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Miss Riddle does... George Ezra's 'Shotgun' -- Welcome back, EC2!

Someone in my class - I don't remember who - challenged me to play 'Shotgun' on my guitar when I had it in school. At the time, I couldn't: I love the guitar but I've never learned anything except a few basic chords. Lockdown seemed the right time to practise... and to get my family involved with making a music video!

EC2, I miss you, I hope you enjoy this! Thanks for inspiring me!

Some of you have been sending Miss Riddle animations and pictures of what you have been getting up to - here are a few. If you want to see your work on this page, send Miss Riddle an email! There's some fantastic, fun stuff going on at your houses!

Ode to a potato, set to music, written and composed by Edward

Passing Time

Making a beautiful sundial - what a fantastic thing to do on a sunny day. Well done girls!

Poems and other writing that I have been sent - I love reading what you have written, keep them coming!

Creative projects at home - art, cooking, design, science - it's lovely to see what you're up to!

Week 1 Summer Term 2 (1.6.20 - 5.6.20) - home learning tasks

And an animation involving cars doing tricks.

Filming outdoor fun

A times table animation!

Making the 6 x table fun - good effort girls!

Over the coming weeks, I will be adding links to useful online resources - keep checking back as I will add them when I find them. If you find any good ones which aren't on here, please let me know so I can add them!

Mixed subjects:

Twinkl This website has a Home Learning Hub page with a timetable uploaded daily. It includes Joe Wicks PE lesson activities, a 'Newsroom Daily Bulletin' to listen to (along with investigative activities), break time activities, arts and crafts live lessons and more.

Classroom Secrets Home learning packs available for each year group, covering maths, reading comprehension, spelling and grammar.

TTS Home Learning Packs A variety of different activities for almost every subject

BBC Live Lessons Video lessons on everything from reading to maths to art to history to science.

Premier League Primary Stars Football-themed English, maths, PE and PHSE.

Maths Activities:

Times Table Rockstars Competitive times table games online. Email Miss Riddle if you have forgotten your login details.

Mathletics Maths activities online. Email Miss Riddle if you have forgotten your login details.

Top Marks - Mental Maths Games

5 a day 5 mental maths questions a day. Broadly speaking, bronze = Y3, silver = Y4, gold = Y5 and platinum = Y6.

Wild Maths Lots of ideas for being creative with maths - no worksheets here!

English Activities:

How to NOT go to School A free e-book about coping with not going to school - it's good fun!

The Book of Hopes An e-book (to be released as a hard copy later in the year) of poems, short stories and pictures to comfort, inspire and entertain children during lockdown.

Oxford Owl Library Library of free e-books

Top Marks - Punctuation Games

Top Marks - Spelling and Grammar Games

The Literacy Shed A selection of short videos, mostly animations, to use as ideas for fantastic writing.

World of David Williams David Walliams, reading his stories aloud, and lots of free fun activities.

Art / Creative Activities:

I really recommend the app I can animate. There is a free version which I use and it is so much fun making your own stop-motion animations (animations using photographs). It is how I made the animation at the top of the page.

Doodles with Mo Williems Learn to draw with illustrator Mo Williems, who also talks a bit about how children's picture books are made.

Draw with Rob Children's book illustrator Rob Biddulph does tutorials for drawing characters.

Easy Fun Colouring Tutorials for how to do bubble writing, cartoons and pop art style drawings

My How To Draw A series of tutorials on how to draw pretty much anything.

Draw Tip Tuesdays Lots of short drawing tutorial videos from one of my drawing idols.

Music Activities:

Rhythm Cat is a good music app, a fun game to play along to with a fun soundtrack, which aims at learning to read the most common musical rhythms.

Music at Home A fantastic site with a song to learn every day, and a choice of activities and challenges to go with each song.

BBC Bitesize - Music Videos and quizzes about different elements of music.

Music youtube lessons from Gloucestershire Music Service

Science Activities:

Kew Gardens home learning activities Our science topic should have been plants - learn about them from the UK's leading botanic gardens.

The Great Indoors - Scouts Science and investigative ideas

BBC Bitesize: Science Lots of videos and quizzes about all sorts of different science topics, aimed at KS2.

The Royal Institution Science experiments for home. Short videos to explain what to do, using everyday items, covering physics, biology and chemistry, both indoor and outdoor.

Starters-for-STEM.pdf

PE Activities:

Joe Wicks PE Lessons I’m sure you’ve already found this one! Fitness instructor Joe Wicks, teaching PE to the nation every weekday at 9am.

Cosmic Yoga Yoga while listening to stories.

Computing Activities:

Online Safety at home: Home learning pack 1 First online safety pack designed for home learning during the Coronavirus outbreak, designed by Thinkuknow, the education team from the National Crime Agency.

Online Safety at home: Home Learning pack 2 Second online safety pack designed for home learning during the Coronavirus outbreak, designed by Thinkuknow, the education team from the National Crime Agency.

Online Safety at home: Home Learning pack 3 Third online safety pack designed for home learning during the Coronavirus outbreak, designed by Thinkuknow, the education team from the National Crime Agency.

Childnet Online Safety A selection of resources for discussing online safety at home

BBC Dance Mat Typing Typing is a really useful skill. Learn to type quickly using this fun programme!

Scratch Learn how to code to create games - you will need to sign up but it is free.

Minecraft coding Minecraft have stated doing coding tutorials aimed at primary children. Even as someone who doesn't know Minecraft well, I enjoyed having a go at this!

Tynker Lots of coding challenges, games and projects. You will have to create an account, but it is free while schools are closed for coronavirus.

Hour of Code Lots of different coding activities, from Lego to Moana to Harry Potter and many more.

PSHE (Personal, Social, Health Education) Activities:

Coronavirus: A book for children A free digital book explaining coronavirus and the measures being taken to prevent it, aimed at primary school children and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo.

Facts 4 Life Activity Sheet 1

A concert from Miss Riddle

I have been practising my recorder during lockdown. I started playing the recorder when I was 10, and had lessons until I was 18, but since then I have only played it every now and then. I've taught myself a new piece, and I thought I would give a little concert!
The piece is called 'Pan Overheard'. I explain a bit about that in the introduction to the video, but I forgot to mention that Pan - a Greek god - played an instrument called the panpipes. This piece is supposed to sound like Pan playing his panpipes to himself in a forest.

Week 5 Summer Term (18.5.20 - 22.5.20) - home learning tasks

Week 4 Summer Term (11.5.20 - 15.5.20) - home learning tasks

Week 3 Summer Term (4.5.20 - 8.5.20) - home learning tasks

Week 2 Summer Term (28.4.20 - 3.5.20) - home learning tasks

Pyjamarama - Reading and pyjama day - Friday 1st May 2020. We are inviting you all to take part in this national celebration of book reading... while wearing pyjamas!