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Year 3 Home Learning Thursday 4th March 2021

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 2:38pm

Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a happy Wednesday and are looking forward to a fun day ahead. This is your last day of home learning, tomorrow is Fun Friday and then we are all back together next week, yay!

 

Thursday 4^th March 2021

World Book Day

I hope you enjoy World Book Day today, if you have dressed up as a book character, I would love to see a photo. Please send a message to Seesaw telling me your favourite book and why it is your favourite. The best message will receive a £10 book voucher.

My favourite book is … because …

 

I have attached some maps of the UK and the world to this blog. On the maps are the names of different books and where they are set. Have a look and see if you recognise any of the places or books. Also see if you can find the place where your favourite book is set on a map. 

 

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.

Tell somebody about what you have just read in your own words.

 

Spelling

mouth, around, sprout, sound, shout, cloud, hound, round, found, proud.

 

Write the long date: Thursday 4^th March 2021

Write the title: Wrong hand spelling

Split your page in half.

On one half, write out your spellings using the hand you usually write with.

On the other half, write out your spellings using your other hand.

 

Handwriting

Please watch the video on Seesaw which will be available in the morning.

 

Writing:

I have attached a Pobble story to this blog called The Troll.

I would like you to read and then continue the story.

 

 

Write the long date: Thursday 4^th March 2021

Write the title: Can I start my sentences in different ways?

 

I would like you to try to start your sentences in lots of different ways.

You could start with:

Because, when, even though, he, the troll, as you know, anyway, with a.  

 

Paragraph 1:

Describe the troll and how he causes a lot of damage.

Here are two example sentences you could start with -

Because of the way he was born, he was always causing damage wherever he went. His nose was long and thin like a cricket bat, whenever he sneezed the whole ground would shake causing buildings to collapse, and when he sniffed he would suck up bikes and plants through his nostrils.

 

Paragraph 2:

Describe why the troll ripped the roof off the holiday home. Remember, he didn’t mean any harm.

You could start with -

Anyway, there was a reason why he wrenched the roof off the holiday home.

 

 

Remember:

Perfect spelling

Capital letters

Beautiful handwriting

 

Make it amazing by:

Using a simile

Adding an exclamation mark

Including a question

Using commas

Using exciting words

Adding extra information in brackets

 

Please send me a photo of your writing on Seesaw, it is your last chance to show off how much you have improved with your writing before we are all back in school next week J

 

Counting

Count out loud in 4s:

From 0 to 48.

From 48 to 0.

 

Count out loud in 10s:

From 993 to 1093.

From 197 to 297.

 

Count out loud in 2s:

From 2 to 24.

From 24 to 2.

From 1 to 23.

 

Times tables

Play on Hit the Button.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Click on Division Facts and then ÷4.

If you find it tricky, write out your 4x tables before you start and use them to help.

 

Number Facts

Play on Hit the Button.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Click on number bonds and then addition within 20.

 

Sumdog

Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

Number Challenge: 1^st March – 7^th March

Times Tables Challenge: 1^st March – 7^th March

 

 

Maths

I have attached a sheet which has blank number lines on. We are going to use the number lines to count in tens and then round to the nearest hundred.

There will be a video on Seesaw in the morning which will explain the activity.

 

PE

Watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g3DA6CIyNk&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=29&t=0s&safe=active

Complete the activity attached to this blog called Space Adventure.

 

 

French

Bonjour! Today we are going to learn how to say 'a' for singular nouns and 'some' for plural nouns. For example, in English, this would be: A rabbit = 1 rabbit. Some rabbits = more than one rabbit.

Then we’ll do 'the' for singular and plural nouns, using the same animal vocabulary as we learnt last week.  Eg the horse= 1 horse. The horses = more than one.  The words you’ll learn today are called articles and they change in French depending on whether the noun is masculine or feminine, singular or plural. 

Article	Masculine singular	Feminine  singular	Plural (masculine and feminine are the same)
A	Un   (un)	Une   (oon)	Des (day) = some
The	Le   (luh)	La    (la)	Les (lay)

 

http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y3_French/Yr3SpringFr.php

Download lesson 17 with audio.

Work through the Powerpoint, clicking on whether you think it is un or une or des; le or la or les. The lady will say Tant pis! Never mind! if you make a mistake.  

Once you’ve worked through, write the date in French in your book – mardi deux mars and the learning objective  Can I translate un, une,  des, le ,la, les into English?

Using slide 20, copy the French and translate it into English. Once you’ve tried the first 5, check your answers before moving on to slide 21. Check your answers again and correct them if you’ve made a mistake. If you like, there are 5 more on slide 22!

I hope you understand. We will go back over this in school if you’re a bit unsure.

Here’s an animal song to finish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVRGuyZJaGo

Merci beaucoup. A la semaine prochaine. See you next week!

 

Reminders

Please keep sending me your work on Seesaw – I am so proud of you for the work I have seen so far.  Today I would like you to send me a photo of your writing.

Don’t forget to go on Sumdog.

 

 

Have a wonderful day – see you very soon woohoo J

Year 2 Home Learning - 4th March 2021

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 2:20pm

Thursday 4^th March 2021

Well done year 2 for all your fantastic learning so far this week. Remember tomorrow is Fabulous Friday so continue working really hard today. Can you write down 5 things you have enjoyed about home learning and 5 things you are excited about when you come back to school next week?

 

Today is World Book Day 2021. There are lots of brilliant ways you can enjoy books and there are lots of different ways you could spend time reading today. Read at home with your family, read in your favourite nook, read in an unusual location, share a story with your pet, read a book dressed as your favourite character, and more! We hope you have a lovely World Book Day 2021 and we would love to see what you get up to on Seesaw. Please send us a picture of your outfit along with a short note telling us all about your favourite book. Why do you enjoy that particular book?

 

Here is Mr Ingram’s favourite book:

Here is Miss Bennison’s favourite book:

We will explain the structure on here each day but please refer to the additional uploaded documents for each specific lesson guidance and resources.

 

Reading

It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.

 

Reading challenge – VOCABULARY. Can you find 5 words that you would like to find more information about? Where could you use those words again? could you put them into your writing today?

 

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS

 

Maths

This week in Maths we are learning about lines of symmetry.

Starter – Writing numbers on a number line.

You will need a ruler (or something you can draw a line with), number line or hundred square and a pencil.

 

I would like you to draw a number line and place these numbers on it correctly. I will put 2 on to start you off.

Now answer these questions:

1. How did you sort the numbers?
2. How did you know which number came next?
3. Which is the biggest number? How do you know?
4. Tell an adult about the tens and ones in the numbers?

This week our lessons focus on lines of symmetry and symmetry of shapes.

 

What is Symmetry?

When we think about symmetry the most important thing is that on either side of the line the shape looks the same as the other. They are the same. If the shape does not look the same on each side it does not show symmetry.

 

For your lesson today please have a go at the worksheet attached.

 

Worksheet 1 – Drawing lines of symmetry on shapes.

Worksheet 2 – Drawing shapes using squares.

 

 

English

WORLD BOOK DAY!

Today is world book day! World Book Day is a brilliant opportunity for everyone to celebrate the joy of reading. You have two options to choose from today:

Option 1 – Finish reading The Day the Crayons Came Home and create a book review (see Word document attached to the blog)

Option 2 – Choose your favourite book and create book review using the same structure outlined in the attached Word document.

We are going to share our book reviews with each other in class. We would love to see your reviews on Seesaw.

 

Phonics and Spelling

Phonics play have made their website free to use throughout January. Login -> select the resources tab -> select phase 6 phonics and have a play!

You may log in with the following details:

username: jan21

password: home

 

Today we continue to look at homophones.

Please see the spellings below, which we would like you to learn this week. Children in school will be given a spelling quiz on Friday 5^th March. These spelling can be practiced on Sumdog by selecting the ‘Spelling Quiz’ challenge.

bare/bear	blue/blew	here/hear	there/their/they're	quiet/quite
night/knight	to/too/two	see/sea	be/bee	sun/son

 

Re-cap from yesterday

Can you read the sentences and choose from the homophones to, too or two to fill in the blanks?

 

Can you write out the correct sentence by using the correct homophone?

1. Last knight/night I went for a walk in the moonlight.

2. Blue/blew is my favourite colour.

3. If you want to go on holiday, you’ll have to catch a plane/plain.

4. I brush my hare/hair every day.

5. The lion had huge paws/pours.

6. Thomas couldn’t wait to meat/meet the new teacher.

7. Bernard got mud on his new/knew shoes.

8. I’m over here/hear!

9. Benny’s hiding over they’re/there/their.

10. Suzanne scraped her knee and now it’s really saw/sore.

Have a go at homophones riddles PowerPoint. This PowerPoint includes lots of fun riddles for you to learn about different homophones. The riddles include clues of sentences with missing spaces, and require you to fit the right homophone in the sentence.

 

PSHE

Today our lesson is all about managing our feelings.

Please see the attached worksheet for today’s lesson.

 

RE

We are starting a new topic called ‘Thanksgiving’.

You may be able to talk about your experience of receiving and giving thanks and wonder about how others feel when they are thanked.

You may be able to discuss how you feel when you give and receive thanks and how this affects your behaviour.

 

Read the passage attached to the school blog with an adult – Mrs Hegarty Retires

Q Why was Mrs. Hegarty thanked?

Q How did different people say thank you to her?

Q How do you think Mrs. Hegarty felt?

Q Which way would you choose to say thank you?

Activities to choose:

• Complete the word document attached about giving thanks
• In the bubbles underneath, write or draw ways in which you can give thanks. Talk about why we need to give thanks for things and how it makes us feel when we do.
•  

 

Fairtrade Activity

 

Activity

Create a poster for what you would like to make the world a better place.

What sort of changes would you put into place?

How can we make the planet better?

 

Sumdog Challenges

Multiplication –  x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables

Maths – Symmetry

Spellings – Homophones 

 

We hope you have a brilliant World Book Day. Happy reading!

 

Year 2 team

Year 1 Home Learning Fabulous Friday 5th March 2021

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 2:16pm

Wow Year 1, you've made it to the end of another week of great learning! It's now time for another Fabulous Friday!

Fridays are a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!

We are looking forward to seeing everybody back in school on Monday.

Today you just need to...

Reading

Complete your reading star challenges. You could make a reading crown to wear when you are doing all your reading.

Maths

I Like to Make 10! song. Click here.

Practise your number bonds of 10 with the Rainbow game below. You will need a dice.

This is the last blog so we would like to thank you for all your support with the learning you have been doing at home. We have loved seeing everything on Seesaw and appreciate all the effort you have put in to make sure your child has continued to learn during this time.

 

 

HOME LEARNING Thursday 4th March 2021

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 1:39pm

Year 4

Home Learning Thursday 4^th March 2021

Good morning Year 4.  Welcome to World Book Day 2021!  Please upload a photo of yourself in your outfit to Seesaw.  In addition, write a message explaining why your favourite book is your favourite.  There is a £10 book voucher for the best message received – don’t worry if you don’t dress up, you can still enter the competition if you send in a message! You can also click on the link here. This will take you to a website where you can use a map to find out where your favourite book is set.

