame is full – it is clear to see that I have ‘10’ counters in the top frame.
To make my counting easier, I can start counting from ‘10’ from the top frame and continue counting the blue counters in the frame below. I can see I need to add on 4 more..
Yay! First question complete! We have worked out the addition calculation 7 + 7 = 14. Can you have a go at working some out on your own??
I can’t wait to see pictures of your super work! J Good luck!
Maths Daily Challenge - Wednesday 20th May
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 9:15am
Maths Daily Challenge - Wednesday 20th May
Go outside and find one flower from your garden or on your exercise walk. See if your grown up can find one too. Take a photo and send it to us
DON’T PICK THEM! REMEMBER, WE CARE FOR OUR FLOWERS.
You could talk about the shape or size or colour or even texture of the flowers that you saw. Use counting words to describe them too.
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You could say things words like:
I have ___ petals on my flower.
It is the same number of petals as your flower
It has a different number of petals to your flower
We both have lots of petals
I have one more petal than yours
Another one makes __ petals
Challenge
My friend has a beautiful garden and he sent me photos of the flowers in it. I used the show me app to draw over the top of the photos. How are you going to draw and label your flower?
CLICK HERE TO WATCH ME DRAW AND LABEL PETALS ON FLOWERS
If you can't find any flowers, here are some photos for you to look at and draw. Remember to label your picture with how many petals there are.
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 9:07am
Good Morning Reception!!
This week we are going to continue using the story ‘The Snail and the Whale.’ If you haven’t managed t listen to the story, use the link below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000cslw/the-snail-and-the-whale
Start by playing one word. Take turns with someone at home to say one word from the story. For example, snail, whale, soot, rock, sea, parrot, crab, school, children, penguins and so on.
Today I want you to read the sentences below. After you have read the sentences from the story, can you draw a picture to match the sentence? This will show that you have understood what you have read.
The snail sat on a black rock with his friends.
The big whale came out at night when the stars were in the sky.
The sea crashed on the rocks with the snail on the back of the whale.
Extra challenge – Can you make up your own sentence from the story and draw a picture?
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Phonics Daily Challenge - Wednesday 20th May
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 9:05am
Phonics Daily Challenge - Wednesday 20th May
Baa Baa Black Sheep
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Say the rhyme together and then find objects that begin with ‘sh’ with your family.
Feed the objects to a sound monster like the one we made a couple of weeks ago. If you’ve not made one pretend your hand is a sound monster. Look at the things I found that begin with ‘sh’ in the photo
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Send in photos of your ‘sh’ objects to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
A nonsense rhyme is on our phonics challenge tomorrow so make sure your join us for some more phonics fun
From Mrs Ganner
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 9:01am
Good Morning Reception!!
Hope you have had a lovely weekend and are ready for your home learning this week. Let’s start today’s phonic activity by getting active with Jack Hartman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59u6KaluscI
Today we are going to learn a new sound ‘ar.’ It is still a diagraph with two letters that make up one sound.
Watch the show me video all about the ‘ar’ sound.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=Lj4sakS
Today’s practise and apply activities are:
Activity 1 - Play Kim’s Game. To play this game you must…
Choose 3 of the words on the sheet.
Place them in front of you in a live and read them.
Then cover the words with some paper or fabric.
Grown up’s take one word away.
Uncover the rest of the words and decide which one is missing.
Activity 2 - How many words can you think of with the ‘ar’ sound in one minute…?
Activity 3 - Can you label the words with the ‘ar’ sound? Pick three words and write them in sentences.
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 9:00am
How many books can you read? This challenge is to see how many books you can read by different authors. Each time you read a book by a different author colour the first letter of their last name in. Example - Anne Fine - F
Don't forget to send photos into the year 3 email address.
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 8:57am
Good morning Year 5!
I hope you've all had a lovely weekend, we've just about recovered from the excitement of Livvi's birthday, but the birthday fun has returned for today - it's my birthday! I've already had a lovely morning of opening presents and cards, some lovely birthday messages from my friends and family, and have just come downstairs to see a big pile of carrot cake cupcakes made by Jon, Livvi and Asaph!
