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Year 1 Home Learning Thursday 11th February 2021
Date: 5th Feb 2021 @ 11:22am
Welcome to your Thursday learning, Year 1. Don't forget to practise the dance - it's the big performance tomorrow!
Remember to post your dance clips to seesaw before 12 today to appear on our Dance Week video.
Reading
It is great that so many of you are changing your books regularly. Just let us know when you need some more. We have loved seeing the videos of your reading.
Your reading challenge today is to talk about your book. Who is your favourite character? Why? Would you like to live in this setting? Why/why not?
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
To warm up today, play a game of buried treasure with OU sounds. Read your words carefully making sure to read every sound in the word.
Today we are spotting OW and OU words in a game of sounds spotter. Visit Seesaw to listen to the start of the story (How Silly) and complete the activity attached below.
English
The big bad wolf has gone song. Click Here
Today you are continuing to write your story. Read what you have written so far.Use your story map to plan what you are going to write next,say it before you write it.
Maths
Watch the counting videos below and sing along. Mute the video and keep counting. Can you keep in time with the song?
We are looking at counting in 2s today. Below are two videos to watch.
The first is a little introduction to counting in 2s. We have attached a 50 chart to print off and colour in.
The second is your maths lesson. Watch the Count in 2s video here and complete the worksheet below.
R.E.
Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday are during our half term holiday. Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day, is celebrated on the last day before Lent. It precedes Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. During Lent we think about Jesus and try to live our lives a little bit more like him. Lent is the time when we get ready for Easter. We make a Lenten promise. This is something you will try to do every day.Think about what your promise will be.It could be to help someone in your family, say an extra prayer, make sure you always use your manners-what other ideas have you got?
Draw a picture of you doing your Lenten promise on the leaf. Cut it out and stick it somewhere you will see it every day.
DT / Engineering
Today we are going to challenge you to some Rapunzel problem solving. Below you will find a video telling the story of Rapunzel with a little twist. This is an engineering fairy tale.
Attached is the activity brief for the challenge and an example of how you could complete the challenge. Good luck. Post your solutions to Seesaw!
Year 6 Home Learning - Friday 5th February 2021
Date: 4th Feb 2021 @ 3:54pm
It’s Fabulous Friday 5th February 2021!
Good morning Year 6. It’s 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
For a minimum of 30 minutes.
Remember you can change your book any day – just give the school a call any time.
Spelling Quiz
Don’t forget to have a spelling quiz Today is the spelling quiz. Hopefully you can get someone to quiz you on the 15 spellings, in random order.
Complete the number activity – Countdown
See the attached document at the bottom of the blog for how to play
Dress to Express
Today is the last day of Children's Mental Health Week so why not wear an outfit that makes you feel great!
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.
Next week is St Oswald’s Dance Week at St Oswald's. Visit the video here where I explain the routine for you to learn. Have fun and we cannot wait to see your dance moves.
Don't forget to see another Friday Catch Up video posted on Seesaw later on today.
Have a well-earned relaxing weekend!
HOME LEARNING - FABULOUS FRIDAY 5th February 2021
Date: 4th Feb 2021 @ 3:23pm
Year 4
Fabulous Friday 5th February 2021
It’s fabulous Friday!
Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!
Today you just need to :
- Read
Enjoy reading for pleasure - take time to finish a book you are enjoying or start something new.
- Complete the number activity below
This week we have been practising our 3, 6 and 9 times tables on Sumdog.
Please make up your own game to practise the 3, 6 or 9 times tables.
You could:
- make flash cards to test yourself (cards with questions on - see how quickly you can answer them correctly)
- skip / bounce a ball in multiples of 3, 6 or 9 and back again – can you think of some rules to make this into a game?
- make your own board game, based on Snakes and Ladders or a course where the players have to answer the multiplication questions correctly to move on
- play noughts and crosses with a difference - you can only fill in a space if you get a multiplication question correct
The possibilities are endless and I’m sure you can come up with some creative ideas.
Please share your game on Seesaw, I would love to see it!
- 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!
Remember today is the last day of Children’s Mental Health Week – lets finish it off in style with your ‘Dress to Express’ outfit – please wear an outfit which makes you feel great. You are fabulous Year 4 – express yourselves in your fabulous outfit!
Don’t forget to look out for the Friday Catch-up video on Seesaw this evening!
Next week is ‘St Oswald’s Dance Week’! A dance video has been uploaded to the website. Please click on the link below for further information.
https://www.longton-st-oswalds.lancs.sch.uk/work/dance-week/63370.
Have a fabulous Friday and wonderful weekend.
Fabulous Friday - 5th February 2021
Date: 4th Feb 2021 @ 3:06pm
It’s Fabulous Friday!
Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!
Today you just need to:
• Read
• Complete the number activity
• Finish anything off that you want to upload to Seesaw for your teacher to see
The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it!
Well done for completing another week of home learning Year 2. In school, we are going to try to be active today. We are going to make sure we have a full 60 minutes of activity whether that’s through dance, play or the Daily Mile. You could try doing the same at home. Go for a walk and get active.
Today we are taking part in ‘Dress to Express Day’ at school. Dress in your bright colours to celebrate the theme of Children’s Mental Health Week. Use it as a way to express yourself! Self-expression is a great way to relieve stress and free your mind.
Next week we are celebrating Dance Week with a whole school dance project. Mr Mears will teach us our routine (see video) and we hope to see everyone take part in school and at home.
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.
Predict – Look at the book cover/blurb – what do you think this book will be about?
What do you think will happen next? What makes you think this?
Number activity
You could help your parents go shopping today or you can choose 6 items from your cupboard at home. After you have been shopping, choose 6 different items each costing less than £1. Make a price label for each one e.g. 39p, 78p. Shuffle the labels. Then ask your child to do one or more of these:
♦ Place the labels in order, starting with the lowest.
♦ Say which price is an odd number and which is an even number.
♦ Add 9p to each price.
♦ Take 20p from each price in their head.
♦ Say which coins to use to pay exactly for each item.
♦ Choose any two of the items, and find their total cost.
♦ Work out the change from £1 for each item.
We hope you all have a brilliant weekend.
Year 2 team.
Year 3 Home Learning Friday 5th February 2021 - Fabulous Friday
Date: 4th Feb 2021 @ 1:37pm
Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a nice day on Thursday. We enjoyed being active in school and did PE outside.
I hope you have an amazing weekend filled with laughter and smiles.
Friday 5th February 2021
It’s Fabulous Friday! Woohoo.
Start your day by listening to this song – some of you have told me on Seesaw that you have been singing REALLY loudly, I love that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpqV3dzYOgk&safe=active
This week, for Children’s Mental Health Week, you have been doing different activities to express yourself. I would like you to finish the week off with Dress to Express. Wear an outfit that makes you feel great!!!
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 are two videos on Seesaw.
- Listen to this 4x tables song.
Do silly dances and call out the numbers in silly voices. Make your voice go really high when the song goes high.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QU_E0u-tP4&safe=active
- Finish anything off that you want to upload to Seesaw for me to see.
- Next week we are all going to learn a dance, you can have a look and a practice today if you want to. Here is the link:
- https://www.longton-st-oswalds.lancs.sch.uk/work/dance-week/63370.
The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it!
Fabulous Friday 5th February Home Learning
Date: 4th Feb 2021 @ 11:56am
It’s Fabulous Friday Reception!
It is also ‘Dress to Express’ day - To finish off our wonderful 'Children’s Mental Health Week,' we would love to see a picture of what you choose to wear today, either something very colourful or your favourite thing to dress up in.
This has been an amazing week for your home learning Reception. So many of you are uploading your work daily to seesaw. It makes us all smile when we see and hear you enjoying all of your learning!
Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your family the chance to catch up and switch off!
Today you just need to:
· Choose your favourite story book to read. We would love to see what it is on Seesaw.
· Practise ordering your numbers from 0 to 20. I wonder if you can do it without any support!
· Revisit any of the resources from ‘Children’s Mental Health Week.'
The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it!
Over the weekend and throughout next week, everyone across the whole school will be learning this dance routine. Click on this link to find the routine.
https://www.longton-st-oswalds.lancs.sch.uk/work/dance-week/63370.
See if you can learn it too!
Send a video of yourselves performing the dance, via Seesaw, by Thursday dinner time.
We are hoping to make a wonderful montage of everyone, so we can end the half term together. J
One more week to go before a well-deserved half term break everyone!
Year 1 Home Learning Tuesday 9th February 2021
Date: 4th Feb 2021 @ 11:51am
Hello everyone, here is your Tuesday learning. We are seeing videos of some great dancing to Dua Lipa for our Dance Week! Keep fine tuning those moves!
Reading
Read every day. It has such a massive impact on all your learning. For your reading challenge today pick five words from one of your books. What do the words mean? Can you think of other words which mean the same?
Phonics
Watch the two videos below before visiting your lesson on Seesaw.
For your sounds learning today, we will be reading our OW/OU words and spotting some new words with these sounds.
English
Wolfie went a-walking song. Click here.
Today you are going to sequence the story and re-tell it in your own words. Cut up the pictures on the sheet, have a good look at them and talk about what is happening in each picture. Put them in order and use them to re-tell the story. Make a video for Seesaw.
Tomorrow and Thursday you are going to be writing your story of Little Red Riding Hood. Have a look at the word bank sheet and think about any other words you might need to write. Add them to the word bank. Remember you have your Tricky Words too.
Maths
Watch the videos on number bonds below. Sing along to the songs to remember your number facts. Write down some of your number bonds to 10 to help you remember them.
Play a game of Number Fact Bingo (games 1 or 2) by choosing 6 numbers between 0-20 and cross them off when the matching question comes up.
Today we are looking at comparing objects to 50. Watch the video on Comparing Objects to 50 here and complete the worksheet below.
R.E.
The Last Supper
This was the last meal Jesus had with his disciples before he died. After Jesus died, his friends would meet together and celebrate as he had asked them to.
