Good morning, happy Friday!

Today's stars of the blog are a swan family that Leo and his family saw on the canal when they went on their bird spotting hunt the other day. They might even be the same family who my friend saw swimming down the River Wyre. Have you spotted and lovely birds recently? Have a look at the cute ducklings I saw the other day in the photos below!

Here are your activities to choose from today ...

Phonics

Practise building and blending your phonics whilst reading. Either use Phonicsplay, teach your monster to read, Oxford owl, you down books at home or by using these ebooks which are free to access goto this link https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/teacherlogin.aspx 

Log in as if you were a teacher and type in username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk then the password: Parents20!

Just like the Oxford Owl you can find the book band colour you are reading and choose those books. Once you have read all the books on your level challenge yourself to read books on the next level and even go back and enjoy looking through the books on the level below. Have fun! 

Reading and Responding

Please look at the plans I have sent you on email.

Reception - Please choose an activity from the ones around Handa’s Surpise.

Year 1- Watch part of a film called Something Fishy and then after doing the activities on your plan talk through the story of the film. Can you write a description or the story as if you are the little girl?

Year 2 - Listen to the story of the bird king, your challenge today is to write your own version of The Bird King! Replace the parakeet, toucan, macaw etc. with your choice of birds. Perhaps you could include some birds that you have researched earlier this week! 

Here are some other birds I have seen this week, they are ducklings, a special breed of ducks called Call Ducks.  Call ducks look very similar to other breeds of ducks only they are smaller with smaller bodies and bills. Call ducks are usually kept as pets and are a bantam breed of duck ...

Ducks

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love receiving the photos of your learning and hearing about the things you have been doing. Emily sent me a recount of her half term holiday which was two pages long and included some great green words (ambitious vocabulary) in it, it will be a good thing to keep to remind you of the things you did during lockdown Emily. Emily also sent me a video of herself stood in her paddling pool telling me the bird riddle she had created rather than sending me a photo of the riddle written down, it was fab!  Amber has sent me photos of her writing and she is making so much progress, I love reading her ideas and answers, well done Amber!

I was so impressed to hear of the new skills Leo has learnt whilst making these fantastic Top Trump bird cards. First of all he picked 10 birds and decided on 3 facts that he was going to find out about each one.  He then made a template together with his Mum on PowerPoint and he printed 10 cards off.  He then googled each bird and found an image of each.  His Mum showed him how to copy this into PowerPoint and he used his ruler to measure the size of the box on the template.  He made sure all the images were the right size and then printed them off, cut them out and stuck them on.  He then asked “Alexa” all of the facts and wrote them on to the cards. He found one of his football card boxes and decorated it.  His cards fit into it perfectly.  And after all that, he decided that he didn’t need his Power Ranger top trumps anymore, so he wrapped them up and gave them to Ben his little brother! Wow, what a great learner and kind boy you are Leo, I hope you are really proud of your cards and enjoy playing lots of games with them!

Bird Top Trumps

 

 

 

 

 

Next week's learning ...

Reception   Hoot Hoot! 

Learn about some of the different types of owls and some fascinating facts about them. Read the heart- warming story of Owl Babies by Martin Waddell and share information about your family too.

Year 1 - Mr Men

Discover the wonderful world of the Mr Men and their friends. Read the stories and create your own Mr or Miss characters to write stories about.

Year 2 - Oliver Jeffers

Enjoy some entertaining books from this award-winning author and illustrator. Have a go at writing your own story in a similar style.  We love Oliver Jeffers books do you remember  the books 'Lost and Found' and 'Up and Down' books that we read about the boy and the penguin that we enjoyed and did activities around in the Autumn Term? 

 

Maths

Reception your learning can be found on the white rose maths site - Day 5 - Snail and the Whale https://wrm-13b48.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Day-5-The-Snail-and-the-Whale.pdf there's a worm at the bottom of the garden and his name is Wiggly Woo ...

Year 1 and 2 - Maths challenges today on BBC Bitesize!

Maths Challenges

If you would like to do something different and challenge yourself search for 'White rose maths problem of the day' or goto this page https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/classroom-resources/problems/ you will find 20 daily maths problems with answers available to download and solve. 

 

Don’t forget to choose your own topic learning again today, what new things have you enjoyed learning bout this week? Leo and his family had an excellent idea of creating a time capsule, a box containing things that Leo has written and drawn this week relating to his life and things that are happening in the world right now. When their time capsule is finished they are going to bury the box and leave it for someone to find, dig up and open in the future. What a great idea to create a memories and real life records of history. 

Have a lovely weekend, I will talk to you again on Monday!

Mrs Kemp