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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 26th 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 26th 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 26th February 2021
It’s Fabulous Friday!
Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!
Today you just need to:
- Read
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 25th 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.
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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
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 26th 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 25th 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 29th 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 25th 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 25th 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 25th 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 25th 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: 22nd February – 28th February
Shape Challenge: 22nd February – 28th 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 25th 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
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- 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…
- Create a mini story using as many of the spellings as possible (you may add prefixes or suffixes to them):
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
- Warm up your brain: Counting back in 2 ½ from :
7 , 15 , 23 ½ , 64 , 97
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- 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.
- 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 22nd February and 7th March 2021 but you have to submit by 1st 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 8TH March to share with the class.
Sumdog – Three challenges:
- Mental subtractions (200 target by Sunday)
- Divisions for 6, 7 and 9s (200 target by Sunday)
- 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 25th 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 (22nd February to 7th 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 24th 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
- Warm up your brain: Counting back in 1/7 and 3/7 from:
4 , 16 1/7 , 27 4/7 , 81 , 45
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I use column method for subtracting decimals?
There is a Seesaw video for today’s lesson which will help in answering ‘Decimal subtractions’
- 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:
- Mental subtractions (200 target by Sunday)
- Divisions for 6, 7 and 9s (200 target by Sunday)
- 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 24th 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 24th 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 24th 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: 22nd February – 28th February
Shape Challenge: 22nd February – 28th 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.
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 24th 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 -
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 26th 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.
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 24th 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 29th 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 24th 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 24th 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 25th 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
Gymnastics – Sequence Champions
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.
Reception 24th February Home Learning
Date: 23rd Feb 2021 @ 11:18am
Wednesday 24th February 2021
Here is your learning for today! J
Literacy
- Reading – Remember to read 10 minutes each day - We would love to hear you all read this week, if you could upload a little video to Seesaw, that would be super!😊
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'
Can I spread the words with sound buttons out and see if I can match the words to the correct sounds? (These are the purple words from before half term.)
Can I sort the ‘or’ and ‘ar’ pictures?
Can I write the words for the pictures?
Can I play the woodland trail game?
See Activities Attached.
Reminder for phonics games go to - Phonics Play – Login - Jan21 Password - home
- Handwriting – As well as improving our fine motor skills, we also need to be practising lots of gross motor skills (bigger movements).
All of this helps to develop co-ordination and shoulder movements, working towards better pencil control.
- How many star jumps can you do in 1 minute?
- Can you join in with the ‘Grandma's Glasses’ song?
Handwriting, this week the letters are 'Yy,Zz,Aa and Bb’– Remember to start at the top.
See the Seesaw video for the correct formations for all of this week’s letters. If you have finished your handwriting booklet – please practise your handwriting on lined paper. 😊
The Humpty Words of the day are – they, we, all, she
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’.
Today we are thinking about what do astronauts wear?
There is some more information here. https://www.spacekids.co.uk/spacesuits/
Can I try wearing a pair of gardening gloves and do a fiddly job such as a jigsaw whilst wearing them? (That’s how astronauts feel!)
Can I cut out and stick together my astronaut? (Or draw one – thinking about their special space suits.)
Can I use the labels to correctly label my astronaut?
See activity Attached.
Maths –
- Counting Practice – Can I count to 20?
Can I count back from 20 to 0?
- Consolidation – In Reception we need to revisit and rehearse all number facts to secure understanding.
Can I revisit the number 8? (See the sheet attached.)
Can I choose 2 of the home learning pattern activities to have a go at? (See attached.)
- Main Focus – Teen Numbers
Can I watch the ordering numbers video below?
Can I complete the missing teen number activity? (See attached - You could make the given number lines with your number cards and see if your child can find the missing numbers.)
Can I use my number lines to find one more and one less than a given number? (Find the given number together, then either jump forwards or backwards along together.)
Topic Time
Science – Today we are going to think about how astronauts get to space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGQC95eYTXg
Can I make a balloon rocket?
You will need some string, a straw, a balloon and some sticky tape.
