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Fabulous Friday 26th February 2021
Date: 14th Feb 2021 @ 5:46pm
Fabulous Friday 26th February 2021
It’s Fabulous Friday!
Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!
Today you just need to:
Read – grab a drink and a biscuit/fruit and curl up with a good book.
Complete this number activity – Hundred Square Challenge (documents below).
Finish off - anything that you want to upload to Seesaw for me to see. I always thoroughly enjoy seeing the work you are proud of.
The rest of the day is yours; you’ve earned it!
Have a ‘Fabulous Friday’ and a lovely weekend.
Miss Gravili
Home Learning Thursday 25th February 2021
Date: 14th Feb 2021 @ 5:46pm
Year 5 Home Learning Thursday 25th February 2021
Good morning Year 5, I hope the Lenten Promises are going well. Remember Lent is a time to do things for others. What kind thing will you do today? A big thank you to everyone at home who is helping you with your learning. You are all doing so well and I know you are trying your best, just as though you were in school, because I am seeing such a high standard of work on Seesaw. This makes me smile and feel very proud of you. Even better news, we will all be in class together again on March 8th!
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Use the book you are reading at the moment. Before you finish the book, write down your predictions for the ending. When you have finished the book check back and see how accurate your prediction was. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating the suffix - ible. Please learn these spellings for Monday’s test (01.03.21). If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
divisible gullible digestible permissible audible
accessible invincible legible compatible responsible
reversible invisible illegible feasible edible
English
Look at ‘Transport of the Future’ (documents below). Choose a mode of transport that you would like to write a guide about.
Think about these questions: What if they became available tomorrow? How might different people feel about them? What issues might arise?
Read and remind yourself of the the features of instructions and explanations (documents below).
Choose an audience for your guide, considering their needs (children, teens, parents, technophobes, older people etc.). This will help with your planning later.
Today you will be PLANNING a guide to a futuristic form of transport, which will include both instructions for use and explanations as to how they work.
You will find two planning sheets (planning grid/planning notes 2 - documents below). Either, trim them down and stick into your exercise book or copy them straight into the book.
Thursday 25th February 2021
Can I plan a guide for users of my invented form of transport?
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Maths
For your mental starter, I would like you to complete you Maths Sumdog challenges.
Work through the PowerPoint – Prime Numbers (documents below) and complete the tasks as you go along. The answers are provided within the slides, so please write your own answers in your exercise book first, before you click to check them. The answers pop up quite quickly so be sure to write them down before you click again!
The date and title are:
25.02.21
Can I find prime numbers?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Focus:
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles.
Recognise multiples of 6, 8 and 10.
Explain methods and reasoning.
Spot the shapes 2 – Answers:
1. There are 11 triangles.
2. There are 17 squares.
History
Click on the link below - What are oracle bones?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z39j2hv/articles/zsm6qhv
Watch today’s lesson and complete the little activities. Then, read the information sheet about oracle bones and answer the questions (documents below, Oracle Bones - Questions). You may print out the worksheet, trim it down and stick it into your exercise book or write the answers straight into your book.
The date and title are:
Thursday 25th February 2021
Can I answer questions about oracle bones?
If you are feeling creative, you might like to have a go at drawing your own oracle bones and write on them using Ancient Shang characters (symbols). You will find a worksheet with oracle bone writing (documents below).
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Music
Click on this link for your Music lesson:
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/exploring-percussion-chk66t?activity=video&step=1
- 2 bowls and pencils.
- Pencil case and contents.
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Factors and Multiples Within 100.
Spelling Challenge: Homophones (Recap). These words are different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili
Home Learning Wednesday 24th February 2021
Date: 14th Feb 2021 @ 5:45pm
Year 5 Home Learning Wednesday 24th February 2021
Good morning Year 5, I hope you are well and doing lots of reading. You could recommend one of your favourite books to a friend. Perhaps, phone them and have a nice chat to see how they are. You might also like to write a list of books you would recommend to someone in Year 5 and we can talk about them when we are all back in school. Not long now! It is Fairtrade Fortnight, so I have included a sheet with activities that will help you learn a little bit more about Fairtrade (documents below). You might also like to visit the website. There are lots of things to do and learn and even a competition if you are interested, https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/choose-the-world-you-want/
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Use the book you are reading at the moment or one you have just read. Draw a cartoon strip of the main events of the story. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating the suffix - ible. Please learn these spellings for Monday’s test (01.03.21). If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
divisible gullible digestible permissible audible
accessible invincible legible compatible responsible
reversible invisible illegible feasible edible
English
Read through Explanation Features (documents below). This will help you with your writing today so you know what to include when writing an explanation.
New technology often requires instructions for use and explanations of how it works.
Have a look at the Baby Cage pictures (documents below) What do you think when you see these pictures? Find out what a patent is.
Today you will be writing and performing explanations of genuine patented products (in the style of Dragons’ Den pitches).
Have a look at the patent designs (documents below), choose one and write a three-minute presentation (pitch), explaining how the inventions work.
MEDIUM/HARD: Include adverbs for opinion (cleverly, easily, clearly, amazingly, etc.) in addition to cause and contrast. Remember to use brackets if necessary. Include all the key features of an explanation text.
I have included a worksheet (Dragons' Den Worksheet below) to help you with this. Stick it into your exercise book or you can write straight into your book.
On Seesaw, there is an example of a piece of explanation writing that could be used as a pitch. This is what I would like you to do. Then you can read it out and pitch your product, good luck!
The date and title are:
Wednesday 24th February 2021
Can I write an explanation to present (pitch) a patented product?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter do this counting activity 3. I have alson included the answers for activities 1, 2 and 3 for you (documents below). Please spend ten minutes on your Maths Sumdog challenges.
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Common Factors.
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
24.02.21
Can I find common factors?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Focus:
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles.
Visualise 2-D shapes.
Explain methods and reasoning.
Shape Puzzle – Answers:
Science
Click on the link below, read and follow the lesson as it progresses. Make sure you watch the video clips as well.
Do the task on slide 6. You may print it out or copy it directly into your exercise book. If you are unsure there is a good example on slide 9 that will help you.
The date and title are:
Wednesday 24th February 2021
Can I compare reversible and irreversible changes?
Exciting and Additional Science Work
This week something very exciting has happened in the world of Space science.
"Touchdown confirmed" - there is a new robot on Mars!
This video is an animation of how scientists planned the landing, not footage of the real thing, but it gives a really good idea of the successful landing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzmd7RouGrM&safe=active
Amazing, isn’t it?!
Perseverance’s mission is to look for signs of life on Mars. Scientists have to model their investigations on Earth because obviously they can’t nip to Mars. They form hypotheses (good guesses) based on what they can learn here.
So, they have researched life forms on Earth that live in extreme habitats. They are called extremophiles. There are extremophiles living in Antarctica, in volcanic ash and lava and deep under the sea where there is total darkness. There is also life in Yellowstone park hot springs and in a river called Rio Tinto in Spain which is very acidic.
If life can exist in these extreme environments on Earth, maybe it can also exist on Mars?
Write the date and title:
Wednesday 24th February 2021
Can I research the possibility that there is life on Mars?
Your first job is to research Extremophiles on Earth and write a paragraph explaining what you have found out.
Now use the ESA kids website to research what scientists think about the Possibility of life on Mars.
Use this link to find out about Perseverance and write a paragraph about its mission. Why do you think it is called Perseverance?
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/mars-2020/en/
Finally, what do you think? Will Perseverance find evidence of life on Mars?
You can use the underlined words/phrases as sub headings.
Well done. Keep an eye on the news for the latest developments 211 million km away!
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
French
Here’s a song to welcome you back to French learning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXkJ88ygPY0
Click here and download lesson 5 with audio. http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y5_French/Yr5AutumnFr.php
Today’s lesson starts with a recap of time and moves on to describing what you have for breakfast.
Play the audio clips on slide 2 and see if you can write down the missing word. You can check your spellings on the next slide.
Qu’est-ce que tu manges? What do you eat?
Je mange … I eat Je bois…..I drink. Du, de la and des all mean some. Du is used for masculine nouns, de la for feminine nouns and des for plural nouns.
Work your way through, repeating all the words. Listen to the song on slide 21 and see if you can understand. Then, write the date in French in your book and the learning objective:
Can I read and understand a French text?
Read the text on slide 22 and answer the questions in English. Check your answers afterwards.
Bon travail! A la semaine prochaine!
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Factors and Multiples Within 100.
Spelling Challenge: Homophones (Recap). These words are different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili
Home Learning Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Date: 14th Feb 2021 @ 5:45pm
Year 5 Home Learning Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Good morning Year 5, hopefully you have settled back into your Home Learning routines. Have a look at this picture, see if there is anything you could do for someone else today. I am going to pray for my family. Unfortunately, I cannot hug a friend at the moment, but I will save that for a time when I can! Maybe you could choose one to do each day during Lent and colour them as you do it. I will include this in the documents below if you would like to print it out. Perhaps you could design and draw your own version of this and include other good things to do!
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Use the book you are reading at the moment, or one you have just read. Draw five thought bubbles and write what the main character might be thinking at different stages in the story. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating the suffix - ible. Please learn these spellings for Monday’s test (01.03.21). If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
divisible gullible digestible permissible audible
accessible invincible legible compatible responsible
reversible invisible illegible feasible edible
English
Read the opening of ‘A Guide to Using Twitter’ (documents below).
Spot any brackets in the text.
The brackets are used to mark off extra information in a text in a noticeable way (this extra information is called parenthesis).
