Class 1 Blog

We hope you have had a wonderful Easter and some lovely days.

We are all ready and excited for our new term and our new theme, we hope you will be too!

We have put together lots of ideas and our plan for the next few weeks. Maths and English activities will be updated daily and activities for other subjects such as Science, Music and Art will be updated on different days through the week. If you have any of your own ideas please feel free to do these too!

NFU Online have some practical workshops you can take part in as well as some great resources available.

https://web.nfuonline.com/HtmlEmails/257570fe-6d32-4fc4-8cf7-8abf5db8b347.html

I know some of you have been doing some growing and planting in your garden already, if not it would be great if you can get your hands on some seeds next time you are at the shops!

Looking for something interesting to do during the Easter holidays? Why not have a look at the Active East Riding web offer? It has lots of ideas for children and adults – discover things you can do, learn from, and take part in whilst at home.

Activities

Ready for the Easter weekend, why not have a look on the website or download the app for make time to play! Lots of fun play ideas for at home.

Alfie helped me read one of his favourite stories today. I think you will like it, it’s very funny and a bit silly!

Why don’t you have a go at writing your own version of Old MacDonald. You could use new animals that he could see or he could hear something like in this story. Be as fun and imaginative as you want!

If you don’t want to write a new one, you could have a go at changing the ending to this one, who did Parp at the end…

I have been enjoying writing some poems so I thought you might like to have a go. Write the letters of your name down the side of the page and think of a word to describe yourself beginning with that letter. I did one for Alfie,

You could even try and write one for different members of your family or your friends!

Your poems are amazing! I have really enjoyed reading them, they are fab and describe you all brilliantly!

Maths: Number of the day.

Why not have a go at making a number of the day poster like the one below and each day complete the questions with a new number!

Word Ladders

Have a go at a word ladder. Start with a 4 letter word change 1 letter in that word and write it underneath, change another letter to create a new word and so on, see how far you can get!

The Gruffalo

Hairy Maclary From Donaldson’s Dairy

Room on the Broom

HippoBOTTYmus, Read with Alfie

Well done everybody, you survived another week with lots of fun learning going on!

Here are some highlights of the week….

Some obstacle course videos:

https://vimeo.com/403646199

During the the holidays I will post occasionally with new ideas of activities but absolutely no pressure to complete these, only if you want to! Keep reading as much as you can and Mrs Atkinson and I have set some more 2do’s on Purple mash, some of them with an Easter theme!

Here are some links to some Easter related activities and booklets,

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/festivals-and-cultural-celebrations/easter/easter-numeracy

I have put these on as photographs so if you are unable to print you might be able to colour them /complete them on the computer or on a tablet.

MATERIALS:

• Peanut butter (or homemade glue – see below)
• Bird seed (or and seeds or leftover scraps)
• Toilet paper rolls
• String or twine

DIRECTIONS

1. Spread the outside of the toilet paper roll with peanut butter (or home made glue).
2. Roll the covered toilet paper roll in the bird seed until covered.
3. Thread a piece of twine or string through the toilet paper roll and knot.
4. Hang where birds can enjoy.

Kitchen utensil bubble wands

Go through a kitchen drawer and collect slotted spoons, fly swatters, spatulas, and anything else that has holes to make bubbles. Make your own bubble solution and then head out to see which utensil creates the best bubbles.

Well done everyone for completing today’s challenge, another great effort from you all and I loved seeing what was on your wish list!

Last challenge of the week! Today I want you to think about what you are missing and what you would love to do when all this is over. Write 10 things you ate looking forward to doing when we can all get out again and see each other.

If you want to you could cut these out, fold them up and pop them in a jar or a pot then when this is over you can pick them out one at a time and do what it says!

Some extra activities

Here a few more ideas and activities if you want to have a go!

Saw this which could be fun!

This is quite a good website with fun maths ideas and activities, free to register!

We had a great day in school and have been very busy!

An important message for you all

Dear Mums,
Please remember one thing on your list of 400 today..
You are not a teacher. You are a parent.
You’re not home schooling, you’re ‘crisis’ schooling.
You cannot possibly become a skilled professional overnight and do it whilst the world around you crumbles and grinds to a halt.
Your job is to continue some sort of a ‘fun’ learning structure, with love.
Patience above anything.
That’s your goal every day.
To not feel so strangled by the pressure, that you transfer it over in the form of ‘yes you can do this you’re not listening’….
This is hard.
I mean, it’s really hard.
If you get through this with nothing achieved or ‘taught’ but you kept everyone safe and calm…
You are a warrior.
The kids will learn when they are back in school.
From you, right now, they will learn that they are loved and that their Mummy is a legend.
She held it together.
That’s enough.
It’s so very much enough.
When her hard times come, she will look back, straighten her crown and remember whose daughter she is.
Or he will remember whose son he is.
And that, is pretty amazing work, if you ask me.
You’ve got this.
We’ve got this.
Stay strong. Stay safe. Stay home.
X

This maths practice and learning book is currently free for the downloadable kindle version….

Challenge time!

Amazing work on today’s Challenge, huge well done to you all. Some super maths work has been done today ???

Today’s challenge is Maths! You have to write as many number sentences as you can to make 46! They can be add + subtract – and times x and you could even try putting more than 2 numbers in the number sentence e.g. 20+11+6+9=46

Try and challenge yourself!

Scavenger hunts!

Here are some fun ideas for some scavenger hunts.

Absolutely fantastic responses to today’s challenge! You have created and completed some fantastic obstacle courses and shown some great skills. Well done all of you, superstars!

Another day….another challenge!

Today’s challenge is to create an obstacle course in the garden. Think about things to climb over, crawl under, balance on, jump from, throw balls into. Have fun making it then completing it!

Here is an extra Maths challenge you can try

Story time! Monkey Puzzle

https://vimeo.com/402674341

Hull Streetlife Museum may be closed but you can still explore more than 200 years of transport history from the comfort of your own home. Enjoy a free virtual tour of the museum by visiting :

https://bit.ly/StreetlifeMuseumVirtualTour

Challenge 2-

I absolutely loved all of your postcards you have been writing from all over the world, Devon, Africa, Ibiza, America, absolutely fantastic writing being done!

Today’s challenge is to write a postcard from your dream holiday destination! Think about where you would love to go on holiday, it could be anywhere in the world. What would you do there? What is the weather like? Who would you go with? Maybe research the destination to find out more about it. Draw a picture and write a postcard giving lots of information about your holiday!

This is where my holiday would be to….