The Rainbow Children

Learning outdoors

Here are some website to support learning outdoors. Do be mindful when choosing activities to follow Government guidelines.

https://naturedetective.woodlandtrust.org.uk

https://www.naturallylearning.co.uk/50-outdoor-activities-toddlers/

https://creativestarlearning.co.uk/c/early-years-outdoors/

https://lovemybeach.org/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/7-tips-for-gardening-with-children

https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning

You may also like to try the following ideas…

Please continue to stay safe and keep fabulous home learning pictures coming.

A Happy Easter to you all

Barbara

Happy Easter to you all!

It feels very strange that we break up today for Easter. We hope you have a lovely time with your families. There will be a list of fun activities you can dip in to to stop yourselves from being bored!

A New resource for reading online! (with quizzes!)

EPIC READING - Let’s keep growing a love of reading over Easter!

I am very excited because I have found a new reading resource for your child to use - Epic Reading. Epic reading can be used online or on the app. It has a huge selection of ebooks, completely free and the best thing is…you can find books using your child’s ZPD level!

This is brilliant as it means your child can read books that accurately match their reading level. There are also lots of quizzes to do. It’s super easy to set up, using your email.

If you would like to get involved, please email me on a.lyons@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk. I will then link your email to your child’s profile so that you can access the books at home. Miss Hornby has also asked if in the email you send, you can give permission for us to add your email to Texts to Parents; it would be very handy to have your emails saved on our system.

If you are wanting to use this resource, please check back on Monday. Mrs Lyons is going to create short video explaining how to use the website/app which will be found in the ‘How to help your child’ section and I will send the invites to your emails when I have them.

Year 3 Friday 3rd April Photos from your Learning from Home

Thank you for all of your lovely photos. We love receiving them and hope that you all like looking at them too.

It’s great to see so much learning going on and to see how much care you are taking when completing all of your work. Remember to keep it neat and to make sure that your handwriting is carefully joined up. We will definitely be giving some pen points out when we get back to school!

Reception home learning for Friday 3rd April

Hopefully you have all been collecting lots of empty boxes, rolls bottle lids and more. Today I want you to use your creativity to create a robot/monster/vehicle/friend. Please then send me photographs of your creations. I will upload these at the end of the day so that you can have a look and see what your friends have made.

Don’t forget to finish any tasks that you might have missed this week. Along with plenty of reading and enjoying of stories.

• Sum dog

• Purple mash

• Oxford Owl Reader

• Joe Wick does PE

I look forward to seeing your pictures,

Miss Bassett.

A message for Year 4!

Good morning Year 4. We are just about to break up for Easter - virtually! There will be one page with lots of Easter ideas for you to do if and when you want to next week.

A big shout out to the following children who have met their reading target this week:

Mark, Victor, Adam Clayton and Megan. 8 learning points!!

Here are some of your latest pics and look out for Harvey’s volcano video which I will put on later!:

Happy Easter everyone!

Today brings us to the Easter holidays! I want to say a huge thank you to all for supporting your child's learning from home so well! They all seem to be having such a great time and I can see from the pictures that you keep sending me, how they are improving so many skills through practical and creative activities. I think you are all wonderful!

To the children, I am so proud of each and everyone of you! You are making your families so proud of you and impressed with what brilliant learners you have become. You are all Bobby bees, Cooper crabs, Sadie spiders and all of our other special learning characters. Keep up the great work Reception. Remember to keep helping Mummy and Daddy, I know how much they are all enjoying this extra special time with you all.

Your fabulous monsters:

During the Easter holidays I won’t be posting any learning from home activities as you all deserve a rest and to celebrate this special time without adding more work into the mix. However, if you are looking for activities to carry out during the coming week, there will be a new blog on Sunday, to share lots of Easter ideas that the lovely Mrs Gregan has put together. All of the activities are creative, which I know you will love!

I am wishing you all a lovely Easter holiday, filled with lots of rest, family time, and prayers from home.

I will be thinking and praying for you all,

All my love,

Miss Bassett

Year 3 Friday 3rd April Learning from Home

Good morning everyone. Lovely to see you all again, I can’t believe that we are at the end of our second week already.

Well done for all of your super learning so far, we just love getting all of your pictures. Keep them coming in and we will keep posting them on our blog.

Remember it’s the weekend and the start of the Easter holidays, (no blog until Tuesday 14th April) so try to do something lovely as a family. Remember to keep smiling and to be kind to everyone. Don’t forget to make time for God too - this Sunday is Palm Sunday - maybe you could look up the story and read it. Then next weekend we have the Easter celebrations - have a look at the stories and share them together as a family.