Have a fun Thursday Year 4. 

 

Reading

Please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes.  Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story so far.

Take notice of punctuation today, for example, full stops, commas, exclamation marks, question marks, inverted commas (speech marks) and apostrophes.  Can you work out why the author has used them? Would the book make sense without this punctuation?

 

Spelling

These are your new spellings which will be tested on Tuesday 9^th March 2021. They are all from the Year 3 / 4 Spelling list – a list of words which children should be able to read and spell by the time they leave Year 4.  There are some quite tricky words, so please practise them carefully.

The words are:

mention         probably      therefore    build            disappear     guide

natural           recent         though         although       busy            business     

Write the long date Thursday 4^th March 2021

Practise the spellings by splitting them up into chunks in different colours.

Eg probably   business      though

A spelling challenge has also been set on Sumdog.

 

English

Today, please re-read or listen again to Chapter 9 of Kensuke’s Kingdom. A copy of the book is attached to the blog or you can listen to Chapter 9 by clicking here.      

Open the document called ‘Chapter 9 activity’ which is attached to the blog. All the instructions for the tasks are explained in this document.

Please share your work on Seesaw

 

Times tables

A times tables challenge has been set on Sumdog. This is to consolidate and practise your 11 and 12 times tables.

Children in school will be tested on their tables today, therefore, please ask someone at home to test you on your individual target or a mixture of x4 and x8 if you are on ‘free’ tables.  Ask them to call out your tables in a mixed-up order.  This is how I do it in school – ask the question twice, count to 8, then ask the next question.

Write the short date 04.03.21

Write the title Times tables test

Please share your ‘test’ on Seesaw.

 

Counting

Count in 100’s from 22 to 1222 and back again.  Count in 100’s from 537 to 1737 and back again.  Think about what you found tricky?  Write the numbers down as you say them – what patterns do you notice?

Please count in tens from 2.2 to 122.2 and back again – can you go any further?  (eg 2.2   12.2    22.2   32.2   etc) Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?

Now count in tens from 53.7 to 173.7 and back again – can you go any further? (eg 53.7   63.7   73.7   83.7  etc) Write the numbers down as you say them – what do you notice now?

What is the relationship between 100 and 10? Can you see any patterns in the numbers you have written down?

 

Maths

Click here to play Daily 10.

Click on play game.  Choose Level 3 and Division. Depending on how confident you feel, choose a table from the ‘Up to 12’ or ‘Mixed tables’ column.  Choose your time interval and have a go.  Once you have played once, repeat the game and see if you can improve on your previous score.

 

Yesterday, we practised sharing and how to represent this as a written calculation. Today we will learn about grouping, which is another way to divide. 

Remember we will be learning more about mental and written division (chunking) next week.  In preparation for this, it is important that you are confident with the basics of grouping and sharing.  It is also CRUCIAL that you learn your tables (and division facts) off by heart so that you are able to use them accurately and at speed, therefore please take 10 minutes each day to practise your tables / division facts. If you do this, you will be amazed at how your confidence will grow in a short space of time.

Write the short date 04.03.21

Write the learning objective Can I practise grouping?

Watch today’s teaching video here.

Open the worksheet attached to the blog called ‘Grouping’.

Complete the worksheet / answer the questions in your Home Learning Book.  

Draw a numberline to 24.  How many different ways can you get to 24 in equal jumps?  Make sure you write down all the possibilities in your book.

                                                 

Science

Today we are going to start a topic on Teeth and digestion.

Before we start the lesson, click on the link here.

Plus is a good thing about it; minus is a bad thing and interesting is just an interesting thought you have about the subject of toothbrushes.

 

Write the long date Thursday 4^th March 2021

Write the learning objective Can I identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions?

Download the powerpoint called ‘Teeth’ attached to the blog and work through it. There is a ‘Teeth map template’ attached to the blog which will help you when you come to slide 7 and the labeling activity below.

Label the teeth using a key (use one colour for incisors, another for canines and a third colour for molars. Put a key at the side to say which is which.) and explain what their jobs are underneath. Stick this in your book.

It is really important to look after your teeth because once you have your adult teeth, there are no more! Make a poster to explain 3 important ways we can keep our teeth healthy. Use slide 8, 9 and 10 to help. You might like to find out what kinds of foods are not good for our teeth and include this information too.

Remember to: write a big, bold cololurful title; use a balance of eye-catching pictures and writing; write clearly so that your writing can be read from a distance; use correct spelling and punctuation.

Well done – remember to brush your teeth really well tonight!

 

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A maths times table challenge (based on the 11 and 12 times tables)
• A maths challenge all about whole numbers upto 10 000
• A spelling challenge based on the new Year 3 /4 spellings

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  It is important that you practise these skills as they are invaluable in helping you to learn your number facts and multiplication and division facts.  In addition, they will enable you to calculate accurately and at speed when working mentally.

A new spelling challenge will start tomorrow.

 

Well done for finishing today’s work.  Have a lovely evening and stay safe.

Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 4th March 2021

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 10:25am

Thursday 4^th March 2021

 

Good morning everyone. It’s World Book Day 2021!

 

As I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, I just want to remind you that you can send in a picture of you (dressed up or not) holding up one of your favourite books. If you do, please send in a message with your photo of why it is your favourite – the best message will receive a £10 voucher from Moving Works!

Today is potentially your last day of Home Learning so I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has helped to keep your learning moving forward.

Here are your final tasks:

 

Reading

Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.

Reading activity for today:

• Draw a cartoon strip of the main events from the book.

 

English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on seasons through the year. This week focus on forming each letter correctly, which we have done before but this is something we will do in detail next week when you are all back so practising this is a going to help.

The Visitor

Cold fingers clawed the face of earth,

Bold winter strutted round,

Bare branches trembled in the wind,

Their leaves mulching the ground.

Dancing snowflakes chuckled in the

Prancing north-east breeze,

Algid river stood still, crippled,

Aged women coughed and wheezed.

Sheep shivered in the snow-bound wasteland,

Steep and icy were the paths.

In the houses, people huddled,

Skin slowly cooking round the hearths.

Then it happened, one clear morning,

When the bite of cold was sore,

That there came a gently knocking

At the weatherman’s cottage door.

He got up and shambled out to

See, his heart began to sing,

By the door, a young girl smiling,

‘Hi,’ she said. ‘My name is Spring.’

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, long ‘y’ sound

• Make a pyramid with each word to really focus on every letter.
• e.g.                

c

cy

cyc

cycl

cycli

cyclin

cycling

 

Writing task

Can I create my own mini story called, The Library Adventure?

 

Today is World Book Day where we can all dress up and celebrate some of the best loved characters. How many can you mention in just one minute?

Any of those your favourites?

If you had to choose one, who would it be?

This character you have chosen could be the start of a new story. 

Look at the Pobble picture called, The Greatest Library, at the bottom of the blog.

Here is a library, but not just any old library, the books in this library are the most interesting as once opened, they come alive, creating new stories to be opened and read and experienced.

Think what your favourite types of books are. If you could choose one of your books to come alive, which one would it be and why?

If you could be a character in a book, who would you like to be?

Here is a story starter for you to continue:

 

The books had minds of their own…

 

This was no ordinary library.

 

Books about knights and castles would gallop all over the library, bravely and boldly ordering the other books around. The books about thieves would sneak around, lurking behind bookshelves in the shadows. Books about wild animals would occasionally roar and bite other books. The ones containing stories set in the winter would often shiver, covering their neighbours with snow and frost.

 

Lucy loved this place like no other. Reading was the most exciting thing in the world here: everything she read seemed to come alive out of the pages…

 

Your task is to create a story following any of these prompts:

• You or any other character can be the one in the ‘greatest library’ about to read a book
• Introduction = The book comes alive with you (or the character) being sucked into that book’s story.
• Main = The adventure begins
• Ending = This part is completely up to you but it could be:
  • main character is now stuck in the book forever
  • main character saves the day
  • main character solves a quest and returns home
  • main character decides to stay in this world forever

 

Maths – Division Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward and back in steps of 250 and 750

7 000 , 15 000 , 5 400 , 64 000 , 97 200

2.  Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I follow the success criteria of long division?
      1. Write out the times tables of the divisor
      2. Look at the first two digits and take the largest chunk possible
      3. Take that away from the answer
      4. Continue taking large chunks in multiples of 10 or 100
      5. Make sure you finish at zero
      6. Add up the chunks to find the answer

There is a Seesaw video for today’s lesson which will help in answering ‘Long Division’ sheet.

3. Arithmetic 19 – 36. See the Arithmetic video for guidance on some of the questions.

 

History

Can I illustrate and label Pakal the Great?

Follow this link to the BBC website to find information on Pakal the Great, who reigned as King for 68 years.

• Using any of the illustrations from the website, draw Pakal the Great in your book (think middle of the page so you can label him).
• Label him with facts that you have learnt. These questions may help
  • Where did he live?
  • How long did he rule for?
  • When did he die?
  • What did he accomplish?
  • What did Ruz, the Mexican archaeologist, find in the sarcophagus?
  • Any interesting facts?
• Send it to me via Seesaw

 

Fairtrade

 

Watch the video sent through Seesaw which explains the Climate Crisis PowerPoint at the bottom of the blog and the task to complete.

Your task:

You are in charge of your own cocoa farm. Your farm is about to be struck by one of the climate challenges from the PowerPoint. Try to answer the following questions:

• What is your challenge?
• How will this challenge affect your farm?
• Will this challenge affect your basic needs?

(You can use a computer to conduct further research if you prefer)

 

Sumdog – Three challenges

 

1. 1. Division of 2/3 digit numbers                          (200 target)
   2. Fluency with division facts                      (200 target)
   3. Spellings ‘long /y/ sound’                         (45 target)

 

Excellent work Year 6. Congratulations. Make sure you celebrate in some way for all the effort you have put in. 

 

Year 3 Home Learning Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Date: 2nd Mar 2021 @ 4:09pm

Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a good Tuesday.

Today I would like you to send me a photo of your maths work and a video of yourself reading some or all of your rover story.

 

Wednesday 3^rd March 2021

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.

Predict what you think is going to happen next in the story.

 

I would also love if you could read out all or some of your rover story and send me a video on Seesaw. Focus on making it sound very exciting. You might want to get other people in your house involved to help with sound effects. You could even have some exciting space music playing quietly in the background:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6U2qXfdk6I&safe=active

 

Handwriting

Please watch the video which will be on Seesaw in the morning.

 

Spelling

Here are your spellings for this week. They all have the /ow/ sound in them spelled with ou.

mouth, around, sprout, sound, shout, cloud, hound, round, found, proud.

 

Say the words out loud.

Find the meaning of any words that you don’t know.

