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The Boy at the Back of the Class Chapter 21
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:30am
Good morning year 6- can you believe we are on chapter 21 already. If you have missed any just go back on the blog to look for any chapters you may have missed. This chapter gave a lot away about the narrator of the story. Did you pick up on the clues yesterday?
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=4XD190q
Today I would like you to write down as much as you know about the narrator so far. Are they a boy or a girl? What do they look like? What are they interested in? Who do they like? What sort of character traits do they have? Brave for example. Remember to give evidence from the text to support your answer where possible.
You might need to look back at other chapters to help you remember everything about them. I will award 5 house points for the person who responds with the most detailed description.
Send your work to...
Year 6 @ Ravensbury
@Year6Ravensbur1
y6homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:23am
Good morning Year 2,
We have reached the end of another week of home learning. Go us!
English Challenge
Yesterday we looked at suffixes and adding them to the end of words. Today our main focus is going to be looking at adverbs. I would like you to look at the sentences below. They all include a verb (something someone is doing). In the missing space, I would like you to add an adverb (describing how someone is doing something) of your choice. Remember, we usually add the suffix -ly when looking at adverbs. Don’t forget to add CL, FS and FS to your work.
the crowed laughed _____ at the comedians jokes
the baby cried ______
I was walking _____ down the road because I was late for work
the turtle crawled _____ through the grass
it was raining _____ outside so the children had to stay in
Maths Challenge
1. Magazines cost £1.50p. Beth buys two magazines. How much money does she spend?
2. If Abbie goes on holiday for the whole of July and August, how many days will she be away for?
3. Tom says his cake has to be in the oven for 1 hour and 30 minutes. He puts the cake in the oven at 10 o’clock. What time will he take it out of the oven?
4. I have no edges. I have just one curved face. What shape am I ?
5. The farmer has 16 animals. He says a quarter of them are pigs. How many pigs does he have altogether?
Check back on Monday to see if you were correct!
Connected curriculum challenge answers
On Monday, I gave you a true or false challenge all about recycling. Here are the answers:
- The statue of Liberty is covered by 80 tonnes of recycled copper and bronze plating. TRUE
- only 75% of waste is recyclable but we only recycle 30% of it. TRUE
- recycling 100 cans can light up your bedroom for two weeks. TRUE
- old CDs are used to lay roads. TRUE
- I can recycle objects by putting everything in the same bin and letting the bin man separate them. FALSE
- products made of more than one material cannot be recycled. FALSE
- Everything can only be recycled once. FALSE
Have a lovely weekend :)
Miss Hamer
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:21am
Here is some more of the learning that has taken place this week in 3LF.
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Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:19am
Good morning and happy Friday! End of the week already! Fingers crossed we get some sun this weekend.
My last wellbeing challenge of the week is a creative one in case you want to spend some time on it over the weekend.
I’d like you to design your own face mask. As we know, face masks are being worn by many people at the moment to keep help them safe. If you had to wear one, what would you like it to look like? You can have whatever you want on it and make it as crazy as you like!
I’ve attached a template if you would like to use it but don’t worry if you don’t have a printer, you can just draw one like I drew mine! Here is mine for you to have a look at, now if only I could sew…
Please send me your designs as I’d love to see them! EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
Thank you to Heer who sent me this joke:
There were two boys who were going to school and they were late.The teacher asked why they were late.One said I was looking for my money that i lost. The teacher asked the other boy why he was late.He said I put my foot on his money.
and to Tomasz for these jokes:
What is a pirate's favourite letter?
Rrrrrrrrrrrr
What do you call an alligator in a vest?
An investigator!
and to Theodosia for sending me a lovely video of her telling me jokes such as:
What do you get if you cross a tiger with a porcupine?
A slow poke!
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:05am
Good morning year 3
We have made it to the end of another week. Don’t forget to go to https://padlet.com/missfaragher/kj2clvf5jjlr98k1 for your learning. You will now see your learning is split into daily tasks, weekly tasks, tasks for the half term, links and extra learning.
Don’t forget to try an email some of the learning you complete over to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have a lovely weekend and we will speak to you again on Monday.
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 10:01am
Wow I can’t believe how many people are doing our quiz and emailing with such fantastic answers! Thank you to all of you, it really makes our day hearing from you.
