Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
10.6.20 Starlings Class Blog - Wednesday
Date: 10th Jun 2020 @ 9:10am
Hello Starlings
Wow! Here we are at the middle of another week. I hope you are all being busy and doing the jobs that your adults are asking you to complete at home. I left school feeling incredibly proud of you all yesterday after speaking to lots of your parents on the phone throughout the day. Thank you so much for working so hard.
As always, please continue to follow our attached timetable today. The most important thing is that you try to do a little bit of Maths, Writing and Reading each day. This does not have to be a full hour of Oak Academy/BBC Bitesize lesson. Your writing activity for the day could be writing a letter to a friend using capital letters and full stops or making your own comic strip.
I have listed below some ideas of activities for you to complete at home today. I hope you enjoy them. Please remember to write a little message in our class discussion today. Our class discussion is a way for us to be together as a class when we can’t be together.
- Writing – Make your own comic strip. Watch the video linked below and create your own comic strip. Great fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufOXBuGhVWg
- Writing – POBBLE 365 is a wonderful website which provides children with a focus image each day. They then give story starters, sentence challenges, drawing challenges and ‘Sick Sentences’ which the children have to improve at home. This is a fantastic website for reluctant writers wanting to try something a little bit different.
The ‘Literacy Shed’ have many fantastic animation videos which can be used to encourage children to get writing. Today I have chosen a lesson all about bubbles. Please watch the animation video and listen to the sounds of the sea.
When it all seems blue, happiness may be close by… if you just look closely at your surroundings perhaps you will find it! Gabby is walking on the beach and finds a bottle of bubbles - when she blows it she gets transported into fantasy. She has fun riding on bubbles and meets people and things on her way.
Where could she go? Who could she meet? What will she do? Write your ideas down, maybe you could think of more than more idea?
- Maths – I have attached a fantastic interactive PowerPoint which focuses on being able to count, read and write numbers to 100. There are lots of problems for the children to solve included on this PowerPoint. You may choose to write things down or you might just like to solve each problem practically.
- Outdoor fun - snail hunting
Watch the video using the link https://offschool.org.uk/super-science/hunting-for-snails-observing-and-recording/. Use the PowerPoint ‘All about snails’ to find out more information about them. Then, go into your garden and search for snails. What can you find? How are they different?
Activity 1
After you have observed them, and looked closely at their details, please complete the ‘my snail booklet’.
Activity 2
Can you write an acrostic poem about snails? Try to use some adjectives to describe them e.g. slimy, hard shell
Story Time
I wonder which adult will be reading our story of the day today?
Have a wonderful day Starlings. Please remember that I don’t expect you to complete ALL of the activities that I set each day. I am trying to give you lots of options so that you can choose what you enjoy the most.
Love Miss Gillam
Message from Mrs Powell
Some of you are returning to school but we need to remember lockdown is hard for everyone. Talk about their feelings to someone special at home and to try to understand that everyone is finding this time difficult in some way. Have a look at this video: https://youtu.be/-RXF5-29VGU
You may wish to use the following prayer.
Dear God,
During this time of lockdown,
Please help us to think about others and their needs.
Help us to be kind and helpful.
Help us to talk openly about our feelings
So that together, we can grow stronger and closer.
Amen.