Trotwood Virtual School
4 May 2020
Maths
What’s under my bed?
We are going to explore which shapes will make our bed stronger. So, the challenge is to make a bed for one of your toys.
Take a look and see if Mrs Harris is successful in making a bed which is sturdy enough for Twinkle? Click here to watch the video.
You could use junk modelling, building blocks, duplo or Lego or all of these.
Vocabulary: Base, wide, sturdy, position, place on top, beside
Click here for a guide to shapes you may find around you.
English
This week is all about fiction and information text. The story Mrs Harris is going to read to you today contains information about what lies beneath your bed as well as a story.
Have a listen to this the story here and practise those excellent listening skills you have.
Once you have had a listen to the story try this activity.
Categorise your toys:
Make a collection of toys. You can sort them as you like. Why not have a go at sorting them by their initial sounds. for example put all the toys that start with ‘b’ in one pile and so on..
Trotwood Virtual School
5 May 2020
Maths
Maths with Mrs Jamois today is all about arranging ants in an ant colony.
She has added chambers in the shape of a square, oblong, octagon, circle and triangle. Click here to watch the video.
Can you organise a group of 14 ants into different shaped pods?
English
Today we are going to explore ants. here is a poster all about ants and here is one about ant colonies.
We are going to find out some amazing facts about ants from Mrs Jamois who has been studying them. Click here to watch the video.
Have a go at drawing an ant really big and then really small. What does your ant colony look like?
Please do send in you drawings.
If you would like to continue with your seed diary here are some tips from Mrs Jamois to get you started.
Trotwood Virtual School
6 May 2020
Maths
Making a stable tower using things from around the home, or if you have blocks you can use them.
Click here to watch the video.
Use questions such as;
- Tell me about…?
- What makes that object a good choice for building a tower?
English
Today you will explore dinosaurs like never before. Have the best adventure yet.
Click here to watch the video.
Have a go at making your own museum. Don’t forget your open and closed sign. We’d love to be shown around your museums.
Trotwood Virtual School
7 May 2020
Maths
Enclosures
Think about how a farm is made of many enclosures. You have one large space and then the farmer has to break up the space into smaller enclosures for the animals.
Click here to watch the video.
Mrs Ahad has a shape song and a challenge for you in this clip here
English
Secret cave.
Could you make a cave and then tell your families a story? you could then mark make your story and decorate your cave.
In this here clip Miss Gordon is going to take you way back in time…
Now it’s your turn to tell a story about your family.
Have fun
Contact
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Today's English
Today's Maths
Song of the week
Mrs Ahad has been having fun making up a great song about digging. What will she find in the soil?
Click here to watch the video.
Art & Music
Art
During prehistoric times people would decorate their cave using different sorts of materials.
During art this week Miss Gordon has a great activity using hands.
Here is some handy art work to get everyone at home involved in.
Music
We have ‘An Incy Wincy Spider’ for our sing along this week here. There is an amazing activity I’ve added on at the end of the lesson for us to compose our own music!
Understanding the world
Mrs Lambert is going to become a scientist today and explore volcanoes. She will be using lemons. Yes, I said lemons.
Give this amazing experiment here a go.
Here is Mrs Ahad exploring the way volcanoes are made.
Active
For your active lessons this week, we have Yoga with Ms Fraser and dance with Delene
.
Ms Fraser is going to teach yoga using a night time story.
We can’t wait to give this a go before bedtime. Relax and enjoy here.
Click here for this week’s dance lesson with Delene.
French
French rhyme time with Mrs Jamois.
Join Mrs Jamois for
- The Bonjour song
- Frere Jacques
- L’arigne gypsie
and learn our new insect song about a ladybird,
- Une petite coccinelle
Click here to watch the video.
Wellbeing
Mrs Harris’ hands. This week we are going to talk about how we can use our hands to help ourselves and others.
We will the discuss how we can collect some memories and talk about our feeling with everyone at home.
Have fun taking some time out to sit and talk together.
Click here to watch the video.
We look forward to seeing your posters of helping hands and happy hands.
Enjoy! Oh, and remember to listen to each other.
Here is a great story about two friends that find a way to stay in touch.