Monthly Archives: April 2020

Home-learning – guided reading

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Hi everybody,

There appears to be an intermittent problem with the Bookscool website, which is frustrating as I know you need to access this to read Skellig online. We don’t know how long this website will be down for, so in the meantime, please use your reading session to focus on your home reading instead. Choose a selection of questions from the Guided Reading question cards and write them and the answers in your home-learning books. Please give detailed answers and reference the text where appropriate.

Guided reading question cards fiction

Guided reading question cards non-fiction

Thank you!

Pelhamory has arrived!

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Good news! My home copy of The Pants Project by Cat Clarke has arrived, and this afternoon I have been learning new editing skills. I’ve had to dig deep and use a growth mindset, because it’s definitely proved to be challenging, but now it’s done, I’m pleased with the results. So, here are the next instalments, chapter 31 (parts 1 and 2).  They follow on from Ms. Moores’ reading, which can be found here, on the Year 6 Home-Learning page.  Make sure you listen to the top bar first, otherwise you’ll be listening to the story backwards, in chunks… Enjoy!

 

**Updated** Good News reports

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Aurora has sent in a copy of her Good News Project, which includes what looks like a delicious but really simple recipe for homemade tagliatelle.  If you would like to have a go making some at home, I’m sure that Aurora would love to know how you get on, so please leave a comment below.

If you would like to write your own newspaper article, the template can be found on Pelham’s Easter home-earning activities page).

Aurora, you have earned yourself two house points – well done!

Another piece of Good News reporting has landed on my desk since I posted this.  Thank you Mia, it sounds as if you marked Anzac Day in a very poignant manner.  As usual, please remember to comment and give constructive feedback on both the content and presentation of this piece of work.

**Last update** Skellig front covers

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Good morning everybody! Thank you to everyone who has sent in copies/pictures of their home-learning, I’m really enjoying looking at what you have been doing.  Please continue to send your work in, to the address below, marking sure that you mark it for my  attention.

homelearning@pelham.merton.sch.uk

Suyeon, congratulations, you are the first person to receive house points this week.

More Skellig front covers have come in since I posted this.  As usual, please remember to comment and give constructive feedback.

Mina’s                                                Oliver’s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aurora’s                                                Sarah’s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here’s another one, from Olive. 

Here’s the last cover from Sofia. Please remember to comment and give constructive feedback.

House points

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In the interests of keeping Pelham’s spirit of competition strong, I have decided that, from today, I will award house points to children who engage with their learning through the blog. I intend to publish house points at the end of every week and keep a running total.

The house with the most house points by the time we return to school will get a special prize at our end of year party! 

The Book of Hopes

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Today sees the launch of this book (completely free), which is a collection of short stories, poems, essays and pictures that has contributions from more than 110 children’s writers and illustrators, including Lauren Child, Anthony Horowitz, Greg James and Chris Smith, Michael Morpurgo, Liz Pichon, Axel Scheffler, Francesca Simon, Jacqueline Wilson – and Katherine herself.

According to the National Literacy Trust, ‘The Book of Hopes aims to comfort, inspire and encourage children during lockdown through delight, new ideas, ridiculous jokes and heroic tales. There are true accounts of cats and hares and plastic-devouring caterpillars; there are doodles and flowers; revolting poems and beautiful poems; and there are stories of space travel and new shoes and dragons’.

I have just had a quick flick through the book, and particularly like Hope-o-potamus.  Let me know which poem is your favourite.

Did you know…?

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In Switzerland, it is illegal to own a single guinea pig.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest words in the dictionary – it is the fear of long words!

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

One of the ingredients needed to make dynamite is peanuts.

Glass balls can bounce higher than rubber ones (apparently).

I’d love to know what interesting facts you know – Ospreys have posted some sneeze facts over on their blog, some of which are toe-curlingly revolting!  Why don’t you swing by and take a look…?

‘Desert Island Discs’ challenge

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This project comes courtesy of Sam and Ethan (who typed up these instructions) – thank you SO much boys.  It is something that you could do with people in your house, as well as family and friends who you are not able to visit at the moment.

Note – a disc a is song played on a piece of plastic 🙂

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What you need:

  • An interviewer;
  • Someone who is interviewed.

Optional – you can record your interview on a smart phone and look back on it. Nice.

How it works:

It’s simple – the person being interviewed is invited to choose eight songs, a book and a luxury to take with them as they’re castaway on a mythical desert island. They’re given the complete works of Shakespeare and a religious book (Koran or bible etc.). Desert Island discs is played on BBC radio 4 most weeks and has been going for about 100 years!!

Questions the interviewer could ask, but you can ask any! This challenge tests your interview and answering skills:

  1. What are your eight favourite songs?
  2. Which one and only song’s your absolute favourite, if you had to choose one?
  3. What one and only book would you take to your desert Island?
  4. What luxury item would you take to your desert island? You can’t use it to escape or communicate with.
  5. Tell me about your family and friends?
  6. Who is the biggest influence in your life? Why?
  7. What was a good time in your life and why?
  8. What was a tough time and why?
  9. What are you most proud of?
  10. If you could go back in time where would you go and why?
  11. What would you do with £1,000,000.00?
  12. Any other questions you can think of!

Some examples of previous interviews:
Daniel Radcliffe (AKA Harry Potter) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gc48   Jamie Oliver (famous chef) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009489f
Tom Hanks (famous actor) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b079m78n