Neptune and Mars
1.6.20
We have seen rainbows popping up all over the place recently.
Have a go at this science experiment to try and make rainbow coloured rain in a glass...
Make rainbow coloured rain in a glass...
Happy Birthday Ruby!
Have a lovely day Rubes. Lots of love.
22.5.20
Have a go at PERSEVERANCE today - and fill your own bucket as you go.
It's the power of YET!
Tune in to Seesaw to see the rest of the
Buckets, Dippers and Lids
book.
21.5.20
Video message 21.5.20 - learn about the bucket tucked away inside your mind and help to fill it by enjoying a day of barefoot-ed-ness.
Let me know if you need any more reading books on Active Learn ready for half term.
20.5.20
Video message 20.5.20. Learn about the invisible string down which our love travels so that we are never alone.
19.5.20
Video message 19.5.20 - make yourself a distraction bottle to help you feel calm.
Enjoy listening to Frog and Toad - the Dream on Seesaw to help you understand how what we say can affect other people's mental health.
18.5.20
How to make worry dolls
15.5.20
A sports activity for you in today's video message 15.5.20
Some nursery rhymes to help you if you can't think of any.
14.5.20
A musical activity for you to enjoy today.
Sorry you've had to listen to my singing first thing in the morning - that'll wake you up well! Hahaha.
Let me know how your song goes.
13.5.20
Video message 13.5.20
Can you tell me what I'm looking at under the microscope? Send me your answers before 4.30 today and the person with the most correct answers will win TEN BLUES!!! Find the pictures on the PowerPoint below. Good luck!
PS Parents - if you think this seems like a great gadget for a present, don't buy an second hand EasiScope like me - it didn't work on Windows 10 and I ended up getting a different one from Amazon equally as cheaply.
The pictures for the quiz. Good luck!
Tell me your answers to the quiz. Remember to send them to me before 4.30 on 13.5.20.
12.5.20
Video message 12.5.20 - enjoy a chilled out session of cloud watching.
Here's how to learn about the different types of clouds while making a cool mobile for your room.
The website won't allow me to upload the cloud template so please look for it on Seesaw if you want to join in - or have a go at copying them freehand.
11.5.20
Video message 11.5.20
I hope you all had a lovely long and sunny weekend and celebrated VE Day in style!
7.5.20
Happy birthday Ilithyia!
Video message 7.5.20
Enjoy your day off tomorrow - but spend some time today learning about VE Day and why we are having a bank holiday. I'd really like you to design a medal for someone that you feel has deserved a medal during the tricky times we have been having recently. Enjoy!
Please look on Seesaw for the
resources to help you
and for the medal template...
Thank you K'Brea for reminding me about these fun songs to help you practise your times tables!
6.5.20
Video message 6.5.20
Spend some time outside today catching up with the tree that you got to know earlier in the lock down.
Here is the diary I created to show how much my apple tree has changed. Have a go using the blank document below if you like.
Here is the whole set of thank you posters in case you wanted to print some off and pop them up.
5.5.20
Video message 5.5.20 - Go on a scavenger hunt.
The website doesn't like the scavenger hunts I've found so I've saved them onto Seesaw for you.
Enjoy!
4.5.20
A message from Mrs Daggett
A huge, "Hello" to Mars class and can't wait to see you all again. Keep doing the work Mrs O'Reilly sets and don't forget those 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables. Let's get those spaceships filled with EVERYONE'S names when we get back to school! Keep on singing too.... remember 'Yellow bird?' I'd love to hear what you've been doing since I last saw you. I'm in school every day teaching key worker's children, do I'll keep checking for your messages. See you soon...keep well.
Love, Mrs Daggett
Send a message back to Mrs Daggett
Video message 4.5.20
1.5.20
Doesn't time fly?
It's May already!
Pinch, punch, first day of the month.
Video message 1.5.20
National Trust activity number 6 - Go Welly Wandering. If you see something interesting while you're out and about on your daily exercise, take a photo for me or draw a picture. I'm not allowed to leave my garden so I'd love to see what's out there in the big wide world!
What did you see on your welly wander?
30.4.20
Video message 30.4.20
National Trust activity 41 - help a plant grow - especially for Gardening Week.
29.4.20
Happy Gardening Week to you all!
Thanks to Mrs Harding who told me about it. I hope you're all still enjoying the great outdoors even though there's rain forecast this week.
Tomorrow we will do some planting together - collect up your old toilet tubes, you'll need them!
Video message 29.4.20
Your challenge today - National Trust number 17 - set up a snail race! Thanks to Bethany, our class malacologist who has already taught us some snail facts on Seesaw this week.
Don't blink or you'll miss the race! Hahahahahaha!
The race participants...
28.4.20
Remembering the life boats that we saw in September.
