Let's Learn at home

As promised, just in case of rainy days, although it could be said there is also learning during inclement weather, here are a couple of Let’s learn at home’ booklets with some ideas to keep everyone busy. They have been produced by Lancashire’s Early Years Consultants. I hope you enjoy them, and if you feel like emailing some pictures of your child completing the activities I will gladly add them to their ‘Learning Journey’ folders. Enjoy!

Have a fabulous half term break and stay safe. We are looking forward to seeing you week commencing 2nd November.

Barbara

A weekend challenge- Sounds of Nature Bingo!

Here’s a fun activity for all the family to join in! Have fun!

Click on the button below to download the pdf.

Let me know how you get on?

Barbara

Year3 Home Learning 16th October 2020

THIS WEEK WE ARE USING COMPUTER BASED LEARNING.

This week’s homework should be handed in after half term please. Many thanks.

Reading:

Read at home every day. You can quiz during school time when a book has been completed.

(Parents: Don’t forget you can check on your child’s progress on Accelerated Reader -  this will let you know which books they have read and quizzed on and also their progress towards their reading target.)

Maths:

IXL maths using the IXL website.  Please complete units I1, I2 and I5 (addition) also J1, J2 and J5 (subtraction)

Spellings:

Please learn the spellings below ready for a spelling quiz in class after half term.

Don’t forget to find different activities from “Fun Ways to Learn your Spellings” sheet to help your child to learn their spellings.

The children should be able to write the spellings independently - this will need to be written clearly and correctly during the spelling quiz.

This week our spellings are a mixture of a spelling pattern and high frequency words.

grammar      straight     special     though     strange     carious     sentence     recent

Handwriting:   

Please practise writing all of the letters in the cursive style and then practise writing these words:

has    off    some    any    very    went    did    they    good    need    use    was    when    there    just    my    could    are    back    help    quick    where    fox    lazy

(See the sheet that has been sent home for reference and rhymes for each letter) It is important that these letters are formed correctly and that they join correctly to the adjoining letters. If letters are tall they should be taller than the other letters and consistent in size. All short letters should be consistent in size too please. Can you write any sentences using these words?

Year 4 blog: "Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning." Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Its hard to believe we have only been in year 4 for seven weeks - it feels like much longer and we are working well together as a class. This week has seen us take part in the beautiful sacrament of Reconciliation. There is a little movie below to watch. Despite being unable to do this in church with our families, it was a different but special occasion. Children came back into class with big grins and shared their feelings of freshness and love!

This week we have dived into our new story, ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin,’ in English. We have looked at lots of different versions and expressed preferences, found similarities and differences. Year 4 children wrote their own descriptions of the Pied Piper, trying hard to use our new Year 4 grammar skill - extended noun phrases. We have also made up our own class version which we are learning to recite!

Geography has been a high point this week - what good little map readers we are becoming! Children have learned further about the earth’s climate zones and biomes - exploring extreme environments. We found out deserts can be hot and cold! Children were brilliant at researching a desert and also asked geographical questions to find out more about one particular desert in America. Finally, we learned about export and import and researched where many of the world’s foods come from! Very exciting.

Maths has seen us start column addition - with 4 digit numbers (presentation is key with this!) and also start to practise our 8x table.

RHE focus

This week, we have focused on love and compassion, with our story, Be Loving, Layla Lioness.’ Children reflected on what compassion was and this fed into our council session in class - where we discussed what charity we could focus on this year. We have decided to give to ‘Streetlife.’

We again thought about gratitude and how lucky we really are when there are so many in desperate need in our world.

Let’s Celebrate!

One Bobby Bee certificate for Lexi for buzzing about her learning and loving every minute!

A Lizzie Ladybird certificate goes to Esme for always listening so carefully to advice from the teacher and for considering how she can improve in all she does.

French star this week was Julia

PE stars this week were Olivia and Jacob O

Thomas got the lunchtime award for being sensible and calm.

Notices

We break up on Wednesday at the normal time.

I have set homework for this week - which will not need to be in until after the half term.

Have a great and cosy weekend with your very tired children!!

God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Miss Forster, Miss Edmondson and Mrs Mather

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl

Another lovely week with lots of super learning and children being enthusiastic,  curious and creative in their work.

In maths this week, we have been doing lots of adding and subtracting, thinking about whether we are adding to the ones or the tens. Regular fluency lessons are also ensuring that the children are practising and over learning the skills. In English, we have written diaries as the Crow from the fable of the Crow and the Fox. We have also continued to think about complex sentences creating complex sentences using because, if and when. We have also been trying to focus on our handwriting this week and earn some pen licence points. (Handwriting is on the homework this week too. Don’t forget you can earn pen licence points for homework too). In history we have been looking at some of the changes that took place for Stone Age man as they began to farm the land. In RE we have been thinking about being part of the Christian family and what that means for us. We have been thinking about how we become part of the Christian family. In Science the children have been classifying different groups of animals, they have been using research to find out the names of different bones and they have also learned how muscles contact and relax to help us to move. Make sure that they show you their paper muscle and ask them to explain what is happening.  In computing the children have been researching and also practising their typing skills. We are very pleased to say that we have some budding typists in our class. Keep up the good work children A great week of learning children, well done. This week has also been our turn to use the trim trail which was so exciting. Make sure that you have a look at our lovely photos.

