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The Boy at the Back of the Class Chapter 17
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 9:55am
Good morning year 6. This week the story starts to get very exciting and I know you're going to really enjoy it. Here is chapter 17 for you to join in with and follow.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=sjC1r2O
Questions
1. What was their Sunday adventure?
2. How did the children feel by Tuesday? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
3. On page 187, find and copy the word which means 'desperately'?
Story Adventure The House on Haunted Hill Part 5
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 9:31am
Good morning year 6. We need your help to make the next step in the story today.
A reminder of the story so far...
Descending the steps is scary and dangerous as they are covered in moss and mould. They are slippery and you have to be careful as you make your way into the cold depths of the house.
Faint slivers of moonlight dance through the small doorway giving you a dim range of visibility. You look around and see a small cupboard, its door hanging off its rusty hinges.
A wooden stairway is in one of the corners probably leading up into the house.
Do you climb the stairs and leave the cellar
OR
Open the filthy cupboard?
Remember we are looking for the Ruby Heart!
What do you think might be in the cupboard?
What might we find up the stairs?
Monday sentence of the day and phonics
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 9:28am
Good Morning! I hope you all had a lovely bank holiday weekend, celebrating VE day and enjoying the sunshine!
Sentence of the day
Here are the answers from Thursdays sentence of the day.
A sunflower needs water and sunlight to grow. It needs to be the right temperature, if it is too cold or too hot the sunflower could die.
Well done to the children who managed to find the mistakes. Look how neat and beautiful their learning is, well done!
For today’s sentence I want you to read the instructions and put them into the correct order. Remember to use the time connectives to help you.
Next drop a sunflower seed into the hole.
First put some damp soil in a plastic cup so it comes up almost to the top.
Then put the cup on a sunny windowsill.
Finally your plant should pop up through the soil after about 1 or 2 weeks.
Phonics
Let’s start todays phonics by reviewing our tricky words. Find your tricky word mat and play a game of fastest finger with your grown up. Ask them to say a word and point to as quick as you can with your fast fingers.
Today’s phonics focus is going to be a recap of blends which come at the start of words. Watch this video to remind yourselves of these blends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS8bvbyWFZ4
Today you are going to have three challenges again.
Challenge 1: Make yourself a roll and read mat using the words on the youtube video. Here is an example of what it should look like. My roll and read mat has all of the same blend but you can make yours harder by including all of the words on the video
Challenge 2: Play a game of 4 in a row with your roll and read mat. Take turns with someone you live with to roll the dice and read a word. The first person to read 4 in a row will be the winner.
Challenge 3: Make signs with the initial blends that you saw in the video – dr, gr, tr, br, cr. Then cut up your roll and read mat so that you have lots of little words. Read the word and match them to their initial blend. For example the word brush will go with the sign br.
Hope you have a lovely day! If you have any questions then please email us and we’ll be happy to help you! Don’t forget that you can carry on practicing your reading skills on lexia!
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 8:43am
Over the weekend I have had an email from Ferdows and his mummy. He has written a new version of the story from last week 'The Very Busy Spider.'
In his story he had a very busy caterpillar...
Listen to the video, I think you'll like it!!
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 8:22am
Good Morning Reception!!
This week we have a new story all about the friendship of a Snail and a Whale. Listen to the story by using the link below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000cslw/the-snail-and-the-whale
Start by playing the game ‘one word.’ Take turns with your grown up to say one word or name of a object that you can remember from the story ‘The Snail and the Whale.’ How many things can you remember from the story…?
The story is by the author Julia Donaldson. In her stories she uses a lot of rhyming words which makes the story more interesting. Remember rhyming words are two words or more that sound the same.
For example, mat, cat, rat and hat.
Can you read the words from the story and find the two words that rhyme? Use the sheet attached on the blog to see the words.
Extra challenge – Pick two of the rhyming words and show them in a creative way. For example, you could fold a piece of paper in half and draw a picture on each side of the rhyming words.
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Year One Lexia and Active learn reading apps
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 8:22am
Hello,
Just a quick message to remind you that you can use active learn and lexia to help you read at home!
