As yesterday was “Star Wars Day” (May the Fourth be with you), our daily challenge was to do something Star Wars related. We had some fantastic ideas and photos!
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To keep our spirits high and our bodies moving….here is a 30 day music challenge for everyone.
Try and find a song that matches the description for each day and dance along to it.
This is just for fun (no need to write them down) and don’t worry if you can’t find a song for every day.
Enjoy!
(This is originally an American challenge, so the words ‘colour’ and ‘favourite’ are spelled differently)
| This week we will have a History focus leading up to a very special celebration on Friday. Britain will be commemorating the 75th anniversary of VE Day when the guns fell silent at the end of war in Europe. You could undertake some research to find all about VE day and creative to present what learn. Maybe you could draw a significant event. You may want to create an information booklet or a poster!
Why not make your own Great British Bunting to display in your window at home? The link below has some great ideas and a template to help! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4TrqYDyf4PMdLypxzyTwGDg/great-british-bunting Here are some further useful links with resources you might like to use: This is the official VE Day website, there is lots of information on here and resources that you can download: This website has learning resources tailored to KS1 and KS2, including a video lesson: |
ARTventurers have created a free Festival pack so that people can make their own VE decorations and props in time for the anniversary on May 8.
Poppy Scotland have some online learning resources that could be used for home learning. Download the pack here:
VE day clip on BBC teach:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-ve-day/z7xtmfr
Some free downloadable resources from Primary Treasure Chest:
Well done everyone practising their times tables on Times Tables Rockstars and their number bonds on Numbots.
The class who have achieved the highest percentage of accurate answers over the last 2 weeks while playing on Times Tables Rockstars are rewarded as the Times Tables Rockstars Champions. The current champions are…
Congratulations Y3L!!
The pupil who has improved the most over the last 2 weeks, and individual Rockstars Champion is in Y5J. Well Done!
Keep up all your hard work, especially those taking part in Battle of the Bands! Who will be the next Times Tables Rockstars Champions?
Times Tables Rockstars app and NumBots app are available to download on all android and Apple devices.
The children were asked to create a quiz of their choice for the daily challenge. Some of the questions are quite tricky!
There are lots of ways you can learn about History while you are at home. Here a few good website to explore!
You can take a virtual tour of the British Museum at https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/
The British Museum also have a fantastic resource looking at 100 significant artefacts. http://www.teachinghistory100.org/browse/curriculum/3/
BBC Bitesize covers all of the topics taught at KS1 and KS2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z7svr82
Our Year 3 children might like to take a virtual tour of Stonehenge at https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/history-and-stories/stonehenge360/
The Natural History Museum have a virtual tour covering many different topics including the prehistoric world. https://artsandculture.withgoogle.com/naturalhistorymuseum/
As part of one of our daily challenges, the children were asked to create a virtual card for Captain Tom’s 100th birthday. Captain Tom Moore is a former British Army Ofiicer who has walked 100 lengths of his garden to raise money for NHS charities. He has raised over £31 million which I am sure you will agree, is absolutely fantastic!
Happy Birthday Captain Tom!
Professor Carenza Lewis has launched an online Dig School. The programme offers free workshops for children aged 10 and over. The workshops are focused on archaeology and learning about the past. They will give children the opportunity to take part in activities and talks to help develop their understanding of the past in a new and exciting way.
Check it out at: http://digschool.org.uk/
The children have been showing their artistic talents with this challenge and drawing wonderful self-portraits.
For the Daily Challenge, the children were tasked to build the tallest tower. The children showed how creative they were, using lots of different objects to build with.