Today's activities will help us think back to the fun we had at the beach together in September but also to show our thanks to the RNLI team. They are also key workers, working hard right now to keep the public safe and to save lives - just like doctors and nurses.
Please look on Seesaw for the colouring and activity sheets that I have downloaded for you.
Thanks to RNLI for providing these resources.
Remember this...?
27.4.20
Happy birthday Henri!
Video message 27.4.20
Your challenge today. Make friends with a bug.
Some more bee facts for those who are interested.
Your challenge today. Make friends with a bug.
Some bees I found in my garden. Look at how much the apple tree has grown!
25.4.20
Happy Birthday Millie-Rose!
24.4.20
A message from Mrs Chandler
Missing all my Neptunians and hope everyone is well. At home we have managed a little home learning, lots of reading and had a picnic on the trampoline in the glorious sunshine.
Lots of love Mrs Chandler xx
Mrs Chandler's video.
The Chandlers helped to save the life of a bee in their garden this week! Next week one of the tasks is to get to know a bug and the bug I chose was a bee too. Yay for bees!
A message from Mrs Ashby
I'm sending you all my love and I miss your cuddles and chatter.
Remember to keep reading and then you'll be able to buy anything you like from the school shop with all the blues you'll be collecting.
Try not to send your parents mad
- and I'm looking forward to when we can all be back together soon!
Love, Mrs Ashby xx
Video message 24.4.20
Your challenge over the weekend - watch the sunset!
A time lapse video of the sunset at my house.
23.4.20
Video message 23.4.20
Here are the birds I saw from my garden - can you tell what they are?
Let me know what you've seen in your garden today.
22.4.20
Happy Earth Day!
I have now been trying to upload the butterfly videos to the website but it is not working - so please look on Seesaw for the first two videos.
The third one seems to work ok here
(see below).
Here is the last butterfly who didn't want to leave us ...
Do you know...?
Send a message to the butterflies.
For some reason, the website won't allow me to upload the activities I have mentioned in my video today. I've posted the links to interesting websites below but I've had to save the activities to Seesaw.
Thanks.
21.4.20
Video message part 1
Video message part 3
Check back next week for the science experiment mentioned in the videos.
(After Mrs O'Reilly's shopping is delivered on Monday 
)
A selection of beautiful gem stones
Our butterflies hatching.
Yesterday a third of our beautiful butterflies hatched from his or her chrysalis.
I managed to get a time-lapse
film of the 'birth'...
20.4.20
Welcome back Year Two.
I hope you had a lovely holiday over Easter and have enjoyed the beautiful weather.
I have some exciting news for you...
we are PARENTS!
Two of our butterflies hatched this very morning.
This is what you missed...
During the holidays, the enormous caterpillars turned into chrysalis each. I managed to get a time-lapse video of one of them, which was amazing! I always thought that the chrysalis formed around the outside of the caterpillar and this video proved that I'd been confused for all of these years!
Video message 20.4.20
and here is a short video...
This shows the newly hatched butterfly fluttering his or her wings very quickly. This is to get the 'haemolymph' - which is the technical word for butterfly blood - right to the tips of their wings. They will have been all crumpled up while inside the chrysalis!
P.S. Don't worry!
The red fluid, which looks like blood in the butterfly shelter is actually called 'meconium' and is left over from the butterflies' wings forming. It isn't blood at all! Phew!
17.4.20
Happy Birthday (for yesterday) Bethany!
Sorry it's late. I'm obviously far too relaxed on my holiday because I thought today was Thursday! Oops. Hope you had a lovely day! xxx
6.4.20
The teachers are having a little break over the holidays but I will keep you updated on the caterpillars' progress and finish reading you Toto the Ninja Cat.
If you need me during the break, please feel free to message me. I may not check messages as regularly as usual but I'll get back to you ASAP.
Have a nice rest, Love Mrs O'Reilly.
Happy birthday to Emily and Mrs Chandler for yesterday!
Look at our caterpillars one week on!
Look at the caterpillars move!
Can you believe how big they've got??
3.4.20
Caterpillar update 3.4.20 - they've all shed their skin now!
Video message 3.4.20
The videos below show you how to make different Easter arts/crafts using recycling. Don't forget to show us what you have been doing by uploading your photos and videos to Seesaw for us all to see. Enjoy!
Tin foil Easter eggs
Toilet roll printing
Rabbit pen pot
Egg box chicken
Some more printing techniques
2.4.20
Happy birthday Amilia!
It's Amilia's birthday TODAY! Have a lovely day!
Happy Belated Birthday Charlie!
Sorry it's late Charlie! Charlie was 7 on 22nd March. We hope you had a lovely day!