Look at the PowerPoint – Parenthesis, slides 2 to 6 (documents below). Explore parenthesis and challenge yourselves to decide where brackets should go.
Other punctuation could be used to mark off the extra information: commas or dashes.
Commas are a subtler form of parenthesising and dashes are used in informal writing.
Ask someone at home to play this game with you (it should only take ten minutes). Each player needs a separate game sheet to pass around (documents below – Bracket Game Sheet or copy it onto a sheet of paper).
As in the parlour game Consequences, you take turns to add to the story, with extra information in brackets (there is an example in the documents below – Bracket Game Examples).
At the end of each turn, players fold over the sheet to hide what they have written.
Unfold the sheet when it has been completed and read it out. It will be funny!
Now, write out one of the scenarios in your exercise books, correctly punctuated.
The date and title are:
Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Can I explain how brackets are used and use them correctly to add extra information?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter complete this counting activity 2 (documents below). Write your answers in your exercise book with today’s date. Please do your Maths Sumdog challenges for ten minutes.
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Factors.
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
23.02.21
Can I find the factors of numbers?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Focus:
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles.
Use a symbol to stand for an unknown number.
Explain methods and reasoning.
All Square – Answers:
PE
Have a go at these PE activities. Follow the links to read the instruction cards and watch the video clips:
Games Skills – Continuous Battleships: https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Home%20PE%20Continuous%20Battleships.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYhdxEcfwDs&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=7&t=0s
Health Related Exercises – Circuits 2 – Healthy Hearts:
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Healthy%20Hearts.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj4ytgX77bM
Computing
Use the link below to log into code.org.
Please work through the lessons in order.
https://studio.code.org/sections/ZGVGHS
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Factors and Multiples Within 100.
Spelling Challenge: Homophones (Recap). These words are different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili
Home Learning Monday 22nd February 2021
Date: 14th Feb 2021 @ 5:44pm
Year 5 Home Learning Monday 22nd February 2021
Good morning Year 5 and welcome back to another half term of learning before Easter. I hope you all had a great week off and enjoyed time with your families and doing the things you like to do best of all. Hopefully, it will not be much longer until we are back in class together. I am really looking forward to seeing you all and catching up on any news you have to share with me. A huge well done to Jack Beetham, who had his faraway story read out by the Mayor of South Ribble. It was an excellent story. As it is now Lent, I would like you to think about your Lenten Promises. To help you I have included a little worksheet (documents below). Please post these on Seesaw for me to see.
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Use the book you are reading at the moment, or one you have just read. Draw an outline of your favourite character. Write down all the different roles they play in the story inside the shape. For example, father, friend, villain, hero etc. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
Before half term we were investigating words instead of said. A lot of you have already tested yourselves on these spellings, but if you have not, please ask someone to test you today. Remember to put a mark out of fifteen.
laughed questioned suggested quizzed muttered
joked queried screamed mumbled whispered
chuckled remarked pleaded grumbled bragged
This week we are investigating the suffix - ible. Please learn these spellings for Monday’s test (01.03.21). If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
divisible gullible digestible permissible audible
accessible invincible legible compatible responsible
reversible invisible illegible feasible edible
English
Re-read ‘How Escalators Work’ (documents below). It is a good example of an explanation text that we read before half term.
Look at the language features, including tense, formal vocabulary (e.g. surface, internal) and use of technical terms (e.g. drive gear).
Briefly look at the use of brackets (more on that tomorrow).
What does this text explain to us? It explains how escalators work.
We could use this to answer the question ‘How do escalators work?’.
I will show you how to briefly summarise the key facts of this text in note-form. You will find this on Seesaw and this is what you will be doing today.
Have a look at ‘Research Questions’ and the website (documents below and link).
Choose one that you would like to find out more about.
Research questions are numbered in order of reading difficulty (EASY:1 → HARD:12).
- Today's task requires you to answer one of these questions by reading an explanation text, making notes, and presenting information to someone.
The date and title are:
Monday 22nd February 2021
Can I use the internet to answer a question, make notes and present my explanation?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter, complete this counting activity 1 (documents below – cut and stick it into your exercise book or copy it straight in to the book). You could colour the squares for part 2. Please spend ten minutes on Sumdog.
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Multiples.
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
22.02.21
Can I find multiples of numbers?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Focus:
Solve a problem by organising information.
Visualise 2-D shapes.
Sleigh Ride – Answers:
Art
Follow the link below, read all the instructions and have a go at drawing your own sound creature. Be as creative and imaginative as you can!
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/art-technology/draw-sound-creature
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
RE
Today you will be learning about - The Passover (documents below).
I have included a worksheet to help you – The Passover Seder Plate (documents below). Please trim it down and stick it into your exercise book or copy it straight into your book.
The date and title are:
Monday 22nd February 2021
Can I name the foods on the Seder Plate and what they symbolise?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Factors and Multiples Within 100.
Spelling Challenge: Homophones (Recap). These words are different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili
Date: 12th Feb 2021 @ 3:52pm
Year 6 Home Learning - Friday 12th February 2021
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 4:46pm
It’s Fabulous Friday 12th February 2021!
Congratulations for getting to the last day of half term!
Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!
Read
For a minimum of 30 minutes.
Spelling Quiz
Don’t forget to have a spelling quiz Today is the spelling quiz. Hopefully you can get someone to quiz you on the 15 spellings, in random order.
Complete the number activity – Yes / No
See the attached document at the bottom of the blog, Yes/No Game for how to play
Dance Week
Thank you to everyone who has sent in a video of themselves dancing. The compilation music video should be finished soon.
Finish anything off
If there is anything you need to complete, you can do that today and upload to Seesaw for any help or feedback.
LENT
Lent is when Jesus spent 40 days wandering the desert, fasting and resisting temptation. During this time, you have an opportunity to be like Jesus. You can choose to resist temptation, pray and do acts of kindness.
Lent begins next week during half term on Wednesday 17th February 2021. Why not make a Lenten Promise on the template (attached at the bottom of the blog). Some examples are:
To help around the house more.
To say a prayer for someone every day.
To swap iPad time for reading time.
To talk to a family member or friend more.
The Friday Catch Up video will be sent through Seesaw by the end of the day.
Have a super half tem!
Year 3 Home Learning Friday 12th February 2021 - FUN FRIDAY
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 4:05pm
HAPPY HALF TERM!!!
Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a nice day on Thursday and a nice week. Thank you to everybody who sent a video of the dance, they are amazing.
I hope you have an amazing Half Term filled with laughter and smiles. Please take the time to rest, you have all been working so hard and have certainly earned some time off J
Friday 12th February 2021
It’s Fabulous Friday! Woohoo.
Start your day by listening to this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKh0dLIuIu8&safe=active
Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!
Today you just need to:
- Read
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.
Try to use lots of expression and different voices for the different characters.
- Complete the number activity.
Guess my number.
You need two players.
- Player 1 chooses a number between 0 and 1000 and secretly writes it down.
- Player 2 asks five questions.
- Player 1 answers the questions with yes or no.
- Player 2 then guesses the number.
- Repeat but swap roles.
If it is too difficult, change it so the guesser can ask more questions.
Here are some good questions to ask:
Does it have 2 digits?
Does it have 3 digits?
Is it odd? (Ends in 1, 3, 5, 7, 9)
Is it even? (Ends in 2, 4, 6, 8, 0)
Is it higher than …?
Is it lower than …?
Is it a multiple of …? (In a times table)
Does it round up to the next ten? (Ends in 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
Does it round down? (Ends in 0, 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Finish anything off that you want to upload to Seesaw for me to see
The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it!
YOU ARE ALL AMAZING!!!!!!!!
Fabulous Friday - 12th February 2021
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 2:09pm
It’s Fabulous Friday!
Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!
Today you just need to:
• Read.
• Complete the number activity.
• Finish anything off that you want to upload to Seesaw for your teacher to see.
The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it!
We have had another fantastic week of learning from Year 2 and we are so proud of everything you have achieved this half term. In school, we are going to perform the school dance that we have been practising all week. We know Year 2 will be the best dancers! Mr Ingram and Miss Bennison will be joining in too.
Please view our ‘Friday catch up’ on Seesaw where we discuss all of your amazing achievements throughout the week.
We hope you have a lovely, relaxing half term with your loved ones.
Reading
Set aside a quiet time today with no distractions. Go and grab a drink and find a quiet place to enjoy your favourite book.
Reading challenge - Write down 5 words from your book which you think are great pieces of vocabulary.
You could write down a word that you do not know the meaning of. Use a dictionary to look up the word so you know what it means for next time.
Number activity
Today, people across the world will celebrate Lunar New Year and the start of "Year of the Ox".
The ox is a valued animal in Chinese culture because of its links with farming. People born in the year of the ox are said to be honest, hard-working and kind. They think logically and are great leaders.
Find Out!
Can you find out which year of the Chinese calendar you were born in?
Chinese code breaking
Please see attached. In this activity you need to use your knowledge of place value to work out what numbers the pictures represent.
Mandarin number bonds
Can you use the Mandarin number track below (or attached) to create number bonds to 10?
Watch out for the number ’0’, it looks very tricky!
We hope you all have a brilliant half term.
Year 2 team.
HOME LEARNING - FABULOUS FRIDAY 12th February 2021
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 1:19pm
Year 4
Fabulous Friday 12th February 2021
It’s fabulous Friday!
Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!
Today you just need to:
- Read
Enjoy reading for pleasure - take time to finish a book you are enjoying or start something new.
- Complete the number activity / game attached to the blog
- Finish anything off that you want to upload to Seesaw for me to see
The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it!
