Dalton School Junior Infant And Nursery

It's our last ever FUN FRIDAY!

And this week's theme is

Who was Walt Disney?

Click on the video below to watch a short biography about Walt Disney and how he made the magic happen.

How can I draw like Walt Disney?

Below are step by step guides on how to draw a couple of Walt Disney characters: Ariel (the little mermaid) and young Simba from The Lion King.

For Ariel you will need a pencil and some paper and to read and follow each step carefully.

For Simba there is a video (please excuse the promotional nature of it). There is also a template you can print out or copy before you start.

A Disney themed lunch

Here are some ideas that you can make yourself with just a little adult supervision. Put it all together and you'll have a perfect Disney princess tea party!

Cinderella’s Carriage Wheels Spread a small amount of cheese spread onto a tortilla wrap and cover it with either cheese or ham. Roll them up and cut them into carriage wheels.	Elsa’s Frozen Crackers Cut cheese slices into snowflake shapes, using a snowflake cutter. Use a little bit of cheese spread to stick them onto ritz biscuits.	Wish Upon A Star Sandwiches Use a star cookie cutter to cut sandwiches into star shapes. You can have any filling you like.	Rapunzel’s Royal Pizzas Cook your pizza as directed. Use a knife to cut the pizzas into crown shapes.

Olaf’s Noses Cut carrot sticks lengthways using a sharp knife.	Ariel’s Sea Cucumber Sticks Cut a cucumber into sections about 7cm long. Then cut each section into sticks.	Jasmine’s Jewels Chop up fruits of your choice. Strawberries make good rubies and green grapes make good jade or emerald gemstones.	Aurora’s Pretty Pink Biscuits Dip the end of pink wafer biscuits into icing and then sprinkle with hundreds and thousands.

Disney puzzles!

Here's something to keep you busy. Enjoy!

The humble toilet roll!

Get creative with a toilet toll tube and transform it into your favourite Disney character. Have a look at the slideshow below for some inspiration.

The magical music of Disney

Disney films wouldn't be complete without their amazing array of musical numbers. Many of these sings have won numerous awards - and it's easy to see why.

The Year 2 team thought about which is their favourite Disney song of all time. It was a very hard decision to make. Here is what they chose, along with a video so you can watch it and sing along if you like. What's YOUR favourite Disney song?

Miss Butler - Under The Sea from The Little Mermaid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_mV1IpjWA	Mrs Lancelot - Can You Feel The Love Tonight? from The Lion King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25QyCxVkXwQ	Mrs Hirst - Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat from The Aristocats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I1_5mSXinQ	Miss Bradnum - The Bare Necessities from The Jungle Book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08NlhjpVFsU

Mrs Lewis - A Whole New World from Aladdin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq-eQKoEycM	Mrs Brook - Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo from Cinderella https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNKuARjkWEg	Miss Bamforth - Zero To Hero from Hercules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOL-EJZjmp0	WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE?
			Please feel free to make a recording of yourself performing your favourite and send it to your teachers. We'd LOVE to see them!

Talking of music, Mrs Lewis had a couple of requests on her clarinet.

Lily wanted You're Welcome from Moana, and Lilly-Mae wanted Beauty And The Beast from... well, Beauty And The Beast.

Here they are. Apologies for lighting and sound.

The ultimate Disney quiz!

How well do you know Disney films? Here is a quiz for you to try... test your family too!

Words of wisdom

There are lots of quotes from Walt Disney himself and many lines spoken by characters from his films that can give us encouragement and a positive message.

Read this one. How do you think this one applies to you?

Take special notice of this one, Year 2. This is what your teachers hope for you.

We believe in you.

We know that you can achieve your dreams.

We want to wish you all a fantastic summer holiday.

We are sooooooooooooooo looking forward to seeing your faces again in September around school.

Take care everybody xxx

A final song from Frozen 2, performed by Miss Bradnum's sister-in-law.

Thursday 16th July

Our penultimate day. Let's make the most of today!

