Monday 29th June 2020

Exercise – Joe Wicks children’s workout…(The Body Coach TV (youtube))…or get out in

the garden! District Sports Challenge this week is all about wheels….how many minutes

can you do on your bike/scooter/roller skates this week? Keep a daily tally. Remember,

mums and dads can join in too!

AoW – Humility towards others

Humility is not a word that we hear very often, could you look up the meaning in a

dictionary and find out what it means?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd0EEHTJFgc

Watch this clip of a tennis player, Grigor Dimitrov. Why do you think the tennis player

was praised by people around the world?

Read Luke 18:9-14 or watch the video clip of the story of the Pharisee and the Tax

Collector

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWK2edNPPXE

Which person do you think was humble in this story? Why did Jesus praise this person?

Loving God, you know we are not perfect. You see our mistakes and you know our

thoughts and you know how great we sometimes want to be. Help us to change our

perspective so that we take our eyes off the wonder of ourselves, looking at the

wonder of others instead. Help us to see greatness in everyone, seeing your life within

each person we meet.

Amen.

Try to think of ways that you could show humility today.

Phonics – Use flashcards for phases 3 and 5.

Show chn some descending letters (g, y, p, j)…what sounds do these graphemes make?

Ask chn to make the shape with their fingers in the air.

We are learning alternate spellings for the /igh/ phoneme.

Practice saying the /igh/ phoneme.

Think about this phoneme from a couple of weeks ago - Which words can we think of

that contain this sound?

Read the following sentences together, ask chn to add sound buttons and identify the

/igh/ phonemes.

‘The bright light hurts my eyes.’

‘A tiny sprite might hide behind my nice sofa.’

‘Did a fine ship, called the Titanic, hit an iceberg a long time ago?’

Choose one of the sentences to dictate to the children. Can they remember to use the

correct graphemes for the /igh/ phoneme?

Use this sentence time to also focus on handwriting and check full stops and capital

letters.

Guided Reading - Year 1 Comprehensions (Doc Links)

To be able to retrieve and record information. Page 16

Maths – L.I. I can find a half of a shape

Warm up – Count in 10s to 50 – can you go all the way to 100?

Today, you are going to explore finding halves using shapes and sets of objects. You will

use the vocabulary ‘half’ and ‘whole’. It is important that you remember a half means

‘one of two equal parts’.

Think about how you might answer some of the

following questions…

How can you show a half of something? How do

you know if a shape is split into halves? How many

halves make a whole? Can we count them? How do

you know if an object or shape has not been split

in half? Is there more than one way to show half

of a shape or object? Is this the same for all

shapes?

Have a look at the picture to the right and see if

you can answer the questions.

Try the problems below. You will need to explain

your thinking and how you worked out the problems. Use a piece of paper and fold it as

shown, to help you.

How did you decide how to split the rectangle? Was there more than one way?

Which shapes did you put in which box? Why? What made them equal or not?

English – L.I. I can write down my ideas

Do you know what a surprise is? When have you been surprised? Are surprises always a

good thing? Can you think of a nasty surprise?

Look at the front cover of the book Surprising Sharks.

Can you think or guess what surprises we might find out about sharks?

What do we already know about sharks?

Before we read the book, we are going to think about what we already know…it could be

anything, from their bodies, to their food, to where they live…

On a page in your English book, write SHARKS nice and big in the middle. Around this,

you are going to create a mind map of everything you can think of that you know about

sharks!

Do you know any names of sharks?

Share your ideas.

RE – Key Questions; What do you think the right way to live is?

Look again at the thought shower from the previous lesson. Think about if you were

king or queen and had your own country. What would your country be like? How would

you rule over your subjects? What qualities do you think a king or queen needs?

Explain that Buddhists believe how you live is really important. If you live the right way

you will have good KARMA. Every cause has an effect. A person’s life force (karma) is

affected by their actions and the way they live. There is good and bad karma and this

carries on to the next life.

