Monday 4th May 2020

Good morning Team Aitken.... what's in store today.....

Have a marvellous Monday!

This week practise spelling your high frequency words. Some of these are tricky and we can’t always Fred them so we practise spelling them with the letter names not the sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zQvdTQGPZ8

Maths:

Wake up your maths brains by reciting the days of the week forwards and backwards! Too easy? Recite the Months of the year forwards and backwards. Write them down to help you if you want to (or use a list).

We are going to finish off learning about measure for now with some estimation practice.

When we estimate, we make a good guess (adults might call it an informed or educated guess). We use the knowledge and skills that we have learnt to make a good guess, predict or estimate something we don’t know the exact answer to, without testing or calculating it yet. We have learnt to measure height, length and width previously at school and recently we have been learning about mass and capacity (so weight, volume etc). This is going to be a very practical lesson. You will need lots of items from around your house, a ruler or tape measure (to measure in standardised units of centimetres – cm) or non standard units to measure with (e.g. cubes, pasta, lego, crayons, hands and feet will do too!), and different sized containers.

In today’s Maths I would like you to estimate the measurements of various items, then check by actually measuring them with either standard or non standard units (as listed above);

Estimate the length of 3 items (table, book, box etc). then check if you're right, using something to measure (as mentioned above)!
Estimate the weight in of 3 things (e.g. favourite toy, an apple, a book, 4 biscuits), Adults will need to help with this if you are using a weighing scale and not a balance scale.
Estimate the capacity of 3 different containers, use 1 small container as the filler (how many of the small container will fill one, or more larger, containers up).

Watch this video for a demonstration https://vimeo.com/414478269 the password is Year1

Use items around the house to estimate. Label or make note of your estimates and the actual measurements once you have checked. I have attached a example table which you could use or replicate. Take pictures if you can and share them!

English and or Read, Write, Inc.

Mrs Smart's group

I was really impressed with your fantastic English writing last week! You guys have really understood how to use story mountains!

Today I’d like you to create a story mountain for the story of Bog Baby. You can use the Bog Baby powerpoint to help you plan below, or rewatch the video of Mrs Smart reading the story https://vimeo.com/411971046 Password is Year1

Here is an example of how your 5 boxes could follow the story as it progresses:

Opening Introduce your characters – the girl telling the story and her sister Chrissy. They go fishing by themselves.

Build – up They go into the bluebell wood. They tried to fish for a new but they caught a bog baby! They take him home with them.

Problem The bog baby is away from his environment and he grows more and more sick and sad until one day he hides under a shell and won’t come out.

Resolution Mum finds the girls and they tell her about the bog baby. She is not cross. She tells them he is a wild thing and doesn’t belong with them

Ending They all go to the bluebell wood to return bog baby to his natural home and when the girl is grown up her daughter finds the wood sees hundreds of bog babies.

Read Write Inc (some children have been having a go at the English task above instead which is great!!! Please also do the sounds practice to ensure they learn all of their sounds as well)

***PLEASE NOTE YouTube VIDEO TIMINGS BELOW FOR YOUR RWI GROUPS!***

Read Write Inc and Ruth Miskin Training are providing daily videos. Follow them on YouTube or look below.

PLEASE NOTE that these specific daily YouTube videos only last 24 hours. If you miss one, just look below to catch up. We will continue to post the daily sounds, spellings and sentences. Visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ

Miss Aitken’s group (Set 3) - 10.30am

Focus Speed sound is:

‘o-e’ as in “Phone home”

Follow the spellings on YouTube (link above, see timings) or complete the ones below:

Spellings (don’t forget your dots and dashes):

1) home 2) throne 3) alone

Write these sentences using the focus sounds

1) The king sits proudly on his throne.

2) Stay at home as much as you can. (at the moment, don’t write this bit)

Mrs Fetherston’s group (set 3) - 10.30am

Focus Speed sound is:

‘o-e’ as in “Phone home”

Follow the spellings on YouTube (link above, see timings) or complete the ones below:

Spellings (don’t forget your dots and dashes):

1) home 2) throne 3) alone

Write these sentences using the focus sounds

1) The king sits proudly on his throne.

2) Stay at home as much as you can. (at the moment, don’t write this bit)

Mrs Smith’s group (set 3) 10.30am

Focus Speed sound is:

‘o-e’ as in “Phone home”

Follow the spellings on YouTube (link above, see timings) or complete the ones below:

Spellings (don’t forget your dots and dashes):

1) home 2) throne 3) envelope

Write these sentences using the focus sounds

1) The king sits proudly on his throne all alone.

2) Stay at home as much as you can. Send a letter in an envelope. (at the moment, don’t write this bit)

Miss Tranham’s group (set 2) – 10am

Focus Speed sound is:

‘air’ as in “That’s not fair!.”

Follow the spellings on YouTube (link above, see timings) or complete the ones below:

Spellings (don’t forget your dots and dashes):

1) hair 2) fair 3) lair

Write these sentences using the focus sounds

1) The dragon sits in it’s lair.

2) That is not fair!

Helpful links for parents and carers https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out-more/parents/

Topic

I hope you have been having fun spotting different living things in your environment! You can continue to use the sheets as and when you happen to be outside so don’t feel like you have to get them done all at once!

Today I’d like you to have a go at doing an observational drawing in your book of a living thing that you have identified outside. Can you write a caption saying what it is and in which habitat (a place where plants or animals live) you found it eg in a pond, under a stone or log. Can you tell your grown up why they might live there? As an extra challenge you could add labels!

As an example this clip explains the living things that can be found in a pond and why they live in that habitat:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zfntsbk

To help you with your drawing, use this website as it lists all the different creatures with pictures you find in the wild that you might have spotted…

https://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife-explorer

If you fancy a challenge and are feeling scientific you can do more than one drawing! Perhaps you could do one of a plant, an insect and a bird that you have spotted?

Have fun!