Don't forget to keep sending in examples of your work. We love seeing it.

maths
music
RE
art
'Under The Sea' topic
'Fun Friday'
any photos of other activities you have been doing at home

English
phonics
science

Fitness: As always, there are the online fitness opportunities. Or maybe some of you are able to get outdoors for a daily walk with your family. You can do both indoor and outdoor exercise if you would like to!

Reading: Please spend 10 minutes (or more) reading today. Please write a comment in your child's reading record a couple of times a week (or more), if possible.

PLEASE HAVE ONE LAST PUSH ON READING EGGS.

THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN GOING ON REGULARLY HAVE MADE LOTS OF PROGRESS - SO WELL DONE THOSE CHILDREN!

Reading Eggs: Please keep up with going on this website, if you are able to. The phonics covered through the programme can make a difference in helping you to become fluent readers. Some of your children have been getting to the end of Reading Eggs! Wow! The next stage is to work through Reading Eggspress. Please make sure you finish level 121 on Reading Eggs first though!

Don't forget you can do the Spelling activities on Reading Eggs too!

Nessy: Those of you who do Nessy, please keep up and make sure you are completing at least 30 minutes of Nessy activities in a week.

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

TT Rockstars: Don't forget to keep on top of your times tables. You should know the 2, 5 and 10 times tables PLUS division facts by the time you go into Year 3. Keep practising!

Spelling: Keep practising the Common Exception Words list for Year 2.

English

Hello and how are you doing with the booklet or worksheet for your new teacher? No one has emailed me yet ? Are you fed up of home-schooling? It is hard I know xx

Try your best to have a go, it would be lovely for your new teacher and it will help them to get to know you a little bit before September.

I know most of you already but your new Year 3 teachers do not know much about you at all.

Phonics and Spelling

Keep logging onto Purple Mash for phonics games and quizzes.

Have a look at the link below and play Phonics Frog.

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/phonics-frog?phase=5

Science

For our final Science lesson we are looking at animals again. We have been learning about animals and their babies.

Today we are going to look at different groups of animals for example MAMMALS.

What is a mammal?

What do all mammals have in common?

Can you name any other type of animal group?

Watch the BBC Bitesize clip below about all the different groups of animals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv

Next have a go at the sorting activity and put the animals into the correct groups.

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Maths

Today is our last day for revision maths and we've got just one of the four operations left... DIVISION.

Below are two sets of worksheets to do. They are very similar but give good examples of all the types of division questions you should be able to do by the end of Year 2.

Also, we recommend looking at Hit The Button again. This time select the division button from the menu.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Wednesday 15th July

Hump day - as they call it! Nearly there now. Keep going... we believe in you.

Don't forget to keep sending in examples of your work. We love seeing it.

maths
music
RE
art
'Under The Sea' topic
'Fun Friday'
any photos of other activities you have been doing at home

English
phonics
science

Fitness: As always, there are the online fitness opportunities. Or maybe some of you are able to get outdoors for a daily walk with your family. You can do both indoor and outdoor exercise if you would like to!

Reading: Please spend 10 minutes (or more) reading today. Please write a comment in your child's reading record a couple of times a week (or more), if possible.

PLEASE HAVE ONE LAST PUSH ON READING EGGS.

THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN GOING ON REGULARLY HAVE MADE LOTS OF PROGRESS - SO WELL DONE THOSE CHILDREN!

Reading Eggs: Please keep up with going on this website, if you are able to. The phonics covered through the programme can make a difference in helping you to become fluent readers. Some of your children have been getting to the end of Reading Eggs! Wow! The next stage is to work through Reading Eggspress. Please make sure you finish level 121 on Reading Eggs first though!

Don't forget you can do the Spelling activities on Reading Eggs too!

Nessy: Those of you who do Nessy, please keep up and make sure you are completing at least 30 minutes of Nessy activities in a week.

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

TT Rockstars: Don't forget to keep on top of your times tables. You should know the 2, 5 and 10 times tables PLUS division facts by the time you go into Year 3. Keep practising!

Spelling: Keep practising the Common Exception Words list for Year 2.

English

This week we have been thinking of the people who have helped us this year and writing letters.

