Rabbit Class
Week commencing: 6/7/2020
Good Morning Everyone. I hope you all had a lovely week and enjoyed your learning activities. Well done for all of your hard work everyone!
Please keep sending pictures of your learning. It is always great to see how well you are all doing.
If you have any queries about any of the learning activities, or just want to say hello and let me know how you are getting on, you can contact me via email at:
sbeesley@stanton.derbyshire.sch.uk
Have a fantastic week and enjoy your learning activities!
Love and hugs, Mrs Beesley and Miss Zahra xxx
Maths:
We are now focussing on revisiting some of the maths concepts we have learned through the year. This week we are continuing to look at addition and subtraction.
Please complete the following tasks during the week:
- Test yourself on the pairs of numbers that make 10 and 20. How fast can you say/recall them? Knowing these number facts by heart will help support your maths learning and make addition and subtraction much easier for you.
- Education City - My City 6.7.20
- Play 'Take it Away' - subtract 1 digit and 2 digit numbers up to 20
- Play 'Rock and Roll' - add 1 digit and 2 digit numbers up to 20
English:
Please complete the following two tasks during the week.
Don't forget to read and share books, enjoy them and talk about them. Remember to use some of the homework activities from your reading diaries. There are still e-books available to read for free at Oxford Owl if you are looking for something new to read:
Please keep practising your spellings, remember one list per week and use phonics play to practise your phonics. There are lots of really fun games you can play on there. Most of you should be practising all the phases, up to and including phase 5.
You can access it at:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
username: march20
password: home
- Purple Mash - 2Do
- Read Chapter five of Anna and the Third Leaf
- Take the quiz and complete the missing words and joining words activities
- Purple Mash - 2Do
- Phonics game - consonant blends - bl, br, cl, cr
- Phonics game - consonant blends - sp, st, sw, tr, tw
Topic
This week we are thinking about our new classes in September.
- Write a letter - to your new teacher (Mrs Roberts) telling her all about yourself. Things you might include could be, what do you like to do in school? At home? What is your favourite food? Have you got any pets? Brothers and sisters? Something interesting about yourself.
South Derbyshire Virtual School Games Championship (Monday 6th - Friday 10th July)
The ASP have put together a programme of challenges which makes up a virtual competition championship, to finish off the academic year in the Summer Term. The challenges are simple, adaptable and can be done in a school environment or home environment. The competitions are open from Years 1 to 6, however parents and reception children are more than welcome to give them a go!
Each day will have a different challenge themed around a different sport. The competitions are open age, meaning anyone can take part. To enter, an individual must enter their result for the challenge online for it to count. All results will be collated as follows:
- Results will be compared per year group. For schools submitting multiple entries per year group, an average score will be taken for that year group.
- After all 5 competitions have finished, schools will be ranked in their position in each year group.
- An average score will be calculated per school too, regardless of number of entries and their year groups
Each competition is a ’60 second challenge’ for ease in comparison
Below are 6 competition cards, which make up the virtual championship
Each challenge card will have a link at the bottom to submit details and your score. Whether this is done at school or at home, the deadline will be 9pm to submit a score on the day of that respective challenge.
There are a range of prizes to be won for our school, so have fun and take part.
Week commencing: 29/6/2020
Good Morning Everyone. I hope you all had a lovely week and enjoyed your learning activities. Well done for all of your hard work everyone!
Please keep sending pictures of your learning. It is always great to see how well you are all doing.
If you have any queries about any of the learning activities, or just want to say hello and let me know how you are getting on, you can contact me via email at:
sbeesley@stanton.derbyshire.sch.uk
Have a fantastic week and enjoy your learning activities!
Love and hugs, Mrs Beesley and Miss Zahra xxx
Maths:
We are now focussing on revisiting some of the maths concepts we have learned through the year. This week we are looking at addition and subtraction.
Please complete the following tasks during the week:
- Learn the pairs of numbers that add together to make 20. For example, 12 + 8, 5 + 15. Knowing these number facts by heart will help support your maths learning and make addition and subtraction much easier for you.
- Education City - My City 29.6.20
- Play 'Secret Sums' - pairs of numbers that add together to make 20
- Play 'Lazy Lambs' - Subtraction from numbers up to 10
English:
Please complete the following two tasks during the week.
Don't forget to read and share books, enjoy them and talk about them. Remember to use some of the homework activities from your reading diaries. There are still e-books available to read for free at Oxford Owl if you are looking for something new to read:
Please keep practising your spellings, remember one list per week and use phonics play to practise your phonics. There are lots of really fun games you can play on there. Most of you should be practising all the phases, up to and including phase 5.
You can access it at:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
username: march20
password: home
- My Seaside Adventure - Write your own story about a day at the seaside where there are some naughty seagulls! Where are you? At the beach? On a boat? On the promenade? What do the seagulls do? What happens next? What happens in the end? Draw a picture to go with your story
- Purple Mash - 2Do
- Read Chapter four of Anna and the Third Leaf
- Take the quiz and complete the missing words and joining words activities
Topic
This week we are thinking about the seasons.
- Summer - represent the season of Summer in any way you choose. For example, you could create a piece of artwork (a sculpture, drawing, collage, painting etc.), you could write a poem or description about Summer. You could make an information poster, leaflet or powerpoint. You could even make a short video.
30 Days Wild
The challenge is to do something wild each day throughout June. Here are the final two activities for June:
- Pick up litter - sweep the area for rubbish and pop it in the bin
- Write a wild poem - write a short poem about something wild
Derbyshire School Games are continuing to send out weekly resources to support your PE home learning. This week the theme is Boccia . You can access the resources below.
