We hope you are staying safe and finding the class pages helpful to support your home learning. We are continuing to include a range of activities for you and your child to choose from, but please don’t feel that you have to complete them all! It is important that you enjoy your family time together.
Jeffers Class
As we head into the last week of what has been a very strange term. We hope you will enjoy completing the tasks set and we hope you all have a safe and enjoyable summer.
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Summer Term – Week 7 Week beginning – 13th July |
Maths |
Keep working hard with your maths at home. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Year 1 Links Lesson 1: Time to the hour Lesson 2: Time to the half hour Lesson 3: Writing Time Lesson 4: Comparing time Friday TTrockstars/Numbots or Draw pictures of activities you do in the day and label with the times you do them to the nearest hour or half hour.
Year 2 Links Lesson 1: Telling time to 5 minutes Lesson 2: Hours and days Lesson 3: Find durations of time Lesson 4: Compare durations of time Friday TTrockstars/Numbots or Time how long it takes you to complete different activities, eg, get dressed, eat lunch, complete your English task. Which activity took the longest? Which activity did you complete the quickest?
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English |
Daily Reading
‘All About Summer’ Reading Comprehension
Poetry – (Summer)
Activity 1 – Write the word summer in the middle of your page and then around the outside write down all the things you think of when you think of summer. Think about the weather, what people might do, where people might go, nature Try adding some adjectives to help describe. Eg bright red poppies tasty barbeques Golden, sandy beaches Cold cool paddling pool.
Activity 2 – Read the summer poems. Which is your favourite and why? Copy out your favourite poem using your best handwriting with clear ascenders and descenders on letters. Year 1, remember your flicks ready for joining and Year 2 make sure you are joining at least some of your letters.
Activity 3- Re-read the poems from yesterday. Choose whether you would like to write a senses poem about summer or a list poem. Use one of the attached poems and write your poem in that style Eg In summer I see... I smell ... I hear.... OR I love summer! Summer is hot It’s.... It’s..... Remember to use a variety of adjectives and some powerful verbs.
Activity 4 – As it is the last week before the summer holidays we thought it would be a nice idea for you to write a letter to your next teacher telling them about what you like about school and what you are looking forward to in the next school year. You could also tell them about any worries you have for the new term. How should your letter start? Don’t forget to finish it off by saying who it is from. |
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Year 1 - Please continue to practice sounding and blending words when reading each day.
Use ‘Phonics play’ (login details: march20, Password home) to practise reading high frequency words and to practise sounding and blending words. -Flash card speed trials -Tricky word trucks -Picnic on Pluto Complete one of the animal mosaic sheets, identifying real and nonsense words.
Year 2 – Complete the ‘Week 7’ spelling activities. (see attached sheets) Spell as many words as you can using the letters from ‘Summer holidays.’ For example: sum, hole
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Science |
Watch the following clip about the seasons and then complete the quiz. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkvv4wx/articles/zcx3gk7
Which season are we in now? Keep a weather chart for the week. You can use he attached template or create your own diary where you could add temperatures and wind. Write some sentences to describe a typical summer’s day in Weston. Ext: Write a weather forecast for a weekend in the summer.
Now watch the story about ‘George the sun safe superhero.’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7ghJsZug60
Design a poster to show how we can stay safe in the sun. Remember to make it colourful.
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Geography |
Our weather changes depending on the season but in other parts of the world the weather is either hot all of the time or cold all of the time. Look at a map. Can you find the equator that runs round the middle of the earth? Countries close to the equator have a very hot climate and the countries furthest from the equator have very cold climates. Can you find 3 countries with a hot climate and 3 countries with a cold climate?
What would you need to take if you were going on holiday to a hot climate or a cold climate? Use the template attached to draw what you would pack in your suitcase for one of these places. Ext: Explain why you have packed each of the items.
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Art/ Design Technology |
Choose from one of the activities below: Sunflowers Create a picture of a sunflower. You could use paint (print or dot or hand print or use a fork to paint petals) crayons or chalk or you could tear up pieces of paper to collage one or even collect natural resources from outdoors and make a natural collage.