For the rest of the week I want you to think about yourself. What are you good at? What do you need help with? Who are your friends? What do you like doing?

You can choose which writing frame to use There are two below. Fill it in for you new teacher in September.

You have until Friday to finish this and email them to ingrid.lightowlers@kirkleeseducation.uk

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/assets/resources/shared/teaching-ideas/ideas-sentence-substitution.pdf

Phonics and Spelling

Do not forget to log onto Purple Mash and have a go at the 2dos on there!

Also here is a link to phonics play. Have a go at the sentence substitution game by following the link below.

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Science

Last week in Science we were learning about animals. This week we are learning about their offspring or their babies.

First of all watch the video clip and then try to match the animals to their babies.

Follow the link below to BBC Bitesize and watch the video clip about animals looking like their babies? Do all animals look like their babies? Can you think of any animals that do not look like their parent?

.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z8x76sg

Cut these up and then play pairs matching the animals to their babies.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4svgwx

Next follow the link to learn about the different groups of animals

Maths

So far this week we have revised place value, addition and subtraction. Today we are reminding ourselves about multiplication.

In Year 2, the children are expected to know the 2, 5 and 10 times tables off by heart, plus all the division facts.

To make sure you are practising all these, today we have got 2 sets of questions, some extra practise sheets and some online games. You can choose to do as much or as little as is comfortable, so long as you make sure you know all the 2s, 5s and 10s plus division facts by the time you go into Year 3.

The two question sheets go through multiplication in different ways:

equal groupings
repeated addition
x (meaning 'lots of')
arrays

Don't forget you can do your TTRockstars as well!

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Hit The Button has an extensive menu for you to choose from. It is good for the children (and an extra challenge) to do the ones where you have to 'hit the question', rather than just the ones where you 'hit the answer'. Please concentrate on the 2s, 5s and 10s but children may also want to look at 3s and 4s as they will be doing these in Year 3.

Tuesday 14th July

Happy Tuesday everyone. Hope you are all feeling good.

Don't forget to keep sending in examples of your work. We love seeing it.

maths
music
RE
art
'Under The Sea' topic
'Fun Friday'
any photos of other activities you have been doing at home

English
phonics
science

Fitness: As always, there are the online fitness opportunities. Or maybe some of you are able to get outdoors for a daily walk with your family. You can do both indoor and outdoor exercise if you would like to!

Reading: Please spend 10 minutes (or more) reading today. Please write a comment in your child's reading record a couple of times a week (or more), if possible.

PLEASE HAVE ONE LAST PUSH ON READING EGGS.

THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN GOING ON REGULARLY HAVE MADE LOTS OF PROGRESS - SO WELL DONE THOSE CHILDREN!

Reading Eggs: Please keep up with going on this website, if you are able to. The phonics covered through the programme can make a difference in helping you to become fluent readers. Some of your children have been getting to the end of Reading Eggs! Wow! The next stage is to work through Reading Eggspress. Please make sure you finish level 121 on Reading Eggs first though!

Don't forget you can do the Spelling activities on Reading Eggs too!

Nessy: Those of you who do Nessy, please keep up and make sure you are completing at least 30 minutes of Nessy activities in a week.

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

TT Rockstars: Don't forget to keep on top of your times tables. You should know the 2, 5 and 10 times tables PLUS division facts by the time you go into Year 3. Keep practising!

Spelling: Keep practising the Common Exception Words list for Year 2.

English

Today we are going to think about all the people in school that have helped you this year. Maybe you were upset because you had fallen out with your friend, or perhaps you were stuck with your maths or writing. Maybe someone sat with you and helped you on reading eggs or with your reading book?

Mr Richardson has been busy writing letters to all the staff and all of your grown ups. In his letter he has said a big THANK YOU to us all.

Saying THANK YOU is important.

So today I would like you to write a letter to someone who has helped you this year at Dalton School.

Here are some pictures and messages that you might like to include to help you.

Here are some letter writing frames for you to print off and write your thank you letters. It would be really lovely if you email them to me and I can give them to the teachers or you could leave them at the school office.

