Good Morning,

What miserable weather we’re having now! I hope the sun comes back soon!

I’m really pleased that most, if not all of you have had your seeds. It was lovely to see the pictures of many of you planting them.

Thank you for sending me your music Gabbi, well done for making your instruments and working on rhythm and beat!

The TTR Battle is going well, Lara you really rose to the challenge yesterday. Your total points count for over half of the Year Two score and Year Two have now taken the lead! Can you claim your lead back Year One to be winning at the half way point?

Maths today is the third lesson on White Rose:

Year One you are working on Quarters again.

Year Two, you have Calculations with Length.

In English you are going to be doing lesson 3 of the learning you have done so far this week.

Year One – https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/english/instructions-to-use-the-conjunction-and-year-1-wk1-3

Year Two – https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/to-identify-the-key-features-of-instructions-year-2-wk1-3

Please could you all also spend some time on Reading Eggs today too.

My story recommendation today is The Fabulous Pie because, well, it’s about pie! You can find it here: The Fabulous Pie

Have a good day,

Mrs G.

Good Morning!

Well done to everyone who took part in the TTR battle yesterday. Jess, you’re storming it! Well done! Year One are winning, can they increase the lead or can you catch them up Year Two?

Thank you to Dom for my letter and picture, it was lovely to see. Serena, the handwriting you sent yesterday was also excellent!

Today your maths task is to complete lesson 2 from the White Rose, again following yesterday’s link. Year One, today you will be looking at finding quarters, and Year Two are ordering lengths.

English – you are going to be doing the second lesson from week one of the learning you started yesterday:

Year One – https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/english/instructions-to-commit-a-set-of-instructions-to-memory-year-1-wk1-2

Year Two – https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/the-firework-makers-daughter-to-find-the-meaning-of-words-year-2-wk1-2 

Please also keep practising your spellings. You can use these as a good opportunity to practise your handwriting.

Missing you all,

Mrs G.

Good Morning Haughmond,

I hope you all had a good weekend and enjoyed the nice weather.

This week we are going to continue to look at a few different ways of doing things.

For Maths you have the link for the Week 2 of maths on the White Rose website, remembering to only do one lesson a day please.

Year One you are starting the week looking at fractions, beginning with halves – https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/

Year Two, today you are going to be comparing lengths – https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

I have also set up another Battle for you in TTR. Year One against Year Two. Every week so far Year One have spent more time practising than Year Two, so can you beat them this week Year Two? Remember to keep practising the other parts of the website as well as just battling.

Year One I would like you to look at the phonics live lessons that Mrs Foster put a link to in our news page last week. Year Two, you can also have a go, but for most of you it will just be revision of what you already know.

Please could you all also use the link on that post to look at some of the reading books. You can do this alongside carrying on with Reading Eggs.

For the rest of your English this week, we are going to be using week one of the lessons on Oak National Academy. These will follow a sequence, so if you miss a day you will need to complete the previous day before moving on.

Year One: https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/english/sams-sandwich-year-1-wk1-1/ 

Year Two: https://www.thenational.academy/year-2/english/the-firework-makers-daughter-to-retrieve-information-year-2-wk1-1/

For your other activities, have a look at your activities grid and pick something from that to have a go at.

Keep up the good work!

Mrs G

Good Morning Haughmond,

We’ve made it to Friday!

Maths

It’s the last lesson of the week on the White Rose maths today. Friday will be challenge day and it is linked to the BBC Bitesize lessons. This means that if the link doesn’t work on White Rose, you will also be able to access Year One here and Year Two here.

English

Today you need to ask someone to test you on the spellings you’ve been practising over Easter. Your next ones will be put onto the website for you to start learning today.

You are going to be using Twinkl for your English lesson again, as they are doing another English lesson based on the seasons. Today’s story is ‘Brenda’s Boring Egg’ and has two sets of activities to accompany the lesson.

PSHE

Bitesize have also got another lesson I would like you to look at today. It is based on thinking about and understanding our emotions and I think it will be particularly useful at the moment when things in the world are feeling strange. The lesson is at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zmmgrj6

My next story recommendation is actually from my Ollie and is The Avocado Baby by John Burningham. You can find a video of it here: The Avocado Baby

Happy learning and enjoy the weekend,

Mrs G.

Good Morning!

We’ve had a lovely few days in Market Drayton, so been able to go for some nice walks and out on our bikes. I hope you are making the most of the weather too.

