

Robin Class Home School
Week Commencing
Monday 6th July 2020
Hello Robins,
I hope you enjoyed writing your terrifying T-Rex information text last week and that you managed to try some circus themed learning activities. I enjoyed the plastic bag balancing circus skill!
I know that this has been a long term of learning at home and we are all missing school and our friends. There’s not long to go now before the Summer Holidays, so keep working hard for a bit longer and remember our school value of happiness.
There will be a video message from me on the school website on Monday morning to start the week.
You will find this week’s Robin Class English and Maths activities below. Do what you can, choose a peak challenge to suit you and don’t worry if you don’t have time to finish all of it.
Parents/carers can email me at robin@wicklewood.norfolk.sch.uk with any questions, and you can send me one piece of work a week that you are proud of. All emails must be from a parent email account.
I will continue to provide feedback on any Purple Mash work and comment on your posts of the Purple Mash Robin Class Blog.
Have a great week.

Mr Allard
Reading
Logon to www.oxfordowl.co.uk and use ‘My Class Login’ button (classname: robinclass, password: book) to access this week’s ebooks.
RWI Group
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Read Write Inc eBook
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Age Filter
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eBook
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Red
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Sound Blending 10
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4-5 years
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Jack
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Green
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What is it? (purple)
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4-5 years
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Zoom Food
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Orange
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Blackbirds
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5-6 years
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Ice Crystal Robbery
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Yellow
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A Sweetcorn Salad
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6-7 years
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Bin Goblins
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Blue
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Save the Whale
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6-7 years
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Halo-Board Havoc
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Grey
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A Flight to New York
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6-7 years
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The Sand Witch
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If your child is in Grey RWI group and needs more of a challenge, try reading Top Ten Worst Jobs in History.
Due to the limited number of Read Write Inc books available as ebooks there may be some repetition before the end of term.
Don’t forget that the Summer Reading Challenge 2020 is open, details can be found at https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/. This year’s theme is:-

The challenge is online with access to ebooks, activities, clubs and story times.
Your special adult helper will need to sign up and create an account for you.
Phonics
Please continue to access the ‘Read Write Inc Phonics Lessons at Home’ page on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ for the daily phonics and spelling lessons with Rosie.
The sound your child will need to focus on will depend on their RWI group before the school closure.
This week’s lessons detailed in the table below:-
RWI Grp
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Set Sound
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Mon
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Tue
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Wed
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Thu
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Fri
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Red/Green
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2
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ee
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igh
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ow
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oo (zoo)
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oo (look)
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Orange/Yellow Blue/Grey
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3
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ur
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er
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ow
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ai
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oa
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Read Longer Words
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oo
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ar
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ire
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ear
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ure
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I have managed to track down the revised Read Write Inc timetable so the sounds and days should now match!
These videos are on a repeat sequence between now and the end of term. Repetition is an important part of embedding phonic knowledge so please continue to follow these lessons. If you are following set 2 sounds and are feeling very confident, try set 3 sounds instead.
All lessons will be available for 24 hours from 9.30am each day.
For children in Red/Green RWI Groups, also watch the ‘Read Red Words 1’ daily film.
For children in Orange/Yellow/Blue/Grey RWI Groups, watch ‘Read longer words’ and ‘Read Red Words 2’ films.
For children in Orange RWI Group, watch Read Red Words 1 if you are not feeling confident about Read Words 2.
Optional Challenge:
For children in Red/Green RWI Groups, you can watch the ‘Read and Hold a Sentence 1’ film and complete the sentence writing activity.
For children in Orange/Yellow/Blue/Grey RWI Groups, watch ‘Read and Hold a Sentence 2’ film and complete the sentence writing activity.
All films will be in separate categories on the YouTube channel.
If you are finding it difficult to fit everything in, please focus on the Speed Sound and Spelling video lessons.
Any spellings can be completed in the home school sharing book, an exercise book or a notebook.
Spellings
Login to PurpleMash and try a Spelling Quiz challenge in your 2Dos.
When you launch the 2Do, you will be given some options about how long you will see the word for before it disappears. Give yourself longer if you are not feeling confident.
Choose your own peak challenge and remember that mistakes are part of learning. You only need to complete one spelling 2Do, but you can do more if you like.