Phonics and Spellings

Log onto your Purple Mash - there are some new 2dos for you to play.

Also have a go at the a-e and e-e split digraph word searches below.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

Maths

Today we are revising addition and subtraction. There is an online game to play and a booklet to complete.

It is EXTREMELY important that you go into Year 3 knowing your number bonds - even better if you can do them at speed! Your MENTAL MATHS is CRUCIAL! The game has many different choices from the menu to practise different bonds and skills. Below are listed all the options that will help you to hone your skills! Choose the levels appropriate for your ability.

Recommended options for ADDITION:

Up to 10 - one more
Up to 20 - one more
Up to 100 - ten more
Up to 10
Up to 100
Three one-digit numbers
Two-digit numbers
Bonds to make 10
Bonds to make 20
Bonds to make 100 (tens)
Challenge - Bonds to make 100

Recommended options for SUBTRACTION:

Up to 10 - one less
Up to 10
Up to 20 - one less
Up to 20 - minus single-digit
Up to 20
Up to 100 - one less
Up to 100 - ten less
Up to 100 - two-digit numbers

Topic - Under The Sea

To finish off our topic, we have a little quiz for you. Hint: you'll probably have to do some research to be able to answer the questions!

Answers on the second page.

Monday 13th July

Good morning everybody. We hope you're all doing well and are looking forward to our work in what is our LAST WEEK!

Don't forget to keep sending in examples of your work. We love seeing it.

maths
music
RE
art
'Under The Sea' topic
'Fun Friday'
any photos of other activities you have been doing at home

English
phonics
science

Fitness: As always, there are the online fitness opportunities. Or maybe some of you are able to get outdoors for a daily walk with your family. You can do both indoor and outdoor exercise if you would like to!

Reading: Please spend 10 minutes (or more) reading today. Please write a comment in your child's reading record a couple of times a week (or more), if possible.

PLEASE HAVE ONE LAST PUSH ON READING EGGS.

THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN GOING ON REGULARLY HAVE MADE LOTS OF PROGRESS - SO WELL DONE THOSE CHILDREN!

Reading Eggs: Please keep up with going on this website, if you are able to. The phonics covered through the programme can make a difference in helping you to become fluent readers. Some of your children have been getting to the end of Reading Eggs! Wow! The next stage is to work through Reading Eggspress. Please make sure you finish level 121 on Reading Eggs first though!

Don't forget you can do the Spelling activities on Reading Eggs too!

Nessy: Those of you who do Nessy, please keep up and make sure you are completing at least 30 minutes of Nessy activities in a week.

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

TT Rockstars: Don't forget to keep on top of your times tables. You should know the 2, 5 and 10 times tables PLUS division facts by the time you go into Year 3. Keep practising!

Spelling: Keep practising the Common Exception Words list for Year 2.

Monday 13th July

English

Well we have reached the last week of the school year. What a strange year it has been. I don't think any of us will forget 2020. I hope you are all safe and well.

This week I thought it would be nice for us to write some letters. We will not be able to have our normal end of year because of COVID 19 and a lot of us won't be able to see friends and staff.

So to start with let us have a look back and share our memories by filling in the sheet below.

Phonics and Spellings

Today in phonics we are revisiting split digraphs, a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e.

Take a look at the word cards below and try to complete each word using the correct split digraph.

On the next activity you need to use either split digraph a-e or i-e and write out the word under the picture.

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Maths

In this last week, we'd like to just go over the key number work in maths: place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

The two following documents contain very similar questions all based on place value, but cover all that you should know by the end of this area of maths in Year 2.

You can choose to do one or both of the documents.

Music

To finish our 20th century music studies we are looking at a singer called Frank Sinatra. Watch the video a couple of times then do the questions on the following worksheet.

It's FUN FRIDAY! And this week it's all about REFLECTIONS.

LIFE BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER LOCKDOWN

Normal life kind of got turned on its head. But now that we are approaching the summer holiday, it feels like a good time to reflect:

on things we enjoyed before lockdown
things we have done during lockdown
things we are looking forward to after lockdown, perhaps when we are all back at school and life can feel a bit more normal again

Mrs Brook thought about these things and produced these pieces of writing.