How to draw a sunflower https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_pQWFkZJrc
Sunglass Designs Design a pair of sunglasses, either by colouring in the attached sheet or make your own pair for yourself or one of your toys. We would love to see your designs so don’t forget to post pictures of them.
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PE |
Sports activities Here are some activities to try at the start of the week. Try repeating them several times over the week and see if you can improve. Task 1 – 10 shuttle runs between 2 markers. Ask someone to time how long this takes you. Task 2 – How far can you throw a small ball/ bean bag? Task 3 – How many laps of your garden can you run in 3 minutes? Task 4 – Standing long jump.
Joe Wicks Workouts 9am (Mon and Weds)
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Summer Term – Week 6 Week beginning – 6th July |
Maths |
Keep working hard with your maths at home. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Year 1 Links Lesson 1: Describe turns Lesson 2: Describe Position Lesson 3: Describe Position (2) Lesson 4: Problem Solving with position and direction Friday: WALT: describe the position Using the ‘Under the sea’ board game. Use the position vocabulary to describe the position of the sea animals and objects. For example : The boat is above the clown fish The turtle is below the seagull
Year 2 Links Lesson 1: Litres Lesson 2: Temperature Lesson 3: O clock and half past Thursday Lesson 4: Quarter past and quarter to Friday Create a timetable of your day in lock down. Write down the times you do each activity using o clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to, to show
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English |
**Daily Reading**
Reading comprehension: Greek style salad (See attached resources)
Text : The Scarecrow’s Wedding Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIHLnnJ-uFc
Activity 1: Create speech bubbles or dialogue Who said what? Challenge 1: Write two speech bubbles for each picture to show what a character might be saying. Challenge 2: Write a dialogue using inverted commas (speech marks) to show a conversation between the characters.
Activity 2: Create a wanted poster Harry O’Hare has gone missing just before the wedding! Write a wanted poster to describe what he looks like, so he can be found before the wedding. Remember to be specific and describe what he looks like and is wearing carefully.
Activity 3: Create a Wedding invitation How will people know the Scarecrow’s are having a wedding? Using the template or creating your own, write an invitation to invite a guest to the Scarecrow wedding. What information will the guests need to know? Think about the time, place, date and who you are inviting. Think about the layout of the invitation so that the information is presented clearly.
Activity 4: Create a menu for the wedding What’s for dinner? Look at the wedding menu examples and collect some ideas for The Scarecrows wedding day meal. Look carefully at how the menu is laid out and the option choices that are given. What are you going to give the Scarecrow wedding guests? Each part of the meal could have two/three options.
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Phonics |
Year 1 - Please continue to practice sounding and blending words when reading each day.
Year 2 -Work through week 6’s spelling activity mats OR write your own sentences using these words. Include a noun phrase and a powerful verb in each sentence. Should – shouldn’t could – couldn’t When an apostrophe is used to replace a missing letter and shorten the word we call it a contraction. Investigate other contractions where an apostrophe replaces a missing letter. |
All About Me
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As we are moving closer to the end of the year, we would like you to complete a booklet all about yourself. This can then be passed on to your next teacher. This can be completed on the computer or handwritten. |
Science |
You will often find scarecrows in an open place such as a field. Scarecrows are shaped as a human and will often wear old clothes. The purpose of a scarecrow is to disturb or discourage birds from feeding on recently cast seeds or growing crops.
Look through the Sunflower Lifecycle powerpoint and clip. Draw out the lifecycle of a Sunflower.
Challenge: find other crops where a scarecrow might be used. |
D&T |
Design a healthy starter or dessert for The Wedding
Ideas you could make could be – fruit salad, fruit kebab or a yoghurt pot
Design your healthy snack and draw what you want it to look like. Think about how you would want your snack to look like.
Using our cutting and preparing skills we practised making our ‘Disgusting Sandwich’ carefully prepare and make your healthy snack. Please ask an adult to supervise.
Take a picture of your final product and try it.
Evaluate your healthy snack. Write what you liked and did not like and how you would improve it next time.
Send us a photo of your fantastic snack! |
Geography |
The Scarecrow couple need a place to go on their honeymoon. Using the Holiday Brochure can you suggest a location or place they could go. This could be in England or abroad.
