Year 1- Puffins: Blog items
Star of the Week- Puffin Class 05/06/20
Date: 4th Jun 2020 @ 8:16pm
A huge congratulations to our star this week, very well deserved! We are seeing such maturity Shane and your are giving all you do 100%. We are incredibly proud teachers today!
Puffin Class Home Learning 05.06.20
Date: 4th Jun 2020 @ 7:58pm
Hello Puffins,
It’s Friday! Hope you have had a great week so far and have something nice planned for the weekend. I am really looking forward to seeing the children who are returning on Monday and seeing lots of blogs from the other children.
Special Mentions
There's lots of phonics on the blog this week which always makes me smile. There are some super examples below. We have another letter being sent to the Queen which I am sure she will be very excited to receive. Oliver has worked hard on this rocket Purple Mash work this is demonstrating wonderful digital literacy skills (Mrs Jarrett will be proud as Computing Lead). Henri has made a delicious lollipop picture and Willow has created some fabulous BFG jars but I definitely won’t be eating those Willow!
Today’s learning
IXL:
Maths year 1- P.12, J.2, R.11
English- topics- phonics – year 1 M10, I.12, P.3 (without listening to it)
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Purple Mash
Discussions: Message for Mrs Bevin
Spellings- please add your spellings to the discussion.
Have a lovely Friday and weekend,
Mrs Lenagan and Mrs Bevin 😊
Puffin Class Home Learning 04.06.20
Date: 3rd Jun 2020 @ 10:53pm
Hello Puffins,
Happy Thursday lovelies. I had a very busy day working yesterday, so not much to report to you. I did find time to make some more online phonics videos for you all though. Well done to those who watched the split digraph i_e videos, I have spotted that there a lot more views… which means lots more learning!
Special Mentions
Well done to the first star below making smoothies after completing her phonics work. Another super star below has completed his Purple Mash and then decorated biscuits with his brother. Finally, a third star who has sent his letter to the Queen! I really hope she replies and you can blog whatever you receive.
Today’s learning
IXL:
Maths year 1- P.11, I.11, R.3
English- topics- phonics – year 1 O.1, J.7, L.2
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Purple Mash
Discussions: Message for Mrs Bevin
Spellings- see discussions. (test Friday)
Phonics Online Tutorial – Phase 5 split digraph ‘o_e’ reading focus.
Have a lovely Thursday,
Mrs Lenagan and Mrs Bevin 😊
Puffin Class Home Learing 03.06.20
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 10:06pm
Hello Puffins,
Happy Wednesday! We had an adventure in the woods yesterday and we pretended that we were on a bear hunt. I hope you had a lovely day too.
Special Mentions
Well done to Henri and Harrison for this fabulous phonics work they have sent in.
Well done to this Puffin superstar below. The Non-Stop challenge was most certainly accepted. He has left a message on the Pupil Blogs, “Thank you for the nomination Mrs Lenagan, I ran for 11 minutes around Moss Bank Park with my dad.....I nominate Jacob B, Elliot, Layton, Joseph, Jenson.”
This was lovely to see another member of our class recharging his batteries over half term and sharing his news on our Pupil Blogs.
Well done to everyone who is accessing iXL and working their socks off. You can see our statistics below.
iXL Leader board of questions answered
Harrison- 418
Casey- 365
Freddie- 306
Liam- 279
Joseph- 271
Keep up the fantastic work! 😊
Today’s learning
IXL:
Maths K.8, C.20, U.6
English- topics- phonics – year 1 K.1, L.1, P.2 (try to answer this one by just reading)
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Purple Mash
Discussions: Message for Mrs Bevin
Spellings- see discussions.
Phonics Online Tutorial – Phase 5 split digraph ‘i_e’ part 2 (only 1 view so far, so I’m keeping this one as the task for today).
Have a great day,
Mrs Lenagan and Mrs Bevin :)
Puffin Class Home Learing 02.06.20
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 9:12pm
Happy Tuesday Puffins!
