Home Learning

Welcome to our Home Learning Zone. 

Dear Parents/Carers,

Hopefully you have enjoyed the work packs that everyone collected and now we have some exciting online work to complete.

We hope you are all well and getting used to the different way of life, which we hope will end soon. We appreciate all the work the children have done so far and have enjoyed looking at it.

It has been great to see your children’s learning on Purple Mash. If they’ve yet to start, log-on and see the range of activities that there are to do. When you are logged on to Purple Mash click on the sharing tab where you will find up to date blogs and display boards that share work across school. Take a look, your children’s work might be being celebrated. The blogs give more information on how to complete tasks and navigate the website.

We’re hoping that you are managing to get out for some exercise in this lovely weather. When you’re out for a walk with your children play ‘spot the difference’. Think about all the different types of houses and their door numbers. Things to discuss with your children: Are the numbers even or odd? Do the numbers go in order? Are the numbers increasing or decreasing?

We are all thinking of you and missing you everyday.

Love from Everyone at Crane Park

Everyone at Crane Park has access to Purple Mash.

Purple Mash is a comprehensive, exciting world of online learning that is specifically designed for primary children. Everyone should have their own Username and Password. (Please contact school if you do not.) 

Here is a link to a special message that Miss Tayler has sent to everyone

https://www.purplemash.com/blog?sharedLinkMode=1#/app/blog/5e83a806b0821b34786ed903/ 

and this is a message from Mrs Sidhu.

https://www.purplemash.com/blog?share​dLinkMode=1#/app/blog/5e8474b7757448685b77c6f3/

Home Learning - Free Websites for Parents/Children to access :

Please find below useful website links for families to use. 

• Purple Mash: https://www.purplemash.com 
• Cosmic Kids yoga: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
• BBC Bitesize: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn
• Oxford Reading Owls:  https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
• ICT games: https://www.ictgames.com/
• Top Marks games - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/
• Nrich maths investigations and problem solving: https://nrich.maths.org/
• SATS paper examples https://www.satspapersguide.co.uk/
• TT Rockstars: https://ttrockstars.com/
• Children’s news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround
• Help with Phonics for KS1 children - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
• Free maths lesson videos - http://www.iseemaths.com/home-lessons/
• Daily maths lessons - http://www.whiterosemaths.com/homelearning
• The Maths Factor (Carol Vorderman) https://www.themathsfactor.com
• Art - Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL14hRqd0PELGbKihHuTqx_pbvCLqGbOkF 

Fun time activities for everyone at home.

Remember: It is good to take a break and have some family time!

For more ideas to keep yourself healthy go our PE Home Learning icon.

Go for a walk and see how many different birds you can see

• Make a fruit face and share it with your family

Play this collecting game

• collect 7-12 objects from around the home
• get a small towel or scarf
• show your family your 7 objects
• hide them with the towel or scarf
• secretly take one object away
• show your family the 6 objects that are left
• can they guess what you have taken

Bake with a grown up

Make biscuits or a cake to share with your family

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/iced-fairy-cakes
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easiest-ever-biscuits

• Play games together inside and out
• Make your own sandwiches and have an indoor picnic
• Make a model from empty boxes
• Make a cress family

You need cress seed and empty egg shells or yogurt pots

• draw a face on a yogurt post or egg shell
• put wet tissue/cotton wool into the yogurt pot or egg shell
• sprinkle on some cress seeds
• put them on a window sill to grow

Make bark rubbings in the park.

Crane Park has lots of trees!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Make a combination creature

You need two or three people, a piece of paper and pens

• the first person secretly draws a head with a neck and then folds the paper down so the head is hidden but a little bit of neck is showing
• the second person secretly draws a body on to the neck and then folds the paper down so the body can’t be seen (just two tiny lines to show were the body ends)
• the next person draws the legs

Open up the picture and see what your creature looks like!