Todays learning

Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 3:36pm

Well what a Friday for great learning! You have all been doing really well and I have seen some brilliant learning again today.  I love reading through all your blogs. 

Well done to those children who did their spellings, rememebr to practise any of those that you found a little bit tricky. 

I have added some photos of some of the learning today, there are a few purple mash tasks being completed but I would like to see more Penguins, do you think your can try and make sure you do them next week!?

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, I'm looking forward to spending some time in the garden this weekend and seeing what videos I can get ready for you next week!

Stay safe Penguins!

Nursery Home Learning 24th April

Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 8:23am

It's Friday, Penguins!

What a busy week we have all had. You are doing so well on IXL and Purple Mash. I love seeing all the things that you get up to on there.

Keep posting pictures on the blog too so I can see what you've been up to at home. Pippa has recycled some of her unwanted clothes to make dresses for her dolls! How creative!

Today’s home learning is:

IXL:
Maths - Reception – A4, B4 (counting shapes)
Please also complete activities on Purple Mash, mini Mash and PhonicsPlay.

Don't forget to take a look at Oxford Owl and use their free online stories to read with your grown-ups.

It is another sunny day here so let's have fun out in our gardens or on our daily walks and try to complete this challenge:

But first, Let's get moving with some physical counting.

Have a fantastic weekend Penguins!

Miss Altham

Penguin homelearning 24th April

Date: 23rd Apr 2020 @ 5:06pm

Good morning penguins. Happy Friday!

We are at the end of another brilliant week of homelearning. You are all doing so well and I am so so proud of you.

Can’t wait to see what you get up to today.

Maths

We are going to carry on with our learning from yesterday to make sure we really understand it as it's quite tricky!

Watch the word problem video again and then can you answer these word problems?

Challenge

Literacy

You have been working hard on learning your tricky words this week.  Well done, the video today is asking you to write the tricky words.  At the end you have the challenge of writing a sentence using one of those tricky words.

Challenge: can you add an adjective into your sentence?

Red group can you write 3 different sentences using different tricky words, make sure they have an adjective in each one and use the conjunction 'but'.

Please write your score on the spellings dicussion blog so I know how many you got right.

Phonics play – your choice! Choose one of the games you have enjoyed playing the most this week.

Don’t forget to upload your pictures on the blog so I can see what you have been doing.

Everyday reminders:

• Purple mash
• Oxford owl reading

Have  great day penguins. 

Nursery Home Learning 23rd April

Date: 23rd Apr 2020 @ 8:21am

Good morning my lovely Penguins,

It’s Thursday! I’m sure we will all be very busy today!

I am so impressed with all the wonderful things that you’ve been up to.
Some of you are even giving Puffins a run for their money with their spelling work

I have been busy this week trying to tidy up my whole house! I bet you are so helpful at home with your grownups, you are such good tidiers! What have you been able to help them with?

Today’s home learning is:

IXL:

Maths - Reception – E4, K4
Please also complete activities on Purple Mash, mini Mash and phonics play.

I have two challenges for you today!

1. Can you try and copy your name onto a piece of paper with your grown-up? Post a picture of your name on the school blog so I can see!
2.  

Have a great Thursday Penguins.

Miss Altham

Having fun!

Date: 22nd Apr 2020 @ 7:46pm

As well as seeing all your great home learning, I also love seeing what other fun things you are getting up to.  Emily shared this picture of what she had been up to in the garden.  I'd love to see what else you are all getting up too. 

We are having a busy week over here, I'm in school this week and Elsie and Arthur are busy with their home learning. 

Penguins 23rd April Homelearning

Date: 22nd Apr 2020 @ 6:43pm

Morning Penguins, 

How are you all today on this sunny morning? Hope you've all been having lots of fun in the sun.  You are smashing your homelearning this week so lets have another great day!  I have been busy filming some more videos for you, Arthur was the cameraman last night; he did a great job!

Maths

Recap how to add using the videos I have posted this week. 

Can you use your adding skills to answer these word problems?  Use the video to help you. 

Challenge: Can you answer this?

Literacy 

We are still looking at the story of the three little pigs so can you re watch or read the story. 