 

Write the long date: Wednesday 3^rd March 2021

Write the title: /ow/ sound spelled ou

Write out your spellings in your best handwriting.

 

Writing:

Write the long date: Wednesday 3^rd March 2021

Write the title: Speed Writing

Set a timer for 10 minutes and then write about anything you want for 10 minutes. It is still important to remember capital letters and full stops, beautiful handwriting and perfect spelling.

 

Times tables

Play on Hit the Button three times.

Practise division facts for ÷ 4

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

 

Sumdog

Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

Number Challenge: 1^st March – 7^th March

Times Tables Challenge: 1^st March – 7^th March

 

Counting

Count out loud in 1s.

From 387 to 410.

From 995 to 1015.

Back from 104 to 90.

 

Number Facts

Set a 30 second timer.

See how many pairs of numbers you can say or write which make 6.

Like this:  1 + 5

 

After 30 seconds, repeat for pairs of numbers which make:

10

20

 

Maths

Today you are going to be choosing the best method to add.

You will choose between partition into tens and units or bridge ten.

I have attached a sheet for you to complete, and there will be a video on Seesaw in the morning to explain the activity.

Please send me a photo of your maths work so I can check.

 

Music

Follow the link and complete the music lesson.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/exploring-different-sounds-c9k3gc

 

 

RE

As you know, it is Lent at the moment. I hope you are doing well with your Lenten Promise.

As well as making Lenten Promises, Lent gives us the chance to think about how we are living our daily lives.  During Lent it is good to think about the needs of other people. Jesus explains this in his teaching called ‘The Beatitudes.’

I have attached The Beatitudes to this blog.

 

Write the long date: Wednesday 3^rd March 2021

Write the title: Can I describe ways we can think about others during Lent?

Please read The Beatitudes and then write your own list which will help you to think about the needs of others during Lent.

You could start each line with:

You will be blessed when…

Here are some words from The Beatitudes which you might want to use:

Generous, share, friends, comfort, treat others, kindness, patience, respect, forgive.

You can also draw some pictures to show ways we can think about the needs of others.

 

Reminders

Please keep sending me your work on Seesaw – I am so proud of you for the work I have seen so far.  Today I would like you to send me a photo of your maths and a video of yourself reading your rover story.

Don’t forget to go on Sumdog.

 

 

Have a happy smiley day.  J

Year 2 Home Learning - 3rd March 2021

Date: 2nd Mar 2021 @ 3:05pm

Wednesday 3^rd March 2021

Thank you for sending your work yesterday – we know you are still working really hard at home which is so great to see. I hope your Lenten Promises are going well and you are doing your best to keep your promise. 5 more days until you are back in school! The weather is lovely at the moment so try and get out into the fresh air today – being outside is great for our well-being and helps our brain become focused for your day of learning.

 

Tomorrow is World Book Day 2021. We would love to see you dressed as your favourite character from a book. Please send us a picture of your outfit along with a short note telling us all about your favourite book. Why do you enjoy that particular book? The best message will receive a £10 Book Voucher!

 

This week you will still have some Fairtrade activities and these will be posted at the bottom of the blog.

 

We will explain the structure on here each day but please refer to the additional uploaded documents for each specific lesson guidance and resources.

 

Reading

It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.

 

Reading challenge – RETRIEVE information. Can you tell an adult or write down what type of book is it? Who are the main characters in the story? Do they have names? What has happened so far in the story?

 

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS

 

Maths

This week in Maths we are learning about lines of symmetry.

 

Starter – Writing numbers on a number line.

You will need a ruler (or something you can draw a line with), number line or hundred square and a pencil.

 

I would like you to draw a number line and place these numbers on it correctly. 

Now answer these questions:

1. How did you sort the numbers?
2. How did you know which number came next?
3. Tell an adult about the tens and ones in the numbers?

This week our lessons focus on lines of symmetry and symmetry of shapes.

 

What is Symmetry?

When we think about symmetry the most important thing is that on either side of the line the shape looks the same as the other. They are the same. If the shape does not look the same on each side it does not show symmetry.

 

For your lesson today please have a go at the worksheet attached.

You will need a pencil, scissors, glue and crayons for this activity.

 

Worksheet 1 – Cut out homes and select the correct half to make a full house.

Worksheet 2 – Use the squares to help you colour in the same pattern on the other side of the symmetry line.

 

We have uploaded an additional document named 'CHALLENGE'. This is only intended as extension work to challenge and push your learning. You are not required to complete this sheet.

 

English

Today, we are going to start our new book which follows on from The Day the Crayons Quit.

Take a look at the front cover:

What do you think the story might be about?

How can you tell from the pictures?

What information does the title of the story give you?

How did the crayons get home? Do they want to come home?

Read and enjoy The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers. You can view the story on PowerPoint attached to the end of this post or you can use the following link to listen to the story.

Please read up to ‘Glow in the Dark Crayon’.

Please see the attached Word document for more details on today’s lesson.

Phonics and Spelling

Phonics play have made their website free to use throughout January. Login -> select the resources tab -> select phase 6 phonics and have a play!

You may log in with the following details:

username: jan21

password: home

 

Today we will be focusing on the homophones to, too and two

Please see the spellings below, which we would like you to learn this week. Children in school will be given a spelling quiz on Friday 5^th March. These spelling can be practiced on Sumdog by selecting the ‘Spelling Quiz’ challenge.

 

bare/bear	blue/blew	here/hear	there/their/they're	quiet/quite
night/knight	to/too/two	see/sea	be/bee	sun/son

 

Re-cap from yesterday

Can you read the story and choose from the homophones their, they’re or there to fill in the blanks?

 

Once upon a time ____ were two twin witches. ____ faces looked the same, _____ clothes were very similar, and _____ voices sounded exactly alike. _____ was no telling which witch was which. On _____ first day at magic school, _____ teacher said, “_____ like two peas in a pod! I will never know which witch is which!”

That night, the twins cast a magic spell. “_____ not going to mix us up now!” the twins said to each other. The next day the teacher couldn’t believe it. _____ they were, one with pink hair and one with blue hair! “_____ very clever witches,” the teacher told _____ parents.

 

To, too or two

Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings. To, too and two are homophones that often confuse people.

 

To is used to show motion, eg "I’m going to the shop."

Too means ‘also’ or ‘extremely’, eg "I would like to come too but I'm too tired."

Two means the number 2, eg "Let’s buy two apples."

 

Please follow the link below for a short video and some interactive games - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z22yqhv/articles/zc4jpbk

 

Work through today’s PowerPoint presentation and have a go at the worksheet attached to the blog.

 

PE

Before you start today’s PE session make sure you do a warm-up activity. Warming up before a PE lesson is not only beneficial to protect the muscles and the joints, it also helps to gradually increase our heart rates and circulation, which will increase the blood flow to the muscles. 

 

Warm-up game – Pirate Game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today you will learn different ways to travel.

 

The Link is here for your lesson this week.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/exploring-travelling-movements-6grp4r

 

At the end of your lesson can you choose a type of travel and perform one of your balances from last week. Take a video or picture and put in on SeeSaw.

 

Fairtrade Activity

Bake a difference.

With an adult, bake or cook using at least one Fairtrade ingredient.

Decorate your creation with the FAIRTRADE Mark!

If you do some baking we would love to see a picture on SeeSaw.

 

Sumdog Challenges

Multiplication –  x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables

Maths – Symmetry

Spellings – Homophones

 

Make sure you stay positive and have some fun once you have completed today’s work.

 

Year 2 team.

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Date: 2nd Mar 2021 @ 2:41pm

Wednesday 3^rd March 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. Welcome to our last remote Wednesday. Half way through the week is always good to check in on how you are organising yourself this week. Ask yourselves these questions today:

• Have you been reading every day?
• Have you started or even finished any Sumdog challenge?
• Are you going to tick everything off by Thursday or spread it out to Friday?

(Knowing how well you have been doing enables you to plan out the rest of the week)

Do not forget that Reading, English, Maths, French, Music and RE are on the blog today so spreads these activities out or do what you can.

REMINDER – WORLD BOOK DAY 2021

Tomorrow is World Book day where you can dress up at home in one of your favourite characters. Whether you dress up or not, please send in a picture of you holding your favourite book with a message of why it is your favourite. I will be doing the same and I will send my picture to you in the morning.

Here are today’s tasks:

 

Reading

Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.

Reading activity for today:

• Draw a picture of your favourite part of the book. Write what is happening in the picture and why you chose this.

 

English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on seasons through the year. This week focus on forming each letter correctly, which we have done before but this is something we will do in detail next week when you are all back so practising this is a going to help.

Chips

Out of the paper bag

Comes the hot breath of the chips

And I shall blow on them

To stop them burning my lips.

 

Before I leave the counter

The woman shakes

Raindrops of vinegar on them

And salty snowflakes.

 

Outside, the frosty pavements

Are slippery as a slide

But the chips and I

Are warm inside.

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, long ‘y’ sound

• Today, create another mini story with the spellings words.
  • e.g. There was once a cycling hyena who absolutely loved to multiply numbers. He would identify figures in the street and rhyme whilst doing it. One day, the hyena qualified for the Cyclone Cup, a prestigious award once occupied by a python.

 

 

Writing task

Can I use a variety of nouns, verbs and adjectives to describe an evil character’s appearance and actions?

 

Read pages 44 – 50, which are on one of the videos I have sent through Seesaw. 

Watch the main video sent through on Seesaw which explains how to complete today’s objective.

The example of descriptions for an evil character are attached at the bottom of the blog.

Also, the picture I used to describe my evil character is at the bottom of the blog under 'Wanderer picture for introducing evil character'.

 

Maths – Division Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward and back in steps of 25 and 75

200.  , 400 , 1 400 , 170  ,  630

2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I explain and use long division?

There is a Seesaw video for today’s lesson as well a White Rose video here, Long Division , which explains how to solve the sheet, White Rose Maths Division. Please watch the Seesaw video first.

 

Music

Today we are continuing the topic of ‘Pulse and Metre’. Follow this link, Exploring 4 beats and 2 beats in a bar, to Oak National Academy for today’s lesson.

 

French

Bonjour! Let’s recap the weather phrases once more. You should be getting good at these by now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Ju6XS3tRs

Confession time – in school last week, we didn’t finish all the work so we’re going to do the second half of the sheet this week. If you didn’t manage it all either, click here and download lesson 5 with audio.

http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y6_French/Yr6AutumnFr.php

We’re going to do the left hand side of slide 3 in school, writing our own sentences using seasons, weather and expressions of frequency. If you’ve already done this, well done to you! You could take a piece of paper, fold it into 4 sections and copy one of your sentences into each section and add a picture to illustrate it.  If you upload the photo, I will print it off and add it to our display.

If you’re ready to move on, have a go at slide 4. I’ll be very impressed if you can do sections B and C!

Très bon travail. Merci beaucoup. A la semaine prochaine!

