Another week of brilliant home learning.
Read morePE Challenge for this week - Monday 4th May!
Our PE challenges for this week! Remember to keep active when you are home learning. Don’t forget to send me your photos and videos!
Read moreOur PE Champions for last week
I love seeing how active we are all still being at home. Each week I try to choose a fun challenge and a challenge that is a little harder. Well done everyone! It is so lovely to see a range of children from all different ages getting involved.
Read moreYear 3 Monday 4th May photos of home learning
Thank you for all your photos, the time and effort you spend sending them to us is really appreciated.
Have a look at this fantastic Powerpoint Steph has made, click below.
Year 1 - Monday 4th May Home Learning Challenges
Happy Monday Year 1!
Read moreReception Home Learning - Monday 4th May
Everyday activities:
1. Phonics: Today I would like you to watch the set 1 and set 2 speed sounds, by clicking on the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR3Ls7yR6-0ebguznW0u_pCJYHWG3LFra3fS7C_PxZ03XibY2toSLrutI4g
Set 1 Speed Sounds at 9.30 am and again at 12.30 pm
Set 2 Speed Sounds at 10.00 am and again at 1.00 pm
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: Below I am linking the Lancashire school games weekly activities. It states that it is suitable for Years 1 and 2, however, our children will really benefit from practising these fundamental skills, particularly during this final term in Reception. There is a PE lesson a day. Please use this to best suit you at home.
Today’s specific activities:
1. Literacy: Please have a look at the PDF below. This week our new story focus in ’Shark in the Park’. Enjoy this new story and today’s activities.
2. Sum Dog: This week I would like you to develop your understanding of numbers to 20, by comparing the size of objects to 20. Good luck and enjoy earning those coins!
3. RE: Please have a look at the weeks RE activity, all about the ascension.
I hope that you enjoy your day!
Miss Bassett.
Home Learning - Tuesday 5th May 2020
Welcome to Tuesday’s learning. I think you will have fun with the English today - I expect to hear some funny stories!
Read moreHome Learning Summer (Wk4) ART
Home Learning ART
Summer week 4
Home Learning summer week 4
I’m missing you all so much I thought this week we could be there for each other. This week I’d like you to decorate a heart (either print out, screenshot and use iPad, or re draw) and write a message to your classmates and teachers.
Read moreYear 3 Monday 4th May 2020 home learning
What a beautiful image, it is so peaceful isn’t it?
Read moreYear 5 Monday 4th May Learning From Home
Good Morning Year 5 I hope you all had a lovely weekend. Next weekend is special - on Friday 8th of May the country will be celebrating a Bank Holiday it will mark the 75th Anniversary of the end of the war in Europe in 1945 - we call it VE day (Victory in Europe). The war continued a little longer elsewhere- over in Japan and it was the bombing of Nagasaki that led to the end of the World War at that time. That’s the same bombing of Nagasaki that is mentioned in our book- the town where Kensuke’s family lived.
Read moreYear 4 Home Learning Monday 4th May
English
Today, we are going to venture further into the jungle with Chulak and Hamlet. We will think about how Phillip Pullman creates such wonderful scenes which bring his writing to life.
Maths
Today I want you to practise your understanding of equivalent fractions by completing IXL units AA1 , AA2 and AA3. If you are having fun, you could do some more of the AA units.
Year 2 Home Learning Challenges for the week - Week Beginning 4th May 2020
Good Morning Year 2!
Did you have a good weekend? Did you manage to do lots of fun activities with your family? I do hope so! We have reached the beginning of yet another new week of learning. Keep working just as hard as you have been. The quality of your work really is blowing me away, and I love how much fun you are having whilst learning too. You only have four days of hard work, with Friday being a bank holiday this week. How lucky are you?
Here are this week’s challenges. Don’t forget to keep in touch. Maybe you could ask your parents if you could write an email for me this week (under their supervision of course).
Have a great week!
Miss Woodend
Year 2 Home Learning Challenges - Monday 4th May
Good Morning Year 2,
I hope that you are ready for whatever this week may throw at us. You can do it Year 2, keep it up!
Here are Monday’s home learning challenges.
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
If you do however, feel that these sessions are not really benefiting your child, please feel free to access reading materials for a little longer instead.
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.
It also isn’t too late to sign up for the Epic Reading resource. If you would like access to a huge range of books, some with quizzes, please send an email to l.woodend@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk. This will enable me to send you an invite to create an account.
English
This week’s English focus theme is ‘non-fiction: Recipes’. Some of the lessons this week provide the opportunity to follow a recipe and make some delicious food! These activities are optional and can be changed to suit what you have in you cupboards if you wish. Each of these tasks MUST be supervised by an adult. When following links online, parents should monitor that children are remaining on that page only and are keeping safe online.
Day 1
Read together some of the healthy recipes on the website below. There are plenty to choose from, including breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even barbecue and picnic recipes!
https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/recipes
After you have read a few examples together, ask your child: How has the author tried to make it easy to follow each recipe? e.g. sub-headings, an ingredients section, use of numbers to sequence the steps, ingredients in green print to stand out, etc.