Hope you also have a great day today - let us know what you get up to by getting in touch on our email: Y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
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This week is also Mental Health Awareness Week. The theme this year is 'kindness.'
I know that you have all been doing a wonderful job of completing Mrs Glover's daily wellbeing challenges, and that you have all been working extremely hard at home - each and every one of you should be proud yourself (grown ups too!).
I've attached a video to do with this years theme, and I was wondering if every day this week you could do an 'act of kindness' and let us know what you did. This morning I've already made my Mum a cup of tea which is my kind act for the day.
Miss Brookes
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Mrs Hodges here!
Just a Sentence of the Day from me today - but first, I'd like you to have a watch of this YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4exaXdPKS3Y
Then have a look at this sentence:
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=fk7c5Tc
Check back later to see my purple pen!
Good afternoon everyone!
I can confirm for Miss Wendt that the carrot cake cupcakes are delicious! You should definitely give them a go! In other news, here is my corrected sentence, remember to compare it to your sentence and make any changes if you need to!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=WhI1iq0
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Good Morning from Miss Wendt!
Happy Birthday Mrs Hodges! I remember you saying you had a May birthday, but I was unsure when it was. I do hope you have a lovely day, I'm sure Jon, Livvi and Asaph will spoil you! I'm very interested to hear about your cupcakes, one of my favourite types of cake is carrot!
Here is the fluent in five for today!
If you want some help with the multiplying fractions, take a look back to last Wednesday's blog where there are video clips which will explain the method to you. Remember from class - it's easier than it looks!
And here are the answers!
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Good Morning Year 5 from Miss Brookes!
Happy Birthday Mrs Hodges 
I hope you have a fabulous day - you really do deserve it!
This week's GVP is slightly different, as there are no videos. As we've studied each of our year 5 objectives, and recapped some of our year 4 objectives, I have decided that this week I am going to give you six questions each day with are about a variety of GVP skills. At 1pm (I always forget this part, so I've even set an alarm!) I'm going to give you all the answers.
If there's a question that you don't understand, email me and let me know, and then I will create a showme video explaining it to you.
Here is todays:
Here are the answers:
How did you do?
Miss Brookes
Maths Daily Challenge - Tuesday 19th May
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 8:52am
Maths Daily Challenge - Tuesday 19th May
I wanted to learn more about flow
ers so I looked on the internet for pictures and videos of lots of different flowers. I was looking at the petals on the videos and I noticed they had different colours, shapes, sizes and numbers of petals.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO I FOUND
CLICK HERE TO LOOK AT FLOWERS WITH ME
Challenge
Watch the video, pause it and talk to your grown-up about what you know about the flowers.
You could say things like:
I can see ___ petals on that flower.
This has same number of petals as this one.
The pink flower had a different number of petals to the blue one.
These flowers had lots of petals.
I hope you liked watching the video as much as I did
From Mrs Ganner
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 8:47am
Good morning year 3
Hopefully, you have had a lovely weekend and are ready for some more home learning.
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Phonics Daily Challenge - Tuesday 19th May
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 8:46am
Phonics Daily Challenge - Tuesday 19th May
Humpty Dumpty
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Say the nursery rhyme with your family and then make up a rhyming string like Mickey and Minnie did in the video. Can you remember when they did this a couple of weeks ago? ‘ all, wall, ball..’
CLICK TO WATCH MICKEY AND MINNIE
Can you make up your own rally robin ‘en’ rhyming string?
‘men, again, when…’
Send in your rhyming string videos to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Come back tomorrow for another fab phonics challenge
From Mrs Ganner
Mental Health Awareness Week Calm Time Breathing Activities
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 8:38am
This week we are going to be kind to each other. Watch the video to see how you can be kind too and send in your videos and photos of kind acts.
