Amethyst, Diamond & Emerald Blog - Monday 1st February 2021

 Hello everybody and welcome to this week's blog! We hope you had a great weekend and had a chance to watch some birds as part of the Great Garden Birdwatch. If you have any photos or pictures you made from your experience then we would love to hear about it in your weekly update email!

ks1@downhallprimary.com

Please also use this email address if you wish to submit any work and receive more specific marking and feedback on what your child is doing well and suggestions for further improvements. All you need to do is ask!

Year 1 - English

A new 2 week block to get us to half term - explanations.

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-listen-and-respond-to-an-explanation-6cu32c

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-tell-an-explanation-map-from-memory-6wvp8t

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explain-steps-in-a-process-60rp6r

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-use-full-stops-75h3er

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-retrieve-information-70wkgc

Year 1 - Maths

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/spring-week-5-number-place-value-within-50/

This has 5 videos, one for each day.

Monday: Counting to 50 by making 10s activity

Tuesday: Numbers to 50

Wednesday: Counting forwards and backwards within 50

Thursday: Tens and ones

Friday: Represent numbers to 50

Any worksheets can be found in the Home Learning folder labelled by year group and day:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/149knm9VCVEVTwzWMwMeYzOGkF3RP-sOg

Year 2 - English

A new 2 week block to get us to half term - explanations.

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-listen-to-an-explanation-6nj6ac

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-tell-an-explanation-from-memory-6ct3ec

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explore-cause-and-effect-6rwkgt

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-use-subordinating-conjunctions-c9k3ed

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-summarise-explanations-6gv3at

Year 2 - Maths

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/spring-week-5-statistics/

A new 2 week block on data handling. This has 5 videos, one for each day.

Monday: Make tally charts activity

Tuesday: Make tally charts

Wednesday: Draw pictograms (1-1) activity

Thursday: Draw pictograms (1-1)

Friday: Interpret pictograms (1-1)

Any worksheets can be found in the Home Learning folder labelled by year group and day:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/149knm9VCVEVTwzWMwMeYzOGkF3RP-sOg

Year 1 - Phonics

Monday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V-e55XOHCQ&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHY2HITC9jV0a65ED0aD2Ry&index=10

Tuesday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31SNwBMMLJw&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHY2HITC9jV0a65ED0aD2Ry&index=9

Wednesday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmKy7qLZNBo&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHY2HITC9jV0a65ED0aD2Ry&index=8

Thursday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAZ3bX3B5aE&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHY2HITC9jV0a65ED0aD2Ry&index=7

Friday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlxFbjIra48&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHY2HITC9jV0a65ED0aD2Ry&index=6

Year 2 Phonics/Spelling

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

User name: jan21 Password: home

This week we have 2 main activities that you can spread out over the week.

Investigating Alternative Spellings: /oa/

Spend 2 or 3 days working on the Phonemes Spotter and Word Sort games.

See if you can find other examples in books.

See if you can put some into sentences.

Spelling Rules - Adding -ing

Firstly, look at the powerpoint in the Home Learning Folder.

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/149knm9VCVEVTwzWMwMeYzOGkF3RP-sOg

It is there as a powerpoint or, if you can’t open this, as a PDF.

Once you have explored the rules, play the Tumbling Tumbleweeds game.

This is on Phonics Play - click on the Resources tab, then Phase 6.

Scroll down and you will see it there. Use the rules you have

learnt to change the base word in the correct way.

Project Learning

Feel free to choose lessons from this list as and when you wish across the week.

Geography

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/how-is-alaska-different-to-cornwall-6dgkar

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/how-is-alaska-similar-to-cornwall-74t64c

Science

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/which-materials-are-absorbent-6tk3er

Music

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/maintaining-pulse-and-finding-the-strong-beats-cdhp4d

Big Cat Ebook Library

Don’t forget to use this as much as possible. If you feel you need more books or your child is finding

the books quite easy, please email us and we can amend their bookshelf. Here is the link:

https://ops.collinsopenpage.com/sso/login?service=https%3A//ebooks.collinsopenpage.com/wr/index.html&eulogin=true

Maths Homework Book

Please complete page 29 this week.

