Learning at home photos

A big ‘thank you’ and ‘well done’ for all the fabulous learning that has been happening at home over the past few weeks. The photos that you have been sending in are wonderful! It’s so lovely to see the children having so much fun.

For anyone who is running out of ideas click here.

May I remind you that before I can upload your images I must have your written consent. Just drop me an email.

Keep the learning going and send me more photos to post, it’s a fabulous way of staying in touch.

A very Happy Birthday to two of our friends at nursery. We are sending you lots of good wishes and hugs.

Friday's home learning photos!

Thank you once again for taking the time to email me your daily round ups and photos. Seeing the children’s smiles, shows how much of a great job you are all doing. This week has led to so many new skills being achieved, seeing their writing and reading progress, developing maths skills, baking, painting, learning to ride a bike, and even a first tooth falling out!

I hope that you enjoy looking through this weeks photos as much as I have! it is just wonderful to see their excitement and glee as they have reached new goals.

Have a great weekend,

Miss Bassett

Volcano eruption in slow motion

Home Learning Photographs - Week Ending 17th April

Good afternoon Year 2,

I have been amazed by how well you have sprung back into your learning this week. Receiving your photographs really does make me smile (although it does make me miss you even more!). Thank you parents for your feedback of the learning too. It has been great to hear that many of the children are able to access the learning independently.

So many of you have made wonderful dens and I love that some of you even slept in yours over night! Your geography maps have also been superb, with many of you using your daily exercise to help you with this task.

I hope that you have the best weekend you can in the current situation. Get some rest and enjoy precious time with your families.

Stay Safe and God Bless,

Miss Woodend

Watch this Volcano erupting!

Year 3 Photos for Friday 17th April Learning from Home

Keep up the good work everyone, you are all doing a splendid job. Make sure that you remember to thank your mums and dads too. They are doing a fabulous job helping you with all of your work, sending the photos to us and writing lots of lovely emails explaining what you are doing. (Thank you parents this is really appreciated - it’s so important that we can keep that link with the children.) I can’t believe it’s the weekend again after today’s learning. Have fun together and remember to be kind and helpful.

Here are the photos sent to us for today…

Reception Home Learning - Friday 17th April

1. PE with Joe Wicks—A great way to keep active some point today. (https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1/videos )

2. Phonics: Please keep practising any of the sounds you know that your child struggles with.

3. Oxford Owl: Login to Oxford Owl and read your next book. Remember to discuss the story throughout, checking your child’s understanding.

4. Purple Mash: Continue to practise your letter formation focusing on the sounds that your child struggles with.

5. Sum Dog: Final day to take part in this weeks challenges.

6.  Maths: White Rose: Please access Summer 1 Week 1—Day 3 Supertato:

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/

7. English: Poem—Today I would like you to have a go at learning this little Spring poem. With the beautiful weather I thought it would be nice to create some lovely spring arts and crafts. Please see below for some ideas, there are plenty more online.

If you have an inquisitive learner you might like to explore why the poem says, “birds returning from the south.” You could even write a sentence and draw a picture about this in your yellow book.

Miss Bassett

Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Friday 17th April

Happy Friday!

Just one more day of learning Year 2, you are all working so hard! Here are today’s English and Maths learning challenges. Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for your other learning.

Phonics

Access the RWI sessions below. All the children would benefit from accessing the set 3 sounds lesson, however some might also benefit from the other sessions.

Set 1 Speed Sounds at 9.30 am
Set 2 Speed Sounds at 10.00 am
Set 3 Speed Sounds at 10.30 am

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR3Ls7yR6-0ebguznW0u_pCJYHWG3LFra3fS7C_PxZ03XibY2toSLrutI4g

Reading

Continue reading and quizzing on books using the Accelerated Reading tabs in the ‘How to help your child’ section.

Also if you missed my blog before Easter, I have also signed all of the children up for a new reading resource called ‘Epic!’ reading. This resource is great as you can search for books depending on your child’s ZPD reading level and then you can access a quiz straight after reading the ebook. More information about how to use the resource can be found in the ‘How to help your child’ section. If you are interested in accessing the resource, please send me an email - l.woodend@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk and I will then be able to send you an invitation link for you to create an account.

English

I thought that I would try something different for English this week. Purple Mash has a brilliant resource called ‘Serial Mash’ which we now have access to. This week all of the English tasks will be based on a story called ‘Max and the pirates of Puddleton Bay’ which I have set in the children’s ‘to dos’ on Purple Mash each day. By clicking the ‘to do’, you will have access to that day’s chapter and then other activities linked to what the children have read.