Today we are going to think about what happens at the end of the story.  

Can you write 2 sentences about what happens at the end of the story?  Check out the video for help.

Don't forget what a good sentence needs. 

Challenge: can you add an adjective into your sentence? 

Red group can you write 3 sentences, make sure they have an adjective in each one and use the 

Have a go at Space race today.  This is a little tricky so you might need a sound mat to help you. 

Every day reminders:

• spellings
• purple mash
• oxford owl reading

Have a great day penguins, can't wait to see your learning!

Penguin learning today

Date: 22nd Apr 2020 @ 3:40pm

Another day and another great day of learning! I am so porud of you penguins, keep it up!

Look at some of this amazing writing, you are smashing it penguins!

Great learning

Date: 21st Apr 2020 @ 9:04pm

Look at this brilliant video of our challenge yesterday; adding by counting on.  I love it, didnt he do well?

Rememeber you can add videos to your blogs too!

Nursery Home Learning 22nd April

Date: 21st Apr 2020 @ 3:44pm

Happy Wednesday my lovelies,

Just a quick reminder to make sure you are putting on suncream before spending time in the beautiful sunshine this week.

I’ve really enjoyed looking at all the different things that you've been up to at home this week, from making birdhouses to even looking at volcanos like some of the older children in school! Keep posting on the blog so I can see everything that you've been up to.

You have been doing some great work on IXL and Purple Mash:

Today’s home learning is:

IXL:
Maths - Reception – M1,K3
Please also complete activities on Purple Mash, mini Mash and phonics play.

Today's challenge is great fun!

Have a super day Penguins!

Miss Altham

Penguins home learning 22nd April

Date: 21st Apr 2020 @ 3:39pm

Good morning penguins, how are you all today?

Hope you all slept well and are ready for another day of learning, because you all seem to be enjoying my videos so much I have made some more for today. 

Maths

Recap how to add using the videos I have posted this week. 

Can you choose 2 numbers from 0-10 and add them together.  Your grown up could write these on little bits of paper for you to choose from.  Write them in a number sentence and then work the answer out.  Remember to challenge yourself with the method you use.  I will add a video as an example. Please do at least 5 sums more would be fab!

Challenge: You can use bigger numbers to make it more of a challenge. 

Can you now spend some time on IXL Year 1 addition and see if you can practise some of your addition skills.

Don't forget to blog your learning so I can see. 

Literacy

We are still looking at the story of the three little pigs so can you re watch or read the story. 

Today we are going to look at the house made of sticks. 

Can you write 2 sentences about the house made of sticks? Check out the video for help.

Don't forget what a good sentence needs. 

Challenge: can you add an adjective into your sentence? (purple group make sure you do this!)

Red group can you write 3 sentences, make sure they have an adjective in each one and use the conjunction 'and'.

Use your alphabet cards to help you. 

Don’t forget to upload your pictures on the blog so I can see what you have been doing.

Phonics play – lets do the flash card challenge today.  How many sounds can you read in the time given?  Can you blog your answers to let me know! Remember to work on Phase 3 unless you know them all, if you do try phase 4!

Remember spellings are on your blogs to practise for Friday. 

Don’t forget about your purple mash activities this week too.

Oxford Owl

Remember to spend sometime reading today.  Which books have you been reading?  Can you add them to your blog and let other Penguins know if they are good.  Remember to talk about the stories you are reading with your grown up.  Can you answer questions about the book you have read?  Which was your favourite part?  Where was the story set?  Would you like to be in this story? Why?

Penguin learning

Date: 21st Apr 2020 @ 3:13pm

Wow penguins what another day of amazing learning! You have really blown me away by the amount of blogs you have been posting with great writing and maths learning.  

I have had a chance to speak to more of you today whch has been lovely and really pleased to hear you are enjoying my videos, I will record another one tonight for you!

Below is some of the amazing learning.

Hope you have all had a really good day and managed to get out in the sunshine.  We have been making kites in school today which has been great fun!

Nursery Home Learning 21st April

Date: 21st Apr 2020 @ 8:34am

It's Tuesday Penguins!

I hope you're all ok and keeping safe at home.

I am so impressed at how many questions you're answering on IXL. Keep it up gang!