 

RE

Can I explain how people can live out the Our Father prayer in our daily lives?

 

Watch the Seesaw video named ‘RE. Our Father prayer’. There is a copy of the Our father at the bottom of this blog for you to print or copy and paste electronically.

 

 

Sumdog – Three challenges

 

1. 1. Division of 2/3 digit numbers                  (200 target)
   2. Fluency with division facts                      (200 target)
   3. Spellings ‘long /y/ sound’                         (45 target)

 

Congratulations as we are now half way through the week!

Reception 4th March Home Learning

Date: 2nd Mar 2021 @ 1:10pm

Thursday 4^th March 2021

 

It is World Book Day!

Post a picture of yourself to Seessaw, dressed up as your favourite story character ! J

Have a go at the World Book Day scavenger hunt attached.

 

Literacy

Reading – Can I choose your favourite story to read today?  

Reminders – Please contact the School Office if you would like to change your reading books.

Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234

• Phonics – 

Our new sounds - 'ch, sh, th, ng, qu, ai, ee, oa, igh, long & short oo, ar, or, oi, ow, ur, er'

Please revisit any of the sounds which you might have found tricky!

Can I write all my digraph sounds without copying them?

Can I think of a word for all of my sounds?

Can I have a go at the activity mats attached?

Reminder for phonics games go to - Phonics Play  – Login - Jan21 Password - home

 

• Handwriting – Fine motor development

Watch these fine motor activities, can I choose a different activity to have a go at?

All these activities will help to develop your child’s finger strength. 

This week we are practising writing our numbers from 0 – 9.

Watch these number rhymes to help you form them correctly. 

 

High Frequency words – knowing these words just by looking at them will help improve fluency in your reading –

‘it, is, in, am, an, of, on, up, so, and’

See if you can read these words without sounding them out?

 

• Story this week – Our story this week is ‘How to catch a star’ by Oliver Jeffers. 

Today we are going to make up our own poems using the letters in the word STAR.

Before you write your poem, check the following!

Can I make a mind map of ideas to help me to describe a star?

Can I write my own star acrostic poem using the letters STAR?

For example,

Shining

Twinkling

Above the world

Relaxing night time

Maths – 

• Counting Practice – 

Can I practise counting from different starting numbers?

 E.g. 3 to 16, 7-22, 12 - 30

• Consolidation – In Reception we need to revisit and rehearse all number facts to secure understanding.

Can I revisit the number 13? (See attached.)

Can I colour in the rainbow strands and use it to help me work out my number bonds to 10? (See attached.) 

• Spring Term 1 Consolidation

Watch the White Rose Maths Bean Bag Throw Game Video. 

Can I complete the activity attached?  

 

Topic Time

EAD – This afternoon we are going to learn about the artist Van Gogh.

Watch this video together to learn a little bit more about him. 

See if you can create your own version of his picture ‘Starry night’

(See attached for some ideas.)

 

DT - Can I follow the instructions to make some star biscuits? (See attached.)

 

Reception Story Time 

Winne the Witch, See below !

What a great day of learning, Reception 😊

HOME LEARNING Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Date: 2nd Mar 2021 @ 11:27am

Year 4

Home Learning Wednesday 3^rd March 2021

Good morning Year 4.  I hope you had a lovely Tuesday!  Remember, tomorrow is World Book Day – join in the fun by dressing up as a book character.  Upload a photo of your outfit to Seesaw and a message explaining why your favourite book is your favourite.  There is a £10 book voucher for the best message we receive!

 

Reading

Please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes.  Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story so far.

Can you tell someone about the main characters in your book and explain a little bit about them, for example, what is their name? Are they a good or a bad character?  How do you know?  What do they wear?  What are their likes and dislikes?

 

Spelling

These are your new spellings which will be tested on Tuesday 9^th March 2021. They are all from the Year 3 / 4 Spelling list – a list of words which children should be able to read and spell by the time they leave Year 4.  There are some quite tricky words, so please practise them carefully.

The words are:

mention         probably      therefore    build            disappear     guide

natural           recent         though         although       busy            business     

Write the long date Wednesday 3^rd March 2021

Copy the words carefully into your book. Using a coloured pen or pencil draw a circle around the parts of the word you find tricky.  Do this 2 more times to try and help learn these tricky words.    

A spelling challenge has also been set on Sumdog.

 

Handwriting

A video will be uploaded on Wednesday morning.  Watch the video and then practise your handwriting in your Home Learning book.

Write the long date Wednesday 3^rd March 2021

Write the title Handwriting

 

English

Today, please read or listen to Chapter 9 of Kensuke’s Kingdom. A copy of the book is attached to the blog or you can listen to Chapter 9 by clicking here.      

Open the document called ‘English tasks’ which is attached to the blog. You may either print this sheet out, or complete the writing straight into your Home Learning Book. There are 2 short tasks today. All the instructions for the tasks are explained in this document.

Please share your work on Seesaw

 

Times tables

A times tables challenge has been set on Sumdog. This is to consolidate and practise your 11 and 12 times tables.

Please practise your own tables target using Hit the button. If you are on ‘free’ tables, please practise a times table or division fact which you know you find tricky.  If you are in school this week, you will be tested on your individual target on Thursday 4^th March 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on a mixture of 4 and 8 times tables.

 

Counting

Count in 100’s from 750 to 2150 and back again.  Count in 100’s from 108 to 1508 and back again.  Think about what you found tricky?  Write the numbers down as you say them – what patterns do you notice?

Please count in 1000’s from 0 to 10 000 and back again – can you go any further? Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?

Now count in 1000’s from 500 to 9500 and back again – can you go any further? Write the numbers down as you say them – what do you notice now?

What is the relationship between 100 and 1000? Can you see any patterns in the numbers you have written down?

 

Maths

Click here to play Daily 10.

Click on play game.  Choose Level 3 and Division. Depending on how confident you feel, choose a table from the ‘Up to 12’ or ‘Mixed tables’ column.  Choose your time interval and have a go.  Once you have played once, repeat the game and see if you can improve on your previous score.

 

When we all return to school next week we will be learning more about mental and written division (chunking).  In preparation for this, it is important that you are confident with the basics of grouping and sharing. Therefore, today and tomorrow we will be recapping some of these basics.  It is CRUCIAL that you learn your tables (and division facts) off by heart so that you are able to use them accurately and at speed.  Please take 10 minutes each day to practise your tables / division facts - this could be your tables target, tables you should know, or those you find tricky. If you do this, you will be amazed at how your confidence will grow in a short space of time.

Write the short date 03.03.21

Write the learning objective Can I practise sharing?

Watch today’s teaching video here.

Open the worksheet attached to the blog called ‘Sharing’.

Complete the worksheet / answer the questions in your Home Learning Book.  

Using jottings (eg sticks for base 10 10’s and dots for base 10 units or ones), show 60 ÷ 3    and     60 ÷ 5    

Now have a go at 48 ÷ 2    and     48 ÷ 4.    

                                                 

French

Please write the date in French: mardi deux mars and the learning objective:

Can I describe Matisse’s pictures using shape and colour words?

Today we are going to look at some of Matisse’s art works and use the shape language we’ve learnt over the last few weeks to describe them.

Download the PowerPoint attached to the blog called ‘Describing Matisse’. It asks ‘Qu’est-ce qu’il y a dans le tableau?’ What’s in the picture? Work your way through listening to the audio and repeating the sentences. Can you say some of your own descriptive sentences? 

When you reach slide 9, write these sentences into your book. Then look at slide 8 again and write the number of any pictures that the sentence applies to.

Check your answers using slide 10.

Here’s a song to finish. How many words that you recognise can you hear? You could slow down the playback speed to make it easier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-5gVAlR438

Merci beaucoup! Très bon travail! A la semaine prochaine!

 

PE

Watch the clips below and follow the instructions on the cards.

Games skills – In the Box

In the Box card

In the Box video

Gymnastics – Ship Shape

Ship Shape card

Ship Shape video

 

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A maths times table challenge (based on the 11 and 12 times tables)
• A maths challenge all about whole numbers upto 10 000
• A spelling challenge based on the new Year 3 /4 spellings

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  It is important that you practise these skills as they are invaluable in helping you to learn your number facts and multiplication and division facts.  In addition, they will enable you to calculate accurately and at speed when working mentally.

A new spelling challenge will start tomorrow.

 

Well done for finishing today’s work.  Have a lovely evening and stay safe.

Year 1 Home Learning Thursday 4th March 2021

Date: 2nd Mar 2021 @ 10:02am

We hope you are all enjoying being dressed up as a book character.

Post a photo of yourself on Seesaw and tell us all about your favourite book!

Reading

How many stars have you ticked on your reading challenge? You could make up your own reading challenges and write them on the back of your sheet.

Phonics

Today we are going to try and spot some of our air, are,ear and ere sounds in our story, The Hairy Fairy. Visit Seesaw to listen to our story and download the pages below. You can write out the words you can find and use some in a sentence.

English

For our writing today we are going to write a character description of our favourite book character or the character you have dressed up as today. Use the sheet below or write on lined paper.

Draw your character and write words around them to describe them. Once you have created your describing word bank, use these words to write your sentences below. Remember to use your Think Pinks and neat handwriting.

Handwriting

For your handwriting today, rewatch some of our handwriting videos from this week on Seesaw. Remember to take your time and make your writing as neat as you can.

Maths

Counting - Practise ordering numbers with the Counting Caterpillar game.

Number facts - The Ten Dance song.

Main Focus - Measure mass. Click here.

History

Today we are going to learn about Isambard Kingdom Brunel.He was a famous engineer. On the sheet draw three pictures and write some sentences about his life.

Click here.

Drama

Think about the character you have chosen to be today. Have a go at acting out the story you are from. See if you can get other members of your family involved.

Bedtime Story

Join in with Michael Rosen as he performs his own story, We're Going on a Bear Hunt.

HOME LEARNING Tuesday 2nd March 2021

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 3:28pm

Year 4

Home Learning Tuesday 2^nd March 2021

Good morning Year 4.  Welcome to Tuesday’s Home Learning. I hope your Lenten Promises are going well and you are doing your best to keep your promise, whatever it may be. A reminder that it is Fairtrade Fortnight too. A sheet has been attached to the blog with some activities you may like to try.   You may also like to learn more about Fairtrade by visiting their website here.

 

Reading

Please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes.  Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story so far.

Ask someone else to read a page of the book to you. Listen carefully to their intonation (the way their voice rises and falls), expression and where they pause for punctuation.

 

Spelling

These are your new spellings which will be tested on Tuesday 9^th March 2021. They are all from the Year 3 / 4 Spelling list – a list of words which children should be able to read and spell by the time they leave Year 4.  There are some quite tricky words, so please practise them carefully.

The words are:

mention         probably      therefore    build            disappear     guide

natural           recent         though         although       busy            business     

Write the long date Tuesday 2^nd March 2021

Copy the words carefully into your book and find out the meanings of any words you are unsure of.   