Read Chapter 4 and complete the activities. As this week was a short one, feel free to access Chapter 5 in your own time!

There are however, other activities linked to the chapter that I haven’t set as ‘to dos’. If you would like to access these, including some great spelling, punctuation and grammar activities, simple log into Purple Mash and click on ‘Serial Mash’. Then click ‘Diamonds’ and then find this week’s story ‘Max and the pirates of Puddleton Bay’. Here you will find the extra activities not included in your child’s ‘to dos’. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

Let me know how you get on!

SumDog

Don’t forget to have a go at the spelling challenge.

Today I have set the reading challenge:

Read words with blends.

Maths

Please access:

Summer Term - Week 1 - ‘Lesson 4 - ‘Measure Length (m)’ - by clicking here:

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Watch the video and have a go at the activities. Remember, you don’t need to print the activities if you are unable to - work through them from the screen and record your answers in your maths books.

SumDog

Today’s task - Classify and sequence shapes

Also, if you haven’t already done so, please do complete your maths, spelling and reading training (found in the tasks section). This ensures that your child’s learning is given at the correct level, so please ensure that your child completes these independently.

IXL

If you have time and want to complete even more learning, see how much of your IXL you can complete! Choose to complete sections that you haven’t already completed.

Have a great weekend,

Missing you all!

Stay safe,

Miss Woodend

Year 4 home learning for Friday 17th April

Geography

Please complete your explanation/information text set yesterday, trying your very best - on Purple Mash.

Science

Please make sure you have written some questions about soil and shared them with us on the blog. Tune in to the LIVE session at 10.30 on Monday morning here: (if you cannot make it at this time, you can watch later on) You will need a sample of soil from your garden or local area handy.

if you have a printer, you may wish to prepare, by printing this sheet below ready for your fieldwork on Monday:

English

Please read Chapter 6 of ‘The Sleeping Volcano’ on purple mash and complete the 2do Book review.

Maths

Complete the following challenges linked to division with remainders as mentioned in yesterday’s lesson. Answers will be on at 5.00pm. there is also a quick division game to play

Geography extra!

If you have finished all these activities, I would love you to draw a labelled diagram of a volcano - use the vocabulary from earlier in the week to label it. You could do this on 2animate Purple Mash

Year 4 Lovely learning - Thursday 16th April

Year 3 Thursday 16th April Photos from your home learning

Thanks for all of your lovely photos. We love to see them and we are sure that you do too.

Keep up the good work. Remember to make sure that you work neatly and carefully in all of your books. Don’t forget lots of reading too. Targets have been reset - can you reach yours? Let us know when you get there and we can celebrate and reset them. Happy reading!!!! (Let us know the best places to read too - a photo would be great!!)

Reception Home Learning - Thursday 16th April

1. PE with Joe Wicks—A great way to keep active some point today. (https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1/videos

2. Phonics: Please keep practising any of the sounds you know that your child struggles with.

3. Oxford Owl: Login to Oxford Owl and read your next book.  Remember to discuss the story throughout, checking your child’s understanding.

4. Purple Mash: Today and tomorrow I would like you to practise your letter formation. Please focus on the sounds or tricky words that your child struggles with.

5. Sum Dog: If your child is now confident subtracting within 5, there is a new challenge subtracting within 10. I have kept the previous challenge live so you can continue to practise within 5 to help your child gain greater confidence.

6. Maths: White Rose: Please access Summer 1 Week 1—Day 2 Supertato:

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/

7. PE: Today I wonder if you could create a little obstacle course. See if you can include: 3 hops, 3 jumps and side galloping. I look forward to seeing your obstacle courses via your photos!

Miss Bassett

Year 4 home learning for Thursday 16th April

Geography/English

Watch the following slides to find out about features of volcanoes. Then, over the next two days, I would like you to type an explanation text about how volcanoes erupt and also include some information. I HAVE SET THIS AS A PURPLE MASH TASK TODAY.

You can use my example of an explanation text below and my glossary to help you include the things you need in an explanation text

. Don’t forget, you could also refresh your memory by looking at yesterday’s slides.

English

Go on Purple Mash to read Chapter 5 of ‘The Sleeping Volcano’ today.

Here are some comprehension questions to answer:

Maths

Today we will revise how to solve simple division and make sure we understand remainders. Follow the lesson below then complete the division problems below.