We have put some lovely Easter activities that you might want to look at. (These will be on the blog from Sunday)If you send photos, we will post them on the class blog after the holiday.

Today we would like you to try to make sure that you have done all of the tasks set so far this week, and to also get the tasks done for today. Have you checked out the weekly challenges?

Keep reading

Try to do 30 minutes reading and don’t forget to take a quiz if you need to. Why not read a story to a little brother or sister, choose an ebook with them and then you could quiz on it when you have finished. I have checked Acceleread today and there are lots of children close to their target, keep up the great work.

EPIC READING - Let’s keep growing a love of reading!

We are very excited because we have found a new reading resource for your child to use - Epic Reading. Epic reading can be used online or on the app. It has a huge selection of ebooks, completely free and the best thing is…you can find books using your child’s ZPD level! This is brilliant as it means your child can read books that accurately match their reading level. There are also lots of quizzes to do. It’s super easy to set up, using your email. If you would like to get involved, please email us on l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk and k.edmondson@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk. We will then link your email to your child’s profile so that you can access the books at home. Miss Hornby has also asked if in the email you send, you can give permission for us to add your email to Texts to Parents; it would be very handy to have your emails saved on our system. Thank you.

Sumdog/IXL

Don’t forget these challenges. Play some of the games on Sumdog (Have you managed to add a cow to your pile in the junkyard game yet? I also like the cake monster game. Delicious!!!) and have a go at some of the units on addition and subtraction on IXL.

We have put some Sumdog spelling challenges on too, so that you can practise your spellings. (We have used spellings from this week and also from previous weeks.) Why not have a go.

Maths

Roll a dice three times and make a 3 digit number. Write it down. Roll the dice three times again and either add it to the first number or subtract it. Make sure that you line up the columns carefully. Check whether you have to exchange and make sure that you do this carefully. (Make sure that you take the bottom number from the top number when subtracting - BE CAREFUL!!!)

(Check Monday’s Home Learning blog for how to generate numbers)

English

Today I would like you to write a non chronological report about Italy using your notes from earlier in the week. Please write an introduction using your notes on where Italy is and then write a paragraph for each of the headings I gave you, you will need to turn your notes into full sentences now.

Remember to write neatly and to join your writing carefully please. We are looking for pen points.

For example with my note of Capital - Rome

I could now write

The capital city of Italy is Rome, it is on the coast of Italy. It is situated in the centre of Italy.

Please use 2Publish on Purple Mash to complete this piece of work so I can see them. To find it just type 2Publish into the search box on the Purple Mash home page, open 2Publish and then go on to the template called ‘What I have learned’, which will allow you to type and add images. Before you start please look at these examples so you can see what they could look like.

There is also a list here of things to try and include in your report.

Remember to use

• Super spelling

• Full stops and some commas too

• Capital letters—don’t forget for place names too

• Interesting sentence starters

RE

The end of another week. Think about all the things that someone you live with has done for you this week, be grateful. Draw them a picture to make them smile, write them a little note on the back of the picture to explain to them why you are grateful. Make a promise to them to do something kind for them before the end of the day. Share this with them.

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Friday 3rd April

It’s Friday! You’ve reached the end of another week AND the Easter break! Well done Year 2. Here are your final learning challenges of the week - keep being those ‘Focused Cooper Crabs’ that I know you are!

Phonics

Access the RWI sessions below. All the children would benefit from accessing the set 3 sounds lesson, however some might also benefit from the other sessions.

Set 1 Speed Sounds at 9.30 am
Set 2 Speed Sounds at 10.00 am
Set 3 Speed Sounds at 10.30 am

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR3Ls7yR6-0ebguznW0u_pCJYHWG3LFra3fS7C_PxZ03XibY2toSLrutI4g

Reading

Continue reading and quizzing on books using the Accelerated Reading tabs in the ‘How to help your child’ section.

English

It’s your final day of writing today and your chapter will be finished! I can’t wait to read them, so when you have finished your whole chapter, please do send them my way.

Today, you will be writing both the resolution and the conclusion. Don’t forget to use your plan as a guide and refer back to the structure of the original chapter in ‘The Museum Thief’.

Grammar focus for resolution:

Sentences containing subordination for time using ‘before’, ‘after’ and ‘when’. For example: After Stanley shouted for help, the police came and arrested the thieves. Don’t worry if you are unable to use all three of the subordinations in your writing - one or even two would be great!

Finally, use your plan to write the conclusion.

Grammar focus for conclusion:

subordination for reason using ‘if’ and subordinating conjunction ‘that’. For example: Stanley wouldn’t have been in the newspapers if he wasn’t so brave. The police were so impressed with Stanley that they asked him to work for them.