Today, people still celebrate this special meal when they gather for Mass. The priest repeats the words Jesus said at the Last Supper; “This is my body and this is my blood.” This is Jesus giving himself to us.
Read the story of the Last Supper. Answer the questions.
P.E.
To finish off our Gymnastics learning this half-term we will be creating a basic sequence using balances and travels (Including rolls). Watch the video lesson here and join in. Remember to give yourself plenty of space to perform your routine.
Well done on completing your Tuesday learning.
Year 2 Home Learning - 4th February 2021
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 4:13pm
Good morning Year 2,
We hope you have a brilliant day of home learning today. Remember, this week is all about looking after yourselves. Obviously we can't all compete in the sports we all love right now, play in a band, or be taught to play instruments - at least not in the usual way, but finding a way to keep your mind and body occupied can be one of the best things for being happy and active.
Here are a few activities you could try today:
- Go camping in the living room.
- Play board games.
- Design and go on an indoor treasure hunt.
- Have an indoor picnic.
Reading
It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read, and love to read.
If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’.
Username: sto2
Password: 1234
Corner stones have released some free reading resources.
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading.
Maths
Counting and Times Tables
Can you fill out some of these sequences?
2 Times Tables – Listen to this 2 times table song: 2 times table song
Play hit the button and select 2 times tables – hit the button
Play the Daily 10. Select multiplication and then select 2 times tables. Set the timer so you get quicker each time – Daily 10
Can you write out all your 2 times tables up to 12 in your home learning journal?
This week we will looking at statistics and data handling. From pictograms to line graphs, children learn a lot about collecting, organising and presenting data in primary school maths. This week we will look at how you can help your child get to grips with basic statistics at home. Data handling at primary school means gathering and recording information and then presenting it in a way that is meaningful to others. It is now referred to as ‘statistics’ under the 2014 curriculum.
Can I organise data using a block graph?
Today’s maths lesson can be found on Seesaw. Please watch the video carefully pausing to attempt certain tasks when prompted by the teacher.
We would like you to go on a coloured scavenger hunt around your house. How many different coloured items can you find? Once you have found them fill out the tally chart. Once you have completed the tally chart, have a go at filling out the block graph showing the number of coloured items in your house.
Please see the worksheet attached and have fun!
Sumdog
Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables
Maths – Statistics
Spellings – Adjectives with the suffix -er and -est
English
Please see attached document for the English 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
Adding -er/-est
We make the comparative or superlative forms of short adjectives by adding -er or -est, for example: hard, harder, hardest
Spelling Rule
Just add -er or -est to the end of the adjective, for example:
- quick, quicker, quickest
- great, greater, greatest
- full, fuller, fullest
Exceptions
(note: C=consonant; V=vowel)
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If adj. ends in |
do this |
and add |
Examples |
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C + y |
change y to i |
er |
happy |
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C + e |
remove e |
late |
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C + V + C |
double last letter |
hot |
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Note: adjectives ending in -l are regular, except: |
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Have a go at 2 activities from the warm-up PowerPoint.
Please attempt the missing adjective activity sheet or have a go at the application activity. In this activity you need to compare the pictures and write sentences using adjectives with the suffix –er or –est.
RE
Perhaps you could write your own prayer to thank God for books.
If you have a Bible at home, place it reverently on a table. As a family, gather around it and read the scripture below:
A reading from the Gospel of Saint Matthew, (Make the sign of the cross with your thumb on your head – to know and understand God’s Word; lips – to speak God’s Word and heart – to love God’s Word)
Glory to you, O Lord
At that time Jesus arrived from Galilee and came to John at the Jordan to be baptised by him. But John tried to make him change his mind. “I ought to be baptised by you,” John said, “and yet you have come to me!” But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so for now. For in this way we shall do all that God requires.” So, John agreed. As soon as Jesus was baptised, he came up out of the water. Then heaven was opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove and lighting on him. Then a voice said from heaven, “This is my own dear Son, with whom I am pleased.”
The Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Quietly think about these questions and share your thoughts if you want to:
Q What does this Gospel story say to you?
Q Why did Jesus ask John to baptise him?
Q How do you think John felt?
Q How do you think Jesus felt when he heard God the Father’s words?
Task
Can I write my own prayer to thank God for all the books you have?
You can use the questions here to help you think of what information you could include in your prayer.
You could decorate around your prayer with your favourite books and pictures about your favourite story in the Bible.
PSHE
Today, please complete Thursday in your Wellbeing Journal and have a go at the worksheet ‘things that make me happy’.
We can’t wait to see what you get up to today.
Year 2 team
HOME LEARNING Thursday 4th February 2021
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 3:26pm
Year 4
Home Learning Thursday 4th February 2021
Good morning Year 4. Welcome to Thursday’s Home Learning. I hope you are keeping up with your Well-being journal and trying to focus on the positive things. Why not try a breathing technique if you find things a bit tricky?
Don’t forget to have a go at the challenges on Sumdog. Six of you have already completed the spelling challenge and five people have completed the tables challenge – brilliant! Twenty-four of you have started the subtraction challenge and four people have completed it – well done!
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.
Try and use lots of expression in your reading today. Use different voices for the characters and think about how they would speak.
Spelling
These are your spellings which will be tested on Monday 8th February 2021. They are all homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but are spelt differently.
tide tied knight night break brake fought fort
waist waste guest guessed feet feat
Write the long date Thursday 4th February 2021
Practise each of the words using look, cover, write, check. Do this 3 times for each word.
English
Today, please read the beginning of Chapter 5 up to page 73 where it says ‘….completely mad.’ PLEASE DO NOT READ ON ANY FURTHER.
A copy of the book is attached to the blog and an audio recording will be uploaded to Seesaw on Thursday morning.
Make sure you look up any words if you are unsure about their meaning.
Write the long date Thursday 4th February 2021
Write the learning objective Can I explain different points of view?
- In full sentences, explain what Michael is trying to do (why he is making a fire) and how he is feeling about what has happened and towards the stranger.
- Now focus on Kensuke. In full sentences, explain why Kensuke is angry and why he has put out the fire.
Write the learning objective Can I write a diary account?
Please write a diary account, in the first person, from Kensuke’s point of view of the fire incident. Consider how Kensuke might have first noticed the fire, how he feels about Michael and Stella, why he is so angry and puts out the fire, and what he thinks or hopes will happen next.
Focus on:
- Capital letters and punctuation
- Perfect spelling
- Beautiful handwriting
- Including thoughts and feelings
- Using the first person (eg using I as you are writing as Kensuke)
- Past tense (the incident has already happened)
- Using a variety of sentence openers
- Writing at least 3 sentences starting with a ‘subordinating conjunction’.
For example you could choose 3 of the following as sentence openers: because, after, while, when, although, before, as, if, even though, despite, since
Once you have written your diary account, please read through your work carefully and check your spellings and capital letters. Also ensure that your writing makes sense and you have not missed out any words.
Please share your work on Seesaw.
Times tables
A times tables challenge has been set on Sumdog. This is to consolidate and practise your 3, 6 and 9 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 ÷11 if you are on ‘free’ tables. Ask them to call out your tables in a mixed up order. This is how I do it in school – ask the question twice, count to 8, then ask the next question.
Write the short date 04.02.21
Write the title Times tables test
Please share your ‘test’ on Seesaw.
Counting
Count in 25’s from 1000 to 1275 and back again. Count in 25’s from 1925 to 2175 and back again. Think about what you found tricky? Write the numbers down as you say them – what do you notice? Repeat this a couple of times. How many 25’s are there in 100?
Please count in 9’s from 0 to 108 and back again – can you go any further? (If you get stuck, add 10 then subtract 1 from your last number if counting up, or subtract 10 then add 1 back on if counting down). Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Eg 9 18 27 27 + 10 = 37 – 1 = 36 45 etc
Maths
Click here to play Daily 10.
Click on play game. Choose level 3, Doubles/halves, Upto 500. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. Try and calculate more quickly than you did yesterday.
Remember make jottings to help yourself
Eg double 128 Partition into 100 20 8
Double 100 = 200 Double 20 = 40 Double 8 = 16
200 + 40 + 16 = 256
Repeat this game a couple of times and see if you can calculate more quickly and accurately each time.
For the last couple of weeks we have been learning about multiplication. We have:
- multiplied multiples of ten by a single digit (eg 30 x 8)
- multiplied 2 digit numbers by a single digit (eg 42 x 6)
- multiplied 3 numbers together (eg 6 x 5 x 2)
- doubled one factor and halved the other to help with multiplication
(eg 6 x 14, change to 12 x 7)
- found factors and factor pairs
Today we are going to consolidate 2 of these strategies.
- First, we are going to consolidate multiplying 3 numbers together. Please watch the video which will be uploaded to Seesaw on Thursday morning which will explain this strategy. Following this, please complete the questions on page 1 of the document ‘Maths questions’. Please show your working out and use the most efficient method – this means multiply the numbers together in the order it is easiest to calculate!
- Then, watch the video explaining doubling one factor and halving the other which will be uploaded to Seesaw on Thursday morning. You can then complete the questions on the second page of the document ‘Maths questions’.
When you have completed both sets of questions, please check your answers carefully – they are attached to the blog in the document ‘Maths answers’. Please also write a comment on the bottom of your work to explain what you find most tricky – is it your knowledge of times tables? Knowing which number to double and which to halve? Etc
Science
Click this link to download today’s lesson on the Water Cycle. The BBC clips and activities are very good at explaining how it works.
Year 4a Lesson 5 the water cycle.pptx - Microsoft PowerPoint Online (live.com)
Have a go at making one of the water cycle models. Then try the writing activity on slide 7. You will find slide 5 helpful for your writing.
Write the long date Thursday 4th February 2021
Write the learning objective Can I make and evaluate a model of the water cycle?
Draw a picture of your model and say how well it represents the stages of the water cycle. Can you see evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection taking place? (Collection is the rivers, lakes and the sea that collect and store the water before it evaporates again.) Use the vocabulary on slide 7 to help you. Please reread your writing to check it makes sense and is correctly spelt and punctuated.