Let’s Celebrate:

This week our certificates go to Georgia and Rosa.  Rosa receives a Bobby Bee certificate for her enthusiasm during learning. You are always so enthusiastic and ready to learn Rosa and you are trying so hard. Well done!   Georgia receives a Resilient Sadie Spider certificate for the way that she has kept on trying and trying and has not been giving up when things have got tricky. It has been lovely to see how you have been getting better and better because you have not given up. Well done Georgia—keep up the good work.

We are also delighted that Connor Sean, Leo (again),  Max and Ruby Lilly have achieved 100% of their reading target this week. Well done. You have done a super job with your reading. We have reset their targets and all of them are determined to try to reach them again before half term. I am sure that by next week we will be celebrating even more children who will have reached their targets too as we have a whole host of children who are in the 80s. Targets for all children will be reset after the half term holiday.

Things to Note:

• · Please make sure that you look at the home learning page for this week’s home learning. This should be handed in after half term.  This week’s learning is BOOK BASED. Many thanks.

• · Please make sure that children have a coat for playtimes and also a jumper or a cardigan for class time as the weather is getting colder but we are having windows open for ventilation. On cold days layers are best so that if it does get warmer in the classroom they can take 1 layer off.

Thank you for all your continued support and co-operation this throughout the term. Another successful week!

We hope that you have a lovely weekend and have a chance to share some time together as a family.

Take care and stay safe

The Year 3 Team      Miss Brisco, Miss Edmondson, Miss Woodrow and Mrs Mather.

Contact us at:

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

k.edmondson@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Reception Home Learning 16.10.20

Everyone has a new book to enjoy, sound flashcards with this week’s sounds added and some word flashcards in their folder.

Phonics - Read Write Inc

PLEASE continue to form letters in fun and imaginative ways alongside the below activity.

• Choose a sound that we have learnt so far (m,a,s,d,t,i,n,p,g,o,c,k,u,b,f)

• Pass or roll a ball or balloon to each other, saying a different word each time that starts with your chosen sound. Which letter can you get most words for? For example, flower, foot, face, fox, fog…

• You could use the same idea to segment words, choose a word, then each time the ball or balloon is thrown or rolled say a sound. For example, f-i-n, f-o-g (We have been reading these words this week using our new sounds...bun, bat, bag, big, bus, bug, sun cup, mug, fan, fun, fin, fit, fog, fan). 

Maths                                             

Use your imagination to turn the shapes (on the separate sheet inside reading folder) into a picture. Look at the examples below, a circle can be turned into a bee and a square can be turned into a cat. I can’t wait to see what you think of!

Physical Development

This week we have been improving our running skills, see if you can try this at home. Remember to take long strides, with bent arms and moving backwards and forwards the opposite to our legs. This will help us to run quickly!

Enjoy!

Miss Lavelle, Miss Neves and Barbara

Year 4 homework to be completed over the half term

Mainly online homework this week

Holy Communion

This week please share and complete together p21-p39 of Called to His supper Book. Next week we will have our final session so please complete all the rest of the book to the end, over the holidays.

Maths

Please complete IXL: A11 F5 J4 which practise negative numbers AND the 4xtable

Also 8 x table. We have been practising it in class. The best way to learn tables is as follows:

1. Learn how to count in 4’s. Do whilst marching, clapping, do slowly, build up and get faster. Write out all the multiples of 8

2. Learn the key facts which are 1 x 8, 2 x 8, 5 x 8 and 10 x 8. All other facts can be worked out from those. eg 9 x 8 is 10 x 8 - 8. Also write out the 4xtable and compare. It is DOUBLE the fours! The more patterns we can see - the better!

3. Begin to recite your 8 x table and learn your Percy Parker song!

PERCY PARKER'S 8 X TABLE SONG

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Also complete IXL F9 and J8 over the hols which practise the 8X table.

Recorder

Go on Charanga and practise Abi’s Blues and the new song below it. Begin to feel confident at blowing a B and an A note.

Don’t forget to sterilise your recorder and bring it in for Monday.

Purple Mash

I have set you a 2do to complete either this week or over the holidays. It is linked to our Geography focusing on extreme environments. Choose ONE postcard 2do out of the ones I sent.

Wow! What a fantastic week, we have a class full of enthusiastic Bobby Bee’s. Everyone in our class has done something to be proud of this week. From being a kind friend, a busy learner, or using our imagination we’ve done it!

We were introduced to Bobby Bee this week and he reminds us to feel proud of each achievement, be enthusiastic and Believe in yourself and know you can do it.

We have had a busy week of learning and growing our brains.

This week in RE we have talked about Harvest, this is a time when we thank God for the Harvest and for the food provided for us. We joined Nursery in our gardens on Tuesday to do the Harvest Samba, we wanted to say thank you to God for the sun and the rain that helps the crops to grow. We also said a prayer to show how grateful we are to the farmers and people who prepare delicious food for us at home and school.

In Read =-0Write Inc (RWI) . This week we have learnt two bouncy sounds and one stretchy sound. I have been so impressed with the enthusiasm, and excitement to learn new sounds and read words

Let’s Celebrate

This week we have two Co-operative Rodger Robins, thank you both for being great team members of our class.

Heath - For listening carefully to others and sharing his own ideas and supporting other children if they feel sad.

Isaac - For making choices that show you are a caring friend and being a fantastic team player at tidy up time.

Important Notices

School closes for the half term holidays at 3:15pm/3:30pm on Wednesday 21st October.

Children return back to school at 8:30am/8:45am on Monday 2nd November.