That's all for this week. We know that, as time passes, home schooling becomes increasingly challenging but please persevere as it will make a huge impact on your child's continuing development. We will be all back together soon - it is just a matter of time! Stay strong and keep smiling:)

Much love

KS1 Team

Amethyst, Diamond & Emerald Blog - Wednesday 27th January 2021

 Welcome to our mid-week blog. 

This week we will be focusing on Mrs Yuille's RRS blog which is all about the RSPB's Big Garden Bird Watch. This is taking part between 29th-31st January, however, watching the birds is a wonderfully peaceful activity for any time!

All the information you need to know can be found here:

http://dhpsrrs.blogspot.com/2021/01/rspb-big-garden-bird-watch.html

In school we have made our own bird feeders and used the bird spotter sheets from the RSPB website (linked from the above blog) so we are ready to identify which bird is which. 

We will then be looking out for the birds at our bird table on Friday.

We hope that you enjoy taking part in this activity and it instils in your children a sense of awe and wonder in the natural world around us.

Have fun!
KS1 Team

Amethyst, Diamond & Emerald Blog - Monday 25th January 2021

 Hello everybody and welcome to Week 4! I hope you are all well and staying strong in these challenging times. It was genuinely touching to receive so many lovely emails from the children after our request last week. If that is something that they enjoyed doing, please encourage them to do this more regularly as we do miss them all greatly.

ks1@downhallprimary.com

Please also use this email address if you wish to submit any work and receive more specific marking and feedback on what your child is doing well and suggestions for further improvements. All you need to do is ask!

Year 1 - English

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-box-up-for-purpose-71h36d

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explore-how-writers-create-vivid-description-6nh34e

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-a-story-using-vivid-description-cdj30r

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-a-story-using-vivid-description-part-1-60tk2c

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-a-story-using-vivid-description-part-2-6cu64e

Year 1 - Maths

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/spring-week-4-number-addition-and-subtraction-within-20/

This has 4 videos this week:

Monday: Subtraction - crossing 10 (1)

Tuesday: Subtraction - crossing 10 (2)

Wednesday: Related facts

Thursday: Compare number sentences

Friday: This marks the end of our unit on addition and subtraction. In the home learning folder there is

a small assessment activity to review all that you have learnt. Don’t forget, you do not have to print

the sheets out, you can just write the answers down on a piece of paper.

Other worksheets can be also be found here in the Home Learning folder labelled by year group and day:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/149knm9VCVEVTwzWMwMeYzOGkF3RP-sOg

Year 2 - English

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explore-a-characters-thoughts-and-feelings-74t3ar

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explore-how-writers-make-problems-that-matter-60r34r

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-a-problem-of-the-story-part-1-70v3ad

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-a-problem-of-the-story-part-2-6djker

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-a-problem-of-the-story-part-3-cgt36t

Year 2 - Maths

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/spring-week-4-number-multiplication-and-division-2/

This has 4 videos this week: 

Monday: Divide by 2

Tuesday: Odd and even numbers

Wednesday: Divide by 5

Thursday: Divide by 10

Friday: This marks the end of our unit on multiplication and division. In the home learning folder there

is a small assessment activity to review all that you have learnt. Don’t forget, you do not have to print

the sheets out, you can just write the answers down on a piece of paper.

Other worksheets can be also be found here in the Home Learning folder labelled by year group and day:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/149knm9VCVEVTwzWMwMeYzOGkF3RP-sOg

Year 1 - Phonics

Monday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CAQ1VtHrqI&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHY2HITC9jV0a65ED0aD2Ry&index=15

Tuesday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQBFigKD7j4&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHY2HITC9jV0a65ED0aD2Ry&index=14

Wednesday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOajky46znQ&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHY2HITC9jV0a65ED0aD2Ry&index=13

Thursday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xspQiDw0lDk&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHY2HITC9jV0a65ED0aD2Ry&index=12

Friday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_RO2ajxOgQ&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHY2HITC9jV0a65ED0aD2Ry&index=11

Year 2 - Phonics/Spelling

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

User name: jan21 Password: home

Monday & Tuesday

Investigating Alternative Spellings: /ee/

See last Wednesday’s blog for further details in how to tackle these activities.