As part of the daily learning each child should be completing reading challenges on lexia and Active learn, each day. As you know there have been no reading books going home so it is very important that you are logging into these apps each day. Miss Riley and I can see who has been reading and would love to see more children in year one reading every day. If you have any problems with logging on and need any help then contact the year1 team at y1homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk and we will be more than happy to help you.
Thanks Miss Wolfenden and Miss Riley
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 8:14am
Hello,
We hope you all had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the VE day celebrations. Last week you were asked to complete a Jack and the Beanstalk reading challenge. Well done to the children who have completed their writing for the leaves. It would be great if we could have some more back because we would love the tree in the shared area to be big and full of your lovely work!
We have posted the challenge again for you to have a go at this week!
Hello,
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 the 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: 11th May 2020 @ 8:13am
Good Morning Reception!!
Hope you had a lovely Bank Holiday weekend!
Let’s start today’s phonic activity by revising the sounds ai, ee, igh and oa. Open the PowerPoint on this blog and sort the pictures that have the focus sound on each page.
Today we are going to learn a new sound ‘oo.’ It is sometimes described as the long ‘oo’ sound. Think of the word ‘moon’ when thinking about the long ‘oo’ sound. It is as if we are stretching the ‘oo’ like in the word’s below:
Watch the video at the bottom of the blog all about the long ‘oo’ sound.
Today’s practise and apply activities are:
Can you read the words? Play quick write by asking your grown up to say a word and you write it on a piece of paper.
How many words can you think of with the long ‘oo’ sound in one minute…?
Can you label the words with the long ‘oo’ sound? Pick three words and write them in sentences.
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Weekly Vocabulary Challenge – The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 8:07am
This week we are looking at one of my favourite stories. It is about a caterpillar who ‘pops’ out of a tiny egg, he then eats lots of food and builds himself a cocoon. At the end of the story the caterpillar turns into a beautiful butterfly!
Can you guess which story it is? That’s right, it’s ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.
We will also be using this book in our Maths learning later in the week too.
Click on the link to watch Miss Heritage talk about the fruits and read and the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.
In the story the caterpillar eats lots of different fruit and foods.
Can you talk about the different types of fruit in the story and use words to describe what they are like?
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 different fruits and food the caterpillar ate?
Shape Vocabulary: describe the shapes – round, curved, tall, pointy, wide, short
Pause the video: Can you use texture words to describe the pictures?
Texture Vocabulary – soft, smooth, bumpy, silky, rough, shiny
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Challenge: Your challenge this week, is to use our ‘Speaking Superhero’ vocabulary to look at and explore different fruits. (You may have some different fruits from the story at home, that’s fine too!)
Have a look at the fruits you have, name them, talk about how it looks and feels, then use words to describe what they are like.
Look carefully, you may be able to use different words to describe the fruit when it has its peel on and off e.g. a banana.
Does your fruit have pips, or seeds or a stone? Or does it have spikey leaves like a pineapple? Can you describe what it is like on the outside and compare how it is different to the inside?
You could be creative with your fruits. Maybe you could use your fruit to make a fruit salad or fruit kababs or even try creating a very hungry caterpillar! Have a look at the pictures below for some ideas!
Have fun and make sure you send in photos or videos of your learning to:
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 7:51am
Happy Monday!
Today we are going to focus on adding 3, 1 digit numbers together.
Sometimes it easier to use the number facts we know to help solve trickier problems. We can count on using a number line, use concrete objects or count on but there are other strategies we can use that are much faster and much more effective.
Look at this addition 2+5+8=
Ask yourself the following question. Can I see 2 numbers that when added together make 10?
Then re -arrange the addition sentence so that the 2 numbers that add to 10 are together
8+2+5= We know that 8+2=10 and 10+5=15
Use a number line to help you !
Have a go for yourself
Challenge 1
1. 7+5+3= 2. 1+4+9= 3. 8+3+2= 4. 6+1+4= 5. 8+5+5= 6. 4+10+6= 7. 9+9+1= 8. 10+10+10=
Challenge 2
Can you read the questions and then write the number sentence to represent it, remembering to use the correct formation!