Yesterday we baked some cakes and painted some rocks again. These are our favourite activities at the minute. What are yours? I love seeing your pictures on the blogs.
Special Mentions
A big well done to Harrison and Freddie for joining in with the online phonics sessions and creating some brilliant pictures to demonstrate their comprehension of the reading task. I am super impressed with your consistent commitment to your home learning. You are both little stars!
Another well done to Harrison for rising to the running challenge this week. He has nominated
Jacob B, Isabella M, Joseph, Kody, Henri to complete the Non-Stop Challenge. See how far you can run without stopping.
Today’s learning
IXL:
Maths year 1 H.9, V.6, W8.
English- topics- phonics – Year 2 G4, (this links to online phonics), S1 (try to do this without listening to the sentence as it will be good reading practise too), M2.
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Purple Mash
Discussions: Message for Mrs Bevin (thank you to those who have already done this- these are lovely to read!)
Spellings- in discussions section (these link to the online phonics)
Phonics Online Tutorial – Phase 5 split digraph ‘i_e’ (writing session today- reading yesterday if you need to catch up. There are only 3 views!)
Have a lovely day!
Mrs Lenagan and Mrs Bevin :)
Reminder - staying safe online.
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 1:04pm
Hi all, just a reminder that we need to stay safe online. When you are posting a picture of your letter to the Queen, please make sure you don't inlcude your home address in the photograph. Remember, we need to keep information like that private.
Miss Whalley
KS1 Writing Task - Letter to the Queen
Date: 31st May 2020 @ 8:43pm
Writing Task – w/c 1.6.20
This week’s task is a letter writing task, did you know that the Queen has two birthdays? Her real birthday is on 21st April, this year she was 94 years old! She also has an official celebration which takes place on the second Saturday of June each year, this year it falls on the 13th June. Fun Fact for you, this tradition of two birthdays was started 250 years ago by King George II, his real birthday was in November, however he wanted to celebrate with the public and November was not the best time of year to do it, as the UK is not known for its good weather.
We would like you to either write a letter or card to the Queen wishing her a Happy Birthday. It would be excellent if you could take pictures of this for the blog and then send it to the Queen at
Her Majesty The Queen
Buckingham Palace
London SW1A 1AA
Make sure you include your home address as you never know you might receive a reply! However it might be better to add your address after you have taken a picture of you with your letter, or cover your address with your hand (remember our internet safety talks) that way it will not be posted on the blog.
I have attached a success criteria below to hopefully help you out, I can’t wait to see the letters that you write.
Success Criteria – Letter Writing |
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I have written my address |
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I have written the date in full |
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I have written the address of who I am writing to |
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I have written a greeting and who I am writing to (e.g. Dear ____) |
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I have said why I am writing |
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I have signed off appropriately |
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I have written in paragraphs |
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I have used capital letters and full stops |
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Puffin Class Home Learing 01.06.20
Date: 31st May 2020 @ 7:31pm
Hello Puffins!
Hope that you are all happy, well and have had a lovely half term. As mentioned in the Newsletter, Miss Thompson has now left our class. We will miss her so much. We now have Mrs Bevin returning from maternity leave who will be our beginning of the week Puffin Teacher. Mrs Bevin worked in Puffin Class before she went to have her beautiful baby girl. To help Mrs Bevin get to know you I have set up a ‘discussion’ so that you can message her (like when we have a spellings ‘discussion’ area). Maybe you can tell her something about you or something that you have done that you are proud of whilst in Puffins? I have already told her how amazing you all are, and she is extremely excited to meet you and hear from you.
Special Mentions
Well done, you have been amazing with all the home learning before we broke up for half term. We have had some brilliant Guess Who descriptions and I was blown away when I went on Purple Mash to see how good you are getting at designing and painting. If any of you are finding it easy now to paint using your finger on a tablet, why not challenge yourself to using a mouse if you have access to one at home?