If you’d like to colour a picture of the water cycle, please print the ‘Science - Water cycle’ document attached to the blog - you can then colour and label this picture.
Well done Year 4. You are becoming experts on how solids, liquids and gases can change state.
Mental Health Week
As this week is Children’s Mental Health Week, we are thinking each day about our feelings, emotions and moods.
Today, please:
- Complete the Well-being journal attached to the blog
- Have a go at the ‘Rainbow resting’ activity on the second page of the journal
- Create your own kitchen band – please MAKE SURE you check with an adult at home before you do this!
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 3, 6 and 9 times tables)
- A maths challenge to practise subtracting 1’s, 10’s and 100’s from numbers within 1000 (a lot of you find this tricky)
- A spelling challenge based on this week’s homophone spellings
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
New challenges will start on Monday 8th February 2021
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
Year 6 Home Learning - Thursday 4th February 2021
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 3:21pm
Thursday 4th February 2021
Good morning Year 6. I would like to say a huge thank you to all of you (children and parents) for your continued effort with all the work that has been set over the past few weeks. Seeing all the super work on Seesaw has been brilliant. I can tell that you have all put so much effort in. Once again, if there is anything learning related that you are either not sure about or want clarification on, please do not hesitate to contact me – we are all in this together.
Today is Thursday, meaning it is the last day that I will post any videos or work (apart from reading, of course) as tomorrow is Fabulous Friday. Therefore you can either spread the work over today and tomorrow or complete it for today and give yourselves a well-deserved rest for the weekend.
Here are today’s tasks:
PSHE
As part of our Children’s Mental Health Week, I have attached Mindfulness Meditation for Children which is a video helping you learn to relax, focus on breathing and be in the moment, especially if you take it seriously. Meditation is a super way to start the day so give it a go.
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.
Reading activity for today:
- How does the character change throughout the story? Explain your answer.
English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)
Handwriting
The handwriting poems this week are based on puns and wordplay. Make sure you slow down each of your letters to make them form correctly. This week focus on having all your letters the same size (so each ‘a’ is the same as every other ‘a’).
At the End of School Assembly
Miss Sparrow’s lot flew out,
Mrs Steed’s lot galloped out,
Mr Bull’s lot got herded out,
Mrs Bumble’s lot buzzed off.
Miss Rose’s class … rose,
Mr Beetle’s class … beetled off,
Miss Storm’s class thundered out,
Mrs Frisby’s class whirled across the hall.
Mr Train’s lot made tracks,
Miss Ferry’s lot sailed off,
Mr Roller’s lot got their skates on,
Mrs Street’s lot got stuck halfway across.
Spellings
The spellings for this week, -gue / -que words
- Create a poem using some/most/all of the spellings using any technique you wish - acrostic is usually the easiest (last week’s mini poems were brilliant).
l – let the grotesque tongue argue with the guest
e – even though its queueing for a request
a – and when the dialogue becomes unique
g – go and guess a different technique
u – under the antique cheque we sequence
e – ends the league with only one consequence
Writing task
Can I use the text to answer reading questions?
Read chapter 22 for enjoyment first before completing the task.
There is an attachment, Chapter 22 Reading Task, which has 8 questions to answer. There is no answer sheet but please send it to me through Seesaw and I will mark it for you.
The 8 questions are divided into two sections: retrieval and inference
Retrieval is where you simply find the information in the text and write the answer word for word.
Inference is where you use evidence to come to a conclusion (what you think it means).
E.g. the main character bows their head, has wet cheeks and red eyes = they are upset.
Or if the character in a book is packing a suitcase with swimming trunks, maps and sun cream = going on holiday.
Maths – Fractions Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting back in 90s from:
125, 750, 1420, 500, 335
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I multiply fractions by integers (whole numbers)?
Here is the link for today’s White Rose Maths video, Multiply fractions by integers (whole numbers).
Multiplying fractions by whole numbers is shown with pictures and bar models (which you know I love) so please listen carefully and work through the questions in the video. At the bottom of this blog are the Multiplying Fractions by Integers questions and answer sheets.
- Arithmetic quiz (1 - 18 questions). Attached at the bottom is a picture of the questions and answers but for this week, I have sent an Arithmetic video of me explaining some of the strategies to help.
History
Can I read numbers using the Maya symbols for 0, 1 and 5 and solve problems?
From previous lessons, we have found out that the Mayans also created their own number system. It is a bit like our ‘base 10’, but they have ‘base 20’. I have attached a PowerPoint, Maya Number System, for you to work through and a video of myself explaining each slide.
There is a Maya Number System sheet to complete which is attached at the bottom of this blog. Just as I have mentioned in the video, you decide which challenge you would like to complete.
Art
- As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, today’s art is to Draw Your Feelings which you can do by following the link.
- Following this, why not try creating some ‘feelings artwork’ by following these steps:
- Just listen to some music - my all-time favourite is Pachelbel's Canon (Cello and Piano version) but you can choose anything - with your eyes closed the whole way through.
- Focus on how you feel during it
- Keep your eyes closed for the 2nd time listening and with your pencil/colour/whatever medium you wish, draw how the music makes you feel
- (You can draw for however long you like)
- Finally open your eyes and see the brilliant ‘feelings artwork’ you have created.
Sumdog – Three challenges:
- Mix of 2, 4, 8 times tables (200 target by Sunday)
- Multiply by powers of 10 and fractions (200 target by Sunday)
- Spellings gue and que (45 target by Friday)
Well done, tomorrow is Friday. We are nearly there!
Year 3 Home Learning Thursday 4th February 2021
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 2:17pm
Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a happy Wednesday and are looking forward to a fun day ahead. I think you will enjoy the writing activity today.
PLEASE NOTE: I have left some yellow dictionaries at the school office. These are the same dictionaries that we use in school. You can show the people at home how we use them, and then you can use them to make sure that your spellings are perfect in your writing, just like we do in class.
Thursday 4th February 2021
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week. This year’s theme is Express Yourself. Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas. This could be through art, music, writing and poetry, dance and drama, photography and film, and doing activities that make you feel good.
Each day you will be doing some activities related to Children’s Mental Health Week and hopefully it will help you to feel happy and positive.
Start your day with this song – Get back Up Again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFuFm0m2wj0&safe=active
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.
Choose 3 words which you do not know the meaning of. Try to figure out their meaning from the sentence they are in. Use a dictionary to check.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for this week. They all end in –tion.
station, fiction, motion, nation, education, action, injection, caption, fraction, competition.
Write the long date: Thursday 4th February 2021
Write the title: Letter Jumble
Try to unjumble these letters to find your spelling words. Remember, they all end in –tion.
- attnsio
- rtnoacfi
- euncdaoti
- jniinecto
- iimepcoottn
- pacntio
- noitcif
- nntaio
- anioct
- tmnooi
Here are the answers:
- station
- fraction
- education
- injection
- competition
- caption
- fiction
- nation
- action
- motion
Writing:
Read pages 246 to 252 of Mr Stink.
Please collect a yellow dictionary from school when you can to use in your writing.
Long date: Thursday 4th February 2021
Title – Can I choose words to use in a policy?
On page 248, Chloe’s mother said she could stand at the next election but would have to change her policies. I would like you to write her new policies for her.
You might want to include things about: homeless, education, health, NHS, jobs, environment, and anything else you can think that would make the world a better place.
Try to use some of the words we found in Mrs Crumb’s old policy – banned, outlawed, deported, introduced, discontinued.
I have attached her old terrible policies to the blog in case you want to have another look. They are on the same PowerPoint as today’s pages.
Here is how I would like you to set out your policy:
VOTE FOR ...
If you vote for me, I will make the world a better and safer place for everybody. Here is a list of my policies:
- Homeless people to be given shelter, food and water.
- Plastic wrappers to be discontinued in all supermarkets.
Remember:
Perfect spelling
A capital letter at the beginning of each policy and a full stop at the end
Beautiful handwriting
To make it even better:
Add extra information to some of your policies using brackets, like this:
- Plastic wrappers to be discontinued in all supermarkets (plastic is destroying our oceans).
Please send me a photo of your policies on Seesaw, I will be looking out for beautifully presented work.
Times tables
Play on Hit the Button.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Click on Division Facts and then ÷4.
If you find it tricky, write out your 4x tables before you start and use them to help.
Sumdog
Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
Spelling Challenge – tion – Monday 1st February – Sunday 7th February
Number Challenge – Addition and Subtraction – Monday 1st February – Sunday 7th February
Counting
Count out loud in 4s:
From 0 to 48.
From 48 to 0.
Maths
Today you are going to be practising adding by bridging ten. There is a video on Seesaw which will explain this and show how you can draw an empty number line to complete the questions. We have done this in class before, so it should just be a reminder.
Write the short date – 04.02.21
Write the title – Can I bridge ten to add?
Copy and complete the questions attached to the blog.
The answers are on the same sheet, below the questions.
For an extra challenge if you want to:
Make up your own addition sums and show me how you could use bridging ten to answer them, you could use higher numbers. If you choose to do this, you could send me a video or photo on Seesaw – pretend you are the teacher J
Children’s Mental Health Week activities
- Complete today’s Wellbeing Journal – attached to this blog.
- Complete Our Friends – attached to this blog.
- Listen to and take part in the breathing activity which is on Seesaw.
PE
Watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj4ytgX77bM&safe=active
Complete the activity attached to this blog – Healthy Hearts
French
The theme for our learning this week is la Fête de Chandeleur – the feast of Candelmas on the 2nd February. Attached is a PowerPoint which describes French traditions on this feast day and an idea for a treat!
Download the PowerPoint and read and listen.
Now write today’s date in your book – you should be able to do this by yourself by now. The month is now février. Write the learning objective:
Can I write my opinions of pancakes?
The instructions are on slide 6 of the PowerPoint.
I’d love to see a little video of you saying whether you like or don’t like different pancakes on seesaw!
