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Year 1 Home Learning Tuesday 2nd March 2021

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 9:17am

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

 

Reading

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

Draw your own bookmark with Rob Biddulph. Click here.

Phonics

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

English

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

Handwriting

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

Maths

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

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

The Friends of 10 song. Click here.

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

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

They say 2, you say 8 and so on.

Main Focus Subtracting lengths. Click here.

R.E.

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

P.E.

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

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

 

Bedtime Story

 

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

Reception 3rd March Home Learning

Date: 28th Feb 2021 @ 6:29pm

Wednesday 3^rd March 2021

 

Here is the learning for today.

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

 

Literacy

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

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

Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234

• Phonics – 

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

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

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

Can I write all my digraph sounds without copying them?

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

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

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

See activities attached.

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

 

• Handwriting – Fine motor development

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

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

Watch these number rhymes to help you form them correctly. 

 

 

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

What adventure would you plan for you both?

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

 

Maths – 

• Counting Practice – 

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

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

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

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

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

 

• Spring Term 1 Consolidation

Watch the White Rose Maths Ten Frame Fill Game Video. 

Can I complete the activity attached?  

 

Topic Time

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

Watch this video to see how to do it.

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

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

Discussion

How far can you make him fly?

Does it go further if you have a bigger bottle?

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

What is the science? (Adult explanation)

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

Reception Story Time

‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy. 

 

 

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

 

Reception 2nd March Home Learning

Date: 28th Feb 2021 @ 4:46pm

Tuesday 2^nd March 2021

 

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

 

Literacy

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

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

Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234

• Phonics – 

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

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

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

Can I write all my digraph sounds without copying them?

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

Can I write the ‘ur’ words?

See activities attached.

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

 

• Handwriting – Fine motor development

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

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

Watch these number rhymes to help you form them correctly. 

 

 

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

 Can you spot these words in a reading book?

Can you write the words?

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

Can you write your sentence?

 

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

 

Can I retell the story using the pictures from yesterday?

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

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

 

Maths – 

• Counting Practice – 

Join in the 5 little men, flying saucer song. 

Can I count in 10s? 

 

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

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

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

 

• Spring Term 1 Consolidation

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

Can I complete the activity attached?  

 

Topic Time

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

 

PE –

Cosmic Yoga – Space 

Have a go at practising your catching skills this week.

Watch this video and have a go yourself 😊 

 

Have a great day of learning 😊

Reception 1st March Home Learning

Date: 28th Feb 2021 @ 4:02pm

Monday 1^st March 2021

 

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

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

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

 

Literacy

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

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

Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234

• Phonics – 

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

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

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

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

Can I read and find the matching words?

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

See activities attached.

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

 

• Handwriting – Fine motor development.

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

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

Watch these number rhymes to help you form them correctly. 

Have a go using your whiteboard or paper. 

 

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

 Can you spot these words in a reading book?

Can you write the words?

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

Can you write your sentence?

 

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

 

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

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

Can I read the first sentence of the story?

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

 

Maths – 

• Counting Practice – 

Can I count to 100? 

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

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

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

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

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

• Spring Term 1 Consolidation

Watch the White Rose Maths Video Hopscotch Number Recognition.

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

 

 

Topic Time

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

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

 

EAD

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

 

Reception Story Time

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

Have a great day of learning 😊

Year 2 Home Learning - 1st March 2021

Date: 28th Feb 2021 @ 2:24pm

Monday 1^st March 2021

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

 

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

 

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

 

Reading

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

 

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

 

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS

 

Maths

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

Starter – Writing numbers on a number line.

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

 

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

 

Now answer these questions:

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

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

 

What is Symmetry?

 

 

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

 

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

https://vimeo.com/508430942

 

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

 

English

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

Who is this for? How do you know?

 

Here is what the letter said:

Dear Mr Ingram and Miss Bennison,

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

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

Glue Stick

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

 

Phonics and Spelling

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

You may log in with the following details:

username: jan21

password: home

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

What are homophones?

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Science

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

Resources:

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

 

Has anyone ever been on a bridge like these?

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

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

What have you discovered by doing your investigation?

 

Fairtrade Activity

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

You will need:

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

 

Sumdog Challenges

Multiplication –  x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables

Maths – Symmetry

Spellings – Homophones

 

We hope you have a fantastic week of home learning,

 

Year 2 team

Year 3 Home Learning Monday 1st March 2021

Date: 28th Feb 2021 @ 1:37pm

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

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

 

Monday 1^st March 2021

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.

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

 

Spelling

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

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

 

Write the long date: Monday 1^st March 2021

Write the title: Contractions

You need 3 different coloured pens or pencils.

Write out the part before the apostrophe in one colour.

Write the apostrophe in a different colour.

Write the part after the apostrophe in a different colour.

Like this – can’t

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

 

Handwriting

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

 

Writing:

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

 

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

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

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

Paragraph 1:

Write about the beautiful and amazing things you saw.

Paragraph 2:

Write about a problem or something dangerous that happened.

 

Make your writing amazing by:

Including a simile

Including an exclamation mark

Adding extra information in brackets

Writing a question at the end

 

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

 

Times tables

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

Please create arrays for the first 5 questions by:

Drawing shapes in rows of 3.

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

 

 

Sumdog

Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

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

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

 

 

Counting

Count out loud in 10s:

From 56 to 156.

From 985 to 1085.

From 312 to 412.

 

 

Number Facts

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

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

 

Geography and Fairtrade Fortnight

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

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

 

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

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

You could include things about:

Animals

Oxygen

Water

Food

Medicine

Homes

 

Please keep these to bring into school next week 😊

 

Fairtrade Fortnight

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

 

 

 

Reminders

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

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

 

 

Have a wonderful day, smile lots J

HOME LEARNING Monday 1st March 2021

Date: 28th Feb 2021 @ 10:53am

Year 4

Home Learning Monday 1^st March 2021

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

 

Reading

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

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

 

Spelling

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

Write the long date Monday 1^st March 2021

Write the title Spelling test and complete the test underneath.

The words are:

education       sensation     creation       celebration  punctuation  expectation

calculation      hesitation    imagination  invitation     location        investigation

New spellings will be given tomorrow.

 

English

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

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

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

Please share your work on Seesaw

 

Times tables

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

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

 

Counting

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

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

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

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

 

Maths

Click here to play Fruit splat compare equations

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

Write the short date 01.03.21

Write the learning objective Can I compare area?

Watch today’s teaching video here.

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

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

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

                                                  

RE

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

 

Geography

Last week we started our topic about Italy.

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

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

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

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

 

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

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

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

A new spelling challenge will start tomorrow.

 

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

Year 6 Home Learning - Monday 1st March 2021

Date: 26th Feb 2021 @ 12:42pm

Monday 1^st March 2021

 

Good morning Year 6 and welcome to the start of the last week of home learning. The pupils in school, the teachers and I are super excited to see you next week so do what you can – you are so close to the end, keep going!

Here are the last Monday’s tasks:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

• Which character in your book are you most like and least like? Explain you answer.