Sometimes it's hard to be kind all of the time. To help us feel calm, in Nursery we practice calming breaths on the Go Noodle FLOW channel. If you want to you can go there and practice your breathing with an old activity:
CLICK HERE TO GO WITH THE FLOW ON GO NOODLE
If you want to try something new try these:
Breathe with Moby Robot – concentrate on breathing to help you feel calm
CLICK HERE TO BREATH WITH MOBY ROBOT
Belly Breathing – fun song to teach you how you can help calm yourself down if you’re feeling mad
CLICK HERE TO SING A FUN SONG ABOUT BELLY BREATHING WITH ELMO
Square breathing – let the fish teach you how to breathe and hold your breath to help you focus and calm.
TEACH YOURSELF SQUARE BREATHING HERE
Enjoy a quiet corner of calm when you do these breathing exercises
From Mrs Ganner
Weekly Vocabulary Challenge - verbs
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 8:27am
We are going to learn lots of words about moving. These words are called verbs. In the story, ‘The Little Seed’ there are lots of words about how the seeds move. You need to know what these words mean so click on the video to find out about them:
sails, falls, drifts, settle down, burst open
WATCH ME PLAY THE VOCABULARY SPINNER GAME HERE
Make your own vocabulary spinner at home and complete a challenge using the verbs in the songs.
Challenge 1 – simple actions
Freeze by the Kiboomers - dance along to the song.
DANCE ALONG WITH THE KIBOOMERS
Play the Vocabulary Spinner game using these words
hop, skip, twirl, dance
Challenge 2 – harder actions
Move and Freeze by The Learning Station – dance along to the tricky crossing your body actions song
LEARNING STATION TRICKY ACTIONS DANCE
Play the Vocabulary Spinner game using these words
move, freeze, jump, shake, turn
Weekly Reading Challenge 'The Tiny Seed' by Eric Carle
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 8:14am
Watch the video of me reading the story, ‘The Tiny Seed’ by Eric Carle. Get ready to predict what will happen next. When I tell you to, pause the video and answer my questions.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH ME READ THE STORY
These are the kinds of questions I am going to ask:
What do you think will happen?
What do you think will happen next?
What will happen if the seed stays there?
You could start your answer by saying things like:
I think it will
The seed will
I think the seed is going to
Drawing and Writing Challenges
CLICK HERE TO WATCH ME DRAW AND WRITE
- Draw one of your favourite pictures from the book. Label the objects with the first sound (initial sound).
- Draw the pictures from the story in order and label the objects with their initial sound.
- Draw the sun and label the picture with the word. Can you hear all of the sounds in the word ‘sun’ and write them?
I can’t wait to your pictures. Send them in to our email address
nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
From Mrs Ganner
Weekly Connected Curriculum Challenge - How to Grow and Care for Plants
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 7:49am
How to Grow and Care for Plants
Find something growing in your garden or in the park during your daily exercise time – look at the grass or a flower– DON’T PICK IT! Leave it growing in the ground to show everyone you care for living things. Talk about what you know about plants. You could describe what it looks like or say how it has grown.
Challenge Choices
If you are a scientist you can use a computer to find out about flower grow using your knowledge of the story, ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ and by looking at videos on the internet like these:
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO 'THE NEEDS OF A PLANT'
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO GROVER TALK ABOUT PLANTS
CLICK HERE TO WATCH A SUNFLOWER GROW
If you are a singer you could learn a new song like this one and sing it to your family
If you are a dancer you could pretend you are a plant growing and move along with the music.
If you are an artist you could paint or draw a picture of a flower using the colours that you see. Look at the beautiful painting my daughter made below.
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If you are a speaker you can use words to talk about what you have seen and learned. You could make a video describing your favourite flower and talk about how it grew.
WATCH THE VIDEO OF ME TALKING ABOUT A FLOWER I FOUND
There are lots of things to keep you busy there. Remember to choose your favourite and send in photos or videos of your learning by Friday
From Mrs Ganner
Welcome to this week’s learning
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 7:42am
Hello Nursery!
It’s lovely to be back on the Nursery blog. It’s my turn to be posting lots of activities and challenges this week and Miss Heritage is busy thinking of some more fun things to do with you next week.