1. James bought 7 red cars, 4 blue cars and 3 yellow cars. How many altogether?
2. Kirsty bought 2 pink cakes, 7 yellow cakes and 3 blue cakes. How many altogether?
3. Dan bought 1 fizzy sweet, 3 mint sweets and 9 chocolate sweets. How many sweets does he have altogether?
4. 6 children jumped into the pool. 5 more children jumped in and then 4 more jumped in. How many children are in the pool?
5. There are 6 dogs, 7 cats and 4 rabbits. How many animals altogerther?
Challenge 3
Have a go at completing the challenges in the blue boxes below. Remeber to use yyour knowledge of number facts to 10 to help!
Thanks
Miss Wolfenden and Miss Riley
Weekly Connected Curriculum Challenge: Celebrating Special Times
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 7:46am
This week we are going to be thinking about special times that we share with our family and think about celebrations!
What special times do you celebrate with your family? Have a think and tell your adult.
A special time we enjoy celebrating is our birthday!
Click on the link below to listen to the story of ‘Kipper’s Birthday’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1BXicbFeU
In the story Kipper prepared a birthday party.
This week we are going to pretend it is your favourite teddy / toy's birthday and celebrate!
Your challenge this week is to think about the following so you can plan and prepare for your teddy / toy’s birthday:
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?
Amazing!
I can’t wait to have a party for my teddy! I going to start planning it now and later in the week I will post some pictures of my teddy bears birthday party!
We would love to see some pictures of you and your favourite teddy / toy celebrating too. Remember to send them to nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Monday 11th May – Maths: Describing shapes
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 7:32am
Last week you completed lots of fabulous shape work with Mrs Ganner.
We are going to start this week by continuing your super work by talking about and using lots of words to describe the shapes of objects and use vocabulary to describe them.
Now I have been on a shape hunt in my garden. Take a look at the video (describing shapes below) and see if you can join in and use ‘Speaking Superhero words’ to help me describe the shapes I find.
Today’s challenge is to use super words to describe the shapes of objects. Have a look around your house or go outside and see what shapes you can find.
Use your ‘speaking superhero words’ to talk to your grown up and describe the different shapes you see.
Shape vocabulary: wide / narrow / long / thin / round / curved / straight / short / tall
You can also use the ‘Speaking Superhero’ cape symbols from class to help you (see below)
Have fun!
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 7:16am
This week we are going to continue learning about rhyme.
Remember rhyming words sound the same at the end.
I have a great story for you to listen to today. It is called ‘Oi Frog’.
Have your listening ears ready, so you can find the pairs of words that rhyme.
Click on the link below to watch and listen to the story ‘Oi Frog’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPDyXsSbxOY
I hope you enjoyed the story and heard lots of rhyming words.
Did you hear and say and the pairs of words that rhymed? You can watch and join in with the story again if you choose to do so!
Today’s challenge is to look carefully at the pictures from the story below. Use the pictures tell your grown up the pairs of words that rhyme.
For example, in this picture the rhyming pair is dog and frog.
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Can you draw a picture of your favourite rhyming pair?
We love seeing your work, so don’t forget to send a picture to: nurseryhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Have a great day!
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 6:58am
Good morning Year 5!
I'm posting this bright and early today because I'm going to be going into school shortly, I'm very excited to see some of the children who are going in and have some lovely activities planned!
I hope you've had a lovely weekend - it felt like two different seasons from Saturday to Sunday didn't it! We had the paddling pool out on Saturday, and Livvi and Asaph spent the day in their swimsuits, then yesterday we went for a walk with hats, gloves and coats with a stop for a cup of hot chocolate from our flask!
It's Livvi's birthday on Thursday, so I've got lots to get ready to help celebrate her...it's strange having a birthday in lockdown, I wonder how those of you who have had your birthday these past few weeks have celebrated?
Remember to send us your learning this week to Y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk, we'd love to see!
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Mrs Hodges here!
The first Sentence of the Day for this week, here we go! First of all, I'd like you to have a final watch of the Tim Peake video we looked at last week (which seems like a long time ago in my head!) for one more sentence to do with that. Then we'll watch a new video tomorrow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBfxYBw2Sxo
Then here's our sentence:
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=sYaMYZk
Remember to check back later to see my corrected sentence!
Good afternoon everyone!