 

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

Handwriting

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

December Moon

The moon has come out too soon,

it’s still the middle of the afternoon

and the day shows no signs of darkness.

 

What is the moon doing,

sneaking into the sky when it’s light?

 

What is the moon playing at?

Couldn’t it sleep?

Has its alarm clock rung too soon?

 

Do we see the moon this early

in June or September?

 

Or does December bring a special moon,

a let’s-get-these-nights-over-soon moon,

a can’t-wait-for-Christmas-to-come moon?

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, long ‘y’ sound

• The spelling sheet is attached at the bottom of this blog.
• Sumdog spelling challenge starts today. 

 

Writing task

Can I write as Aladdin in present tense?

Read page 27 – 29. Stop at page 29 then watch the video sent on Seesaw which explains today’s task.

The BBC bitesize link mentioned in the video is here, Past vs Present tense

After completing the task for today, continue reading pages 30 – 36.

 

Maths – Division Week

Warm up your brain: Counting forward and back in steps of 40 and 60

540, 820, 2650, 7000, 14 650

1. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I use mental strategies to solve division questions?

See the video sent on Seesaw which explains the activities for today’s Maths lesson and the main sheet is named, ‘Mental Division’

2. Maths challenge Missing Numbers – explanation on the same video. The sheet is at the bottom of the blog.

 

 

PE

Can I solve the noughts and crosses challenge using different tactics?

 

For today’s task, read the Noughts and Crosses challenge , which explains how to set up a large noughts and crosses using paper, hoops or whatever you have at home. The video on the website doesn’t seem to be working so here is a link to their twitter post with the video on it, Youth Sport Trust - Noughts and Crosses. If that link does not work, here is another link to show you how this game can be played, PE at Home - Noughts and Crosses.

This is a game that should be played with another family member, if possible. Here are a few ideas to make it interesting:

• Race against each other (walking or running depending if you are inside or outside your house)
• Take turns (so it becomes fairer)
• Perform different movements when placing your item down:
  • Crawling, sliding, Spider-Man moves, lunging, side-stepping, galloping, jumping, leaping, hopping, move around cones, etc
• Or when you arrive at the noughts and crosses layout, perform one of these moves:
  • 5 push-ups, star jumps, burpees, lunges, running on the stop, jumping on the spot, spotty dogs, etc

 

Do not forget to keep yourself active. My favourite things at the movement are dancing and yoga.

Here is a great Yoga video to help aid you in being more flexible. Yoga for kids with Adriene. 

 

Fairtrade

In today’s lesson, watch the clip, Change the World with Your Choices, which you may remember from Thursday’s task. The video will help to start thinking about the power of your choices

Use the ‘Choices and Consequences’ matching cards to lay them on a table and match up a choice with a consequence.

Then think about the following questions or even discuss them with someone in your house:

Who was affected by these choices?

What countries were impacted by these choices? Can you find them on a map?

Can you identify the choices that were about buying choices?

Can you identify the choices that were made after buying the product?

 

For an extra task, consider alternative choices and the negative consequences that may arise as a result.

1. Look at the choices cards and pick an alternative choice that might have negative consequences e.g. Instead of choosing to recycle your rubbish you might throw it in a regular rubbish bin. Write these on the back of the choices cards.
2. What are the negative consequences of these choices? Now write possible negative impact of these alternative choices on the back of the consequences cards.

 

Sumdog – Three challenges

 

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

 

 

Congratulations! The last remote Monday is now complete.

 

Year 1 Home Learning Monday 1st March 2021

Date: 26th Feb 2021 @ 9:26am

Good morning Year 1. We hope you had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the sunshine!

Reading

Read every single day. We continue to be amazed by how many of you are requesting new books and Tricky Words. We love your videos of all your reading and the discussions you are having about the books.

As it's World Book Day this week we have a new reading challenge for you. See how many of the Share a Story Reading Stars you can tick off on the sheet. You can print off a certificate if you tick all the stars !

Don't forget to get an outfit ready for Thursday !

Phonics

Today we will be looking back at our long U sounds. Visit Seesaw for your sounds learning today.

English

This week we are reading Scaredy Squirrel at Night. Today we will be learning how to write in full sentences and using our own ideas. Tune in to Seesaw to listen to the story and for your writing learning today.

Handwriting

Visit Seesaw for your handwriting practice today. You will need a pencil and some lined paper.

Maths

Counting Practise counting on and back from 0 to 20. Click here for the Blast Off game.

Number Facts. Last week we looked at all the ways to make 5. For your challenge today pick two numbers from 0 to 5 and add them together, 0+0=0, 0+1=1 and so on... how many different addtition number sentences can you make?

Main Focus This week we are looking at measuring. Click here.

R.E. 

Sharing God's love. Talk about what is happening in the picture  (people receiving Holy Communion). Holy Communion means being close to Jesus and God his Father. It also means being close to each other. We are all God’s children. Answer the questions.

Science

This afternoon we are going to look at the different parts of a plant and what they do. Look through the slideshow on the parts of a plant. Look at all the pictures and talk about what you can see.

What is the same about each set of photos? What is different?

What do you know about Stems, leaves, seeds, roots and flowers?

Once you have completed the slideshow, fill in the sheet attached.

Fair trade Challenge

Bake a difference.
With an adult, bake or cook using at
least one Fairtrade ingredient.
Decorate your creation with the
FAIRTRADE Mark!

Bedtime Story

Click here to listen to We love you, Hugless Douglas.

Year 3 Home Learning Friday 26th February 2021 - FUN FRIDAY

Date: 25th Feb 2021 @ 4:08pm

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a nice day on Thursday and a nice week.

Tom has very kindly told me that you can visit this website to get your name sent to Mars on NASA’s next flight in 2026.

https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/future

I have already added – Year 3, St Oswald’s Primary to the list J

Friday 26^th February 2021

 

It’s Fabulous Friday! Woohoo.

 

Start your day by listening to this song, have a boogie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDonh28AY3I&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. There will be a video on Seesaw in the morning to explain the game.

 

• If you would like to do some colouring, this link will take you to some colouring pages of the planets and rovers including Perseverance.

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/coloring-pages/en/

 

 

• 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 INCREDIBLE AND AMAZING AND FANTASTIC AND WONDERFUL!!!!

Fabulous Friday 26th February Home Learning 2021

Date: 25th Feb 2021 @ 3:37pm

It’s Fabulous Friday Reception!

 

It has been wonderful to see all of your learning again this week. Only one more week to go of home learning. You can do it!

 

Today you just need to:

 

• Read a story in the sunshine

 

• Play a board game of your choice

 

• Do something active.

Maybe playing in your garden or a park, riding your bike, throwing and catching, skipping, jumping or making an obstacle course! J

 

 

The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Year 6 Home Learning - Fabulous Friday 26th January 2021

Date: 25th Feb 2021 @ 3:16pm

It’s Fabulous Friday 26^th February 2021!

 

Only 1 week left!

As you know, 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. Try to get someone to quiz you on the 15 spellings, in random order.