‘Nursery, Nursery what do you know? Teach me all about how plants grow’
These are challenges to complete any time over the coming week:
Connected Curriculum Weekly Challenge
This week I want you to complete one or more of the challenges on the list. You’re choosing your favourite ways to show me and Miss Heritage what you have learned over the past few weeks about growing and caring for plants.
Reading Weekly Challenge
We are going to read through the story ‘The Tiny Seed’ by Eric Carle and as I read it I want you predict what will happen to the seeds. After that you will be able to tell me all of the interesting things that happen in the story and create drawings with initial sound labels on them.
Vocabulary Weekly Challenge
This week our vocabulary challenge will be learning new verbs. We are going to learn about how the seed moves in ‘The Tiny Seed’ and play games using a vocabulary spinner.
Then you are going to complete one of the verbs action challenges to show me how you move. You can use the vocabulary spinner too.
Home Learning
Send any photos or videos of the challenges you complete at home to me by Friday 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 daily phonics and maths challenges :
Maths Daily Challenges
As well as looking for and describing the flowers you see this week, we are going to be creating and drawing them. Then I want you to count how many petals, label them and compare them.
Phonics Daily Challenges
This week is a ‘show me what you have learned’ week in phonics. We are going to have daily challenges using our knowledge of some of our favourite nursery rhymes. There will be lots of challenges to choose from for each Nursery Rhyme. You will be able to show me that you can say the initial sound of objects and create rhyming strings by the end of the week.
I’m so exciting about learning together at home again. I hope you are too!
From Mrs Ganner
Monday sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 17th May 2020 @ 7:12pm
Good Morning Year 1 and happy Monday!
I hope you all had a lovely weekend. I know it has been a long time since we have been in school and sometimes your home learning might feel a bit tricky but keep up the amazing work and don’t give up, as the more practice you have at home, the easier your learning will be when we eventually go back. Fingers crossed it won’t be too long until it’s safe for us to be in school.
Sentence of the day
Well done to all of those children who completed Friday’s sentence of the day.
On Monday Jack came home with a handful of magical beans. His mother was furious and she threw them out of the window.
Today’s sentence of the day focusses on those tricky words that you looked at on Friday. Are they all spelt correctly in this sentence?
Cud the elephants stand on thair heads?
Did Misus Green ask Mista Green for some cake?
Ow wow shouted the peepul when the dolphin flipped in the air.
Phonics
Let’s start our phonics by quickly recapping those tricky words. Write your tricky words onto scraps of paper and place them around the room. Play the tricky word video. When the song says the tricky word go and stand on that word.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbcZnb2iz1c
Today’s phonics will be focussing on those consonant blends that have three letters. Watch this video and see if you can spot the three letter blends that we are looking at today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YfuGb8f7Jo
Challenge one – When you have watched the video write down all of the three letter blends that you saw. Practice saying the blends so that you are confident in how they should sound when you read a word.
thr scr spr spl str shr
Challenge two – Look at the words below. Can you sort them into the three letter consonant blend groups?
strictest throbbing thriller strum stretcher splinter
throne scream sprout
splashing straw shrill
thrash shredder splitter
Can you think of any other words that can be put into the different consonant blend groups?
Challenge three- Now its time to go on a blend search. Read the story on https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/4/interactive-story-book
How many different words with the three letter consonant blends did you find?
Hope you all have a lovely day!
Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 4:38pm
At the start of this term 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 of this week are….
4AR: 4JB:
Honour! David!
Well done, fantastic reading! Both winners will get to choose from the class prize boxes and decorate a biscuit 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.
Stay safe and keep working hard,
From the Year 4 team xxx
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 4:31pm
Well done to all our Year 4 learners this week! We know how hard you are all working… keep it up! Thank you for everyone who has sent us in updates so far, we love seeing and hearing about what you have been up to! Great work this week :)
If you have updates to share with your teachers please email them to y4homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 4:18pm
What a wonderful week of learning for 5HW! You make us proud every single day, you all deserve a huge well done!
