Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Tuesday 9th June

Good morning Year 2. I’m sure you’re now back into the swing of virtual learning once again and are ready for a new day of learning. Here are Tuesday’s activities.

Reading

Continue reading and quizzing on books using the Accelerated Reading and Epic Reading resources. Help can be found in the ‘How to help your child’ section of my page if you need it.

Remember, you should be reading for at least half an hour each day. Also try to read both a range of fiction and non-fiction books.

English

Day 2

Continue to research birds using A-Z Find a Bird guide on the RSPB website:

You may choose to continue researching garden birds or consider wading birds or birds of prey – it’s up to you!
This time, create some Top Trumps cards displaying key facts about each bird. You may wish to include subheadings such as: Picture/diagram, Population, Size, Wingspan, Number of eggs, Diet, One/two sentences about the bird or an amazing fact.

Colour your pictures and make your cards as presentable as possible! If you make a few cards, you could even play your Top Trumps bird game with your family!

SumDog

Spellings - ‘Contractions’

Oxford Owl Spelling

Choose a spelling rule to work on today.

Maths

Click the link below and access ‘Summer Term, Week 6 (w/c 1st June)’

Watch the video ‘Lesson 2- Sharing’ and complete the work below.

SumDog

Analysing graphs to 10

IXL

Which sections do you have left to complete? Have a look and see how many you can get through.

Times tables

Click below for a website which will help you to practise your times tables even more. You can create a free account which will enable you to see which medals you have collected along the way. Remember in Year 2, our main tables to focus on are 2, 5 and 10, but you could have a go at 3s too for an extra challenge.

Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for more learning!

Have a wonderful day,

Miss Woodend

Reception Learning From Home Challenges Tuesday 9th June

Good morning Reception.

I hope that you are all bright eyed and ready for another day of learning.

Here are the learning activities for today. Have fun!!

Everyday activities:

1. Phonics:

Today I would like you to watch the set 1 and set 2 speed sounds, by clicking on the link:

2. Oxford Owl:

Login to Oxford Owl and read your next book. Remember to discuss the story throughout, checking your child’s understanding. Please make a note of any sounds or tricky words that your child struggles with and focus on these throughout the next few days/until they know them.

3. PE:

Please see this week’s set of new lessons and activities (click on week 7 for this week’s timetable)

Today’s specific activities:

1. Owl Babies:

See if you can remember the story of the Owl Babies.

Can you retell the story orally to your grown up?  Try to remember what happened and in what order.  Watch and listen again.

Today I would like you to have a go at making some owl puppets, following the simple instructions here:

Talk through each instruction as you complete this together.

Re-tell the story again, this time using your newly-made puppets to act the story out.

Try to use the words from the book in  your retelling, e.g. hunting, brave, swooped.

2.  Maths: The Snail and the Whale - Lesson 2

White Rose: Please go onto the White Rose website - Summer term Week 6 Lesson 2 Tuesday

Watch the short video/ presentation and have a go at the activities.

3. Purple Mash:

Please use your login details to access this weeks activity.

I would like you create a picture to show me something that you did during half term. If you could write a sentence to show what you did as well that would be brilliant.

I hope that you have a lovely day!

Take care and stay safe,

  Miss Brisco

Don’t forget to send photos of your learning to me and I will share them at the end of the week.

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Let's Learn at home

Hello everybody, I hope you are all well?

Click on the button for this weeks ‘learning at home’ booklet, and enjoy!

I will be posting a story time later in the week.

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Monday 8th June

Welcome back Year 2! Here are Monday’s home learning tasks. Enjoy!

Reading

Continue reading and quizzing on books using the Accelerated Reading and Epic Reading resources. Help can be found in the ‘How to help your child’ section of my page if you need it.

Remember, you should be reading for at least half an hour each day. Also try to read both a range of fiction and non-fiction books.