 

Maths Game - Bingo

 

I have attached two PowerPoints, Times Tables Bingo and x10, x100, x1000 Bingo which you can print as slides, pick your numbers, randomly shuffle the cards (questions) and play.

 

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.

 

Science experiment

Following the incredible news of the NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover, Mrs Quilliam has been conducting an experiment to see how the rover will search for life on Mars. Please watch the video sent through Seesaw which will explain how you can access the equipment and conduct the experiment yourself.

There are also instructions attached to the blog named, Is there life on Mars Year 6?

 

The Friday Catch Up video has been sent through Seesaw.

 

Have a great weekend everyone!

 

HOME LEARNING - FABULOUS FRIDAY 26th February 2021

Date: 25th Feb 2021 @ 3:03pm

Year 4

Fabulous Friday 26^th 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 area activity 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!

I hope you all have a fabulous Friday and wonderful weekend. 

Fabulous Friday - 26th February 2021

Date: 25th Feb 2021 @ 11:51am

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 Maths 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!

 

Well done for completing another week of home learning Year 2. We have loved reading all of your crayon letters this week and you have produced some brilliant 3D shape work.  Today, in Golden Assembly we focused on our Lenten Promises. We have really enjoyed reading all you Lenten Promises this week on ‘how you can be a better person’.

 

We hope you have a wonderful weekend with your families and find lots of reasons to smile. 

 

Please view our ‘Friday Catch Up’ on Seesaw where we discuss all of your amazing achievements throughout the week.

 

Reading

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

 

Can you think of another story with a similar theme?

Can you think of another character similar to the character in this book?

Have a go at drawing both characters.

 

Maths activity

Choose one of the following activities:

 

3D Shape Nets

Cut out and assemble the labelled interactive 3D shapes to help you identify and describe the properties of common 3D shapes, including the number of edges, vertices and faces.

 

3D Shape Colouring

Have a go at identifying which 3D shape matches which colour. Then colour the picture using the relevant colours.

 

3D Shape Hunt

This activity is great fun and encourages you to practice identifying 3D shapes while using a tally system. You could try and spot the shapes in your house or get outside to find them.

 

3-D Shape Skeletons

This game could be played outside with sticks and string.

• The aim of this activity is for children to create different 3-D shape skeletons using sticks to represent the edges and the string to represent the vertices.
• When a new shape has been created if it can be named then it should be.
• A variation could be to give children a shape name and for them to make it, for example if asked to make a cube, they would need to get 12 sticks that are the same length.

Have a brilliant weekend.

Year 2 team :) 

Year 2 Home Learning - 25th February 2021

Date: 24th Feb 2021 @ 4:51pm

Thursday 25^th February 2021

 

Thank you so much for sending your work via SeeSaw. You have had a great week of learning so far and we can see that you are working really well and completing most of your work independently which is brilliant to see.

 

Before your learning today have a go at this Yoga Routine. Yoga is great for our mindfulness, becoming focused for our day and staying fit and healthy.

 

 

Reading

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

 

Reading challenge - Why not draw a picture or make something to capture the essence of a story. Pick 3 words that you are unsure of and look them up in the dictionary.

 

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS

 

Maths

 

To find patterns it is important to think about these things:

• What’s happening to the numbers?
• Can you spot the jumps between the numbers?
• What’s happening to the tens in the number?
• What’s happening to the ones in the number?
• Is it a single digit number?
• Is it a two-digit number?
• Can you notice a change in the ones/units when you are counting?
• Can you talk about odd and even numbers?

 

Today can you count in 3s from 1 to 30? Repeat this 4 times.

Write your numbers in 3s to 30 from 1. Here are some to start you off.

You can use your hundred square or number line to find the correct numbers.

 

1    4    7    10    13     16     19      22      25 ………..

 

Using the questions at the top can you write down 3 patterns that you have found?

Look at the numbers carefully to see what is happening to them.

 

Please watch the video on White Rose maths and complete the worksheets attached -https://vimeo.com/514238815

https://vimeo.com/514239683

 

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

 

English

There is a lot to do in today's English lesson so please feel free to split this across two days. Please see SeeSaw for a video for today’s main lesson and a Word document with further details can be found attached to the blog.

Start off with this comprehension activity.

Remember, it is important to answer the question in a whole sentence e.g. I think the _____ crayon is the angriest because…

1. Which one does Purple Crayon not have to colour?

a) Dragons                           b) Wizards' hats                                c) Apples

2. What makes Purple Crayon feel crazy?

3. What word tells us that Purple Crayon does not like messy things?

4. What does Beige Crayon think is not fair?

5. What does Beige Crayon think is a boring thing to colour?

6. How do you think Duncan might feel after reading all those letters?

 

Phonics and Spelling

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

You may log in with the following details:

username: jan21

password: home

 

This week we will be focusing on the phoneme /j/ spelt with '-dge' and '-ge' at the end of words.

 

Please see the spellings below, which we would like you to learn this week. Children in school will be given a spelling quiz on Friday 26^th February. These spelling can be practiced on Sumdog by selecting the ‘Spelling Quiz’ challenge.

 

badge              edge                bridge              dodge              fudge

age                  huge                change            charge             village

 

You could use a dice to help you practice your spellings for tomorrow:

 

Sumdog Challenges

Multiplication –  x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables

Maths – 3D Shapes

Spellings – /j/ spelt -ge and -dge 

 

FRENCH

Here’s a song to welcome you back to French learning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atNkI6QFZ50

Now we’re going to recap the names of some fruits with this song.

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

Collect some fruit from the fruit bowl if you have some. You can do some drawings on bits of paper if you don’t have the fruits. Here are the fruit words (pronunciation in brackets):  Pick up the right one and say them a few times. Careful with un and une. Un is masculine and une is feminine, remember.

une pomme (oon pom) – an apple; Une banane (oon banan) – a banana; un orange ( un oronj) – an orange; une poire (oon pwar) – a pear; une fraise (oon frez) – a strawberry; un ananas (un anana) – a pineapple; un abricot (un abreeco) – an apricot; un citron (un seetron) – a lemon; une peche (oon pesh) – a peach.

Can you sort them into 2 piles – un and une?

Here’s a game to practise the fruit words.

One of you puts a hat on and the other balances a piece of fruit or a picture on the hat without the hat wearer seeing what it is. The one wearing the hat has to guess what kind of fruit it is – in French of course!

There is a sheet to practise adding colours to fruit below. Notice that the colour goes after the fruit. So we would say a green apple, but in French it is une pomme verte – an apple green! Which is your favourite? Write it at the bottom. Je préfère les fraise (juh prayfair lay frez!)

See if you can ask for your fruit in French this week. Une pomme, s’il te plait. (oon pom seel tuh play).

Merci beaucoup. A bientot! See you soon!

 

PSHE

 

See attached document for today’s lesson.

 

Fairtrade Activity

 

Today we would like you to use google maps or an atlas to travel around the world!

 

Can you find any countries where cocoa grows?

 

Can you write down the name of the countries that you find?

• The temperature of that country today.
• What was the temperature of that country 50 years ago?
• Has it changed?
• Why?