Week commencing: 22/6/2020
Good Morning Everyone. I hope you all had a lovely week and enjoyed your learning activities. As always, I enjoyed receiving your emails and photos and have included them further down the page. Well done for all of your hard work everyone!
Please keep sending pictures of your learning. It is always great to see how well you are all doing.
If you have any queries about any of the learning activities, or just want to say hello and let me know how you are getting on, you can contact me via email at:
sbeesley@stanton.derbyshire.sch.uk
Have a fantastic week and enjoy your learning activities!
Love and hugs, Mrs Beesley and Miss Zahra xxx
Maths:
We are now focussing on revisiting some of the maths concepts we have learned through the year. This week we are looking at addition.
Please complete the following tasks during the week:
- Learn the pairs of numbers that add together to make 10. For example, 2 + 8, 5 + 5. Knowing these number facts by heart will help support your maths learning and make addition and subtraction much easier for you.
- Education City - My City 22.6.20
- Play 'Bonds, Number Bonds' - pairs of numbers that add together to make 10
- Play 'Addition Impossible' - number bonds up to and including 10
- Play 'Heist to see you' - number bonds up to and including 20
English:
Please complete the following two tasks during the week.
Don't forget to read and share books, enjoy them and talk about them. Remember to use some of the homework activities from your reading diaries. There are still e-books available to read for free at Oxford Owl if you are looking for something new to read:
Please keep practising your spellings, remember one list per week and use phonics play to practise your phonics. There are lots of really fun games you can play on there. Most of you should be practising all the phases, up to and including phase 5.
You can access it at:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
username: march20
password: home
- The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch - Write a description of Mr Grinling. What does he look like? What clothes does he wear? What kind of person is he? You will need to include adjectives (describing words) in your description and write in full sentences. I have included the story video again below to help you. You could pause it so that you can look at the pictures in detail.
- Purple Mash - 2Do
- Read Chapter three of Anna and the Third Leaf
- Take the quiz and complete the missing words and joining words activities
Topic
This week we are focussing on our design skills and thinking about 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch'.
- Create your own model of a lighthouse using things that you find around your house - cardboard tubes, boxes etc.
30 Days Wild
The challenge is to do something wild each day throughout June. Here are this week's activities, one for each day:
- Meditate in the wild - Strike yoga poses - feel the stresses melt away
- Decorate with a wild mobile - use twigs, string and leaves, or paper birds
- Design a wild home - from bug hotels to a hedgehog hide out
- Draw a wild landscape - Can you use your imagination?
- Switch off to tune in - Can you turn off all electronic gadgets today?
- Race for a rainbow - Race to find the colours of the rainbow
- Map your local wildlife - Draw a map and mark where you see wildlife
Derbyshire School Games are continuing to send out weekly resources to support your PE home learning. This week the theme is Sports Day. There are also some national sports week activities for you to try. You can access the resources below.
Here are the amazing things you have been doing this week...
Week commencing: 15/6/2020
Good Morning Everyone. I hope you all had a lovely week and enjoyed your learning activities. As always, I enjoyed receiving your emails and photos and have included them further down the page. Well done for all of your hard work everyone!
Please keep sending pictures of your learning. It is always great to see how well you are all doing.
If you have any queries about any of the learning activities, or just want to say hello and let me know how you are getting on, you can contact me via email at:
sbeesley@stanton.derbyshire.sch.uk
Have a fantastic week and enjoy your learning activities!
Love and hugs, Mrs Beesley and Miss Zahra xxx
Maths:
Our maths focus continues to be time and this week we are learning to tell the time to the hour and the half hour on an analogue clock.
Please complete the following tasks during the week:
- Learn to tell the time to the hour and the half hour on an analogue clock
- Education City - My City 15.6.20
- Play 'Tick Tock' - telling the time to the hour
- Play 'Clocking in' - telling the time to the half hour
English:
Please complete the following two tasks during the week.
Don't forget to read and share books, enjoy them and talk about them. Remember to use some of the homework activities from your reading diaries. There are still e-books available to read for free at Oxford Owl if you are looking for something new to read:
Please keep practising your spellings, remember one list per week and use phonics play to practise your phonics. There are lots of really fun games you can play on there. Most of you should be practising all the phases, up to and including phase 5.
You can access it at:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
username: march20
password: home
- The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch - describe the setting of the story in full sentences. You will need to include adjectives (describing words) in your description. You can choose to describe the lighthouse, the cottage on the cliffs or, as a challenge, you could describe both! I have included the story video again below to help you. You could pause it so that you can look at the pictures in detail.
- Purple Mash - 2Do
- Read Chapter two of Anna and the Third Leaf
- Take the quiz and complete the missing words and joining words activities
Topic
This week we are focussing on our art skills and thinking about the seaside.
- Draw, paint or collage a seaside landscape.
30 Days Wild
The challenge is to do something wild each day throughout June. Here are this week's activities, one for each day:
- Whistle with grass - Use a thick blade of grass between your thumbs
- Sketch up close - Use a pencil to capture the detail, shapes and texture
- Plan a nature quiz - Write a wildlife quiz and share it with family and friends
- Spot a wild mammal - From urban squirrels, foxes or deer to country hares
- Scatter seed bombs - Throw seeds and soil in hard to reach places
- Keep a note of wildlife - List the species that you see from your window
- Google wild facts - Discover secrets about your favourite animal
Here is this week's amazing learning. Well done everyone!
