18.6.20 Starlings Class Blog - Thursday

Date: 18th Jun 2020 @ 7:08am

Hello Hello!

 

Starlings, I am starting to get excited. Can you believe that we are going to back in school together in just 5 sleep?! Here is a link to our lovely ‘Welcome back to Lostock’ video. I hope this video and the images below will help you to understand what it is going to be like coming back to school in our two Starling bubbles. As we have so many super Starlings, our class is being split into two smaller groups. Do you remember I showed you the Year One adults a few weeks ago?  Half of our class will work with Mrs Elson and I in Goldfinches classroom. The other Starlings bubble will be based in Robins classroom with Mrs Rice and Mrs Southern.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UUeSDIQIgU

 

When we return to the classroom we are going to make reference to a feelings scale throughout the day. The children will each have their own feelings scale which will be kept in their tray under their desk. The children will be asked to place a counter from their individual resource pack onto the number that represents how they are feeling. We hope that this will enable us as staff to reassure any children feeling anxious or worried throughout the day. I have attached a feelings scale to our blog today for if you would like to use one at home too. You may just ask your child to show you the number on their fingers or verbally tell you a number to 5 to avoid the need to print.   

My aim is to drip feed information each day to ease the transition back into the classroom on Tuesday afternoon.

 

What have you been learning at home this week? Have you been trying out any home learning activities or maybe you have been spending lots of time in the sunshine or jumping in puddles during the stormy weather? Trying to squeeze a little bit of learning in each day will really help, I know it’s getting tougher and tougher every day now!

 

This morning Mrs Brennan has read a story for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0JNLQntC0U

 

Maybe have a go at our English activity today about command sentences. Now is a time you’re allowed to be bossy! Command sentences tell us to do something. For example, get your coat or jog on the spot. Can you write some of your own command sentences and underline the bossy verb? You can find out more about them using this video to help.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zv98jhv

 

Maths

Earlier this week I asked you to time yourself writing numbers 0-20. Perhaps today you could try to beat your time? Make sure all of your numbers are facing the correct direction! To make this challenge more difficult, you could have a go at writing the numbers to twenty as words.

 

Science

In today’s Oak Academy lesson, we'll be learning about sound. We will be specifically looking at what sound is and how to make sounds. This lesson will include identifying different volumes of sound. Lastly, we will be conducting an experiment to see if the sounds outside our home are the same in the morning compared to the sounds at night time.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-is-sound-ccdde4/

 

Computing

Use the link below for to watch the Jessie and Friends videos about online safety. The videos are a good way to start a conversation about how to stay safe online. Remember to always supervise your children when they are using the internet. https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/jessie-and-friends-videos/

 

Science - Dancing Raisins Experiment

Have you been enjoying our science experiments at home? Here is a new one for you. Can you make raisins dance using only water and a plastic cup?

 

Let me know how you get on with your home learning today. Also, let me know if there is anything that you would like to learn about or any activities you would like to do, I’m here to help!

Have a great Thursday and don’t forget to share any photos or videos on Twitter!

Please remember to use our class discussion to chat to your friends, share jokes and ask me any questions today. We can even talk about coming back to school if it helps.

 

 

Miss Gillam x

Message from Mrs Powell:

Geordie Stewart

Geordie has been on countless adventures in his young life, in August ’18, he cycled 22,500 miles over 430 days through 4 continents.

Geordie decided to set his sights on this ambitious venture when he was 17 and had no climbing experience.

The Seven Summits consists of:
- South America: Aconcagua
- Africa: Kilimanjaro

- Europe: Elbrus
- North America: Denali
- Antarctica: Vinson Massif
- Australasia/Oceania: Carstensz Pyramid
- Asia: Everest

 

When discussing his adventures, he said that reading books about adventures and going on adventures are very different.  He challenges us to all make our own adventures and discover whether this is the same as you think. Have you read about somewhere or seen something you would like to do?  Remember Alex said at the beginning of the week that we all have our own challenges whether this is riding a bike or a maths question.  We all have our own Everest to climb and challenge us!

 

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