Monday 29th June Skylarks home learning

Date: 26th Jun 2020 @ 1:09pm

Good morning Skylarks class, I hope that you had a lovely weekend and managed to chill out and enjoy some family time.

This week’s blogs are going to be slightly different, rather than setting Maths and English work daily. You will do one of the subjects and alternate these daily, this is because as a school we have thought that it would be nice to do a project together that your siblings in different year groups could also access with you. Our project will be called ‘Save Our Seas’.

SAVE OUR SEAS Project

This week is a special week for us as we come together (virtually) as a whole school for our whole school topic SAVE OUR SEAS, the lessons will form as your afternoon project for this week so look at the word document attached too.

Each day there will be an ocean themed story or link this blog.

There is a sheet with lots of different resources which will form your timetable for this week. There are lots of activities and ideas for you to choose from on there to have a go at across the week.

Today- find out about the problems in our seas and oceans with Sir David Attenborough   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLx4fVsYdTI

Please have a read of the attached document First News pages 7 and 10.

Maths

I would like to give you a bit of a break from concentrating on decimals and percentages and we will come back to this in the following weeks. For today, I would like you to complete the following lesson which is based on learning the properties of shapes. In today’s lesson, you will learn how to identify, describe and classify shapes based on the properties: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-identify-describe-and-classify-shapes-based-on-the-properties

This morning Mrs Esling would like to read you a story called ‘The Invisible String’. To access this please click on the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlwgA17RaWw

Message from Mrs Powell:

This week we are celebrating our wonderful oceans.

The UK is surrounded by the sea, and our waters provide the habitat for over 44,000 different species of sea life, yet often our wonderful beaches are covered in litter.

Point out that scenes like these show us that all is not well in our oceans. Marine scientists have discovered that many plastics that find their way into the world’s oceans are toxic. This means that these plastics can damage the animals and even kill them. Another problem is that wildlife such as seabirds can get entangled in bits of plastic or even become stuck in plastic bottles.

Fortunately, scientists, marine conservation societies and the UK government agree that we need to do more to protect our seas and oceans, particularly where the use of plastic is concerned. They suggest that we can all take some action – even if it is something as simple as taking home our rubbish after a day at the beach.  We all need to do the following:
Invest in a reusable water bottle rather than relying on single-use ones.
Take a bag with you when you go to the shops, rather than paying for single-use plastic ones.
Look for alternatives to plastic containers.

Time for reflection

Many world faiths believe that we all have a responsibility to look after the world in which we live.

Christians believe that God made the world and wants us all to care for it: this is known as stewardship.

The Bible says, ‘The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it . . . for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters.’ Christians believe that this means that we have no right to abuse God’s creation. Instead, we should act responsibly, realizing that we are privileged to have such a wonderful place in which to live.

Prayer
Dear God,
Thank you for the beautiful world in which we live.
Thank you for the amazing variety of animals and plants.
Thank you for the sea and the beaches.
Please help us to think carefully about our responsibility in the world.
Please help us to care for the environment.
Please help us to think before we act.
Amen

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