Year 4 Home Learning Wednesday 1st July

English

Today it is time to read another myth - a funny one today!

Maths

White Rose Summer - Week 2 Round Decimals

Computing

Coding lesson 3. Go for it!

Let's Learn at Home - Reading

This weeks ‘Let’s Learn at Home’ is all about reading and telling stories. See if you can make a story prop box!

If you feel like it, send me some photos of you telling a story I would love to see them.

Year 3 Tuesday 30th June home learning

Reading

Mason and James have both met their reading targets, well done boys. Can you meet yours this week? I have created a display board on Purple Mash for you to share your book reviews to, you will find it under the ‘Sharing’ tab at the top. There are book reviews from James, Steph and Olivia already on there. Please feel free to add your own by pressing the share button after you have saved your work, you have a template set for you to complete your book reviews on in your 2dos.

A well done to James who recognised yesterday’s reading quote as one from Dr Seuss, he wins a hug off his family.

English

Read the next two chapters and then have a go at the challenges. These chapters are sad children. I am trying to make sure we get to the end of the book by the end of this week, so there is a little more reading to do today.

Maths

Click below for today’s maths.

Computing

Thank you for the kind comments I have received about this topic, we have created it for the first time to teach to year 3 and it seem lots of the children have really enjoyed it. I think you will like this challenge too, you are going to make your own animation.

Task 1 - Plan out your story.

Task 2 - Photograph and make it into your animation.

See if you can make yours into a proper little animation rather than just a quick demonstration like mine. Watch the video and then click on the button below it for instructions on how to make yours.

This challenge may be completed over the next 2 days so it will give you time to make puppets, lego figures or models if needed.

Mrs Lyons and the children at school made this animation today, which is brilliant so I thought I would show you so you can see another example. See how the image just changes ever so slightly each time?

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Tuesday 30th June

Good Morning Year 2!

Here are your activities for today’s learning.

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.

Please note: From the 30th June, the school’s subscription changes and the EPIC reading resource will only be available for 2 hours across the week.

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:

What is pink? by Christina Rossetti

Watch and listen to ‘What is Pink?’ by the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti: (click the picture below)

Listen again and pause to jot down any new words or phrases, e.g. fountain’s brink, barley bed, ripe, mellow. Discuss meanings, using a dictionary or Word Hippo to help you.

Discuss the ending of the poem. (What is orange? Why, an orange! Just an orange!) Why do you think Rossetti chose to use an orange instead of something else that might be orange in colour?

Today you are going to write your own version of What is Pink? If you are able to, go on a nature walk with an adult around your garden or local area. Act as a colour collector! What can you see that is each of the colours? What is each item/object doing? You may even wish to take a clip board or notepad out with you.

Write your poem using a similar structure to ‘What is Pink?’ using ideas collected from your walk, e.g. Start with a question: What is yellow? Answer the question: The sun is yellow: Describe the item or what it is doing: Light and bright and warm. Here is another example: What is green? The hedgerows are green, Home to nesting blackbirds and beautiful butterflies.

Remember to finish each question with a question mark. Check your spelling and try to use some noun phrases and adjectives (describing words) to help your reader to ‘see’ what you saw on your walk. Keep rehearsing your poem out loud as you write. Think carefully about how to finish your poem. You might choose to use the same finishing line as Rossetti with the orange!

Oxford Owl Spellings

Choose a spelling rule to focus on today.

Maths

Please access - Summer Term - Week 8 (w/c 15th June) - Lesson 2 - ‘Count faces, edges and vertices on 3D shapes’ and watch the video. Then, complete the activity below:

IXL

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

Topmarks

Click the link below for lots of games and activities linked to this week’s shape learning.

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

Have a great day,

Miss Woodend

Reception Learning from Home Tuesday 30th June

Good morning everyone. I hope that you are ready for some more super work.

Today is Tremendous Tuesday! How many tremendous things can you do today?

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 10 for this week’s timetable) Or have a go at this week’s challenge.

Today’s specific activities:

1. English - Monsters

Listen to Bedtime for Monsters by Ed Vere:

Talk about the book with your grown up and respond to the question asked in the book: Do you wonder if somewhere, not too far away, there might be MONSTERS? Think about and talk about the different types of monsters. Ask what could you do if you were scared of the monster?

Today I would like you to make a sign to keep the monster out.

I would also like you to construct (maybe with Lego or junk or using some other construction materials) and label a monster trap. (You can add your labels with pieces of paper next to each part of the trap.)  Don’t forget to send me a photo of your trap. I would love to see them and then I can add them to the photo movie on Friday.

2.  Maths: Zog

White Rose: Please go onto the White Rose website and begin on Summer term Week 9(22nd June) Lesson 2

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

3. Sumdog

Have a go at some of the maths and spelling games on Sumdog. Which ones do you like to play?

(Today is the last day that you can use Sumdog so have a go before our membership runs out!)

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 Home learning Tuesday 30th June

English

Today I would like you to watch the video below. After that, you have 2 tasks:

1. Create one Viking world - it could be a drawing, a collage, a painting or a mixture of all of them.

2. Write a create setting and character description of this world, using all the points I have asked you to include.

Maths

IXL today CC11 CC12 and CC13

Art

Have a look at Mrs Curtis’s Art page to see what she wants you to do this week…

Spelling

Today we will add the suffix ion or ssion to change verbs to nouns. Watch our spelling video then complete your Unit 13 sheets.