I've just got back after a day in school - it's so strange being there without all of you! How did you get on with today's sentence? Here's my purple pen for you to check your sentence against!
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=0HaqLg0
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Good morning from Miss Wendt!
I don’t know about you but having Friday as a bank holiday really confused me! Guess what I did? I got up yesterday at 7am, had a shower and got ready to start some school jobs – completely forgetting it was Sunday, not Monday! It took me quite a while to realise it wasn’t time for school, I felt very confused all day!
I hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the sunshine. I loved reading Miss Brookes’ celebration post about the amount of reading happening in Year 5. Well done to all those children who are reading daily and continuing to use the app. Keep your eyes peeled over the next few days for a Times Tables Rockstars Challenge!
Here is the fluent in five for today, I’ll be back later with the answers.
And here are the answers for today!
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Good Morning from Miss Brookes!
I have woken up this morning in a brilliant mood - and I have no idea why! Hopefully it will stay with me for the rest of the day (or even the week).
I had an interesting weekend, first we celebrated VE day with a social distancing street party. We all sat in our front gardens with tea and cake, and shouted to the neighbours over the road.
Here's a picture of my family joining in, and sitting in the front garden - we had to put the lead on Merlin because he decided to bark every time someone walked past our fence (he's never sat in the front garden before). It is a sorry excuse for cake - but we had no flour in, and that's all we could find in the cupboard!
Then Yesterday, my Mum and I made some candles out of beeswax! It was very tricky, but we got there in the end.
Now on to today's GVP.
For today and tomorrow, we're focussing on determiners. The reason for this, is that even though it is something you learn in year 4, I know plenty of children in my class at least will have forgotten what one is.
https://www.showme.com/sh?h=bxLxhGS
Enjoy!
Date: 8th May 2020 @ 5:09pm
Good afternoon everyone! I hope you are having a fabulous bank holiday Friday.
Here are this week's Reading Plus Winners:
Most Lessons Completed: Dylan, Angelica and Alissia all tie with 6 books at 80% or above! Well done you three.
Most Words Read: Rhianna with 8,373 words!
I thought I would also include our reading challenge winners for the week, as I posted the outstanding learners post for my class yesterday!
This week, the challenge was to read 3,500 words.
The following children managed to reach this target:
Rhianna
Dylan
Angelica
Alissia
Denico
Sam
Aden
Well done everyone who took part!
Enjoy your weekend,
Miss Brookes
Date: 8th May 2020 @ 3:09pm
I can't believe it's that time of the week again to celebrate our amazing children (and parents/carers) who are doing some fantastic home learning.
We are amazed at all your hardwork and receiving your emails puts a huge smile on our faces!!!
Why not dance along to our celebration song from our Friday assembly...??
Date: 8th May 2020 @ 1:29pm
Some of you may be wondering why I haven't set any work for you today (you are very lucky). That is because today is a bank holiday as it is known as a special day where we celebrate together. Today is VE day (Victory in Europe Day) which marks the day towards the end of WW2.
I have attached a very interesting newsround page which explains why today is so important. If you would like to have a little look, you are more than welcome to :)!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48201749
Miss Hamer
Date: 8th May 2020 @ 1:22pm
Good afternoon Year 2,
I love receiving all your emails and reading your work. it is great to see how hard you are all working at home. This week, I enjoyed reading your book reviews and seeing what you have all been reading over the past few weeks. If you sent in any of your work this week, you are a SUPERSTAR! I have attached a few pictures which cheered me up :)
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Hamer
Date: 8th May 2020 @ 12:40pm
Hello everyone in 5HW!
Even though today is a bank holiday, we wanted to share our wonderful hard workers this week!
Once again it has been so good to hear from so many of you. Both myself and Mrs Hodges miss you all so much! We have had emails from lots of people this week, sending us amazing learning and new found hobbies!
The children that have demonstrated outstanding learning this week are:
Daniel Olajide
Ganesa
Yousef
Aden
Ini
Maddison
Lilly-Anne
Take a look at their fabulous work below! A big well done to Aden, who has completed ALL of his home learning pack, and is eagerly awaiting another!
Have a lovely long weekend everyone, make the most of the sunshine and enjoy a walk, bike ride or garden picnic!
