Celebration of Success - Louie and Penny Pattinson

Louie has had an exceptionally busy week at home!

He has learned to tell the time, practised place value and the spelling of numbers.

Louie has also written a beautiful poem about the sunshine 

and a fantastic recipe for medicine, inspired by Mary Seacole!

With the help of his sister, he has also collected and observed tadpoles

and created an accurate life-cycle wheel for a frog. 

Louie and Penny even found some time to make dinner and bake!

Wow! I am very impressed, what great team work!

Well done Louie and Penny! 

Celebration of Success - Rosie Slack

Rosie has worked extremely hard to produce this wonderful and realistic 3D map of the world!

It is absolutely brilliant!

Rosie also labelled the continents and ordered them according to their size!

I am very impressed! Well done Rosie! 

Friday 27th March

MATHS PARTY @ 10am ONLINE

Children I would love you to visit the following website at 10am to join in with a live maths party!

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

1. Choose your year group

2. Watch the video

3. Answer the questions - good luck!

Don't forget to email me your results! helliott@st-catherines.cumbria.ac.uk

Literacy - Nelson Report

Children I am so pleased that you have thoroughly enjoyed learning about Nelson Mandela recently.

I am so impressed with the level of participation and interest you've all shown.

I would really love you to write a report about Nelson Mandela's life.

Perhaps you could start from when he was born in South Africa,

discuss how he became the first black president, to how he sadly died in 2013.

I know you have learned so many facts about his life and his journey - how many facts can you include in your report?

Extension: Try to include all the features we've looked at recently:

1. Headline

2. Paragraphs (Who, What, When, Where, Why, How)

3. Other people's opinions

4. Picture and caption

Challenge: Pretend you are Nelson, in prison, write a letter to a family member describing how you feel. Write about your determination and passion to create equality and fairness.

Extension: Choose a moment in Nelson's life and write a diary entry, detailing the events. Write about what is happening, who is there, how are you feeling, what will you do next...

Chester Zoo - Live Visit

From 10am Chester Zoo is doing a live stream and opening its 'virtual gates' to let you inside!

Click on the link below to access the line stream: 

https://www.chesterzoo.org

Timetable:
10:00 👉 Red pandas 🐼
11:00 👉 Rothschild's giraffes 🦒
12:00 👉 Asian elephants 🐘
13:00 👉 Butterflies 🦋
14:00 👉 Sun bears 🐻
14:30 👉 Sumatran tigers 🐅
14:45 👉 Humboldt penguins 🐧
16:00 👉 Aquarium* 🐠
 

Research the habitats of the following African animals.

What do they have in common? What is different?

Challenge: Design your own zoo!

Literacy - A Cloudy Lesson

Children please watch the short video clip below. 

It is about a cloud maker and his apprentice grandson.

They are busy trying to make clouds when it doesn't seem to go to plan!

As things continue to go wrong, the pair of them learn that good ideas come from happy accidents. 

Writing:

I would love you to retell the story and send it to me via email so I can read your wonderful work!

I challenge you to:

1. Give the characters names,

2. Describe the characters (using commas between adjectives in a list),

3. Describe the clouds they tried to make, 

4. Tell me how they are feeling when things don't go to plan,

5. Join two clauses using co-ordination/subordination (and, but, so, because, when, if, or)

Please check:

1. Capital letters (names, start of sentences)

2. Punctuation (can you include ? ! ...)

3. Read your work out-loud to check you haven't missed any words out!

Extension:

Can you add a suffix (-ment, -ly, -ness, -ful)

Can you use fronted adverbials (First, Next, After, Then)

Super Extension: Write your own story!

If you were a cloud maker...

-What shape clouds would you try to make,

-Who would you choose to help you,

-What would you do if thing's didn't go to plan?

Would you create something different? When? Where? How?

Geography - World Map

This year Class Two have become very familiar with continents and maps.

Have a go at creating a world map using the printable documents below.

1. Can you construct a world map without any help?

2. Check your map,

3. Draw your own flat world map,

4. Add the continent labels (can you spell them?).

Research:

1. The size of each continent: Can you order them smallest to largest?

2. Find out about 'The Ring of Fire': Can you create a fact-file?

https://mocomi.com/the-ring-of-fire/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFbKsAE-8Ek

Art:

Sketch an erupting volcano!

I want to see good use of colour, can you add texture too?

Arithmetic Papers

I know my Year Two children genuinely enjoy doing papers like this, so give them a good go!

Any tricky questions/queries please send me an email... PLEASE, let me know how you get on!

helliott@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk

Spring Cleaning!

We all know how much we dislike a mess in Class Two.... I'm sure it is the same at home.

There's always time for a good clean!

1. Tidy your bedroom - Books, Toys, Games,

2. Fold and put away ALL your clothes,

3. Check all rubbish is in the bin, collect any recycling,

4. Help hang out the washing/bring it in,

5. Sweep the floors,

6. Assist with making lunch/dinner.

Don't forget to check with Mums and Dads first!

1. Have a go!

2. Can you describe what is happening?

3. Try with different tissue - compare the results...

4. Send me a photo! helliott@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk

THURSDAY 26TH MARCH

I hope you are all having fun and staying safe at home! 

Countryside Activities at Home

Please visit this wonderful website to find several 'countryside' activities you can do AT HOME! 

https://www.countrysideclassroom.org.uk/resources?audiences=5-6

1. Select the appropriate age group

2. Use a subject/theme

3. Have fun and send me your photos please!

Phonics Practise

Use the login: march20 password:home

1. Select RESOURCES

2. Select PHASE 6 (Phase 5 can be used as a warm up but will be very easy for our children!)

There is a great game on plurals, and past tense endings.

The children are very familiar with both of these!

Also some printable resources available!

Audio Book Read by David Williams (Changed daily)

https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/?fbclid=IwAR3fWumM71ryq6w-eo6SpECpyvxZdsFILPBrSVaa0XBG6MGyjlKvOJZ6TTM

Shadow Creation

To make the most of this beautiful sunshine I would love you to have a go at recreating some shadows! Find a sunny spot, and sketch away..... 

Challenge: Order your shadow from shortest to tallest, can you draw YOUR SHADOW?

Please send photos to helliott@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk so I can display them here! 

WEDNESDAY 25TH MARCH

LINKS TO BRILLIANT MATHS WEBSITES

Year 1

Year 2

MUSIC HOME LEARNING

Mrs Richardson has uploaded  a unit of lessons to the Charanga website.

Year 1, your unit is called 'In the Groove'

Year 2, your unit is called 'Zoo Time'.

Please feel free to dip in and out of the lessons, above all have fun.

I can check in to see who has logged on and what you have been up to. On a weekly basis, I'll share the top superstars who have logged on and had fun. Please feel free to video or take photos of your learning, send them to srichardson@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk and I'll add them to the music page on this website to celebrate all the 'toe tapping' music happening at home. 

SCIENCE HOME LEARNING TASK 1- WEEK COMMENCING 23/03/2020

Year 1 : Plant a seed in a plant pot and consider all the conditions it needs in order to survive and grow - record in a weekly diary of how your plant grows, take its measurements, draw its changes and take lots of photos.

Year 2: Plant a seed in one plant pot, a bulb in another, consider all the conditions they need in order to survive and grow - record in a weekly diary how the plants grow, take their measurements, draw changes, compare similarities and differences between the two and take lots of photos. 

Please send your photos to srichardson@st-catherines.cumbria.sch.uk, so I can celebrate and share all your success'. Have fun planting 

Class Two are very excited to welcome back the year two children and welcome the new year one children. We are going to have a superb year.....