Don’t forget to see the Friday Catch-up video on Seesaw this evening!
During half term, enjoy spending some time with your family. Make sure you relax and recharge your batteries so you are ready and raring to learn on Monday 22nd February 2021! Let’s hope it’s not too long until we are all back together in school.
Have a lovely half term!
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 9:47am
It’s Fabulous Friday Reception!
We have loved seeing all of your dancing videos this week Reception, they have really made us smile. We hope you enjoy the final video ! J
You have all worked incredibly hard this half term and we are so proud of you for keeping going! We miss you all so much and hope to see you soon!
Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your family the chance to catch up and switch off!
Today you just need to:
· I have attached a reading challenge for you to have a go at over the holidays!
· Can you make up some more simple addition questions using your part-whole model?
Can you find a way to make a number bigger than 15?
· It's Chinese New Year today.
The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it!
We hope you have a lovely half term with all your family, make sure you get lots of rest and do things you enjoy together. J
Year 2 Home Learning - 11th February 2021
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 2:52pm
Thursday 11th February
Good morning.
Well done on another brilliant day of learning – remember it is Fabulous Friday tomorrow so let’s work really hard and have a more relaxing day tomorrow.
Don't forget to practise our dance for our big performance. Today is the last day for you to upload the 10 second dance video to SeeSaw. Please try to post it before 12 today so we can put all the videos together – Good Luck!
You can find the video on the gallery section of the class blog or click the link here.
Have a go at this breathing exercise before you start your learning today. Breathing in different ways is a great way for us to feel calm and relaxed before we start our learning.
Here are your Thursday facts to start your day:
- Koalas sleep for 20 hours a day.
- Great white sharks can be found throughout the world’s oceans, mostly in cool waters close to the coast.
- Rays protect themselves with venomous spines or barbs in their tail.
Reading
It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.
Reading challenge - Draw and label a character or a setting from a description in the book.
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS
Maths
Counting
Is Joseph correct or incorrect?
Explain how you know.
Give your own statement about counting in threes and ask a parent or sibling to work out if it is correct or incorrect.
Number facts – Subtraction bonds
Write out all your subtraction bonds from 10. Now write all your subtraction bonds from 100. Compare the 2 sets of numbers. Do you notice a pattern?
Times Tables
3 Times Tables – Listen to this 3 times table song: 3 times table song
Play hit the button and select 3 times tables – hit the button
Play the Daily 10. Select multiplication and then select 3 times tables. Set the timer so you get quicker each time – Daily 10
Can you write out all your 3 times tables up to 12, in your home learning journal?
Can I sort 2D shapes?
Today’s Maths lesson can be found on Seesaw. Please watch the video carefully pausing to attempt certain tasks when prompted by the teacher.
Once you have watched the video, have a go at the worksheet attached.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables
Maths – Shape
Spellings – Nouns with the suffix -ness
English
Please see the attached English lesson for more details.
Phonics and Spelling
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This week we will be looking at changing adjectives to nouns by adding the suffix -ness.
-ness is one of a number of noun suffixes. It is used to make nouns from adjectives, although not every adjective can be modified in this way. Here are some common adjectives whose noun forms are made by adding -ness:
But remember, some are trickier!
When the word ends in a consonant and a y, we need to change the ‘y’ to an ‘i’ then add –ness
Please note - Not all adjectives can be made into nouns using "-ness." Typically, if an adjective is in its -er or -est form, "-ness" cannot be added: higher and highest cannot become higherness or highestness.
Use the nouns below to write your own sentences:
happiness
darkness
weakness
illness
RE
This week we are starting a new topic in RE – Sacrament.
In this lesson we are going to explore different ways to say thank you.
Share this story together:
Mrs. Hegarty had taught in St Mary’s School for thirty-seven years. Everyone loved her. She was very kind and sometimes quite strict, but no-one minded because she was very fair and really loved the children. Now she was retiring. Everyone wanted to say goodbye and thank you.
On her retirement day, there was a special thanksgiving Eucharist in the church with all the children, parents and teachers. There were special prayers for Mrs. Hegarty, and her favourite hymns. Afterwards, everyone crowded into the hall and there were lots of speeches. Father Atkins told a story about when he had been a little boy in school and Mrs. Hegarty had taught him. Everyone laughed. He said he owed her a lot and gave her a bouquet of roses, her favourite flowers. One of the mums reminded everyone how Mrs. Hegarty had made St Mary’s into a really good school. The parents gave her a camera because she was going to learn photography. Peter, from Year 6, made a speech wishing her happiness and because she likes bird-watching, the children gave her a pair of binoculars.
Mrs. Hegarty was sad to say goodbye. She thanked everyone for their kind and thoughtful gifts and explained that as she used each one, she would think of all the children, parents and staff. She said she would read through all her cards when she got home. She thanked everyone who had prepared the Mass and the party. It was a happy day. Everyone was pleased to say thank you to someone who had done so much to help other people.
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?
Activity
To complete the task in the attached documents called 'Thank You' worksheet.
Additional Art Activities
Please see the attached ideas.
We are very excited for Fabulous Friday tomorrow.
Year 2 team.
HOME LEARNING Thursday 11th February 2021
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 2:41pm
Year 4
Home Learning Thursday 11th February 2021
Good morning Year 4. I have seen some super videos showcasing your dancing for St Oswald’s Dance Week. If you haven’t managed to send your video yet, keep practising and make sure it’s uploaded by 12 noon today, so that we can include it in our whole school video! Click on the link here to see the dance video again.
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.
Use lots of expression in your reading today. Try and think about how the character would speak and what sort of voice they would have – a deep, gruff voice, or a high pitched squeaky voice? How else might they speak?
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Tuesday 23rd February 2021 (when we come back to school after half-term). They are another set of homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but are spelt differently.
him hymn new knew mist missed heel heal
side sighed piece peace rain rein reign
Write the long date Thursday 11th February 2021
Practise each of the words using look, cover, write, check.
Choose some of the homophones and write your own sentences using them correctly. Make sure these are different to the words you chose yesterday.
For example, him and hymn.
The muddy football boots belonged to him.
My favourite hymn is ‘All things Bright and Beautiful’.
English
Today you are going to be editing the description of the storm you wrote yesterday. You will need a different coloured pen or pencil (to use like you would your purple editing pen).
- Read through your work carefully OUT LOUD (to check you haven’t missed out any words and that it makes sense!) At the bottom write 2 things you are proud of and 1 thing that you would improve if you were to write the description again.
- Read through your work and find a short sentence where more information could be given – use a different colour pen or pencil to edit it (could you use and, but, or, so, because, when, while, as etc to extend the sentence)
- Read through your work and correct any words that need capital letters. Correct any words where you have a capital letter but it shouldn’t be there (correct with your coloured pen or pencil)
- Read through your work and include punctuation where needed, for example, is a sentence too long and you need to split it up with full stops?
- Read through your work and improve 3 sentence openers – check the ISPACE sheet from yesterday for suggestions and the last point on the success criteria
- Choose 3 words which you could change to more ambitious vocabulary.
Write the long date Thursday 11th February 2021
Write the learning objective Can I edit my work?
Re-write your work in your best joined up handwriting with all your corrections. Compare it to the original. Remember, writing is a process, we need to read, improve, read improve …..
Please share your edited work on Seesaw
Times tables
A times tables challenge has been set on Sumdog. This is to consolidate and practise your 2, 4 and 8 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 ÷12 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 11.02.21
Write the title Times tables test
Please share your ‘test’ on Seesaw.
Counting
Count in 10’s from 62 to 182 and back again. Count in 10’s from 1947 to 2107 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 8’s from 100 to 196 and back again. Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Now count in 8’s from 40 to 160 and back again. Write the numbers down as you say them – what do you notice now?
Maths
Click here to play Daily 10.
Click on play game. Choose Level 3, Doubles/Halves, Halves up to 250 Multiple of 10. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. Remember to write the answers down and to make jottings!
Eg Half 270 Partition into 200 and 70
Half 200 = 100 Half 70 = 35 100 + 35 = 135
(You could further partition 70 into 60 and 10. Half 60 = 30 Half 10 = 5
30 + 5 = 35)
Repeat this game a couple of times and see if you can calculate more quickly and accurately each time.
Today, we are going to use the written method of multiplication to solve word problems. This will build on the work you completed on Monday and Wednesday.
Write the short date 11.02.21
Write the learning objective Can I use the grid method to solve word problems?
Please watch the videos which will be uploaded to Seesaw on Thursday morning. These videos will explain how to use the grid method and answer word problems successfully.
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Multiplication word problems’ attached to the blog.
Complete the worksheet and answer the questions in your Home Learning book. You must use the grid method AND write a sentence to answer the question as these are the strategies we are practising today!
Quite a few of you found multiplying a 3 digit number by a 1 digit number tricky yesterday. Please try your best to work through the questions today – there are some examples of how to set out grid multiplication on the worksheet, as well as various videos you can watch on Seesaw from earlier this week.
Check your answers with the document ‘Multiplication answers’ attached to the blog. Look carefully at any questions you got wrong and try to find where you made the error. Was it your multiplication or your addition which you found tricky? Did you remember to write a sentence to answer the question properly?
Science
Click here to download today’s final lesson in this topic on the properties and everyday uses of gases.
Make a poster as suggested on slide 6, using the word bank to help you.
Write the long date Thursday 11th February 2021
Write the learning objective Can I describe some everyday uses of Gases?
Then use pictures and writing to show off your knowledge. A good example of the poster is shown on slide 9.