Watch this video to show you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMX7zgaLC0w&feature=emb_logo (Watch the video from 4minutes 30 secs.)
Can you make it go further? Uphill? Downhill? Round a corner? What works best?
Reception Story Time
Today our story is ‘Hey Ho to Mars We’ll Go’ .
We hope to see you all soon! 😊
Year 1 Home Learning Wednesday 24th February 2021
Date: 23rd Feb 2021 @ 9:15am
Good morning Year 1 and welcome to your Wednesday learning. The writing you have been posting on Seesaw is fantastic and we can see you are trying hard to remember your Think Pinks. We are liking the photos of you outside in the sunshine doing some gardening and investigating plants.
Reading
Keep reading every day. For your challenge today choose one of your reading books and talk about what happens in the story. Use these question starters.
Who did...? Where did...? When did...? What happened when...? Why did _______ happen?
Remember you can also find a huge library of eBooks at the Oxford Owl (link in the Home Learning button at the top of out class page).
Phonics
Today we will be revisiting the long E sounds and practising reading our words as well as writing them. To begin, watch the videos attached below to remind yourselves of all the E sounds.
Then tune into Seesaw for this morning's sounds learning.
English
Today we are going to help Scaredy Squirrel with a new Exit Plan. Now he isn't afraid of the unknown anymore, lets have a think about how he will use his emergency kit to go into The Unknown.
Tune into Seesaw to listen to the rest of the story and your learning introduction.
Handwriting
Tune into Seesaw for your handwriting practice today. You will need a pencil and some lined paper.
Writing books are available from the school office.
Maths
Counting.Play a game of Saucer Spotter .Click here. Choose different numbers to start counting from. Count in 1s,2s and 5s.
Number Facts. See how quickly you can recall your number facts for 5.Write the numbers from 0 to 5 on pieces of paper. Turn them over .Pick one piece of paper, turn it over and say the corresponding number to make 5.
Main Focus. Measuring length Click here for the video.
Take care when recording your answers on the sheets that your numbers are formed correctly.
French
Here’s a song to welcome you back to French learning. Click here.
Now we’re going to recap the names of some fruits with this song.Click here.
Here are the fruit words (pronunciation in brackets):
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.
Here’s a game to practise the fruit words. Collect some pieces of fruit or draw some on bits of paper.
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!
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!
Music
Today you are exploring different ways to use your voice. Click here.
Fairtrade Fortnight.
This week and next week we are thinking about Fairtrade.Fairtrade is a way of buying and selling products that allows the farmers to be paid a fair price for their produce.
Your Fairtrade challenge for this week
Cocoa trees grow in countries with
tropical climates.
Find out what fruit trees grow in the UK.
With an adult, make a plan to grow your own!
HOME LEARNING Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Date: 22nd Feb 2021 @ 3:45pm
Year 4
Home Learning Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Good morning Year 4. Welcome to Tuesday’s learning. Thank you for all the work you uploaded to Seesaw yesterday – it was great to see you all back and you continue to impress me with your learning at home. Well done Year 4 – you really are fabulous!
Reading
Please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes. Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story so far.
Can you describe your favourite character from the book? Explain why you like them and what it is about them that interests you. Provide information about what they wear, what they look like and what their personality is like.
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
Our last set of spellings were all homophones. Children in school will be tested on them today, therefore, please ask someone at home to test you on them.
Write the long date Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Write the title Spelling test and complete the test underneath.
Ask someone to read out your spellings twice, ask them to read out the sentences below so you can choose the correct homophone – you don’t need to write the sentences, just the word.
- New. The new boy in the class had moved from Scotland.
- Mist. Mist prevented us from seeing where we were going.
- Heel. She dug her heel into the ground.
- Side. I rolled from my back onto my side.
- Piece. She offered me a large piece of cake.
- Rain. The sound of the rain on the roof was soothing.
- Him. I saw him running in the woods.
- Knew. Jenny knew her mum wanted a scarf for Christmas.
- Missed. The striker missed the goal!
- Heal. The wound had begun to heal.
- Sighed. She sighed deeply as she was disappointed.
- Rein. Billy had the horse on a long rein.