 

Hope you have a brilliant day of learning year 2.

HOME LEARNING Thursday 25th February 2021

Date: 24th Feb 2021 @ 3:15pm

Year 4

Home Learning Thursday 25^th February 2021

Good morning Year 4.  I hope you have had good week so far and are back in the swing of Home Learning again.  As it’s Fairtrade Fortnight, I have attached a sheet to the blog with some activities you may like to try.   You may also like to learn more about Fairtrade by visiting their website here.

 

Reading

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

Ask someone questions about the chapter you have just read. Start your questions with each of these words: who; what; where; when; why; how; which, and explain.

Remember if you need any new reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.

 

Spelling

These are your new spellings which will be tested on Monday 29^th February 2021. They all have the suffix -ation. 

A SUFFIX is a string of letters that go at the END of a root word, changing or adding to its meaning.   Suffixes can show if a word is a noun, adjective, adverb or verb.  Sometimes root words change when suffixes are added (eg create could become creation, created or creative, imagine could become imagination, imagined or imaginative). 

The suffix -ation is added to verbs to form nouns. 

education       sensation     creation       celebration  punctuation  expectation

calculation      hesitation    imagination  invitation     location        investigation

Write the long date Thursday 25^th February 2021

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

Eg education  creation       hesitation

A spelling challenge has also been set on Sumdog.

 

English

Today you are going to be writing the next chapter of Kensuke’s Kingdom which you planned yesterday.  Read over your planning ideas from yesterday.  You should be in a good position to start your writing.

Write the long date Thursday 25^th February 2021

Write the learning objective Can I write the next chapter of Kensuke’s Kingdom?

When you are writing please focus on:

• Handwriting – neat and joined up correctly – please sharpen your pencil before you begin!
• Capital letters for proper nouns (places and people)
• Ambitious vocabulary
• Past tense (it has already happened) and third person (using the pronouns he, she, it, they etc)
• Paragraphs (start a new paragraph for each part of the chapter eg the opening, build-up, problem, resolution and ending)
• A variety of sentence openers (see ISPACE and your ideas from yesterday)
• Connecting sentences using words such as and, but, or, yet, so
• Including some correctly punctuated speech BUT NO MORE THAN 6 SENTENCES OF SPEECH

Please time yourself and write for 20 minutes.  It does not matter if you do not finish your chapter within this time, however, you should have written nearly one side of A4 in 20 mins.

Read over your work.  Then time yourself to write for another 5 minutes. 

Read over the last 5 minutes work.

Please give your chapter a title which is appropriate.

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, 5 and 10 times tables.

Children in school will be tested on their tables today, therefore, please ask someone at home to test you on your individual target or a mixture of x3 and x6 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 25.02.21

Write the title Times tables test

Please share your ‘test’ on Seesaw.

 

Counting

Count in 10’s from 280 to 450 and back again.  Count in 10’s from 1950 to 2100 and back again.  Think about what you found tricky?  Write the numbers down as you say them – what patterns do you notice?

Please count in 0.1’s (tenths) from 2.8 to 4.5 and back again – can you go any further? Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?

Now count in 0.1’s (tenths) from 19.5 to 21.0 and back again – can you go any further? Write the numbers down as you say them – what do you notice now?

What is the relationship between 0.1 and 10?

 

Maths

Click here to play Daily 10.

Click on play game. Choose Level 3, Ordering, Smallest first, Three-digit numbers.  Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc.   

You will be given 3, three-digit numbers and you will have to write them down in order from smallest to largest. Remember if the hundreds are the same, you will have to look at the tens to see which has the largest value.

Eg 953    958    932                     Smallest to largest  932   953   958

All the numbers have 9 hundreds.

Look at the tens.  One number only has 3 tens, so this is the smallest. 

Now compare the units / ones.  953 number has 3 ones and 958 has 8 ones.  Therefore 958 is the largest number as it has 8 ones.

 

Today, we are going to learn more about area. 

Before you start, write down everything you can remember about area so far.  Can you give a definition? What is a closed shape? How can you calculate area?

Write the short date 25.02.21

Write the learning objective Can I make shapes with different areas?

Watch today’s teaching video here.

Open the worksheet attached to the blog called ‘Making shapes’.

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

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

                                                  

Science

Please open the sheet called ‘The Surface of Mars’ attached to the blog.  Everything you need for your science lesson is explained in this document.

 

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A maths times table challenge (based on the 2, 5 and 10 times tables)
• A maths challenge all about decimals – tenths
• A spelling challenge based on this weeks spellings (-ation)

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

A new spelling challenge will start tomorrow.

 

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

Year 3 Home Learning Thursday 25th February 2021

Date: 24th Feb 2021 @ 1:59pm

Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a happy Wednesday and are looking forward to a fun day ahead. We really enjoyed listening to the story being read from the ISS. We loved seeing the book floating. We enjoyed writing our stories so much that we missed some of our maths time, oops.

 

Thursday 25^th 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

Below are your spellings, in brackets are the words that have been joined together to make the word.

can’t (can not)

didn’t (dot not)

hasn’t (has not)

couldn’t (could not)

it’s (it is)

wasn’t (was not)

doesn’t (does not)

mustn’t (must not)

I’ll (I will)

she’d (she would)

 

Write the long date: Thursday 25^th February 2021

Write the title: Spelling Sentences

Write 3 sentences using your spelling words.

Here is an example:

She’d do much better if she wasn’t always daydreaming.

 

Handwriting

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

 

Writing:

Today we are going to write some more of our story, based on the story read by the astronaut. Have another listen, we will be continuing from where we left off yesterday. The last thing you wrote was where you (the rover) are. This is 2:49 on the video.

https://storytimefromspace.com/curiosity-the-story-of-a-mars-rover/

 

Write the short date in the margin of your page, under your work from yesterday: 25.02.21

 

Try to use these words:

inhospitable (meaning difficult to live in), environment, further, possible, oxygen, scientists

 

Paragraph 1:

Pause the video at 3:32

Explain why scientists have chosen to send you to the planet you are on.

You could start with –

The reason I have been sent here instead of other planets is because …

 

Paragraph 2:

Pause the video at 4:06

Explain why humans haven’t been to your planet yet.

You could start with –

This wondrous planet that I am on has NEVER been explored by humans, that is because …

 

Paragraph 3:

Pause the video at 5:21

Explain what you (the rover) can do that a human cannot do.

You could start with –

It is not possible for a human to visit this planet. That is why scientists at NASA came up with the idea to create me, I can …

 

Remember:

Perfect spelling

Capital letters

Beautiful handwriting

 

 

Please send me a photo of your writing on Seesaw, I am loving all of the work so far!

 

Counting

Count out loud in 4s:

From 0 to 48.

From 48 to 0.

 

Count out loud in 1s:

From 993 to 1012.

From 197 to 225.

 

Count out loud in 2s:

From 2 to 24.

From 24 to 2.

From 1 to 23.

 

Times tables

Play on Hit the Button.

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

Click on Division Facts and then ÷3.