Bon appétit! Bonne fête!
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. 21 of you have been on the spelling challenge, one of you has already completed it, wow. 20 of you have been on the number challenge and 7 of you have already completed it. Well done.
Don’t forget to collect a yellow dictionary from the school office when you can.
Have a happy day J I am so proud of each and every one of you! Please send me a photo of your writing on Seesaw. I will be looking out for beautifully presented work.
Year 1 Home Learning Monday 8th February 2021
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 11:14am
Good morning Year 1 and welcome to a new week of learning. We loved seeing what you all wore to express yourselves on Friday. There were some very imaginative outfits! We are already looking forward to performing our special dance on Fabulous Friday.
Reading
Read every day. You can ask for new books by ringing the office anytime. You can also re-read your books. For your challenge today after you have read your book have a look for any words you can find which have our recent phonic sounds in them. You could also spot Tricky Words.
Phonics
This week we will be learning our ow and ou words. Watch the videos below and write anywords that you spot.
Once you have watched the videos, visit Seesaw for today's sounds learning.
Your spelling list has been added to Sumdog. We have added 15 words containing the ow/ou sounds. You have to spell each word 3 times to complete the challenge! Good Luck!
English
This week we are continuing to learn through the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
Stay on the path song. Click here.
Listen to the story again here.Click here.
The wolf had a very rumbly, grumbly tummy as he was so hungry. Talk about what the wolf might like to eat.Talk about your favourite food. Today you are going to plan a menu. The menu could be for yourself or for the wolf. Include a starter, main course and a pudding. Draw your food on the sheet and label it. Remember to form your letters correctly and listen for the sounds when you are writing words.
Maths
Practise your counting everyday! We start every lesson by counting in lots of different ways. At home you can watch the videos below and join in or you can play a game of counting tennis. Start at a number and take turns with saying the next one in the sequence. Practise counting in 2s. 5s and 10s.
Today In our maths learning we are continuing to look at numbers to 50 and our tens and ones. We will be looking at one more and one less and ten more and ten less. Watch the video on one more and one less here and Part 2 here. Complete the worksheet attached.
We have also started a new maths challenge on Sumdog. This week we are looking at place value to 100!
Well done to everyone who completed last week's challenge. Amazing effort!
R.E
Today we are talking about all the things that happen when we go to Mass. Read Gary's story. Talk about the pictures at the bottom of the story and answer the questions.
On the sheet draw a story board to include some of the things that happen during Mass.
The welcome, listening to stories about Jesus, receiving Holy Communion or a blessing and taking Jesus’ love to everyone.
Science- Basket challenge
Today we are going to explore materials and their properties and suitability. We will be exploring what materials are best for making a basket for Red Riding Hood. Design your own basket on the worksheet below.
Have a go at completing the Mystery Material challenge too. It might help you when designing your basket!
Reception 4th February Home Learning
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 11:13am
Thursday 4th February 2021
Good morning Reception.
We have been blown away by all of your work this week so far. It is wonderful to see so many of you keeping your learning practical and fun! 
This week, we are celebrating 'Children's Mental Health Week.' There will be activities throughout the week to have a go at.
Today, have a watch of this video.
Literacy
- Reading – Try to read for 10 minutes each day. 😊
See the reading question prompts attached on Monday's Blog to help you talk about your stories.
Reminders – Please contact the school office if you would like to change your reading book.
Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234
- Phonics – Please recap all of the sounds we have learnt so far and the new digraphs & trigraphs. (It is important for Reception to consolidate their sound recognition for all of the sounds.)
Our new sounds - ch, sh, th, ng, qu, ai, ee, oa, igh, oo
I have attached some different ideas to make it more practical and keep it interesting for you. (You can use these more than once.)
Please see Seesaw for today’s phonics writing activity.
- Handwriting – Join in the 'Crocodile Snap Song' to help strengthen your fine motor skills, this will help with the correct pencil grip.
(See Seesaw for the video explaining the correct pencil grip.)
Have a go at the next page in your booklet, which is all about the letter 'Ss.'
The Humpty Words of the week are - be, were, was, said
Can you have a mini spellings check?
See if you can write all your humpty words that we have been practising at home.
'the, to, no, I, go, into, you, he, we, she, all, they, my, her, are, me'
Don’t forget to spot these words in your reading books too!
- Acting Activity - This week we are reading ‘The Little Red Hen.’
Let’s warm up with our story & song - Join in with the story telling today as this will be your main activity. (It is important for your child to know the story inside out, to help with their writing next week.)
Today, we are going to be story tellers –
Can I act out the full story of 'The little red hen' ?
Can I use actions to help me?
Can I change my voice for the different characters?
Can I use some of the new vocabulary we have been looking at this week?
If you feel confident enough to record this, it would be lovely to hear you all acting out the story at home.
Maths –
- Counting Practice – Can I count back from 20 to 0 in 1’s? (Using my number line to point to the numbers as I count.)
Can I count from 0 to 50 using my 5’s?
- Consolidation – In Reception we need to revisit and rehearse all number facts to secure understanding.
Can I revisit the number 1?
Can I use the picture to talk about the number 5?
(See the sheets attached.)
Can I complete and discuss the different shape patterns? (Try level 1 to begin with.)
- Main Focus - Watch the White Rose Maths video and have a go at the activity attached. (Session 5 – numbers to 10 bingo.)
Topic Time
- KUW – Can I look at and talk about different types of bread? Can I make my own salt dough bread? (This is not for eating – see attached for instructions.)
- EAD – Can I make my own little red hen? (See the attached for ideas.)
Reception Story Time
Get yourself a comfy space, with your favourite toy and enjoy today’s story after working so hard all day. J
The story is ‘Owl Babies’ by Martin Waddell.
Have a great day of learning Reception, we miss you all A LOT!
Fabulous Friday 12th February 2021
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 10:34am
Fabulous Friday 12th February 2021
It’s Fabulous Friday!
Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!
Today you just need to:
Read – grab a drink and a biscuit/fruit and curl up with a good book.
Complete this number activity – What is My Number? Think of a number between 0-100. Someone asks questions to try and work out what the number is. Questions must have a yes or no answer. For example – Is your number odd? Is your number prime? Is it greater than 50? Try larger numbers.
Finish off - anything that you want to upload to Seesaw for me to see. I always thoroughly enjoy seeing the work you are proud of.
Pancake Day/Ash Wednesday/Lent - These important days are coming up next week, so I have included a Lent Calendar and some fun activities to do (completely optional).
The rest of the day is yours; you’ve earned it!
Have a ‘Fabulous Friday’ and even more ‘Fabulous Half Term Holiday’.
Miss Gravili
Home Learning Thursday 11th February 2021
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 10:33am
Year 5 Home Learning Thursday 11th February 2021
Good morning Year 5, I hope you are all well. Thank you so much for posting your fabulous work on Seesaw. I really enjoy reading it and can tell you are learning and working hard, so keep up the great effort. I have got a wonderful class and I really cannot wait until we are all back together again in school. Have a good day!
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Use the book you are reading at the moment or one you have just finished. Imagine you are an agony aunt/uncle in a magazine (someone who gives advice and helps people with their problems). Write a short piece of advice to the character having problems in the story you are reading. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating words instead of said. Please learn these spellings for Monday’s test (22.02.21) which will be after half term, but if you would rather do it before then, that’s fine. If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
laughed questioned suggested quizzed muttered
joked queried screamed mumbled whispered
chuckled remarked pleaded grumbled bragged
English
Today we will be learning about explanations and how to write an explanation text.
Instructions tell you how to do something. They instruct you!
Explanations tell you how something works. They explain how or why something happens (not to instruct, the purpose is different).
Look again but more closely at adverbs for cause and contrast on the Adverbs PowerPoint- slides 2 to 4 from yesterday (documents below).
- Read ‘How Escalators Work’ (documents below). What type of text is it? – Explanation.
While reading this, notice adverbs for cohesion; there are more for cause and contrast than with the instructions.
- Try to find the adverbs for cause and contrast in the text, underline them with a different coloured pencil or highlight them (see documents below for answers).
Adverbs - Cause: therefore, thus, consequently, as a result.
Adverbs – Contrast: however, meanwhile, nevertheless, instead, yet.
Next, read ‘How Alexa works’ (documents below). Your task for today is explained on this worksheet (blue bullet points).
The date and title are:
Thursday 11th February
Can I use sentence structure, adverbs and commas to write sentences that are clear?
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Maths
For your mental starter, I would like you to work on your Maths Sumdog challenges.
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Multiples of 10, 100 and 100.
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
11.02.21
Can I find multiples of 10, 100 and 1000?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Focus:
Solve a problem by organising information.
Visualise 2-D shapes.
People in the crowd – Answers:
There is no precise answer, but pupils can
compare their estimates and discuss how
they arrived at them.
History
Click on the link below for your next lesson – Who was Fu Hao?
Read the information about Fu Hao’s Life. Using the facts and information you have learned, create a leaflet about Fu Hao’s life and the important things she did. Make your leaflet interesting, colourful and remember to illustrate it.
This is how to fold your paper to make a leaflet. Number 3 is the back of your leaflet so you can glue here and stick it into your exercise book.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z39j2hv/articles/zsr9gdm
The date and title are:
Thursday 11th February 2021
Can I create a leaflet about Fu Hao’s Life?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Music
Click on this link for your Music lesson:
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/reviewing-your-learning-on-improvising-cgvk0r?step=3
There is also a worksheet to fill in about songs and how they make you feel – Music Worksheet (documents below). This can be trimmed down and stuck into your exercise book with today’s date.
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Numbers and Place Value to 1 000 000.