Special shoutout to Alfie who answered lots of Maths questions yesterday.

Make sure Penguains that you are still completing work on Mini Mash and Purple Mash. To save work in your trays, you need to click 'save' and then find your own tray. Don't forget to put your name on your work!

To take advantage of the online PhonicsPlay games, follow this link and use the free log in shown on the homepage.
https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Today’s home learning is:

IXL:
Maths - Reception – L3, N2
Please also complete activities on Purple Mash, mini Mash and phonics play.

To kickstart the day, here is a fun challenge for you all.

It would be great to see your pictures on the blog so don't forget to send them!

Have a lovely day Penguins

Miss Altham

Staying safe online

Date: 20th Apr 2020 @ 8:10pm

Hi Penguins, 

With all the time we are spending growing our brains online its important to remember how we stay safe online, remember just like Smartie the Penguin from the story we read.  

I have added a poster for your grown ups to read with you and also added the link to read the story of Smartie the Penguin so you can have another read with your grown up. 

Remember

Penguins homelearning 21st April

Date: 20th Apr 2020 @ 4:15pm

Good morning Penguins,

We had lots of great learning yesterday, lets see if we can have even more today.  Remember to blog your answers when you have done.  Also don't forget your spellings, which are on the discussion part of your blog when you log in. 

I am really pleased that you liked the videos I added yesterday.  We are going to use these videos again and see if we can challenge ourselves a bit! I know you love a challenge!

Maths

I have uploaded 3 videos of the different steps we use when we add 2 groups together.

If you could answer the questions using objects easily yesterday then try to answer the questions today using drawings.  Similary, if you could add them together using drawings easily challenge yourself by using a numberline today. 

If you could use the numberline today I have a new challenge for you!

Don't forget to take a picture of your answers or you could video your answers and upload them onto your blog! There where some great examples of this I posted yesterday!

Can you answer the following questions. 

So if you can use the number line to answer the above questions can you add the 2 numbers by counting on in your head using your fingers.  Have a look at the new video to help you. 

Can you now spend some time on IXL Year 1 addition and see if you can practise some of your addition skills.

Well done penguins. Can’t wait to see your blogs and answers!

Literacy

We are going to continue looking at the story of the three little pigs.  Have you had chance to listen to this story?

Today we are going to write 2 sentences about the 3 Little pigs, just like we did for the wolf.  Follow the steps in the video from yesterday and I have added another little video to remind you of a couple of things. 

Challenge: can you add an adjective into your sentence? (purple group make sure you do this!)

 You could draw or paint a picture of them too.

Don’t forget to upload your pictures on the blog so I can see what you have been doing.

Red group can you write 3 sentences, make sure they have an adjective in each one and can you use the conjunction 'and'.

I have added an alphabet card and tricky word card to help you.

Phonics play – time for Dragons Den today.  Remember most of you should be working on the Phase 3 sounds.  If you can do this easily challenge yourself with Phase 4!

Don’t forget about your purple mash activities this week too.

Oxford Owl

Remember to spend sometime reading today.  Which books have you been reading?  Can you add them to your blog and let other Penguins know if they are good.  Remember to talk about the stories you are reading with your grown up.  Can you answer questions about the book you have read?  Which was your favourite part?  Where was the story set?  Would you like to be in this story? Why?

Have a great day Penguins, I’ll check in later!

Let’s kick the day off with some counting in 5's. 

Today's learning

Date: 20th Apr 2020 @ 4:02pm

Wow penguins you have been busy today.  It has been so lovely to see lots of your learning today, quite a few of you are blogging the learning you have been doing which is fab!  Keep this up, I'd love to see a blog post from everybody by the end of the week please. 

We have also had some great purple mash learning today too. If I think you can make your learning even better I have added a little comment and asked you to redo. 

We are doing well on IXL as well although there are some children that haven't accessed this at all yet!  Oliver is currently leading with 379 questions answered, closely followed by Harriett at 372, Alex with 358 and Poppy with 341. Lets see who our top 3 are tomorrow!

I have been in school today which was lovely and have had chance to speak to some of the children and grown ups at home, I am looking forward to speaking to you all this week. 