A spelling challenge has also been set on Sumdog.

 

English

Today, please read or listen to Chapter 8 of Kensuke’s Kingdom again.  A copy of the book is attached to the blog or you can listen to Chapter 8 by clicking here.

Open the document called ‘Turning points’ which is attached to the blog. You may either print this sheet off or complete the writing straight into your Home Learning Book. All the instructions are explained in this document.

Please share your work on Seesaw

 

Times tables

A times tables challenge has been set on Sumdog. This is to consolidate and practise your 11 and 12 times tables.

Please practise your own tables target using Hit the button. If you are on ‘free’ tables, please practise a times table or division fact which you know you find tricky.  If you are in school this week, you will be tested on your individual target on Thursday 4^th March 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on a mixture of 4 and 8 times tables.

 

Counting

Count in 100’s from 300 to 1500 and back again.  Count in 100’s from 450 to 1250 and back again.  Think about what you found tricky?  Write the numbers down as you say them – what patterns do you notice?

Please count in 50’s from 300 to 1100 and back again – can you go any further? Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?

Now count in 50’s from 450 to 1100 and back again – can you go any further? Write the numbers down as you say them – what do you notice now?

What is the relationship between 100 and 50? Can you see any patterns in the numbers you have written down?

 

Maths

Click here to play Fruit splat compare equations – this is the game that you played yesterday.

You will be given an equation eg 4 x 3 ___ 2 + 2

Work out both sides of the equation.   In the example above 4 x 3 = 12 and 2 + 2 = 4.

Decide whether the calculations are = (equal), the first calculation is > (greater than) the second; or the first calculation is < (less than) the second.

Click on the correct symbol.  In the example above, you would click on the greater than symbols, because 12 is > 4.

Today, try Level Two - you can choose an untimed or timed game.

 

Today, we are going to practise our mental maths strategies and complete an arithmetic test.

Make sure you have everything you need before you start:

• A pencil and a ruler
• Your Home Learning book OR a printed copy of the arithmetic test (attached to the blog)
• A 20 minute timer
• The arithmetic answers (to check your answers afterwards. These are attached to the blog)

Please make sure that you make jottings / show your working out – this is important as it helps to find any errors (if you make them!).  Try and complete the test independently and CHECK EACH OF YOUR ANSWERS CAREFULLY before you look at the answer sheet.  Remember, it doesn’t matter if you get an answer wrong, the most important thing is to find your mistake.

Before you start, please watch the two videos on Seesaw which will explain a couple of strategies.  These will be uploaded on Tuesday morning.

Good luck!

Please post your work on Seesaw so that I can see how you got on!

                                                  

RE

Please open the document called ‘RE Our Father’ which is attached to the blog.  All the information for today’s RE lesson is explained in this document.

 

Music

Please click here for the second lesson in this music topic.  Today you will be exploring how music is organised and look at music with 4 beats and 2 beats in a bar.  Have fun!       

 

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A maths times table challenge (based on the 11 and 12 times tables)
• A maths challenge all about whole numbers upto 10 000
• A spelling challenge based on the new Year 3 /4 spellings

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  It is important that you practise these skills as they are invaluable in helping you to learn your number facts and multiplication and division facts.  In addition, they will enable you to calculate accurately and at speed when working mentally.

A new spelling challenge will start tomorrow.

 

Well done for finishing today’s work.  Have a lovely evening and stay safe.

Year 3 Home Learning Tuesday 2nd March 2021

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 3:27pm

Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a good day on Monday.  Only 4 more days of Home Learning (including Fun Friday).

Well done for all of the writing about Mars, Perseverance and the rover. The stories you have written have been so exciting to read on Seesaw. Today I would like you to send me a photo of your Science questions.

 

Tuesday 2^nd March 2021

 

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.

Tell somebody everything you know about one of the characters.

 

Spelling

Write the long date: Tuesday 2^nd March 2021

Write the title: Spelling Test  

Write the numbers 1 to 11 down your page. Ask somebody to call out each spelling twice. If you get any wrong, practise them and then try again.

You need the apostrophe in the correct place to get a tick.

1. can’t
2. didn’t
3. hasn’t
4. couldn’t
5. it’s
6. wasn’t
7. doesn’t
8. mustn’t
9. I’ll
10. she’d

Bonus question: different

 

Handwriting

Please watch the video which will be on Seesaw in the morning.

 

 

Writing:

Today you are going to publish your rover story. I will tell you how we will do it in school, but you might choose to do something different like type it up on the computer or write it on lined paper or a new page in your book.

 

First:

Check that every sentence starts with a capital letter.

Check that every name starts with a capital letter (planet names, rover names, people’s names).

Check AT LEAST 5 spellings using your yellow dictionary.

 

How we will be doing it in school:

We will do all the writing in the morning, and illustrate, decorate and colour in the afternoon.

Get 3 pieces of plain A4 paper and fold them in half so they open like a book.

Put them inside each other to create a book, you could staple along the fold to keep them together.

Write the title of your story on the front page.

Carefully copy one paragraph from your story onto each page, you will have some spare pages to draw pictures on.

 

Please bring these into school next week so we can all show each other.

 

 

Times tables

Write the short date: 02.03.21

Write the title: Times Tables Test

Write the numbers 1-11 down your page.

Ask somebody to call out the following questions.

In school I always read the question out, count to five, read it out again and then count to three before moving on to the next question.

The bonus question is: 97 x 10.

If you get any wrong, practise a bit more and then try again.

1. 12 ÷ 3 =
2. 24 ÷ 3 =
3. 6 ÷ 3 =
4. 15 ÷ 3 =
5. 30 ÷ 3 =
6. 9 ÷ 3 =
7. 18 ÷ 3 =
8. 3 ÷ 3 =
9. 21 ÷ 3 =
10. 27 ÷ 3 =

Here are the answers:

1. 12 ÷ 3 = 4
2. 24 ÷ 3 = 8
3. 6 ÷ 3 = 2
4. 15 ÷ 3 =5
5. 30 ÷ 3 = 10
6. 9 ÷ 3 = 3
7. 18 ÷ 3 = 6
8. 3 ÷ 3 = 1
9. 21 ÷ 3 = 7
10. 27 ÷ 3 = 9

 

 

 

Sumdog

Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

Number Challenge: 1^st March – 7^th March

Times Tables Challenge: 1^st March – 7^th March

 

 

Counting

Count out loud in 4s from 0 to 48:

Whilst doing star jumps

Whilst jogging on the spot

Whilst doing squats

 

 

Number Facts

Write down or tell somebody the totals of pairs of doubles up to 10 + 10.

Like this: 

1 + 1 = 2

2 + 2 = 4

 

Maths

Today you are going to answer some arithmetic questions.

There will be some videos available on Seesaw in the morning which will remind you of the strategies we use for some of the questions.

After watching the videos, set a timer for 20 minutes and complete the questions.

After 20 minutes, check your answers yourself and then use the answer sheet to check.

 

 

Science

Next Tuesday in school we are going to be taking part in a live online Science lesson called Future Farming Robots.

The lesson will be run by Senior lecturer Paula and engineering researcher Megan from Harper Adams University.

We will get chance to look at their robotics lab to look at how robots can solve some of farming’s biggest challenges including - How can we improve soil health? How can we make growing crops more efficient? How can we farm areas that weren’t suitable for growing crops before?

At the end of the lesson, Paula and Megan will be answering questions sent in by children. So we are going to come up with some questions and I will send them in with the hope that we will have some of them answered.

 

Write the long date: Tuesday 2^nd March 2021

Write the title: Can I suggest questions about the future of farming?  

I would like you to write at least 3 questions (more if you want) and send them to me on Seesaw.

They might be about:

Paula and Megan

Robots

Soil

Farming

Tractors

Future technology

Jobs that farming robots might need to do

 

Art

Illustrate your rover story with pictures, patterns, borders and decorations.

Use colour to make it look exciting.

If you have typed your story, you could either print it and illustrate it or add images from the internet.

 

Reminders

Please keep sending me your work on Seesaw – I am so proud of you for the work I have seen so far.  Today I would like you to send me a photo of your science questions.

Don’t forget to go on Sumdog.

 

 

Have a super day J I am so proud of each and every one of you!

 

Year 2 Home Learning - 2nd March 2021

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 2:42pm

Tuesday 2^nd March 2021

Well done year 2 – another brilliant day of learning yesterday. Try and think of 3 things that you are thankful for today.

We really don’t have long now until we will all be together again, so keep working hard this week. It is really important to keep persevering and completing as much work as you can.

 

This week you will still have some Fairtrade activities and these will be posted at the bottom of the blog.

 

We will explain the structure on here each day but please refer to the additional uploaded documents for each specific lesson guidance and resources.

 

Reading

It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.

 

Reading challenge – VOCABULARY. Can you find 4 words from your book that are great words? If you have a dictionary or on a tablet search for ‘Word Hippo’ can you write what this word means or any other words which mean the same?

 

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS

 

Maths

 

This week in Maths we are learning about lines of symmetry.

 

Starter – Writing numbers on a number line.

 

You will need a ruler (or something you can draw a line with), number line or hundred square and a pencil.

 

I would like you to draw a number line and place these numbers on it correctly.

 

 

 

 

1       31       11      41        21       61       51       71       

 

Now answer these questions:

1. How did you sort the numbers?
2. How did you know which number came next?
3. What is the pattern showing for these numbers?
4. Tell an adult about the tens and ones in the numbers?

 

 

This week our lessons focus on lines of symmetry and symmetry of shapes.

 

What is Symmetry?

 

 

When we think about symmetry the most important thing is that on either side of the line the shape looks the same as the other. They are the same. If the shape does not look the same on each side it does not show symmetry.

 

For your lesson today please click to watch the video link and complete the attached worksheet.

https://vimeo.com/508432389

 

We have uploaded an additional document named 'CHALLENGE'. This is only intended as extension work to challenge and push your learning. You are not required to complete this sheet.

 

English

What is a persuasive writing?

Where might we see persuasive writing?

Here is a reminder of the letter we received in school yesterday:

Dear Mr Ingram and Miss Bennison,

It’s me, Glue Stick. I am writing to tell you that I have decided to quit my job as your class Glue Stick. First of all, I would like to say that I love being the class glue stick. It’s great to see all the children using me to stick in their precious work. Also, I love it when I am used in Art. Art is my favourite subject. I wish to congratulate Year 2 for a successful “glueing in career” so far, you are all doing an amazing job. However, some children in your class leave my lid off and I am DYING! I go all dry and horrible. Furthermore, there are some children who use too much of me. One child the other week used half of me on one piece of paper. Can you believe that? I need a break! Try to use me more sparingly and remember to put my lid on!

Your dry, horrible and soon-to-be ex-friend,

Glue Stick

Please see the attached Word document for more details on today’s lesson.

Phonics and Spelling

Phonics play have made their website free to use throughout January. Login -> select the resources tab -> select phase 6 phonics and have a play!