If you have the opportunity, select one of the recipes and have a go at making your chosen food. Alternatively, make some food following one of your own favourite recipes. (Children MUST be supervised by an adult).
Afterwards, evaluate the recipe together. Were the steps easy to follow? Could the recipe be improved in anyway? Don’t forget to enjoy and evaluate your food too!
SumDog
Have a go at today’s challenge ‘Plurals and Apostrophes’.
Oxford Owl Spelling
Choose a spelling rule to work on today.
Maths
We are now back onto White Rose Maths Learning. This week, the children will be revisiting addition and subtraction. How much can they remember?
Click the link https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/ and access ‘Summer Term, Week 3’.
Lesson 1 - Fact Families addition and subtraction bond to 20.
SumDog
Division Facts for 2s, 5s and 10s.
IXL
Which sections do you have left to complete? Have a look and see how many you can get through.
Don’t forget to check the weekly challenges for more learning!
Enjoy your day,
Miss Woodend
Year 4 Weekly home learning activities for week starting Monday 4th May
Home Learning Summer Wk3
Home Learning Summer Week 3
Be kind to yourself, you’re doing the best you can! I miss you all so much, I would love to be in The Create room sharing our Art lessons together, learning and laughing together, but for now we must stay safe at home. Each week I have tried to find you all art activities that everyone can do, no matter what we have at home. You were all given a book for your art and as long as you have a pen or pencil you can do my sessions. I have loved receiving your emails and photos. The work you are producing is fantastic. Keep at it, keep sharing, so we can celebrate our creativity together.
Read morein Art this week…
"The righteous man cares for the needs of his animals" Proverbs 12:10
Now we are missing our formal RE lessons each week- but being a Christian is all about action and when you learn independently; try your best; love your family; show patience; perform acts of love- that is your faith in action! Now Jayden has worked out how many steps we would have to climb to get to the top of Mount Everest. Here is a picture of his workings out! Can we do this for charity?
Read moreHome Learning - Monday 4th May 2020
A new week of learning and lots of new units of work to start. In English we will be starting Wonder (I am very excited). In maths, I will be starting to teach you again using White Rose materials that you are used to. In history, we will be starting a local history unit of work and in science, focusing our attention on the human life cycle.
I hope you enjoy my introductory video for the week…don’t worry I will appear. Enjoy listening to Space Oddity by David Bowie and hopefully you will see the link to our learning this week. You know what I am like, if we can launch learning in a fun and creative way - then let’s do it!
The first message that we will meet in this book is ‘Choose Kind.’ That is exactly what I would like you to do this week. What acts of kindness can you do for the people who are making sure that you are safe, or for your local community, can you make someone smile. The last half term is called ‘Service with a Smile.’ What can you do to bring a smile to the face of someone else this week? Let me know what acts of kindness you complete!
Maths - Converting Units Lesson 1
English - Wonder Lesson 1
History - Local History - Blackpool - a 2 day lesson. Monday and Tuesday
Today we will be starting our new unit of history work - local history - BLACKPOOL! Not only is Blackpool a seaside resort but it was one of the first and people came from all over to be entertained and to visit it’s famous tower. Today is an introductory lesson with 2 tasks: a brief note taking task and then to create a timeline of Blackpool’s history.
"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members."
I really do not know how to begin when writing this blog. Firstly, I want to say how much of gift it has been to teach your children during their first year at school. Watching them grow and achieve new skills is just the greatest gift! I cannot tell you all of the many memories that I will hold of your children... when they have burst with excitement, happiness and pride when achieving something for the first time! Although this year hasn’t ended as we would have hoped, it has been such a special year!
From the moment we began learning from home, I have been so in awe of you all, your determination to support your children by making sure that, despite this strange time, they feel happy, safe and excited to learn! I feel so grateful to be a part of such a positive community and can only thank each one of you for helping to create this!
Today marks the start of my maternity leave but this does not mean that I will no longer be checking in on the children and seeing how they are getting on. I hope that they continue to enjoy the coming activities that I have planned!
Miss Brisco will be continuing to upload the new photos that you send of your children. Her email address is: l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk. Should learning from home be continuing after the half term, Miss Brisco will also be continuing to plan new activities for you to complete at home… I know that she is very excited to support the Reception children!
Finally, I must say a huge thank you for the very thoughtful email I received, with all of the children and the sweetest message! I am so touched and find myself in tears each time I look at their smiling faces!
You will all continue to be in my prayers and thoughts. Keep safe and well!
All my love,
Miss Bassett xx
Year 4 Friday 1st May Some lovely home learning pictures so far today!
Home Learning Photographs - Week Ending 1.5.20
I can’t believe that we’ve reached yet another Friday.
I have loved receiving your photographs this week. Your creativity in your learning has been superb! I have been particularly blown away by your fantastic English work. It looks as though you’ve all enjoyed the Roald Dahl poems. I have also been receiving lots of different emails telling me that different awards have been achieved on the different learning platforms, including more than 30 books read on Epic and lots of sections complete on IXL. Keep it up Year 2!
Also … after looking through all of your friend’s home learning, you might just see a little message from a familiar face and a particularly wriggly puppy!
I hope you are all keeping well!
Stay Safe and God Bless!
Miss Woodend