Leedon Lower School
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Neptune and Mars
Welcome back!
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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!
22.5.20
Have a go at PERSEVERANCE today - and fill your own bucket as you go.
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.
If you're in Mars and you haven't yet let me know your book band level - you need to do this first before I can set you any books. Thank you. Neptune - if you want to try the next book band level up because you've been working so hard at your reading, let me know and I'll change it for you ready for half term. I believe that passwords and usernames were sent out by text a while back so if you can't remember it, please double check your Leedon texts. THANKS EVERYONE. Love Mrs O'Reilly
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.
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.
Let me know how your song goes.
13.5.20
Video message 13.5.20
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.
Part two cloud mobile.mp4
Part three cloud mobile.mp4
Finished cloud mobile.mp4
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
Have fun making yourself a crazy lock down hairstyle!
Video message 11.5.20
I hope you all had a lovely long and sunny weekend and celebrated VE Day in style!
Secret mission!
Send a 'thank you' to your teacher using this form 😊
7.5.20
Happy birthday Ilithyia!
Video message 7.5.20
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
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.
A gratitude 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
May the fourth be with you...
1.5.20
Doesn't time fly?
It's May already!
Pinch, punch, first day of the month.
Video message 1.5.20
What did you see on your welly wander?
30.4.20
Video message 30.4.20
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
Don't blink or you'll miss the race! Hahahahahaha!
snail-race-vid-3.mp4
The race participants...
The 'winner' of the race!
For those of you still not on Seesaw, here is the QR link again.
28.4.20
Remembering the life boats that we saw in September.
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
Some more bee facts for those who are interested.
Bee-facts-2.mp4
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.
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
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?
Tune in to our Seesaw pages to hear Mrs O'Reilly read this book to help you if you're following the Literacy planning - or just if you'd like to hear it! :)
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...?
Do you know why the outside of the butterfly's wings are brown and black but the other side is beautiful and bright? Do you know why the patterns on the outside of the wings look like eyes? What is a butterfly's tongue-like part called? Did you see the butterfly on yesterday's video - who had just come out of his or her chrysalis - test out its 'tongue' by unravelling it? What's your favourite part of us having raised the butterflies from tiny caterpillars up to us releasing them today?
Earth day message 22.4.20.mp4
Send a message to the butterflies.
Tell me a message that you'd like to give the butterflies before I release them to live their lives outside. Maybe wish them good luck or recommend some places for them to visit.
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
Good morning! Here is your challenge for the day - activity number 16 - Wear a Wild Crown!
Video message part 1
IMG-0712.mp4
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'...
butterfly emerging.MOV
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...
Video message 20.4.20
Here are some photos of our new arrivals...
and here is a short video...
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!
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!
3.4.20
Today's Bear in the Window
Caterpillar update 3.4.20 - they've all shed their skin now!
Video message 3.4.20
Tin foil Easter eggs
Toilet roll printing
Rabbit pen pot
Egg box chicken
Some more printing techniques
2.4.20
Happy birthday Amilia!
Happy Belated Birthday Charlie!
Video message 2.4.20
National Trust Activity 35: Discover what's in a pond
and 34: Discover wild animals clues.
This is my mum and dad's pond in Linslade...
...and this is my sister's pond in Norfolk...
... so Mr O'Reilly and I got envious and built our own nature pond...
HERE IS TODAY'S VIDEO...
Can you tell which creatures have been hanging around in my garden using these picture clues?
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!
Here is my teddy for the window today 2.4.20 - Bathtime Bear!
Get in touch to say hello if you'd like...
1.4.20
Happy Birthday Lily!
Are you interested in World Records? The Guinness World Records editor is hosting a live event on their TikTok account at 7pm this evening. Link below if you're interested.
Have you put a teddy in your window?
Video message 1.4.20
31.3.20
The first butterfly of the spring in my garden... inspired me to start National Trust challenge 38: Bring up a Butterfly!
Video message 31.3.20
If you'd like to suggest a name for them then let me know in the comments below...
EXCITING!!!
The little wrigglers up close!
An identification chart in case you see any butterflies in your own garden. This is just an picture (no further information can be accessed via clicking on the images).
Our instructions on how to carefully look after our caterpillars.
Naming the Caterpillars.
We have five caterpillars to name and they will all turn into Painted Lady butterflies. Let me know what you think a good name would be for them.
30.3.20
Mrs O'Reilly has had a lovely time making her sun for the challenge. See how she did it below...
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
Earth Hour 2020 - Did you take part?
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 below - how to make an Easter Tree like this.
Video message 27.3.20 part one
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
Please let me know your book band levels Mars class and I'll give you access to the books. Neptune - let me know if I've made any mistakes. Thanks.
Mrs O'Reilly reads a story
Thursday 26th March
Missing you all,
Lots of love,
Miss Worsley xx
Tell Miss Worsley about your outdoor adventure
🌈 My window rainbow 🌈
Video message 25.3.20
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)?
The dawn chorus
Video message 24.3.20
I heart Mrs Ashby! Look what Mrs Ashby kindly tidied for me while I was away last week! Wow!
Hello from Mrs O!
Let me know if you've seen me!
If you have seen my video on the website, you can send me a message back by filling in this form. I'd love to hear from you and find out what you've been doing. From Mrs O'Reilly
Mr Bumble
One Snowy Night
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