You could use a computer to look up information about your chosen location or ask an adult to help you find out places and reasons why the Scarecrow’s should go.
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PE |
Scarecrow wedding party music Cosmic Yoga – Dance Party |
Make your own Scarecrow |
Can you make your own scarecrow?
This is an additional activity for your whole family to get involved with!
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Home Learning WC 29th June
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Summer Term – Week 5 Week beginning – 29th June |
Maths |
Keep working hard with your maths at home. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Year 1 Links Lesson 1: Ordering numbers Lesson 2: Recognising coins Lesson 3: Recognising notes Lesson 4: Counting coins Friday TTrockstars/Numbots or Investigate: How many different ways can you make 10p? Draw the coins or write the calculations. Remember you can only use real coins, there is no 3p coin.
Year 2 Links Lesson 1: Measure mass in grams Lesson 2: Measure mass in kilograms Lesson 3: Compare volumes Lesson 4: Millilitres Friday TTrockstars/Numbots or Find at least 6 different containers around the house that contain liquids. Record their capacity in millilitres and order them from largest to smallest. Repeat with containers that have a mass shown on them.
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English |
Daily Reading
‘Cool Crabs’ Reading Comprehension Complete 1 of the 3 question sheets after reading the fact sheets.
Non -Fiction – Report writing (Underwater sea creature)
Watch the following clip to introduce some of the creatures that live in our oceans and seas: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zmxqxnb
Activity 1 – Read the fact cards about under sea creatures and answer the comprehension questions (see attached resources below)
Activity 2 – Choose a sea creature that you would like to find out more about.
Write a list of questions you would like to find the answers to. E.g. What does an octopus eat? Where does an octopus live? Remember to punctuate your questions with capital letters and question marks.
Activity 3- Research facts about your sea creature, recording notes on the attached planning sheet. These notes do not have to be written in sentences. Do NOT copy chunks of text from books or websites. Put the facts in your own words that you understand.
The following websites may be useful: https://easyscienceforkids.com/animals/under-the-sea-animals/lines
Activity 4 – Use your research to write a non- chronological report / fact sheet about your chosen sea creature. You will need to write your notes into sentences with the correct punctuation. You can use the writing template attached below to organise your writing OR if you would rather you can present your writing as a booklet or poster. Try to include a labelled diagram. This could be a picture of your creature with its features labelled or a labelled picture of its habitat.
Don’t forget to send us your finished fact sheets, We love to see the work you have been doing.
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Year 1 - Please continue to practice sounding and blending words when reading each day.
This week we are going to revise the phase 5 phonics. How many of the home learning challenges can you complete? (see attached sheet below)
Year 2 – Complete the ‘Week 5’ spelling activities. (see below) Use each of the following words in some sentences that use powerful verbs and at least one adjective. Can you start each sentence with a different word? Find, kind, mind, behind, child.
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Science |
Watch the following clip about food chains in the sea: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z96r82p
Work through the power point about food chains. What are herbivores/ carnivores and omnivores? Use the sheet and attached pictures of animals to create an underwater food chain. Challenge: Draw your own underwater food chain.
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Geography |
Earlier in the year we named the 5 oceans. Can you remember them all? Listen to the song to remind you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6BE4VcYngQ
Use an atlas to find at least one country that borders each of the oceans. |
Art |
Wax Resist
Use wax crayons to draw an underwater scene with plants and creatures that live under the sea. This will work best if you press on hard with the wax crayons. Once you have drawn your picture paint over the whole page with a watery blue paint wash.
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PE |
Cosmic Yoga – Underwater theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC83oFEeVZA
Joe Wicks Workouts 9am (Mon and Weds)
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Home Learning WC 22nd June
We hope you are staying safe and finding the class pages helpful to support your home learning. We are continuing to include a range of activities for you and your child to choose from, but please don’t feel that you have to complete them all! It is important that you enjoy your family time together.