Can you find out what kind of gas is in crisp packets and why? You could add this to your poster.
Air is actually a mixture of gases – can you find out what they are? A good way to show the composition of air is to draw 100 small circles, representing the ‘whole’ (100%) of air. Colour them according to the percentage of each gas in air eg oxygen makes up 21% of air so you would colour 21 circles one colour to represent this. What is the rest? Remember to put a key at the side to say which gas each colour is. Add this to your poster too!
If you have a balloon, some bicarbonate of soda and vinegar, you could try the balloon experiment described on the left of slide 7. You could just mix the bicarb and vinegar and watch! Do this where you can clean up easily! What gas have you made in this chemical reaction?
I hope you’ve enjoyed this topic on solids, liquids and gases – the states of matter. You have worked as proper chemists to investigate their properties. Well done! We’ll move on to a new topic next half term.
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 2, 4 and 8 times tables)
- A maths challenge to practise counting in multiples of 4, 5 and 8
- A spelling challenge based on this week’s new homophone 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.
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
Year 3 Home Learning Thursday 11th February 2021
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 2:19pm
Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a happy Wednesday and are looking forward to a fun day ahead. We really enjoyed finishing Mr Stink, we are looking forward to finding out what our next book will be after Half Term.
Ms Hodson really enjoyed the stories that some of you read out and sent in. She had the biggest smile on her face while she was listening. I love your blurbs and book covers for Mr Stink. Your Lenten Promises are beautiful too!
If you haven’t already sent your video for the dance, try to send it as early as you can today on Seesaw.
Thursday 11th February 2021
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.
Then, ask somebody to read out a page of your book to you. Listen out for different voices and also where they pause.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for this week. They are some of the words which you need to know by the end of Year 3.
decide, describe, different, difficult, disappear
Write the long date: Thursday 11th February 2021
Write the title: Spelling Sentences
Write 5 sentences using your spelling words. They can be about anything and they can be silly if you want.
Start each sentence with a capital letter and end each sentence with a full stop, exclamation mark or question mark (if it is a question).
Writing:
Please talk to somebody all about the Mr Stink book – tell them the story, the different characters, your favourite parts, any parts you didn’t like, how you would change the ending if you could.
I have attached an example of today’s work for you so you can see how to present it.
Find your book cover from yesterday and open it up.
Inside the first half, I would like you to give the book a star rating. Draw up to five big stars depending on how much you like the book. Draw them big enough to fill this whole half of the page.
1 star = didn’t like it at all 5 stars = loved it
Inside each star, write down a word to describe the book e.g. emotional, amazing, funny, happy, interesting.
Then colour in your stars – but don’t cover the writing.
Inside the second half, write some quotes that different people have said about the book. Below are things that myself, Ms Hodson, and Mrs Wood have said about the book. You can copy them. You can also write down what you and people in your house have said about it. Remember to use inverted commas (speech marks).
Write these big to fill your page.
“A fantastic book that made me laugh and cry.”
Miss Smith
“I laughed so much, especially at Mr Stink’s toilet habits.”
Ms Hodson
“A truly wonderful book all about friendship and being yourself.”
Mrs Wood
Remember:
Perfect spelling
Capital letters
Beautiful handwriting
Inverted commas
Please send me a photo of the inside of your book cover on Seesaw, I will be looking out for beautifully presented work.
Times tables
Play on Hit the Button.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Click on Division Facts and then ÷2.
If you find it tricky, write out your 2x tables before you start and use them to help.
Sumdog
Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
Number Challenge: 8th February – 14th February
Times Tables Challenge: 8th February – 14th February
Counting
Count out loud in 4s:
From 0 to 48.
From 48 to 0.
Maths
Write the short date – 11.02.21
Write the title – Can I represent 100s, 10s and 1s?
Watch this video, pause where you need to:
Complete the worksheet and then use the answer sheet to check.
Optional Maths Challenge:
Click on the link, you can either download a sheet to work on or complete the activity interactively.
It looks very complicated at first, but once you get started I think you will enjoy it.
PE
Watch this video
Complete the activity attached to this blog – Super Strength
If the weather is nice, get outside J
French
First let’s recap the phonics sounds from the week before last by watching the video again. This week, you are going to try and write down the number and colour words that contain the sounds.
Before you start, write the date and learning objective in your book:
jeudi onze février
Can I use phonics to help me spell French words?
Then write each of the phonic sounds, leaving space underneath each to write down the words that have the sound in. Spread them out on your page. The sounds are:
Ou eu an oi in/un i on
Now listen to Emilie again, pausing the video when she asks you to think of the numbers and colours that have that sound in. You have a go at writing the words under the right sound then start the video again to check your spelling. Please correct it if you make a mistake. Mistakes are fine! They help us to learn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkR7BTicoxc&safe=active
Maintenant, nous allons apprendre les animaux = Now, we are going to learn some animals.
http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y3_French/Yr3SpringFr.php
Click on Lesson 15 with audio. Work through the PowerPoint.
Can you add some animal words to each phonic list now? What about un lapin? Which sound does that have? Un oiseau? Un poisson? You could draw a mini picture next to each word to remind you what they mean.
Très bien et merci beaucoup.
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 the inside of your book cover.
Don’t forget to go on Sumdog.
7 of you have already completed the times tables challenge – wow!!!
10 of you have already completed the number challenge – AMAZING!
Have a wonderful day J I am so proud of each and every one of you! Please send me a photo of the inside of your book cover on Seesaw. I will be looking out for beautifully presented work and perfect spelling.
Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 11th February 2021
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 12:48pm
Thursday 11th February 2021
Good morning everyone. Well Year 6, we have made it to the final day of learning being posted here on the blog (tomorrow is Fabulous Friday). I hope you have found all the videos helpful and my feedback to your work on Seesaw supportive. Remember that you can spread your work over today and tomorrow or complete it today and start you well-earned half term break early.
Here are today’s tasks:
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.
Reading activity for today:
- Design a new front cover for your book. Remember to include the title, author and pictures.
English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)
Handwriting
The handwriting poems this week are based on old nursery rhymes/action verses. This week focus on having the descenders hanging low and the ascenders tall.
The Morning Rush
Into the bathroom,
Turn on the tap.
Wash away the sleepiness –
Splish! Splosh! Splash!
Into the bedroom,
Pull on your vest
Quickly! Quickly!
Get yourself dressed.
Down to the kitchen.
No time to lose.
Gobble up your breakfast.
Put on your shoes.
Back to the bathroom.
Squeeze out the paste.
Brush, brush, brush your teeth.
No time to waste.
Pick up your school bag
Up off the floor.
Grab your coat
And out through the door.
Spellings
The spellings for this week, -sure / -ture
- Write out each word in parts with different colours. This should be in syllables to help with your visual memory:
- capture, adventure, measure, enclosure
Writing task
Can I note down the differences between the novel and the film of Tom’s Midnight Garden?
For our final lesson on Tom’s Midnight Garden, I would like you to watch the BBC adaptation and compare it to the book.
Here are the links to all the Tom’s Midnight Garden series parts:
You may watch this over a few days or all in one sitting (but I think in total it comes to about 2 and half hours).
Please copy the table and complete it whilst you watch it. Just focus on the differences between what you remember in the book compared to the series. Aim for at least 10 main differences between them (there may be missing or added parts, characters portrayed differently or different settings).
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Maths – Multiplication Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting forwards in 2 ½ .
7 , 15 ¼ , 23 ½ , 64 , 97
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I use my multiplication knowledge to solve problems?
I have sent a video explaining how to solve the sheet, Multiplication Word Problems. Remember to use RUCSAC
(Read, Underline, Calculation, Solve, Answer, Check) which is explained in the video.
- Arithmetic 19 – 36. See the Arithmetic video for guidance on some of the strategies we use.
History
Can I investigate information about the Mayan calendar and create a report?
Follow the video on Seesaw and the PowerPoint information, Mayan Calendar Time Detectives, to complete the following tasks:
- How do we measure time? (Think about seconds, minutes, months, years and spider diagram some of these – slide 1).
- Read through slide 2 – 4
- Slide 5 - Mayan calendar research by making notes using these websites:
There is a Mayan Calendar Report worksheet attached to the blog which I explain in the video.
Try to answer the following questions:
Can you name three things about the Haab calendar?
Can you name three things about the Tzolk’in calendar?
How long is the calendar?
Any interesting facts?
- Report – also explained in the video.
Art
- To end the term, please choose a video or two to complete some artwork for fun. I love Disney so follow the link How to Draw Disney Series.
- Following last week’s ‘Express Yourself’ art, I have attached Art Journaling which explains that for a week, keep journal entries of only VISUAL forms to express your experiences of that day.
Sumdog – Three challenges
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- Fluency in 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9x tables (200 target)
- Multiply by 10, 100 and two digit numbers (200 target)
- Spellings -sure / -ture (45 target)
Well done, tomorrow is Friday. We are nearly there!
Reception 11th February Home Learning
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 11:37am
Thursday 11th February 2021
Today is the last day to send in your video of the dance if you would like to be a part of our school montage! J
Literacy
- Reading – We can tell that so many of you are becoming more confident with your reading. Well done Reception 😊
Can I use expressions in my voice when I am reading?
Reminders – Please contact the School Office if you would like to change your reading books.
Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234
- Phonics – Please recap all of the sounds we have learnt so far and the new digraphs & trigraphs.
Our new sounds - ch, sh, th, ng, qu, ai, ee, oa, igh, long and short oo (if you want to watch anymore videos for these sounds – search Geraldine the giraffe and the sound on YouTube)
Have a look at the CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) word PowerPoint and see if you know the sounds needed to spell the words.
