New date for Zoom catch-up: Tuesday at 10am
Hello everyone,
Sorry for another change in date for the meeting. It’s going to be at 10am on Tuesday now.
NEW: If you attended the previous meeting, you can also join this one. Just email to let me know.
paulwilks@spherefederation.org
Thanks
Mr W
Hobby Half Day
In school, the children get an afternoon a term where they take part in different hobbies. As this can’t happen this term, we decided to have an activity themed morning painting pottery. After choosing their preferred money pot, the group set to work painting. We each chose song to listen to whilst working!
Well done, everyone! 
This week’s update
Thank you for continuing to send us your home learning or other activities. We always enjoy receiving your messages.
Here’s an update from this week’s learning with some real life science.
Enjoying the school video – have you seen it yet?
Wow – snail eggs!
Observing caterpillars while they grow and turn into chrysalis. Finally, the butterflies appear.
Imaginative artwork
Potatoes harvested after scraps were planted at the start of lockdown.
More capacity maths, tessellations and Andy Goldsworthy art…
More great learning…
This week’s learning
Another great week of learning! Lots of fantastic Superworm designs.
We made a wormery at school after finding a worm in our outside area.
Here are some highlights.
This week’s learning
Hello Year One!
There’s been lots more amazing learning going on, at home and in school!
Lots of you took on the challenge of taking your learning outside whilst it’s been sunny. Have a look at the photos below and see if you can spot yourself or your learning:
26 June 2020: Home Learning
Good morning. I hope you’ve had a great week.
Have you enjoyed the learning this week? Please send photos.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Here are today’s activities.
Phonics
Tricky word songs Sing the tricky word songs.
Phase 3:
Phase 4:
Read the sentences. Can you spot the phonemes ar and ow?
Write a sentence
Bow down to the king and queen.
Literacy
Book of the week: Superworm by Julia Donaldson
Draw your own Super animal! What superpowers does your worm have?
Send me photos of your super animal-I can’t wait to see them!
Maths-counting
Super Shop
Create your own yucky supermarket by labelling tins of minibeasts!
Collect tins and packets for this activity!
Make labels for each tin and packet. Think about the size of the tin. How many of each minibeast will fit in?
Set up your shop and go shopping. Combine your tins of yuck!
How many minibeasts would you have if you bought 3 slugs and ten spiders?
Try different combinations.
Make price tags for your tins and packets.
Send me photos of your ‘yucky’ shop.
Extra activity
Make a collection of worms and see if you can cut them into different lengths. Talk about the lengths and measure with a ruler or tape measure.
Of course we’re not going to use real worms! You could use cooked spaghetti, string, playdough or wool.
Can you order them by length?
What is your longest worm as long as?
What is your shortest worm as short as?
Here is a silly rhyme that I used to sing when I was at school!
25 June 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
Here are your home learning activities for today.
Phonics
Practise reading and writing tricky words.
Can you write a sentence about this picture?
Remember to use a full stop and a capital letter.
Literacy
Book of the week: Superworm by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story of the week.
What happens in the story? What are the events?
Retell the story to a grown up and draw a story map of events.
Maths-time
Get fit and sing a teen number workout song.
Extra activity
Sing the song ‘There’s a worm at the bottom of my garden’ with Mr Tumble.
Zoom Meeting!
Hello Year 4s!
I really enjoyed talking to everyone at the ‘meeting’ today! It was great to see you all.
If you didn’t attend today’s session, please join me at the next one. However, I’ve changed the date as the planned Thursday session did not have many takers.
The new date will be Monday 29th June at 10am.
Please email me to let me know if you’d like to attend.
Thanks
Mr W
24 June 2020: Home learning
Hello, everyone! I hope you are having great week so far.
Please send me photos of your learning.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Phonics
Practise phoneme ow/ar at BBCBitesize
Phonics activity
Just add ‘ar’
Read a book at Oxford Owls
Literacy
Book of the week Superworm by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story.
Superworm is a rhyming story. Can you write down the words that rhyme?
Superheroes have a superhero costume. Can you design a costume for Superworm?
Maths
Let’s make worm number lines.
Superworm is super-long!
These worms look like our number lines at school. Draw your own worm number lines. Start at different numbers or write your numbers backwards!
Extra activity
Make a playdough worm or make a worm with pasta!
How long is your worm?
You can find details of these activities here.
23 June 2020:Home learning
Good morning!
Did you get a chance to make a wormery yet? If you do, please send me photos.
moortowneyfs@spherefedertion.org
Here are today’s activities.
Phonics
Practise the phoneme oo/oo with Geraldine the Giraffe.
Your child will need a pencil and paper or whiteboard and pen for this lesson.
Let’s recap the phonemes ow, ar
Phonics activity
Read the words. Some are real words, some are nonsense words. We call these ‘alien’ words. How many ‘alien’ words are there?
Literacy
Story of the week: Superworm by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story.
Wizard Lizard magically makes Superworm go missing!
Can you design a poster to help find Superworm?
Remember to include lots of detail:
• A picture of Superworm
• A description of Superworm. What does he look like?
Maths
Count to 20 in 2s.
Watch numberblocks counting in 2s.
You will need objects to use for counting, two ten frames (print or you can make/draw one).
Use the 10 frames to solve these number problems:
Jenson has found 10 insects, 2 of them wriggle away. How many insects are left?
Joshua has found 12 frogs. 1 frog jumps back into the pond. How many frogs are left?
Niamh saw 8 birds in the sky. Lorien saw 6 more birds. How many birds did they see altogether?
Challenge: Ava has 14 worms. She wants to give half of them to Georgia. How many would they each have?
Extra activity
Learn about worms and wormeries here.