If you find it tricky, write out your 3x tables before you start and use them to help.

 

Number Facts

Play on Hit the Button.

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

Click on number bonds and then addition within 20.

 

Sumdog

Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

Number Challenge: 22^nd February – 28^th February

Shape Challenge: 22^nd February – 28^th February

 

 

Maths

We didn’t get time to finish the maths sheets from yesterday in school, so we are going to finish them today.

At home please spend  your maths time practising your times tables and number facts, counting, and going on Sumdog. These are all essential in your maths learning.

Try to finish the Sumdog challenges – today is the perfect day.  

 

PE

Watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiYpwcEM6r4&safe=active

Complete the activity attached to this blog called Obstacle Course.

 

 

French

Here’s a song to welcome you back to French learning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atNkI6QFZ50

This week we are going to learn how to make nouns plural in French. Plural means when there is more than one. Eg dog = singular; dogs = plural.

Click this link and download lesson 16 with audio.

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

Work your way through the Powerpoint. You’ll need the phrase Ce sont (suh son) – they are.

Do the exercise on slide 32 in your book. Write the date in French and the title as on the slide – Que sont les pluriels? (What are the plurals.) Divide your page into 3 columns with a ruler:

Singular                                    Plural                              English

Look up the word in Collins online French dictionary if you don’t know what it means in English. You can add a little picture by each line if you like.

When we say the words in the plural, we don’t pronounce the last s – it is a silent letter. Listen to the lady and repeat the words after her. Did you notice in the earlier slides how to change oiseau (bird) and cheval (horse) into the plural? They don’t add an s.  Look back to see how to make these words plural and add them to your list.

Here’s a silly animal song to finish - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVRGuyZJaGo

Excellent! 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 your writing.

Don’t forget to go on Sumdog.

10 of you have already completed the shape challenge – wow!!!

4 of you have already completed the number challenge – AMAZING!

It would be great if everybody could finish the Sumdog challenges today!

 

 

Have a wonderful day J I am OVER THE MOON with all of your work so far!

Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 25th February 2021

Date: 24th Feb 2021 @ 10:46am

Thursday 25^th February 2021

 

Good morning everyone. Remember that today is the last day of learning being posted on the blog (unless you count Reading, which I do not, as it should be done every day).

Tomorrow is Fabulous Friday so you decide whether you want to spread today’s tasks over today and tomorrow or complete it all today.

Here are today’s tasks:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

• Make a list of questions you ask yourself as you read.

 

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

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on animals. This week focus on having every letter on the line.

Butterfly

This morning I found a butterfly

Against my bedroom wall.

I wanted to hold it,

To remember its colours.

But instead I guided its whirring shape

Towards the open window.

I watched it drift into the warm air,

Swaying and looping across the summer garden.

In my book, I found:

‘Tortoiseshell, reddish orange with yellow patches.’

But I remember its leaving,

And the patterns of its moving.

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, short ‘y’ sound

• • Create a mini story using as many of the spellings as possible (you may add prefixes or suffixes to them):
    • e.g. The syrup stood proud in the cylinder bottle, a symbol of hope for the dry pancakes that laid helpless on the plate. The floppy flat-cakes had heard of the myth of this mystery substance that defied all physics – some had said that it could turn the pancakes into symmetrical pyramids with just a physical touch. Others had mentioned that it could sing beautiful hymns, rhythmically lulling them to sleep as it smothered them. The mysterious bottle suddenly opened…

 

Writing task

Can I describe the setting based on the film adaptation of Aladdin?

A video has been sent on Seesaw to guide you in describing a setting.

Read pages 22 – 26 which are attached on the blog.

The clip of the film’s cave setting that I refer to in the video is here, Cave of Wonders - part 1 And Cave of Wonders - part 2.

The link to the BBC website mentioned in the Seesaw video is here, Describing a setting with personification.

Success criteria:

• Describe the size of the cave
• Describe any shapes the audience sees
• Use any of the 5 senses (see, hear, taste, smell, touch)
• Use personification (only 1 or 2 needed)

(You can make this writing first or third person)

 

Maths – Subtraction Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting back in 2 ½ from :

7 , 15 , 23 ½ , 64 , 97

2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I use subtract fractions from fractions?

There is a White Rose video linked here, Subtract Fractions, which explains how to solve the sheet, White Rose Maths Subtraction.

3. Arithmetic 1 – 18. See the Arithmetic video for guidance on some of the questions.

 

 

History

Can I write a tweet for what every day was like for a Mayans?

Follow this link to the BBC website on Everyday life for the Mayans.

Make notes from the website and the video, especially on the workers and any differences between the rich and the poor. This knowledge will help in future lessons when we dig deeper into a typical day of a Mayan.

Your task is to write a tweet to a friend explaining what life was like for the Mayans. If you have never written a tweet before, let me explain some success criteria:

• You only have 140 characters (this includes any spaces but for this time I will allow 140 letters)
• You can use abbreviations or single letters to say longer words, just like in a message to a friend such as: r for are, u for you, 8 for eight/ate, ur for you are / your, 4 for for, y for why etc (I am sure you have many more)
• Stick to the facts and try to explain life for a Mayan in no more than 140 characters or letters.

 

 

Fairtrade Fortnight

For the next two weeks, we are celebrating and learning about Fairtrade and the growing challenges that climate change brings to farmers and workers in the communities Fairtrade works with.

Within some of the lessons we look at this week and next, we will discover how our choices as individuals can make a difference to the lives of people around the world and the planet we share.

There are two tasks to complete (task 2 can be completed over the next week or so)

Task 1. There is a Fairtrade Fortnight PowerPoint attached at the bottom of the blog. I have sent a video through Seesaw where I talk through the PowerPoint and explain Task 2 at the end. The link to the video I discuss is here, Changing the World through Your Choices

Task 2. Here is a link to Fairtrade’s Share Your Vision which gives you an opportunity to create artwork, poem, prose (speech) or film for a chance to be exhibited in the online Youth Exhibition at the ‘Choose the world you want’ festival between 22^nd February and 7^th March 2021 but you have to submit by 1^st March 2021. More information can be found through the link and the poster Share Your Vision attached at the bottom of the blog.

(In school, we are going to use the information we found in task 1 to help us come up with ideas for poetry and/or artwork for task 2)

You obviously do not have to submit anything for an exhibition but if you want to create some artwork or poetry linked to Fairtrade, bring it into school from the 8^TH March to share with the class.

 

Sumdog – Three challenges:

 

1. Mental subtractions                                             (200 target by Sunday)
2. Divisions for 6, 7 and 9s                                        (200 target by Sunday)
3. Spellings ‘short /y/ sound’                                   (45 target by Friday)

 

 

Well done, tomorrow is Friday, arguably the best day of the week!

 

Reception 25th February Home Learning

Date: 24th Feb 2021 @ 10:38am

Thursday 25^th February 2021

 

There are some super reading videos on Seesaw Reception. It is lovely to hear how far you have come during lockdown.

 

Literacy

Reading – Choose one of your reading books and talk about the story.