Wednesday

Simple Plural Rules - Adding -s and -es

This is found further down the Phase 5 resources under Phase 5d Interactive Resources

(it’s right at the bottom).

Follow through the 6 activities found there.

Thursday & Friday

Investigating Alternative Spellings: /igh/

See last Wednesday’s blog for further details in how to tackle these activities.

Project Learning

Feel free to choose lessons from this list as and when you wish to across the week.

Geography

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-is-south-america-like-68vkcd

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-is-antarctica-like-65j3ge

Science

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/which-materials-float-and-sink-cdj66c

Music

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/physicalising-pulse-in-different-ways-crt62t

Big Cat Ebook Library

Don't forget to use this as much as possible. If you feel you need more books or your child is finding the books quite easy, please email us and we can amend their bookshelf. Here is the link:

https://ops.collinsopenpage.com/sso/login?service=https%3A//ebooks.collinsopenpage.com/wr/index.html&eulogin=true

Maths Homework Book

Please complete page 27 this week.

Once again, thank you ever so much for every little thing you are doing to support your child's learning. We know it is not easy with all the other commitments that you are juggling and we are so appreciative of your efforts. Remember we are always here if you need any further support.

Yours gratefully

KS1 Team

Amethyst, Diamond & Emerald Blog - Wednesday 20th January 2021

 Hello everybody and welcome to our mid-week blog! Firstly, a HUGE thank you to all your efforts in home schooling. Last week's blog was accessed over 800 times last week! Because it seems to be easier with all the links being in one place, we have decided to proceed with a Monday blog (which is published after school on Friday) and a mid-week blog with any updates or announcements. 

Year 2 Phonics

We have been putting phonics lessons on the blog each day and although these are primarily focused on the Year 1's they are a valuable revision tool for the Year 2's in brushing up their phonic knowledge. Moving forward, however, we also want to give phonics activities that are focused more on the Year 2's.

Our primary vehicle for this will be the Phonics Play website and we will talk you through how you can explore the Investigating Alternative Spellings here!

First, login to Phonics Play:

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

You will need to enter the username jan21 and the password home. Next click the Resources tab and then Phase 5.

From here, scroll down until you see Phase 5c Interactive Resources and choose Investigating Alternative Spelling - \ai\:

You will then see 3 activities - Phoneme Spotter has a text where you will need to find as many words as you can which contain the \ai\ phoneme. You could also sort them according to their spelling pattern. Word Sort gives you a word to drag into the correct spelling pattern. Best Bet gives advice on any general rules that you may have found. We advise tackling Phoneme Spotter on one day and the other two activities on another day.

We hope you find these tasks enjoyable and we will be adding a Year 2 Phonics/Spellings section to Monday's blog from next week.

Sumdog Message from Mrs Hurley

WHOLE SCHOOL SUMDOG ESSEX COMPETITION

Calling all of you amazing mathematicians! 

You have been entered into the Sumdog Essex Competition. It starts on January 22nd at 3.30pm, and finishes at 3.30pm on January 28th

Why not have a go and get your class on the school leaderboard?

I will be monitoring how well each class is doing. The winning class will be announced in the school newsletter.

Let's show our community what great mathematicians we are!

Good luck.

Mrs Hurley 

Whilst on the subject of maths, White Rose have Parent Workbooks which are available to download for Kindles free of charge at amazon or you can access them at the link below:

https://whiterosemaths.com/parent-workbooks/

Regarding live lessons

There have been some questions regarding whether the school will be adopting “live lessons” and we would like to take some time to explain our stance on this.

Government advice on remote learning stipulates that remote education should have “recorded or live direct teaching time and time for pupils to complete tasks independently.”

Teachers are currently in school everyday teaching the children of key workers as needed. Work in school directly mirrors the learning set on the blogs in order to provide equality of opportunity and to ensure the consistency of learning where children are in part time, so there is no opportunity to record live at this time.

What the school is providing are recorded direct teaching that is bespoke for each year group, professionally edited and presented to a high standard by both White Rose and Oak Academy (the Government endorsed remote learning platform). Another reason that we have adopted these platforms is because it allows parents greater control over the timing of their home learning so they can best balance their work commitments or if they are supporting more than one child at home.

Teachers are still available, however, to give detailed feedback on work submitted by children via email where requested. Teachers are also available via email or telephone to support you in any aspect of home learning.

We firmly believe at this moment in time the school’s current approach offers the best means of delivering quality teaching at home which both supports you as parents and enables teachers to continue to teach in class and continue to assist parents in home learning.

That's all for now, have a great rest of the week and don't forget that we asked the children to send us an email this week, letting us know how they are doing.

Take care!

Mr Jude, Mrs Yuille & Mrs O'Connor

Amethyst, Diamond & Emerald Blog - Monday 18th January 2021

 Hello and welcome to Week 3. Just like last week, we will put the week's links here for you to use to help shape your week's home learning. We know that it is very hard for the children to be apart from their friends, teachers and school community so, firstly, here is a little message from all of us - you can find it in our home learning folder:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/149knm9VCVEVTwzWMwMeYzOGkF3RP-sOg

I know we might sound like a broken record, but don't forget, we would like you to email us once a week to keep us up to date with how you all are and if you need support in any area of your child's welfare and education.

ks1@downhallprimary.com

You can also use this email address if you wish to submit any work and receive more specific marking and feedback on what your child is doing well and suggestions for further improvements. All you need to do is ask!

Year 1 - English

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-listen-to-and-respond-to-a-story-74v64r

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-tell-a-story-from-memory-cgwk4c

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-describe-using-the-senses-6nhk2t

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-add-es-for-plural-nouns-74vpae

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-make-inferences-based-on-what-is-said-and-done-crr3ad

Year 1 - Maths

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/spring-week-3/

This has 5 videos, one for each day. 

Monday: Add by making 10 activity

Tuesday: Add by making 10

Wednesday: Subtraction - not crossing 10

Thursday: Subtraction - counting back

Friday: Subtraction - counting back (crossing 10)

Any worksheets can be found here in the Home Learning folder labelled by year group and day:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/149knm9VCVEVTwzWMwMeYzOGkF3RP-sOg

Year 2 - English

Monday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-listen-to-a-story-and-answer-questions-cgtpar

Tuesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-tell-a-story-from-memory-c4rp2c

Wednesday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explore-the-problem-from-different-characters-perspectives-6cw62d

Thursday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-use-the-progressive-form-of-verbs-60ukgc

Friday

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-make-predictions-68v6ad

Year 2 - Maths

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/spring-week-3-number-multiplication-and-division/

This has 5 videos, one for each day. 

Monday: Make equal groups - sharing (recap)

Tuesday: Make equal groups - sharing

Wednesday: Make equal groups - grouping (recap)

Thursday: Make equal groups - grouping

Friday: Sharing and grouping activity

Any worksheets can be found here in the Home Learning folder labelled by year group and day:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/149knm9VCVEVTwzWMwMeYzOGkF3RP-sOg

Phonics

Monday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFnBksHVRA&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHY2HITC9jV0a65ED0aD2Ry&index=20

Tuesday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bZAmR4wg88&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHY2HITC9jV0a65ED0aD2Ry&index=19

Wednesday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jUowc8UNGE&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHY2HITC9jV0a65ED0aD2Ry&index=18

Thursday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG54yZuMJr4&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHY2HITC9jV0a65ED0aD2Ry&index=17

Friday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgGBEDty8tA&list=PLuGr6z2H2KNHY2HITC9jV0a65ED0aD2Ry&index=16

Project Learning

Feel free to choose lessons from this list as and when you wish to across the week.

Geography

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-is-asia-like-c4tpcd

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-is-north-america-like-6wv3et

Science

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/how-can-i-describe-an-object-c9h38c

Music

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/understanding-how-sound-is-represented-by-symbols-64w62t

Big Cat Ebook Library

Don't forget to use this as much as possible. If you feel you need more books or your child is finding the books quite easy, please email us and we can amend their bookshelf. Here is the link:

https://ops.collinsopenpage.com/sso/login?service=https%3A//ebooks.collinsopenpage.com/wr/index.html&eulogin=true

Maths Homework Book

Please complete page 25 this week.

Thank you ever so much for all your efforts. It is appreciated by everyone here so much and don't forget we are always here if you need a chat or want to ask any advice. 

Deepest respect

KS1 Team