11.6.20 Starlings Class Blog

Date: 11th Jun 2020 @ 7:57am

Hello Starlings

Happy Thursday! It is nearly the weekend again already. I hope you are all well and had a productive day of home learning yesterday.

As always, please continue to follow our attached timetable today.

I have listed below some ideas of activities for you to complete at home today.  I hope you enjoy them. I have repeated one of our activities from yesterday as I felt that you may need a little bit more time to complete it.  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. It would be lovely if you could all drop it and say ‘hello’.

 

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

Activity 3

Can you create your own colourful snail shell? I have attached a blank snail template which you could use, or you could draw and colour your own.

 

PSHE

Playing together but apart

In today’s lesson, we will be adding another important item into our time capsule. We will take the challenge of not being able to play some of our favourite playground games and create new ones or adapt the existing ones. The key will be that they will be safe and ensure a safe distance is maintained. Isn’t it interesting to think how future generations may view this?

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/playing-together-but-apart/activities/2

Worship

 

The Oak Academy  are back with another assembly, thinking all about movement. We’re joined by Olympic Bronze medallist, three times World Champion and six times European Champion gymnast Beth Tweddle who will be sharing her journey into professional sport. Artist researcher Stacie Lee Bennett-Worth has put together an incredible dance class, designed to get us all feeling great through moving. This is extra exciting because we have the Beth Tweddle gymnastics school helping us to become fantastic gymnasts too each Tuesday.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/assemblies

 

Story Time

I wonder which adult will be reading our story of the day today?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEB5oavzP_U&feature=youtu.be  - Oi Cat!

 

Today’s story was written by Jim Field. He also wrote one of the stories that we focused all of our writing on earlier this year. Can you remember which other story he wrote?

As you listen to the story, have a little think about the authors style of writing. Does the story remind you of ‘The Lion Inside’ or is it totally different? Perhaps working along side a different author makes his writing style differ?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5h7VQfaGQo&feature=youtu.be – Dogs don’t do Ballet

 

Have a fantastic 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. Fingers crossed we can have a little chat on our class discussion today, see you there.

 

Love Miss Gillam

 

 

 

Message from Mrs Powell

What would you like to be when they grow up?  Many people have dreams about the future and that is good. Have a look at the following video: https://youtu.be/ECP87EFic48

 

The video below tells the story of Joseph, a famous dreamer from the Bible. When Pharaoh put him in prison, Joseph dreamt of being let out, but it wasn’t until Pharaoh had some dreams of his own that Joseph was called upon to help and secured his own release from prison.

 

It is good to dream of being happy when we are older: happiness is vital! However, Jesus pointed out something important about happiness.

Jesus said that people would be happy if  they did the following
- care about other people
- always try to be fair and just
- are kind and show mercy
- work to make peace

Dear God,
Please help us to work hard to achieve our ambitions and to become what we want to be.
Whatever we do or however we live our life, help us to remember the needs of others.
Help us to care about other people, to be fair and just,
To be kind and merciful and to make peace, wherever we are.
Amen.

 

Further activities you could have a go at… you could try making a dreamcatcher to catch your own dreams. There are some instructions available at: https://tinyurl.com/y7acpruh

Have you read the book The BFG by Roald Dahl? Why not try making a BFG dream jar? There are some instructions available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52xhSTjBea0

 

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