Can I have a go at writing the Phase 3 Phoneme frame words? (Remember only one sound goes into a box)
Can I read the captions and draw a picture to match?
(See the phonic activities attached.)
Have a go at any of the games on Phonics Play – Phase 2 or 3 to practise reading some different words.
Phonics Play – Login - Jan21 Password - home
Remember to use these sounds to help you with any new or trickier words in your reading book!
- Handwriting – As well as improving our fine motor skills, we also need to be practising lots of gross motor skills (bigger movements). All of this helps to develop co-ordination and shoulder movements, to help towards a better pencil control.
Can I have a go at the fitness bingo? (See attached.)
Handwriting this week will be the letters 'Uu' ‘Vv’ ‘Ww’ ‘Xx’. – Remember to start at the top.
See the Seesaw video for the correct formations for all of this week’s letters.
The Humpty Words of the week are – little, there, have, like
Can I check I can spell these words, without help from the grown up?
- Story Activity -
Revisit your new story from yesterday, practise reading it out loud using your story map.
Can I write my new version of the story? (Use the template attached if needed – you can finish writing this tomorrow if it gets too much.)
See the Seesaw video modelling this J
Maths –
- Counting Practice –
Choose one of your favourite things to play with, can I count out loud how many I have?
(Teddies, cars, balls)
- Consolidation – In Reception we need to revisit and rehearse all number facts to secure understanding.
Can I revisit the number 5? (See the sheet attached.)
Can I solve the double problems? (Draw the problem out to help you work out the answers.)
Can I colour the numbers in correctly? (See the sheet attached.)
- Main Focus – Watch the Ten Pin Bowling video below.
Can you make your own bowling game? (You could use bottles, cube towers, toilet/kitchen rolls.)
Can you record how many you knock down?
Topic Time
- KUW – Tomorrow it is Chinese New Year – It is the year of the Ox this year.
Watch the video below.
Can I try writing some Chinese numbers?
Can I make my own Chinese lantern?
Can I make my own dragon craft? (See ideas attached.)
Reception Story Time
See the video on Seesaw for today’s story time.
Some great number work this week too Reception. Well done to all of you uploading your work daily.
Year 3 Home Learning Wednesday 10th February 2021
Date: 9th Feb 2021 @ 3:39pm
Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a good Tuesday. The work you sent me on Seesaw was amazing, I really enjoyed the poem Ryan read out and sent me, it’s called What Turkey Doing? By John Agard. I loved listening to all of you read, what a treat. Ms Hodson can't wait to listen tomorrow morning.
You really are doing such a great job at home, I know it must be tricky for you sometimes J
Please send a 10 second video of yourself doing the dance on Seesaw today or tomorrow. These will be used to create a whole school video.
The video and more information can be found here:
https://www.longton-st-oswalds.lancs.sch.uk/work/dance-week/63370
Wednesday 10th February 2021
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.
Predict what you think is going to happen next in the story.
Don’t forget to change your reading book with the school office when you have finished.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for this week. They are some of the words which you need to know by the end of Year 3.
decide, describe, different, difficult, disappear
Write the long date: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Write the title: Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check
Write your spelling words down the side of your page.
Look very carefully at a word - notice double letters, words within words, tricky parts, letters that don’t sound like you would expect.
Say the word out loud.
Cover the word and write it down next to it.
Uncover the word and check you have spelt it correctly.
Repeat so you have written each word 4 times.
Writing:
Listen to pages 260 – 267 of Mr Stink, I will send you a video of the pages on Seesaw in the morning.
I have really enjoyed this book, I hope you have too. I wonder if you notice anything about the very last sentence…
You are going to design a new cover for the Mr Stink book. I have attached a photo of the front and back covers so you can see what they look like.
I would like you to get a piece of paper and fold it in half so that it is like a book.
On the back, write a blurb for Mr Stink. A blurb tells you what the book is about.
On the front, design your own front cover for Mr Stink – you might want to draw a picture of your favourite part. Remember to include the title, author and illustrator.
I would love to see your book cover on Seesaw.
Keep these handy because you are going to do something on the inside tomorrow.
Remember:
Perfect spelling
Capital letters and full stops
Beautiful handwriting
Make it even better by:
Using commas
Adding an exclamation mark
Writing in paragraphs
Ending with a …
Times tables
Play on Hit the Button three times.
Practise division facts for ÷ 2
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Sumdog
Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
Number Challenge: 8th February – 14th February
Times Tables Challenge: 8th February – 14th February
Counting
Count out loud in 10s.
From 234 to 334.
From 901 to 1011.
Back from 1052 to 972.
Maths
Watch the video, pause where you need to.
Complete the sheet attached to this blog and then use the answer sheet to check your answers.
Some questions ask you to use base 10, you can draw this.
Draw a square for 100, a line for 10 and a dot for 1.
Optional Maths Challenge
Attached is a sheet called Magic V Challenge.
This is an investigation where you will be finding as many possibilities as you can. I would love for anybody who has a go to tell me all about what you found out on Seesaw.
Music
Please look at the photo attached all about songs that make you feel good, either write your favourite songs or talk about them.
Follow the link to complete the music lesson. You will need a cup.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/performing-rhythms-6dh32r
RE
Next Wednesday 17th February will be Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent.
During Lent we prepare for Easter.
In Lent we remember how Jesus suffered and died for us.
When Jesus rose from the tomb on Easter Sunday, he showed us that death
is not the end.
God, our Father, wants us all to live with him in a new life of peace and joy in heaven.
During Lent, we prepare for Easter in three ways: we pray, fast, and do acts of kindness.
By doing these things we grow in love of God and other people.
I would like you to write your Lenten Promise on the cross attached to this blog. Stick it up somewhere at home.
I would like your Lenten Promise to be something you can do to make yourself a better person. Here are some examples:
I promise to do 20 minutes of exercise every day.
I promise to ask my Mum and Dad for jobs every day.
I promise to swap iPad time for reading time.
I promise to do something kind each day.
Decorate your cross with pictures and patterns – make it look beautiful.
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 RE work and your Mr Stink book cover.
Don’t forget to go on Sumdog. There is a new game :)
Have a wonderful day J Remember you are amazing! Please send me a photo of your Lenten Promise and your Mr Stink cover on Seesaw. I will be looking out for beautifully presented work.
Try to send a 10 second video of yourself doing the dance today or tomorrow.
Reception 10th February Home Learning
Date: 9th Feb 2021 @ 2:55pm
Wednesday 10th February 2021
We would love to see your videos of the dance, don’t forget to send them to us before Thursday dinner time. J
Literacy
- Reading – Try to read for 10 minutes each day. 😊
Can I talk about the characters in my story?
Is it a fiction or non-fiction story book?
Can I act out the story?
Reminders – Please contact the School Office if you would like to change your reading book.
Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234
- Phonics – Please recap all of the sounds we have learnt so far and the new digraphs & trigraphs. (It is important for Reception to consolidate their sound recognition for all of the sounds - therefore this week we will not be learning any new sounds.)
Our new sounds - ch, sh, th, ng, qu, ai, ee, oa, igh, long and short oo
Can I remember all my new sounds?
Can I think of a word for each sound?
Can I have a go at the phonics activities? (See attached.)
Have a go at any of the games on Phonics Play – Phase 2 or 3 to practise reading some different words.
Phonics Play – Login - Jan21 Password - home
Remember to use these sounds to help you with any new or trickier words in your reading book!
- Handwriting – Join in with ‘In the Garden’.
These hand exercises will help to strengthen your fingers and will help with your handwriting.
Handwriting this week will be the letters 'Uu' ‘Vv’ ‘Ww’ ‘Xx’. – Remember to start at the top.
See the Seesaw video for the correct formations for all of this week’s letters.
The Humpty Words of the week are – little, there, have, like
Can I say the words, copy the words and then write them without copying?
- Story Activity - Today, we are going to use all of our ideas from yesterday to make our own version of the story.
Watch this video and draw out your new story map.
Can I retell out loud my new version of the story using my story map?
Maths –
- Counting Practice – Can I count in 2’s?
- Consolidation – In Reception we need to revisit and rehearse all number facts to secure understanding.
Can I revisit the number 4? (See sheet attached.)
Can I continue the patterns? (Print page 1.)
Can I remember my doubles?
- Main Focus – Watch the addition to 5 video attached below.
Can I complete the number bonds to 5 activity by drawing the amount that is missing? (See attached.)
Watch the video on Seesaw and use the part-whole model to make up your own addition questions.
Topic Time
Science - This week, we are going to look at eggs in more detail.
You’ll need 3 eggs and some vinegar to do all these activities.
First, take an egg and talk about it.
Here are some ideas for your discussion
Feel the shell. What is it like? Is it heavy or light? Rough or smooth? What colour is it? Are all eggs brown? Where did it come from? Do only chickens lay eggs or do other birds lay eggs too? Can we eat them? Which bird lays the biggest egg? Which bird lays the smallest egg? There are some pictures attached. Amazing!
Now break the egg into a dish and look at the yolk and the white. The yolk is the nutrition for the baby chick and the white provides water and cushioning to protect the developing chick. Can you see a thin membrane inside the shell? (This is to stop the white drying up. The shell is porous so the water would evaporate without it.) We’re going to look at this membrane again later on!
Here are some activities you can try with eggs.
Boil one for 5 minutes and another for 10 minutes. What is the same and what’s different about them? Which do you prefer to eat? How has the white and the yolk changed now they’re cooked?