Week commencing: 8/6/2020
Good Morning Everyone. I hope you all had a lovely week and enjoyed your learning activities. As always, I enjoyed receiving your emails and photos and have included them further down the page. Well done for all of your hard work everyone!
Please keep sending pictures of your learning. It is always great to see how well you are all doing.
If you have any queries about any of the learning activities, or just want to say hello and let me know how you are getting on, you can contact me via email at:
sbeesley@stanton.derbyshire.sch.uk
Have a fantastic week and enjoy your learning activities!
Love and hugs, Mrs Beesley and Miss Zahra xxx
Maths:
Our maths focus continues to be time and we will be recognising and using language relating to the months of the year.
Please complete the following tasks during the week:
- Education City - My City 8.6.20
- Learn to say the months of the year in order
Watch the learn screen 'Twelve Months' and then play the game 'Sten of the Month'
- Write your own 'poem' of things that happen each month, like in the learn screen 'Twelve Months' - it doesn't need to rhyme!
- Challenge - learn how to spell the names of the months of the year- don't forget that they need to start with a capital letter.
English:
Please complete the following two tasks during the week.
Don't forget to read and share books, enjoy them and talk about them. Remember to use some of the homework activities from your reading diaries. There are still e-books available to read for free at Oxford Owl if you are looking for something new to read:
Please keep practising your spellings, remember one list per week and use phonics play to practise your phonics. There are lots of really fun games you can play on there. Most of you should be practising all the phases, up to and including phase 5.
You can access it at:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
username: march20
password: home
- Last week, I read you the story of The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch (see the video from last week). Watch this again if you need to.
- Think of a different plan that Mr and Mrs Grinling could have come up with to stop the seagulls from eating the lunch. You should draw a picture of your plan and label it. You should then describe your plan using full sentences.
- Purple Mash - 2Do
- Read Chapter one of Anna's Leaf
- Take the quiz and complete the missing words and joining words activities
Topic
This week we are focussing on our history skills and thinking about the lives of significant individuals.
- Find out about Christopher Columbus by watching this video on BBC bitesize: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhpchbk/articles/znchkmn and by reading the fact file below. You could also do some of your own research.
- Create a poster showing all of the things you have learned about Christopher Columbus. This should also include a picture of him and his name.
30 Days Wild
The challenge is to do something wild each day throughout June. Here are this week's activities, one for each day:
- Draw a blue picture (or take a photo) - butterflies, damselflies or even a clear blue sky
- Identify a wildflower - take notes on it, then search in a book or online
- Read a wild book - find a book about wild creatures and read outside
- Picnic with the birds - prepare a bird feast with fruit, cheese and seeds
- Create a work of art - using leaves, pinecones, feathers and twigs
- Watch a wild webcam - peek at ospreys, peregrines and other wildlife
- Search for mini wildness - lichens, forests of moss and flowers in pavements
Derbyshire School Games are continuing to send out weekly resources to support your PE home learning. This week the theme is . You can access the resources below.
Finally, here are some of the amazing things you have done this week. You are all superstars!
Week commencing: 1/6/2020
Good Morning Everyone. I hope you all had a lovely half term and made the most of the beautiful weather. As always, I enjoyed receiving your emails and photos and have included them further down the page. Well done for all of your hard work everyone!
Please keep sending pictures of your learning. It would be particularly great to see some of you doing the 30 days wild activities!
If you have any queries about any of the learning activities, you can contact me via email for support at:
sbeesley@stanton.derbyshire.sch.uk
This half term our topic is 'Land Ahoy!' and our focus book will be The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch.
We will also be participating in the Wildlife Trusts' 30 days wild throughout June. These activities are fun ways of discovering the nature around us.
Have a fantastic week and enjoy your learning activities!
Love and hugs, Mrs Beesley and Miss Zahra xxx
Maths:
This weeks focus is time and we will be recognising and using language relating to the days of the week
Please complete the following tasks during the week:
- Education City - My City 1.6.20
Watch the learn screen 'Seven Days' and then play the game 'Sven's Week'
- Make a short diary - write down at least one thing you do on each day of the week
- Learn to say the days of the week in order
- Challenge - learn how to spell the names of the days of the week - don't forget that they need to start with a capital letter.
English:
Please complete the following two tasks during the week.
Don't forget to read and share books, enjoy them and talk about them. Remember to use some of the homework activities from your reading diaries. There are still e-books available to read for free at Oxford Owl if you are looking for something new to read:
Please keep practising your spellings, remember one list per week and use phonics play to practise your phonics. There are lots of really fun games you can play on there. Most of you should be practising all the phases, up to and including phase 5.
You can access it at:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
username: march20
password: home
- Watch the following video of The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch. Create your own story map as shown in the second video and use it to retell the story to a grown up.
- Read the following sheet 'All about Lighthouses' and answer the questions.
Topic
This week we are focussing on geography skills and thinking about the world.
- If you can, use the sheet below to label the seven continents of the world and the five oceans. If you can't do that, find out the names of the seven continents of the world and the five oceans. See if you can point to them on the map below.
30 Days Wild
The challenge is to do something wild each day throughout June. Here are this week's activities, one for each day:
- Feel the wild between your toes - squelch your toes in grass, mud or sand
- Look up at the clouds - what shapes can you see?
