Year 3 Home Learning 26.11.21

Spellings:

This week's strategy is called ‘Quick write’. The aim is to write the word as many times as possible in one minute. Your child may look at the word to begin with but should be encouraged to memorise it towards the end of the one minute or as soon as they feel confident. 

Even though children are writing quickly they should still be encouraged to present work to a high standard. 

If you would like to extend the homework you may want your child to think, say and write one or more sentences with one or more of the words in. 

 Our spelling focus this week is adding the suffix -ous. When adding this suffix we sometimes need to change the root word and sometimes the root word remains the same. Remember, “Is there a letter I need to swap? Is there a letter to double or drop?”

1. dangerous

2. poisonous

3. hazardous

4. nervous

5. generous

6. ridiculous

7. tremendous

8. venomous

Maths IXL:

Please complete B.6 - ‘Greatest and least word problems’

English:

This week we have started to look at main clauses and how these can be used as either a simple sentence or joined together using a coordinating conjunction. To help us remember the coordinating conjunctions, we use the term FANBOYS (please see below).

For your homework, see if you can spot any of these compound sentences when you are reading your books together and discuss where the main clauses are and the meaning of the conjunction within the sentence.

Then could you please have a go at the following strands on IXL:

IXL English- W.1. - ‘Use conjunctions’

This week....

Such an exciting week!

The nursery ladies have been watching carefully and noticed that a large group of our children are great builders, some love a cosy moment in the book area whilst other enjoy the home corner. With this in mind, one night after school the nursery fairies decided to rearrange nursery! We now have a huge construction area, an even cosier book corner with cushions and rugs and our home corner, wow the children LOVE it!

It is our plan to give you a guided virtual tour, hopefully next week! Hannah is on to it, fingers crossed and watch this space!

Can I highlight that next week our monthly newsletter will be sent out. It is full of Christmas events that are happening over the next few weeks. Be sure you don’t miss out on the festive fun! If you have any questions just give me a ring or drop me an email.

Clare, Colette and Hannah’s blog

Wow...we are indeed a musical lot this year! A few of the children were enjoying finding different objects around nursery and garden to see what sounds the objects made. Within minutes we had our very own band as numbers had multiplied and we had a plethora of wonderful sounds! This musicality is hopefully going to shine through when its Nativity time!!

Perhaps you can practice our songs at home? Click here for a new version of Away in a Manger (only the first verse please) and here for Sing and Dance for Joy (we are singing ‘dance’ instead of shout for joy etc).

We have had more fun in the hall this week,  - our new favourite is ‘The Circle Song’! Might be a tricky one to practice at home but our group was super at following the moves! Here is the music if you fancy a go!

The three little pigs made another visit with our friends the Numberblocks this week… the children love this story in any form and enjoyed the maths game many of them played alongside it. Perhaps have a go at home at drawing house number one with one window, number two with two windows and three with three windows? Send them into nursery next week and can display them. Good luck!

Clare, Colette and Hannah

Lastly, with the start of Advent fast approaching (yes, it’s next Wednesday!) the children have been planning where we will put our tree and how we should decorate it! It’s all very exciting! We also thought we could recreate the stable in Bethlehem and ‘Christmasify’ (I’m not sure that’s a word) all the areas of the continuous provision. We will take lots of photos to share with you all next week.

We hope that everyone has a calm and restful weekend, not too much Christmas shopping! We look forward to an even busier week at nursery next week!

Barbara

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 24th November 2021

Spelling - Retrieval test! This week’s spellings are all of the ones that we have been learning since half term. Next week I will give you a random test on them.

expansion, permission, comprehension, admission, tension, profession, possession, impression, collision, revision, confession, progression, direction, explanation, competition, cautious, especially, appreciate, ancient, delicious, subtraction, politician, infection, international, crying, reliable, busily, happiness, heavily, beautifully, mysterious, applied, business, heavier, copier, happily.

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Maths - Please can you continue to learn these fraction, decimal and % equivalences

IXL - Maths M2 and M3 - adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator. This should be a good one to whizz through. You all know how to add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.

CHALLENGE - M4 - adding and subtracting fractions word problems

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English - Henry VIII biographical notes

Over the next three weeks, we will be starting to write our Outcome 1 and Outcome 2 of our biographical unit of work. For us to be able to write really good biographies, we have to have a really good knowledge about the person that we are writing about. I want you to continue to gather content all about Henry VIII this week. What further information can you find out about him? I have set you a Purple Mash template for you to record your research on.