Spelling Challenge: Maths/Science Vocabulary. These words are different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili
Home Learning Wednesday 10th February 2021
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 10:33am
Year 5 Home Learning Wednesday 10th February 2021
Good morning Year 5, I hope you are well. Your instruction writing was great yesterday, a big well done to you all. Remember to spend some time learning the dance that Mr Mears has put on our website (Gallery section). It would be lovely to see some of you dancing on Seesaw. I can imagine Year 5 are super cool dancers!! Don't forget to spend time on Sumdog, there are always challenges for you to do. The challenges at the moment will last for two weeks, so you could do a bit during half term if you want to. Stay positive and hardworking, you will have a week off soon.
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Use the book you are reading at the moment or a fact book. Draw a spider diagram/mind map (example here) to show what you have learnt from your story or fact book. You can illustrate it with mini-pictures like the example. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating words instead of said. Please learn these spellings for Monday’s test (22.02.21) which will be after half term, but if you would rather do it before then, that’s fine. If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
laughed questioned suggested quizzed muttered
joked queried screamed mumbled whispered
chuckled remarked pleaded grumbled bragged
English
We have been learning about instructional writing.
What do you think good instructions are like? Think back to your card games on Monday. Can you identify key features that helped?
Briefly remind yourself about the features of instructions – Do you understand these terms: imperative verbs, adverbs, listing (numbered/bullet points), person and concepts of audience and purpose.
We can use a features list, like a checklist to evaluate instructions.
Today you will read and compare a range of instruction texts, thinking about structure & language and answer questions about this in your exercise book.
Today’s Work: ‘LeapPad Instructions’; ‘Aeroplane Instructions’ & ‘Thinking about Instruction Texts - Questions’ (documents below).
Read the LeapPad and Aeroplane Instructions then answer the questions in full sentences in your exercise book.
The date and title are:
Wednesday 10th February 2021
Can I read and identify features of instructions, find information in a text and evaluate instructional texts?
Maths
For your mental starter play the game – Hit the Button. You can choose which skill you would like to work on today.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Divide by 10, 100 and 100.
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
10.02.21
Can I divide by 10, 100 and 1000?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Focus:
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles.
Count larger collections by grouping.
Give a sensible estimate.
Albert Square – Answers:
Science
Today in Science we will be learning that changes of state are reversible.
Click on the link below, read and follow the lesson as it progresses.
Have a go at the investigation on slide 5 – Observe and describe changes of state by investigating melting chocolate.
Print out slide 7, fill it in and stick it into your exercise book or copy your work straight into your book.
Slide 10 shows a good example of a completed piece of work and slide 11 gives some more information when you want to review what happened in the investigation.
Enjoy a bit of left-over chocolate as a reward for being great scientists!
The date and title are:
Wednesday 10th February 2021
Can I observe and describe changes of state?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
French
Today we are going to finish writing our sentences about the planets, if you didn’t finish last week. (We ran out of time in school!) Then we're going to copy them out onto a triorama. You’ll soon see what one of those is.
First, let’s listen again to the planets song because you might be able to pinch an idea for a sentence from the song. Slow the playback speed down to 0.75 to help you hear the words more easily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-G7trS2qCk&safe=active
You can always come back to this if you want when you are writing.
Now go back to last week’s French home learning PowerPoint (Blog Weds 3rd February) and find the slide with the flowchart - Je décris les planètes.
Use this to finish if you haven’t yet written one sentence for each planet. Now look at the next slide and read those sentences. Can you add any extra detail to your writing using these ideas? Please don’t just copy but, for example, you could find out how many moons one of the planets has and add it to your writing using the model: Elle a …... lunes. Put the number as a word in the gap. (Elle here means it but planète is feminine so we use elle.)
Please now check your writing using the flowchart. Have you used the correct word order by following the arrows? Remember, colours and most adjectives go after nouns. Now watch this video for how to make a triorama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu80853TNw8&safe=active
You are going to redraft your writing now onto a triorama. Follow the lady’s instructions about where to put your picture (of the planets and colour the sky black) and your wonderful French writing. Then glue the flap underneath as she shows you and sit back and admire your work! If you’d like to drop your finished work off at school when you come to change your reading books, I’ll add it to the display after it has stayed in quarantine for 3 days. I’d love to see them!
Très bon travail et à bientôt!
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Numbers and Place Value to 1 000 000.
Spelling Challenge: Maths/Science Vocabulary. These words are different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili
Home Learning Tuesday 9th February 2021
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 10:32am
Year 5 Home Learning Tuesday 9th February 2021
Good morning Year 5, you are all doing so well with your Home Learning. A big thank you to everyone who is helping you. Hopefully, you are in a good routine, staying positive and doing the best you can. How is the dance routine coming along? We have been learning it in school and enjoying the music and exercise. We have also played the card games from our English lesson. I think we might get the packs of cards out at wet play times in future. It is really good fun!
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Use the book you are reading at the moment, or one you have just read. Copy any sentence from your book and answer these questions: What tense is it written in? (past/present/future) How do you know? Is it written in 1st or 3rd person or is no one referred to at all? Does it contain any speech? What is the sentence about? Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
This week we are investigating words instead of said. Please learn these spellings for Monday’s test (22.02.21) which will be after half term, but if you would rather do it before then, that’s fine. If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
laughed questioned suggested quizzed muttered
joked queried screamed mumbled whispered
chuckled remarked pleaded grumbled bragged
English
Read the instructions on Slide 1 of the PowerPoint – Instructions/Adverbs (documents below).
How do writers make the order of instructions clear, and make links between the steps? Answers - order of steps, numbers, bullets, arrows and time adverbs.
Recap adverbs for time using Slides 2 to 6 of the PowerPoint and think about other adverbs for cohesion.
Which adverbs may be most useful when reading and writing instructions? Answers - time/listing.
Read ‘Instructions for Boarding a Bus’ (documents below). New technology often brings about new rules or instructions to use.
Think about ways you could improve these instructions, adding adverbs, imperative verbs, numbers or bullet points.
Choose one of these worksheets (documents below):
HARD: ‘How to Use the Telephone’.
MEDIUM: ‘How to use an Escalator’.
EASY: ‘How to use an Escalator Safely’.
Using your worksheet, write clear, cohesive instructions.
Focus: Use the Instruction Features sheet from yesterday to help you (documents below).
The date and title are:
Tuesday 9th February 2021
Can I write instructions, including adverbs?
I have posted an example to help you on Seesaw.
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter play the game – Hit the Button. Select divisions up to 12, mixed.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Divide By 100.
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
09.02.21
Can I divide by 100?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Focus:
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles.
Add several small numbers mentally.
Explain methods and reasoning.
Joins – Answers:
Using four numbers:
the highest score is 19 + 15 + 17 + 18 = 69,
the lowest score is 6 + 5 + 2 + 17 = 30.
Using five numbers:
the highest is 20 + 18 + 13 + 17 + 18 = 86,
the lowest is 6 + 18 + 2 + 5 + 6 = 37.
Using five numbers and diagonal joins:
the highest is 19 + 17 + 14 + 15 + 18 = 83,
the lowest is 13 + 6 + 20 + 2 + 6 = 47.
PE
Have a go at these PE activities. Follow the links to read the instruction cards and watch the video clips:
Games Skills – Climb the Ladder:
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Home%20PE%20Climb%20the%20Ladder.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDKKTWrIyUY&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=6&t=0s
Health Related Exercises – Circuits 1-Feeling Flexible:
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Feeling%20Flexible.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ymsKEgKtw&list=PLnwoPgo24bhmqV8Y76iXnwYw9T9AlxbqJ&index=36&t=0s
Computing
Use the link below to log into code.org.
Please work through the lessons in order.
https://studio.code.org/sections/ZGVGHS
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Numbers and Place Value to 1 000 000.
Spelling Challenge: Maths/Science Vocabulary. These words are different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili
Home Learning Monday 8th February 2021
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 10:32am
Year 5 Home Learning Monday 8th February 2021
Good morning Year 5, I hope you enjoyed ‘Fabulous Friday’ and ‘Dressed to Express’. I also hope you had a good weekend with your families. This week is Dance Week, so grab any spare minutes you have and learn the dance that Mr Mears has put on our web page (Gallery section). Once you have learned it, you could film yourselves on Seesaw. Make sure you post it by Thursday! I'm looking forward to a great week of learning and dancing, so try your best. Next week it is the Half Term Holiday!
Reading
Please read for at least twenty/thirty minutes every day. Talk about what you have read with an adult. Discuss the story, characters and any new vocabulary you come across. If it is a non-fiction book then look at the contents page, glossary or index and see how it helps you find information.
We can issue books and change books as needed.
Reading Challenge: Use the book you are reading at the moment. Design a ‘wanted’ poster for one of the characters in your book. Please do this in your Home Learning exercise book with today’s date.
Spelling
Last week we were investigating the suffix - ent. As we have introduced ‘Fabulous Friday’, Mondays will now be your test and new spellings day. Please ask someone at home to test you on these spellings. Remember to put a mark out of fifteen.
patient obedient turbulent different incompetent
absent innocent excellent evident complacent
intelligent confident magnificent emergent lenient
This week we are investigating words instead of said. Please learn these spellings for Monday’s test (22.02.21) which will be after half term, but if you would rather do it before then, that’s fine. If you don’t know what a word means, ask an adult or look it up in a dictionary. To help you learn them, write them down each day in your exercise book with the date. You could focus on your handwriting at the same time.
laughed questioned suggested quizzed muttered
joked queried screamed mumbled whispered
chuckled remarked pleaded grumbled bragged
English
We are moving on to non-fiction work now. With a focus on - Instructions and Explanations.
For today’s lesson, you will need a pack of cards and someone to play with. If you have not got a pack of cards, you will still be able to do the task!
Have you played card games before? Discuss any games you know and how you learnt the rules.
Cards are a very old game technology (originating in 9th C. China) & are popular worldwide; many games have been passed on verbally or through written instructions.
You will learn a new card game by reading some written instructions.
Read ‘How to Play Sevens’ (documents below). How can we recognise that these are instructions?
Read Instruction Features (documents below). This will help you to evaluate - see how useful the instructions are.
Have a look at the ‘Card Games’ sheets (documents below). Try and play one or two games.