- Peace. We said a prayer for world peace.
- Hymn. My favourite hymn is All Things Bright and Beautiful.
- Reign. How long did Queen Victoria reign for?
New spellings will be given tomorrow.
English
Today, please re-read / listen to Chapter 7 of Kensuke’s Kingdom. A copy of the book is attached to the blog or you can listen to Chapter 7 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.
Write the long date Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Write the learning objective Can I answer questions about a text?
Open the document attached to the blog called ‘Chapter 7 questions’. You may either print the document or answer the questions directly into your Home Learning Book.
Some answers are given, but these are only suggestions and you may come up with other ideas. Please do not look at the answers until you have attempted all the questions.
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 25th February 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on a mixture of 3 and 6 times tables.
Counting
Count in 5’s from 0 to 60 and back again. Count in 5’s from 85 to 140 and back again. Think about what you found tricky? Write the numbers down as you say them – what patterns do you notice?
Please count in 50’s from 0 to 600 and back again – can you go any further? Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Now count in 50’s from 850 to 1400 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 5 and 50?
Maths
Click here to play Daily 10.
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)
Repeat this game a couple of times and see if you can calculate more quickly and accurately each time.
Today, we are going to practise our mental maths strategies and complete an arithmetic test.
Make sure you have everything you need before you start:
- A pencil and a ruler
- Your Home Learning book OR a printed copy of the arithmetic test (attached to the blog)
- A 20 minute timer
- The arithmetic answers (to check your answers afterwards. These are attached to the blog)
Please make sure that you make jottings / show your working out – this is important as it helps to find any errors (if you make them!). Try and complete the test independently and CHECK EACH OF YOUR ANSWERS CAREFULLY before you look at the answer sheet. Remember, it doesn’t matter if you get an answer wrong, the most important thing is to find your mistake.
Before you start, please watch the video on Seesaw which will explain a couple of strategies. This will be uploaded on Tuesday morning.
Good luck!
Please post your work on Seesaw so that I can see how you got on!
RE
When people gather at Mass on Sunday, they bring with them their joys and sorrows, their giving and receiving, the good they have done and those things they are sorry for.
Life is full of giving and receiving (taking) and sometimes gets out of balance. The Mass helps people to reflect on their daily lives and challenges them to try again. It gives Christians the strength and courage for this and the knowledge that they are supported in love and prayer.
Jesus understood very well how people often find it hard to love as much as they might do.
In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus explains how God loves and gives advice to us on how to love better. Read Matthew 5: 45-58 which is attached to the blog.
Write the long date Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Write the learning objective Can I describe how I can apply Matthew 5: 45-58 to my daily life?
The reading tells us something about what God’s love is like.
What do you think is the most important piece of advice in this text?
Choose your favourite lines from the reading and write them in your Home Learning Book in your best handwriting.
Then, describe why you especially like these lines. What images or thoughts do they give you? How do they make you feel? How can you apply them in your daily life? How could these words shape your life? Please write these descriptions in your book.
Decorate your work beautifully by adding pictures or patterns to your work.
Please share your beautiful work on Seesaw.
Music
Please click here for today’s music lesson which is all about rhythm and pulse. You will learn what rhythm is, how to represent rhythm with symbols, and perform a rhythm too.
Please send upload a video on Seesaw of one of your performances!
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 2, 5 and 10 times tables)
- A maths challenge all about decimals – tenths
Please make sure you log on and have a go! It is important that you practise these skills as they are invaluable in helping you to learn your number facts and multiplication and division facts. In addition, they will enable you to calculate accurately and at speed when working mentally.
A new spelling challenge will start tomorrow.
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
Year 3 Home Learning Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Date: 22nd Feb 2021 @ 3:30pm
Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a good day on Monday. We loved all of the lessons about Mars and Space.
Well done for the work you have done, I have been very impressed with what I have seen on Seesaw. Today I would like you to send me a photo of your science investigation and your writing.
Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.
Tell somebody everything you know about one of the characters.
Spelling
Write the long date: Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Write the title: Spelling Test
Write the numbers 1 to 6 down your page. Ask somebody to call out each spelling twice. If you get any wrong, practice them and then try again.