There are eight ‘right ways’ to live: right understanding; right thought; right speech;

right action; right livelihood; right effort; right mindfulness; right concentration.

Tashi says, “I love this story about the monkey king. My mummy says I’m like a cheeky

monkey! But in this story the monkey king is good and wise and strong. He showed the

human king the right way to live!”

Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-UwlloVveI to the end.

Talk about the story. Did you enjoy it? Why?

Think about the beginning of the lesson when you were talking about being king or

queen in your own country. Can you decide on eight really important things that would

help your people live in the right way?

Reflect on the lesson learning question: What can we learn about Buddhist belief from

the story of the Monkey King?

Try one or two of the activities below to help children reflect on and remember the

learning from today…

- Use an eight –spoke wheel template to write your own ideas about the right way to

live.

- Watch a different version of the story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=108pzuVONH0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CI3eUeq94I

- Touch, smell and taste mangoes.

- Look into the symbol of the lotus flower. It grows in mud at the bottom of the pool

but its flower rises above the surface. Look at art that depicts the lotus flower. Find

this symbol on and around images of the Buddha.

Diary

Tuesday 30th June 2020

Exercise – District Sports Challenge this week is all about wheels….how many minutes

can you do on your bike/scooter/roller skates this week? Keep a daily tally. Remember,

mums and dads can join in too!

AoW – Humility with love

Can you think of your own definition of humility? What does it mean to you?

How do you think humility can draw someone closer to God?

Can you think of ways that you can practice humility in your life this week?

Read Aesop’s fable http://read.gov/aesop/025.html or watch it in this video clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOy9y_zB8L4

How can you see pride and humility in this story?

In Ephesians 4:3 it says:

‘Be completely humble and gentle: be patient, bearing with one another in love.’

Can you create a jar of humility? Every day, write on a piece of paper what someone has

done to help you. Fold the paper, put it in the jar and repeat this for 7 days. At the end

of the 7 days, empty out the jar and read all the examples.

In your prayers you can think about all the people who help you in different ways.

Phonics – Use flashcards for phases 3 and 5.

Play Quickwrite Graphemes.

Call the phonemes for ai, ea, igh, and oe in turn, chn to write down all the graphemes

they know for each phoneme.

We are learning alternate spellings for the /f/ and /m/ phonemes.

Teach words containing the /f/ and /m/ phonemes that children find difficult such as;

swimming, dolphin, crumb, feet, mouse, cough, summer, cliff

Can chn read these words and add sound buttons? Sort them into groups according the

phonemes.

Chn put 2 words (from different phonemes) into sentences. Remember capital letters

and full stops!

Use these sentences to practise handwriting.

Guided Reading - Year 1 Comprehensions (Doc Links)

To be able to retrieve and record information. Page 17

English – L.I. I can use adjectives

Look at the front of the book again.

What kind of book is this? What do we call a book full of facts? Read the book. You can

also watch it being read here…

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=surprising+sharks+you+tube&docid=608002167

324936198&mid=3F4220C61A22CAFC779D3F4220C61A22CAFC779D&view=detail&FO

RM=VIRE

What did you learn from the book? Can you add anything to your mind map from

yesterday?

Have a look at the pictures of sharks (PDF) and the pictures in the book.

How do you feel about sharks? Are they always scary? What words can you think of to

describe these sharks?

Do you remember what we call describing words? (Adjectives)

Choose one of the shark pictures (Doc Links) to stick in your book (you can draw a

sketch of a shark if you can’t print a picture) and all around the picture, think of lots of

adjectives to describe sharks. Try and draw on all the pictures you have seen to help

with your ideas.

What adjectives did you think of?

Can you make any of them more interesting to a reader?

For example, instead of ‘big’, you could use ‘huge’ or ‘massive’. A thesaurus is often

helpful for this!