Well done to Michelle, Heer, Ganesa, Maddison, Zarek, Faith, and Naomi who all knew that is was the flag of The United States of America and the capital was Washington DC. You named many different people such as Elvis Presley, Donald Trump and Barack Obama (sorry to the person who said Justin Bieber, he’s actually from Canada! We’ll let you off thought as you got the rest of it right J )
Since it’s the weekend I’m going to give you 3 different flags to name! I’m also looking for a link between them all. Bonus point if you can tell me which language they speak in each country.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Glover
Story Adventure The House on Haunted Hill Part 8
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 9:44am
Good morning year 6. I hope you are looking forward to seeing where our adventure will take us next. The left or the right door? We had two responses yesterday-one person chose to go through the right door and the other chose to go through the left door! The person who sent their answer first was Maddison at 1:15pm and she said we should go through the right door first. Well done to Heer for responding but you were beaten to it.
Here we go...
As you open the door on your right, you realise you are entering the master bedroom. A grand four-poster bed sits in the centre of the room. Surprisingly, the dust in this room is not as bad as everywhere else and it appears remarkably clean. A faint smell of lavender drifts from the bed and you feel relaxed and sleepy.
In one corner of the room, there is a dressing table full of bottles and books. The smell is getting stronger and you feel even more tired, the bed looks so comfortable, maybe a small rest wouldn’t do any harm.
Do you:
Lay down for a rest
Investigate the dressing table
Two choices today. Let's see who will answer the quickest.
Year 6 @ Ravensbury
@Year6Ravensbur1
y6homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 9:03am
Good morning everyone!
Happy Friday! I hope you've all had a lovely week - Livvi had a brilliant day yesterday for her birthday, despite it being in lockdown!
Let us know what you get up to today, we'd love to see your learning!
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Hello from Mrs Hodges!
Final Sentence of the Day for this week! Click the link below:
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=5gGi3km
How did you get on with today's sentence Year 5? Click below to see my purple pen which you can use to check against your corrected sentence!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=VUwMaQq
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Hello from Miss Wendt!
Thank you to everyone who has sent work in this week. I will be showing off our wonderful work in a post this afternoon, it's always great to recieve your emails.
Here is the final fluent in five for Friday! (Try saying that very quickly!)
And here are todays answers!
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Good morning from Miss Brookes!
It's Friday - can you believe that we've been doing home learning through our blog for six weeks now? (3 weeks since we've been creating a shared post). It feels as if it's gone very quickly to me!
As today is Friday, here is a link to the recap of this weeks learning, and I have attached the quiz for you to do.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=dq4Xhr6
Check back in a couple of hours for the video going through the answers. Please email me the areas of Grammar, Vocabularly or Punctuation that you want to look at next week - if there's a skill you find tricky, then I can focus on that skill for one of the videos. I want to make them as helpful to you as possible.
Don't forget to check this afternoon for the celebration posts!
How did you all get on? Here are the answers:
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=fyT06t6
Miss Brookes
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 8:12am
Good Morning Reception!
Yay, it's Friday! You know what that means... it's 'Challenge Friday!'
Take a look at the challenges below, you have a Maths challenge and a Phonics Challenge linked to this week's learning. You can take a look at previous blogs from this week to help you! Can you complete both challenges?
There is also a link attached below to help you in your Phonics challenge!
Have fun! We can't wait to see pictures of your super work!
Love Miss Williams and Mrs Iqbal
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 8:08am
Good Morning Reception!
Happy Friday…. Let’s celebrate all of these fantastic achievements from this week!! Well done to all of these children, you have made your teachers very happy!! :)
🌟 Outstanding Home Learners! 🌟
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 7:18am
Well done to all our super learners this week.
It has really made me smile, seeing all your fantastic learning! 😀
Thank you to all the parents who have taken time to send photographs and videos to us so we can celebrate your child’s work.
🌟 You are all Outstanding Home Learners 🌟
Remember Mrs Ganner is looking forward to doing the blog next week so if you didn’t manage to send your photographs this week, don’t worry, she’ll put them up for you next Friday!
Have a fantastic weekend and we’ll see you back here on Monday!
Take care
Miss Heritage
Friday 15th May: Phonics - Rhyme
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 7:01am
Hi Nursery!
Let’s remember some of the animals from the rhyming stories we have looked at this week…
You can remind yourself of them by listening to the stories again - just click on the picture of the book below:
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Can you act out some of the animals from the story? Enjoy moving around like the animals. For example: a jumping frog, parrot flapping/flying, gorilla thumping chest, snake slithering along the floor, mule trotting, hare hopping, dog responding to instructions (walk, stop, sit, fetch, lie-down)
This week we have found lots of rhyming pairs and created rhyming strings of words.
Now we are going to complete this fun activity, where you need to have a look at the pictures on the rhyming strips to see if you can spot the odd one out!
Watch today’s ‘show me’ for an example, then use the pictures below to have a go at finding the ‘odd one out’ yourself!
