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Home learning challenges for Monday 23rd March

1. Phonics: Today let’s learn a new sound. Our sound is ir-whirl and twirl. Please watch one of our favourites, ‘Geraldine the giraffe’ learn this sound on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ta_KKUU-98

Now that you have watched this short video, maybe you could go on a sound hunt around the house, just like Geraldine. Following this, why not read a story together and see if today’s sound is in the story? How many times can you hear the sound? How many times can you see the sound? You could then practise your letter formation. This doesn't have to be on paper, you could use shaving foam to write the sound, get the paints out, or try moulding play-doh into the two letters.

Ready for a further challenge: Why not have a go at writing words containing the ir sound such as twirl, girl and shirt. You might like to turn this into a spelling challenge if you feel your child is ready for this!

2. Maths: Today we would like you to spend time looking at the shapes: Squares and rectangles. Both of these shapes have 4 straight sides and 4 corners. But what is different about them? Again, you could go on a shape hunt around the house to see what you can find that is either a square or rectangle and then sort these into two groups. This could lead nicely into some construction with a purpose. Using lego, hammer beads, building blocks or anything else that your child likes to construct with... see if you can construct a square (making sure each side is the same length!) and a rectangle.

To further this learning you could link to our more recent vocabulary in our focused story, “Goldilocks” of small, medium and large. Can they construct a smaller and larger square/rectangle to the one they have just built.

3. PE: Don’t forget to get into your back garden for a run around. Today I would like you to practise travelling in different ways: running, skipping, galloping and side stepping.

Alongside these three activities today, please don’t forget a bedtime story. Please use the recommended websites that I have mentioned in my previous post.

Also, any photos would be brilliant! Email me with how you have got on with these activities and any other activities that you chose to do. I will try and post a picture gallery at the end of the week to celebrate your home learning.

4. Sum Dog: If you go to the ‘Help your child’ section of Reception, Mrs Hotchkiss has made a lovely video to explain all about how to get started. Today, I would like you to log in and have a play at some of the games. I have set a maths challenge to be completed by Wednesday. The aim is to be able to count amounts up to 20. Have fun!

Miss Bassett

Year 4 Monday 23rd March Home Learning

Maths

We have a new and exciting way of practising our maths skills! This is called Sum Dog. If you go to the ‘Help your child’ section of Year 4, Mrs Hotchkiss has made a lovely video to explain all about how to get started. Today, I would like you to log in and have a play at some of the games. They look BRILLIANT! From tomorrow, you will have set tasks to complete on this that will appear when you log in!

English

We are going to be practising some of our grammar skills this week, whilst studying a great film called ‘The Dragon Slayer.’ (Click on link below to view) Today, I want you to get familiar with the film and carry out the activities given on the sheet attached below - Becoming familiar with the story.

It is important that, at first, you only watch the film up to 3 minutes 7 seconds, because then I ask you to predict what will happen next before carrying on watching.

You can answer the questions about the film orally to a grown up or write the answers down.

Don’t forget about your other daily/weekly challenges in the blog section - eg Reading, PE etc

Year 5 Monday 23rd March Learning from home!

Here are your lesson for today Monday March 23rd. I hope you have your maths and writing books with you. If not organise picking them up at school. Do your very best and keep in touch!

Good morning Year 5

PANJANS WELCOMES YOU TO YOUR MONDAY MORNING LESSONS!!!

TASK 1

COMPUTER - please see the blog below titled “Monday 23rd- using SUMDOG while learning from home” here you will find an instruction video and your passwords for this new learning platform, which we will be using while you are away from school. The film is also in our Year 5 “How to help at home” section (orange button on our class blog). Have fun today playing the games. You need to know I managed to balance 13 strange items- let me know if you beat me- you’ll know what I mean once you get started

TASK 2

Reading- let’s move onto reading more SCI FI! If you were away last week the class played with Sci FI toys and wrote toy reviews we also talked about what SCI- FI is to them. We decided it was - aliens from other planets, space ships, blasters, star wars, imperial fighters and Dr.Who saving planet Earth. We then went onto to reading short SCI-FI stories. I have set another one here today called “THE PET SNATCHERS!” Open up the link and answer the comprehension questions in your book. Try to keep your new book neat and organised include a date and title.