Maths

Well done to everyone working hard on TTR. I can see how well you are progressing and am really pleased! Remember to try and spend 15 – 20 minutes each day practising.

As with the other days this week, your Maths is on Monday’s link. Lesson four today please.

English

You’ve got today and tomorrow to make sure you’ve completed this week’s phonics lessons on Education City, before their time runs out. Try and complete them – 5 of you have already completed all those tasks – well done!

This year we’ve thought a lot about the seasons in Science. Today, on the Home Learning Hub, Twinkl are using a story called ‘Little Acorns’. I would like you to listen to the story and then complete the activities that go with it. I know you can write some brilliant poetry!

Today’s Audible recommendation is The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame.

Have a good day,

Mrs G.

Good Morning Haughmond!

Today, firstly remember to keep up with your daily tasks.

Sam, thank you for your picture of you and Indi. I can tell you spent an hour working on it, it’s really good!

I have changed the training on Times Tables Rockstars a little bit, so it will now do automatic training and take you through levels when it is sure you are completely secure with the previous one.

For the rest of your Maths learning today, it’s lesson 3 on the set I gave you on Monday.

For English, today will be your second lesson about the Magic Faraway Tree. Please remember when you are writing to try and get your handwriting spot on. If you need to practise your handwriting a bit more, try and find the link I gave you before the Easter holidays.

Your lessons today are at:

Year One: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zd372sg

Year Two: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpbbkqt/articles/zf6c47h

Happy Learning!

Mrs G.

Good Morning!

Wasn’t it a lovely day yesterday? Remember to try and get outside in the garden when the weather is nice and make the most of it. You never know when the rain might come again!

Thank you for sending your nature picture to me Gabbi, it’s fab! I will put a picture of it onto our News page so that everyone else can see it too.

Keep going with all your daily activities.

For Maths today I would like you to go back on the link I gave you yesterday and complete lesson 2.

Keep going with Times Tables Rockstars too. I was really pleased when I logged on yesterday morning and could see that people had already been practising. Remember that you can access Numbots too with the same login if you want to have a go at that.

For your English today and tomorrow we are going to be using the BBC Bitesize lessons. Both lessons will use The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton, one of my favourite childhood books, but the activities are a little bit different, depending whether you are Year One or Two.

Today’s lessons can be found at:

Year One – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7hc47h

Year Two – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpbbkqt/articles/z7b72sg

There are letters and sounds activities on Education City too.

For your other learning, remember to use the grid of activities.

Have a good day,

Mrs Gregory.

Good morning Haughmond,

I hope you all had a lovely Easter break with lots of chocolate and you were able to do some nice things with your families. At my house we’ve done lots of art activities and been camping in our garden! We’ve also done lots of jobs but my children haven’t found that very exciting!

How about starting your morning with Joe Wicks live P.E.? I will be joining in with my children to work off our Easter eggs!

Maths

Maths is going to be a little bit different this term. Each Monday I am going to give you a link to a week’s maths lessons that you can follow and complete the activities each day. All the weeks are on one page so you just need to check you’ve picked the week with that Monday’s date.

I know that not all of you are able to print out the activities, so you can just write the answers and your working out in your book. There are different lessons for Year One and Year Two:

Year One: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/

Year Two: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Times Tables Rockstars – This week I haven’t set a battle because I would like you to focus on the Garage, Studio and Soundcheck sections. Please could you do at least one of these activities each day and for at least 15 minutes.

English

Please continue with your daily tasks and practise your spellings and handwriting. If you can spell all the words off the weekly spellings, also remember to practice the list of words that you took home in your packs.

Reading Eggs/Reading Eggspress – For today I have set most of you a Storylands lesson on Reading Eggs to complete. Some of you will have a lesson on Reading Eggspress instead, as you have completed all the Storylands lessons. You know who you are!

The week’s letters and sounds is on Education City for you to work through.

For your other activities, I have put together a grid with nine different mini projects for you to work through which are linked to the different topics we would have been learning about if we were still in school. Remember, each of the activities should take more than one session and don’t feel you need to start them all at once. It is up to you how you organise yourself for it. I will put the document in another post as well so you can always find it easily.

Haughmond Home Learning Tasks

My audiobook recommendation for this week is for you to access Oliver Jeffers’ website and watch him reading some of his books. The videos can be found at https://www.oliverjeffers.com/abookaday

Take care, and keep staying safe. You are all doing amazingly and I am so proud of you.

Mrs G.