19.05.20

Date: 19th May 2020 @ 7:44am

Buenas Dias Swallows

How are you all? I hope that you are happy and smiley. Did anyone try any of the science activities based around aeroplanes? Let me know how you get on with these. If you follow this link, there are plenty of activities that will last you all week such as making papaer aeroplanes, learning about who Amy Johnson was, the job of a pilot and learning about what air traffic control peple have to do at the airport. Take a look:

https://www.funkidslive.com/learn/homeschool/aviation-mission/

It was lovely to hear that some of you watched our No Outsiders story "Odd Dog Out"  being read on youtube. Hopefully you received the activities that link with this by email yesterday? Today's No Outsiders story is "Dogs don’t do ballet" by Anna Kemp and Sara Ogilvie, we have this one in school you may have seen it? 

Today, the actual author reads the story for us, how special is that? I will attach the activites for you, there are lots to choose from. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7BoyAJOYcE

Whilst out walking or riding today you could ty this maths activiity: 

Using the numbers on a road sign what is the largest number you can make? You can use a range of operations (add, subtract, times or divide) and combination of numbers. Younger children could add the numbers, older children could add and multiply using different combination of numbers (so the sign that says "Audlum A529"  could become this calculation 5x2x9 or 52x9 or 5x29) 

Our Oak Academy lessons today are based on making inferecnes in reading which you are great at doing, more fractions in maths and even learning to say how you feel in Spanish! 

https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-2/#schedule

A message from Mrs Powell

Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before he began his work. Early one morning, he was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and found the vast beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in both directions.

Off in the distance, the old man noticed a small boy approaching. As the boy walked, he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that he was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea. The boy came closer still and the man called out, “Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?”

The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”

The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”

The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”

We all have the opportunity to help create positive change. You might not be able to change the entire world, but at least you can change a small part of it, for someone. Break the big challenge down into smaller pieces and then take those one at a time – like one starfish at a time. Remember you can achieve anything!

Have a super day Swallows. I am thinking about you all every day and remembering happy times that we had together in our classroom. I know that it has been ages and ages since we were all together and that makes me sad but knowing how safe and happy you all are at home is so important. Keep being brilliant my lovely Swallows.

Love from Mrs Rice and Mrs Elson xxx

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