English

This week will be your second week learning about ‘Amazing Birds’. You all produced some brilliant work before the holidays so I can’t wait to see what you will achieve this week! If we were in school, we would have been enjoying one of my favourite stories ‘The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark’ together, so to finish your two weeks of learning about Amazing Birds, I will begin reading this to you at the end of the week. I know you’re going to love it as much as I do!

Day 1

Enjoy the brief film clip of the blackbird feeding its chicks and the audio recording of a blackbird’s song. Discuss and marvel at each!

Look at the webpage RSPB Facts About Birds:

Read the section ‘I want to learn about …’ and use the links to read more information about the robin, house sparrow, chaffinch and blue tit. Note how each set of information is written like a series of clues, similar to a riddle, e.g. I see a bird with a chest of red, With black and white wings and grey on its head … It’s a chaffinch!

Your task today is to write a riddle(s) for other garden birds. Your riddle doesn’t have to rhyme and can include other information as well as appearance.

E.g. I see a bird that sings nearly all year round. It eats worms, seeds, fruit, insects and other invertebrates. Some think it is cute, but it will defend its territory. It is famous for its red breast. What is it? … It’s a robin!

Use the A-Z Find a Bird guide on the RSPB website to find key information on your chosen garden bird(s). Adult support will be required to read some of the information here.

Options may include: wren, blue tit, goldfinch, woodpigeon etc. Remember to sequence your information so that you only reveal the most obvious clue at the end! Test your riddle(s) out on your family!

SumDog

Complete ‘Sentence Punctuation’.

Oxford Owl Spelling

Choose a spelling rule to work on today.

Maths

Click the link below and access ‘Summer Term, Week 6 (w/c 1st June)’

Watch the video ‘Lesson 1- The 10 times-table’ and complete the work below.

SumDog

2 x tables

IXL

Which sections do you have left to complete? Have a look and see how many you can get through.

Times tables

Click below for a website which will help you to practise your times tables even more. You can create a free account which will enable you to see which medals you have collected along the way. Remember in Year 2, our main tables to focus on are 2, 5 and 10, but you could have a go at 3s too for an extra challenge.

Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for more learning!

Enjoy your day,

Miss Woodend

Year 2 Weekly Home Learning Challenges - Week Beginning 8th June 2020

Welcome Back Year 2!

I hope that you all had a restful but fun half term holiday and enjoyed the Health and Happiness activities last week. You all certainly looked healthy and happy in your photographs which was great to see! This week we are back to learning and I know that you are going to love some of the activities I have planned.

As usual, each day I will be posting the English and Maths activities for you to complete. Then don’t forget to keep checking back here for your weekly tasks. Any documents or websites needed are attached below.

I hope you all have a wonderful week of learning!

Missing you all lots,

Miss Woodend

Year 4 Monday 8th June Home Learning

Welcome to your final half term in Year 4! We still have a lot to do in this final half term - so make sure you are focused like Cooper Crab and Don’t give up like Sadie Spider. First, watch my little video below which just explains a few things you need to know this half term. I will try to make one video each week which explains the coming week and what I expect.

English

We are going to try out some of the special Lancashire English units for the next 2 weeks. Next week’s one is all about David Walliams!

This week you will be exploring people who inspire us. Delve into facts and find out why these people are

inspirational. You’ll also have a chance to think about who inspires you too and make your own ‘Inspiration Book’.

Read and enjoy opening extracts from the following books in a series by Kate Pankhurst about several inspirational women. (You will need to become a member of LoveReading4Kids. Membership is free).

As you read, note down unfamiliar vocabulary and use a dictionary/thesaurus to find out what new words mean. Word hippo is a good one!

Select two or three of your favourite texts read today. Create some charts showing key information and/or mind maps. For example, you could scan the texts to find important dates and create a chart such as the one below.

Alternatively, you could create a mind map, noting all the key information you have read about one of the inspirational people.

Maths

It is time to move on to decimals! The secret is that decimals are just fractions in numerical form! This is why we learned all about fractions first!