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Summer Term – Week 4 Week beginning – 22nd June |
Maths |
Keep working hard with your maths at home. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Year 1 Links Lesson 1: Counting to 100 Lesson 2: Partitioning numbers Lesson 3: Comparing numbers Lesson 4: Comparing numbers Friday https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue
Year 2 Links Lesson 1: Describing movements Lesson 2: Describing turns Lesson 3: Describing movement and turns Thursday WALT: Describe movement and turns Complete the activity sheet. Friday WALT: use direction and turns Design an Under the Water grid for Tiddler to get from one place to another. Using the grid below, can you create a grid for Tiddler and then using directions and turns describe the route.
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English |
Daily Reading
Text : Tiddler – Julia Donaldson Tiddler Story: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=tiddler+video&docid=608012458109701610&mid =813D9EADD9EB2AB3BAFD813D9EADD9EB2AB3BA Diving underwater video:
Activity 1: WALT: order words in alphabetical order Watch the Diving underwater video
Activity 2: WALT: describe a scene using adjectives and description Watch and listen to the story of the Tiddler.
phrases (expanded noun phrases) describe one of the underwater pictures in the book. Challenge : put some of your descriptive words/phrases into sentences .
Activity 3: WALT: write a character description of Tiddler Watch the story of Tiddler again.
Activity 4: WALT: create our own story
happens there? Or/
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Phonics |
Year 1 - Please continue to practice sounding and blending words when reading each day.
Activity 1- Phoneme Spotter Pack Activity 2- Phonics play Log onto Phonics Play and have a go at the Reading Robot Username : march20 Password: home https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5/reading-robot . Year 2 – Activity 1 – Common Exception Words Activity 2- Mystery of the Missing Treasure |
Black Lives Matter
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Please look through the Jeffers PPT and discuss with your child
see or hear racism.
These clips could be useful What is it like to be young, black and British? https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/49883230 Racism https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/41453182 Why speak out? |
Science |
Investigate floating and sinking
Can you now design/make a boat to stay afloat with a Lego/Character inside? |
Geography |
Explore and investigate Ocean Pollution
Plastic Pollution https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/42810179
Design and create a poster to identify how we can help to prevent plastic pollution in our oceans.
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Computing |
Design an underwater scene
Using Purple Mash Option 1 : Use 2Paint to create an underwater scene or/ Option 2 : Use 2Animate to create a sea creature moving underwater
Alternatively - Paint or another program could be used. |
PE |
Street Dance Tutorial – Baby Shark remix
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Weston Worm/ Time Capsule |
Please see the school website for additional information on this.
Activity 1: Paint a rock for Weston’s Worm Activity 2: Time Capsule sheets |
WILDLIFE TRUST
Some linked resources below but there is so much more on my favourite website! https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/kids-and-families
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Summer Term – Week 3 Week beginning – 15th June |
Maths |
Keep working hard with your maths at home. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Year 1 Links Lesson 1: Make arrays Lesson 2: Make doubles Lesson 3: Make equal groups Lesson 4: Make equal groups Friday TTrockstars/Numbots
Year 2 Links Lesson 1: 2D shapes – Sides and vertices Lesson 2: 3D shapes – Faces, edges and vertices Lesson 3: Sort 2D and 3D shapes Lesson 4: Merge 2D and 3D shapes Friday TTrockstars/Numbots
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English |
Daily Reading
‘Cautious Caterpillar’ Reading Comprehension Complete 1 of the 3 question sheets after reading the story.
Fiction - Mini-beast poems / riddles
Activity 1 – Read the poem ‘Mini Who?’ Which mini beast is each verse of the poem describing? Read one verse or the whole poem aloud to an adult. Choose your favourite verse and copy it out in your neatest handwriting. Then you can illustrate it using the description from the verse.
Activity 2 – Re -read the poem from yesterday and then read the following riddles: What am I? I like to eat greenfly I have wings and can fly I have 6 legs I am red with black spots I am a …………
What am I? I am a kind of insect. I have 8 legs. Some people are frightened of me. I eat flies. I spin a web. I am a ………
What do they have in common with the ‘Mini – Who?’ poem. Choose a mini beast and write your own riddle about it. Read it to someone in your family. Can they guess what your animal is?
Activity 3 – Read the ladybird poem. What do you notice about the words used in the poem? It uses alliteration. Alliteration is when we use a few words together that begin with the same sound for example, lazy ladybird laying on a leaf or cautious caterpillar crawling carefully. Try writing some alliterative phrases about other mini-beasts.