- decide
- describe
- different
- difficult
- disappear
Bonus question: knight. The knight defeated the dragon.
Writing:
Today you are going to write your news report all about the Mars 2020 mission, yay! You already have the information you need from your work yesterday. I will be sharing some of your work from yesterday on Seesaw.
I have attached an example news report and a blank sheet you can use to write on if you want to.
Remember to include:
Headline (5 words or less)
By-line (who wrote it)
Introduction – main points
Paragraphs
Quote – something somebody said from the video, remember inverted commas (speech marks)
Picture with a caption underneath to tell you what the picture is
Remember:
Perfect spelling
Capital letters and full stops (places and names need capital letters)
Beautiful handwriting
Times tables
Write the short date: 23.02.21
Write the title: Times Tables Test
Write the numbers 1-11 down your page.
Ask somebody to call out the following questions.
In school I always read the question out, count to five, read it out again and then count to three before moving on to the next question.
The bonus question is: 55 x 10.
If you get any wrong, practise a bit more and then try again.
- 12 ÷ 2 =
- 24 ÷ 2 =
- 6 ÷ 2 =
- 14 ÷ 2 =
- 20 ÷ 2 =
- 4 ÷ 2 =
- 18 ÷ 2 =
- 2 ÷ 2 =
- 16 ÷ 2 =
- 10 ÷ 2 =
Sumdog
Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
Number Challenge: 22nd February – 28th February
Shape Challenge: 22nd February – 28th February
Counting
Count out loud in 3s from 0 to 36:
In a high-pitched voice
In a robot voice
In a whisper
Maths
Today you are going to answer some arithmetic questions.
There will be some videos available on Seesaw in the morning which will remind you of the strategies we use for some of the questions.
After watching the videos, set a timer for 20 minutes and complete the questions.
After 20 minutes, check your answers yourself and then use the answer sheet to check.
Science
There is a PowerPoint attached, read through the PowerPoint and complete the activities. There is an optional extra on the last slide, you don’t have to do it but you can if you want.
Reminders
Please keep sending me your work on Seesaw – I am so proud of you for the work I have seen so far. Today I would like you to send me a photo of your science investigation and your writing.
Don’t forget to go on Sumdog.
Have a super day! Please send me pictures of your Science and writing.
Year 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Date: 22nd Feb 2021 @ 2:47pm
Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Good morning Year 6. Welcome to Tuesday. Well done and thank you to those who have started the Sumdog challenges and sent work through Seesaw. If not, remember that I am here to see any work or help in any way.
Also, thank you to those who have been working hard on their handwriting with the daily poem; I can see a huge difference in you all so keep it up. Little and often is the way to go.
Good luck with today’s tasks:
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.
Reading activity for today:
- Predict what might happen when you are part way through the book. Write your prediction in the form of a paragraph or bullet points.
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.
Gorilla…
Has a mouth
Like a watermelon inside.
Teeth like seeds when he yawns.
Eyes like a coal black
Old pit stack
Smouldering there.
Did he stare?
Did he glare?
He makes me afraid.
Strange worlds in his look.
And his coat
Dark as night
With bright
Equatorial
Stars.
Spellings
- The spellings for this week, short ‘y’ sound
- Play the Window Game that I explained in a video before half term. Just to remind you:
- top left = copy neatly x3
- top right = say each letter out loud x3
- bottom left = non-dominant hand x3
- bottom right = blind writing x3
- Play the Window Game that I explained in a video before half term. Just to remind you:
Writing task
Can I describe Aladdin’s character and explain how it is different from the film?
Read pages 8 – 15
Watch the video sent through on Seesaw where I explain how to describe Aladdin’s personality.
Maths – Subtraction Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting back in 1/5 and 3/5 from:
6, 9, 5 1/5, 13 2/5, 27 4/5
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I use the column method to subtract?
See the video from White Rose Maths named, Subtract whole numbers for how to complete the activities.
- Maths challenge Missing Digits – See the Seesaw video for an explanation of the challenge with the attached sheet at the bottom of this blog.