CLICK HERE TO WATCH TODAY’S SHOW ME
Good luck!
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 6:46am
Good Morning Nursery!
This week we have looked at the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. In the story the caterpillar eats through some different foods each day.
Can you remember the seven days of the week?
Let’s sing our days of the week song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtQcnZ2JWsY
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We have been looking at the sequence of events in the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.
Yesterday your challenge was to make your very own ‘Hungry Caterpillar’ and to use your caterpillar to talk about the sequence of events in the story.
I hope you enjoyed making it and talking about what the caterpillar ate each day.
Today I would like you to think about the different activities you do each day.
Here is today’s challenge…
With your grown up, talk about the different activities you do each day.
Create a caterpillar template like the example below and draw a picture or symbol of something you do for each day of the week.
Use your caterpillar to talk through the sequence of the activities you do. Remember to use good sentences when talking. Point to each day on your caterpillar and tell your family the event that you do.
Amazing work!
Well done everyone, you have completed some Marvellous Maths this week!
Remember, we love seeing your work so send your pictures to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
I hope you have a great weekend!
Miss Heritage
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 8:08pm
Let’s Celebrate!
Well this week has flown by! Thank you so much to the parents that have been able to take the time to send us your learning we really do love seeing your learning as well as the different things you are getting up to whilst at home.
What an amazing role model. This learning is presented so beautifully! It looks like you are becoming really confident using your part whole bars to help you to subtract. Well done!
Here is another example of perfect presentation. It is lovely to see you working through all of your home learning challenges. Well done!
Here is another person working hard at home with his learning. We love seeing your learning spaces and desks at home, it makes us very proud of you all!
We had to double check that this was really one of our year one children’s work! What beautiful hand writing. I think this person is definitely ready for year 2!
It’s great to see you becoming more and more confident in using a variety of methods to solve subtraction. It looks like this person is definitely getting the hang of it. Great job!
It looks like this person has really got the hang of writing their numbers using words.
Isn’t it just great that we have been able to take our learning outside? Here’s one of our year one children practicing words with different end blends whilst playing hopscotch.
Here is another person working really hard ordering their numbers. Well done!
We really love putting this blog post together on Fridays. It makes us feel so proud and pleased to see you all so busy and carrying on trying your hardest with all of your home learning. I know it feels like we haven’t been in school for ages but keep going and practicing all of your skills so that when we return we can spend lots of time creating memories and learning lots of new things.
We hope you have a lovely weekend,
Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden
Friday sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 7:36pm
It’s Friday! This week seems to have zoomed by!
It has been lovely to see lots of you busy with your learning this week. Remember that you can still go on Lexia and active learn so that you can practice your reading skills every day.
Sentence of the day
Here are the answers for yesterday. There were quite a few mistakes yesterday. Well done to the children who used their amazing phonics skills to make sure the words were spelt correctly.
On Thursday Sophie dug a deep hole in the garden, in the hole she found wriggly worms and creepy crawlers. When the deep dark hole was dug she planted her favourite tree and crossed her fingers that it would grow big and tall.
Here is our last sentence of the week. This sentence has a mixture of all of the things you’ve looked for this week that need correcting – full stops, capital letters, phonics. Let’s see who’s up for the challenge!
on Monday jack came hoam with a handful of magical beans. his mother was furious and she frew them out of the windoa__
Phonics
Let’s have a quick recap of the end blends from yesterday.
lk nt sk lp lf
Play a game of rally robin with a family member. How many words can you both remember with the above end blends? Take turns to say a word, you can clap hands so that you remember whose turn it is.
Today we are going to be practicing our tricky words.
Challenge one – Get our your tricky word mat, or make another, and play a game of fastest. Your grown up will say a word and you have to point to it. Take turns, can you find the words faster than your grown up?
Challenge two – Play a game of bingo with your family. Write all of the words down, fold them up and put them in a pot. Ask the people playing to make their own bingo board with 6 words on. You can be the bingo caller or a player it’s up to you!
Challenge three – Quiz time. Ask your grown-ups to read the word and you write them down. See how many words you can spell correctly. If there were some you found extra tricky you know that these are the ones you need to practice.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend! Don’t forget to check back later for our special Friday celebration!
Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden
Story Adventure The House on Haunted Hill Part 7
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 1:07pm
Well, well, here we are again-back at the house on Haunted Hill! I'm still a bit spooked by the mirror story yesterday. Maddison has decided that she thinks we should climb the stairs so that is what we shall do next.
Here we go...
You grip the dusty banister and climb the spiral staircase, an open window above you spills light to the stairs and eerie shadows dance all around you. The sooner you can leave, the better you think to yourself.