Activity 4 – Write a mini-beast poem using the same structure as the ladybird poem (there is a writing template included below), including alliterate phrases.
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Year 1 - Please continue to practice sounding and blending words when reading each day. Top tip of the week! Continuing with clusters this week. Remember that some words start and end with clusters. These can help us to sound out unfamiliar words quicker and easier. Such as
Activity 1 – Caption Cards –Read the sentences and draw what it says. Activity 2 – Wordsearch
Year 2 – Complete the week 3 spelling activities. (see below) Can you use each of the words to write a statement, question, exclamation and command?
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Science |
Sorting Key Use the key (see attached sheet below) to answer the questions and identify the mini beasts. Then try to sort the mini beasts using different questions. The questions must have a yes or no answer.
Design a mini beast Think about the features of different minibeasts. Which is the best at flying? Which is good at camouflage? Which one can move most quickly? Which has the best way of catching food? Which has the best body shape?
Use these ideas to design and draw a new minibeast. Label its features and write a few sentences about where it lives and what it eats.
Don’t forget you can send us photos of your ‘new’ mini beasts.
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Art |
Rock Painting
Find a smooth rock in the garden or when out on a walk. Use paints to decorate your rock with either a picture of a mini-beast or make your rock into the body of a mini-beast.
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PE |
Joe Wicks – 9am daily https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
Minibeast workouts with Andy https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=minibeast+workout+for+kids&&view=detail&mid= 5EA0B269300321650C5E5EA0B269300321650C5E&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2 Fsearch%3Fq%3Dminibeast%2Bworkout%2Bfor%2Bkids%26FORM%3DHDRSC4
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Summer Term – Week 2 Week beginning – 8th June |
Maths |
Keep working hard with your maths at home. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Year 1 Links Lesson 1: Count in 2s Lesson 2: Count in 5s Lesson 3: Count in 10s Lesson 4: Add equal groups Friday TTrockstars/Numbots
Year 2 Links Lesson 1: Unit fractions Lesson 2: Non-unit fractions Lesson 3: Find a half Lesson 4: Find a quarter Friday TTrockstars/Numbots
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English |
Daily Reading
Reading comprehension – butterfly lifecycle (See resources below) There are 3 versions of the comprehension starting with the easiest which has one star at the bottom and the hardest has 3 stars at the bottom of the page. Choose one to complete.
Fiction (Story Writing) - Superworm by Julia Donaldson Watch the video of the story[MB1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jnk3XApKBg
Activity 1 – Draw Superworm in the middle of your page. Add adjectives/noun phrases to describe what the worm looks like, how he moves and what he is like as a character. Challenge : Put some of your descriptive words/phrases into sentences.
Activity 2 – Re-watch the story of Superworm again. List all of the pairs of rhyming words you can find. Challenge : Can you think of another word that rhymes with each pair?
Activity 3 – Draw your own Super Minibeast. Think of ways your Super Minibeast could help other animals and write these in a list.
Activity 4 – Using the blank story board – draw and create the beginning part of your Super Minibeast story up until your beast gets captured.
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Phonics/spelling |
Year 1 - Please continue to practice sounding and blending words when reading each day. Top tip of the week! Remember that some words start and end with clusters. These can help us to sound out unfamiliar words quicker and easier. Such as
Activity 1 – Read and Race cluster games Activity 2 – The Mystery of the Flower Garden
Year 2 – Complete the week 2 spelling investigations. (see below)
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Science |
Butterfly Lifecycle
Look through the Butterfly Lifecycle PPT
lifecycle diagram.
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Art/DT |
Butterfly Printing Watch the clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=042uDqg2k3g
Make a model of a minibeast
methods such as tape and glue to create a secure join.
improve next time
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PE |
Joe Wicks – 9am daily https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
Minibeast workouts with Andy https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=minibeast+workout+for+kids&&view =detail&mid=5EA0B269300321650C5E5E A0B269300321650C5E&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq% 3Dminibeast%2Bworkout%2Bfor%2Bkids%26FORM%3DHDRSC4
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