Science
This week something very exciting has happened in the world of Space science.
"Touchdown confirmed" - there is a new robot on Mars!
This video is an animation of how scientists planned the landing, not footage of the real thing, but it gives a really good idea of the successful landing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzmd7RouGrM&safe=active
Amazing, isn’t it?!
Perseverance’s mission is to look for signs of life on Mars. Scientists have to model their investigations on Earth because obviously they can’t nip to Mars. They form hypotheses (good guesses) based on what they can learn here. So, they have researched life forms on Earth that live in extreme habitats. They are called extremophiles. There are extremophiles living in Antarctica, in volcanic ash and lava and deep under the sea where there is total darkness. There is also life in Yellowstone park hot springs and in a river called Rio Tinto in Spain which is very acidic.
If life can exist in these extreme environments on Earth, maybe it can also exist on Mars?
Write the date and learning objective
Can I research the possibility that there is life on Mars?
Your first job is to research Extremophiles on Earth and write a paragraph explaining what you have found out.
Now use the ESA kids website to research what scientists think about the Possibility of life on Mars and write a paragraph.
Use this link to find out about Perseverance and write a paragraph about its mission. Why do you think it is called Perseverance?
Finally, what do you think? Will Perseverance find evidence of life on Mars?
Use the underlines words/phrases as sub headings.
Well done. Keep an eye on the news for the latest developments 211 million km away!
Sumdog – Three challenges
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- Mental subtractions (200 target)
- Divisions for 6, 7 and 9s (200 target)
- Spellings ‘short /y/ sound’ (45 target)
Well done. Another day completed!
Year 2 Home Learning - 23rd February 2021
Date: 22nd Feb 2021 @ 2:23pm
Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Good morning Year 2.
Well done for completing some wonderful pieces of work yesterday. We hope you had a happy start to the week and are looking forward to a fun day ahead. We really enjoyed starting our new story ‘The Day The Crayons Quit’ and we are looking forward to see what other brilliant pieces of work you will produce this week. You are all amazing and we are very proud.
This week it is Fairtrade week so at the end of the blog there will be a different activity all about Fairtrade so please have a go at these. Today have a think about this question:
What is a ‘choice’? Discuss with a sibling or an adult.
Reading
It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.
Reading challenge - Today, try and record yourself reading a book and listen back to hear if you are using expression in your voice.
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - VIPERS
Maths
Finding patterns in your numbers. 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?
Use a hundred square or number line to help you look at the patterns whilst you are counting.
If you want an interactive hundred square press this link.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares
Count in 2s from 1 to 60. Repeat this 4 times.
Write your numbers in 2s to 60 from 1. Here are some to start you off.
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 …………
Using the questions at the top can you write down 5 patterns that you have found?
Look at the numbers carefully to see what is happening to them.
This week our lessons focus on 3D shapes. Please watch the video on White Rose maths and complete the worksheet attached - https://vimeo.com/514236813.
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
Can you remember the story from yesterday? What did the crayons do? Why do you think the crayons wanted to quit?
What would the crayons do instead?
Where do you think the crayons would go?
What would they do?
Would they go together?
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 26th 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
Please work through today’s PowerPoint presentation which gives a talks through this weeks spelling rule.
Show You Know – Show that you know the spelling rule by completing the activity below.
Directions: Write “-ge” or “-dge” on the line to spell a word. Write the word out in full.
Sumdog Challenges
Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables
Maths – 3D Shapes
Spellings – /j/ spelt -ge and -dge
RE
Last Wednesday (17th February) was Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday is the start of Lent. Lent lasts for 40 days. During Lent we prepare for Easter. We remember that Jesus died for us on the cross and rose again.
Christians prepare for lent either by praying, fasting or spreading kindness. When we take part in Lent, we grow in love of God and other people.
For your lesson today, please write your Lenten Promise on the cross which is attached to the blog. You can decorate around your promise but try not colour over your writing.
Your promise should be ‘how you can be a better person’. Here are some ideas:
I promise to play nicely with my brothers and sisters.
I promise to make my bed every morning before school.
