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Happy Holidays Week 2!

We hope that you have been able to enjoy the Easter Weekend. What fabulous weather we have had!  We hope that you have managed to spend some time outside with your family.  As we go into the second week of the holidays,  TTRockstars, Numbots and Spelling Shed are still there so if you want to use them, feel free to do so.

Below there is an attached file with 12 different activities that you might like to do this week.  You might like to do some or all of them but there is no expectation that you do any of them!  You might like to do them with your siblings or on your own.  Each year group has posted some suggestions so apologies if there are some overlaps but equally feel free to take a look at some of the other year group pages for other ideas if you would like to.

The year group email address will remain open so if you would like to share what you have been up to or have a question, feel free to drop us a line: year4@stmarksce.org.uk

We hope that you have a lovely week and are able to take some more time to relax.

Mrs Happy, Miss Goddard, Miss Hardy and Mrs Tunnicliffe

Share your work!

We’d love to share a piece of artwork your child has done. It can be of anything – a rainbow for the NHS, a piece of home learning, a poster, a drawing, a painting, a design, anything! Just make sure you only send in a photo of the work, not the child or anything on the photo that may identify them (e.g. full name). Simply email it to posters@stmarksce.org.uk and we’ll do the rest! We’ll make a video montage of it, and share it on our website. We would love to have as many entries as possible. Closing date is Sunday 19th April!

Good morning Year 2

Good morning Year 2,

I hope you are all well and have enjoyed a nice, relaxing Easter weekend with your families. We have some more exciting activities to share with you today, as well as some reminders about extra daily activities if you wish to continue with these. You may choose to complete 1 activity each day, 1 a week, or you may decide to complete your own activities, or have a complete break. All of these options are fine, as these activities are only ideas, and are optional. You may also wish to continue with your daily activities, which are listed below.

We continue to be available via our Year 2 email address at year2@stmarksce.org.uk, so please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have, to share work with us, or just to say hi! We love hearing from you.

Thank you again for all of the hard work and effort you have all been putting in over the last few weeks. We really appreciate it, and its clear from the emails we have been receiving that the children are producing fantastic work. We hope you have a restful remainder of your holiday, and enjoy some family time together.

Many thanks,

The Year 2 Team

Share your work!

We’d love to share a piece of artwork your child has done. It can be of anything – a rainbow for the NHS, a piece of home learning, a poster, a drawing, a painting, a design, anything! Just make sure you only send in a photo of the work, not the child or anything on the photo that may identify them (e.g. full name). Simply email it to posters@stmarksce.org.uk and we’ll do the rest! We’ll make a video montage of it, and share it on our website. We would love to have as many entries as possible. Closing date is Sunday 19th April!

Ongoing Daily Activities:

Here are some additional activities that you may wish to have a go at across this week:

• 20 minutes of reading either a school book of home book.
• Complete your 2, 5, and 10 times tables using TTRockstars or a different method.
• Practice some of the Year 2 Common Exception Words
• Common Exception Words
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Other educational activities:

• Complete some of the Easter maths activities on the White Rose Maths website at https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
• Counting forwards and backwards to and from 100 in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s, starting from different numbers.
• Choosing 2 numbers at random from a number square and seeing if you can add them together.
• Read to your child and talk about the story together, thinking about the character’s feelings, and whether you can think of a different ending.
•  Write your own story.

Fun Easter Activities

Wax drawings of eggs:

Why not use the guide attached to have a go at making a colourful wax crayon drawing! wax resist egg pattern

Easter themed mindfulness colouring:

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-26544-easter-egg-mindfulness-colouring-sheets

Online Easter games and activities:

https://www.digipuzzle.net/education/easter/

Easter Baking:

Why not make an Easter treat favourite – chocolate nests! Use the recipe below to help you. Remember to only use the ingredients you have at home, or collect the ingredients during your essential weekly shop.

Easter baking recipe

Easter fun and games:

Follow this link to find a selection of games and activities, such as a word search, crossword, and bingo! Easter fun and games

Lolly stick artwork:

Why not have a go at making a picture by drawing different sections of a picture on each lolly stick. When you put the lolly sticks together, you will be able to see the completed picture!

Additional Art Activities:

Cute tortoise drawing:

Can you draw this cute tortoise? See whether you can use shading to make your tortoise come to life! Use the picture below to help you.

Spiral drawing:

Have a go at drawing a spiral pattern, using different sized stripes to create a 3D effect. Then choose 2 different colours to colour your spiral, and see whether you can experiment with shading to help at to the 3D effect. Use the image below to help you.

Make a rainbow:

Can you have a go at making your very own rainbow? Use the guide attached to help you. We would love to see the finished product! How to grow a rainbow

Have a lovely day!

Good Morning Year 1

Dear parents and children,

We hope you enjoyed the Easter weekend and are safe and well. It is so lovely seeing everything you are doing over email. We have really enjoyed seeing all of your fantastic Easter activities so far. As this is the second week of the Easter holidays, we will not be sending out school work to do this week, however you may wish to continue the optional ongoing activities listed below. We have some more exciting Easter activities for you this week. You do not have to complete any of these activities – they are just ideas to keep you busy should you wish to use them.