I have added some great learning on from today below!  

Well done Penguins. 

Nursery Home Learning 20th April

Date: 20th Apr 2020 @ 8:46am

Good morning my little Penguins!

What a beautiful day it is so far. I am so happy that the blogs are working so that I can catch up on all the lovely things you've been doing. Keep posting on the school blog page so that I can see what you've been up to.

Eddie has been very busy with his brother. They have been having some sensory play and making robots!

I had a rather quiet weekend myself. I went for a bike ride and completed a jigsaw. I spent most of my time reading and gardening outside in the sunshine.
I baked some delicious flapjacks but I was so excited that I ate most of them before I got to take a picture to show you. Oops!

Yesterday, I (safely) picked up this big trunk from my grandma's garage. It's very dusty and old! What do you think is inside it? I wonder if you could draw and label a picture of what you think might be inside this trunk...

Today’s home learning is:
IXL:
Maths - Reception – P6, K2
Please also complete activities on Purple Mash and mini Mash.

Don't forget, here is your daily challenge:

Have a wonderful day Penguins!
Miss Altham

Penguins 20th April Homelearning

Date: 19th Apr 2020 @ 8:19pm

Good morning Penguins,

I hope you all had a lovely weekend and are ready for another week of homelearning.

We had a quiet weekend here, lots of chilling out and we watched some nice films snuggled up on the sofa.  We did still go out for our daily bike rides though which we all really look forward too now.

So this week I thought we would try something a little different. I am really missing teaching you all so I have made some videos (with a little helper) to help you learn some of the things we would be doing if we where in school this week.

Maths

I have uploaded 3 videos of the different steps we use when we add 2 groups together.

Can you watch all 3 videos and then see if you could answer the questions below using different objects or if you can by drawing circles?

Can you take a picture of your answers or you could video your answers and upload them onto your blog?

My red and purple groups (you know who your are) can you see if you can work the answers out using a number line please and then write the number sentence down.

Can you now spend some time on IXL Year 1 addition and see if you can practise some of your addition skills.

Well done penguins. Can’t wait to see your blogs and answers!

Literacy

Our topic for this term would have been traditional tales so I thought we would try writing some sentences about some of these stories.

Let’s have a look at the 3 little pigs.  If you have this story at home you could read it or there are lots of online versions on youtube.

In the video I have reminded you how we write our sentences. Can you watch the video and try and write 2 sentences about the big bad wolf?

Challenge: can you add an adjective into your sentence? (purple group make sure you do this!)

 You could draw or paint a picture of him too.

Don’t forget to upload your pictures on the blog so I can see what you have been doing.

Red group can you write 3 sentences, make sure they have an adjective in each one and can you use the conjunction 'and'.

I have added an alphabet card and tricky word card to help you.

Phonics play – let’s do tricky word trucks.  How quick can you read the tricky words in either Phase 2, 3 and 4.  Remember you should know all the phase 3 tricky words by now so keep practising!   Don’t forget to challenge your self if you know them all! 

Don’t forget about your purple mash activities this week too.

Oxford Owl

Remember to spend sometime reading today.  Which books have you been reading?  You could add them to your blog and let other Penguins know if they are good.

Have a great day Penguins, I’ll check in later!

Let’s kick the day off with some repeating patterns.

Penguin Class Home Learning 17.04.20

Date: 17th Apr 2020 @ 9:16am

Good morning Penguins, 

I can’t believe we are at the end of our first day back! Hope you have all had a good week and managed to find time to spend outside in the sun.  We had the paddling pool out yesterday and also got creative with our names to make door signs, which kept us all entertained for a while!

What have you been up to?  I can’t wait to see your blogs to see how busy you have all been.

Everyone should have their IXL log ins now so you can carry on getting through those questions. 

Remember:

 User name is your child's forename and surname (no space) followed by 352 e.g. johnsmith352

password - gates20

We’ve had so more fab contributions on purple mash but I think we could have a lot more, come on Penguins!

Today’s tasks will be as follows:

IXL:

Maths – Year 1 - subtraction – P.7, P.8, you’ll need a number line and cubes to help you work this out today. Your grown up will also need to help you to read out the number sentences.  Remember you can use objects around the house to help you work out the answers.