I would like you to watch and join in with the videos from White Rose maths to learn about decimals. It is important that you listen carefully, join in properly and pause the screen to complete activities when the online teacher asks you to. You may want to complete them with an adult nearby to help.

Today please watch Week 1 (not Summer) Lesson 1 Recognise Tenths and Hundredths then complete the sheets below it. Finally, mark it using the answer sheet. Ask a grown up if stuck.

Year 3 Monday 8th June 2020 home learning

Can you guess which book this is image is showing us?

Welcome back to Summer half term 2, we hope you enjoyed your half term holidays and then a great week of Health and Happiness activities. Today we will continue with our home learning in the same format as last half term.

Reading

Over the holidays some children took the opportunity to make a voyage into a far away land by reading a book. I went back in time to 1880 and travelled to London as I read my latest book, a bit of a spooky thriller! My favourite spot to read was an old fashioned deck chair in my garden. Where was yours? Mason, Abi and Lexi must have found a quiet place to read as they all met their reading targets. Great work children!

Spellings

Your new spellings are possession, pressure, purpose, quarter, question and regular. Please spend some time practising them ready for a quiz later in the week.

English

Our new focus is going to be on the brilliant story of ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’, did you guess correctly? Please click below for today’s challenges.

Maths

Today we start a new topic ‘Multiplication and division’ and I have tried a new way of working too, below is a video which I would like you to work through. Pause the video when I set you a challenge and work in your maths book as you have been doing.

Here is the link to a game you will need in today’s maths. You may need to copy and paste it into Internet Explorer as I’m afraid it doesn’t open on Google Chrome for me for some reason. Choose the 6 digit whole numbers option on the main screen.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=MovingDigitCards

PE

Look out for the PE challenges on the PE page, have fun and keep active!

Geography

As we move into a new half term we move on to a new topic ‘Investigating our local area’. Please click below for what you will be up to today.

Reception Home Learning Monday 8th June

Welcome back. I know that this week is not going to be what some of you expected but I hope that you are all ready for some more exciting learning.

I hope that you all had a lovely half term with your families and enjoyed the Health and Happiness activities. Here are the learning activities for today. Have fun!!

Everyday activities:

1. Phonics:

Today I would like you to watch the set 1 and set 2 speed sounds, by clicking on the button:

2. Oxford Owl:

Login to Oxford Owl and read your next book. Remember to discuss the story throughout, checking your child’s understanding. Please make a note of any sounds or tricky words that your child struggles with and focus on these throughout the next few days/until they know them.

3. PE:

Please see this week’s set of new lessons and activities (click on week 7 for this week’s timetable)

Today’s specific activities:

1. Owl Babies

Listen to and enjoy the reading of Owl Babies here:

Listen to the story again, this time pausing to talk about what happens on each page.

Questions you might like to discuss may include: How many owl babies were there? What were their names? What did they think might have happened to their mother? How do you think they were feeling? What did Bill keep saying all the way through the story? What was your favourite part of the story? Why?

I would like you to draw or paint the three owl babies.

Can you label them with their names? Can you write a sentence about each of the owl babies?  (Please encourage your child to use their phonics to help them with their spelling.)

2.  Maths: The Snail and the Whale

White Rose: Please go onto the White Rose website and begin on Summer term Week 6 (1st June)

Watch the short video/ presentation and have a go at the activities.

3. RE:

This term we are going to be thinking about the Church as the family of God.

Do you remember the names of any of Jesus’ friends?

Jesus’ friends told everyone the Good News about Jesus and lots of people listened. They wanted to be like Jesus and do the things that He did. Watch the video clip about Peter and the other believers.

Cut out some pictures of people from magazines or draw pictures of different people. Write the heading: ‘We are all part of God’s Family’

Can you remember what the early Christians did together? Can you try to do these things too?

I hope that you have a lovely day!

Take care and stay safe,

Miss Brisco

Don’t forget to send photos of your learning to me and I will share them at the end of the week.

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 4 Weekly home learning for week beginning Monday 8th June.