As you arrive at the top of the stairs, you see two doors. You must choose one.
Do you:
Open the left door
Open the right door
The one thing I am loving about this adventure is the fab vocabulary that is used to describe the settings. (eerie shadows dance...)
So now you are given two choices- what will you choose to do? It is a risk but remember we need to find that Ruby Heart!
I wonder who will Tweet or email the answer first?
Weekly Connected Curriculum Challenge: Celebrating Special Times
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 12:23pm
Celebrating Special Times
Hi Nursery!
This week for our Connected Curriculum learning, we are thinking about special times and celebrations that we share with our family. (Please refer back to the Connected Curriculum blog posted on Monday)
Your challenge is to plan and prepare a celebration for your favourite teddy / toy!
Yesterday we had a birthday party for one of my daughter’s teddy – Rosie!
We set out some party food and invited some of Rosie’s friends to have a little tea party.
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We then danced to some music and played some party games!
We made Rosie a yummy chocolate birthday cake. We put candles on top and sang Happy Birthday to her!
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After that we gave Rosie a birthday card that we had made too!
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How old do you think Rosie is now? Can you count the candles on her cake and card and say her special number?
Have you planned and prepared a celebration for your teddy / toy’s birthday?
Think about…
How are you going to celebrate? What will you do?
Maybe you would like to have a party, or maybe you would like to make a birthday card or hat.
What do you need to do to prepare a party? Where is the party going to be? What food do you need? Maybe you could make some decorations or even bake a cake!
Think about how old your teddy/toy is going to be.
What special number do you know? How many candles do you need to put on your cake?
Can you draw a picture of a cake and put on the amount of candles for your special number?
Can you make a birthday card, hat or a badge to show your special number?
Remember we would love to see some pictures of you and your favourite teddy / toy celebrating too. Send them to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Enjoy celebrating!
Miss Heritage
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 11:30am
Year 4 Home Learning Page
Hello Year 4 
I hope you are all having a good week! I have been sent lots of updates of children's learning this week... look out for your picture in tomorrow's celebration post! We will also be finding out who our Readers f the Week are, so get logged on to Lexia or ActiveLearn and read!
Keep checking in with the Year 4 Home Page to find your learning activities for this week:
https://padlet.com/mr_leverton/jg6rbkql3b7elw1f
We now have a new feature on the page, so you can 'like' each task you have completed! Just click the heart symbol on the task you are working on! Let's see how many likes we can get!
Don't forget, if you have any questions or updates to share you can email the Year 4 team at y4homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Stay safe and keep working hard!
Miss Bryce :)
Thursday Sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 10:24am
Good Morning! Can you believe it’s Thursday already!
It has been lovely to see lots of you busy with your learning. Remember that you can still go on Lexia and active learn so that you can practice your reading skills every day.
Sentence of the day
Here are the answers for yesterday. Well done if you spotted it – the capital letters were missing. We need capital letters at the start of the sentence and for names and days of the week.
Joe loves gardening when the weather gets warmer. Last Sunday he purchased some tiny round seeds from the shop. When he got home he found a large shiny pot and planted the seeds deep into the soggy brown mud.
Today’s sentence of the day is all about your phonics. Some of the words are spelt incorrectly, use your sound mats to make sure they are correct.
On Thersday Sophie dug a deep hole in the grdn, in the hole she fownd wriggly worms and creepy crawlers. Wen the deep dark hole was dug she plantid her favourite tree and crossed her fingurs that it wud grow big and tall.
Phonics
Let’s start todays phonics by practicing the end blends that you looked at yesterday.
nk st nd mp ft
Write the end blends on paper and put them around a room. Ask your grown up to read these words. Listen to the word they read and then stand next to the end blend that it matches.
bunk loft trump
toast ghost trunk
hand found hound
jump lump sealift
Today you are going to be looking at end blends again. End blends are blends that come at the end of a word. Watch the youtube video to find out more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCVcdFN-Ov0
Here are our blends today…
lk nt sk lp lf
Practice reading the blends one by one
Here are your three challenges…
Challenge one – Watch the video and write down the different words with the end blends in them. If you can think of any other words that match the blends then write them down too. Copy all of the words so that you have two sets.
Challenge two – Play a game of pairs with a family member. If you find a pair you win the cards, if not turn them over and wait for your next turn.
Challenge three – Silly sentences- how many silly sentences can you write using the words?
Hope you have a lovely day! Don’t forget to send us your learning. We love seeing your smiling faces!
Miss Riley and Miss Wolfenden
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 10:23am
Good morning everyone,
I've had a request to make the font on my blog a little easier to read so that some of the younger children can have a go at reading it themselves which is a fantastic idea, so hopefully this will be a bit easier to read!