Click this link to make a bouncy egg! You’ll need one egg and enough vinegar to cover the egg. It takes at least 24 hours to work but you can watch the reaction taking place while you wait.
Further Discussion
What has happened to the egg shell? How does the egg feel now?
Have a cloth at the ready when you play with the bouncy egg!
Well done! You’ve done some egg-siting eggsperiments today!
Reception Story Time
Get yourself a blanket and enjoy today’s story after working so hard all day.
Today our story is ‘The Little Red Hen’ By Michael Foreman.
There has been some amazing phonics work this week. Keep up the hard work! J
Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 10th February 2021
Date: 9th Feb 2021 @ 2:51pm
Wednesday 10th February 2021
Good morning Year 6. I hope you are all still well as we hit halfway through the week. Once again, there are many tasks attached to Wednesday because our usual timetable would include Reading, English, Maths, French, Music and RE, all in one day. Please do not be overwhelmed by all of this and do what you can today – remember to look after your wellbeing!
Here are the tasks:
Dance Week
Do not forget that this week is Dance Week with the link for our school’s video here, Dance Week Video. If you would like to be on our school’s music video, send me a video of you dancing (just 10 seconds) through Seesaw by Thursday lunch time. Happy dancing!
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.
Reading activity for today:
- Make a timeline of the important events in the story.
English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)
Handwriting
The handwriting poems this week are based on old nursery rhymes/action verses. This week focus on having the descenders hanging low and the ascenders tall.
Incey Wincey Spider
Incey Wincey spider
Climbed up the water spout;
Down came the rain
And washed the spider out:
Out came the sunshine
And dried up all the rain;
Incey Wincey spider
Climbed the spout again.
Spellings
The spellings for this week, -sure / -ture
- Watch the video sent through Seesaw for how to play ‘Pyramid’.
Writing task
Can I design open ended questions for an interview with Tom?
I have sent a video explaining today’s lesson. Please watch it first as it will help in structuring an interview between yourself and Tom.
The link to the BBC video that I refer to in the video is here, How to Interview People.
The template, if you would like to use it, is attached at the bottom of this blog, named Interview Template.
Maths – Fractions Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting forwards in 1/5 then 3/5
Use the numbers to begin: 4 , 16 1/5 , 27 4/5 , 81 , 45
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I use the grid method for up to 4 digit x 2 digit calculations?
There is a Seesaw video for today’s lesson which will help in answering ‘Multiplication Grid Method’ and the challenge:
Maths challenge – Missing Numbers
Music
Follow this link, Developing Beatboxing, to Oak National Academy for today’s lesson.
There is also an image attached to the bottom of this blog named, What are your favourite songs? This has a template for you to complete for fun to note down your favourite songs at different times.
French
Quel temps fait-il?
Click this link and download Lesson 4 with audio.
http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y6_French/Yr6AutumnFr.php
Listen again to slide 2 with the rhyming weather forecast. Try this a couple of times until you are confident with the pronunciation.
Now you are going to use a map of France to write and ‘perform’ your own weather forecast. It doesn’t have to rhyme! There is a map of France in the resources.
Use an atlas or online map to add as many places as you can manage – at least 6, please, more if you can. Add the places to the map then draw a weather symbol next to them.
Then use the model on slide 3 to help you describe the weather. For example, A Paris, il fait gris. You don’t need to put all the dots in. Trim the map and stick your map in your book with the date in French and title Can I describe the weather? Write your weather forecast underneath.
Extra challenge: Can you add some negative sentences? Remember, we add ne ….. pas round the verb to make a negative. For example, you could say. A Nîmes, il fait chaud. Il ne fait pas froid or il n’y a pas de vent. In Nimes, it is hot. It is not cold or it is not windy. (note: du changes to de after a negative) Have a go!
This work would be even better if you could make a video of yourself ‘performing’ (or just reading) your weather forecast and put it on Seesaw. You might like to dress up as a TV presenter – comedy outfits appreciated!
Bonne chance!
RE
Can I write a prayer of unity?
Jesus often spoke to his disciples about the importance of unity among them. He gave them the model of the unity between himself and God the Father.
Attached at the bottom is a passage from John 17: 11, 20-23 which is a prayer to the disciples of how they could be more effective if there was unity among them.
- From the passage, what were your favourite words and phrases and why?
- What can you learn from this Gospel reading?
Your task is to create your own prayer of unity that we could read out in school (when everyone returns). What message would you like in your unity prayer? Will you ask the Lord for more unity or will you name how we can be more united in your prayer?
Only as guidance, you may wish to start your prayer with:
Lord / Dear Lord / O Lord God / Father
And possibly end with:
Amen
(For how long your prayer has to be: short medium or long, I do not mind)
Sumdog – Three challenges:
- Fluency in 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and.9x tables (200 target by Sunday)
- Multiply by 10, 100 and two digit numbers (200 target by Sunday)
- Spellings -ture / -sure (45 target by Friday)
Congratulations for making it to the end of Wednesday!
Year 2 Home Learning - 10th February 2021
Date: 9th Feb 2021 @ 2:12pm
Wednesday 9th February
Good morning.
We hope you had a great day of learning yesterday. We are now half way through the week and we are very proud of your fabulous learning at home – keep it up. We loved reading your some of your interesting newspaper headlines on Seesaw. We can’t wait to read you newspaper articles today.
We know that Year 2 love to dance! Make sure you watch the video on the class gallery where Mr Mears will teach us our routine. We hope to see everyone take part in school and at home. Try and practise every day and send in a 10 second video via Seesaw, no later than 12 noon on Thursday, so that we can include it in the whole school video!
Have a go at this breathing exercise before you start your learning today. Miss Bennison and Mr Ingram love this one!
Here are your Wednesday facts to start your day:
- Elephants are the world’s largest land animal.
- The Romans didn’t spend all their time fighting – they were amazing architects and engineers too!
- Rainforests cover about 6% of the Earth‘s land surface.
Reading
It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.
Reading challenge - What do you think will happen next in the story? Use this formula to record your thoughts….
Text clue + background knowledge = What I think will happen.
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS
Maths
Counting
Mr Ingram has been counting back in threes. Can you spot and correct my mistake on the number track.
Using a number line to 30 could help you solve the answer to the question.
Number facts – Subtraction bonds
Write out all your subtraction bonds from 10. Now write all your subtraction bonds from 20. Compare the 2 sets of numbers. Do you notice a pattern?
Times Tables
3 Times Tables – Listen to this 3 times table song: 3 times table song
Play hit the button and select 3 times tables – hit the button
Play the Daily 10. Select multiplication and then select 3 times tables. Set the timer so you get quicker each time – Daily 10
Can you write out all your 3 times tables up to 12, in your home learning journal?
Can I count the vertices of 2D shapes?
Today we are going to focus on counting the vertices of 2D shapes. Please follow the link here and have a go at the worksheets attached to this blog. 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.
Optional activity – Draw the shape game
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables
Maths – Shapes
Spellings – Nouns with the suffix -ness
English
Please see the attached English lesson for more details.
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 looking at changing adjectives to nouns by adding the suffix -ness.
-ness is one of a number of noun suffixes. It is used to make nouns from adjectives, although not every adjective can be modified in this way. Here are some common adjectives whose noun forms are made by adding -ness:
But remember, some are trickier!
When the word ends in a consonant and a y, we need to change the ‘y’ to an ‘i’ then add –ness
Please note - Not all adjectives can be made into nouns using "-ness." Typically, if an adjective is in its -er or -est form, "-ness" cannot be added: higher and highest cannot become higherness or highestness.
Please see the attached ‘Jumbled Words’ activity. All the nouns with -ness have been jumbled up. Can you work out the word and then place it in the correct sentence?
PE
Please see today’s announcement on Seesaw for our ‘Underwater Dance’ lesson and follow the link to access the song - Underwater Song.
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 – Jumping bean
MOVEMENT – ‘We need to move like different animals in the sea’
Create some movements for the following animals:
- Crab
- Jellyfish
- Stingray
- Whale
Repeat these actions in this order until you can start to remember them.
CHOREOGRAPHY – Put the movements together using the song for timing.
START –
“under the water” – Students can bend knees and move arms down and scoop up to indicate ‘under’.
“under the sea” – students to stand still and wave arms from side to side.
“lots and lots of fishys swimin’ ‘round me” – Students to do their fish action.
PRACTICE – Make sure you keep practicing the song over and over until you can perfect each dance move.
We would love to see some of your final performance on Seesaw.
PSHE
There is a PSHE worksheet attached to the blog all about exploring different types of feelings. It would be great if you could complete it at some point this week.
Exploring our feelings and emotions is something that's really important during the time at home and it is important to talk through them with an adult.
Please send a picture of your worksheet on SeeSaw.
Additional Art Activities
Please see the document below.
We are half way through the week year 2. Keep up all your hard work, we are very proud of you all.
Year 2 team.
HOME LEARNING Wednesday 10th February 2021
Date: 8th Feb 2021 @ 4:24pm
Year 4
Home Learning Wednesday 10th February 2021
Good morning Year 4. Welcome to Wednesday’s Home Learning. I hope you are all well and staying positive. Remember to keep practising the dance routine – I’m looking forward to seeing your videos on Seesaw. Click on the link here to see the dance video again.
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.
Draw and label a picture of one of the characters. Include information about what they look like, what they like to wear and their personality.
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Tuesday 23rd February 2021 (when we come back to school after half-term). They are another set of homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but are spelt differently.
him hymn new knew mist missed heel heal
side sighed piece peace rain rein reign
Write the long date Wednesday 10th February 2021
Practise each of the words using look, cover, write, check.