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Spelling Quiz 1 – Words spelt with special friends /ff/, /ll/, /ss/, /zz/ and /ck/.
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Spelling Quiz 2 – Words spelt with special friends /er/ at the end.
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Spelling Quiz 3 – Words spelt with special friends /air/, /are/ and /ear/ all making an air sound.
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Keep a note of any words that you find difficult to spell, and try the following:-
1. Write the words onto cards (not too many at a time). Say the word out loud.
2. If the word can be split into its sounds, say the word in a ‘robot voice’.
3. Look at the word trace over the letters with your finger.
4. Copy the word and say the letters or sounds as you write it. Copy it again.
5. Cover the word and try and write the word saying it as you write – peep if you need to!
6. Check the word you have written matches the word on the card and say it again as you check.
7. Keep writing the word until you can write it without having to peep.
8. For words that are tricky and are not as easy to learn, take an imaginary picture of the word with your imaginary camera – imagine the word is big, coloured red, lit up by fireworks, has spiders crawling on it. Shut your eyes and try and picture the word. Try and write it down imagining the picture of the word you see in your head.
English
For English this week, we will be staying with Miss Browne at the Oak National Academy to explore and write some poetry.
If you have a magic wand grab it for the lessons!
Miss Browne has the /ir/ /ur/ /er/ alternative sounds (phonemes) as her sound of the week. This is helpful revision and spelling practice but depending upon your child’s phonic progress they may not know all of these sounds yet.
Please ensure that you keep following Rosie on the Read Write Inc phonics lessons on YouTube outlined above for your daily phonics learning.
There are one, two or three peak challenges each day. Remember to choose something which you feel you can do but will challenge you.
Monday
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Today, we will be listening to a poem and then answering some questions. The video lesson can be found at
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-listen-to-a-poem. Make sure you tick or fix your work with Miss Browne.
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Pause the video and tell your special adult the answers to Miss Browne’s questions on the poem.
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Pause the video and write down the answers to Miss Browne’s questions on the poems. Use these sentence starters:-
- The poet has ….
- The smelly muck turned into ….
- The rubbish heap turned into ….
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Pause the video and write down the answer to Miss Browne’s questions. Answer in full sentences and draw a picture to show the answer to each question.
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Tuesday
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In the lesson today we will be identifying rhyming words. The video lesson can be found at https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-identify-rhyming-words.
Make sure you tick or fix your work with Miss Browne.
An online rhyming dictionary can be found at https://www.poetry4kids.com/rhymes/ if you need some help.
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When Miss Browne ask you to, find the rhyming words and tell your special adult helper what they are.
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When Miss Browne ask you to, pause the video and find the rhyming words. Write the words down.
Try to complete the challenge task.
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When Miss Browne ask you to, pause the video and find the rhyming words. Write the words down. Try and think of and write down another word which rhymes.
Try the challenge task but think of a rhyming word you haven’t already written down.
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Wednesday
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Today, we will be learning about onomatopoeia so that we can include it in our poems that we write on Friday. The video lesson can be found at
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-identify-onomatopoeia.
Make sure you tick or fix your work with Miss Browne.
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When Miss Browne asks you to, write down the words which are onomatopoeia. Your special adult helper can help you.
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When Miss Browne asks you to, write down the words which are onomatopoeia.
Write out the sentences adding the missing onomatopoeia words from the word bank.
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When Miss Browne asks you to, write down the words which are onomatopoeia. Write out the sentences adding the missing onomatopoeia words from the word bank.
Can you think of two more onomatopoeia words and write them in your own sentences?
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Thursday
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We will start to plan our poem. The video lesson can be found at https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-plan-our-poem.
You will need your special adult helper to fold a blank piece of paper into 12 equal boxes.
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Pause the video when asked to and draw your own poem plan. Choose your own rhyming words and onomatopoeia.
With your special adult helper, use your poem plan to practise saying your poem.
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Pause the video when asked to and draw your own poem plan. Choose your own rhyming words and onomatopoeia.
Use your poem plan to tell your special adult helper and one other person your poem independently.
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Pause the video when asked to and draw your own poem plan. Choose your own rhyming words and onomatopoeia.
Use your poem plan to tell your special adult helper and three other people your poem independently. Think about how you will use your voice when you are saying the onomatopoeia words.
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Friday