I hope people enjoyed yesterdays challenge, I know that some people did the Jason Manford quiz at 1.30 so if anyone didn't get the chance to watch Friday the turtle or had any problems accessing the Facebook live video then here it is on YouTube today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvhZZq0UnJI
Today's challenge is one that will hopefully make you and others around you smile. I want you to tell someone a joke! In fact, I think you should try and make as many people laugh as possible! Laughing is very good for both your health and wellbeing and it's certainly one of my favourite things to do, especially if I'm feeling a bit sad.
If you don't know any jokes then have a look at these:
https://inews.co.uk/light-relief/jokes/jokes-kids-funny-497875
Here are some that I like!
What do elves learn in school?
The elf-abet.
Why didn’t the skeleton go to the dance?
He had no body to dance with.
Please e-mail me on EALhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk with your best jokes or any stories of making people laugh.
Mrs Glover
Past challenges
Thanks to everyone who has sent me pictures of them doing a few of the past challenges, here are a few of them!
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 10:05am
Good morning Year 3.
Thursday's Padlet learning page is ready for you to access with an updated sentence of the day and fluent in 5.
https://padlet.com/missfaragher/kj2clvf5jjlr98k1
Remember, PLEASE keep sending us your work to y3homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk - We absolutely love to see what you've been up to!
Love
Miss Humphreys, Miss Faragher and Miss G
The Boy at the Back of the Class Chapter 20
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 9:56am
Good morning year 6. Another super, sunny morning. It was very tricky reading this morning as it was so bright in my living room and there is a noisy engineer in my kitchen attempting to fix my oven! It was very hard to concentrate especially at this very exciting part of the story.
Here we go...
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=ztD2Aym
Did you pick up on the HUGE clue at the start of the chapter? Please Tweet it to us or email it at y6homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Now I would like you to summarise that chapter in just THREE short sentences! Try just to focus on the three main things that happened in this chapter. E.g. What happened to Tom and the narrator? Who they met? How did it end?
What do you think will happen when Tom and the narrator get home to their parents?
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 9:38am
Good morning Year 6,
I hope you are all doing well. Here is today's maths task.
Remember to check into padlet to check out lots of other activities and links for reading, writing , maths , well-being, connected curriculum learning and music. Lots of you are finding it easier to see all your activities at once like a timetable. https://padlet.com/y6homelearning/nxkcu8zxxd8kmxo7
Have a lovely day!
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 9:29am
Good morning Year 2,
I have a feeling that today is going to be a good day :)
Here are the answers to yesterday’s fluent in 5:
- 36 = 60 - 24
- 54 > 19 (any smaller number)
- 5 x 5 = 25
- half of 26 = 13
- 15cm + 14cm = 29cm
English Challenge
Today I would like you to focus on suffixes. A suffix is a few letters placed at the end of a word to change its meaning. I have listed some words below which can be changed using the suffixes:
ing, est, ness, ful, ly.
It is your job to decide which suffix goes at the end of each word.
extreme
argue
quick
move
enjoy
gently
dark
care
forget
kind
Extension: Once you have added the suffixes, I would like you to choose five words and put them in to sentences.
Maths Challenge
Todays Maths challenge is going to be a little bit different. Please watch my clip to see what I would like you to do today and use the number sentences below for the task set.
- Quarter of 40 = ___ run to the nearest door and run back
- ____ = 30 - 15 bend down to touch your toes
- 2 x 9 = ____ jump on the spot
- Half of 12 = ___ lunges (answer is how many per leg)
- 28cm - 9cm = ___ press ups
- 10p + 6p + 8p = ___ hop like a frog
- A hexagon has how many sides? ____ spin around in a circle
- ___ = 19 + 10 star jumps
- ___ = 5 x 3 sit ups
- Double 7 = ___ hold your arms out and make large circles with them
Don't forget to send me in your Science challenges as well as your Connected Curriculum challenges. It would be great to see what you have all been getting up to!
Miss Hamer
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 9:12am
Good Morning Reception!!
Firstly, I want to show off some amazing work we have received this week from some of our wonderful children linked to the story ‘The Snail and the Whale.’
Well Done!!!
Today I would like you to think about the two main characters in the story, Snail and the Whale… What do they look like? What colours can you see? What shapes can you see? What size are the animals? Talk to your grown up about one of the animals. Remember to talk in full sentences…
Choose one character and write some sentences describing it and draw a picture of the animal.
For example,
The Snail has a hard shell on his back. The shell has a striped pattern that is brown and white. It moves very slowly because it is a small animal.
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk