I hope that you have all been enjoying the amazing sunshine at the moment. I feel like I’m in a different country! This week is half term so here are some activities that you can do to keep yourselves busy! Please also remember to relax and take some time for yourself 🙂
Send photos of anything you complete to admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk with Olive in the subject line. After half term, I will post the pictures I receive!
Wandsworth are also launching a poetry competition for schools! The theme this year is happiness. For more details on the competition and how to enter, click here: WoW Poetry Competition
P4C: Thinking Task – during half term, watch this video with and have a go at discussing these points with your family.
Have you ever planted a seed or grown a plant?
When do farmers plant seeds, and what would happen if they forgot? o
Are there right times for doing most things?
I hope that you have a lovely half term and keep sending pictures across. I can’t wait to see all the exciting things that you get up to.
It is half term! I hope you all have a lovely week with your families and enjoy the beautiful weather.
As it is half term, here is some activities for you to have a go at, it would be really nice to see what you get up to so send it to: admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk and put Elm in the subject line. Make sure you enjoy your daily activities outside as well. For me, sunshine always makes we happy!
For those who would like some maths for the week, i’ve attached the worksheets and the videos below, some great revision for you to keep your maths’ brains ticking!
Here is a little brain teaser for you to get going on:
I just wanted to share with you Danial’s Fanoos (special lantern) he made. Well done Danial, I hope you all celebrated Eid the best you could.
Have a fantastic week making memories with your family completing the fun activities, keep doing the Active May Challenge– you are on the final stretch, keep being positive, looking after yourself and your family members and we will all be together before you know it! I look forward to seeing you back at school on the Wednesday the 3rd of June! 🙂
I hope that you’ve all had a lovely week. Here is a short video for you all with a little message and instructions for how to plant a bean at home!
In the video I showed you the five tiny caterpillars that have grown so much bigger already. I still need your help!! Please send your name ideas as soon as possible to admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk with Acorn in the subject line. Look how much they have grown since Monday!
Next week is half-term, here are a few fun activities that you could do with your family at home!
Joseph has had a very crafty week at home with his family. Look at his amazing butterfly created using egg cartons, what a great idea Joseph!
Poppy’s poster of ‘The Bumblebells’ made me smile a lot! I love how the whole family have been enjoying some foot painting. Poppy is also very excited because her sunflower seed is now growing. Well done for being so patient Poppy!
Thomas has mastered the skill of cracking eggs, well done Thomas! He is doing a great job at following the Cosmic Yoga moves this week too!
Thank you so much for the beautiful birthday card Mackensie. I thought we could use this to wish Pia and Joseph O’Brien a very Happy Birthday for next week!
Some of our friends in Acorn Class will be celebrating Eid this weekend. Here are some videos about Eid. It’s really kind and interesting to find out about other people’s cultures and beliefs.
I would love to see what you get up to! Send photos of anything you complete to admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk with Oak in the subject line.
P4C- Here is next week’s P4C thinking time activity.
Watch the Video-Farmer Plants the Seeds.
Talking Points
Have you ever planted a seed or grown a plant?
When do farmers plant seeds, and what would happen if they forgot?
Are there right times for doing most things?
Fun Activity
Draw a picture with 3 parts: planting a seed, shoots showing, and the final product.
Sing the song together, and see if you can learn the words as well as the tune.
Well done to all the Busy Bees who have sent me work this week. Some awards are on their way to you!
Emily has enjoyed our story ‘The Magic Porridge Pot’ and has made some porridge of her own. Emily likes to add brown sugar to her porridge and decided to have it outside in the sunshine. It looks delicious! She even created her own magic pot like the one in the story. Great work Emily 👍
Adrian has been taking such good care of his plants at home and is very excited to see his cucumbers growing. Look how tall they are! He is still patiently waiting for his sunflower stem to appear! Well done Adrian for doing such a good job 👍
Olivia has been doing lots of reading at home. Has anyone else been taking part in the reading challenge? She also watched our P4C video- Can art be anything? She wrote about why she likes art and created an amazing picture of her family. Olivia loves to help out in the kitchen making lots of different recipes. Great work Olivia 👍
Don’t forget to tune into Mrs Stewards amazing story time on Facebook Live @6pm. This evenings story is one we are all familiar with in Oak class so you can all join in and read along. Find them onSt Anne’s Facebook Page
Eid Mubarak to all of our St Anne’s family who have been observing Ramadan this month.
I hope you all have a wonderful half term Oaks and enjoy the fun activities! I am looking forward to seeing what you all get up to. Take care and stay safe,
I hope that you had a wonderful week, we have had really beautify spring weather and I hope that you have enjoyed the sunshine.
I know that many of you have been working really hard over the last few weeks, special mention to Oliver who has completed some great maths work, as well as work on Nelson Mandela and doing some work Holes. Well done Oli, keep up the hard work! Well done also to Nour and Kye for the work that they have sent in too.
Next week is half term week so there will be no formal work set, however I hope that you will keep busy and to help you, here are a few ideas that you might like to try.
Please send me any photos of activities that you try over half term, I would love to see what you have been getting up to. Send them to:
admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk and put Cedar in the subject line.
There is also a schools’ poetry competition set by Wandsworth which is based upon the theme of happiness. For more details on the competition and on how to enter, click on the link below:
P4C- Here is Next week’s P4C thinking time activity.
Finland School Tries Out Robots as Teachers: from Scroll-In: a pilot program at primary schools in the southern Finnish city of Tampere.
Watch the video
Talking points:
o Would you like to have a robot teacher at home during lockdown?
o What might robots teachers be best at?
o Why might it be good still to have human teachers?
Activities:
o Take turns in pretending to be a robot teacher.
o Make up a story about a future world in which robots help humans in lots of ways
I hope that you have a great week and that you all have a rest from the formal learning we have set you.
I hope you’ve all had a lovely week and have enjoyed the sunshine. It always cheers me up when the sun is out. I have been enjoying reading some great books in the sun. How is your reading challenge coming on? Which book has been your favourite?
Next week is half term and as everyone has been working so hard we thought that next week you could complete some of these fun activities.
We have also been invited to enter the Wandsworth Poetry Competition. The theme this year is happiness. Can you write a poem about what happiness means to you? Find all of the details here:
P4C- Here is Next week’s P4C thinking time activity.
Finland School Tries Out Robots as Teachers: from Scroll-In: a pilot program at primary schools in the southern Finnish city of Tampere.
Watch this video
Talking points:
o Would you like to have a robot teacher at home during lockdown?
o What might robots teachers be best at?
o Why might it be good still to have human teachers?
Activities:
o Take turns in pretending to be a robot teacher.
o Make up a story about a future world in which robots help humans in lots of ways
Please remember to send me anything that you are proud of. Take a photo and send it to admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk and add Pine in the subject line.
I have also set you a new Sumdog challenge and you will be rewarded with 500 coins if you complete it! Good luck
Well done to Mohamed- Hadi, Sade, Kirill, Megan, Iona and Maxwell for spending time on Sumdog this week and practising their maths skills. I have given you a reward of 100 coins! keep it up!
Thank you to everyone who has sent me photos of the work that they have completed this week. It’s amazing to see how hard you are all working 🙂 you are all making me feel so proud!
Well done to Arturo. He has been working very hard on fractions and perimeter in maths and similes and metaphors in English this week. He has also been doing some fantastic research on Winston Churchill and Florence Nightingale. I loved his prayer too. Lovely.
Cassie has been completing maths work on converting measure this week! She has also been showing her appreciation for our health care workers by colouring her hair in rainbow colours! I’m definitely going to have a go at this! wonderful Cassie.
Iona has been an amazing scientist and artist this week. She has been using her new paint pallet to create wonderful art work and also set up a comparative test with our fizzy potion experiment. Watch out Blue Peter I think we have a new presenter in the making!!!
Have a lovely half term Pine Class. Enjoy your time with your family, be kind to each other and think about all of the things that we can be thankful for. I can’t wait to see all of the wonderful things that you get up to next week.
Hope you are all well! It was so nice to see more of your work this week. Thank you, Rayann, Jahmal, Danial and Joe! I really hope you enjoyed learning about volcanoes, I know I did! If you haven’t sent it work, I would really like to see your information leaflets on Volcanoes so please send them in!
I’ve seen amazing maths from Rayann and Jahmal.
Danial has been working hard completing lots of the tasks, including the RE.
Joe even attempted the volcano experiment!
Continuing to think about our mental health but this time here are some top tips for being kind to ourselves!
Put it on paper. Writing or drawing a picture that says “I like you” or “thanks for coming to my house to play” are easy things to write down and can mean a lot to the person you are writing to. You can even try writing a note of kindness to yourself!
Talk about the good things. Ask each person in your family to say one good thing about their day. This helps us to identify and focus in on positive experiences from the day. “I had fun playing soccer at recess” or “My lunch was extra-yummy” are all examples of good things you might say.
Lend a helping hand. Helping others can be a great way to show kindness – and it can make you feel good too! Help your little brother get dressed, clean up your books, or help mom wash dishes or set the dinner table.
Be kind to your body. Eating healthy foods, like fruits and veggies, and being active by riding bikes, kicking a ball or playing on the playground are all ways to show our bodies kindness. Getting lots of sleep is important too.
Encourage yourself. Go me! It can be easy to say unkind things about ourselves when we make a mistake or do not do well on a test. Instead, try saying encouraging things like “At least I won’t make that mistake again!” or “I just need to keep practising and I’ll be better every time.”
THINKING TIME…
Your body or your mind?
Would you rather keep your body or your mind?
Would you still want your body without your thoughts?
If you could switch minds with anyone, who would it be? And why?
Activity-
This is a daring one for your parents! Try switching roles with them for a day (maybe just a morning) You become the parent and they become a child.
Think about how each of you act and discuss what happened. Did you like it or not?
Thinking about your mind and body being separate, watch the film Avatar. Would you like to become an Avatar?
Finally,
Word of Wandsworth are launching an exciting poetry competition in schools across the borough, for children in KS1 and KS2. The theme this year is ‘happiness’.
To enter the competition, write a poem all about happiness. It can be written in any style you like, the only rule is that it can’t be more than 20 lines long.
Word of Wandsworth are launching an exciting poetry competition in schools across the borough, for children in KS1 and KS2. The theme this year is ‘happiness’.
To enter the competition, write a poem all about happiness. It can be written in any style you like, the only rule is that it can’t be more than 20 lines long.
All the teachers would love to see your poems too, so after entering them into the competition email them to your teacher at admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk with your class in the subject line.
Send photos of anything you complete to admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk with Willow in the subject line. After half term, I will post the pictures I receive!
Wandsworth are also launching a poetry competition for schools! The theme this year is happiness. For more details on the competition and how to enter, click here: WoW Poetry Competition
Here is some of the work I received this week, it all brought a smile to my face:
Samuel has been thinking about mental health as it is Mental Health Awareness week. He thought about things we can do to help us feel happy. Some of his ideas are: a walk in the park, planting seeds, seeing family, baking and being kind to each other. Such thoughtful ideas Samuel, well done!
Samuel has been busy completing the White Rose maths lessons this week and is becoming really confident at recalling the 5 times tables. Well done Samuel!
Hal has also been busy practising lots of maths skills and made this board game to play at home. He has already won lots of times! Well done Hal 🙂
All the teachers were so happy this week as Hal sent this lovely picture and poem to say thank you on Thank a Teacher Day! Such a thoughtful idea, thank you Hal!
Milena has been very busy doing her home learning this week. She was inspired by the Cloudy Lesson video and created her own cloud art work.
*** Well done to Jessica, Preston, Tauseef, Jemima and Dasha for taking part in the Spelling challenge on Sumdog this week. You have all earnt 50 coins! ***
Well done to Jessica for coming 1st and spelling 91 words correctly!
Thinking task
Over half term, watch this video about a school in Finland who tried out a robot teacher! After watching, discuss these ideas with someone in your family:
Would you like to have a robot teacher at home?
What do you think a robot teacher would be good at?
Why is it good to have human teachers too?
I hope you all have a lovely half term Willow Class. Keep sending emails across and after half term I will post photos of all the exciting activities you got up to 🙂
Happy Monday! I hope that you’ve all had a lovely weekend!
This week is Mental Health Week so some of the activities will be helping us to keep our minds healthy this week. There is a special video to watch as this week’s first challenge. Miss Morgan has also made a really special story time for this book which is on our whole class blog.
This week I have something exciting to show you all! I have some new pets to look after, some tiny little caterpillars. Here they are eating their food
How many tiny caterpillars can you count?
I need your help naming the caterpillars! When you send me your photos this week, can you think of one name for a caterpillar and send me your idea?
Once the caterpillars have eaten enough food, what will happen to them next?
I will keep you updated with photos and videos so you can watch them grow and change.
Resources for this week’s challenges:
I will be adding a video later on this week with instructions for planting your bean.