See if you can discuss what happened in the story?

Who are the characters? Discuss their feelings? Could you add any speech to your characters?

Was there a problem to solve? How was it solved?

Could you think of a different ending to the story?

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

Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234

• Phonics – 

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

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

Can I read all the ‘oi’ words on the PowerPoint?

Can I write the words to match the pictures?

Can I read the sentences on the PowerPoint? (View as a slideshow.)

See Activities Attached.

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

 

• Handwriting – Fine motor development

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

See the Seesaw video for the correct formations for all this week’s letters.  

 

The Humpty Words of the day are – my, her, are, me 

 Can you spot these words in a reading book?

Can you write the words?

Can you think of a sentence for these words? (See if you can get a couple of the words in one sentence.)

Can you write your sentence?

 

• Story this week – Our story this week is ‘Goodnight Spaceman’. 

 

At the beginning of the story, Tim Peake (the astronaut) has written a letter.

See the copy of the letter attached and watch the Seesaw video for our literacy activity today. J

Maths – 

• Counting Practice – 

Can I count in 2’s to 20?

Can I count in 5’s to 20?

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

Can I revisit the number 9? (See Attached.)

Can I have a go at the one more and less activity? (See maths activities.)

Can I try the number facts activity attached? (Use practical equipment to help you work out how to make the amounts – Revisit the part-whole seesaw video if you need a reminder how to use it.)

 

• Main Focus – Missing Numbers

Can I help the children with the missing numbers? (Watch the video below.)

 

Topic Time

Music – Here is the link for this week’s music session https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/planting-in-the-garden-c8tk0d

 

Fairtrade Fortnight – It is Fairtrade fortnight (22^nd February to 7^th March 2021)

Have a watch of the Fairtrade video below.

Can you find the Fairtrade logo on any of your food?

 

Reception Story Time

Today our story is on Seesaw.

 

We hope to see you all soon! 😊

Year 1 Home Learning Fabulous Friday 26th February 2021

Date: 24th Feb 2021 @ 10:08am

Fabulous Friday!

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

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

Today you just need to...

Read. Pick a favourite book to read again. Talk about why you like it so much.

Maths

Play the Rocket Race game to practise your addition.

Finish off any of your learning from earlier in the week.

 

When you are out and about look out for signs of Spring.

On Thursday next week it is World Book Day so get a costume ready!

Have a lovely weekend!

 

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 24th February 2021

Date: 23rd Feb 2021 @ 4:07pm

Wednesday 24^th 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 for today:

 

Reading

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

Reading activity for today:

• Write a short memory or experience of you own that is similar to something you have read in your book.

 

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

Handwriting

The handwriting poems this week are based on animals. This week focus on having every letter on the line.

Lizards

They emerge as arms of sun

Prise the clouds apart and stroke

The waiting, weathered wall.

 

Heads like probing fingertips,

Out to greet the hands that woke

Them with their golden call.

 

Speckled pocket dinosaurs

Dart at blink-speed from their cracks,

To stretch on smiling stones.

 

Summer’s gift, their kiss of life,

Bathes their mottled leather backs

And lubricates their bones.

 

Nothing tempts their tails to twitch,

Nothing turns their polished eyes

Or troubles them, it seems.

 

Danger breathes her whispered call.

Stealthy wing-beats stir the skies.

They disappear like dreams.

 

Spellings

The spellings for this week, short ‘y’ sound

• Today, write each word out in bubble writing. I have included the alphabet in bubble writing below for you, just in case you were unsure about any letters.

 

Writing task

Can I use the reading skills of retrieval and inference to describe the character of the Moor?

 

Read pages 16 – 21 (attached on the blog)

In this lesson, you are to retrieve information about the Moor. Watch the video sent through on Seesaw which explains how to retrieve and interpret his actions to help describe his personality.

The Impressions List and Target board are attached to bottom of the blog.

 

Maths – Subtraction Week

1. Warm up your brain: Counting back in 1/7 and 3/7 from:

4 , 16 1/7 , 27 4/7 , 81 , 45

2. Main lesson. The objective for today is:
   1. Can I use column method for subtracting decimals?

There is a Seesaw video for today’s lesson which will help in answering ‘Decimal subtractions’

3. Maths challenge Decimals Missing Numbers. The same video on Seesaw will help guide you through the challenge.

 

Music

Today is the start of a new topic, ‘Pulse and Metre’. Follow this link, Understanding Pulse and Rhythm to Oak National Academy for today’s lesson.

 

French

Bonjour! On va continuer à apprendre le temps. We are going to carry on with our weather topic, adding expressions of frequency to our sentences (normally, sometimes etc).

Here’s a song to remind you of the weather phrases.

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

Now, you need to know what these words mean. Use this dictionary to look them up and listen and repeat the pronunciation.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-french

You need the French to English page. Write the date in French in your book and the title:

Can I add expressions of frequency to weather sentences?

Write these words into your book and translate them into English:

Quelquefois                                     et

Souvent                                             mais

Jamais                                                            aussi

Normalement                                              toujours

Now find the French words for the seasons and write them in English and French in your book. Add a little picture to help you remember them.

Now click this link and download lesson 5 with audio.

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

Ignore the poem if you wish! You are going to do the sheet on slide 3.You can print it out or just write the answers in your book.  Do the right hand side of the sheet first as it’s easier. Now have a go at the left hand side, using the sentences on the right as models for your own sentences. It is asking you to describe the weather in England in summer, winter in Siberia, spring in Italy and autumn in Scotland.

You don’t need to do slide 4. We’ll come back to this next week.

Bravo – ce n’est pas facile! Well done! It isn’t easy!

 

RE

Can I illustrate a stained-glass window and give reasons for its design?

 

Please watch the Seesaw video named ‘RE. Stained-glass window’ which explains the task for today.

There is a template of a stained-glass window for you to use at the bottom of the blog if you wish but you may design your own.

 

Sumdog – Three challenges:

 

1. Mental subtractions                                             (200 target by Sunday)
2. Divisions for 6, 7 and 9s                                        (200 target by Sunday)
3. Spellings ‘short /y/ sound’                                   (45 target by Friday)

 

 

 

Congratulations for making it to the end of Wednesday!

 

Year 3 Home Learning Wednesday 24th February 2021

Date: 23rd Feb 2021 @ 3:34pm

Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a good Tuesday. The work you sent me on Seesaw was amazing, I really enjoyed reading your news reports about Perseverance Rover and seeing your science investigations. The whole classroom smells like cocoa powder now! Today I would like you to send me your writing.

 

Wednesday 24^th 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 words with apostrophes for contractions. This means a letter or letters have been taken out and two words have been joined together. The apostrophe goes in place of the missing letter or letters.

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

 

Write the long date: Wednesday 24^th February 2021

Write the title: Spellings with contractions

Write your spelling words down the side of your page.

For an extra challenge, next to each spelling, write the two words that have been joined. I will put the answers in tomorrow's blog. 