Optional extra!

Mrs Luty found this on the Natural History museum. It is a live session about volcanoes at 12.00 today! I think you can go to it and rewatch it if you miss it at 12.00. Have a look!

Reception Home Learning Monday 29th June

Good morning Reception.

It’s Magnificent Monday.     Can you think of some things that you have done that you could describe as being magnificent?

I hope that you all had a lovely weekend and that you are all ready for some more exciting 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 10 for this week’s timetable)

Today’s specific activities:

1. English - Monsters

Listen and enjoy There’s a Monster in Your Book by Tom Fletcher:

Make sure you join in with blowing and making the loud noise to get the monster out of the book!

Discuss how you would feel if there was a monster in one of your books. How would you try and get it out? How would you feel? How do you think the monster felt when you were trying to tickle him or shake him out? Once the monster was out of the book, why do you think you needed to get him back into the book? How do you think he felt when he was allowed back into the book at the end? What do you think he might say at this point?

Can you draw the monster and write a sentence or two to show what he might say?

2.  Maths: Zog - White Rose:

Please go onto the White Rose website and begin on Summer term Week 9 (22nd June) Lesson 1

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

3. RE:

Today I would like you to think about Church.

Remember last week when you drew a picture of your Church? Then you thought about the things that are inside the Church. Today I would like you to think about a very special place in Church. It is the place where we keep Jesus. Have a look at the pictures:

Do you know what this place is called? It is called the Tabernacle. When Jesus is inside the Tabernacle there is a red light which glows to show that Jesus is there. Have you seen the Tabernacle and the red light in Church? Look on the photo of Our Lady’s Church and see if you can spot them. (You might need to zoom in!)

Can you draw a Tabernacle? Maybe you could put flaps on the paper before you draw your Tabernacle so that then you open the flaps (the door) you can see Jesus inside.

Write a sentence about the Tabernacle.

Remember to sound out carefully when you are writing.

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 2 Home Learning Challenges - Monday 29th June

Good Morning Year 2!

Here are your activities for today’s learning.

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.

Please note: From the 30th June, the school’s subscription changes and the EPIC reading resource will only be available for 2 hours across the week.

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.

Complete the following reading comprehension for Chapter 3 - ‘Dark is Fun’

English

Poetry Festival - This week you will have the opportunity to read, perform and enjoy some entertaining poems written by famous poets. Using your own experiences as inspiration, you’ll innovate on some of these poems, using them as models in order to write your own!

Day 1:

Scissors by Allan Ahlberg

Read the poem Scissors here:

Now play the audio recording of the poem as read by Allan Ahlberg. Make connections with the poem. Discuss – Did you enjoy the poem? What is the role of the narrator in the poem? (teacher). What does the poem remind you of? Do I (your teacher) ever sound like this?!

Rehearse reading the poem aloud, as if you are the teacher. Try to use as much expression as you can. Don’t forget to use facial expressions and gestures too! You might start your reading very calmly and then become gradually more exasperated when the scissors can’t be found!

In the poem, it is scissors that have been lost. What tends to get lost in our classroom? E.g. glue sticks, whiteboard pens, sharpeners, pen lids, rulers, jumpers etc.

Write your own version of the poem, based on what is commonly lost in our classroom. You can use a combination of lines and phrases from the original poem with your own ideas and sayings too! E.g. Nobody leave the room.
Everyone listen to me.
We had twenty brand new glue sticks this morning, And now there’s only three!
Seventeen sets of glue sticks Disappeared from sight!
Class monitors – we need you to find them, We can stop here all night!

Keep reading your poem out loud to hear the rhythm and check it makes sense. It doesn’t have to rhyme providing it includes some entertaining phrases that I (your teacher) might say! Proof-read your poem to check for spelling and punctuation. When you have finished, perform your poem to those in your household. If you are able to, record it and send it to me at school. I’d love to hear them… they’ll definitely make me smile!

Oxford Owl Spellings

Choose a spelling rule to focus on today.

Maths

This week we are back on White Rose Maths.

Please access - Summer Term - Week 8 (w/c 15th June) - Lesson 1 - ‘Count sides and vertices on 2D shapes’ and watch the video. Then, complete the activity below:

IXL

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

Topmarks

Click the link below for lots of games and activities linked to this week’s shape learning.

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

Have a great day,

Miss Woodend

Year 3 Monday 29th June 2020 home learning

Reading

“Oh the places you’ll go when you read.” Is a famous quote from which author? Email me with your answer. Pick up your latest book and see where it will take you, mine has taken me to Lake Como and Oxford all in one week.

English

Read the next chapter and click below for today’s challenges.

Geography

You’re really going to enjoy this challenge Year 3, it would have been lovely to do all together but make the best of it with your family.

Maths

I am really pleased to hear that lots of you have really been Sadie Spiders with some of the tricky maths questions last week, keep up that resilience and determination.

Year 2 Home Learning Weekly Challenges - Week Beginning 29/06/20

My goodness Year 2, can you believe that we’ve reached the beginning of yet another brand new week? This week of learning will be your last of formal Maths, English and other activities, so make it a real focused week and keep up the super work!

Here are this week’s challenges:

Have a wonderful week!

Miss Woodend