Today’s learning
IXL:
Maths- H.11, P9, Q2
English Year 1- D2, P5, I.25
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Purple Mash
Weekly writing task- see seperate blog for this
Discussions section- Leave a message for Mrs Bevin
Spellings- discusssions section
Phonics Online Tutorial – Phase 5 split digraph ‘e_e’
Non-Stop Challenge (can also be seen in a separate blog)
Last week Mr Horsley set this non-stop challenge and nominated Mrs Jarrett to complete it. Mrs Jarrett did the challenge and then nominated me to do it too!
On Sunday I decided to complete my challenge, I ran for 2.17 miles without stopping and was tired out at the end but I felt great. It has been a long while since I did some running.
Have a go and see if you can do it, if you check out Mr Horsely's disscussion you will be able to comment on there!
So I nominate:
Mrs Higginbottom and Mr Dean to do the challenge now. I also nomiate Jack, Harrison and Freddie in Puffin Class to have a go!
Do the run, post a picture and then nominate 5 more people to have a go!
Get those running shoes on Puffins!
Nasa Space X Mission
Did anybody watch this? I was fascinated, especially after all our topic work about Space. I watched the International Space Station fly over my house again too! Here's the link for anybody that missed the launch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AMzirRpaEo
Have a great day,
Mrs Lenagan and Mrs Bevin
Date: 28th May 2020 @ 1:58pm
Last week Mr Horsley set this non-stop challenge and nominated Mrs Jarrett to complete it. Mrs Jarrett did the challenge and then nominated me to do it too!
On Sunday I decided to complete my challenge, I ran for 2.17 miles without stopping and was tired out at the end but I felt great. It has been a long while since I did some running.
Have a go and see if you can do it, if you check out Mr Horsely's disscussion you will be able to comment on there!
So I nominate:
Mrs Higginbottom and Mr Dean to do the challenge now. I also nomiate Jack, Harrison and Freddie in Puffin Class to have a go!
Do the run, post a picture and then nominate 5 more people to have a go!
Get those running shoes on Puffins!
From Mrs Lenagan
Puffin Class- Welcome back message
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 9:50pm
Hello Puffins!
I'm really excited to see you very soon. We have been busy in school getting it ready for your return and because it looks a little bit different I wanted to show you what we have done. I've attached a little video message and really hope you like it.
Have a great half term,
Mrs Lenagan
Puffin Class Home Learning 22.05.20
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 8:31am
Happy Friday Puffins!
Happy Friday Puffins! It’s the last home learning day before a week off. Let’s see what we can achieve today.
Special Mentions
Well done to Harrison for his spelling work and well done to Henri for another guess who. I love seeing your writing, it reminds me of being I school with you all.
Today’s tasks are as follows:
iXL English: O.11, H.1, L.10 (Year 2)
iXL Maths: R.8, J.6, K.19 (Year 1 section- we might switch between Yr1 and 2 on different days)
Please also complete activities on Purple Mash, check the writing challenge, spellings (in discussions) and Read Theory.
Phonics – please complete the spellings test and post in the discussion section.
I will do an extra blog to see what you have all been up to and post,
Have a lovely day and a great half term,
Stay safe lovelies,
Mrs Lenagan and Miss Thompson 😊
Puffins Star of the week! 22.05.20
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 6:26am
A super well done to Harrison this week. We have been so impressed with the effort you have put into your home learning! You always complete all tasks to the best of your ability and your updates on the blog brighten our day! Well done for being a superstar, keep up the amazing work we are so proud!
Puffin Class Home Learning 21.05.20
Date: 21st May 2020 @ 7:54am
Happy Thursday Puffins!
Hope your week is going well so far? Yesterday, on our morning walk, we went passed a pond and spotted some ducklings! What a lovely sight.
Special Mentions
The Purple Mash work is blowing us away. The attention to detail, use of colour and different skills such as mouse skills and typing is brilliant to see.
Well done to Harrison for his Guess Who writing activity. Who do you think he is describing? Well done to our other Puffin for his hard work with reading, Purple Mash and spellings.
Today’s tasks are as follows:
iXL English: I.2, Q.3, H.8 (Year 2)
iXL Maths: A.3, A.10, R.6 (Year 2 section- we might switch between Yr1 and 2 on different days)
Please also complete activities on Purple Mash, check the writing challenge, spellings (in discussions) and Read Theory.