Have a go yourself.

MIRROR MIRROR: REFLECTING ON OUR OWN HISTORY

Sometimes we might spend time thinking about events that have happened in our own lives. These might have been very happy events, difficult times, or perhaps some memories are a mixture of both (what we might call 'bittersweet').

Mrs Brook and Mrs Lewis spent some time thinking about one of the most important days of their lives: their wedding days!

Mrs Brook wrote down some words that come to mind when she thinks about that day.

Mrs Lewis got out a few photographs. Her wedding day was such a joyful occasion. So many people had such a good time (Miss Bradnum was one of them because she was there!) But when Mrs Lewis looks at the photos, there is a sense of mixed feelings.

Some of the people aren't here anymore because they have died.
Some people aren't together as a couple anymore.
One of the people in the pictures met someone at the wedding who they have gone on to marry!
Some of the people have gone on to get engaged!
Some of the people have since had their own children.
Mr and Mrs Lewis went on to have children too.

So photographs can bring about some sadness for those we have lost, but also many reasons to be cheerful.

All this reflecting got Mrs Lewis thinking about a song. It's called 'In My Life' by The Beatles (who we have looked at in our music studies.)

It is a song that very much makes you think about your own life.

You can enjoy the song below, read the lyrics, maybe sing along. Perhaps you'd like to try and write your own version.

In My Life - The Beatles

There are places I'll remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone, and some remain
All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends, I still can recall
Some are dead, and some are living
In my life, I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I'll love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I'll love you more

In my life I'll love you more

Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney

REFLECTIVE ART - ANISH KAPOOR

Anish Kapoor is an artist who loves to work with reflective surfaces. One of his most famous is in Chicago and is called Cloud Gate (or The Bean as is its nickname.)

Watch the 1 minute time lapse video to see how the reflections change and give each person a unique experience of the art. Look at examples of his other work too.

What do you like about his work?
Is there anything you don't like?
Discuss what you think with someone at home.

REFLECTIVE PHOTOGRAPHY

Have you ever noticed what happens to your reflection when you look into a spoon?

Does your reflection change if you look into the other side?

Mrs Lewis LOVES taking photos in reflective surfaces. Here are some of the photos she has taken. Can you spot Mrs Lewis in the photos?

YOUR TASK is to take a photo of yourself in a reflective surface. What happens to your reflection? Does it change shape? Is it upside-down? Is it a different colour? Experiment and please share your fun with Mrs Lewis.

REFLECTIONS IN THE WATER

Have a look at this photo. Have you ever noticed what happens to an object when it is reflected in the water?

Have a try at drawing your own water reflection picture. Mrs Brook has shared hers with us.

SOMETHING TO REFLECT UPON

If you were to look into the water, what animal do you think you would see as your reflection?

What characteristics does that animal have that reflects your personality?

Is it an animal you would be proud to be?

Are you proud of yourself when you reflect upon:

your actions,
how you treat other people,
how much effort you put in at school,
how kind and caring you are,
how forgiving you are,
how willing to understand you are?

Fitness: As always, there are the online fitness opportunities. Or maybe some of you are able to get outdoors for a daily walk with your family. You can do both indoor and outdoor exercise if you would like to!

Reading: Please spend 10 minutes (or more) reading today. Please write a comment in your child's reading record a couple of times a week (or more), if possible.

PLEASE HAVE A FOCUS ON READING EGGS.

THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN GOING ON REGULARLY HAVE MADE LOTS OF PROGRESS - SO WELL DONE THOSE CHILDREN!

Reading Eggs: Please keep up with going on this website, if you are able to. The phonics covered through the programme can make a difference in helping you to become fluent readers. Some of your children have been getting to the end of Reading Eggs! Wow! The next stage is to work through Reading Eggspress. Please make sure you finish level 121 on Reading Eggs first though!

Don't forget you can do the Spelling activities on Reading Eggs too!

Nessy: Those of you who do Nessy, please keep up and make sure you are completing at least 30 minutes of Nessy activities in a week.