Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School
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Dear children welcome to our online learning community. We will be helping you to keep learning every day!
We have subscribed every child in the school to the interactive maths website “SUM DOG.COM”. To get started I have made a little on screen instruction video below. You will need your username and password. The passwords for each class are to be found below :
Homework set early this week. If you are at home you can be doing this in the next 3 days. More home learning will be set for you tonight. Enjoy!
Maths
7x table. As last week you can use the sheet given to practise. Look for patterns eg Are the answers odd or even?
Try learning Percy Parker’s 7 x table song below:
There is also a link to a site where you can practise all your times tables learned so far. Do a little bit often!
English
Please complete the Purple mash grammar 2 do’s ‘Day out’ and ‘Harry’s Party.’
Don’t forget to learn your spellings too. Can you write a short paragraph including all your spelling words to show you understand what they mean?
Please discuss what each word means.
Maths
This week, we have been learning our 9 x table. First we noticed that we add 10 and take away 1 each time. This makes lots of patterns in the 9x table. Please write in your homework book the multiples of 9 going down your page - then explain the patterns you spot to your grown ups. Write a written explanation of this.
Then use the sheet given, ‘Practising the 9x table’ to learn the facts through playing a game - follow the instructions on the sheet.
Finally, keep practising each day - with quick- fire questions eg 7x9 3x9 until you know it off by heart.
Assembly Parts
Our assembly will be about ‘The Garden of Gethsemane,’ on Wednesday 1st April. Please learn your assembly parts for next week. Some of you have a song to learn instead:
English
The Anglo-Saxons loved to share Riddles and Kennings - (both different types of poetry) with each other. We have learnt in class how to write a Kenning. For your homework, please write 2 Kennings. One about yourself (see sheet for help to plan this) and another about anything for me to guess! It could be a type of animal, an item of clothing, a sport - anything - but please give me lots of clues! Go to the ‘Help your child’ section for an information poster and a teaching powerpoint about kennings to refresh your memory.
Flute— The children are going to be putting on a performance for Year 3 in the last week of school before Easter, so please make a really good effort with your practice over these next few weeks. Please revise ‘We will rock you’, ‘Happy’, ’Mamma Mia’ and ‘Prince of Belair’ this week on your flute.
Maths—Please practise your 4 and 8 times tables—be active, sing them or do a family quiz maybe. Can you write the link between these times tables and prove it to me with 3 examples? Make sure a grown up writes a note so I can give you learning points children.
Lent - Please discuss jobs and donations to CAFOD and see if you can bring in a donation next week.
Spellings—Please continue to practise your spellings for your quiz on Monday.
confusion
revision
explosion
division
decision
television
fruit
minute
learn
exercise
regular
interest
Flute— Please practise ‘We will rock you’, ‘Prince of Belair’ and ‘Mamma Mia’ this week on your flute.
History—Please visit this website page https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/story-of-england/early-medieval/ and make an information poster about the Anglo Saxons, typed out or handwritten the choice is yours. Please include paragraphs of information, a diagram and captions for your images. Please click on this page https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/st-augustines-abbey/history-and-stories/who-was-st-augustine/ within the website and include a paragraph about St Augustine in your work.
Spellings— Please continue to practise the spellings given on 24.2.2020 for the spelling quiz on 2.3.2020.
science
scissors
fascinate
ascend
descend
muscle
perhaps
suppose
therefore
possess
probably
possible
Flute— Please practise ‘We will rock you’, ‘Prince of Belair’ and ‘Mamma Mia’ this week on your flute.
Maths—Please play on this game to practise your times tables. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button Please practise 3s, 4s and 6s. If needed recap on 2s, 5s and 10s. Please write a comment in your child’s homework book so I can see how they are getting on and so I can award them learning points.
RE—As part of my teacher worship this week we discussed how we could help try to combat loneliness in our community, the children came up with some lovely ideas. One of their ideas was to make cards for people who may be lonely and to give these out, I loved this suggestion and Father Peter has very kindly said that we can have a box of them placed at the back of church. Please can each child make at least one card to go in the box (feel free to make more), bring them into school by Thursday and I will pass them on to Father Peter. Make them bright and colourful please children. Inside you could write something like this
To the reader of this card
Remember you are not alone, Jesus is in your heart.