Evaluate how easy the instructions are/are not to follow and which features help make them clearer.
Make notes on the ‘Card Games’ sheets.
Write the key features you have spotted or add improvements to the parts of the instructions that are not clear. There is an example of this on Seesaw.
You can trim the ‘Card Game’ sheet down and stick it in your exercise books or write your notes straight into your book.
EASY: Game 1 is the most accessible (easy to follow instructions).
MEDIUM/HARD: Game 3 needs most improvement.
The date and title are:
Monday 8th February 2021
Can I identify features of instructions, follow and evaluate them?
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Maths
For your mental starter play the multiples game – Carroll Diagram. You can choose which multiples to sort.
https://www.teacherled.com/iresources/charts/carrolls/
Please follow the link below to the White Rose Maths webpage and watch the lesson – Divide by 10.
Print out the worksheet below and stick it into your exercise book or copy the answers into your book.
The date and title are:
08.02.21
Can I divide by 10?
Problem Solving Extension (optional):
Focus:
Solve mathematical problems or puzzles.
Add and subtract two-digit numbers mentally.
Presents – Answers:
Gurmit paid £2, £4, £6, £1 and £8 for the
five presents.
Art
Last week we thought a lot about – ‘Express Yourself’
Follow the link below and have a go at doing some street art. There are many more interesting art activities to do on the Tate Gallery website.
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/street-art
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see. You might want to post it on the website, but ask for your parent’s permission first!
RE
We are moving onto our new topic Memorial Sacrifice – Eucharist (Sacrament)
Please read through the lesson in the documents below (Memories) and complete the worksheet (COVID-19 – Good/Bad Times).
Please trim the worksheet down and stick it into your exercise book with the date, or write it straight into your book.
Please post this on Seesaw for me to see.
Sumdog
Maths Challenges: Mixed Times Tables and Numbers and Place Value to 1 000 000.
Spelling Challenge: Maths/Science Vocabulary. These words are different from your spelling test words above, but still worth working on to expand your vocabulary.
Well done Year 5.
Miss Gravili
Year 3 Home Learning Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Date: 2nd Feb 2021 @ 4:05pm
Good morning Year 3. I hope you had a good Tuesday. You all did so well on your arithmetic questions!! You really are doing such a great job at home, I know it must be tricky for you sometimes J
Wednesday 3rd February 2021
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week. This year’s theme is Express Yourself. Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas. This could be through art, music, writing and poetry, dance and drama, photography and film, and doing activities that make you feel good.
Each day you will be doing some activities related to Children’s Mental Health Week and hopefully it will help you to feel happy and positive.
Start your day with this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fq1jvIy2AE&safe=active
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 books with the school office when you have finished them.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for this week. They all end in –tion.
station, fiction, motion, nation, education, action, injection, caption, fraction, competition.
Write the long date: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Write the title: Wrong Hand Spelling
Read the spelling words out loud.
Split your page in half.
On one half, write the spellings with the hand your normally write with.
On the other half, write the spellings with your other hand.
Writing:
Read pages 238 to 246 of Mr Stink attached to this blog.
Answer the following questions in full sentences. The answers you need are in this chapter.
Long date: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Title – Can I infer a character’s thoughts and feelings?
- Find and copy something that Chloe was looking forward to when she thought she was running away.
- Find and copy a sentence that shows that Chloe realised she actually liked her bedroom.
- On page 242, it says that Chloe felt a little guilty, why do you think she felt guilty?
I think that Chloe felt guilty because …
- On page 243, it says that it was as if Chloe was looking at another person entirely. What do you think this means?
I think this means…
- On page 244, it says mother’s legs looked like they were going to give way. Why do you think this is?
I think that mother’s legs were going to give way because…
Remember:
Perfect spelling
Capital letters and full stops
Beautiful handwriting
Times tables
Call out your 4x tables whilst:
Jogging on the spot.
Doing a dance.
Clapping your hands.
Sumdog
Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
Spelling Challenge – tion – Monday 1st February – Sunday 7th February
Number Challenge – Addition and Subtraction – Monday 1st February – Sunday 7th February
Counting
Count out loud in 10s.
From 884 to 954.
From 456 to 556.
Back from 1032 to 922.
Maths
Watch the video about adding and subtracting, pause where you need to.
Complete the sheet attached to this blog and then use the answer sheet to check your answers.
Remember, you can draw base ten symbols to help with adding and subtracting.
Draw a square for 100. A line for 10. A dot for 1.
Children’s Mental Health Week activities
- Complete today’s Wellbeing Journal – attached to this blog.
- Complete Kitchen Band and breathing activity – attached to this blog.
Music
Follow the link to complete the music lesson. You will need a spoon.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/composing-rhythms-ccrk0d
RE
Our next RE topic is all about listening and sharing.
Make a poster about sharing:
Write the word SHARING in big letters at the top.
Write 3 things that are good about sharing, e.g.
- Sharing makes you feel better.
- You can help people who have less than you.
- You can be a good friend.
Draw pictures and decorate your poster with patterns, a border, and boxes around your writing.
Reminders
Please keep sending me your work on Seesaw – I am so proud of you for the work I have seen so far. Today I would like you to send me a photo of your RE work.
Don’t forget to go on Sumdog. 15 of you have been on the spelling challenge, one of you has already completed it, wow. 16 of you have been on the number challenge and 6 of you have already completed it. Well done.
Have a wonderful day J Remember you are amazing! Please send me a photo of your RE poster on Seesaw. I will be looking out for posters which are bright and easy to read.
Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Date: 2nd Feb 2021 @ 3:12pm
Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Good morning Year 6. We are half way through the week – well done! 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:
PSHE
Expressing yourself through movement can be achieved with Yoga; a fun way to refresh your body and mind so that you can focus better. Follow this 10 minute video here, Yoga with Adriene.
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that speed and stamina.
Reading activity for today:
- Design a birthday card for the main character. What age are they? What would they like the most as a gift?
English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)
Handwriting
The handwriting poems this week are based on puns and wordplay. Make sure you slow down each of your letters to make them form correctly. This week focus on having all your letters the same size (so each ‘a’ is the same as every other ‘a’).
You Tell Me
Here are the football results:
League Division Fun
Manchester United won, Manchester City lost.
Crystal Palace 2 Buckingham Palace 1
Millwall Leeds nowhere
Wolves 8 A cheese roll and had a cup of tea 2
Aldershot 3, Buffalo Bill shot 2
Evertonil, Liverpool’s not very well either
Newcastle’s Heaven, Sunderland’s a very nice place
Ipswhich one? You tell me.
Spellings
The spellings for this week, -gue / -que words
- Write out each word in parts with different colours. This could be in syllables or random but try to keep the gue and que in the same colour as it will help your visual memory:
- Antique, grotesque, unique, league
Writing task
Can I write a summary of the Rip Van Winkle tale?
Do not read a chapter today as I have another story, Rip Van Winkle, which is the tale spoken about in Tom’s Midnight Garden, chapter 21.
Watch the YouTube video of the story being read here Rip Van Winkle. Then watch the video sent through Seesaw where I explain the task for today.
Maths – Calculating with Fractions Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting back in 9s from:
725, 950, 1620, 700, 237
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
Can I continue to add fractions with different denominators?
Today’s lesson is very similar to Tuesday’s but with more reasoning questions. You can watch yesterday’s video which should help and then watch today’s video by White Rose Maths, Adding Fractions video which will guide you in answering the sheet, Adding Fractions questions and answers, attached at the bottom of this blog.
Music
Follow this link Beatboxing Basics, to Oak National Academy for today’s lesson.
French
First let’s recap the phonics sounds from the last week by watching the video again. This week, you are going to try and write down the number and colour words that contain the sounds.
Before you start, write the date and learning objective in your book:
mercredi quatre février
Can I use phonics to help me spell French words?
Then write each of the phonic sounds, leaving space underneath each to write down the words that have the sound in. Spread them out on your page. The sounds are:
ou eu an oi in/un i on
Now listen to Emilie again, pausing the video when she asks you to think of the numbers and colours that have that sound in. Have a go at writing the words under the right sound then start the video again to check your spelling. Please correct it if you make a mistake. Mistakes are fine! They help us to learn.
We are continuing with our weather learning this week.
http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y6_French/Yr6AutumnFr.php
Click on Lesson 4 with audio.
On slide 2, weather symbols appear with audio rhyming weather with the place name.
Have a go at this slide several times to help with pronunciation. On slide 7, see if you can give the weather to match the symbol.
Now try the French Weather Puzzle at the bottom of this blog.
To finish, here’s a weather song to listen to and join in with.
Merci beaucoup! A bientôt!
RE
Can I give reasons why we should be a good friend to others?
Listen to a song about friendship e.g. You’ve Got a Friend, Anytime You Need A Friend, Anytime You Need a Friend - Mariah Carey
Watch the YouTube video here, Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister.
I have sent a video through Seesaw explaining what today’s task is.
Sumdog – Three challenges:
- Mix of 2, 4, 8 times tables (200 target)
- Multiply by powers of 10 and fractions (200 target)
- Spellings gue and que (45 target)
Congratulation, you have made it to the end of the day! What will today’s treat be?
Year 2 Home Learning - 3rd February 2021
Date: 2nd Feb 2021 @ 3:10pm
Hello Year 2.
Well done on all your work so far this week. It is really great seeing everything you have done on SeeSaw, so please keep sharing. We hope you are enjoying our PSHE activities – keep it up.
See if you can have a go at these Yoga poses. Can you hold the position whilst you count to 30?
You have to say the writing out loud when you first move into the pose - “I am strong”.
Reading
It is ESSENTIAL that children continue to read every single day. This should be for a minimum of 20 minutes.
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read, and love to read.
Corner stones have released some free reading resources.
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading.
Maths
Counting and Times Tables
Counting in 2’s – Can you start on 5 and count forwards in 2’s? Challenge – Can you count backwards from 29?