- Find a creepy crawly - be gentle, get close and see how it moves
- Thread a daisy chain - pick daisies and thread their stems together
- Create a nature table - display wild treasures like feathers, fir cones, interesting sticks and stones
- Lunch in the wild - take your sandwiches outside and sit on a blanket or under a tree
- Listen for wild sounds - use a blindfold to focus, what can you hear?
I have also included a bingo game, a poster to colour in and a 'Race for a Rainbow' activity that you might choose to do below. Have fun!
Derbyshire School Games are continuing to send out weekly resources to support your PE home learning. This week the theme is athletics. You can access the resources below.
Here are the pictures of all the amazing things you have been up to in the last week.
Week commencing: 25/5/2020
Happy Half Term Everyone!
As it is half term, I've just included a few activities for you to do this week.
As always, I've included some of the fabulous things you have done in the last week further down the page. A huge well done to everyone. It has been a good job that we've had sunny weather this week because you all keep knocking my socks off and my toes would be very cold otherwise!
We would also like to wish Oliver and Mimi 'Happy Birthday' for last week, they are now both 6! We hope they both had a fabulous day.
Stay safe and enjoy your half term.
Love and hugs, Mrs Beesley and Miss Zahra xxx
Phonics and Spellings
Please continue to practise your spellings and phonics. You could recap those spellings you have learned this half term and see if you can remember how to spell them. Revisit any that you get wrong.
Remember to use phonics play to practise your phonics. There are lots of really fun games you can play on there. Most of you should be practising all the phases, up to and including phase 5.
You can access it at:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
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English
Write a book review of a book that you have read recently. This could be a book that you have read independently, or one that you have shared with a grown up. You should include the following information:
Title of the book, author's name, who are the main characters? What the book is about, What your favourite part is and why? Would you recommend the book to someone else? You could also draw a picture!
Maths
Continue to practise your counting. Count in 1s to 100, forwards and backwards, count in 2s, 5s and 10s.
Here are the amazing things you have been up to this week xxx
Week commencing: 18/5/2020
Good Morning Everyone! It's been lovely to hear from you again this week and to see all of your amazing learning. Well done! As always, I've included some of your fabulous pictures further down the page. I'd like to say 'Happy Birthday' to Morgan, who was six this week and to let you all know that Mollie lost her first tooth and had a visit from the tooth fairy. Thank you for sharing your news both of you.
Maths:
This weeks focus is one more and one less for numbers to 100 (and slightly more).
Please continue to practise counting forwards to 100 and backwards from 100. This will really help with this week's activities.
Please complete the following tasks:
- Education City - My City 18.5.20
- Watch the learn screen - More or less
- Play Snow Hope - identify the number that is one more or one less than a given number up to 110
- Find one more and one less of the following numbers:
16, 23, 34, 48, 51, 69, 75, 80, 92, 107
English:
Please complete the following two tasks during the week. Don't forget to read and share books, enjoy them and talk about them. Remember to use some of the homework activities from your reading diaries. Please keep practising your spellings, remember one list per week.
- Read Hide and Seek (below) and answer the questions
- Hide and Seek Using the story you have just read as a starting point, imagine you have found a dinosaur and are hiding it in your house! Write your own short story. You might want to talk about it with an adult first - Where did you find the dinosaur? How did you sneak it into the house? Where will you hide it? What will you feed it? Will anyone find out about the dinosaur? How will they find out? What will happen if they do find out? Will you get to keep the dinosaur?
- Remember, your story should have a beginning, a middle and an end. Don't forget those capital letters, full stops and finger spaces!
Topic:
This week we are thinking about being healthy. One of the ways we can keep healthy is through eating a balanced diet.
Please complete the following task during the week:
- Find out about the 5 food groups and healthy eating by watching the short video clips below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMHVEFWNLMc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSKPgaSGSYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhtyup4OoQk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNH9IVLWtZs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kteZneJm1EI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vADtodHhfK
- Design your own healthy meal. You could draw a picture of it on a plate and label it, write a menu with healthy food on it or even make a healthy meal yourself!
Another way to keep healthy is through exercise. Derbyshire School Games are continuing to send out weekly resources to support your PE home learning. This week the theme is orienteering. You can access the resources below.
Here are some more sites that may help you with your home learning:
BBC Bitesize are including daily lessons for home schooling in Maths and English for every year group, as well as regular lessons in Science, History, Geography and more. It's definitely worth looking at!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zjpqqp3/year-1-and-p2-lessons/1
The Literacy Trust has a range of really useful resources to support literacy learning in their free family zone section. These include writing prompts for stories, a range of online stories to listen to and watch and other recommended sites and apps.
https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/5-8/
Derbyshire Music Hub have activities and resources that can be downloaded for free and done at home. They are accessible to anyone, regardless of musical ability.
https://www.derbyshiremusichub.org.uk/get-involved/music-at-home/infant/infant.aspx
Starters for STEM are ten activities that you can use at home to help children develop their science, technology, engineering and maths skills. These activities are easy to resource and provide children with the stimulus to talk about the world around them.
https://www.stem.org.uk/home-learning/primary
If you have any queries about the above learning activities, you can contact me via email for support at:
Here are some of the amazing things you have been doing this week. Thank you again for sharing them with us. Stay safe. Love and hugs Mrs Beesley and Miss Zahra xxx
Week commencing: 11/5/2020
Hello Everyone! I hope you are all well and have had a great week. I continue to be incredibly pleased with all of the fantastic learning you have been doing and always enjoy reading your emails. I really loved seeing some of the brilliant things you made for VE day. It looks like some of you had a lovely time with yummy things to eat! I've included some of the amazing pictures you have sent in further down the page.