I promise to help with jobs around the house.
Your worksheets are attached on the blog.
You have a worksheet all about Lent and a cross to write your Lenten Promise.
Please take a picture of your Lenten Promise Cross and send it on SeeSaw.
Music
This is your music lesson this week.
Please click the link to access the lesson.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/rhythm-and-pulse-c4tker?activity=video&step=1.
Fairtrade Activity
Cocoa trees grow in countries with tropical climates.
Find out what fruit trees grow in the UK. With an adult, make a plan to grow your own!
Can you create a poster all about the fruit trees that grow in the UK?
We hope you have a wonderful Tuesday.
Year 2 team.
Reception 23rd February Home Learning
Date: 22nd Feb 2021 @ 11:55am
Tuesday 23rd February 2021
A fabulous start to your home learning Reception! It is lovely to see you all posting what you got up to in half term.
Literacy
- Reading – Remember to read 10 minutes each day - We would love to hear you all read this week, if you could upload a little video to Seesaw.😊
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'
Today we are going to look at the sound 'or'. Have a watch of Polly’s video below to find out about the sound.
Can I play the read and roll ‘or’ sound?
Can I write the oo and ar words?
Can I read and match the sentences to the pictures?
See activities attached.
Reminder for phonics games go to - Phonics Play – Login - Jan21 Password - home
- Handwriting – As well as improving our fine motor skills, we also need to be practising lots of gross motor skills (bigger movements).
All of this helps to develop co-ordination and shoulder movements, working towards better pencil control.
- How many reaches to sky can you do in 1 minute? (Using one arm then the other.)
- Can you join in with the ‘If your happy and you know it’ song? (You will need some playdough.)
Handwriting, this week the letters are 'Yy,Zz,Aa and Bb’– Remember to start at the top.
See the Seesaw video for the correct formations for all this week’s letters. If you have finished your handwriting booklet – please practise your handwriting on lined paper. 😊
The Humpty Words of the day are – go, into, you, he
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’
Listen to our story first.
Can I draw all the things an astronaut needs to take with them to space? (Use the story to help you.)
Can I label some of the things I have drawn?
Maths –
- Counting Practice – Can I count to 20?
- Consolidation – In Reception we need to revisit and rehearse all number facts to secure understanding.
Can I revisit the number 7? (See the sheet attached.)
Can I count the dots and work out the missing numbers for my number bonds to 10? (See attached) - Remember a number bond is two numbers that add together to make 10.
- Main Focus – Teen Numbers
Can I order my teen numbers, using my number cards?
Watch the video below – See if you can make all the teen numbers by having a group of 10 objects and adding one more each time, just like the video.
Topic Time
- KUW –
Can I find out some information about one of our planets?
Can I draw a picture and write about a fact I have found?
Have a watch of the ‘What is Space’ video below the attachments.
To find out more information on your chosen planet, you might have to look through a space book or have a look online.
Here are a couple of other videos you might want to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd6nLM2QlWw&safe=active - Planets and Space for Kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb2ZXRh74WU&safe=active – Storybots
- You might want to find out more about the rover that landed on Mars on 18th February 2021 – Here is a link to find out more.
Reception Story Time
Today our story is ‘UFO Diary’ – By Satoshi Kitamura – See below.
We hope to see you all soon! 😊
Year 1 Home Learning Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Date: 22nd Feb 2021 @ 9:20am
Hello everyone! Welcome to your Tuesday learning. We have loved seeing all the new learning you have posted on Seesaw already. We loved reading your Scaredy Squirrel sentences and seeing all your counting in 5s learning! Keep it up.
Reading
Read every single day.
For your challenge today we would like you to find as many Tricky words as you can. Can you spell these words from memory? Practise writing them. Remember you can request a new set of Tricky words from the school office.
Phonics
Today we are revisiting our long O vowel sounds. Watch the videos below to remind yourself of the sounds and visit Seesaw for your lesson. You will need a pencil and paper.
English
Well done on all your ideas from yesterday. Our favourite sentence was...
Scaredy Squirrel was afraid of the green Martians because they talk funny.
