24^th February 2021

Today’s Time Table
Wellbeing Wednesday

There will be no live sessions today as it is Wellbeing Wednesday, your activities are below but you will discover that none of them include any work to be completed in front of a screen. Please take the time when you have some free time between activities to choose something to do that does not involve a screen too.

08:40 – 9:10

Wellbeing Wake Up

How do you feel today?

It is important to take time to think about how you feel so you can see how you can help yourself feel better. Track your feelings over one day. On a piece of paper or in a diary, write or draw how you feel when you wake up in the morning, at lunchtime, in the afternoon and just before you go to bed. You can use different emojis to show how you feel or write one word to describe your feelings. If it is difficult to express your emotion, you can use colours or create a bar chart to show you emotions over the day. The line at the bottom would be the different times of the day and the line at the side would be how you feel, from the best you can feel at the top, to the worst you can feel at the bottom.

At the end of the day, look at your emotion tracker. What was the high point of your day? What positive thing can you take from today and do again tomorrow? You can track your emotions the next day and every day of the week if you want to. As a challenge, track your feelings for one whole week and see how your emotions change and what makes them change. It is important to notice how you feel and how your emotions change to better understand and help your wellbeing. What did you learn about yourself and your wellbeing from this activity?

9:10-10:10

Maths

Solving problems with numbers up to three decimal places.

Today there will not be a live lesson.

Today we are going to do something a little different. Your task is to gather some items from around your house, such as tins of beans, books, teddy bears or perhaps something you use for cooking; any items will fine as you are only borrowing them for a little while. Once you have gathered a few items I would like you to put price labels on them. You need to make the prices up, think about what prices look like when you go to the shops or when you are buying something on line.

Example: 1 Teddy bear = £3.45

                  1 Tin of soup = £0.79

                  1 Dinner fork = £1.20

Get as many items as possible with price labels on as your next task is to make a shopping list. On your shopping list I want you to put the items you want then I want you to find the price of each item and add them up.  You can make more than one shopping list if you want, perhaps an adult in your house could come and buy a few things off you and you could add up what they have bought.

Remember when adding your items up, you must keep the decimal point in the same place for each item in the list when using the column method. The decimal must be directly underneath the one above it.

Example:  3.45

               + 1.20

                  4.65

Once you have had a go at adding a few items up, take one of your items back to the shop as it is not what you wanted or you bought it and you won’t use it.  This means you will have to subtract the items price from the total of all the items you bought originally.

Example:   4.65

                -1.20

                 3.45

Yes, we are playing shops, it is fun, real life and it also helps us practice using decimal points. Hopefully you will enjoy these tasks and I look forward to seeing your addition and subtraction sums from your shopping lists.

Miss Watton

10:30-10:50

Quiet Reading Time

Find a comfortable spot for your reading or you may want to find an unusual place for a change. Ask your adult to send me a picture of you reading in your spot or tell me where it is on Class Dojo.

Make sure you have your reading record signed by an adult at home to show that you have kept up your reading and send over a picture on Class Dojo, this will earn you more dojos.

10:50 – 11:50

English

For English today I would like you to find the 3 items you would take on a boat trip with you if you were off to sail around the world. These 3 items need to be the 3 most important items to you and they cannot include any pets/family members or anything electrical. These items might consist of a favourite book to read, a photograph of someone special, a teddy bear, a watch etc.

Once you have carefully selected your 3 items I would like you to write about these items in your blue book. Tell me why you would choose these items and how they would help you whilst sailing around the world.

11:50 – 12:30

Thinking Time

As you are all aware from the Prime Minister's announcement on Monday you will be returning to school on Monday 8^th March. I know that after spending several weeks at home there will be some mixed feelings towards this. During this session, I would like you to take some time to think about how you feel about returning to school – write down how you feel and any questions you have about the situation. Take some time to write any of your worries down and share them with those at home or with me on Class Dojo.

1:15 – 2:35

Art

Mayan Headdress

Today in art we are going to focus on the type of headwear/headdress of the Maya people.

As we are trying not to spend too much time on the internet today, I would like you to look at the pictures I have attached that show you different types of headdress the Maya people wore.

Your task today is to go outside in your gardens and try and gather some materials ready to be able to make a Maya headdress.  You will not be making the headdress today you are just getting bits ready. I would try and find twigs, feathers (if possible,) perhaps some leaves and anything else you think you will be able to use on your headdress. Try and gather as many natural materials you can use to make a headdress. 

Remember you are only gathering the materials today, happy hunting.

Miss Watton

2:35 – 2:45

A Breath of Fresh Air

Blowing Bubbles

Sometimes we are so full of emotion we can’t think very well. There are many things we can do to help us so that we can then think more clearly and start to understand what we are feeling and thinking. One activity is the ‘blowing bubbles’ breathing exercise. Sit somewhere quiet or close your eyes. Imagine you have a bottle of bubbles, or if you have some real ones, blow some real bubbles. Gently blow a bubble and watch it float away. Breathe in and then blow another bubble out. Keep blowing bubbles until you feel better. Does an activity like this help you? How does it help?