Miss Zahra says 'hello'. She misses you all, and always looks forward to seeing what you have been doing. She's very proud of you and has been saying how impressed she is with the amount of work you have been doing.
A super huge 'well done' to all of our little superstars!
Maths:
This weeks focus is comparing and ordering numbers to 100.
Please continue to practise counting forwards to 100 and backwards from 100.
Please watch the video below, and then complete the following tasks:
- Education City - My City 11.5.20
- Play Reel Numbers - comparing numbers to 100
- Play Organic Ordering - ordering numbers 1-99 from the smallest to the largest
- Comparing and Ordering Numbers - order the following numbers from the largest to the smallest (as shown in the video below).
63, 42, 16, 31, 84, 59, 97, 25, 78
English:
Please complete the following two tasks during the week. Don't forget to read and share books, enjoy them and talk about them. Remember to use some of the homework activities from your reading diaries. Please keep practising your spellings, remember one list per week.
- Purple Mash - 2Do
- Play Jim takes out the rubbish - including capital letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks correctly in sentences.
- Can you write your own sentences - one including a full stop, one including a question mark, and one including an exclamation mark.
- Don't Forget Dexter!
- Watch the video below and then complete the following task:
- Imagine you are Jack and that you have lost Dexter. Create a lost poster that could help to find him. Remember to include sentences to describe Dexter. Use the video to help you.
Topic:
This week we are learning about fossils.
Please complete the following task during the week:
- Find out about fossils by watching the following video. You could also do some of your own research if you like.
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/geography-ks1-ks2-fossil-hunting-along-the-jurassic-coast/zbbrkmn
- Create a piece of spiral artwork inspired by ammonite fossils. This could be a drawing, painting or a model/sculpture. If you choose to make a model/sculpture, you could use play dough, cut up empty boxes/recycling materials or use anything from around your home such as fabric, lego, bricks, stones etc. to make it.
Derbyshire School Games are sending out weekly resources to support your PE home learning. This week the theme is Netball. You can access the resources below.
Here are some of the fabulous things you have been up to this week. Well done and have a great week everyone. Love and hugs, Mrs Beesley and Miss Zahra xxx
Week commencing: 4/5/2020
Good Morning Everyone! I would like to say a huge thank you to all of you who starred in the amazing video you made and to all of your fabulous parents for putting it all together. You can find the video on the home page. It was fantastic to see so many smiling, happy faces - I've watched it lots and lots of times and it always makes me smile. Thank you!
I hope you have all had a great week. Thank you for continuing to send pictures of your learning. You always knock my socks off! I am so lucky to have the best class of children in the school and I am very proud of you all and the super work you have all been doing! You need to give yourselves a huge round of applause. Keep it up, you're all doing a great job!
Maths:
This weeks focus is place value to 100.
I know lots of you have been practising your counting to 100. Please continue to do this and remember to count backwards as well.
Please complete the following two tasks during the week.
- Education City - My City 4.5.20
- Play Mrs Cow's Milk - counting forwards to 100 in 1s
- Play Cow Countdown - counting backwards from 100 in 1s
- Partitioning numbers - split the numbers 56, 28, 63, 71, 85, 94, 32 and 49 into 10s and 1s as shown in the video below.
There is also a lovely game which can be found at the link below. You have to choose the correct number to match the representation in 10s and 1s.
https://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/index.html
Our calculation policy, which shows how we teach aspects of maths and might help to support you at home, is available to read and can be found on the website under 'downloads' and 'policies'.
English:
Please complete the following two tasks during the week. Don't forget to read and share books, enjoy them and talk about them. Remember to use some of the homework activities from your reading diaries. Please keep practising your spellings, remember one list per week.
- Purple Mash - 2Do
- Play Sam and Pat play ball - selecting the correct 'joining' word to complete the sentence - make sure it makes sense! Can you write your own sentences using 'and', 'but' and 'so'?
- Don't Forget Dexter!
- Watch the video of the story below and then complete the following task:
- 'Box up' the story - write a few sentences to describe what happens at the beginning of the story, a few to say what happens in the middle and a few to say what happens at the end. Can you use these sentences to retell the story to a grown up, adding more detail?
Topic:
This week we will focus on VE (Victory in Europe) Day which will be celebrated on Friday 8th May. This year marks the 75th anniversary!
VE day is a day to remember the end of the second World War. It is a day to remember the bravery and suffering of those who lived during the war and to remember the courage of the soldiers who fought during the war.
The first VE day took place on May 8th 1945, the day after Germany surrendered after 6 years of war. At 3pm on May 8th 1945, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, made a speech to announce the end of the war.
On the first VE day, lots of people travelled to London for parades, dancing and fireworks. Lots of people wore red, white and blue, and waved flags. There were street parties all over the country.
Please complete the following task during the week:
- Choose at least one of the following:
- Imagine that you are going to hold a party to celebrate VE day. Make a list of things you would need. This could include food, decorations, invitations, what music you would play, what games you would play etc.
- Make some party food to celebrate VE day and have your own party.
- Make some bunting for a VE day party.
- Make a Union Jack flag to wave.
- Draw or paint a picture of fireworks!
- Design a poster for the 75th anniversary of VE day.
Art Venturers has some great ideas for you to help celebrate VE day including a free festival download pack with printables and child friendly ideas. There will also be free online sessions for children and activities on the day
https://www.artventurers.co.uk/the-big-neighbourhood-v-e-day-family-festival/
Derbyshire School Games are sending out weekly resources to support your PE home learning. This week the theme is football. You can access the resources below.