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Today, we will write our poem. The video lesson can be found at https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-write-our-poem.
You will need your poem plan from yesterday’s lesson. Make sure you tick or fix your work with Miss Browne.
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Using your poem plan, write the first two verses of your poem with Miss Browne’s help.
If your special adult helper has time, they can then write or help you write the remaining verses.
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Using your poem plan, write the first two verses of your poem with Miss Browne.
Then write the hen and the mouse verses on your own.
Edit the first two verses with Miss Browne and then try to edit the next two verses independently.
Check that you’ve remembered capital letters, rhyming words, onomatopoeia and full stops or exclamation marks.
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Using your poem plan, write the first two verses of your poem with Miss Browne.
Then write the hen and the mouse verses on your own.
Edit the first two verses with Miss Browne and then try to edit the next two verses independently.
Check that you’ve remembered capital letters, rhyming words, onomatopoeia and full stops or exclamation marks.
Have fun with your special adult helper creating some word art using only onomatopoeia words at https://wordart.com/.
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Use your home school sharing book, exercise book or notebook to record your work.
It would be great to see any work you are proud of on the Robin Class Blog on Purple Mash.
Maths
We will continue to use White Rose Maths learning resources again this week. We will look at ordering numbers, recognising and counting money. Friday will be a fun maths day!
There is a video lesson presentation for each day focussing on the learning. There are separate activity and answer sheets on the school website for each day.
If you have access to a printer, then please print out the activity sheet. If you cannot print this document, ask an adult to help you create a frame &/or draw pictures like the activity sheet in your home school sharing book, exercise book or notebook. Adults can help you to use the separate answer sheets to ‘tick or fix’ your work.
There are one, two or three peak challenges. Remember to choose something which you feel you can do but will challenge you.
If your child finds these activities challenging, always spend time seeing the maths first by manipulating physical objects and then drawing pictures. This is more important than completing an activity sheet. Should you need any guidance email Mr Allard at robin@wicklewood.norfolk.sch.uk.
Monday
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Watch the lesson video at https://vimeo.com/432401517 about ordering numbers up to 100. Then use the activity sheet from the school website to practise this skill.
There is a separate activity sheet for the three peak challenge.
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Can you use your ordering skills to answer Questions 1, 2 and 3?
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Can you use your ordering skills to answer Questions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5?
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Can you play the Ordering 2-Digit Numbers on a Number Line game with your special adult helper?
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Tuesday
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Watch the lesson video at https://vimeo.com/432401693 about recognising coins. Then use the activity sheet from the school website to practise this skill.
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Can you match the coins to the amount in Question 1?
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Can you use knowledge of coins to Questions 1, 2 and 3?
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Can you use knowledge of coins to Questions 1, 2, 3 and 4?
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Wednesday
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Watch the lesson video at https://vimeo.com/432401840 about recognising notes. This is new learning. Then use the activity sheet from the school website to practise this skill.
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Can you match the notes to the amount in Question 1 and then find the notes in Question 2?
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Can you use your knowledge of notes to answer Questions 1, 2, 3 and 4?
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Can you use your knowledge of notes to answer Questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6?
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Thursday
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Watch the lesson video https://vimeo.com/432401953 to count in coins. Then use the activity sheet from the school website to practise this skill.
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Can you count in 1ps, 2ps, 5ps, and 10ps to answer Question 1?
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Can you use your counting skills to answer Questions 1, 2, 3?
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Can you use your counting skills to answer Questions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5?
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Robin Class Blog
Please check out the Robin Class Blog on Purple Mash to see what your classmates have been up to and to send them a message. Don’t forget to add a post if you would like to share any news or work with the class.
This is a private Wicklewood Primary School community blog. You must get parent/carer approval before posting or commenting.
To access the blog, login to Purple Mash and select the sharing tab at the top of the screen. Then select the shared blogs tab and the ‘Robin Class’ blog.
To add a new post, use the green + button or to add kind and positive comments on existing posts use the post comment button. All posts and comments need teacher approval before they are added so please be patient!
Family Challenge Learning
On the school website you will find a range of family friendly thematic learning opportunities posted on Friday. This week’s theme is ‘Islands’. Pick and choose from these activities for your other learning challenges this week.
Have fun with your learning, don’t worry about mistakes and stay safe.

Mr Allard