Choose some of the homophones and write your own sentences using them correctly.
For example, piece and peace
The piece of paper was torn in half.
Her parents wanted some peace and quiet.
Handwriting
A video will be uploaded to Seesaw on Wednesday morning. Please watch the video and practise your handwriting in your Home Learning book.
Write the long date Wednesday 10th February 2021
Write the title Handwriting
English
Today, please re-read page 89, from ‘A storm broke over the island that night …..’ to page 90 ‘There could be no fire now until it had dried out.’ An audio recording will be uploaded to Seesaw on Wednesday morning.
Please open the document called ‘English Descriptive Writing’ attached to the blog for today’s task.
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
A times tables challenge has been set on Sumdog. This is to consolidate and practise your 2, 4 and 8 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 11th February 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷12.
Counting
Count in 10’s from 1940 to 2090 and back again. Count in 10’s from 85 to 225 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 8’s from 0 to 96 and back again. Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Now count in 8’s from 100 to 196 and back again. Write the numbers down as you say them – what do you notice now?
Maths
Click here to play Daily 10.
Click on play game. Choose Level 3, Doubles/Halves, Halves up to 100. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. Remember to write the answers down and to make jottings!
Eg Half 134 Partition into 100 30 4
Half 100 = 50 Half 30 = 15 Half 4 = 2 50 + 15 + 2 = 67
Repeat this game a couple of times and see if you can calculate more quickly and accurately each time.
Today, we are going to extend our learning using the formal written method of multiplication. This will build on the work you completed on Monday.
Write the short date 10.02.21
Write the learning objective Can I use the grid method to multiply a 3d number by a 1d number?
Please watch the video which will be uploaded to Seesaw on Wednesday morning. This video will explain how to multiply a 3 digit number by a 1 digit number.
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Multiplication 3d x 1d’ attached to the blog.
Complete the worksheet and answer the questions in your Home Learning book. You must use the grid method as this is the strategy we are practising today!
Check your answers with the document ‘Multiplication answers’ attached to the blog. Look carefully at any questions you got wrong and try to find where you made the error. Was it your multiplication or your addition which you found tricky? Write a note on your work to explain what you found tricky today.
French
First let’s recap the phonics sounds from the week before last by watching the video again. This week, you are going to try and write down the number and colour words that contain the sounds.
Before you start, write the date and learning objective in your book:
mardi dix février
Can I use phonics to help me spell French words?
Then write each of the phonic sounds, leaving space underneath each to write down the words that have the sound in. Spread them out on your page. The sounds are:
Ou eu an oi in/un i on
Now listen to Emilie again, pausing the video when she asks you to think of the numbers and colours that have that sound in. You have a go at writing the words under the right sound then start the video again to check your spelling. Please correct it if you make a mistake. Mistakes are fine! They help us to learn.
Key French sounds - C'est Emilie
Can you add any more words you know to each list? What about any day of the week? Some animals - un lapin? Some fruit – une poire?
Now we are going to learn how to describe where things are in a picture. Click on this link. Then click on lesson 15 with audio and work through the Powerpoint.
In your book, on a new page, put the learning objective:
Can I describe where things are?
Copy slide 8 adding the words in the correct place. See if you can get ‘au centre de’ in the centre of your picture rather than where they’ve put it!
We are working towards doing a piece of artwork then describing it. That’s why you’ll need these words. Merci beaucoup! A bientôt!
PE
Watch the clips below and follow the instructions on the cards.
Games Skills – Climb the ladder
Gymnastics – Jumping Dice
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 2, 4 and 8 times tables)
- A maths challenge to practise counting in multiples of 4, 5 and 8
- A spelling challenge based on this week’s new homophone 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.
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
Year 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 9th February 2021
Date: 8th Feb 2021 @ 3:42pm
Tuesday 9th February 2021
Good morning Year 6. It is Tuesday – I see this as only three more ‘get-ups’ or two, if you can finish all your work by Thursday, so keep working hard Year 6! Do not forget that this week is Dance Week with the link for our school’s video here, Dance Week Video. If you would like to be on our school’s music video, send me a video of you dancing (just 10 seconds) through Seesaw by Thursday lunch time. Happy dancing!
Here are today’s tasks:
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.
Reading activity for today:
- Make a dictionary containing 10 difficult word from the text.
English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)
Handwriting
The handwriting poems this week are based on old nursery rhymes. This week focus on having the descenders hanging low and the ascenders tall.
Two Little Dicky Birds
Two little dicky birds
Sitting on the wall,
One named Peter
One named Paul
Fly away Peter,
Fly away Paul;
Come back Peter.
Come back Paul.
Spellings
The spellings for this week, -sure / -ture
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- I have sent a Seesaw video (Spellings task) which explains the ‘Window Game’ task to complete.
Writing task
Can I write a play script between Tom and Mrs Bartholomew?
Read chapter 25 and 26 – A video has been sent through Seesaw.
The link for the BBC website I mention in the video is here, BBC Bitesize write a play
Please watch the video sent through on Seesaw which explains how to use the play script WAGOLL (which I have attached as a photo), the BBC Bitesize website and the success criteria.
Maths – Fractions Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting forwards in ¼ then ¾ .
7, 13, 25 ½ , 37, 55 ¼
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I use partitioning to solve TU x U and HTU x U mentally?
There is a Seesaw video for today’s lesson which will help in answering ‘Multiplication Partitioning’ and the challenge ‘Decimals’.
Science
Today we are going to look at Inheritance and Variation.
Inheritance means the passing of characteristics from one generation to the next.
Variation means that offspring will have many different characteristics to their parents. Some variations are more advantageous than others.
Remember the blackbirds last week? The white blackbird would be easier for predators to see so this would be a disadvantageous variation. This characteristic is unlikely to be passed on to its offspring because it might not live long enough to have any babies.
- Add these words to your glossary from lesson 1.
- Something to consider to start with: What if all humans looked the same? Click this link and add your thoughts to the padlet page. + means the good things, - means the bad things and you can add your interesting thoughts in the last column.
https://padlet.com/MrsQuilliam/year6
We will all be able to see each other’s ideas!
- Living things produce offspring of the same kind but offspring vary and are not identical to their parents. Do people ever say you look like your Mum or your Dad or another family member? Have you inherited any of their mannerisms? One of the characteristics that is inherited in humans is whether your ear lobes are attached fully or partially to your head. Are your ear lobes attached? Check with your parents whose you have inherited. Can you roll your tongue? This is another inherited characteristic.
- Have a look at the photo of the Cambridge family below.
What characteristics have been inherited from each parent? Are any of the children identical to either parent? Who looks more like whom, would you say?
- You’re going to have a go at being dog breeders now. Find the resource, Variation: Breeding Dogs below. If the corgi and the greyhound were the parents, what might their puppies look like? Which characteristics might the puppies inherit? How many variations can you make? You can either draw them or print out 2 copies and make 4 different dogs.
Put today’s date and the learning objective:
Can I explain inheritance and variation?
Draw or stick the dogs in your book. Write a paragraph to explain what you have learnt today about inheritance and variation. You could start by explaining what the words mean in your own words.
- Finally, have a go at the end of unit quiz below. This will help you recap all the things we have learnt over the last 6 weeks.
Well done, Year 6. We have reached the end of our topic on Evolution and Inheritance. You have worked as excellent biologists! Next half term, we will move on to a new topic.
Well done. Another day completed!
Year 3 Home Learning Tuesday 9th February 2021
Date: 8th Feb 2021 @ 3:24pm
Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a good day on Monday.
We had quite a debate in History about which of the Ancient Egyptian achievements was the most important. We agreed on two in the end – creating their own language and building the pyramids and houses without the machinery and technology we have today.
Well done all of your hard work, I have been very impressed with what I have seen on Seesaw. Today Ms Hodson would love to hear some of you reading on Seesaw – so please send a short video if you can.
Tuesday 9th February 2021
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.
Try to use lots of expression and pause where there is a full stop or comma. Ms Hodson would love it if you could record yourself reading your favourite part of your book and send it on Seesaw.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for this week. They are some of the words which you need to know by the end of Year 3.
Read them out loud.
decide, describe, different, difficult, disappear
You will be tested on these spellings on Tuesday 23rd February after Half Term. We have this week to practise them and the Monday after Half Term, you don’t need to worry about them during the holidays.
Write the long date: Tuesday 9th February 2021
Write the title: Spelling Chunks
Write out your spellings in chunks you can remember, sometimes you can find words within your words. Last week we spotted the word pet in competition.
Here is an example:
dis/app/ear
Handwriting
Follow the video on Seesaw to practise your handwriting.
Writing:
Read pages 252 - 260 of Mr Stink attached to this blog.
I would like you to imagine that you are Chloe. You are going to write Mr Stink a thank you letter that he can keep with him wherever he wanders.
Long date: Tuesday 9th February 2021
Title: Can I write a letter?
Here are some ideas to start each paragraph. Try to write at least 3 sentences for each paragraph with different memories and things that Chloe is thankful for:
Dear Mr Stink,
I am writing this letter to you so that …
First of all, I want to say a massive thank you for everything you have done for me. You have…
I will always remember our time together; we had some laughs! I remember when …
I hope that you and Duchess have a great time on your next adventure, and I hope …
Thanks again,
Love from Chloe
Remember:
Perfect spelling
Capital letters and full stops (places and names need capital letters)
Beautiful handwriting
Make it even better by:
Using words from the Mr Stink book
Using commas and exclamation marks
Times tables
This week we are going to practise division facts for the tables we know.