Here are some more sites that may help you with your home learning:
BBC Bitesize are including daily lessons for home schooling in Maths and English for every year group, as well as regular lessons in Science, History, Geography and more.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zjpqqp3/year-1-and-p2-lessons/1
The Literacy Trust has a range of really useful resources to support literacy learning in their free family zone section. These include writing prompts for stories, a range of online stories to listen to and watch and other recommended sites and apps.
https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/5-8/
For those of you that are Lego fans, there is a great 30 day Lego challenge calendar. This gives you a new challenge to invent, create and build something each day for 30 days.
https://thatbricklife.com/lego-challenge-30-days-of-play-calendar/
Derbyshire Music Hub have activities and resources that can be downloaded for free and done at home. They are accessible to anyone, regardless of musical ability.
https://www.derbyshiremusichub.org.uk/get-involved/music-at-home/infant/infant.aspx
Here are some of the fantastic photos you have sent this week. You are all amazing and are clearly working hard at home. A huge well done to everyone! Please keep them coming in xxx
To all my fabulous rabbits - if you haven't already, head over to the home page, there is a little video there from all of us to show how much we miss you all of you.
Stay safe. Love Mrs Beesley xxx
Week commencing: 27/4/2020
Hello Everyone! I hope you have all had a great week. Thank you for sending me pictures of your amazing learning, it's fantastic to see how busy you are! I am so impressed by all of the fabulous things you have been doing. You really are all superstars! I have included some of the pictures you have sent further down for you all to see. Please keep them coming in and keep up the good work!
Maths:
This weeks focus continues to be fractions - finding a quarter. The activities are very similar to last weeks, but just finding a quarter this time. It is always best to do this practically.
Please complete the following two tasks during the week.
- Find a quarter of a shape - draw and cut out shapes and then find a quarter by splitting it into four equal parts. You could also cut the shapes into quarters. If you have playdough, you could cut out playdough shapes and then cut them into quarters. It also would work with cakes, pizzas, pieces of bread or other food items! Some shapes can be split equally into four in more than one way, for example a rectangle - how many different ways can you find?
- Find a quarter of an amount - use any objects (any number that can equally be split into 4) and then find a quarter. You could use Lego bricks, teddy bears, dolls, cars, sweets, stones or any items you have in your home or garden.
English:
Please complete the following two tasks during the week. Don't forget to read and share books, enjoy them and talk about them
- Dinosaur fact file - create a dinosaur fact file of at least three dinosaurs. Include the following information:
- Name, length, height, weight, diet, when did it exist/become extinct? and a fascinating fact.
- you could draw a picture of the dinosaurs or find one online.
- Education City - My City 27.4.20 - Play Roots to Riches - adding un_ as a prefix to root words
Topic:
This week we will continue to focus on our Science topic which is The Human Body
Please complete the following task during the week:
- Draw a picture of your face and hands and label which parts are used for our five senses - see, hear, smell, taste, feel. You could use the amazing drawings you did last week, create new ones, or even use a photo of yourself.
- Become sensory explorers:
- Go on a listening expedition - listen carefully to the world around you, make a list of everything you can hear.
- Have a taste and smell exploration - Get an adult to blindfold you and try different foods - what do they taste like? Are they sweet or sour? What do they smell like? Can you guess what the food is by smelling and tasting it ? Write down those that you got right and those you got wrong.
Most importantly this week - have a lot of fun with your learning and stay safe!
I have also included a few more websites that you might find useful for additional activities. The STEM site is definitely worth checking out - the activities are a lot of fun and easy to resource.
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/school-closure-resources/
Oxford Owl have added more free ebooks to their site, including those to support phonics learning.
https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
All of the children's audio books are available for free while schools are closed.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/
White Rose maths is the scheme we follow in school. They have set up weekly lesson packs for you to access for free.
https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/free-home-learning-packs/
Classroom secrets are offering free home learning packs for you to download, these are refreshed weekly.
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/offer
I you haven't already registered to use Twinkl they have extended their free offer period while schools are still closed. There are a lot of resources you can access for free here, including lots for our dinosaur topic. You just need to register and enter the code CVDTWINKLHELPS
https://www.stem.org.uk/home-learning/primary
Starters for STEM are ten activities that you can use at home to help children develop their science, technology, engineering and maths skills. These activities are easy to resource and provide children with the stimulus to talk about the world around them.
If you have any queries about the above learning activities, you can contact me via email for support at:
Week commencing: 20/4/2020
Hello everyone and welcome back. I hope you all had a lovely Easter and that you haven't eaten too much chocolate! Lots of you have sent pictures of all the fabulous things you have been up to over the Easter period and I have included some of them further down the page. Huge congratulations to Alexandra who has become a big sister to a beautiful baby brother!
Well done to you all, you make me feel very proud! I really am missing you all.
We are starting a new 'topic' for this half term - Dinosaurs! So the next few weeks will have dinosaur related activities.
Maths:
This weeks focus is fractions - finding a half
Please complete the following two tasks during the week.
- Find a half of a shape - draw and cut out shapes and then find a half by drawing a line down the middle. Don't forget, the two halves need to be equal. You could also cut the shapes in half. If you have playdough, you could cut out playdough shapes and then cut them in half. It also would work with cakes, pizzas, pieces of bread or other food items!