Here are some examples:

can’t = can not

didn’t = did not

 

 

Writing:

Listen to this story read by a real life astronaut. https://storytimefromspace.com/curiosity-the-story-of-a-mars-rover/

Over the next two days and next week we are going to write a similar story, but about your own made up rover visiting a planet of your choice or a made-up planet.

You will write your story as if you are the rover.

Re-watch and pause the video as many times as you need – this will help with ideas and sentence structures.

 

Write the long date: Wednesday 24^th February 2021

Write the title: Can I use exciting vocabulary?

 

Try to use some of these exciting words:

explore, dangerous, wondered, universe, scientists, discoveries, mysteries, secrets.

 

Today’s writing:

Paragraph 1 (in the style of page 1 in the book):

Write a sentence to say where in the universe you are. Explain what you are and what you were built for. Write 2 questions about your mission. End the paragraph with - This is my story.

 

Paragraph 2 (In the style of the next page of writing in the book):

Write about humans and scientists and why they want to explore the universe. End your paragraph with - One question intrigues humans above all others…

 

Paragraph 3 (In the style of the next page of writing in the book):

Write your question in big writing, the question humans and scientists most want to know.

Write a sentence to explain where scientists have decided is the best place to find the answer to the question.

 

Remember:

Perfect spelling

Capital letters and full stops

Beautiful handwriting

 

Make it even better by:

Using commas

Adding an exclamation mark

 

Times tables

Play on Hit the Button three times.

Practise division facts for ÷ 3

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

 

Sumdog

Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:

Number Challenge: 22^nd February – 28^th February

Shape Challenge: 22^nd February – 28^th February

 

 

Counting

Count out loud in 1s.

From 299 to 324.

From 991 to 1011.

Back from 102 to 80.

 

Number Facts

Write down or tell somebody all the pairs of numbers which make 8.

E.g. 2 + 6 = 8

 

Maths

Today you are going to be looking at centimetres (cm) and metres (m).

Remember 100cm = 1m

Watch the video, pause where you need to.

https://vimeo.com/504467081

Complete the sheet attached to this blog and then use the answer sheet to check your answers.

 

 

Music

Follow the link and complete the music lesson. We will be continuing with Oak Academy but starting a new unit.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/body-percussion-basics-69j30t?activity=video&step=1

 

 

Fairtrade Fortnight

 

It is Fairtrade Fortnight.

For two weeks each year at the end of February and start of March, people across the UK share the stories of the people who grow our food and drinks, mine our gold and who grow the cotton in our clothes, people who are often exploited and underpaid.

This Fairtrade Fortnight we are thinking about what we want the world to be and the ways in which we can make choices to shape the world.

Watch this video about Fairtrade.

https://schools.fairtrade.org.uk/teaching-resources/change-the-world-through-your-choices/

Attached is a grid of activities to choose from. Please choose and complete one.

In school, we will be completing ‘share your vision of the world you want.’

We will be doing a poem where each line starts with:

I want to live in a world …

 

 

Reminders

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

Don’t forget to go on Sumdog.

 

 

Have a day that is out of the world J

 

Year 2 Home Learning - 24th February 2021

Date: 23rd Feb 2021 @ 3:05pm

Wednesday 24^th February 2021

 

Good morning Year 2. We are half way through the week – well done! Try not to feel overwhelmed by all the different tasks set in our blog. Just do what you can today – remember to look after your wellbeing! If you are feeling overwhelmed, why not try some of these non-screen activities below:

 

Reading

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

 

Reading challenge - Why not draw a picture or make something to capture the essence of a story. Pick 3 words that you are unsure of and look them up in the dictionary.

 

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS

 

Maths

 

To find patterns it is important to think about these things:

• What’s happening to the numbers?
• Can you spot the jumps between the numbers?
• What’s happening to the tens in the number?
• What’s happening to the ones in the number?
• Is it a single digit number?
• Is it a two-digit number?
• Can you notice a change in the ones/units when you are counting?
• Can you talk about odd and even numbers?

 

 

Today can you count in 3s from 0 to 30. Repeat this 4 times.

Write your numbers in 3s to 30 from 0. Here are some to start you off.

 

0    3    6    9    12     15     18      21      24 ………..

 

Using the questions at the top can you write down 4 patterns that you have found?

Look at the numbers carefully to see what is happening to them.

 

Please watch the video on White Rose maths and complete the worksheet attached - 

https://vimeo.com/514237766

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

 

English

Go through the story again. You can find the story attached to the end of the blog.

 

What is a character? Try and discuss this questions with an adult.

 

Who wrote the letters? Who did they write to? Why did they write to Duncan?

What would you say or do if the crayons were writing to you?

 

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

 

Phonics and Spelling

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

You may log in with the following details:

username: jan21

password: home

 

This week we will be focusing on the phoneme /j/ spelt with '-dge' and '-ge' at the end of words.

 

Please see the spellings below, which we would like you to learn this week. Children in school will be given a spelling quiz on Friday 26^th February. These spelling can be practiced on Sumdog by selecting the ‘Spelling Quiz’ challenge.

 

badge              edge                bridge              dodge              fudge

age                  huge                change            charge             village

 

Spelling rules for /j/ spelt with '-dge' and '-ge'

The letter j is never used at the end of words.

 

The spelling -dge is used straight after short vowel sounds. Example: badge

 

Use –ge in words with all other vowel sounds and short vowel words that

have a consonant sound before the /j/ sound. Examples: cage, fringe

 

In other positions in the words, it is spelt g before e, i and y. Examples: giraffe, Germany, gymnastics

It is spelt j before a, o and u. Examples: January, job, jump

 

Take a look at the following passage:

I love to visit both joke and junk shops. The joke shop sells things like whoopee cushions, magic jumping beans and fake gems. You can find lots of strange things in the junk shops, like painted jam jars, jigsaws with missing pieces and old car parts. You can find a police badge hung on the edge of each shelf. Once I found a clock made from the hubcap of a jeep.

 

How many different /j/ sounds can you spot?

Now have a go at the worksheet attached to the end of the blog. Unscramble the letters to find the correct words.

 

Sumdog Challenges

Multiplication –  x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables

Maths – 3D Shapes

Spellings – /j/ spelt -ge and -dge 

 

PE

This half term we are going to start our Gymnastics theme.

 

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 – Beans.

Bean Warm Up – Count to 30 for each bean.

 

First you will need to find some space – these actions don’t require lots of space just a little will be fine.

 

Jelly Bean – wobble all your body like you are Jelly.

 

Runner Bean – Run on the spot, see if you can get your knees high.

 

Jumping Bean – 1. Jump up and down on the spot. 2. Jumping Jacks.

 

Beans on toast – On the floor stretch out on your back making a star position (legs wide, arms wide above your head).

 

Baked Bean – Curl up as small as you can.

 

String Bean – Stretch up as tall as you can on your tiptoes.

 

Broad Bean – Stretch out to the side as wide as you can, feet wide too.

 

Today you will learn all about Balancing. You will learn how to do 5 basic balances – tuck, pike, star, straight and straddle.