Maths – L.I. I can find a half of a quantity

Warm up – Start at 3, double it. Double that answer. Keep going as far as you can.

Today you will need to use your knowledge of finding half of an object or shape from

yesterday and use it to find half of a small amount. You will need to know the total

amount first and then you can share the number into two

equal groups. You will find this easier if you use some

counters.

Use your counters to help you answer the questions in the

picture to the right. Think about the following questions as

you do…

1. How can we find half of an amount?

2. How many groups do we need to share our beads

between? How can you check that you have found half?

3. How many equal parts should you have when you have

split the objects in half?

Try the problems below. You will need to explain your thinking and how you worked out

the problems. Work through the first one logically – what is half of 6? That’s how many

squares to colour! With the odd number, think about what an odd number is firstly.

Choose an odd number of counters – can you find half of them? What about a different

odd number? Try for a few odd numbers and see what happens every time. Why is this?

Did you work out how to colour in the squares? How did you do it?

What is an odd number? Why was it so hard to split it in half? What happened?

Science – L.I. To understand the parts of a tree.

This lesson, chn will be learning the names of different parts of a tree and what each

of these parts does. Start by looking at the picture of a tree (in Doc Links). Ask chn if

they know what each of the bits of the tree are called. Recapping the parts of a plant

will help here.

Give them the following words; root / crown / leaves / trunk / branch / twig.

Also not shown on the picture, flowers and fruits (make sure children are aware that it

is the fruit which holds the seeds for a tree).

Did they identify all these parts?

Can they tell you what they do?

See if chn can put the function to the part; provides a home for birds / catches

sunlight to make energy / takes in water and nutrients from the soil / holds the tree up

/ provides food. Can the children relate these things to the plant from a couple of

weeks ago?

As you talk about these, explain to the children how the part is adapted for the

function (e.g. roots are in the ground to get the water and nutrients, the trunk is solid

and hard to hold all of the weight of the crown.)

You have created a picture of a plant/flower already. But today, now we know the

structure of a tree, we are going to make a picture of our own, to label. This can be as

imaginative as you would like. If you just want to draw the picture, that’s fine. You may

want to collect actual parts of a tree from the garden to stick onto a piece of card to

make your picture. You might want to use things from around the house such as a brown

straw/pipe cleaner (for the trunk), brown string (roots), green paper (leaves), perhaps

add some paper apples or pears for the fruit…if you have these things available! You

might have some even better ideas! However you chose to do your picture, please make

sure you label each part of the tree with its name AND its function.

Diary

Wednesday 1st July 2020

Exercise – Try Joe Wick’s workout! He is only on three times a week now!

District Sports Challenge this week is all about wheels….how many minutes can you do

on your bike/scooter/roller skates this week? Keep a daily tally. Remember, mums and

dads can join in too!

AoW – Humility about ourselves

Have you ever had times in your life when you have boasted or bragged, perhaps even

put others down to make yourself look good? Have you ever tried the opposite? Looking

at others and being amazed by their wonder and the things that they do?

Jesse Jackson, an American civil rights activist, said:

‘Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.’

What do you think that he meant by this? Is this how you live your life?

In the Bible, in John 13: 4-7, Jesus shows his humility by washing the feet of the

disciples.

Can you create a tower of shoes (at home). How tall can you build it?

How can you build others up so that they can remain steady and strong?

It is so easy for your tower to fall down, just like it is so easy to knock others down

with careless words or actions. Saying sorry and helping to pick them up again can help

us to rebuild relationships. You could ask your family to help you with this activity so

that you can all think about how you can show humility to each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWahWPYFawo

You might like to listen to this and think about Jesus’ example of humility.

Phonics – Use flashcards for phases 3 and 5.

Practice reading the words day, made, came, make, very.

What do we notice about these words?

We are learning alternate spellings for the /oa/ phoneme.

What words do you know that contain this sound?

How many different graphemes do you know?