Video message 2.4.20
National Trust Activity 35: Discover what's in a pond
and 34: Discover wild animals clues.
HERE IS TODAY'S VIDEO...
Caterpillar update 2.4.20
Some of the caterpillars have shed their first skin in order for them to get larger!
You can tell by the little bundles of black near to them.
The last photo shows you a caterpillar who has just shed (we'll call him Hungry) and one which hasn't yet (we'll call him Superfly). Can you see that Hungry is now looking spikier than Superfly? Why do you think he has spikes? How amazing that they've changed so much in just three days!
Get in touch to say hello if you'd like...
1.4.20
Happy Birthday Lily!
Sorry it's late! Lily was 7 on 18th March. We all hope you had a lovely day Lily!
Have you put a teddy in your window?
Video message 1.4.20
Good morning Year Two. Today I've picked the names for our caterpillars from the selection sent in yesterday and talked to you about the new way to spread joy to all - by putting a teddy in your window! Enjoy.
31.3.20
Video message 31.3.20
Our caterpillars have arrived! Five caterpillars of Painted Lady butterflies have arrived at my house for us to watch grow and develop.
If you'd like to suggest a name for them then let me know in the comments below...
EXCITING!!!
The little wrigglers up close!
Naming the Caterpillars.
30.3.20
How to make a sun cushion part one...
How to make a sun cushion part two
How to make a sun cushion part three
How to make a sun cushion part four
How to make a sun cushion part five
Here is Mr O'Reilly and me warming our feet by the fire as we turned all of our lights off for Earth Hour on Saturday.
Don't worry if you missed it - you could take part in your own Earth Hour and turn your lights off at a different time.
We have learned lots about the fumes produced when electricity is made - so saving an hour of electricity will do your bit to save the Earth.
See the website below for more information....
27.3.20
Video message 27.3.20 part one
Fun with sticks activity number one - an Easter Tree.
This is a two-part tutorial on how to make an Easter Tree with sticks, wool and cardboard.
Video message 27.3.20 part two
Mrs O'Reilly does vintage wear a hat to school day!
Good morning Year Two. Given that most of you will have read your reading books by now, I have set you up an online account at Active Learn Primary, which will give you access to lots of books to read. You can even ask the website to read the books to you!
Here is the link to the website;
https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0&l=0
The school code is Leed
NEPTUNE - your usernames and passwords are the same as your TTRS usernames and passwords - these can be found in your planners.
I have tried to remember which book bands you are on but please forgive me if I have made a mistake - message me and let me know. Also, let me know when you have read all of the books and I will change them for you.
MARS - I will text you your usernames and passwords today.
Please message me your book band levels as I don't know them - sorry! I'll then give you access to books ASAP.
Also, let me know when you have read all of the books and I will change them for you.
Enjoy!
Let me know if you need help with Active Learn Primary
Mrs O'Reilly reads a story
Thanks to HarperCollins publishers, I have read two stories today. I hope you enjoy them! Love, Mrs O'Reilly
Tell Miss Worsley about your outdoor adventure
Video message 25.3.20
I got up early as promised to go on my 'wintry walk' around the garden - but it wasn't very wintry out there at all! Instead I enjoyed the birds singing their dawn chorus, which was beautiful. If you turn up the volume can you hear the sheep and cows who live near me?
Please see below for more dawn chorus information and some FAB games and bedtime stories from the RSPB (the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds).
Can you remember why lots of these charities have the letter R standing for 'Royal' at the beginning of their names (like the RNLI does)?
Video message 24.3.20
Hello Year 2. I hope you like my video for today. I've taken my ideas from the National Trust's 50 Things You Should Do Before You're 11 and Three-Quarters - which you can find below (I've printed one off so we can keep track of what we have done so far). We can do some more together as the days go by but for today - can you get to know a tree like I have?
I heart Mrs Ashby! Look what Mrs Ashby kindly tidied for me while I was away last week! Wow!
Hello from Mrs O!
Hi to all my lovely Neptunians. Here is the first of my messages to you so that we can still be in touch while we are apart. Love, Mrs O'Reilly
Let me know if you've seen me!
Mr Bumble
...and here is the beautiful (but crafty) bumble bee who snuck into the sleeve of my cardigan while I was filming your message and who hitched a ride into my house!
I'm having a few technical difficulties at the minute chaps. I'll get the video up ASAP. Thanks for your patience! Mrs O'Reilly
One Snowy Night
Thanks for your patience everyone. I hope this will work for you now. It's a very fiddly process!
The book I've found doesn't match the weather we are having at the moment but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.
Mrs Ashby has picked me up some more books so I can read them to you later in the week.
THANKS TO HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS who are allowing us teachers to read their books aloud to you while we are apart from one another.
See you tomorrow. Mrs O'Reilly