The Link is here for your lesson this week.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/an-introduction-to-basic-balance-ccwk2d?activity=video&step=1

At the end of your lesson can you hold each balance for 10 seconds? See if you can travel in between each balance to make all your balances flow in a sequence. You may do a couple of steps to the side or forwards before you do your next balance, you could jump or side step too.

 

Fairtrade Activity

Today we would like you to have a look for food items in your house which have the Fairtrade symbol on. This is what it looks like.

 

 

Draw some of the items that you have found and label them.

Can you find out what Fairtrade means?

 

Well done for completing another day of home learning. How are you going to treat yourself after another successful day?

 

Year 2 team.

HOME LEARNING Wednesday 24th February 2021

Date: 23rd Feb 2021 @ 3:03pm

Year 4

Home Learning Wednesday 24^th February 2021

Good morning Year 4.  I hope you had a good Tuesday and managed to complete your work to the best of your ability.  The work you sent me on Seesaw was amazing, I especially enjoyed seeing your RE which is always beautifully presented.  Keep up the positive attitude to your learning Year 4!   

 

Reading

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

Have a close look at the sentence openers when you are reading today.  Does the author use a wide variety of openers? What sort of words do they use? Can you identify what sort of openers they are? Are they adverbs (often start with -ly); -ing words; pronouns (eg he, she, I) etc. Can you try and use these types of openers in your next piece of writing?

Remember if you need any new reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.

 

Spelling

These are your new spellings which will be tested on Monday 29^th February 2021. They all have the suffix -ation. 

A SUFFIX is a string of letters that go at the END of a root word, changing or adding to its meaning.   Suffixes can show if a word is a noun, adjective, adverb or verb.  Sometimes root words change when suffixes are added (eg create could become creation, created or creative, imagine could become imagination, imagined or imaginative). 

The suffix -ation is added to verbs to form nouns. 

education       sensation     creation       celebration  punctuation  expectation

calculation      hesitation    imagination  invitation     location        investigation

Write the long date Wednesday 24^th February 2021

Copy the words carefully into your book and find out the meanings of any words you are unsure of.  Can you identify the root word too? (eg educate (verb) becomes education (noun); create (verb) becomes creation (noun) etc)

A spelling challenge has also been set on Sumdog.

 

Handwriting 

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

Write the long date Wednesday 24^th February 2021

Write the title Handwriting

 

English

Please open the document attached to the blog called ‘Planning a chapter’.  Full instructions for today’s lesson are given here.

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, 5 and 10 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 25^th February 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on a mixture of 3 and 6 times tables.

 

Counting

Count in 10’s from 0 to 150 and back again.  Count in 10’s from 880 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 0.1’s (tenths) from 0 to 1.5 and back again – can you go any further? Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?

Now count in 0.1’s (tenths) from 8.8 to 11.0 and back again – can you go any further? Write the numbers down as you say them – what do you notice now?

What is the relationship between 0.1 and 10?

 

Maths

Click here to play Daily 10.

Repeat the game from yesterday. Can you choose a shorter time interval or get more questions correct using the same time interval as yesterday? Make sure you play the game a couple of times to improve your ability to halve quickly.

Click on play game. Choose Level 3, Doubles/Halves, Halves up to 500.  Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc.  These are quite tricky so make sure you give yourself enough time to work them out!

Remember to make jottings to help yourself.

Eg Half 678                  Partition into 600     70      and     8

Half 600 = 300       Half 70 = 35      Half 8 = 4      300 + 35 + 4 = 339

(You could further partition 70 into 60 and 10.  Half 60 = 30   Half 10 = 5   30 + 5 = 35)

 

Today, we are going to learn more about area. 

Before you start, can you write a definition of what area is without looking at your notes from Monday?  Can you jot down anything else you know about area, again without looking at Monday’s learning?

Write the short date 24.02.21

Write the learning objective Can I calculate area by counting squares?

Watch today’s teaching video here.

Open the worksheet attached to the blog called ‘Counting squares’

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

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

                                                  

French

Here’s a song to welcome you back to French learning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atNkI6QFZ50

Click this link and download lesson 15 with audio to recap the preposition words.

http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y4_French/Yr4SpringFr.php

In school, we only managed to reach slide 8 last time so we’re going to recap and carry on from there. Once you’re happy with these words (you can go over the slides a few times, adding an action to help you remember because they are tricky words!), click this link to download the study booklet.

http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y4_French/Y4_French_Booklet.pdf

You are going to do page 27. You can either print it off or just write the answers in your book.

Write the date in French – mardi vingt-trois février and the learning objective:

Can I describe a shape picture?

A.  Read the first part and match the description to the picture. (The instruction at the top of the sheet isn’t correct, sorry.)

B.  Complete number 1 and write the description for pictures 2 and 3 using Il y a – there are ….

Challenge – can you draw a picture using shapes and describe it?

Très bien! A bientôt. See you soon!

 

PE

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

Games Skills – Continuous Battleships

Continuous Battleships card

Continuous Battleships video

Gymnastics – Sequence Champions

Sequence Champions card

Sequence Champions video

 

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A maths times table challenge (based on the 2, 5 and 10 times tables)
• A maths challenge all about decimals – tenths
• A spelling challenge based on today’s new spellings (-ation)

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

A new spelling challenge will start tomorrow.

 

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

Year 1 Home Learning Thursday 25th February 2021

Date: 23rd Feb 2021 @ 1:27pm

Welcome to your Thursday learning everybody. We have really enjoyed reading your prayers. We have noticed how careful you are all being with your letter formation. Well done!

Reading 

Read every day. We all love seeing the videos of you reading your books and Mrs Anderson gives you all a big thumbs up!

Think about one of your reading books and discuss it. Did you find anything funny / sad / particularly interesting in the story?

Reading VIPERS - a great resource to help with questioning when reading with your child 

Phonics

Today we will be looking at the long I sounds. To begin, watch the videos below to remind yourself of the diffferent I sounds. Visit Seesaw for your sounds story and complete the phonics activity attached (A Box Full of Light) 

English

Today we are going to write a diary entry as Scaredy Squirrel. We will use all of our ideas from this week to describe our day in The Unknown. Use the sheet attached or write on some lined paper.

Tune into Seesaw for your introduction.

Handwriting

Tune in to Seesaw for your handwriting learning today. We will be practising our 'curly c' letters and spelling some of our tricky words.

 

Maths

Counting If it is good weather go outside to practise your counting. Use sticks or stones  What do you notice

about the numbers when counting in 2’s? What about in 5’s or 10’s?

Number Facts - Play Robot Addition. Choose up to 10.

Main Focus. Measuring length - Click here.

 

History

This half term we are going to find out about significant people who shaped History. Today we are going to learn about Christopher Columbus, a famous explorer.Click here.

You could pretend to be Christopher Columbus or make some puppets to tell his story.

Draw three pictures to show what Christopher Columbus did in his life. Under the pictures write in sentences about his life.You can also do the quiz to put the pictures in the correct order.

 

Computing

Today in our computing learning we will be looking at being kind online. Read DigiDuck's Big Decision here and complete the Being Kind Online activity attached. You can also listen to the story in the video below.