TASK 3

Maths division. I would like to keep teaching you maths online- moving your learning forward I have created the lesson boards and filmed myself teaching. I will ask you to pause the film to complete the tasks set. Please press play below:

TASK 4

Finally email me:

l.hotchkiss@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Creative challenge:

We played with SCI-FI toys last week. This week I would like you to create a UFO. I have uploaded a picture of one Billy has. If you don’t have Lego what else could you use?

Physical challenge

You will need permission for this one. Have you seen the football stars completing the kick-up challenge with a roll of toilet tissue? My very own footballer is setting you the challenge- he has managed to do 9 so far-

Home learning update for Reception.

I hope that you have all enjoyed today’s challenges!

From tomorrow onward, our daily home learning challenges will be found on the @Learning from home’ tab found along the right hand side of the Reception page.

Thank you. I hope that you are all okay and enjoying this extra family time.

Miss Bassett

Year 3 Monday 23rd March Welcome to an Exciting New Way of Learning

Good Morning Year 3..

Welcome to an exciting new way of learning!

It will seem very strange to be learning at home. Don’t forget to explain to your parents what you are learning.

Is very important to stay focused and be excellent learners - just like you are at school! Try to be like all the learning characters and you will become such an independent learner..

It would help you if you get into a routine and decide what times of day you are carrying out your home learning and weekly challenges.

How home learning will work.

DAILY LEARNING: Every day at 8.00am , we will post your new daily learning which will involve key skills for Maths, English and other subjects. Much of it will be based on the lessons we were going to do in class. This will be in the home learning section of the Year 3 website. So, bright and early each morning - check this and get going!

Children who do the Nessy program at home - please keep this up every day. Remember to do at least 15 minutes every day, more if you can. (Can you be this week’s Nessy Star?)

We will also put some ideas for weekly challenges on this blog here. Try and have a go at some of these

Weekly challenges for week beginning Monday 23rd March

If you were in school on Friday and made a rainbow, please make sure that you put your rainbow in a window somewhere where it can be seen. Many people around the country are putting a rainbow in their window to spread hope to everyone - children can spot them if they are out walking. If you weren’t in school on Friday you might want to draw a rainbow and pop it in a window. To be a little different, you could even make one out of lego and place it in your window at home for all to see.

Think about your Lenten Promise and try to make sure that you keep up with this. Remember to keep doing your jobs at home, helping around the house and doing what you can to make things a little easier for everyone. Remember to keep being generous and grateful.

Try to do some sort of daily exercise. This might be a walk, a jog, an obstacle course around the garden, some yoga or even a dance (put on some music and enjoy dancing). Try to do something different every day. You could even warm up with the warm ups that we have been doing outside - 1 - Spotty dog. 2 - Down dog running. 3 - Press ups. 4 - Star jumps.

Read every day. 30 minutes (or more) a day would be a good challenge. Why not look for new or great vocabulary and find out what it means or create your own ‘magpie book’ to share with us all when we get back. You could even share it on the Purple Mash blog that has been set up.

Why not help in the kitchen and learn how to make something to eat. This week we challenge you to make some sandwiches for everyone to share. Think about what you will put in them to make them tasty and healthy. Remember to wash your hands and to be very careful if you are using a sharp knife. Enjoy! (You could always send an email with a photo and we can share some of these on our page.)

Have fun learning at home and remember to keep in touch.

Lots of love and prayers to all of you. Take care and keep safe.

The Year 3 Team xx

Monday March 23rd - Using Sumdog while we learn from home/school

Helping you to learn maths at home with SUM DOG

Follow the instructions, log on and play!

Dear children welcome to our online learning community. We will be helping you to keep learning every day!