My favourite time of the week is to look back at all the emails and messages to celebrate the amazing learning that has taken place. This week we have practiced new skills, baked, designed and researched!
Here are the Outstanding Learners for this week:-
Lilly-Anne
Ganesa
Rhianna
Alissia
Maddison
Come and see what they've accomplished this week!
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 3:12pm
Here are this week's Reading Plus Winners:
Most Lessons Completed: Alissia with 6 lessons at 80% or above! Well done, Alissia!
Most Words Read: Rhianna with 8,658 (how many have you won now? You always seem to be reading the most words! Well done).
This week's reading challenge was to read 5,000 words! Well done to all of the children who managed to complete this, a lot of you were very close!
The following children managed to reach this target:
Rhianna
Alissia
Sam
Dylan
Well done everyone who took part!
Enjoy your weekend,
Miss Brookes
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 3:05pm
5CB, I am so proud of all of the hard work you are putting in at home in these challenging times! We've been off school for nearly six weeks now (excluding easter half term), and yet I am still seeing pictures of you smiling and of all of the wonderful work you are completing at home. You all deserve a huge well done!
This week, the following children emailed in their work and are our outstanding learners:
Akin
Auryn
Denico
Ivory
Jessica
Jennifer
Zana
I've attached some pictures of their work below.
I'd love to see work from more of you guys so please do not hesitate to email them in - or to even email and say a hello! I'd love to know what exciting things you are getting up to at home. Tomorrow we're doing a 'family bake off' in my house. The theme is "summer holiday" and I will make sure to show you guys the results on Monday so you can help judge the winner.
I'm a proud of each and every one of you.
Enjoy your weekend,
Miss Brookes
y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:50am
I can't believe it's Friday!!! This week has flown by!!!
What a lot of amazing home learning we have seen this week!!!
Well Done Everyone!
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Have a lovely weekend!!!
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:43am
Good Morning Year 2,
I just want to say a huge THANKYOU to you all for working so hard at home this week. It really does make my day when I receive your emails showing me what you have been up to. Of course you are all SUPERSTARS but this week I would like to give a huge shout out to one person in particular. Well done to Faith for working so hard this week. Yesterday she even went to the park to make a video of her completing the active Maths challenge.
Lexia superstars
Huge well done to Hao Yu, Oscar and Andrew for climbing the Lexia ladder this week! I am so impressed with your hard work! Please find your certificates attached :)
Home learning
Here are few pictures of some of you keeping busy at home.
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:33am
Hello,
Well we got there . it has been a busy week in school and I am very pleased that it is Friday! I hope you are enjoying playing your TT rockstars game. If you are finding it a bit tricky then have a go at learning your timetables with this different website too. It is www.timetables.co.uk. You can buy ponies and cars with the points you win from knowing your timestables. Have a look at it I know my nieces Elva and Lyla are loving playing it.
Today we are going to going to solve a mixture of Addition and Subtraction problems based on what we have learnt so far. Remember the strategies we have used so far. We have used the bar method, counting on and back on a number line, using concrete objects to add and takeaway and we have used are knowledge of number facts to help us! let me know if you bridge through ten!
Challenge 1
8+8= 7+3= 10-5= 15-5= 12-3= 6+4= 10+10+10= 5+5+5+5+5= 2+2+2=
15-2= 18+5= 23+7= 19-9= 14-11= 30-10= 20-11= 14-6= 17-13= 13+6=
Challenge 2- Missing numbers
6 + = 12 8+ =10 4+ = 12 7+ =12 13+ =20
10- =3 13- = 16- = 13- -= 8 21- =
Challenge 3
1. David bought 8 fish and 5 crabs and put them in a basket. How many things did they put in the basket?
2. Miss Wolfenden made 12 cakes and Courteous ate 9. How many cakes were left?
3.Jane went to the shop and bought; a broom, a mop, some soap, a bucket, washing up powder and pegs. How many things did she buy. Each item cost 10p . How much did the shopping cost?
Thanks
Miss Wolfenden and Miss Riley