Year 1 and Year 2 will continue their sessions with Colette from The Wye & Usk Foundation. Your activities from Session One and Two looked fabulous well done to you all. So today we will take part in session 3. All the activities can be found at: https://www.wyeuskfoundation.org/education
Session 3: Prevent Pollution!
What you need to know: This week’s session looks at the how rivers get polluted and what we can all do to help prevent this happening. It also introduces the concept of filtration as a way of cleaning water. It builds on last week’s session, providing a further opportunity to encourage scientific thinking. Designing their experiment, predicting what might happen, then seeing if the predictions came true. Following the experiment, we look at the fact that salmon and stonefly nymphs can only live in clean water, so if we see them, they indicate or tell us the water in the river is clean. Hence, they are called indicator species.
Key words: pollution, filtration, indicator species
All you need to do:
Watch the video clip.
Read through the activity sheet with children.
Recap on the things we can do to help keep rivers clean, look at the video.
Discuss how the fish must feel when their river gets polluted decide which poster they want to design. Discuss whether they are going to write a poem or design a poster and its aim.
Decide whether or not to do the filtration experiment. Recap by watching the part of the video and look at the suggestions on the activity sheet. You can try all kinds of filters.
As part of your Big Write we would love to see your posters and/ or poems with your very important messages!
Please share any work you do with us via pupil folders, email and/ or twitter. Don’t forget to include us @trellechprimary and @WUFoundation, we would love to see what we have been up to!
Numeracy:
Today I have been able to add the Big Maths Challenges to our Class Folder within our Hwb Classroom.
There are 3 available: Clic, Learn Its and Safe- we usually complete CLic and Learn Its in Week One and SAFE during Week 2, so please don’t feel you need to do them all today. They are there to check how the children are doing and identify any gaps in learning, so let them try on their own. The Learn Its should be completed in less than 2 minutes as it checks our recall of known number facts. I have also added an editable version to save you printing them off it helps. (In the pupil folder on Just2easy). If you have any problems accessing them, please let me know and I can email them to you- (peacockk2@hwbcymru.net).
Mini Me Yoga- Sending out the love
Who will you send your love to?
o Now, does everyone know where their right hand is? Give me a wave...that’s correct!
o Now, can you put your hand on your heart? Excellent!
o Did you know that your heart can send out love to anyone in the world?
o Should we try it? Hold your hand on your heart.
o Let’s see – who should we send love to first? Our family?
o We send it using a sound like “Ommmm” or you can “Hmmmm” or whatever sound you want. This makes our heart vibrate, which send the love energy in your heart to anyone we choose.
o Let’s try it.
o Ommmmmmmm. (Make sure you don’t last as long as the children).
o Wow! You are VERY good at this. Gosh, do you think we could try again so I can see if I can be as good as you? Note, the “as good as”, not better than.
o OK, who should we send it to this time? What about the animals or our pets?
o OK, ready? Ommmmmm...
o Oh my goodness, you are SO good! Please give me one more chance. (NOTE: Do it 3 times.)
o How about sending love out to the whole county/ country?
o Ommmmm. Wow! That was great. I will practice and try to be as good as you next time!
Lockdown Sports Day- Monday sees us have our lockdown Sports Day. You can choose up to 7 activities to participate in. Each class have chosen 1- send us your picture or save in your folder. Each time you take part in an activity you will earn points for your house…check the Class Folder for the activities you can select from.
Enjoy your weekend, stay safe and see you Monday!