Play on Hit The Button three times.
Click on division facts.
Click on ÷2.
It might help to write out your 2x tables before you play.
Try to improve your score each time.
Sumdog
Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
Number Challenge: 8th February – 14th February
Times Tables Challenge: 8th February – 14th February
Counting
Count out loud in 20s:
From 0 to 300.
From 22 to 122.
From 10 to 110.
Maths
Today you are going to answer some arithmetic questions.
There are two videos on Seesaw which will help you with questions 25 and 26, you can also watch previous videos if you need a reminder.
Don’t forget to use a number line to help with question 24.
Don’t forget to use a grid to help with questions 19 and 23.
Don’t forget to look for number bonds to help with question 21.
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
Complete the Science lesson attached to this blog, it is all about transparent, translucent and opaque objects and materials.
Dance
Have another practice of the dance:
https://www.longton-st-oswalds.lancs.sch.uk/work/dance-week/63370.
Remember I will be asking for a short video of the dance by Thursday.
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 recording of yourself reading.
Don’t forget to go on Sumdog.
Lexie has already completed the times tables challenge - wow!
Lexie, George and Madeline have already completed the number challenge - amazing!
Don’t forget to collect a yellow dictionary from the school office when you can.
Have a super day J I am so proud of each and every one of you! Please send me a video of yourself reading out loud on Seesaw.
HOME LEARNING Tuesday 9th February 2021
Date: 8th Feb 2021 @ 3:22pm
Year 4
Home Learning Tuesday 9th February 2021
Good morning Year 4. Welcome to Tuesday’s learning. I hope you enjoyed finding out some of the ways in which the Romans changed Britain yesterday. It’s amazing that some Roman ideas, words and numbers are still used today!
Remember it’s dance week at St Oswald’s! Click on the link here to see the video. I’m looking forward to seeing your videos uploaded to Seesaw later on in the week. Please send them to us before 12 noon on Thursday!
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.
Predict what you think is going to happen in the next chapter.
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Tuesday 23rd February 2021 (when we come back to school after half-term). They are another set of homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but are spelt differently.
him hymn new knew mist missed heel heal
side sighed piece peace rain rein reign
Write the long date Tuesday 9th February 2021
Copy the words carefully into your book. Find out the meanings of any words you don’t know. Can you add any pictures or symbols to some of the words to help you remember what the different spellings mean?
English
Today, please read / listen to Chapter 6 of Kensuke’s Kingdom. A copy of the book is attached to the blog or you can listen to Chapter 6 by clicking here.
Please open the document called ‘English tasks’ attached to the blog for today’s activities.
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
A times tables challenge has been set on Sumdog. This is to consolidate and practise your 2, 4 and 8 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 11th February 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷12.
Counting
Count in 10’s from 620 to 760 and back again. Count in 10’s from 950 to 1100 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 4’s from 40 to 88 and back again. Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Now count in 4’s from 80 to 124 and back again. Write the numbers down as you say them – what do you notice now?
Maths
Click here to play Daily 10.
We will be repeating yesterday’s halving activity. Please try and choose a shorter time interval between questions or have a go at Level 3.
Click on play game. Choose Level 2, Doubles/Halves, Halves up to 20. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. Remember to write the answers down and to make jottings!
Eg Half 28 Partition into 20 and 8
Half 20 = 10 Half 8 = 4 10 + 4 = 14
If you are feeling confident, have a go at Level 3, Doubles/Halves, Halves up to 100.
Eg Half 134 Partition into 100 30 4
Half 100 = 50 Half 30 = 15 Half 4 = 2 50 + 15 + 2 = 67
Repeat this game a couple of times and see if you can calculate more quickly and accurately each time.
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 video on Seesaw which will explain a couple of strategies. This will be uploaded on Tuesday morning.
Good luck!
Please post your work on Seesaw so that I can see how you got on!
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When you go to a film or watch a TV programme, it will begin with a title and a theme tune as an introduction to show that it is about to begin. The start of the Eucharist (Mass) is the same.
The start of the Eucharist has an introduction to prepare people for what is about to happen. Normally, the Sunday Eucharist will begin with a hymn, which may include something about the theme of that Mass or about people gathering. As this is sung, the priest and the servers walk in procession through the church towards the altar.
The priest kisses the altar first because it is a symbol of Christ. It is with Christ and through the power of the Holy Spirit that the Church offers the Eucharist to God, the Father. The priest represents Christ and everyone at the Eucharist has their own part to take in the celebration. When the hymn is finished, the priest faces the people and makes the Sign of the Cross. The Eucharist has begun, the people gather in the name of the Trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit in a similar way to the way we gather for Collective Worship.
Write the long date Tuesday 9th February 2021
Write the learning objective Can I describe what happens during certain parts of the Mass?
- Answer the following questions in your Home Learning book. Please answer in FULL SENTENCES and copy words correctly, such as Eucharist.
- Why do you think it is necessary to have an introduction at the beginning of the Eucharist?
- What is carried in the procession at the start of the Eucharist and why do you think these symbols are used?
- Why does the priest kiss the altar?
- Who does the priest represent?
- What does the Sign of the Cross signify at the start of the Eucharist?
- Listen to John Burland’s hymn 'Gather together'. Write an additional verse to the hymn and explain your choice of words.
Chorus:
Gather together Verse 1: Share with each other
Gather together
Gather together and celebrate Verse 2: Sing with each other
Gather together
Gather together Verse 3: Pray with each other
Gather together and celebrate
Music
Please click here for the last music lesson in this unit. Today you will be composing and performing your body percussion piece.
Please also complete the ‘Mind Music activity’ attached to the blog.
Perhaps you would like to send a video on Seesaw.
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 2, 4 and 8 times tables)
- A maths challenge to practise counting in multiples of 4, 5 and 8
- A spelling challenge based on this week’s new homophone 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.
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
Year 2 Home Learning - 9th February 2021
Date: 8th Feb 2021 @ 2:45pm
Tuesday 8th February
Good morning.
Well done on all your brilliant learning yesterday. We love seeing your work up on SeeSaw so please keep sending it.
This week we are celebrating Dance Week with a whole school dance project. Mr Mears will teach us our routine and we hope to see everyone take part in school and at home. You can find the video on the gallery section of the class blog or click the link here. Try and practise every day and send in a 10 second video via Seesaw, no later than 12 noon on Thursday, so that we can include it in the whole school video!
Have a go at this breathing exercise before you start your learning today.
Here are your Tuesday facts to start your day:
- The sunset on Mars appears blue.
- Polar bears also have black skin under their glistening coat, which helps them soak up the Sun’s rays and keep warm.
- There are three different species of elephant – the African Savannah elephant, the African Forest elephant and the Asian elephant.
Reading
It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.
Reading challenge - Find 5 words that you are not sure how to say or what they mean. If you already know what they mean, find 5 more that others will find tricky.
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS
Maths
Counting
What do you notice about the numbers that are circled? Can you complete the sequences?
Can you explain any pattern to a parent? What is the same and what is different?
Number facts
Write out all your number bonds to 10. Now write all your number bonds to 100. Compare the 2 sets of numbers. Do you notice a pattern?
Times Tables
3 Times Tables – Listen to this 3 times table song: 3 times table song
Play hit the button and select 3 times tables – hit the button
Play the Daily 10. Select multiplication and then select 3 times tables. Set the timer so you get quicker each time – Daily 10
Can you write out all your 3 times tables up to 12, in your home learning journal?
Can I count the sides of 2D shapes?
Today we are going to focus on counting the sides of 2D shapes. Please follow the link here and have a go at the worksheets attached to this blog. 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.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables
Maths – Shapes
Spellings – Nouns with the suffix -ness
English
Please see the attached English lesson for more details.
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 looking at changing adjectives to nouns by adding the suffix -ness.
-ness is one of a number of noun suffixes. It is used to make nouns from adjectives, although not every adjective can be modified in this way. Here are some common adjectives whose noun forms are made by adding -ness:
But remember, some are trickier!
When the word ends in a consonant and a y, we need to change the ‘y’ to an ‘i’ then add –ness
Please note - Not all adjectives can be made into nouns using "-ness." Typically, if an adjective is in its -er or -est form, "-ness" cannot be added: higher and highest cannot become higherness or highestness.
As we have seen, some nouns can be formed by adding the suffix -ness to adjectives. Please see the attached word search. The word search is hiding nouns formed using -ness, but the words at the bottom of the sheet are the adjectives. Can you turn the adjectives into nouns by adding -ness, then find the nouns in the word search?
French
Here’s a song to start to recap the names of some animals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub-V1n6zpQE&safe=active
Today we are going to play some games using the farm animals words we practised the week before last.
https://www.french-games.net/frenchlessons?topic=Animals%20-%20farm&level=primary
This link takes you to a lesson. Click start the tutorial to recap the words then there are 3 games which get progressively harder – yes/no, either/or then what is it?
If you’d like to do some more, click on the games tab at the top and choose a game to work on the same words. Sow and Grow is very straightforward.
Here’s Old MacDonald again – slow the playback speed down to 0.5 at first. Try to join in, then speed it up to 0.75. Can you still keep up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDcgM_U22XU&safe=active
Très bien! Merci beaucoup. A bientôt!
Music
For music this week please click on the link below. Attached on the blog is also a worksheet to complete for this lesson.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/compose-and-perform-your-body-percussion-piece-crtp6e
Additional Art Activities – See uploaded ideas.
We hope you have a fantastic week of home learning.
Year 2 team.