You may log in with the following details:

username: jan21

password: home

 

Today we will be focusing on the homophones their, they're and there

 

Please see the spellings below, which we would like you to learn this week. Children in school will be given a spelling quiz on Friday 5^th March. These spelling can be practiced on Sumdog by selecting the ‘Spelling Quiz’ challenge.

 

bare/bear	blue/blew	here/hear	there/their/they're	quiet/quite
night/knight	to/too/two	see/sea	be/bee	sun/son

 

Start by trying to match the picture or description to the correct word.

 

Their, they're or there

Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings. 'Their', 'they're' and 'there' are homophones that often confuse people.

 

Their means it belongs to them, e.g. "I ate their sweets."

 

They're is short for 'they are' e.g. "They are going to be cross."

 

There refers to a place, e.g. "I'm going to hide over there."

 

Although they sound the same they have entirely different meanings. They’re putting all their toys in the cupboard over there. In other words, there is a place. Their shows ownership. They’re is short for they are.

 

Please follow the link below for a short video and some interactive games - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjpytrd/articles/zfhxxyc

 

Work through today’s PowerPoint presentation and have a go at the worksheet attached to the blog.

 

Music

Here is the link to your music lesson this week. https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/rhythms-6rtp6c

 

French

Here’s our favourite fruit song to remind us of the fruit words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ03KjwiIVM

Now we’re going to learn how the French say the vowels – a,e,i,o,and u. Their alphabet contains the same letters as ours but they have different names for the letters. Listen to this vowel song a few times until you can say the vowels in French. They also count y as a vowel sometimes (but so do we – sky, try, fly. All words need a vowel in them but these words only have a y!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXPUmC51wGc

Now you can play a game of Battleships using fruit and your new vowel words. There is a sheet in the resources with the instructions on.

Amusez-vous bien! A la semaine prochaine. See you next week!

 

 

Fairtrade Activity

 

The choices that we make can affect the planet and the people that live on it in positive and negative ways. Make a choice that is positive for people and planet today!

 

Write a sentence and draw a picture explaining your choice.

 

Sumdog Challenges

Multiplication –  x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables

Maths – Symmetry

Spellings – Homophones 

We hope you have a fabulous Tuesday.

 

Year 2 team.

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 2nd March 2021

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 2:36pm

Tuesday 2^nd March 2021

 

Good morning Year 6. Welcome to Tuesday.

Well done to those who have started this week’s Sumdog challenges and posted some work through Seesaw. Remember, as always, do not hesitate to contact me about anything regarding learning. So many of you did yesterday as I am here to help during your final week of remote learning.

 

Here are today’s tasks:

 

Reading

Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.

Reading activity for today:

• How does/did the book make you feel? Explain.

 

English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on seasons through the year. This week focus on forming each letter correctly, which we have done before but this is something we will do in detail next week when you are all back so practising this is a going to help.

Still Winter

Ambushing snowdrops,

Beheading buds,

Drowning daisies

In sudden floods,

 

Old Mr Winter

Won’t let go,

Arthritic fingers

Dipped in snow.

 

Grey mist clinging

Like old news,

Badger talking

One more snooze.

 

Blackbird singing

In freezing rain,

Screech Owl calling;

Night again.

 

Cold rat feasting

On the scrap-heap,

Frosty paw-prints,

Earth half-asleep.

 

All things hoping

Spring comes soon,

Snuggle under

Frosty moon.

 

Spellings

• The spellings for this week, long ‘y’ sound
  • Play the Window Game that I explained in a video before half term. Just to remind you:
    • top left = copy neatly x3
    • top right = say each letter out loud x3
    • bottom left = non-dominant hand x3
    • bottom right = blind writing x3

 

Writing task

Can I use a dictionary to investigate new vocabulary from Aladdin?

 

Read pages 37 - 43

Watch the video sent through on Seesaw where I explain how to describe Aladdin’s personality.

 

The New Vocabulary to Define sheet is attached to the bottom of this blog.

 

 

 

Maths – Division Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting forward and back in steps of 200 and 400

1 600,    4 700,   16 000,  145 000,   876 700

2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I use chunking to solve large division questions?

See the video on Seesaw which explain how we use the division chunking method to help you complete the Chunking Method sheet.

3. Maths challenge Division with Digit Cards – See the Seesaw video for an explanation of the challenge with the attached sheet at the bottom of this blog.

 

 

Science

Today we are going to start a topic called Exercise, Health and the Circulatory system.

Download the Powerpoint and work through it. There is a choice of two tasks on the last slide.

Your poster can be done on a computer or in your book. There is a choice of  cartoon strip templates in the resources.

Enjoy!

 

Fairtrade

This lesson focuses on the difference between wants and needs, and to identify what all humans need to live a decent life.

Task 1:

Think of these questions and note down any of your responses:

• What do you need to happy and healthy?
• Of those things, what are the most important?
• Of those things, what are the least important?

There is a difference to wants and needs. A need is something a person needs to survive and a want is something that is nice to have.

Task 2:

Use the ’12 Wants and Needs cards’ at the bottom of the blog to divide into two categories: needs and wants.

From your two lists, are there some that we can live without?

Task 3:

Select the needs cards that you might need to pay for e.g. healthy food, medicine.

Not all people in the world have enough money to meet their basic needs. Without enough money, it can be difficult to lead a healthy and happy life. Many of the farmers who grow cocoa for our chocolate are not paid enough money to meet their basic needs, even though they work hard.

Read Theresa’s story, on the PowerPoint, which shows how Fairtrade can help farmers and workers to meet their basic needs.

Then think about what can be done to ensure that all farmers and workers get their basic needs met.

 

Sumdog – Three challenges

 

1. 1. Division of 2/3 digit numbers                  (200 target)
   2. Fluency with division facts                      (200 target)
   3. Spellings ‘long /y/ sound’                         (45 target)

 

Well done. Another day completed!

 

Year 1 Home Learning Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 2:29pm

Happy Wednesday everyone. Here is today's learning.

We are seeing some excellent learning on Seesaw - beautiful handwriting, accurate number work and thoughtful R.E.

Reading

We have seen some lovely videos of you doing your reading challenges wearing hats, using silly voices and even  reading to your pets! Print off your certificate when you have ticked all the stars!

You could have a go at making your own book to read to someone in your family.

Phonics

Today we will be looking at two more 'air' sounds. The are in stare and the ere in where. Watch the video again below, writing out all the words with these sounds in. Tune in to Seesaw for your sounds learning.

 

English

In our writing today, we are looking at what happened when Scaredy discovered all the creatures around the Nut Tree. Tune into Seesaw and download the sheet attached. Keep sending in your brilliant writing to Seesaw.

We are very impressed with all the progress you have made at home over the last few weeks.

A huge Well Done!

 

'Scaredy Squirrel would like to say a big Thank You to Year 1 for all their fantastic tips for falling asleep. They worked a treat!'

Handwriting

Tune in to Seesaw for your Handwriting practise today. You will need a pencil and some lined paper.

Maths

Counting Practise counting in 5's. Click here. Make sure you are saying the numbers correctly, 20 is twenty not twenny! Your grown up could then give you a number from the pattern of 5's and you count on or back in 5's.

Number Facts Play Smoothie Maths to practise your number bonds of 10. Click here.

Main Focus.Weight and mass . Click here.

French

Here’s our favourite fruit song to remind us of the fruit words. Click here.

Now listen to this for another practise: Click here.

Now practise recalling the words with a game of fruit bingo. You need someone to play with.

 Using the last video, draw those fruits on separate bits of paper and turn them face down on the table.

Now you need a grid each with 4 squares on. Choose 4 fruits that you know the names of and draw them on your grid, recognisably! (A circle could be anything!). Take it in turns to turn over a fruit and say the word in French. Cross it off if you’ve got it on your Bingo card. The first person to cross off all their fruit is the winner. They shout Lotto!

Don’t forget to ask for your fruit in French at home. Une pomme s’il te plait! (oon pomm seel tuh play) Merci! (mair see)

Merci beaucoup. A la semaine prochaine! See you next week!

Music

Exploring different ways to use your body. Click here.

Bedtime Story

Join in with Eric Carle as he reads his own story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Click here.

Year 1 Home Learning Tuesday 2nd March 2021

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 9:17am

Good morning Year 1 and welcome to your Tuesday learning. We are loving all the writing about Scaredy Squirrel that you are posting on Seesaw. 

 

Reading

Keep reading every day, it really makes a huge difference to all your learning. Try to tick more stars on your World Book Day challenge.

Draw your own bookmark with Rob Biddulph. Click here.

Phonics

Today we will be looking at our air, ear, are sounds. Watch the videos below and then tune into Seesaw for your Phonics learning today.

English

We will be helping Scaredy Squirrel get some sleep today by showing him what we do to get a good night's sleep. Use the sheet below or do your writing on some lined paper today. Visit Seesaw for today's lesson.

Handwriting

Visit Seesaw for your Handwriting practise. All you need is your pencil and some lined paper.

Maths

Counting Pick any number between 0  and 15. Practise counting on and back in 1's and 2's. Use the number lines to help you see the jumps.

Number Facts Today we are going to think about ways to make 10. We need to be able to recall these facts.

The Friends of 10 song. Click here.

Find 10 objects and put them into 2 groups to show all the ways to make 10.

Your grown up can then say a number from 0 to 10,do you know the other number ?

They say 2, you say 8 and so on.

Main Focus Subtracting lengths. Click here.

R.E.

Using the pictures talk about what is happening and why you think people are happy?  How are they sharing God’s love?  Use speech bubbles to show what people could be saying to each other as they celebrate together. Talk about how we will hopefully be able to gather with our parish family soon.

P.E.

This term we are going to be practising our fundamental skills. We hope you enjoyed battleships last week.

Today we will play battle ships and our new game of In the Box. Watch the video instructions here and read the card attached below. These games help develop the underarm throwing skills and throwing to a target skills. 

 

Bedtime Story

 

Max and the Won't Go To Bed Show. Click here.

Reception 3rd March Home Learning

Date: 28th Feb 2021 @ 6:29pm

Wednesday 3^rd March 2021

 

Here is the learning for today.

Remember to have a go at as much of the learning as you can.

 

Literacy

Reading – See if you can read for 10 minutes today. I wonder how many words you will have read by the end of 10 minutes?

Reminders – Please contact the School Office if you would like to change your reading books.

Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234

• Phonics – 

Our new sounds - 'ch, sh, th, ng, qu, ai, ee, oa, igh, long & short oo, ar, or, oi, ow, ur'

Today’s new sound is ‘er’ - watch Polly’s video to tell you all about the sound.

Please revisit any of the sounds which you might have find tricky !😊

Can I write all my digraph sounds without copying them?

Can I play 'Read and Race' ? (revisiting ai, ee, er, oa, oo)

Can I write the words and colour the ones with the sound ‘er’?

