Trotwood Virtual School
27 April 2020
Maths
Melonbot maths.
Becoming robots and giving directions.
Today it is your turn to become a robot or you could turn someone at home into a robot.
Robots need to be given directions by a person.
Your challenge is to get your robot from A to B. Try from the living room to the bedroom.
Here Mrs Harris is Mummy melonbot rescuing her child, melonbot.
You will have to use language such as:
- Take two steps forward,
- backwards,
- to the side,
- half a turn,
- turn left,
- a quater turn,
- turn right,
- in front,
- reach,
- up,
- down,
- behind,
- turn slightly,
- move forward six tiny steps.
English
Super potato to the rescue.
Mrs Harris is going to take you on an adventure with some super veg!
Click here to watch the video.
Now it’s your turn to make a super vegetable.
Design your own chararcter . You can use a real vegetable or make a vegetebale out of junk or even draw or paint your super vegetable.
You will be using these character this week to make up some great adventures.
If you have a printer here are some features you could cut out and add to your superhero, other wise you could copy them or draw your own designs on paper!
Trotwood Virtual School
28 April 2020
Daily Message
Tuesday is a day for a tune, as it is our day for singing.
Here is a great song to learn.
Once you have a quick look at this clip have a look at understanding the world to explore more about potatoes.
Today is all about tuning into your inner superhero with Miss Gordon or is it Miss G?
This week’s suggested timetable is here
Maths
Supertato needs to get fit so we need to set up a sport event for supertato and the other fruit and vegetables.
Meet Broclina, She is going to take on Supertato in a race.
Listen carefully to Miss Gordon as she commentates on the epic race of Broclina versus Supertato.
In her commentry Miss Gordon uses words such as over, under, behind, in front.
Click here to watch the video.
Now its your turn to have a go.
- Can you make up an obstacle course for the super Veg?
- Let’s hear your commentary on the race.
- Describe what the veg have to do using positional spatial and directional language and commentate on your race remember to describe what the characters have to do.
English
Today we will all become actors. Your challenge is to become supertato.
Here is Miss Gordon as you have never seen her before!
Your challenge:
- First you will need to make a costume.
- Now you have to become fit and strong enough to become a superhero.
- So you will need to make a quick fitness programme.
- Make a large poster of all the exercises your superhero will need to complete.
- To stay fit you will have to also think about what you need to eat to stay fit and well.
- Make a menu of the food supertato could eat today.
- Turn your family into superheros and go on a adventure together.
Trotwood Virtual School
29 April 2020
Maths
Making a junk model robot to compete in your own race.
You will need lots of different shaped boxes and a big imagination.
Here Mrs Ahad demonstrates how she has made her robot using lots of different shapes.
Now it’s your turn.
Can you make your robot?
We really need to see your robot so hurry and send then in!
Will you put the cube on the top off the oblong for the robot’s head?
Can the controls go on the back or the front of the robot’s body?
English
We hope you are excited today. We are going to try a new job. This could be the start of a new career.
Your task today is to become an author and narrator. We want you to make up your own small world story based on your super vegetable or super fruit.
In this video here Mrs Ahad is going to show you her story and then it’s your turn to have a go.
You may wish to tell your story to your adult and they can write it for you so you can then act it out together using your toys.
Trotwood Virtual School
30 April 2020
Maths
Curly Colin Caulifower needs the help of Mrs Lambert to find the Queen’s jewels. Yes, that’s right the Queen has lost her jewels and curly Colin cauliflower is here to save the day!
Listen carefully to all the clues as Colin goes under, over and on, to find the jewels.
Click here to watch the video.
English
Mrs Lambert needs your help to squence her story of Supertato. Click here to watch the video.
During this clip make sure you listen very carefully because when she has finshed it is your turn to retell the story in the correct sequence.
When telling the story remember to use words like first, then and finally.
Keep sending in those emails. They make our day!
Trotwood Virtual School
1 May 2020
Maths
In todays clip Mrs Jamois is going to help you learn about positional language using some great songs and actions. Click here to watch the video.
Grab one of your toys and join in.
English
Friday fun with Mrs Jamois.
Super carrot and cabbage head are off on an adventure.
Mrs jamois is going to show you how to use a story square. Click here to watch the video.
Once you have watched her it’s your turn to have a go. We can’t wait to see all your stories.
So get to work!
Contact
Please feel free to conctact us. We can not wait to hear about all your adventures at home.
Song of the week
One potato, two potato, three potato.
Here is Mrs Lambert with a great song and game.
She really wanted to share another song with you. Click here to watch the video.
It’s a great song to warm up.
Art & Music
Inspired by Quentin Blake, we’re drawing animals and lots of them.
Here is this week’s art lesson with Mr Yusuf. Follow along with the help sheet too!
Click here to watch the video.
Whilst drawing think about all the shapes you are making and how you’re connecting them together to make your animal.
Click here for a written introduction and instructions.
Understanding the world
Potato challenge.
We are exploring potatoes and their super power this week.
Here is a clip of Mrs Harris in the garden at school with Mrs Lambert. They explored the eco garden and found some potatoes!
We are going to do an experiment with a potato and find out the super power of the potato’s roots.
You will need a potato and an old box.
Click here to watch the video.
Now you have watched the video, place the potato in the box and now all we have to do is wait. In a few days we will come back and see if anything has happened to our potato.
Active
What a wonderful treat. This week we have the amazing Miss Fraser and the fantastic Delene join us to keep active.
Ms Fraser is going to show us how to complete a sun salutation. Click here to watch the video.
Dance with Delene: Click here to watch the video.
We hope you loved this as much as we did.
Please send on your pictures and videos so we can share them with Delene and Miss Fraser.
French
This week Mrs Jamois is going to teach you the words for some vegetables in French. She will also show you how to play a vocabulary game to try at home. But first let’s all say hello in French. Bonjour!
Click here to watch the video.
- Bonjour- Good day/ Hello
- Ca va?- How are you?
- Onion- onion
- pomme de terre- potato
- carotte- carrot
- choux- cabbage
Wellbeing
Kindness elf Sparkle has asked us to make we really look after our super vegetable.
What will we need to do to help look after our vegetables?
Mrs Harris has some ideas to help and a little poem. Click here to watch the video.