Practise reading the following sentences…

‘I froze my nose on the cold window.’

‘I broke a bone in my little toe.’

‘If you stole my phone, I would turn you into a toad.’

Chn to choose one of the sentences to write out and add something to to it using the

connectives ‘and’ or ‘because’.

E.g. I broke a bone in my little toe because I hit it on the chair leg.

Use this sentence to practise handwriting.

Guided Reading - Year 1 Comprehensions (Doc Links)

To be able to retrieve and record information. Page 18

Maths – L.I. I can find a quarter of a shape

Warm up – Name the months of the year in order. How many months have 30 days?

Which month has the least number of days?

Today, you are going to be learning about quarters. You

have learnt about quarters before. What is a quarter?

Think about the equal parts you’ve been looking at over

the last two days. How did you split a shape in half?

What will you do to split it into quarters?

Have a go at the activities in the picture to the right

and think about these questions to help you…

1. How many parts does my whole have? Are my parts

equal or not equal? How many equal parts can we

see/count?

2. Can we make a quarter in a different way?

3. Which shapes show equal parts? Which shapes show four equal parts? Which shapes

show quarters?

Try the problems below. You will need to explain your thinking and how you worked out

the problems. In the first one, one of the children has left out a very important word.

Do you know what it is? There are lots of different solutions to the second question.

Read the question carefully, use a ruler to split up the squares and think about the best

starting point if you want to find less than, equal to and more than, a quarter.

Which child was correct? How do you know? What was the magic word one of the

children left off?

How did you split up the squares? Did you manage to find the different amounts

relating to a quarter?

English – L.I. I can write exciting sentences

Today, you are going turn some of your adjectives into sentences to describe how you

feel about sharks. What is a sentence? How do we write sentences? What do we need

to remember when we write a sentence? We are going to be writing statement

sentences today. Watch this clip to help you form your sentences correctly.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z97r2nb

Choose three of your favourite adjectives from yesterday to turn into three sentences

describing sharks. Use your phonics to sound out any tricky words.

Reread your sentences – check you can read them and that they make sense.

Have you got the words in the right order? Have you missed any words out?

DT – What can we do to help the wildlife in our gardens?

How can we help the wildlife around us? What could we make that would make a

difference to them? What ideas have you seen already? Discuss these ideas with

someone.

Think of the wildlife that you might find in your garden – hedgehogs, birds, worms,

bees, butterflies…you may think of more. Have a look at the links below for some ideas

on how to help.

https://bto.org/our-science/projects/gardenwatch/how-help-wildlife-your-garden

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/nine-ways-to-build-a-wildlife-friendly-

garden

Which is your favourite idea? Perhaps you want to make a bug hotel, or a bird feeder,

or a bird box! Some of your ideas might require adult help, so you will need to check

with them first. This is useful info for making fat cakes for birds…

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/recipes/make-a-fat-cake-for-birds

Once you have decided what you want to make, go ahead and make it! You might want to

do a quick plan first to help you when you are making!

Find a good spot in the garden for what you have made and watch the wildlife come!

Diary

Thursday 2nd July 2020

Exercise – District Sports Challenge this week is all about wheels….how many minutes

can you do on your bike/scooter/roller skates this week? Keep a daily tally. Remember,

mums and dads can join in too!

AoW – Humility about our place in God’s amazing world

Watch and enjoy this video clip about our amazing world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAGBqIA-fd4

Do you ever feel full of wonder about our amazing world? Look at the vast and beautiful

world in which you live, how special and wonderful are you and yet so tiny! Enjoy the

humility of looking outwards at the world with wonder and awe at the gift of all you see.

It is hard at the moment to think about what we can do to help and be part of our

amazing world, but thinking of others in your close family and helping them, those who

live nearby who are lonely and would appreciate a smile and wave through their window

or a picture in your window for them to see. A phone call for those who live far away or

a letter to a friend or loved one.

