Homework Menu 24/5/13

Remember you don’t have to do all of these and you can create your own homework too!!

·         Make a chart/table/graph to collect some data, for example, the types of transport that pass your house, your family’s favourite ice-cream.

·         Keep a diary to tell me what you do in the holidays.

·         Find out the different jobs that people do in castles. You could draw them.

·         Write a ‘book review’ of your favourite book. Remember to use describing words and connectives.

·         Make a Yad.

·         Practise some Victorian handwriting.

Have fun!

Maths Challenges

The yellow group were investigating which shapes had right angles and then sorting them according to the number they had.

The children were using a squared piece of paper to find out whether there were any right angles.

The blue group were investigating shapes as well, but they had to see how many lines of symmetry each shape had.

Do you agree with the choices they made?

Homework

Homework Menu 17/5/13

Remember you can create your own homework too!!

• Write a diary entry for a Victorian school day.
• Do a ‘still-life’ observational drawing of an object in your house or garden, eg. A flower.
• Find examples of different 3D shapes around your house and record the number of faces, edges and vertices that they have.
• Make a list of things that use batteries in your house.
• Create a model of a circuit (you don’t have to use wires and batteries, you can make models of them with card and wool etc.)

Have fun!

Victorian Day

Today, our classroom was sent back over 100 years to the Victorian times. The children came in to school wearing Victorian clothes and even the grown-ups dressed in character.

Before being allowed into the classroom the children lined up in alphabetical order ready to have their hands checked. If their hands were not deemed clean enough they were sent to the 'offices' (toilets) to wash them more thoroughly. The Victorian teachers couldn't abide dirty hands!

 

The first lesson of the day was drill. We went outside and were shown the actions for 'Here we go round the mulberry bush' and 'The Grand Old Duke of York'. These were repeated several times until they were done to the teachers' approval.

After drill the children were given their seats, although they weren't allowed to sit in them until ma'am gave them permission.

For our handwriting session we had to use chalk on black paper as we don't have chalkboards and Victorian children didn't have paper and pencil like we use nowadays. We learnt that the Victorians wrote their letters quite differently to how we do.

 

After playtime it was back to the Victorian lessons and this time, it was numeracy. The children recited the 2, 5 and 10 times tables until ma'am was happy that they knew them.

Notice that the children are sat with their hands behind their back. This is how Victorian children sat during their lessons, and of course they could not speak unless they were spoken to. After all, children were to be seen and not heard!!

Lunchtime. The Victorian children were given a piece of dry bread, a lump of cheese and some cold stewed tea to wash it down with.

Tyler wasn't very sure about the tea!

Alex was playing the part of the poor, hungry Victorian boy grateful for his lunch very well!

After lunch we had silent reading (I have never heard the classroom so quiet) followed by observational drawing. Again, we had to use black paper and chalk and this time the children carefully drew the flower that was placed on their table. It is very hard to use chalk and not smudge it or get it all over your clothes.

 

Overall it was a lovely day where the children really experienced life in the past, though I'm not sure it's an experience they would want to have everyday!

Thank you to all the parents for dressing the children up and taking part.

Victorian Games

As the Victorians didn't have the same toys as we do nowadays one of our jobs this week was to go into our outdoor area and play some Victorian Games. 

We had:

Skipping

Hopscotch

Catch

Hoops

Musical chairs (cushions)

Morning Meeting Game.

As we are still focussing on Teamwork in our Morning Meetings, this week we played a game where the children had to help one another. Everyone had to have a beanbag on their head and walk around the classroom. If they dropped their beanbag they weren't allowed to pick it up, someone else had to pick it up for them and put it back on their head for them, without dropping their own!!

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This proved too easy for the children, so Miss Rogan decided that they had to walk bobbing up and down, then sideways, then twirling and finally hopping!!

As you can see, in the end we didn't have many with beanbags left on their heads!

Doddington Hall

The first thing we had to do when we arrived at Doddington Hall was knock on the gate and see if we would be allowed entry. Ebony stepped up and gave a sharp knock and a moment later we were greeted by a Victorian maid.

    

The children were split into 3 groups in which they would do the 3 activities - a tour of the hall, looking at Victorian artefacts in the tent room and a tour of the gardens.

The tent room is a room where the walls have been draped with a very old, hand-sewn tent, that is too fragile to be put outside anymore. 

The children sat on cushions around the room where we were told of the history of the tent and then given artefacts to try and identify. 

Can you work out what some of these Victorian objects were used for?

 

 Lots of children thought you would use this to make popcorn or pancakes!

 

Rubie is demonstrating the butter churn.

Our tour of the Hall took us through the Grand Dining Room, the ladies parlour, and some bedrooms, amongst others. We had to be very sensible and quiet as the family still live in the Hall.

 

We were able to pick up and look at some of the old objects in the house, such as a mirror, the material used to cover the chairs and a very old book.

In the gardens we saw the kitchen garden where they grow a lot of the food that they eat and sell at Doddington Hall, the posh garden where the people who built the house liked to show off their wealth, the lawn, and the enormous field with the cows in.

 

However, by far the favourite part of the garden tour was the maze. Our guide placed Mr Boyd in the middle and the children had to try and solve the maze and get to him.

 

 

The first person to crack the maze was Chloe - she made it to Mr Boyd first and then helped the other children find their way around. Super teamwork!

What a busy and fun day it was!

 

Homework Menu 9/5/13

Remember you can create your own homework too!!

• Research some information on Victorian times.
• Draw a side portrait of a member of your family.
• Draw a picture of what a Victorian boy/girl would wear and what you wear now.
• Draw a grid and write instructions to move a beebot from one square to another. Use words such as forwards, backwards, left, right. 

Have fun!

Maths problem solving week

Last week was a problem solving week.

Each group had different problems to solve.

The green table were using Litres as their unit of measure. They had to work out how many litres were in each jug. The jugs were hung up all over our outdoor area.

The yellow table had to measure parts of the KS1 corridor and the use those measurements to solve problems, for example, how long is the corridor? How long would the corridor be if it was double the length.

The yellow group also had to choose the correct apparatus in order to solve the problems.