English – Year 1- consonant blends H. 8, short vowels – I.20

Phonics play – let’s see if we can grab a giggling grapheme today!  Most of you are on Phase 3, if you need a challenge try Phase 4.  If Phase 3 is a little bit tricky don't worry do Phase 2. 

Please also complete activities on:

Purple Mash

Mini Mash

Oxford Owl

Oxford Owl, the company that we use for our home reader books have made a number of books available online whilst schools are closed. Please follow the link below.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

Children can then chose which book band colour they are on using the ‘levels’ tab.

The click on ‘book band’.

You may need to sign up to the website to access some of the books.

This is a great opportunity for children to continue their reading journey with books that are age and topic appropriate.

Have a great day Penguins, I’ll check in later!

Let’s kick the day off with some repeating patterns.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=banana+banana+meatballs+youtube&docid=608019480134094187&mid=D0CC837625FE66E7D89ED0CC837625FE66E7D89E&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

Nursery Home Learning 17.04.20

Date: 17th Apr 2020 @ 9:01am

Good morning Nursery,

Happy Friday! I hope you’ve had a great week.
Guess what I will be doing this weekend?

I’ve heard about all the lovely things that Penguins have been up to in school and I had a great morning catching up with all of your grown ups. I’ll check in again in a couple weeks to see what you’ve all been up to.

For all those grown ups asking for more phonics activities, Oxford Owl have released a selection of free e-books for your child to read. This is a fantastic online resource that has books for a range of ages.

To access, click the following link and create a free log in:
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

I hope you find this useful!

Today’s home learning is:

IXL:

Maths - Reception – P6, C1

Please also complete activities on Purple Mash, mini Mash and phonics play.

To kickstart Friday, here’s another great challenge for everybody.
I will definitely be joining in this one.

Have a wonderful weekend Penguins.

Miss Altham

Penguin Class Home Learning 16.04.20

Date: 16th Apr 2020 @ 9:22am

Good morning Penguins,

How are you all today? It was lovely to see some of you using IXL again yesterday but I think we can get lots on today! Alex is smashing it with 1,514 questions answered, closely followed by Poppy with 1,103 and Jonh is nearly at the 1000 mark too! Come on Penguins we can do this. New IXL log ins are being sent home today so you will have a new log in, unfortunately it doesn’t carry over scores so I wonder who will have answered the most by the end of Friday.
We had a busy day here yesterday, we decided to do some colour mixing which Elsie and Arthur loved, although they still have green hands from the food colouring; whoops! Arthur thinks he looks like hulk though!

There has been some fab Purple Mash learning this week! I love how many of you have been out counting the cars, white cars definitely seem the most popular (just like mine!)

It has also been lovely to read about what some of you have been up to on your stories. Remember to try and write your sentences yourself!

Today’s tasks will be as follows:

IXL:

Maths – Year 1 - addition – M.9, M.14, you’ll need a number line and cubes to help
you work this out today. Your grown up will also need to help you to read out the
number sentences. Remember you can use objects around the house to help you
work out the answers.

English – Year 1- short vowels – I.24, I.25
 
Phonics play – let’s Picnic on pluto today, can you sort the real and nonsense
words.  Most of you are on Phase 3, if you need a challenge try Phase 4.  If Phase 3
is a little bit tricky don't worry do Phase 2. 
 
Please also complete activities on:

Purple Mash
Mini Mash
Don't forget to try and read every day, Oxford Owl have some great books broken down into levels that you can use.  Majority of Reception are on red, yellow or blue and work within phase 3 phonics. 

Have a great day Penguins, I’ll check in later!

Let’s kick the day off with some counting in 5’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh8YmvJuJ8A

Nursery Home Learning 16.04.20

Date: 16th Apr 2020 @ 8:44am

Penguin Class blog page

Title – Nursery Home Learning 16.04.20

Good morning Nursery!

You are doing so well and being so resiliant with your learning! I am really looking forward to seeing all the fun things you’ve been up to when the blogs are working again.