- Find half of an amount - use any objects (an equal number up to 20) and then find a half. You could use Lego bricks, teddy bears, dolls, cars, sweets, stones or any items you have in your home or garden.
Remember that you can access Numbots for free through your TTRockstars login for further fun maths games.
English:
Please complete the following two tasks during the week. Don't forget to read and share books, enjoy them and talk about them
- Dinosaur description - find or draw a picture of a dinosaur of your choice and write a few sentences to describe it. What colour is it? what does its skin look like? Is it big or small? Is it scary or friendly? What about its face and teeth? Has it got long legs or a long neck? Describe as many parts of the dinosaur as you can. in as much detail as you can.
- Education City - My City 20.4.20 - Play Roots to Winning - adding _ing and _ed to root words
Remember, you can access phonics games at:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
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Topic:
This week we will focus on our Science topic which is The Human Body
Please complete the following task during the week:
- Draw a picture of yourself and label the following parts of your body:
- Head, neck, shoulder, arm, elbow, wrist, hand, body, leg, knee, ankle, foot
You could supersize this and draw around your whole body and label it or you could find a picture online to label if you like.
If you have any queries about the above learning activities, you can contact me via email for support at:
sbeesley@stanton.derbyshire.sch.uk
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, E-MAIL ME ANY PHOTOS OF YOU DOING ANY LEARNING ACTIVITIES, OR FUN THINGS WITH YOUR FAMILY. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THEM AND IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SHARE THEM WITH YOUR RABBIT FRIENDS. XXX
Here are some of the fabulous things you got up to over Easter. Well done everyone!
Week commencing: 6/4/2020
Hello everyone! Thank you so much for all of the wonderful work that you sent to me last week! I really enjoyed looking at what you’ve been up to and am so proud of the work that you’ve all been producing! I’m missing being in school with you all but am glad that you’re all keeping safe!
This week, I haven’t set the normal learning work as it is the “Easter holiday.” Instead, I have suggested some Easter and Spring activity ideas that you could do at home (these are optional tasks). Also, don’t forget to use the reading homework slips in your reading record to support the development of your reading skills!
The following activities are for the two weeks and I will post some more learning tasks the week commencing: 20/4/2020
Extreme reading challenge:
- Take a photo of you reading in an unusual place. If you email these to me, I can put them in a folder on the Rabbit Class page so that you can see each other’s unusual places.
- Write a short book review of your favourite book. Remember to include information such as title, author, what the story is about, what your favourite part is and why.
Craft:
- Decorate an egg and send me a photo.
- Make an Easter card
- Cut up an egg box and make a chicken. You can find an example at:
- or make a chick in a way you would like - you could sew one or make one from a pompom for example
- Make a sock puppet rabbit. You can find an example at: https://www.allkidsnetwork.com/crafts/easter/sock-puppet-bunny.asp
Topic:
- Read/watch the Easter story. You could use the following links or search online for your own:
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/religious-studies-ks1-the-christian-story-of-easter/zhgv47h
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/easter/easterstory.aspx
- Make stick puppets and retell the Easter story to someone in your family.
- Topic project – look around outside and use the internet to research signs of spring. In your own way, present what you saw and learned – this could be through a PowerPoint presentation, art work, make your own book and write a spring fact-file, a video news report etc.
If you have any queries about the above learning activities, you can contact me via email for support at:
sbeesley@stanton.derbyshire.sch.uk
Look at all the amazing things you have been up to in the last couple of weeks!
Well done to all of you who have been accessing your learning online and have been working hard. You are all amazing. It's also great to see so many of you learning new skills with your family like baking and art.
Your pictures have definitely been brightening my days - thank you for sharing them with me. Here is just a selection for you all.
Stay safe. Love Mrs Beesley x
Don't forget, I will be posting some activities that you might like to do over the Easter holiday period on Monday.
Week commencing: 30/3/2020
*Please note: Next Monday, we will be posting some activities that you might like to do over the Easter holiday period.
Maths:
This weeks focus continues to be multiplication and division, so don't forget to keep counting in 2s, 5s and 10s, as well as to 100 forwards and backwards. There's also an activity involving money, as children need to be able to recognise the value of coins.
Please complete the following two tasks during the week.
- Education City - My City 30.3.20 - multiplication and division
- Caring is sharing (learning screen)
- It would also be great if you could also practise sharing objects practically, for example between family members or toys. This should be focused on sharing groups of 2, 5 and 10
- Money
- Use the coins you have at home (real or play) and talk about the value of each coin. If you are using real coins you might want to give them a wash first. Set up a 'shop' and price objects that children can buy and sell. Don't try to make it complicated, price things to match one coin e.g. 20p, 5p, 2p, 50p etc. The children loved playing in the toy shop role play area, so just have a lot of fun with it.
Remember that you can access Numbots for free through your TTRockstars login for further fun maths games.
English:
Please complete the following two tasks during the week. Don't forget to read and share books, enjoy them and talk about them
- Write a short story based on the picture found at: https://www.onceuponapicture.co.uk/portfolio_page/signals/
- Who is the robot? Why is he there? What is he doing? Where is he going? Why is he going there? Is he going to save someone? Why? What happened to them?
- OR Write a short story about anything you like!
- Please e-mail photos of your stories, I would love to see them!
- Education City - My City 30.3.20 - Play Roots to Prizes- adding _er and _est to root words
Remember, you can access phonics games at:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
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Topic:
This week we will focus on coding as part of the computing curriculum. There is a series of video tutorials you can watch to help, followed by a couple of activities/games. There is also a challenge (should you wish to accept it) for you to make your own simple game if you like. They are a lot of fun and I know you will enjoy them.