Miss Wendt & Mrs Hodges 
Date: 8th May 2020 @ 10:05am
Good morning on this Bank Holiday Friday!
Well done to Sophie who knew that yesterday's flag was Brazil, capital Brasilia. The main language in Brazil is Portuguese, although German , Ticuna, Kaingang and Kaiwa Guarani are also spoken.
Here's today's flag. Email us if you know what the country and capital is AND what VE Day is.
Good luck !
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 7:08pm
Celebrations
Can you believe it’s that time of the week again! Where has this week gone! We hope that you are all having a lovely day, maybe you’re celebrating VE day or maybe you’re enjoying a relaxing bank holiday in the sunshine. Whatever you’re doing we hope you are having a lovely time, you deserve it!
We have had so many pictures of you and your learning in this week! It’s amazing to see how busy you all are and how you are still doing lots of learning in these strange times. We are so proud of you and we miss you all very much!
So here are this weeks superstar learners!
Look at this beautiful presentation! This child looks like they are concentrating so hard on making their learning look neat, I think that they are definitely getting ready for year 2! Well done!
You are looking very proud of yourself here! I think I would be the same if I had managed to complete all of that learning.
We are missing all of your creations so much! It’s lovely to see you making, creating and getting crafty at home!
Another child with stunning presentation! I think we are going to have some number line experts when we come back to school!
Look at this gorgeous flower. I wish the flowers in my garden looked like this.
I couldn’t believe the amount of words on this adjective list. It was more than I could think of. I think we have another child ready for year 2!
Here is another person concentrating mega hard on his home learning. I wonder if Mrs Hughes will let us carry on learning in our pyjamas when we go back to school.
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 7:04pm
VE Day
Today it is the 75th anniversary of VE Day. Victory in Europe Day/VE Day took place on May 8th 1945. It was a public holiday and day of celebration to mark the defeat of Germany by the Allied forces in Second World War.
On VE day people ran out in the street with flags and banners and they sung and they danced. They hung up bunting and had parties and food in the streets.
This year we are celebrating VE day and our May bank holiday a little differently. Here are some activities that you can do at home to celebrate VE day.
- Make your own union jack bunting just like the bunting that they had on VE day 75 years ago.
- Make your own union jack flags and banners and wave them whilst dancing to music in your garden
- Have a picnic outside
-Make your own special VE day medals
Whatever you do, we hope you have a lovely day.
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 4:06pm
On Friday it is going to be a Bank Holiday celebrating VE Day.
VE Day is short for Victory in Europe Day when different countries around Europe celebrated winning the second world war in 1945. This was celebrated with street parties and lots of celebrations. However, this year VE celebrations around Europe and UK will look differently.
Here is a timetable of things that will be happening nationally around the country on Friday:
We have attached a PowerPoint of information about VE Day along with some activities that you may want to try over the Bank Holiday weekend.
Have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend. Let’s hope the sun keeps shining!!!
Love Mrs Iqbal and Miss Williams
Don’t forget to send in your photos/work to… receptionhomelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Story Adventure The House on Haunted Hill Part 5
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 3:32pm
Well Maddison got to the answer first again! She has opted to go down into the cellar. Cross your fingers this ends well!
Here goes...
Descending the steps is scary and dangerous as they are covered in moss and mould. They are slippery and you have to be careful as you make your way into the cold depths of the house.
Faint slivers of moonlight dance through the small doorway giving you a dim range of visibility. You look around and see a small cupboard, its door hanging off its rusty hinges. A wooden stairway is in one of the corners probably leading up into the house.
Do you climb the stairs and leave the cellar
Open the filthy cupboard
Another choice!! What will YOU choose this time. Remember we are on the hunt for a Ruby Heart so sometimes you have to take chances.
All will be revealed on Monday but whoever gets their choice in first, that's the one I will take.
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 3:30pm
Good afternoon everyone!
I hope you have had a fabulous Thursday so far.
Right at the beginning of lockdown, when we sent home our home-learning packs, we included a checklist of different activities. I've attached it as a reminder.
How well have you done on the checklist so far?
Have you managed to reach gold? Platinum?
Email us and let us know on y5homelearning@ravensbury.manchester.sch.uk
Miss Brookes