I have been very busy this week, I have been trying to get lots of jobs done at home but my cats are being very cheeky and jumping on my head whenever I sit down! I hope your pets don’t do this…

I went on a long walk in the sunshine yesterday and saw lots of people collecting rocks and little pebbles. I wonder if you could find any on your daily walk for today’s challenge.

Today’s home learning is:

IXL:

Maths - Reception – B4, E2

Please also complete activities on Purple Mash and mini Mash.

Don’t forget about today’s challenge:

Have a wonderful day everyone, I miss you all lots!

Miss Altham

Nursery Home Learning 15.04.20

Date: 15th Apr 2020 @ 4:50pm

Good morning everyone!

I hope you’ve all had lovely Easter with this fantastic weather. I had a chance to speak to some of your grown ups last week which was very nice. I’ll be catching up with more grown ups this week so don’t worry if you’ve not had a chance to speak to me yet. In the meantime, why don’t you show me what you’ve been up to by posting on the school blog?

My Easter was rather quiet, but I did eat a lot of chocolate eggs! I think I’ll have to go on long walks every day now.
I’ve been doing lots of gardening and I have some beautiful, colourful plants growing now. I will add some pictures to the blog once they get a bit bigger.

Today’s home learning is:

IXL:

Maths - Reception – N1, D1

Please also complete activities on Purple Mash and mini Mash.

To start off the day, why don’t you try today’s challenge?

Have a wonderful day everyone! I look forward to seeing what you’ve all been getting up to on the blog!

Miss Altham

Penguin Class Home Learning 15.04.20

Date: 15th Apr 2020 @ 4:24pm

Good morning Penguins,

I hope you have all had a lovely Easter and managed to have lots of fun in the sun. We have been really busy over here; baking, crafting, going on lots of bike rides and yet more baking!!

We were also really lucky to get a visit from the Easter bunny and enjoyed eating chocolate for breakfast as a special treat!

Don’t forget to add to your blogs to show me what you have been up to. I can’t wait to see! Remember you can comment on each other blogs to say hello and tell them how impressed you are with what they have been up to.

So many of you have still been using IXL over the Easter holidays which is amazing!
Well done Guys!

Today's tasks
IXL:
Maths – Year 1 - addition - M.10, M.12, you’ll need a number line and cubes to help
you work this out today.
English – Reception - consonants – E.3, Year 1 – short vowels – I.8
 
Phonics play – let’s try Rocket rescue today - can you sound out all the words. Most of you are on Phase 3, if you need a challenge try Phase 4.  If Phase 3 is a little bit tricky don't worry do Phase 2. 
 
Please also complete activities on:
Purple Mash
Mini Mash

Don't forget to try and read every day, Oxford Owl have some great books broken down into levels that you can use.  Majority of Reception are on red, yellow or blue and work within phase 3 phonics. 

Have a great day Penguins, I’ll check in later!
Let’s kick the day off with some counting in 2's!

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=jack+hartmann+counting+in+2s+5s+10s+wa
rm+up&docid=608037690832127308&mid=2FC782DC79B75AA6DD0A2FC782DC7
9B75AA6DD0A&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

A great week of learning

Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 6:26pm

Wow, what a week Penguins.

I have really enjoyed seeing all your great photos on the pupil blog and seeing all that super learning you've been doing on IXL and Purple Mash.

Dougie has had a fun-filled week doing lots of learning at home with his grown-ups and enjoying the sunshine.

Have a lovely week off next week and I can't wait to hear all about your Easter. Don't eat too much chocolate :)

Miss Altham

End of the day

Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 3:41pm

Well that brings our Friday to a close and what a fab day you have all had!  

We've had a lovely day, its been Elsie's birthday so we have spent time playing with new toys and eating lots of cake and we are just about to go on a bike ride on Elsie's new bike!

I am so impressed with your IXL learning, Wyatt you are this weeks winner with an amazing 891 questions answered, closely followed by Alex with 845.  Erin you have done amazing too with 771 questions answered. Some children are still to log on though so remember to give them a go!

The purple mash learning has been great again and there has been some lovely birthday pictures and sentences, so thank you penguins!

We have had a couple more blogs today of some busy learning but I'd like to see lots more.

Well done penguins on all your hard work this week, you have blown my socks off!