Ouse Class Blog: April 2020

Thursday 30 April 2020

Superhero Bear Competition

John Lewis are launching a competition to find a superhero teddy bear, and we need your help designing it. The winning teddy will be sold in John Lewis and Waitrose shops later this year, with 100% of the profits going to the NHS

DESIGN YOUR TEDDY BEAR
In honour of our incredible carers at the NHS, we need designs for superhero-themed bears – don’t feel like you have to stick to the traditional brown bear – we want to see all kinds of super teddies.
Try and incorporate unique elements through colours, patterns, capes, masks – whatever feels exciting for you, but please avoid using any recognisable icons in your designs, such as the ‘NHS’ lettering or Superman logos.

If you need a bit of help getting started, then please download our teddy bear drawing template below.

HOW TO ENTER
Share your superhero teddy bear design with us by 5pm on 8 May 2020. An adult over the age of 18 should submit a photo of your design in one of the following two ways:
Share your designs by email to
designyoursuperbear@johnlewis.co.uk
or posted through a public Instagram or Twitter account with the hashtag
#DesignYourSuperBear

You can use this template for your design:

Template

Wednesday 29 April 2020

Oliver's science

Oliver has been having lots of fun doing exciting science experiments!

Leila working hard!

Great to see Leila working hard on her English. I look forward to reading your final piece Leila!

Oliver's artwork

Great to see some lovely art work by Oliver from the blog art lesson this week.

Science fun with Niamh!

Niamh has been making her own lava lamp using lemonade and peanuts.

If you want to have a go, have a look at the Stem science link on this weeks work blog.

HIT THE BUTTON CHALLENGE

7 reasons why doing Mental Maths is important:

• It enhances children’s ability to concentrate.
• It stimulates children’s interest in maths.
• It improves the self-confidence of the child.
• It helps with the application skills in maths.
• It helps to reduce mistakes in problem-solving.
• It is strongly associated with better memory skills.
• It stimulates both sides of the brain.

How about a Hit the Button Challenge?

Hit the Button

Choose number bonds that you need to learn, if you're not sure start at 10 and see how you get on

Number Bonds to 10

Number Bonds to 20

Number Bonds to 100

Play a game now and record your score then play the same game every day for a week.

What's the best score you get?

How much have you improved from your first score?

Grown ups can take part in this challenge too.

We'd love to hear how you get on.

Perhaps, once you are an expert you can move on to other number bonds or other important mental calculations which are helpful to know by heart

Tuesday 28 April 2020

Annie's Amazing Artwork

Well done Annie. Really pleased you enjoyed the art activity I found.

PE with Oliver( Never mind Joe Wicks!)

Oliver has been continuing his daily PE sessions.

Keep up the good work Oliver!

Lot's of hard work with Ella and Eleanor!

Ella and Eleanor continue to work hard on their home learning.

Loving seeing the fruits of your labour girls.

Keep up the good work!

Kimberley working hard!

I've loved seeing all the brilliant work Kimberley has been doing. Keep it up- you are working so hard!

TTR Summer Term Week 2

I have been having a sneaky peek at TT Rockstars this morning.

Well done to Ollie,Annie,Ella, Charlie K, Oliver,Niamh,Harry,Maizie,Trixie,Ruby,Sam,Kimberley,Gracie,Madison,Brooke,Leila, Marley,Rebecca and Neave, who I can see have been working hard on their times tables this week. Keep it up

If anyone needs their login details email me (mrslongfield2020@carlton-in-snaith.n-yorks.sch.uk)

Monday 27 April 2020

Useful French sites

If you want some extra ideas for practising French months and numbers click on one of the links below kindly sent today by Marie's mum.
French months
French numbers

Niamh characterful art!

Niamh has had a go at this weeks art activity. Well done Niamh, a great effort!

Summer term week 2

SUMMER TERM WEEK 2

Weekly Maths Tasks (plus TT rockstars and Hit the button for maths facts)

Please click on the link below to access this week's daily maths activities on fractions.

(Please ensure you click on the Week 2 activity not the Summer term Week 1 or 2) There are 5 daily lessons.
Week 2
In addition to this there are some optional challenges on the link below.
BBC Bitesize Maths Challenges

Weekly English Tasks (plus daily reading)

Writing task
(This is a 2 week unit of work. There are a number of tasks to complete so please don't feel you need to rush these, these will be the English Tasks for next week too.)
Click on link below for details.
Talk for writing 1

Spellings
1) Learn these spellings
achieve
ancient
conscience
mischief
mischievous
soldier
sufficient
science
variety
2) Find another 10 words which contain 'ie'.
In addition use the link below for extra practise. There are lots of activities.
Spell zone activities

Wider curriculum tasks

Science
In autumn term you did lots of work about our Solar system with Mrs Short.On the link below BBC Bitesize have produced some lesson ideas which will be good revision for you.
BBC Bitesize
In addition, on the link below there are some great ideas for experiments you can easily do at home. Have a go at one of them and send me some photos of your efforts.
Stem experiments at home

History
Do the Viking week 2 activity. (SEE SEPARATE BLOG BELOW)

Music
Singing with feeling . BBC Bitesize have created a lovely lesson examining how songs make us feel. Have a look on the link below.
Music lesson

Art & DT
Have a look at the video on the link below and see if you can create your own character.
Characterful collages

Picture news

Story: The sale of video games has increased by 44% in the UK during the lockdown period.

Question: Are video games the next best thing to our real lives?

This week’s Virtual Assembly is now live on the Picture News Vimeo channel! See link below.

Picture news

PE & Keeping active
Have a look at the link below
Maths on the move
Or have a look at some of the workouts on the link below.

Darebee workouts
Joe Wicks PE sessions or Oti Mabuse dance sessions on Youtube are also great.

French

Hello Ouse class,

Can you please look at the Months of year in French and English with the people you live with and revise and spell numbers 1 to 31 in French.

See image below to help you

Ouse Class Ongoing Task - Who is your hero?

Over the last week I have been watching Captain Tom avidly on the news raising over 20 million pounds for our wonderful NHS. He has become my new hero.

We would like you to do a project for the next few weeks about your hero. Do lots of research and create a presentation about him/her.

Vikings week 2

VIKING LIFE

This week I would like you to investigate how Vikings lived.

Choose one or two of the tasks to complete.
1) Make a powerpoint presentation about an aspect of Viking life. For eg: Clothes & jewellery, houses, food & drink, art & craft
2) Make a model of a Viking house.
3) Re-create a piece of Viking jewellery or pottery.
4) Write a diary extract- A day in the life of a Viking.

Sunday 26 April 2020

Thank you

I would just like to say a massive thank you to everyone who has sent me photographs and examples of all the wonderful work you are doing at home. It is so lovely to see the great ideas you are coming up with.

Please keep them coming.

If you want to share any work or photos with me please email them to me at:

mrslongfield2020@carlton-in-snaith.n-yorks.sch.uk

Take care and stay safex