2 Times Tables – Listen to this 2 times table song: 2 times table song
Play hit the button and select 2 times tables – hit the button
Play the Daily 10. Select multiplication and then select 2 times tables. Set the timer so you get quicker each time – Daily 10
Can you write out all your 2 times tables up to 12 in your home learning journal?
This week we will looking at statistics and data handling. From pictograms to line graphs, children learn a lot about collecting, organising and presenting data in primary school maths. This week we will look at how you can help your child get to grips with basic statistics at home. Data handling at primary school means gathering and recording information and then presenting it in a way that is meaningful to others. It is now referred to as ‘statistics’ under the 2014 curriculum.
Can I interpret a pictogram?
Today we are going to look at interpreting pictograms.
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. The WhiteRose sheet is more than enough.
Make sure you watch the video carefully and pause to answer questions on the worksheet.
Please follow the link and complete the worksheet attached to the class blog.
1. Watch the video (either on your own or with your child).
2. Find a calm space where your child can work for about 20-30 minutes.
3. Use the video guidance to support your child as they work through a lesson.
Complete on the sheet (if you have a printer) or write your answers in your home learning book.
Sumdog challenges
Multiplication – x2, x3, x5 and x10 tables
Maths – Statistics
Spellings – Adjectives with the suffix -er and -est
English
Please see attached documents for your English 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
Adding -er/-est
We make the comparative or superlative forms of short adjectives by adding -er or -est, for example: hard, harder, hardest.
Spelling Rule
Just add -er or -est to the end of the adjective, for example:
- quick, quicker, quickest
- great, greater, greatest
- full, fuller, fullest
Exceptions:
(note: C=consonant; V=vowel)
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If adj. ends in |
do this |
and add |
Examples |
|
C + y |
change y to i |
er |
happy |
|
C + e |
remove e |
late |
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C + V + C |
double last letter |
hot |
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Note: adjectives ending in -l are regular, except: |
|||
Can you remember all the rules for adding er and est?
You are going to play a game to see if you can! Please see the attached board game.
PE
Please see today’s announcement on Seesaw for our ‘Underwater Dance’ lesson and follow the link to access the song - Underwater Song. Please note, the video has been posted in two parts.
Before you start today’s PE session make sure you do a warm-up activity. Warming up before a PE lesson is not only beneficial to protect the muscles and the joints, it also helps to gradually increase our heart rates and circulation, which will increase the blood flow to the muscles.
Warm-up game – Pirate Ship.
MOVEMENT – ‘We need to move like different animals in the sea’
Create some movements for the following animals:
Fish
Octopus
Sea Lion
Dolphin
Shark
Repeat these actions in this order until you can start to remember them.
CHOREOGRAPHY – Put the movements together using the song for timing.
START –
“under the water” – Students can bend knees and move arms down and scoop up to indicate ‘under’.
“under the sea” – students to stand still and wave arms from side to side.
“lots and lots of fishys swimin’ ‘round me” – Students to do their fish action.
PRACTICE – Students can repeat the first half of the dance until the end of the lesson.
We would love to see some of your dances on Seesaw.
PSHE
Today, please fill in the Wednesday section of your Wellbeing Journal and have a go at 1 of the focus sheets.
Please take a picture of this activity today.
You can access your PSHE lesson which has been attached to the blog. It is a PowerPoint all about your Mental and Emotional Wellbeing. Have a go at the activity set or just talk through the PowerPoint with an adult.
We are already halfway through the week. Keep up the hard work.
Year 2 team
HOME LEARNING Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Date: 2nd Feb 2021 @ 2:34pm
Year 4
Home Learning Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you had a good day yesterday and enjoyed your home learning. Remember it is important to keep working hard, recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things. Keep positive and keep working your socks off 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.
Can you choose some ambitious vocabulary from the story which you could use in your own writing? Write 5 of these words down and write a definition for each of them.
Spelling
These are your spellings which will be tested on Monday 8th February 2021. They are all homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but are spelt differently.
tide tied knight night break brake fought fort
waist waste guest guessed feet feat
Write the long date Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Practise each of the words using look, cover, write, check.
Then, choosing the words you didn’t use yesterday, write your own sentences using the words correctly.
For example, tide and tied
The tide came in too fast and stranded the children on the island.
We tied the boat securely to the pier.
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 3rd February 2021
Write the title Handwriting
English
Today, please re-read / listen again to Chapter 4 of Kensuke’s Kingdom. A copy of the book is attached to the blog and a link to the audio is below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtCBmU8n-8w&safe=active
Make sure you look up any words if you are unsure about their meaning.
Once you have re-read the chapter:
Read the extract attached to the blog called ‘Chapter 4 extract’. If you wish, print out the sheet.
Write the long date Wednesday 3rd February 2021
Write the learning objective Can I identify effective words and phrases in a text?
Answer the questions in your book and / or underline on the sheet where appropriate.
I have provided some answers in the ‘Chapter 4 extract’ document, but don’t look at these until you have had a go yourself!
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
A times tables challenge has been set on Sumdog. This is to consolidate and practise your 3, 6 and 9 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 4th February 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷11.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Counting
Count in 25’s from 100 to 400 and back again. Count in 25’s from 900 to 1200 and back again. Think about what you found tricky? Write the numbers down as you say them – what do you notice? Repeat this a couple of times. How many 25’s are there in 100?
Please count in 9’s from 0 to 108 and back again – can you go any further? (if you get stuck, add 10 then subtract 1 from your last number if counting up, or subtract 10 then add 1 back on if counting down). Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Eg 9 18 27 27 + 10 = 37 – 1 = 36 45 etc
Maths
Use the link below – to play Daily 10.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Click on play game. Choose level 3, Doubles/halves, Upto 500. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. You will need to write the answers down and check them at the end.
Remember make jottings to help yourself
Eg double 128 Partition into 100 20 8
Double 100 = 200 Double 20 = 40 Double 8 = 16
200 + 40 + 16 = 256
Repeat this game a couple of times and see if you can calculate more quickly and accurately each time.
Today, we are going to learn different ways to multiply efficiently. This means looking at the numbers in the calculation and using the most appropriate method to find the answer.
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Efficient multiplication’.
Please click on the link below for the video
Write the short date 03.02.21
Write the learning objective Can I use efficient multiplication strategies?
Complete the worksheet and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning book.
Check your answers in the document ‘Answers Efficient multiplication’.
French
The theme for our learning this week is la Fête de Chandeleur – the feast of Candelmas on the 2nd February.
Download the PowerPoint attached to the blog called ‘Chandeleur Powerpoint’ and read and listen. This describes the French traditions on this feast day and an idea for a treat!
Now write today’s date in your book, or on the document attached to the blog called ‘Chandeleur sheet’ – you should be able to do this by yourself by now. The month is now février.
Write the learning objective Can I write my opinions of pancakes?
The instructions are on slide 6 of the PowerPoint.
I’d love to see a little video of you saying whether you like or don’t like different pancakes on seesaw!
Bon appétit! Bonne fête!
PE
Watch the clips below and follow the instructions on the cards.
Games Skills – Bowling
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Home%20PE%20Bowling.pdf
Gymnastics – Balance time
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Balance%20Time.pdf
Mental Health Week
As this week is Children’s Mental Health Week, we are thinking each day about our feelings, emotions and moods.
Today, please:
- Complete the Well-being journal attached to the blog
- Have a go at the ‘5 finger breathing’ activity on the second page of the journal
- Wiggle and dance – have fun dancing around! See page 3 of the journal
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 3, 6 and 9 times tables)
- A maths challenge to practise subtracting 1’s, 10’s and 100’s from numbers within 1000 (a lot of you find this tricky)
- A spelling challenge based on this week’s homophone spellings
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
New challenges will start on Monday 8th February 2021
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
Reception 3rd February Home Learning
Date: 2nd Feb 2021 @ 10:35am
Wednesday 3rd February 2021
The mornings are getting a little bit lighter, which means spring is on the way.J
This week we are celebrating 'Children's Mental Health Week.' There will be activities throughout the week to have a go at.
Today, I have attached some mindfulness focus worksheets to have a little go at and a ‘Things to look forward to jar’ activity.
Why don’t you put on your favourite song and dance around your house?
That always makes Miss Collinson smile!J
Online Resources
- Phonics Play will help you to keep recapping all previous sounds the children have learnt since September. Resources, Phase 2, Speed Flash Trials.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
The log in is Username: jan21
Password: home
You can also use this log in to play any of the phase 2 phonics games, try some of the Phase 3 games for our new digraph sounds. 😊
- . Oxford Owl eBooks Class login - sto1 Password – 1234
Library – Age 4-7 – Change the level to your child’s book band level and have a go at any of the e-books available to you.
- Topmarks have some good online maths games if you want to have a go at any of these.
Phonics –
Please revisit all our new digraph & trigraph sounds. 😊
ch, sh, th, ng, qu, ai, ee, oa, igh
Can I remember all my new sounds?
Can I think of a word for each sound?
Can I practise reading a word from each sound?
Today we are going to learn a new sound ‘oo’ – this digraph can make two different sounds. (See the seesaw video from yesterday for an explanation)
We are going to focus on the short ‘oo’ sound today. Have a watch of Polly’s video to find out more.
Can I write the words and colour in all the pictures that have the short ' oo’ sound? (See attached.)
Handwriting - Have a go at the next page in your booklet, which is all about the letter Rr.
The Humpty Words of the week are - be, were, was, said
Can you revisit all your humpty words?
Can you write them without copying them?
(Use paper or the whiteboard from your pack.)
Literacy –
This week we are reading ‘The Little Red Hen.’
Let’s warm up our story- Can I join in with the song again to help you remember the story and have a go at stepping the story? - It would be great to see you stepping the story yourself on Seesaw. J
Writing activity
Using the vocabulary from yesterday and the pattern which the story follows –
Can I have a go at writing one of my sentences to describe a character in the story?
(Or you can make up your own character.)
For example,
‘Not I’ said the greedy, plump pig.
‘Not I’ said the gleeful, grinning horse.
