Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
5.6.20 Starlings Class Blog - FRIDAY
Date: 5th Jun 2020 @ 9:02am
Good morning Starlings,
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I am totally blown away by your surprise birthday messages. I can’t tell you how much it means to me. Thank you!
I will be celebrating by having a special tea with my family in the garden this evening. Fingers crossed the rain disappears by then or it is going to be a very soggy one. It will be worth it to get to see my amazing big sister and brother-in-law though. I haven’t opened my presents yet… that will be my next job after posting this. HOORAY.
Please continue to follow our attached timetable today. I have also listed some additional activities that you might enjoy having a go at below. Enjoy!
Art/DT Lesson
- In our Oak Academy lesson for today we are going to be making a terrarium. A terrarium is like an aquarium, but for plants instead of fish. We will be making a simplified version of this terrarium, including items we may have readily available in our homes and gardens.
https://www.thenational.academy/year-1/foundation/to-build-a-terrarium-year-1-wk6-5
- There is also a lovely DT lesson on the BBC Bitesize website today. Follow the link below to learn the basics of product packaging design and production.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zk9xhbk
Computing – How Games Work?
Learn all about what goes into making a computer game and how algorithms work.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkxybdm
History
Look at some photos of when you were younger. What things have stayed the same? What things are different now? Now see if you can look at some photos of when your parents or grandparents were little. What things have stayed the same from then until now? What things are different?
Reading
Practise reading more words with your set 2 and set 3 sounds using the booklet attached below. Try to read at least two pages a day over the next few weeks. Don’t worry if you find these works tricky to read, practise makes perfect.
- Say the sounds you can see
- Say the sounds faster and listen – Can you hear a work?
- Say the word
- Check for meaning
Well done for asking working so hard, Mrs Southern and I are so proud of you all.
Lots of love
Miss Gillam
Message from Mrs Powell
Smile, it’s Summer
Scientists have discovered that colours can make us feel certain emotions:
- White makes us feel cold.
- Red makes us feel warm or angry.
- Blue makes us feel cool or peaceful.
- Orange makes us feel warm or happy.
- Green makes us feel calm and peaceful.
- Black makes us feel sad.
- Yellow makes us feel happy and full of laughter.
When the sun comes out, people often say that they feel happier. Whatever the weather is like, though, we can all make people feel happy by the way we look at them. An unknown poet said, ‘There are hundreds of languages around the world, but a smile speaks them all.’ In other words, even if we can’t speak someone’s language, we can still let them know that we care by ‘speaking’ to them with a smile.
Think about people who make you happy. Think about their faces. When you think about them, do they look sad, angry or happy? If they make us happy, they will probably be smiling in our thoughts.
How does it make you feel if someone looks angry? How does it make you feel when someone smiles at you?
Today, why not decide to smile at people so that you can bring sunshine to their lives and make them feel happy? Remember: ‘There are hundreds of languages around the world, but a smile speaks them all.’
Dear God,
Thank you for all the people who bring me happiness.
I think especially of… (pause for the children to fill in the names).
Please help me to bring happiness to others, too.
Thank you that I can create happiness by something as simple as a smile.
Amen.