Why not choose something you can do – tiny little you, to show love to those around you

either near or far.

Phonics – Use flashcards for phases 3 and 5.

Remind chn of the descending letters from Monday – can chn remember the ascending

letters from last week? (l, t, h, d, k, b)

There is a special letter that ascends and descends…do chn know what it is? Can they

write it correctly?

We are learning alternate spellings for the /f/ and /m/ phonemes.

Do children remember the words from Tuesday and how to spell them?

Which phonemes do these words contain?

Which graphemes make these phonemes?

Practice reading the following sentences, asking chn to add the sound buttons to them…

‘Most dolphins like swimming in the foaming surf.’

‘Can you use a phone with your thumbs?’

‘A frog must

memorise the alphabet.’

Highlight the buttons that makes the /f/ or /m/ phonemes in each word.

Remove the sentences from sight and ask chn to help you write them as you say them,

by sounding out the words and counting the number of sounds in each word.

Guided Reading - Year 1 Comprehensions (Doc Links)

To be able to retrieve and record information. Page 19

English – L.I. I can use connectives

Reread Surprising Sharks and listen out for any adjectives that the author uses. Note

them down on a wb or piece of paper as you read.

How do you know they are adjectives?

Yesterday, you wrote some sentences to describe sharks and today, you are going to

use some connectives (joining words) to make those sentences even more interesting.

You’ll be writing some more sentences and turning your work into a paragraph all about

sharks!

Do you know any connectives you could use? What does a connective do? What is a

paragraph? Why do we use paragraphs?

Look at your sentences from yesterday and join two of them using the connective ‘and’.

With your third sentence, use the connective ‘because’ and add to the end of your

sentence.

Look back at some of your other adjectives. Put them into exciting sentences to form a

paragraph describing sharks!

Read your paragraph to someone. Are your sentences in a sensible order? Does it make

sense? How proud are you of your handwriting?

Maths – L.I. I can find a quarter of an amount

Warm up – Count backwards in 2s from 20.

You are going to be finding a quarter of a small quantities today, through equal sharing.

It is important that you can show the groups clearly by drawing around quantities or by

physically sharing into something. You will also be thinking about capacity and

describing it using quarters, such as ‘a quarter full’.

Have a go at the activities in the picture to the

right and use the following questions to help

your thinking…

1. How many sweets do I have? How can I share

them equally into four groups? What is one

quarter worth?

2. Are my containers the same or different? Can

you should me a quarter full in each container.

3. How can I quarter this amount? If I have 2,

and it is a quarter, what will the whole look like?

What will the whole be worth?

Try the problems below. In the first case, you’ll need to use cubes to help you. Think

about how many pieces make up a wholef it has been split into quarters. You will need to

use some of your multiplication skills! In the second problem, use your cubes again to

represent the footballs. Splits your cubes into 4 groups – now you can work out how

many is a quarter!

What did you have to do to the cubes to get the right number? It’s a bit like working

backwards – did you find it tricky?

What was Teddy’s mistake? Who turned out to be right? Did you split the balls into 4

equal groups?

Topic – So, over the last couple of weeks, you have learnt about one of the Caribbean

islands and our very own island, England! Today, I would like you think a little bit closer

to home and find out about Sevenoaks! Just like I did for England and the Caribbean,

can you create a fact file with lots of information about Sevenoaks and some pictures?

You can do this on the computer if you are able to, or you can write it by hand. Think of

the things I wrote about and use them to help you. So, what houses are made of, what

shops we have, what restaurants there are, what the temperature is like, how many

people live here, what could a visitor do and see? Can you draw/find a map of

Sevenoaks?

The following website has lots of information, but some of you may need help reading it

all from an adult.

https://kids.kiddle.co/Sevenoaks

Once you have created your fact file, have a little think about where you live and the

Caribbean. Think about the people, the food, the weather, the landscape and the

buildings. How are they different? How are they the same? Make notes of some of

these differences and similarities in your Topic book.