We have subscribed every child in the school to the interactive maths website “SUM DOG.COM”. To get started I have made a little on screen instruction video below. You will need your username and password. The passwords for each class are to be found below :

Reception Sumdog Passwords

Year 1 Sumdog Passwords

Year 2 Sumdog Passwords

Year 3 Sumdog Passwords

Year 4 Sumdog Passwords

Year 5 Sumdog Passwords

Year 6 Sumdog Passwords

Year 3 Monday 23rd March - Learn at Home

Good morning Year 3

We hope you have had a lovely weekend with your family and are ready and raring to go this morning. We know it may seem strange to be sat at home with a parent showing you the learning you will complete today, but we know you will all make the best of it! The children at school will be completing these tasks too, so we can all share our great learning when we return to school. At school we will adapt our reward systems to suit our groups, maybe you can set up a learning point system like we have at school, a star of the day or even some golden time. Children, you can do these tasks in any order—work out what is best for you and your family. Parents, be creative and flexible with how you manage these tasks. Please give as much or as little support as needed, we are always aiming to build on independence in class, but the children know asking for help is a part of the learning process.

English

Please read the Iron Man chapter 3 if you were not in school last week. You might want to read this with someone or you might want to have a go by yourself.

Please read The Iron Man part Chapter 4

If you were not in school last week, you might like to draw a picture of the space dragon. Use the text to help you.

Today’s task is to write your own description of what the space dragon looks like. Remember to use lots of lovely description.

Creativity and maths challenge

The children have been reading Ted Hughes’ book ‘The Iron Man’ in English, and we would like you to make an ‘Iron Man’ out of the cardboard boxes and tubes you have been collecting over the weekend. Maybe you could colour it, paint it or use paper to cover it once you have built it? This challenge may take a couple of days to complete and you might want to break the tasks up into little chunks of time, suit the task to your day.

Your Iron Man can be however big or small you want, but before you start to make it we would like you to practise these key maths skills:

To be able to estimate the length of items in centimetres (remember estimates don’t need to be exactly right, how close can your estimates be to the real measurement?

To be able to measure with a ruler in centimetres.

Part 1—Estimate the length of each of your Iron Man’s body parts in cm.

Part 2—Measure the length of each body part of your Iron Man with your ruler.

Part 3 - Make your Iron Man

Part 3—When your Iron Man is complete measure the total height of your model in centimetres. 

Please record your estimates and measurements in your home learning maths book for us to see when you return to school, you could set it out like this.

Body part                                       Estimate (in cm)                   Actual measurement (in cm)

Legs— kitchen roll tubes                  24cm                                   ____cm

Head—cereal bar box                         14cm                                  ____cm

Eyes - milk carton lids 2cm ____cm

Arms - toothpaste boxes 12 cm ____cm

Body - cereal box 38cm ____cm

The total height of my Iron Man is 72cm

Enjoy! Please email photos of your Iron Man if you can, we would love to see them.

k.edmondson@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk 

Let's get learning Year 4!

Hello my lovely year 4 children. Welcome to a new way of learning! It will seem strange to be learning at home and explaining to your parents what you are learning. However, it is very important to keep up and be excellent learners - just like you are at school! Try to be like all the learning characters and you will become such an independent learner, ready for year 5. It would help you to get into a routine and decide what times of day you are carrying out your home learning and weekly challenges.

How home learning will work.

DAILY LEARNING: Every day at 8.00am , I will post your new daily learning which will involve key Year 4 skills for Maths, English and other subjects. Much of it will be based on the lessons we were going to do in class. This will be in the home learning section of the Year 4 website. So, bright and early each morning - check this and get going! Children who do the Nessy program at home - please keep this up every day.

I will also put some ideas for weekly challenges on this blog here, based on the ideas children gave me in class and also from lovely ideas I have seen from the internet.

Weekly challenges for week beginning Monday 23rd March

Lego rainbow challenge: Many people around the country are putting a rainbow in their window to spread hope to everyone - children can spot them if they are out walking. To be a little different, we would love it if you could make one out of lego and place it in your window at home for all to see. Time to get creative!