Love the Year 4 children at Our Lady Star Star of the Sea (We are not adding names to keep our children safe).
Spellings— Please continue to practise the spellings given on 3.2.2020 for the spelling quiz on 10.2.2020.
The children thought of loads of great, fun ways to learn their spellings on Friday. Please ask them which way they would like to try (the nerf gun spelling quiz where you get blasted if you are too slow was not my idea! Mine were more sedate like flour on a baking tray and water and a paintbrush outside on garden flags, so please don’t hold me accountable for any Nerf gun related injuries! )
Spellings this week
remember
history
sentence
opposite
natural
separate
serious
obvious
hideous
anxious
jealous
enormous
Flute— Please learn ‘Mamma Mia’ and continue to practise ‘We will rock you’ this week on your flute.
Maths—Please revisit the 2 and 4 times tables, can you find a link between the calculations in the 2s and the 4s? How are the answers related? Ask someone to quiz you on them and write a comment on how you are getting on. Perhaps children you could quiz a grown up or even get the whole family involved, why not set a prize? Breakfast in bed for the winner or they get to choose a film for film night!
Spellings—Please continue to practise the spellings given on Monday ready for the spelling quiz on 3.2.2020.
Spellings - we tried giving out spellings on slips of paper last week in the hope they were then ready to stick on fridges, memo boards or on walls ready for practising them however this plan failed when several were lost or eaten by the tray monsters in our classroom! So spellings will be listed on here and the homework page each Monday, these will then be tested the following Monday.
This week our spellings are
they
reign
weight
obey
neighbour
freight
eighth
eight
sleigh
build
height (same letters eigh but different sound so be careful)
island
Thank you for your continued support.
Miss Edmondson
Homework
Flute— Please practise ‘We will rock you’ and ‘Prince of Belair’ this week on your flute.
Maths—Please practise the 6 times table this week, can you do it while being active maybe? Could you skip before every answer or jump as you think?
RE— Our new RE topic is Judaism, please do some research and in your own words write down the 3 most interesting facts you learn.
Spellings—The children have all been given their spellings to learn, my apologies they were sent home on Tuesday instead of Monday. Many new routines for me to get into!
Maths - please practise your three times tables, there are lots of great songs and rhymes on the internet or maybe make your own?
Spellings - As explained on my blog today spellings will now be tested on Mondays within the children’s spelling lesson, please recap on the same spellings given last week ready for Monday 20th January.
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History - please visit https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z39j2hv/resources/1 and watch the video called ‘The story of China. How the Shang invented writing.’ There are plenty more videos on there if you want to discover more (this is optional).
Flute
Please practise Fresh Prince and the new note C.
Maths
Please practice your 4x tables using our usual process:
Learn to count in 4’s first until you are confident
Learn to say your times tables in order
Learn to recall them out of order.
Below is the link to ‘Percy Parker’ a fun way of learning your times tables through song!
Flute
Please Practise hot cross buns and ‘nee-naw’ like a police siren!
Spellings
Please learn the following and make sure you know their meanings:
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History
We have learned all about the Egyptians in one week! We especially enjoyed learning about the discovery of Tutenkhamun’s tomb. Please complete the Purple Mash 2do about this. If you want to find out more to help you write it, here is a good site:
Christmas Songs
Please put some good practice in this weekend of ALL Christmas songs so that you know the words for our performance.
Purple Mash
You have two 2do’s! A Nativity animation and a nativity newspaper report. If you want to be reminded about HOW to write a newspaper report, please look on the help section, where I have put a newspaper report toolkit!
Christmas songs
Please make it your priority to learn the words of our Christmas songs off by heart. Maybe practise two a night. We are doing our first rehearsal in church on Monday!
Flute
Please practise all songs for our first flute concert on Monday.
Maths
We have been practising lots of strategies in addition and subtraction. Children have brought home a sheet to complete where they choose and practise them.
Charlotte’s Web
Please read the extract from Charlotte’s web to your family. Don’t forget to EMPHASIZE the words in italics. Or you could all choose to take a part to read! Tell your family all about our story so far!
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