Hi everyone!

We are learning about butterflies this week and in particular their life cycle.  Lots of great vocabulary from metamorphosis to pupa and chrysalis!

We have made hats to help us to remember the four stages see below.

Butterfly-Life-Cycle-Hat

We have also made clothes peg butterflies and have written our own instructions on how to make them.  You could try at home. Remember those imperative verbs – Little Miss/Mr Bossy!

Clothes peg butterflies

In maths, we are practising counting forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s up to 100!.  We all need to keep this up, as it will help us when we learn to multiply and divide. There are some great videos on Youtube to help with counting. Also, the latest game on the School Jam app is very useful.  It focuses on Place Value and there is a video for parents too. If you need your password and log in details sending, just let me know.

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Last but by no means least, a big ‘well done’ to all those Robins who are continuing to work hard at home.  Some of the work that you have sent in has been amazing – some excellent poets in our midst!! Keep checking Activelearn and this page for updates.

Take care everyone and thank you for all of your hard work, whether you are at home or at school.

Hello everyone, I hope that you are all well and that you enjoyed the special VE Day weekend. At the end of last week, we sent a link to a letter outlining the new maths app that we have subscribed to for the younger children in our school.  I am attaching a short powerpoint presentation which explains how to use the app and the benefits for you and your child at home. Normally, the videos and games are sent weekly from the beginning of the academic year.  You will therefore see that games have been downloaded from the Autumn term. However, from now on a new game will appear each week.

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There are lots of fun activities for the children but there are also short videos for adults explaining how we teach the maths objectives.  This week, have a look and familiarise yourself with the app but if you can, try and give your child the opportunity to try Block 2 in the Autumn Term – Part-Whole within 10.  Once children have managed numbers within 10, try and extend to numbers within 20.

See how to do this practically below.  Perhaps your child could make a part-part-whole model and use counters like I have or pebbles etc.  Encourage your child to try and find all of the ways to make the ‘whole’ number by working systematically. Remember the equals sign can go at the beginning of the number sentence too.

The blue circle is the ‘whole’ and the yellow circles are the ‘parts’.

It is great to see that quite a few of you have already had a go! As always, if you require ANY support with these activities or anything else, please do not hesitate to email.

Many thanks for all your fantastic support at home. xx

We  hope that you are all well, here are the class spellings for the next 3 weeks.

Hope to see you all soon.

Take care, Mrs Forbes & Miss Fisher xxx

spellings weeks 4-6

Hi Robins, we hope that you had a good Easter and are all staying safe and well.  We are missing you and look forward to seeing you again soon.

Parents or carers, you should have received a text message giving you login details for Active Learn, which we have access to during the school closures. Through accessing the Active Learn website, you will be able to access Bug Club which offers your child reading books which are at an appropriate phonic level.  If you have not received a message with these details, please email us and we will provide you with the login information again.

The link below should take you to the home page where you login using the details from the text message I have sent you.

http://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login

The link below will give you a tour of the homepage and show you where you can access the activities allocated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvuDF-z_AD4

Keep reading Robins!

Thank you for all your support with your child’s learning.