Think about:

• DATES - significant dates that appear in Henry’s life.

• Significant people.

• Significant places.

• Context specific vocabulary.

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Year 4 blog. Friday 19th November. "Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God; not herself."(Pope Benedict XV1)

This week, we have delved straight into our new RE topic, Trusting in God.’ Our focus is now on the New Testament. Children wrote some super letters as Zechariah, whose speech was taken away because he questioned the path God wanted for him. We then moved onto Mary and admired her for her obedience to God and deep faith in His plans for her. We love RE lessons in our class because children are so expressive in their feelings towards their faith and said such beautiful things about our Blessed Lady.

RHE

This week in Kidsafe we have focused on Computer and Internet safety and discussed age ratings on films and games. Please read the important letter below outlining what we discussed and what implications it has.

In English this week, children have been outraged that despite being such a loving and terrific pig, Mr Zuckerman still plans to butcher him at Christmastime! We have learned the power of persuasive language this week (so I apologise if your children get even better at persuading you for something they want!) Here they are in action, persuading their friends.

They have written some fantastic persuasive letters to Mr. Zuckerman expressing their feelings about this injustice.

In maths we have finished our block on place value - it is important to keep this ticking over - alongside revision of telling the time too. We are now moving onto addition and subtraction.

History has been so exciting this week and has created such a buzz. We have learned all about Tutankhamun and many children have shared their extra knowledge about this subject. Children worked together to write newspaper reports about this exciting discovery 99 years ago in the valley of the kings!

Let’s Celebrate!

This week our certificate winners are:

1. Alex for full and willing participation in all his tasks and

2. Lily-Mae for asking for advice in her learning, seeking to choose the best words she can in writing and bubbling with excitement about tomb discoveries!

PE stars this week were Molly-Ann and Owen

Music stars this week were Rosa and Iris

Have a lovely weekend everyone. God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.

Year 3 Home Learning 19.11.21

Spellings:

This week’s strategy is called ‘Rainbow Writing’ …

Write the word in a different colours several times. 

(Use sharp coloured pencil crayons rather than felt tips if you can)

Our spellings this week are from our Year 3 focus words:

1. busy

2. address

3. breathe

4. breath

5. believe

6. actually

7. although

8. answer

Maths IXL:

Please complete B.2 - ‘comparing numbers up to 1,000’

English:

This week we have started our exciting English topic based around dragons. We have been reading all about them and even met one that lives within our classroom, but what we want to know is… what image do you have in your head when you think of a dragon? Can you design, draw and describe your own dragon. You will find the following sheet in your homework books to help you.

Please can you draw, label and write a short description of your very own dragon.

This week...

A fabulous week of learning at nursery. The children are growing each week in confidence and taking more challenge in their play and learning. We are proud of each and every one of them.

One of our number two challenges this week was to sort and pair socks and wellies, but guess what, we can’t find our sock box anywhere. Can you help? If you have any old socks of different sizes and patterns we would be most grateful for donations. Thank you in anticipation.

Clare, Colette and Hannah’s blog

This week we have continued to thank God for all the amazing animals on the planet! We have drawn even more interesting animals and we even had a vote for our favourite animal. Alongside this, we just had to learn an animal song too! Click here to watch the song ‘Animal House’

The Autumn winds have blown lots of leaves around Nursery garden…on Wednesday it was so windy that it looked like it was raining leaves!! We had lots of fun exploring the different kinds of leaves and looking at all the beautiful colours on the ground. We even discovered one or two wiggly worms hiding at the bottom of the pile of leaves.

We have been continuing to look at the Number three and have been continuing to practise our m, a, s, d and t sounds with our lovely Geraldine the Giraffe. Why not get wrapped up warm and head out on a lovely Autumn walk to see if you can find anything that starts with one of our sounds? There is usually a few things at the park beginning with ‘S’. Or try the sound quiz on purple mash… Click here

As we mentioned in last week’s blog we have begun to organise our Nativity play. We have been sharing the Christmas story with the children and they have been asking lots of questions (as they always do!!). Everyone has been getting excited about their role in the Nativity.

Now for the photos!

Next week we will be learning the songs for the Nativity and also our lines in readiness for filming. Costumes are ready, cameras are set, it’s all systems go… hopefully. The play will go live on this blog in a few weeks time, I will let you know the date as soon as I can…watch this space.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and wrap up warm, apparently it’s going to be cold…brrrrrr!

Barbara, Clare, Colette, Hannah and Frances