Phonics
Please use your phonics session time this week to check that you recognise these sounds and can read and write words with them. Anything you are unsure of please go back and re-watch the online lessons or play the games suggested with the sounds that you need to plug the gaps. It would be brilliant if you set yourselves the challenge of confidently knowing and using the sounds up to split digraph e-e by the end of the half term.
Mental Health Week
Have you completed anything special activities for Mental Health week? This one of our Puffins in school yesterday. She made a positivity jar on card of all the things that she likes to do to relax, keep calm and stay positive.
Have a lovely day,
Mrs Lenagan and Miss Thompson 😊
Puffin Class Home Learning 20.05.20
Date: 20th May 2020 @ 8:27am
Happy Wednesday Puffins!
We made some cakes yesterday when I got home from work. They were very tasty. What have you been doing?
Special Mentions
Well done to this little star for practising split digraphs on Phonics Bloom during phonics time.
Today’s tasks are as follows:
iXL English: L.9, 0.7, H.5
iXL Maths: M.9, D.8, U.5
Please also complete activities on Purple Mash, check the writing challenge, spellings (in discussions) and Read Theory.
There’s a Mental Health Bingo challenge too on the whole school blog, it would be lovely to see if you have completed any of the activities.
Phonics
Please use your phonics session time this week to check that you recognise these sounds and can read and write words with them. Anything you are unsure of please go back and re-watch the online lessons or play the games suggested with the sounds that you need to plug in the gaps. It would be brilliant if you set yourselves the challenge of confidently knowing and using the sounds up to split digraph e-e by the end of the half term.
Have a great day Puffins,
Mrs Lenagan and Miss Thompson :)
Puffin Class Home Learning 18.05.20
Date: 17th May 2020 @ 9:21pm
Happy Monday Puffins!
What have you been up to this weekend Puffins? We have been for a long walk and have completed a Flower Spotter activity from the Royal Horticultural Society https://schoolgardening.rhs.org.uk/Resources/Spotter-Guide/flowering-weeds-spotter?returnUrl=%2FResources%2FFind-a-resource%3Fso%3D0%26pi%3D0%26ps%3D10%26f%3D2,3:%26page%3D1 We managed to find about half of the list which was quite good.
Special Mentions
Well done to everyone that completed the spellings tests; we are really proud of your efforts!
Well done to Katy for so much home learning that has been sent in.
Today’s tasks are as follows:
iXL English Yr2: G.1, R.2, Q.4
iXL Maths Yr1: G.5, Z.2, O.4
Please also complete activities on Purple Mash, check the writing challenge, spellings (in discussions) and Read Theory.
Phonics
Please use your phonics session time this week to check that you recognise these sounds and can read and write words with them. Anything you are unsure of please go back and re-watch the online lessons or play the games suggested with the sounds that you need to plug the gaps. It would be brilliant if you set yourselves the challenge of confidently knowing and using the sounds, all the way up to split digraph e-e, by the end of the half term.
Have a great day,
Mrs Lenagan and Miss Thompson :)
KS1 Writing Task - Guess Who? w/c 18.5.20
Date: 17th May 2020 @ 1:36pm
Writing Task – w/c 18.5.20
This week's task is a little different; we have posted a Class Discussion titled 'Guess Who'. Have you ever played the game? It consists of having a picture board of people, your opponent picks a character, and you have to ask a number of questions to help find out who the character is; only guessing when you have whittled it down as much as possible. We are asking you to pick one of your favourite book characters and describe that character in 5 statements (facts). As the week progresses you will add a character and also try to guess other people's examples. I will give you the example I am posting on the discussion board. If you guess it, let me know.
Guess Who? -
1. This character is female.
2. She is very kind and caring.
3. She wears a pink nightgown.
4. She lives in an orphanage.
5. She goes on an adventure in the book and ends up meeting the Queen.
Try not to make your statements to obvious but at the same time don't make them too hard, you want people to have to think about the answer but hopefully eventually guess it. Only book characters please, if we have too many different characters it could get confusing.