Now you have finished writing your chapter, feel free to enjoy the final chapter of Flat Stanley together.

Maths

Please access:

Week 2 - ‘Lesson 5 - Step 10 - ‘equivalence of half and 2 quarters’ - by clicking here:

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Watch the video and have a go at the activities. Remember, you don’t need to print the activities if you are unable to - work through them from the screen and record your answers in your maths books.

SumDog

Today’s task - Related addition and subtraction facts within 100

Money

Work through section S ‘Money’ on Maths IXL.

Don’t forget to look back at the weekly challenges for all other learning for the week!

Have a great Easter break Year 2 - you all definitely deserve it and you have worked so hard in these uncertain times. Enjoy the time with your families. Don’t forget to check back for a few reflective and fun RE tasks to complete over the break.

Stay Safe

God bless,

Miss Woodend

Year 4 Friday 3rd April Home Learning

English

Today, you are writing your ending to your Dragon Slayer story. You need to think what might have happened to the Dragon Slayer and his little dragon family in the future. Maybe you could use one of our novels as inspiration - what happened at the end of Charlotte’s Web or the Butterfly Lion? Make sure the reader feels happy at the end and the Dragon Slayer is no longer a killer!

Maths

Let’s use our extended method for multiplication now with three digit numbers. Fist watch my short video and do a few examples with me.

Then complete the further activities on the sheet below. I will put the answers on from 6.00 tonight! No cheating though!

Purple mash time - conversions.

Reading

Have you managed to do a quiz yet this week? Which books have you enjoyed? Why not share what you have read on our class blog. Is there a good book you can recommend?

Weekly activities

How did you get on? Which have you got left to do?

Home Learning Snapshots

Here are more snapshots of your fantastic learning from home.

Keep it up - it’s very nearly the Easter holidays!

One super obstacle course!

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Year 3 Home learning photos Thursday 2nd April

Keep up the excellent work, your smiley faces are brightening up our days. It is lovely to see you are embracing the challenges, and making the best of being at home for your learning. I’m sure you are enjoying seeing what your friends have been up to and how well they are getting on with their work.

Reception home learning for Thursday 2nd April

1. PE with Joe Wicks—Start your day with a fun workout (https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1/videos )

2. Phonics: Please continue to practise one of those tricky sounds that you identified last week.

For the rest of this week I would like you to focus on recognising the tricky words: I, the, to and me.

There are many fun activities that you could do to help your child to build their familiarity with these tricky words such as:

· Creating a bingo board using these words along with other 3/4 letter words. This could be a fun and competitive game for the family.

· Reading and spotting these words in stories

· Practise writing these words in fun ways: Using squeezy bottles of water outside, painting, gluing and sticking objects over the written word, icing biscuits and adding choc chips to spell out the words.

· Play the game 4 corners either inside or outside (always a fun game but it does need a few participants.

· Creating the words using Lego.

· Using your Purple mash login and creating a tricky word picture using 2Paint.

3. PE: Today  I would like you to continue to practise your ball control skills. If you have access to a bat and ball, you could practise striking a ball using the bat. If not, use what you have, be that a bounce ball/basket ball or football. Shuttlecocks for a game of badminton are a great way to practise overarm throwing too.  If you don’t have any of these available, you could still practise throwing and catching… just find an old scarf, scrunch it up and practise your catching skills.

4. Sum Dog: Remember that you can still practise our second challenge this week, comparing numbers to 10. This challenge will be available to use until Friday.

5. Home reading: If you have not yet been onto Oxford Owl to practise your child’s reading please do so following the link below to create your account and the following link to take you to the first set of books. https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/

Link for the first set of reading books:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=&level=rwi+phonics+green&level_select=rwi+phonics+green&book_type=&series=#

*** Keep saving some toilet roll tubes, cereal boxes, bottle lids etc. ready for Friday’s learning challenge.***

Miss Bassett.

Year 4 Thursday 2nd April Home Learning

English

Time to write your resolution paragraph. This is when the Dragon Slayer makes his decision and then the other babies appear! Try to use those fronted adverbials to make the start of your sentences more interesting. You may need possessive apostrophes and don’t forget to slip in some extended noun phrases!

Maths

Now complete IXL H8 and H9. You will need to work out some of the answers using the extended method in your maths books but others are easy enough to work out mentally.

Purple mash Time - mixed clock times.

I have also set you a new Sum Dog challenge - practising multiplication and division. On Friday, I will set you a few to keep you busy over the Easter holidays. I know you all love it!

Daily reading and select some thing/s from the weekly tasks. Happy learning!