Diary

Friday 3rd July 2020

Exercise – District Sports Challenge this week is all about wheels….how many minutes

can you do on your bike/scooter/roller skates this week? Keep a daily tally. Remember,

mums and dads can join in too! Don’t forget to send your total minutes in today. Email

address is on the class page – or send to me if you prefer!

AoW – Celebrate

Genesis 9:17: So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established

between me and all life on the earth.”

We are continuing to use the rainbow this week. Did you add thank you prayers to the

rainbows on your windows?

This week collect as many things as you can

around home – or your space at school that are

GREEN.

Why should we be grateful for these things?

Are we thankful enough for all the things that

God has given us?

Write a prayer to accompany the green of

your prayer rainbow.

Why not take a photo of your orange things or your prayer, if you do, please share it

with us. Send it to:

lmclean@chevening.kent.sch.uk and we can create our own rainbow prayer through

photos.

Phonics – Use flashcards for phases 3 and 5.

Practice spelling the words; some, come, were, who.

We are learning alternate spellings for the /igh/ and /oa/ phoneme.

We have revised these lots this week…what words do we know containing these

phonemes?

How do we spell those words using the correct graphemes?

Ask chn to read the following sentences…

‘The kite floats high in the sky.’

‘Cold roast chicken pie is nice.’

‘Can an old goat ride a bike?’

Children to pick out words containing /igh/ and /oa/ phonemes.

Look at the different ways they are spelt. Sort the words depending on the graphemes

they use.

Hide the sentences from view, read one out and ask the chn to write it down thinking

carefully about the /igh/ and /oa/ phonemes.

Guided Reading - Year 1 Comprehensions (Doc Links)

To be able to retrieve and record information. Page 20

Maths – L.I. I can use the words ‘before’ and ‘after’

Warm up – What are the days of the week? How many days do you do school work? Can

you spell 2 days of the week?

Do you remember learning about time a couple of

weeks ago? You will find your clock useful again in the

next week. Today, you are going to be focusing on

using the words ‘before’ and ‘after’ to describe, sort

and order events. When talking about the day, you will

use the language; morning, afternoon, evening.

Have a go at the activities in the picture to the right

and use the following questions to help your thinking…

1. Why have you placed the pictures before or after

each other? could any of the pictures have gone in both? What activities do you before

school? Which activities do you do after school? What do you do in the morning? What

do you do in the afternoon? What do you do in the evening?

Try the problems below. Think carefully about the order Dora does her activities in and

draw pictures to show when she does each one. Secondly, look at the picture in the

middle box. What might have happened before that picture – how did the football get

so close to the fish bowl? What might happen after the football hits the fish bowl?

Did you work out what Dora did in her day? Can you tell someone else what you’re going

to do today using before and after?

What happened to those poor goldfish?

English – L.I. I can use non-fiction texts to find information

So this week, you have thought about what you know about sharks, you have used

adjectives to describe sharks and you have written a paragraph about sharks! Today,

we are going to be finding out more information about sharks. Have a look at your work

from Monday.

What do you already know? What would you like to find out?

In a different colour on your mind map, write down a couple of questions you would like

to know about sharks.

Have a look through Surprising Sharks and also the following websites…

https://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/animals/shark.html

https://kidzone.ws/sharks/facts.htm

https://www.coolkidfacts.com/shark-facts-for-kids/

Use the shark template (Doc Links) or draw a big outline of a shark yourself and write

down all the exciting facts you can find out about sharks!

Remember to think about your handwriting and keep it neat.

What facts did you find out? Did any surprise you? How are you feeling about sharks

now?

Choosing Time – Get that Friday Feeling - Get outside in the garden, relax, have fun

and switch off from work for a bit! If you’d like to do something ‘structured’, have a

look at the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) activities (under May Doc

Links).

Diary