Can I read the sentence and write in the missing word?

See activities attached.

Reminder for phonics games go to - Phonics Play  – Login - Jan21 Password - home

 

• Handwriting – Fine motor development

Watch these fine motor activities, see if you can choose one to have a go at, all these activities will help to help develop your child’s finger strength. 

This week we are practising writing our numbers from 0 – 9.

Watch these number rhymes to help you form them correctly. 

 

 

High Frequency words – knowing these words just by looking at them will help improve fluency in your reading –

‘it, is, in, am, an, of, on, up, so, and’

See if you can read these words without sounding them out?

 

• Story this week – Our story this week is ‘How to catch a star’ by Oliver Jeffers. 

Turn the lights off and watch this video - Imagine you are underneath the stars yourself. Look at all the different colours and patterns the stars make in the night sky. 

Whilst you are watching the video - Imagine if you had your own star.

What adventure would you plan for you both?

Can I write a list of everything I would do if I had a star? (See attached.)

 

Maths – 

• Counting Practice – 

Can I count in 10s? – Using objects from around my house, can I group them into piles of 10? How many piles of 10 do I have? Can I count them in 10s?

Can you use the splat square to spot the pattern of counting in 10? Can you count to 100 in 10s? 

• Consolidation – In Reception we need to revisit and rehearse all number facts to secure understanding.

Can I revisit the number 12? (See attached.)

Can I write the teen numbers and carefully count the amounts in the ten frames to match to numerals? (See attached.)

 

• Spring Term 1 Consolidation

Watch the White Rose Maths Ten Frame Fill Game Video. 

Can I complete the activity attached?  

 

Topic Time

Science – You are going to make a mouse and a pretend rocket and see how far you can make your mouse fly.

Watch this video to see how to do it.

https://learning.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/resources/rocket-mice/

For the ‘mouse’, cut out a semi-circle of paper and bend it round to make a cone shape and secure with sellotape.

Discussion

How far can you make him fly?

Does it go further if you have a bigger bottle?

Can you measure how far it flies using building bricks or toy cars or other items?

What is the science? (Adult explanation)

The bottle used as the rocket launcher is not really empty: there is air inside it. Air is elastic (squashy), and when you compress it, it pushes back and the pressure inside increases. In the activity, the sudden increase in air pressure inside the bottle pushes hard on the bottom of the rocket, sending it flying high into the air. There are also two other forces acting on the rocket: air resistance and gravity. Air resistance always pushes in the opposite direction to the rocket’s movement, and its strength depends on the rocket’s shape and its speed. Gravity always pulls downwards, slowing the rocket’s climb but speeding up its descent.

Reception Story Time

‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy. 

 

 

Well done Reception, you have nearly got to the end of home learning 😊

 

Reception 2nd March Home Learning

Date: 28th Feb 2021 @ 4:46pm

Tuesday 2^nd March 2021

 

What a difference the sunshine makes. It is great to see so many of you taking your learning outdoors.

 

Literacy

Reading – What is your favourite part of your stories? Can you draw a picture and say why you like it the best?

Reminders – Please contact the School Office if you would like to change your reading books.

Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234

• Phonics – 

Our new sounds - 'ch, sh, th, ng, qu, ai, ee, oa, igh, long & short oo, ar, or, oi, ow'

Today’s new sound is ‘ur’ - watch Polly’s video to tell you all about the sound.

Please revisit any of the sounds which you might have find tricky !😊

Can I write all my digraph sounds without copying them?

Can I play read and race? (revisiting ch, th, sh, ng, qu)

Can I write the ‘ur’ words?

See activities attached.

Reminder for phonics games go to - Phonics Play  – Login - Jan21 Password - home

 

• Handwriting – Fine motor development

Can you join in with the ‘Twinkle Twinkle’ song? 

This week we are practising writing our numbers from 0 – 9.

Watch these number rhymes to help you form them correctly. 

 

 

The Humpty words of the day are – 'little, there, have, like'

 Can you spot these words in a reading book?

Can you write the words?

Can you think of a sentence for these words? Can you say the sentences out loud?

Can you write your sentence?

 

• Story this week – Our story this week is ‘How to catch a star’ by Oliver Jeffers. 

 

Can I retell the story using the pictures from yesterday?

Discuss the different ways the boy tried to catch the star.

Can I design my own star catching contraption? (See the activity attached.)

 

Maths – 

• Counting Practice – 

Join in the 5 little men, flying saucer song. 

Can I count in 10s? 

 

• Consolidation – In Reception we need to revisit and rehearse all number facts to secure understanding.

Can I revisit the number 11? (See attached.)

Can I order my numbers from 1 – 20 independently? (See sheet attached – or use your number cards.)

 

• Spring Term 1 Consolidation

Watch the White Rose Maths Video Snap Numeral and Picture Cards (0 – 9).

Can I complete the activity attached?  

 

Topic Time

Music –  Session two – Growing in the Garden https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/growing-in-the-garden-74wk0d

 

PE –

Cosmic Yoga – Space 

Have a go at practising your catching skills this week.

Watch this video and have a go yourself 😊 

 

Have a great day of learning 😊

Reception 1st March Home Learning

Date: 28th Feb 2021 @ 4:02pm

Monday 1^st March 2021

 

We hope you all had a lovely weekend in the sunshine!

This is your last week of home learning, you can do it ! 😊

Take this week to revisit anything you might have found tricky over the last half term.

 

Literacy

Reading – How many Humpty words can you find in your books?

Reminders – Please contact the School Office if you would like to change your reading books.

Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234

• Phonics – 

Our new sounds - 'ch, sh, th, ng, qu, ai, ee, oa, igh, long & short oo, ar, or, oi'

Today’s new sound is ‘ow’ - Watch Polly’s video to tell you all about the sound.

Please revisit any of the sounds which you might have find tricky. 😊

Can I sort the ‘long and short oo’ and ‘ar’ pictures?

Can I read and find the matching words?

Can I write the 'oi' and 'ow' words?

See activities attached.

Reminder for phonics games go to - Phonics Play  – Login - Jan21 Password - home

 

• Handwriting – Fine motor development.

Can you join in with the ‘Crocodile Snap’ song? 

This week we are practising writing our numbers from 0 - 9.

Watch these number rhymes to help you form them correctly. 

Have a go using your whiteboard or paper. 

 

The Humpty words of the day are – be, were, was, said

 Can you spot these words in a reading book?

Can you write the words?

Can you think of a sentence for these words? Can you say the sentences out loud?

Can you write your sentence?

 

• Story this week – Our story this week is ‘How to catch a star’ by Oliver Jeffers. 

 

Can I listen to the story, pausing it throughout to discuss what is happening in the story?

Using the images in the activity attached. Can I talk through the story? (You might want to get props to help you retell the story too, e.g. a little boy, tree, star, rocket.)

Can I read the first sentence of the story?

Can I write it out, chop it up into words, mix them up and order it again independently?

 

Maths – 

• Counting Practice – 

Can I count to 100? 

Can I match my teen number cards to the amount cards by using my careful counting?

• Consolidation – In Reception we need to revisit and rehearse all number facts to secure understanding.

Can I revisit the number 10? (See attached.)

Can I find the matching numbers to the amounts? (See attached - use your number cards.)

Can I watch this number blocks episode and help to spot the different patterns?

• Spring Term 1 Consolidation

Watch the White Rose Maths Video Hopscotch Number Recognition.

Can I complete the activity attached? (Try with the hopscotch with numbers to 10, then try with the teen numbers too.)

 

 

Topic Time

RE – We are thinking about our topic of gathering in RE.

Have a look at the pictures attached and see if you can discuss the questions together. They are all about people coming together at church to listen to God’s word and learn all about his teachings.

 

EAD

https://buggyandbuddy.com/watercolor-art-activity-kids-inspired-catch-star/ - Follow these instructions to make a water colour night sky picture.

 

Reception Story Time

Make your own reading den and watch the story.  It will be uploaded to Seesaw.

Have a great day of learning 😊

Year 2 Home Learning - 1st March 2021

Date: 28th Feb 2021 @ 2:24pm

Monday 1^st March 2021

We hope you have all had a great weekend. We are very excited to have you back in school next week so remember to work really hard this week ready for when you return. Each day this week please try and post at least one piece of work onto SeeSaw – we really enjoy seeing what you have completed at home.

 

This week you will still have some Fairtrade activities and these will be posted at the bottom of the blog.

 

We will explain the structure on here each day but please refer to the additional uploaded documents for each specific lesson guidance and resources.

 

Reading

It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.

 

Reading challenge – making a prediction. Before you start a new book can you write down or tell an adult about what you think the story might be about. Use the clues from the front cover, any illustrations, the blurb and the title.

 

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS

 

Maths

This week in Maths we are learning about lines of symmetry.

Starter – Writing numbers on a number line.

You will need a ruler (or something you can draw a line with), number line or hundred square and a pencil.

 

I would like you to draw a number line and place these numbers on it correctly. I will put 2 on to start you off.

 

Now answer these questions:

1. How did you sort the numbers?
2. How did you know which number came next?
3. How does the number 51 show it is the biggest number?
4. Tell an adult about the tens and ones in the numbers?

This week our lessons focus on lines of symmetry and symmetry of shapes.

 

What is Symmetry?

 

 

When we think about symmetry the most important thing is that on either side of the line the shape looks the same as the other. They are the same. If the shape does not look the same on each side it does not show symmetry.

 

For your lesson today please click to watch the video link and complete the attached worksheet.

https://vimeo.com/508430942

 

We have uploaded an additional document named 'CHALLENGE'. This is only intended as extension work to challenge and push your learning. You are not required to complete this sheet.

 

English

Myself and Miss Bennison walked into the classroom this morning and found a letter next to a glue stick. Take a look at the front of the letter.

Who is this for? How do you know?

 

Here is what the letter said:

Dear Mr Ingram and Miss Bennison,

It’s me, Glue Stick. I am writing to tell you that I have decided to quit my job as your class Glue Stick. First of all, I would like to say that I love being the class glue stick. It’s great to see all the children using me to stick in their precious work. Also, I love it when I am used in Art. Art is my favourite subject. I wish to congratulate Year 2 for a successful “glueing in career” so far, you are all doing an amazing job. However, some children in your class leave my lid off and I am DYING! I go all dry and horrible. Furthermore, there are some children who use too much of me. One child the other week used half of me on one piece of paper. Can you believe that? I need a break! Try to use me more sparingly and remember to put my lid on!

Your dry, horrible and soon-to-be ex-friend,

Glue Stick

Please see the attached Word document for more details on today’s lesson.

 

Phonics and Spelling

Phonics play have made their website free to use throughout January. Login -> select the resources tab -> select phase 6 phonics and have a play!