You can still send your silly reader photos to us over email. The ones we have received so far are super silly!

Miss Hall would like to read you another story! You can find this in the video resources section of this post along with other videos read by Year 1 teachers. The password is the same as previously.

Happy Easter!

Year 1 Team

Share your work!

We’d love to share a piece of artwork your child has done. It can be of anything – a rainbow for the NHS, a piece of home learning, a poster, a drawing, a painting, a design, anything! Just make sure you only send in a photo of the work, not the child or anything on the photo that may identify them (e.g. full name). Simply email it to posters@stmarksce.org.uk and we’ll do the rest! We’ll make a video montage of it, and share it on our website. We would love to have as many entries as possible. Closing date is Sunday 19th April!

Helpful Reminders

We are still checking our emails regularly and have loved seeing what you are doing. Feel free to email us if you have a question or just want to say hello at: year1@stmarksce.org.uk

You can access our general resources to support your child at home here: Y1 General Resources

Please do not feel like you have to complete all of the activities provided in one day. We have given a variety so that there are options for you to choose what works best for you at home.

Read Write Inc are kindly doing live daily phonics sessions, although they may have stopped this over the Easter holidays. They are at certain times depending on which sounds you would like to practise. We suggest either Set 2 or Set 3 sounds. Find the link here: RWI Phonics

If you are running out of reading material, you can try Oxford Owl.You need to make a free parent account but it gives to access to some Oxford Reading Tree e-books that we use at school. Make sure you are reading a book that is at your child’s band. If they are finding this band too easy, you could try a songbird book from the band above.

Alternatively, you can find free Big Cat ebooks by following the steps linked here: Big Cat ebooks.

Optional Ongoing Activities

As well as the learning tasks we upload each day, there are a few ‘extras’ that you could have a go at, if you get time.

• Read a book. This can be their school reading book, an e-book or a book from home.
• Alternatively, you make like to read an ebook from Oxford Owl or Collins Big Cat.
• Have stories read to them.
• Read or spell some key words.
• Read Write Inc speed sound videos (linked in helpful reminders)
• Practise naming the letters of the alphabet and sing the alphabet song (capital and lower case).
• Use phonicsplay or phonicsbloom: Obb and Bob PhonicsPlay /Phonics Bloom link
• Practise counting from 0-100 (forwards and backwards) or in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s
• One more and one less than a number (pick from 0-50)
• Numbots (login is in the back of the reading log)
• Sing a number bonds song or use Hit the Button (number bonds to 10 or 20): Hit the Button link
• Spelling: there are no new words over the Easter break, however if you are looking for spellings to practise you can use key words. Find our previous post with all 300 key words here: Key Words

Easter Activities

Here is a list of fun Easter/spring related activities you may wish to have a go at this week. You do not have to complete any of these activities – they are just ideas to keep you busy should you wish to use them.

Art/Craft Activities

• Make a minibeast pebble. You will need: a pebble, paint, paintbrushes, glue (PVA), felt tips. You may wish to use: googly eyes, pipe cleaners. Find the instructions here: Minibeast Pebble Instructions

• Create a painting using fingerprint flowers. You will need: paint, coloured paper, lolly stick/paintbrush, fingers! Find the instructions here:  Fingerprint Flowers Instructions

• Make some bunny ears to wear. Find the instructions here: Bunny Ears

• Use toilet rolls to create a bunny picture. Find the instructions here: Bunny Painting Instructions

• Make a shadow drawing. If you have some toy animals at home you can use their shadows to help you draw. See the image below to see how to set it up. Then use a pencil to draw around the shadow edge. See if you can challenge yourself to draw a spring animal (rabbit, lamb, chick etc).

English Activities

• Look at this spring picture. Can you write a description of this picture. What can you see/hear/smell/feel/taste? Be as creative as possible! Can you challenge yourself to use ‘and’?You can use these slides to help you: Descriptive Writing Slides. Miss Hall has also made a video to help you plan and write your description that you can find in the video resources section. Find resources for this activity here:

• Descriptive Writing Plan

• Lined Paper (Full)

• Lined Paper (Half)

• Read these spring poems with someone at home. Choose one of these poems to learn – can you make up some actions to help you remember it? Are there any rhyming words in your poem? Are any words repeated? Find the poems here: Easter/Spring Poems

Active Activities

• Go on a flower hunt around your garden. How many different types of flower can you spot? Can you use sketching skills to draw any you see?

• See if you can spot any new signs of spring outside. Has anything changed since you last looked?

• Have a go at our Easter themed PE circuit! Find it here: Year 1 PE Circuit B (Easter)

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Mrs Armitage on Wheels by Miss Jamieson

The Gruffalo by Miss Jamieson

How to Grow a Dinosaur by Mrs Carter

Giraffes Can’t Dance by Miss Hall

Barry the Fish with Fingers by Mrs Carter

The Lion Inside by Miss Hall

Tiddler by Miss Jamieson

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