Home learning- 23.3.20
Date: 22nd Mar 2020 @ 7:02pm
Hi everyone,
What a gorgeous weekend it was for the children, I hope you all managed to get plenty of sunshine in the safest way possible. This first week is going to be tough and it is important to look after one another and spent lots of time together as a family! It feels weird for me, the fact I cannot see all your lovely faces on a Monday morning. Remember those letters we wrote to one another in class need to be kept unti you really need them!
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart…I’ll always be with you.” A.A. Milne.
Here’s a little riddle to get you and your family talking; I will post one a day or a joke.
Riddle: When things go wrong, what can you always count on?
Please find attached a timetable for how you can structure your childs learning throughout the day. It is important that you make sure that you both (home educators and children) are in the right frame of mind for learning. As we are all going through a new experience, we are all here to support one another and it is important that if your child is struggling with anything that you tweet us.
Today, your child should follow the attached timetable for Monday.
Activities for the day:
- Complete active exercise for example: five a day, going for a walk with your family, yoga, https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups
- Complete unit 12: Decimals, lesson 1. The children will be looking at a new concept of adding and subtracting decimals. The children have already worked with adding and subtracting fractions with the same and different denominators. Explain to your children that fractions and decimals have a lot in common with each other (where whole numbers are broken into parts making them less than a whole number) e.g. 1/10 is the same as 0.1 (https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/7373-understand-the-value-of-a-digit-in-a-decimal-number/) Work through the first 3 pages of lesson 1 (do not worry if your child does not complete this in one session. Please find the starter picture to ask questions to get them thinking about demials in the links at the bottom of the blog.
- Complete a few games on TT rockstars https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school
- Your child can then have time to do something creative of their choice. For example:
Lego, drawing, crafting, music, cooking, baking, coding, painting.
Apps such as: book creator, quiver, tynker and imovie (all free) - Lunch time
- Quiet time after lunch to read, nap, complete a puzzle (ensure this is a time with no electronics).
- Complete project for History/Geography- For today, get your child to conduct some independent research finding out about how homes have changed over the years, dating back to the Stone Age. Your child can do this however they wish, here are some ideas of how they can present it: Complete a timeline on; publisher, draw your own timeline with drawings of the houses, print out pictures and make a timeline on your carpet. Get your child to think about how the homes have changed over time and to compare to make a list of the similarities and the differences. Here are some useful websites: https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the-evolution-of-housing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoCZnboThfk
- Complete your day by having fun, going outside and playing in the garden or going for another walk.
Please ensure that whenever your child is conducting research that is independent that you have checked that they are staying safe online, this is something they are very good at in school. Just mention to them if anything appears that they are uncomfortable with or feel distressed by that they need to alert an adult in the house.
Stay safe and look after each other.
Miss Thwaites