Baking challenge: This week, we would love you to bake any kind of cupcake with your family. Weigh out the ingredients yourself and become a proper little baker!

Reading challenge: Read one very good book and collect some vocabulary from it. Think about your reading level - try to challenge yourself. Read for half an hour daily and think about collecting some vocabulary too! We are looking into creating a class blog on Purple Mash - so you will be able to share with everyone what you have read. Maybe it will be like a little book club!

PE challenge

Try to do at least half an hour a day of physical activity. Here are some ideas:

• Go on a nature walk - see the first signs of Spring

• Practise your different rolling and jumping techniques (safely in a space!) that we were doing in gymnastics

• Go for a gentle jog

• Set up an obstacle course in your garden and carry it out

• Joe wicks is doing a daily 30 minute PE session online for children if you really like to challenge yourself!

• If you like dancing, you could find a ‘Just Dance’ online or just put some music on and go wild!

• Do some Yoga together

Emotional challenge

This week, let’s try to look on the bright side and be grateful. Every morning or at a meal time, think of one thing you are thankful for and share these thoughts as a family.

Now it’s time to check out your daily learning in the HOME LEARNING section. Please remember to email me if you have any questions at all. You will need plastic straws on Thursday for Science! Enjoy this exciting new learning journey with your family!

Mrs Lyons

Home learning websites and ideas - just suggestions from me!

As I have been reading and looking on the internet I have seen lots of nice ideas of ways to keep little minds busy and thought some of you might want to try some of them. My niece is in Year 5 and my nephew is in Year 2 and these are some of the things they are hoping to try at home with my brother in law over the next couple of weeks. Any feedback on how these ideas went down with your children would be appreciated as I can pass them on, remember please do keep in touch via our emails. Mine is k.edmondson@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Miss Brisco’s is

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

• www.countryliving.com There are lots of live animal feeds around the world from zoos and woodlands that you can watch the animals on.

• Make a time capsule and bury it in your garden or store it up in a loft. Put in drawings, letters, photos and newspaper clippings. You could open this in years to come and look back at this time with your family.

• Start the 30 day Lego challenge (photo below)

•  Joe Wicks (The Body Coach) is airing live PE sessions for children every day at 9am  Monday to Friday on his Youtube channel. Get your PE kit on and get moving. Watch out for Mr Nay’s sports activities too.

• Get creative in the garden or in the park and use Andy Goldsworthy as your inspiration. Can you make a piece of environmental art? (photo below)

Websites to visit while learning at home

Purple mash: www.purplemash.com

On purple mash I will be setting tasks for the children to complete each week. These will be found in the “to do” tab at the top of the page.

Poissonrouge: https://www.poissonrouge.com/login/en

Login details:

login: corona2020
password: corona2020

This is a great website that has a wide range of computer activities that will build not only your child’s computer skills but also many other areas of their curriculum.

Youtube: www.youtube.com

PE—Below you find find links to exercise videos that the children have loved in reception

PE with Joe Wicks - Please see Joe Wicks youtube channel for a daily PE challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz0go1pTda8

Let’s get fit—Count to 100 by Jack Heartman (Links to maths)

Just dance—There are a range of different dances for the children to exercise to. I’m sure you have already been listening to the classes current favourite: One direction!

5 a day fitness—These videos also expose the children to different languages such as French and Spanish

Go Noodle—This is a new fitness programme that links to many math and literacy concepts through fun dances and memory challenges.

Maths

Numberblocks—This is a favourite of mine. There are so many clever links within each episode. It is certainly a quality watch which will greatly support your child’s maths learning.

English

Geraldine the Giraffe– This is a great channel for phonic sound practise. But be careful it is not the videos called Mr Thorne. Those episodes are more for adults as opposed to the children.

Ruth Miskin - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ This channel is great to help you as parents understand phonics. Ruth will be uploading lessons each day whilst schools are currently closed.

Alpha blocks—Again this is a great website to help children and there reading. It is particularly good to support sound blending.