Now, this is still a writing task so a success criteria is still needed.
Success Criteria – Guess Who |
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I have written five statements. |
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I have numbered my statements. |
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My statements are factual. |
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I have used my phonic knowledge to help spell words. |
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Step 1 I have used capital letters and full stops. |
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Step 2 I have used adjectives to describe the noun (e.g She wears a pink nightgown) |
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Step 3 I have used conjunctions to join two sentences together (e.g She goes on an adventure and gets to meet the Queen) |
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Have fun everyone, lI ook forward to guessing your book characters!
KS1 team
Puffins Star of the Week! 15.05.20
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 11:09pm
A huge congratulations to Conor this week! Mrs Lenagan and I have been super impressed with all of the home learning you are completing, you always go the extra mile! We love hearing about your learning journey on the pupil blogs and you are so consistent completing your ixl work. You are a credit to Puffins class
Puffins 15.05.20 Home learning
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 10:49pm
Happy Friday Puffins!
Hope you have all had a nice week. Yesterday, we made disney characters using hama beads and we did an experiment using shaving foam and food colouring. It was very messy! Please share any additional learning or exciting things you have been up to at home. It is always lovely to hear from you all
Special mentions
There has been some amazing home learning this week, it is so difficult to decide what to put on the blog each day! Here are some super writing task blog psots and Purple Mash work!
Also today is Star of the week and Golden book nominations. Check the separate blog posts to find out the winners! Well done!
Today's Learning
IXL:
Maths Year 1 K5, K6, R13
English Year 2 W1, W6, W7
Something a little bit different to try today... Chester zoo is live and there is a timetable of different animals you can see. The link is here and it is accessed through youtube or facebook https://www.chesterzoo.org/virtual-zoo-2/ I'm excited for the 'Orangutan Hang!' at 2pm
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Writing task (see separate blog post)
Purple Mash
Also, it is spelling test day.. Good luck! We cannot wait to see them.
Enjoy your day
Miss Thompson and Mrs Lenagan
Puffins 14.05.20 Home learning
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 7:37am
Good morning Puffins!
Hope you have had a good week so far. We have done lots of fun activities this week and we made some new rainbows for our window! Has anyone been creative this week? Let me know on the pupil blogs.
Special Mentions
Super special mentions to Jacob, for working hard practising his spellings at home, and designing and writing his own book, Wow! Also, a big well done to Jack who has made his own hopes and wishes jar, it looks fantastic!
Today's Learning
IXL:
Maths Year 1 X8, X9, X11
English Year 2 M9, W2, W3
ixl usernames and passwords are changing today, the usernames all follow the same pattern firstnamelastname507 and password: qwe
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Writing task (see separate blog post)
Purple Mash
Today there is no phonics video, so use this time to practise your spellings and watch the phonics videos from this week! There is a video attached to help to learn your spellings.
Enjoy your day
Miss Thompson and Mrs Lenagan
Puffins 13.05.20 Home learning
Date: 12th May 2020 @ 6:47pm
Happy Wednesday Puffins!
It is a special day today because it is Miss Thompson’s birthday! I know lots of you have been spending your birthday’s at home, so please share any fun things you did on the blog! I am going to spend the day playing games and eating some birthday cake.
Special Mentions
A super well done to Henri and Liam for amazing Purple Mash work, great work drawing their own houses! Jacob worked super hard last week making his tshirt for VE day. It is amazing, well done! Also, we have been so impressed to see the children in our class caring for and reading to their younger siblings. It is wonderful to see!
Today's Learning
IXL:
Maths Year 1 D2, D10, N9
English Year 2 R1, R2, U2
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Writing task (see separate blog post)
Purple Mash
Spellings for the week in the discussion section (these link to the online phonics)
Phonics 'e-e' video attached.
Also a video is attached to help with understanding split digraphs in Phonics.
Have a wonderful day
Miss Thompson and Mrs Lenagan
PUffins 12.05.20 Home learning
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 5:22pm
Hello Puffins!
