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Check out today’s Set 2 and 3 phonics lessons using the links below. Can you show your grown ups how to fred talk?

Set 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcz6BwwJc8Y

Set 3  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3jgDOgmkAg

Watch the video to see today’s new sound “i-i-insect”. Can you have a go at writing the letter with Ruth. Remember the rhyme “down the insects body and dot for his head.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkCVr7oosTo

Last week Year 3 were learning about money in maths.

Here are some NRICH problems, related to money, for you try and solve at home.

For some problems, there might be more than one solution!

Five Coins https://nrich.maths.org/142

The Puzzling Sweet Shop: https://nrich.maths.org/223

Money Bags: https://nrich.maths.org/1116

The Money Maze: https://nrich.maths.org/2648

1. Listen to Miss Hicks read ‘The Hippocrump’ poem. The text is below for you to follow along.
2. Draw your own Hippocrump based on the text. Try to use the different mark making techniques that we have explored in art lessons. There are some examples of Hippocrump drawings below for inspiration.
3. Colour your Hippocrump picture using colouring pencils, pastels or paints.

 Along the valley of the Ump
 Gallops the fearful Hippocrump.
 His hide is leathery and thick,
 His eyelids open with a “CLICK!”
 His mouth he closes with a “CLACK!”
 He has three humps upon his back;
 On each of these there grows a score
 Of horny spikes and sometimes more.
 His hair is curly, thick and brown;
 Beneath his chin a beard hangs down.
 He has eight feet with hideous claws; 
 His neck is long and Oh his jaws!
 The boldest falters in his track
 To hear those hundred teeth go “Clack!”
 The Hippocrump is fierce indeed, 
 But if he eats the baneful weed
 That grows beside the Purple Lake,
 His hundred teeth begin to ache.
 Then how the creature stamps and roars 
 Along the Ump’s resounding shores!
 The drowsy cattle faint with fright;
 The birds fall flat, the fish turn white.
 Even the rocks begin to shake
 The children in their beds awake; 
 The old ones quiver, quail and quake.
 “Alas!” they cry, “Make no mistake, 
 It is HIMSELF he’s got the ache
 From eating by the Purple Lake!”
 Some say, “It is Old You Know Who
 He’s in a rage; what shall we do?”
 “Lock up the barns, protect the stores,
 Bring all the pigs and sheep indoors!”
 They call upon their god Agwump, 
 To save them from the Hippocrump.
 What’s that I hear go hop skip jump?
 “He’s coming!”  
 “Stand aside there!”  BUMP!
 LUMP! LUMP!  “He’s on the bridge now!” LUMP 
  “I hear his tail” KER FLUMP, KER FLUMP!
 “I see the prickles on his hump!”
 “It is, it IS the Hippocrump!”
 “Defend us now oh great Agwump!”
 Thus prayed the dwellers by the Ump.
 Their prayer was heard. A broken stump 
 Caught the intruder in the rump.
 He slipped into the foaming river, 
 Whose icy waters quenched his fever,
 Then while the creature floundering lay,
 The timid people ran away;
 And when the morrow dawned serene 
 The Hippocrump was no more seen.
 Glad hymns of joy the people raised
 “For ever Great Agwump be praised! 

Watch the video clip and practise drawing shapes in the air. How many shapes can you find in your home? Can you draw and label them? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEbRDtCAFdU

Some words can’t be sounded out by using the phonics skills we teach. These are tricky or red words. Have a go at learning and reading tricky words using this game and song: https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/member-only/TrickyWordTrucks.html

Don’t forget you can access all of the activities on Phonics Play using these login details

Username: march20

Password: home

Watch the video and have a go at writing your own exciting menu. Remember to include adjectives!

Why not start a new week by warming up your maths brain? Find as many ways to make 16 as you can using the numbers on the board, good luck!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFgd-imVt0I

For our year 6 students, this is a short 10 minute video tour of how to sign up and use Google Classroom for the first time.

Year 1 and 2, get your pencils out and join Mr Cross in these step by step drawing lessons. Remember to share your finished with us on Facebook, Twitter, or by emailing it to office@queenshill.norfolk.sch.uk