You may log in with the following details:

username: jan21

password: home

 

This week we will be focusing on homophones. Please follow this link which introduces you to the word homophones. There are also some interactive games underneath the video - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqhpk2p/articles/zc84cwx

 

Please see the spellings below, which we would like you to learn this week. Children in school will be given a spelling quiz on Friday 5^th March. These spelling can be practiced on Sumdog by selecting the ‘Spelling Quiz’ challenge.

 

bare/bear	blue/blew	here/hear	there/their/they're	quiet/quite
night/knight	to/too/two	see/sea	be/bee	sun/son

 

What are homophones?

Homophones are the words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings. This means that chances are high that the you will mix up some of the words at some point in your reading and writing.

 

Some homophones are pronounced the same way and spelled the same way but have different meanings (homonyms). For example:

rose (the flower) and rose (past tense of the verb to rise)
book (something we read) and book (to schedule something)

Some homophones are pronounced the same way but are spelled differently and have different meanings. For example:

wait (the verb) and weight (how heavy something is)
they're (they are) and their (belonging to them) and there (adverb of place)

What happens if you use homophones wrong? You could end up having sentences that don’t make any sense.

Please see today’s video on Seesaw and have a go at the worksheet attached. See if you can match the each question to the correct homophone.

 

Science

Can I identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard?

Resources:

A selection of materials for each group, including lengths of wood, metal, plastic and card. You could simply use any materials you can find around the house.

 

Has anyone ever been on a bridge like these?

Some bridges are only designed for people to cross and so they can be made out of different materials to bridges designed for cars and heavy vehicles. This bridge is a rope bridge.

 

The ones with the metal ropes are called suspension bridges and they are designed to move a bit. Do you know why? (So they don't break when the wind blows, or when traffic is heavy, etc.)

Some bridges, especially high ones, are built of solid material but are designed to bend and sway a bit. Why do you think this is?

 

Take a look at a selection of materials you have collected. Can you put them in order of rigidity? (from 'not at all bendy' to 'really bendy')

You are all now really good at doing investigations and thinking like scientists. Your challenge for today is to investigate the materials to see how bendy they are.

 

Tape down (or hold) your different materials onto a table edge so they lie horizontally secure a weight on the end of each strip. The weights will need to be the same. You will need to measure the bendiness of one strip of material, then remove the weight and attach it to the next strip.

How will you record the bendiness? You may want to attach the strips to the part of a table closest to a wall so you can attach paper to the wall (directly behind the horizontal strips) and draw the bend produced or you could simply observe how much it bends.

What have you discovered by doing your investigation?

 

Fairtrade Activity

Create a Fairtrade farm in a shoebox! What Fairtrade product is growing on your farm?

You will need:

• shoe box or a recycling box
• other recycling junk/materials
• crayons and pens

 

Sumdog Challenges

Multiplication –  x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables

Maths – Symmetry

Spellings – Homophones

 

We hope you have a fantastic week of home learning,

 

Year 2 team

Year 3 Home Learning Monday 1st March 2021

Date: 28th Feb 2021 @ 1:37pm

Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the nice weather. This is your last week of home learning, how exciting. I can’t wait to see you all very soon 😊

This week we are going to focus on reading, times tables, number facts, handwriting and spelling. This will help when we are all back together next week.

 

Monday 1^st March 2021

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.

Tell somebody everything you can about what you have read so far.

 

Spelling

Today I would like you to have another practice of the spellings from last week. You will be tested on them tomorrow.

can’t, didn’t, hasn’t, couldn’t, it’s, wasn’t, doesn’t, mustn’t, I’ll, she’d

 

Write the long date: Monday 1^st March 2021

Write the title: Contractions

You need 3 different coloured pens or pencils.

Write out the part before the apostrophe in one colour.

Write the apostrophe in a different colour.

Write the part after the apostrophe in a different colour.

Like this – can’t

Don’t join up the two letters which have the apostrophe between them.

 

Handwriting

Please watch the video which will be on Seesaw in the morning.

 

Writing:

Write the short date in the margin underneath your story from last week: 01.03.21

 

Today you are going to finish your story all about the rover visiting a planet.

I want you to use your imagination to write about your first day on the planet.

I have attached an example of how you could write the next part of the story, you can use some of the ideas and good words or come up with your own.

Paragraph 1:

Write about the beautiful and amazing things you saw.

Paragraph 2:

Write about a problem or something dangerous that happened.

 

Make your writing amazing by:

Including a simile

Including an exclamation mark

Adding extra information in brackets

Writing a question at the end

 

Please send me a photo of your writing on Seesaw. I will be looking out for perfect spelling and exciting words.

 

Times tables

Tomorrow you are going to be tested on the division facts for the 3x tables.

I would like you to practise dividing by 3 using arrays.

An array is where you arrange things into columns and rows, we use them to help us with our times tables.

Click on the link to watch the video and read about arrays.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/znj7hyc/articles/zhgjpg8

 

I have attached a sheet with questions to practise dividing by 3. The sheet also has some examples of arrays.

Please create arrays for the first 5 questions by:

Drawing shapes in rows of 3.

Complete the rest of the sheet by either using your times tables or drawing arrays.

 

 

Sumdog

Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

Number Challenge: 1^st March – 7^th March

Times Tables Challenge: 1^st March – 7^th March

 

 

Counting

Count out loud in 10s:

From 56 to 156.

From 985 to 1085.

From 312 to 412.

 

 

Number Facts

Write out or tell somebody all the pairs of number which make:

1. 8 e.g.2 + 6
2. 5
3. 7

 

Geography and Fairtrade Fortnight

I found a really interesting fact to share with you all:

If the Amazon rainforest were a country, it would be the ninth biggest in the world!

 

I have attached two posters which tell you why the rainforest is so important.

Read the information and then make a poster about the rainforest, focusing on why it is important.

You could include things about:

Animals

Oxygen

Water

Food

Medicine

Homes

 

Please keep these to bring into school next week 😊

 

Fairtrade Fortnight

Ask your parents to buy food – things like bananas, chocolate and avocados – that are grown in a sustainable way that’s safe for the rainforest environment, wildlife, and people. That goes for bathroom products too, like shampoo, conditioner and soap. If a product has the Rainforest Alliance or Fairtrade logo on it, you know that the farm, forest or company that provided it have created it sustainably!

 

 

 

Reminders

Please keep sending me your work on Seesaw – I am so proud of you for the work I have seen so far.  Today I would like you to send me a photo of your writing.

Don’t forget to go on Sumdog. The new challenges start on Monday. It would be super if the whole class could complete them this week.

 

 

Have a wonderful day, smile lots J

HOME LEARNING Monday 1st March 2021

Date: 28th Feb 2021 @ 10:53am

Year 4

Home Learning Monday 1^st March 2021

Good morning Year 4.  Welcome to your last week of Home Learning! I’m sure you’ve heard that we will all be in back in class together again next Monday (8^th March). What exciting news!  In addition, Thursday 4^th March is World Book Day.  Join in the fun by dressing up as a book character on Thursday.  I’m looking forward to seeing a photo of your outfit uploaded to Seesaw along with a message about your favourite book, explaining why it is your favourite.

 

Reading

Please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes.  Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story so far.

Explain which part of the book was the most exciting or interesting. Make sure you include reasons why you think it was exciting or interesting.

 

Spelling

Last week’s spellings all had the suffix –ation. Children in school will be tested on them today, therefore, please ask someone at home to test you on them.

Write the long date Monday 1^st March 2021

Write the title Spelling test and complete the test underneath.

The words are:

education       sensation     creation       celebration  punctuation  expectation

calculation      hesitation    imagination  invitation     location        investigation

New spellings will be given tomorrow.

 

English

Today, please read or listen to Chapter 8 of Kensuke’s Kingdom. A copy of the book is attached to the blog or you can listen to Chapter 8 by clicking here.

Make sure you look up any words if you are unsure of their meaning. Try and work out the meaning of the word from the sentence before you look it up in a dictionary.

Open the document called ‘Events in Kensuke’s life’ which is attached to the blog. You may either print this sheet out or complete the writing straight into your Home Learning Book. All the instructions for today’s task are explained in this document.

Please share your work on Seesaw

 

Times tables

A times tables challenge has been set on Sumdog. This is to consolidate and practise your 11 and 12 times tables.

Please practise your own tables target using Hit the button. If you are on ‘free’ tables, please practise a times table or division fact which you know you find tricky.  If you are in school this week, you will be tested on your individual target on Thursday 4^th March 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on a mixture of 4 and 8 times tables.

 

Counting

Count in 10’s from 45 to 185 and back again.  Count in 10’s from 62 to 202 and back again.  Think about what you found tricky?  Write the numbers down as you say them – what patterns do you notice?

Please count in 0.1’s (tenths) from 6.5 to 8.3 and back again – can you go any further? Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?

Now count in 0.1’s (tenths) from 9.5 to 11.2 and back again – can you go any further? Write the numbers down as you say them – what do you notice now?

How many 0.1’s (tenths) are there between 6.5 and 7.5?

 

Maths

Click here to play Fruit splat compare equations

You will be given an equation eg 4 x 3 ___ 2 + 2

Work out both sides of the equation.   In the example above 4 x 3 = 12 and 2 + 2 = 4.

Decide whether the calculations are = (equal), the first calculation is > (greater than) the second; or the first calculation is < (less than) the second.

Click on the correct symbol.  In the example above, you would click on the greater than symbols, because 12 > 4.

Try Level One to begin with and see how you get on!  You can choose an untimed or timed game.

 

Today, we are going to learn how to compare area. 

Before you start, write down everything you can remember about area so far.  Can you give a definition? What is a closed shape? Last week you learnt 2 different ways to calculate area, what were they?

Write the short date 01.03.21

Write the learning objective Can I compare area?

Watch today’s teaching video here.

Open the worksheet attached to the blog called ‘Comparing area’.

Complete the worksheet / answer the questions in your Home Learning Book.  

Check your answers with the document ‘Comparing area answers’ attached to the blog.  Look carefully at any questions you got wrong and try to understand why you made the error. Can you write a sentence to explain what you have learnt today?

                                                  

RE

Please open the document called ‘RE Ways to say sorry’ which is attached to the blog.  All the information for today’s RE lesson is explained in this document.

 

Geography

Last week we started our topic about Italy.

Before you start today’s lesson, see if you can name:

1. the capital city of Italy and its approximate location
2. the 4 countries which border Italy
3. the 2 islands that are part of Italy
4. the surrounding seas

Check your answers with your map from last week or have a look at map 1 and map 2.

Open the document called ‘Italy’s physical geography’ which is attached to the blog for today’s lesson.

 

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A maths times table challenge (based on the 11 and 12 times tables)
• A maths challenge all about whole numbers upto 10 000
• A spelling challenge based on the –ation spellings which will be tested today.

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  It is important that you practise these skills as they are invaluable in helping you to learn your number facts and multiplication and division facts.  In addition, they will enable you to calculate accurately and at speed when working mentally.

A new spelling challenge will start tomorrow.

 

Well done for finishing today’s work.  Have a lovely evening and stay safe.