We have had a relaxing day today, did some learning and watched the new Maleficent film. I have enjoyed reading through your blog posts, they have made me smile! Keep sharing your home learning with us.
Special Mentions
We had some super spellers last week! Mrs Lenagan and I are so impressed with how hard you have been working on your phonics and spellings. Keep up the good work Puffins!
Today's Learning
IXL:
Maths Year 1 E8, N8, M8
English Year 2 O13, K3, X2
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Writing task (see separate blog post)
Purple Mash
Spellings for the week in the discussion section (these link to the online phonics)
Phonics ' a-e '
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bLZh-Nsqy78
Keep smiling!
Miss Thompson and Mrs Lenagan
Puffins 11.05.20 Home learning
Date: 10th May 2020 @ 11:45pm
Good morning Puffins!
I hope you have had a nice weekend in the sunshine. We have been growing a fairy garden, and have been patiently waiting for the grass to grow. This weekend, some finally sprouted! Also, we have been trying to keep the house clean and tidy. Do any of you help out with housework? We would love to see some photos!
Special mentions
Wow, Puffins class you have had an amazing week of home learning. I was super impressed to see all of your PurpleMash work. Well done to Cullen, Elias, Joseph and Jack for this super work! Although. it was so tricky to choose which work to put on as you had all completed so much! Kepp it up Puffins you superstars
Today's Learning
IXL:
Maths Year 1 E7, E9, N7
English Year 2 M6, L3, V2
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Writing task (see separate blog post)
Purple Mash
Spellings for the week in the discussion section (these link to the online phonics)
Phonics 'au' video attached.
Have an amazing Monday,
Mrs Lenagan and Miss Thompson
KS1 Writing Task - Hopes for the future Jar/Letter
Date: 10th May 2020 @ 2:43pm
Writing Task – w/c 10.5.20
This week’s writing task is a creative one! We would like you to make a memory jar. Decorate a jar and write on paper all your hopes and wishes. These can then be pulled out and completed once lockdown is over. Think about something you and your family can look forward to doing. You can do this at home and then post pictures. If you are struggling to be creative you can write a letter to yourself using Purple Mash detailing your hopes and wishes for the future.
If you choose the jar then you will need:
A jar
Cut up bits of paper
A pen/felt tips/ pencil crayons
That’s it, it’s really simple, Mrs Penman and Mrs Handley have made one with their children so I have included their example below, don’t they look fantastic!
I have attached a success criteria below to hopefully help you out, I can’t wait to see what you create.
Success Criteria – Letter to future self/Message of hope |
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I have come up with at least 5 things I would like to do |
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I have been creative (included pictures/colours etc) |
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I have used conjunctions (e.g My hope is to go the zoo because I would like to see all the animals) | |
I have used capital letters and full stops |
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I have said who my memory will include |
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I have created it with only a little help |
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I have included adjectives |
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Please also note, that these written tasks are aa reflection of what the children can do, please do not worry about words being spelt correctly. The expectation is that children are using and applying their phonics knowledge and knowledge of tricky words to help them sound out and spell the words.
We can't wait to read the messages and letters of hope!
KS1 Team
Puffin Home Activities Celebration Post 07.05.20
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 11:36pm
Hello Puffins!
I don't usually post two times in a day, but there have been so many wonderful activities happening and being shared on the pupil blog that I just had to share it here too. It's great to see how well you are doing with your home learning and I'm so happy to see the other activities that will support positive mental health too. We have done lots of learning about this in school and about the importance of this.
Finally, a special mention to one of our Puffins because he became a big brother yesterday! Huge congratulations to all the family from all of Puffins.
Have a great Bank Holiday and weekend,
Mrs Lenagan and Miss Thompson
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 9:06pm
Well done Jack! We are so impressed with how much you have engaged with home learning and blogging. You attempt every task set on PurpleMash and ixl, and we love seeing your photographs enjoying your learning on the blogs! Amazing work, Mrs Lenagan and I are super proud to be your teachers!