- Purple Mash - computing - 2code - 2code video tutorials
- Purple Mash - 2Dos - Chimp bubbles
- Purple Mash - 2Dos - Fun with Fish
- Purple Mash - 2Dos - Free code chimp - for the challenge of making your own game!
If you have any queries about the above learning activities, you can contact me via email for support at:
sbeesley@stanton.derbyshire.sch.uk
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, E-MAIL ME ANY PHOTOS OF YOU DOING ANY LEARNING ACTIVITIES, OR FUN THINGS WITH YOUR FAMILY. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THEM AND IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SHARE THEM WITH YOUR RABBIT FRIENDS. XXX
Don't forget to stay fit and healthy. As you probably know, Joe Wickes, the Body Coach, is offering free PE sessions on his You Tube channel. Another favourite is Cosmic Kids Yoga: https://www.cosmickids.com/
This is a site the children are used to as we have used it several times in school. It's a lot of fun, provides yoga sessions through story telling and is great for mental health as well as physical.
New work will be posted on the website by midday each Monday except during the official holidays. Please check the website for work updates and remember to use the websites below to access further learning.
Please use the spelling lists to continue to practise the year 1 spellings using the link:
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-52103-year-1-planit-spelling-overview-pack
Packs: Term 2B Overview (Spring term spellings), Term 3A overview and Term 3B overview (Summer term spellings).
One list per week.
Remember to use the targets sent home in the parents evening notes. These are essential skills that the children need to use and master by the end of the year. Please do these alongside the tasks set above!
We have prepared a list of useful websites that you can access from home with free membership during the time your child is off school.
Please use these as an extra learning resource as and when you need to:
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/year-1-school-closure-home-learning-resource-pack-t-e-2549910
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
username: march20
password: home
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
Make a record of books that you have read in the back of your reading record.
https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth
NumBots accessible through TT Rock Stars login
https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com
https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/ebooks/ebooks-emagazines-and-eaudiobooks.aspx
Week commencing: 23/3/2020
Maths:
Please complete the following two tasks during the week.
- Purple Mash activity - 2Dos - Repeated addition
- Use your socks to create arrays of the following : 2 x 3, 2 x 5, 2 x 6, 2 x 8, 2 x 10
English:
Please complete the following two tasks during the week.
- Purple Mash activity - 2Dos - Describing Toys - Describe your favourite soft toy or doll/action figure
- Education City - My City - Rabbits - Play Roots to Fortune - adding _s and _es to nouns
Topic:
- Look at some of the 'pop art' pictures created by the artist Andy Warhol - paint or draw a picture of your favourite soft toy or doll/action figure in this style.
- OR paint or draw a picture of your favourite soft toy or doll/action figure in a style of your choice
If you have any queries about the above learning activities, you can contact me via email for support at:
sbeesley@stanton.derbyshire.sch.uk
New work will be posted on the website by midday each Monday except during the official holidays. Please check the website for work updates and remember to use the websites below to access further learning.
Please use the spelling lists to continue to practise the year 1 spellings using the link:
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-52103-year-1-planit-spelling-overview-pack
Packs: Term 2B Overview (Spring term spellings), Term 3A overview and Term 3B overview (Summer term spellings).
One list per week.
Remember to use the targets sent home in the parents evening notes. These are essential skills that the children need to use and master by the end of the year. Please do these alongside the tasks set above!
We have prepared a list of useful websites that you can access from home with free membership during the time your child is off school.
Please use these as an extra learning resource as and when you need to:
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/year-1-school-closure-home-learning-resource-pack-t-e-2549910
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
username: march20
password: home
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
Make a record of books that you have read in the back of your reading record.
https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth
NumBots accessible through TT Rock Stars login
https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com
https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/ebooks/ebooks-emagazines-and-eaudiobooks.aspx
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning
https://classroomsecrets.co.uk
Rabbit Class
Spring 2 - Terrific Toys
As part of our topic learning about toys, we visited Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood. Here we took part in a workshop to identify which toys would have been played with by our grandparents, our parents and us. We also looked at and played with a variety of toys from the past while exploring the museum. One of our favourite parts was the chance to climb the chimney. We had a really memorable day and learned a lot about toys from the past.
Rabbit Class
Spring 1 - The Enchanted Forest
This half term we have been learning about plants. We held an outdoor topic day to enhance and consolidate our learning. It was great fun!
We looked for signs of Spring, measured trees, took bark rubbings and cleared our outdoor learning area ready for planting. We also made some grass seed heads.
Rabbit Class
Autumn 2 - The Enormous Crocodile
This half term, we have been learning about animals. As part of our topic, we examined animal 'poo' to discover which animals were herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. It was really interesting!
Rabbit Class
Autumn 1 - Wonderful Weather
We had great fun exploring ice. Our challenge was to find ways to release objects that were trapped in the ice. We found ways to warm the ice up to melt it and we were all successful!
As part of our science lessons, we explored a variety of materials. We sorted them in different ways, we described their properties and investigated metals and magnets. We also tested materials to see if they were waterproof so that we could mend Mrs Beesley's torn umbrella!
We learned a song about the weather and sang it as a two part round. Aren't we amazing!
We had fun creating weather collages and sun catchers
We worked together to make rain gauges to measure rainfall
Wind Streamers and Weather forecasts
We had fun exploring numbers