Today we will be exploring Scaredy Squirrel's Emergency Kit and creating one of our own. Watch the video lesson on Seesaw, where we will read a little more of the story and introduce your learning.
When creating your emergency kit, think about why you need your equipment.
Scaredy squirrel needs a huge net to catch the killer bees.
He needs a whistle to distract the sharks.
Handwriting
Visit Seesaw for your handwriting learning today. All you need is a pencil and some paper.
Maths
Counting.Yesterday we did some counting in 5s. Pick a number from 0 to 50 which ends in 5 or 0. Count on or back from that number in 5s .Take it in turns with your grown up.
Number Facts Number facts of 5 song. Click here.
Main Focus- Measurement: Length and Height.This is a new block of learning.Today we are comparing lengths and heights.
R.E.
The Our Father Prayer - Preparation for Communion
After the priest has said the words that Jesus used at the Last Supper, the parish family prepares to receive Jesus in Holy Communion. As part of preparing to receive Jesus everyone prays the family prayer that Jesus gave us, the Our Father. Explain that this is a family prayer because God is a Father to everyone and loves and cares for everyone.
Who gave us this prayer?
Why is this a family prayer?
Who says this prayer at Mass?
Say the Our Father together.
P.E.
Today we are going to practise our underarm throws with a game of Battleships.
Watch the video here and follow the intructions on the activity card below.
Year 6 Home Learning - Monday 22nd February 2021
Date: 21st Feb 2021 @ 5:37pm
Monday 22nd February 2021
Good morning Year 6. Welcome to the start of another week. I do hope your half term week was filled with fun, family and lots of relaxing moments. I have been keeping myself busy throughout from painting a bathroom, cleaning every room and practising a new skill for me - a handstand!
Do not forget to check Seesaw for any videos that I have sent. Here are Monday’s tasks:
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.
Reading activity for today:
- Over the half term, which was your favourite book to read and why?
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.
Nature’s Numbers
One old observant owl
Two tame tickled trout
Three thirsty throated thrushes
Four fine fantailed fish
Five. Fantastically famous frogs
Six swiftly swimming salmon
Seven sweetly singing songbirds
Eight engagingly eager eels
Nine nippy and neighbourly newts
Ten tenderly tiptoeing tortoises.
Spellings
The spellings for this week, short ‘y’ sound
- The spelling sheet is attached at the bottom of this blog.
- Sumdog spelling challenge starts today.
Writing task
Can I analyse the new novel cover and predict the story?
Watch the video sent on Seesaw which explains today’s task.
Maths – Subtraction Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting back in ¼ and ¾ from:
6, 4 ¼ , 8 ½ , 36, 187
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I use mental strategies to solve subtraction questions?
See the video sent on Seesaw which explains the activities for today’s Maths lesson and the main sheet is named, ‘Mental Subtraction’
- Maths challenge (decimals) – explanation on the same video. The sheet is attached to ‘Mental subtraction’.
PE
Can I problem solve to find my way across the river?
Physical Education (PE) is where we learn through moving by practising a skill and then evaluating how we moved afterwards so we can complete activities better when we try again.
In today’s task, follow the link Cross the River, which is an adventure activity using your knowledge of movements to get ‘across the river’. There is a video here, Cross the River Video, which explains how to keep yourself safe while playing.
Here are a few examples of how to make it easier or more challenging for yourself:
- Use different number of objects
- Use smaller objects (pieces of paper) or larger objects (cushions)
- Have 3 lives to get across or have none
- Have a start and finish point that is further away (moves through rooms or is outside)
As well as PE, you should also being doing PA, Physical Activity, which is where you move your body to raise your heart rate up. The weather is slowly warming up recently so whether you do an indoor physical activity (Joe Wicks, circuit training, play an active game) or outdoor physical activity (running, biking, scooting) make sure you look after yourself by keeping fit.
Sumdog – Three challenges
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- Mental subtractions (200 target)
- Divisions for 6, 7 and 9s (200 target)
- Spellings ‘short /y/ sound’ (45 target)
Congratulations! The first Monday back is now complete.