‘Not I’ said the sneaky, small mouse.
You might want to draw a picture for your characters.
Remember to use your sounds and sound mat, stretch the words out slowly and write all the sounds you can hear. You can copy the vocab words given to you yesterday when writing them.
Reading – Try to read for 10 minutes each day. 😊
See the reading question prompts attached on Monday's Blog to help you talk about your stories.
Maths – Can I count in 5’s?
What did you notice when you were counting in 5’s? (All the numbers end in either a 5 or 0.)
Have a go at splatting your 5’s them on the splat square? Can you see the pattern? (5 or 0)
Have you got any 5p’s in your house? See how many 5p’s you have by counting in 5’s?
Today’s learning is all about 9 and 10.
Watch the White Rose Maths video and have a go at the activity attached below. (Session 4 – composition of 9 and 10)
Can I have a go at the activity – making 9 and 10? (See attached - Remember to use your careful counting.)
Topic Time
Music – EYFS Teddy – Session 5
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/me-and-my-friends-part-1-cdjp6t
Science -
Following on from the story of Little Red Hen who makes flour with her wheat, this week we will first learn how flour is made.
Watch these two video clips and talk about what you see and hear. The first one shows a windmill in action – how flour was ground from wheat in the old days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rauJq_LTMYI
The second one shows a modern factory making flour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8vLjPctrcU&safe=active
The process is the same - wheat grains are ground into flour, it’s just the machinery and quantities that are different. They are both noisy places!
Discussion
What foods did you see that are made from flour?
Did you hear that the grains and flour have to be cleaned to remove any thing that shouldn’t be there such as sticks or metal?
You can have a go at this. Put some flour in a bowl and add something that shouldn’t be there such as some small stones. Can you get them out using a sieve?
Now try adding some paperclips (or similar) to some flour.
If you have a magnet, you could try getting them back out with this. Otherwise you can use the sieve again.
Reception Story Time
Today’s story is ‘Share’ J
Year 6 Home Learning - Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Date: 1st Feb 2021 @ 3:37pm
Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Good morning Year 6. Welcome to Tuesday. I hope you are keeping well and enjoying the tasks that have been set. Remember to set yourself a target for today – something small to achieve by the end of today (helping the family with tea, cleaning/tidying a room, completing all the work).
Here are today’s tasks:
PSHE
Watch this video, A Journey Through Musical Emotion and think about the different ways that music can change how we feel and express ourselves. Research shows that people feel more positive after singing to music so either use one of these songs If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out - Cat Stevens and Express yourself - Labrinth.
Or simply find a favourite song and have a good sing out loud (just ask the adult in the house first).
Reading
Read for 30 minutes. Keep building up that stamina. It is so important that you keep this your number one priority.
Reading activity for today:
- Look at the apostrophes in the text. Write down 10 words which has an apostrophe, and explain why it is there.
English (split into three parts: Handwriting, Spellings and Writing)
Handwriting
The handwriting poems this week are based on puns and wordplay. Make sure you slow down each of your letters to make them form correctly. This week focus on having all your letters the same size (so each ‘a’ is the same as every other ‘a’)
Wordspinning
Spin pins into nips.
Snap pans into naps.
Mix spit into tips.
Turn parts into traps.
Switch post into stop.
Whisk dear into dare.
Carve hops into shop.
Rip rate into tear.
Spellings
There is a spelling file attached at the bottom of this blog which covers the spellings for this week, -gue / -que
- Write out two lists, one for all the gue words and one for the que words. Say each word out loud – can you hear why it has a gue or a que spelling?
Writing task
Can I write a diary entry as Hatty?
Read chapter 21.
I have sent the lesson introduction on Seesaw which explains today’s task.
Maths – Calculating with Fractions Week
- Warm up your brain: Counting back in 15s from:
725, 950, 1620, 700, 237
- Sumdog – two challenges (both with 200 answer targets):
- Mix of 2, 4, 8 times tables
- Multiply by powers of 10 and fractions (the more you practise with multiplying by fractions, the easier Thursday’s lesson will be)
- Main lesson. The objective for today is:
- Can I add fractions with different denominators?
See the video sent on Seesaw which explains the activities for today’s Maths lesson and the main sheet is named, Adding fractions questions and answers
- Maths challenge – More adding fractions (explained in the video)
Science
Firstly, have a go at this Odd One Out activity from Explorify. How many similarities can you see between these blackbirds? How are they different? Which one would you say is the odd one out? There is no right or wrong answer here as long as you can justify your choice.
Unusual blackbirds - Explorify (wellcome.ac.uk)
When you have looked closely and discussed the points above, scroll down and read the Background Science section. We have touched on variation within a species in lessons 1 and 2 but will come back to it later in this topic of Evolution and Inheritance.
Last week, we looked at plant adaptations that help them survive. This week we are going to look at how some animals are adapted to their environment. In your book, write today’s date and the learning objective:
Can I explain how animals are adapted to their environment?
Choose 2 of these animals that you would like to research. Find out how each is adapted to its environment.
Otter, Camel, Elephant, Desert Scorpion, Arctic Fox.
In your book, for one animal, draw (in pencil!) a large picture of the animal and label it, explaining its adaptations. For your second choice, write a factfile explaining your research.
The headings you should use in your factfile are:
Name of animal: This is your heading so make it bigger and bolder than the rest of your text.
Picture (draw or print one):
Habitat (where it lives):
Diet (what it eats):
Life span (how long it lives):
Adaptations: This section must be the most detailed!
Try to use all the words given below for your chosen animals. You need to put the words into sentences and may not necessarily need the words in the order I have given them.
Otter - webbed feet, propeller tail, whiskers, nostrils, ears, oily skin, quick, feet pads,
Elephant- trunk, tusks, tail, ears, slow, big, rough skin, teeth,
Camel - hump, water, fat, desert, arid, food, feet, nostrils, eye lashes, temperature , store (They do not store water in their humps!)
Desert Scorpion – nocturnal, burrow, heat, control their metabolism, exoskeleton, sharp claws, venomous.
Arctic fox – fur, insulation, seasonal camouflage, foot pads, sense of smell, teeth, claws, body shape.
Finally, please reread your work to check it makes sense and that your spelling, punctuation and handwriting are of the same high standard that we would expect in school. I’d love to see your work on Seesaw.
Well done!
Year 3 Home Learning Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Date: 1st Feb 2021 @ 3:25pm
Good morning Year 3. I hope you enjoyed your Monday, especially focussing on positive things :)
Well done for the work you have done, I have been very impressed with what I have seen on Seesaw.
If you are finding any of your work tricky you can:
- Draw things to help you in Maths like base 10.
- Use things in your house to help with Maths like coins, counters, toys.
- Write out the times tables you need for an activity before starting it.
- Write down your working out.
- Use books and the internet for ideas.
- Discuss your work with people at home when they are not busy.
- Contact the school for support.
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 arithmetic questions and any working out that you do.
Remember to bring your home learning book into school if you are coming in on some days.
You can change your school reading books whenever you need to, just let the school office know beforehand so we can get some books ready for you to collect.
Don’t forget to go on Sumdog. 4 of you have been on the spelling challenge, one of you has already completed it, wow. 5 of you have been on the number challenge and 3 of you have already completed it. Well done.
Things that made me smile on Monday (you could write your own list too)
- Wiggle and dance at the end of the day.
- Thinking about the good things in our lives.
- It wasn’t pitch black when I arrived at school which was amazing!
Tuesday 2nd February 2021
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week. This year’s theme is Express Yourself. Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas. This could be through art, music, writing and poetry, dance and drama, photography and film, and doing activities that make you feel good.
Each day you will be doing some activities related to Children’s Mental Health Week and hopefully it will help you to feel happy and positive.
Start your day with this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fq1jvIy2AE&safe=active
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes.
Tell somebody at home everything you know about one of the characters.
Spelling
Here are your spellings for this week. They all end in –tion.
station, fiction, motion, nation, education, action, injection, caption, fraction, competition.
Write the long date: Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Write the title: Words ending in –tion
Read the spelling words out loud.
Write out your spelling words using two different colours. Write the suffix –tion in the same colour for each word, like this:
station
fiction
education
Handwriting
Follow the video on Seesaw to practise your handwriting.
Writing:
Read pages 226 – 238 of Mr Stink attached to this blog.
Long date: Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Title – Can I write the next part of the story?
I would like you to imagine that Chloe does go wandering with Mr Stink instead of going home. Write the next part of the story, talking about an adventure they go on together. Use your imagination, they could go anywhere in the world. Maybe you could write about an adventure you have been on or would love to go on.
Split your writing into two paragraphs:
Chloe and Mr Stink’s first epic adventure together was …
Despite having a thrilling time, Chloe did miss some things about her life before. She missed…
Remember:
Perfect spelling
Capital letters and full stops (places and names need capital letters)
Beautiful handwriting
Make it even better by:
Adding a simile
Adding a question
Adding an exclamation mark
Starting a sentence with a conjunction
Using exciting words
Times tables
Play on Hit The Button three times.
Practise the 8x tables.
Try to improve your score each time – my record is 36/36.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Sumdog
Go on Sumdog and complete the following challenges:
Spelling Challenge – tion – Monday 1st February – Sunday 7th February
Number Challenge – Addition and Subtraction – Monday 1st February – Sunday 7th February
Counting
Count out loud in 4s:
From 0 to 48.
From 48 to 0.
Maths
Today you are going to answer some arithmetic questions.
There is a video on Seesaw which will help you with question 23, you can also watch previous videos if you need a reminder.
Don’t forget to use a number line to help with question 22.
Don’t forget to use a grid to help with questions 20 and 21.
After watching the videos, set a timer for 20 minutes and complete the questions.
After 20 minutes, check your answers yourself and then use the answer sheet to check.
Children’s Mental Health Week activities
- Complete today’s Wellbeing Journal.
- Complete Relax and breathing activity – attached to this blog.
Science
Complete the Science lesson attached to this blog, it is all about light and reflection.