YEAR 4 HOME LEARNING To be handed in by Thursday 1st April

Read, read, read!

It is the last week to meet your reading target! Come on - go for it! We have 8 children in class who have done it. I am sure we can get more!

Maths

This week you have:

1. a double - sided fraction sheet to complete

2. IXL units Y20 and Y21

English - Spelling

1. Mark the teacher Homophone sheet

2. 2 Purple mash homophone quizzes. Practise any you get wrong in your books.

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 24th March 2021

Here is your home learning for this week. Last week’s homework was exceptional and the bar was raised. I have included some excellent examples onto the display board above for inspiration.

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SPELLING

This week, your spellings focus on silent letters.

Complete the dictation and practise the spellings at home.

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Maths

Well done to the children who became masters this week in IXL. You have worked really hard.

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This week, you have three IXL strands to complete. Two of them are revision and you should be fairly quick at completing them, the second one is consolidating volume.

BB.1 - What is the 3D shape?

BB.2 - Count vertices, edges and faces.

CC.10 - Volume of figures made up of cubes.

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Science

What are the effects of caffeine on the body? We have looked at exercise as a way to keep our body healthy but let’s start looking at the effect of certain things. In class we have looked at smoking and alcohol…but what about caffeine? This week I would like you to research and produce a information page all about the effects of caffeine on the body.

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Answer these questions as part of your information page:

• What is caffeine?

• What does caffeine do to the body?

• Which food and drinks contain caffeine?

• Interesting facts

Here are two websites that will help you with your research

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This week...

This week we have been continuing with our investigations as well as concentrating on our number work, sounds, planting and growing, celebrating St. Patricks’ Day and making dens to tell the story of the Three Little Pigs. It’s been an exhausting week.

Our garden is beginning to look much tidier and we have planted a butterfly and bee patch, potatoes, sunflowers and our broad bean plants. If you have any plants that you would like to donate yo our garden we would be most grateful. We will try very hard to look after them!

On Tuesday we celebrated St. Patricks’ Day. We watched a short video about the story of St. Patrick and them drew and coloured pictures. Click here to watch the story.

We have played lots of number games this week and read many many stories associated with a number. On Wednesday the children acted out the story of the Three Little Pigs. The wolf was very scary!! Arghhhhhh!

We also introduced Numberblocks Number 6. Click here to watch! The children also enjoyed this episode all about holes. Click here. Also, here’s the Numberblocks version of the Three Little Pigs…enjoy! Click here.

Through the week the children have been playing number snap, fishing for sounds and hunting the number gingerbread! Those gingerbread men kept running away and hiding in the nursery and garden! Listen to Mr. Tumble telling the story here.

To tie in with our floating topic we had another bubble blowing afternoon. It was great fun. We watched our bubbles float off over the school roof. Some of the children blew enormous bubbles!!

It’s hard to believe we still had time to take part in even more learning and fun, but we did. Look at everything else we did this week!

Over the next couple of weeks we will be focusing on the Easter story. I have attached our plans to the button below for you to take a look at. Next week I will be posting more information.

Lastly, let’s hope the good weather continues and we can get out in the sunshine, we certainly need it. Enjoy your weekend and we look forward to seeing on Monday.

Barbara

Home Learning Friday 19th March 2021

Please make sure that all homework is completed by next Thursday. Many thanks.

Reading:

Read at home every day. Make sure that you quiz when you have completed a book.

(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:

TT Rockstars - please keep practising your tables facts. How fast can you get at these?

Spellings:

Spellings—children have been given a spelling sheet to practise. Please make sure that these sheets are  completed using the look, say, cover, write, check method.

Reconciliation Preparation:

Please complete pages 1-15 of the ‘Making Things Right’ book. It would be useful if you could discuss the activities with your child to deepen their understanding. Many thanks.

Year 3 Friday 19th March 2021 “Friends are the sunshine of life!” John Hay

We have been lucky this week with the weather. A little sunshine really puts a smile on everyone’s faces and sharing it with friends just makes that even better.

Again we have continued to be busy with our learning and showing how we are growing our brains and using our different learning characters. We had a lovely PE lesson this morning with lots of creative ideas from the children about balance and travelling. In RHE, we have been reminding ourselves about being resilient and thinking about strategies that will help us to become more resilient. We have been doing lots of writing this week. - another chance to be creative. In science we have continued to learn all about magnets and found out about how they attract and repel. In maths the children have been problem solving using their multiplication and division skills. Recall of multiplication facts is becoming much more fluent. Well done children—you have been doing a great job on TT Rockstars and improving all the time. More super work  about the Arctic during the geography session. In RE we have been learning about different parts of the Mass and we have also started our sessions about Reconciliation. All of this as well as making sure that we are being co-operative with each other and being enthusiastic too. Well done children - keep up the good work.

Let’s Celebrate:

We are delighted to be celebrating Harvey, Lily-Mae (again), Daisy (again), Max, Matilda, Nicola, Connor-Sean, Franek and Leo who have all reached 100% of their reading targets this week. Well done to all of you - What stars you are! Keep up the good work children.

This week we are celebrating Daisy and Molly-Ann . Daisy you are always so enthusiastic in everything that you do. You are so bubbly and have a real desire to do well. You always have a smile and your energy and enthusiasm fill the classroom. What a star—keep shining. Molly-Ann you have been such a creative Kiki Chameleon with your writing this week. You really tried hard to think about everything that we discussed and put these things into your own writing.. Well done Keep up the good work.

We are also celebrating Charlie who received lunchtime Role Model of the Week. Well done Charlie

Things to Note:

• Please check the Home Learning page for this week’s home learning. Thank you.

• Thank you for paying for the books for the Reconciliation and Holy Communion preparation. The children will be bringing the first book about Reconciliation home to complete as homework. I will let you know which pages through the home learning page.

It is so lovely to have all of the children back at school again and to be back together as a class family. We would like to thank you all for your continued support.

Have a lovely weekend. Let’s hope that we have a little more of this lovely sunshine that we have had this week.

Take care and stay safe,

The Year 3 Team     

Miss Brisco, Miss Edmondson and Miss Woodrow

Contact us at:

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

k.edmondson@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Year 4 blog "Love is appreciating your differences as well as your similarities."

We are well and truly in our school stride now as we complete our second week being back together. One boy commented that it is lovely to feel part of our class family again and I completely agree. Children have had so much fun in the playground together and have been bouncing in their chairs with enthusiasm in class - quite literally!

In our RHE lessons this week, we have been learning about how we don’t have to be the same and like the same things to be good friends. We also learned in RE how we can try to be like Jesus as truly human and aspire to follow him. We revisited our Lenten promises we made and had a ‘halfway through Lent’ reflection to get us back on track. Each day we are remembering our key Jesuit values to grow in love and compassion for each other.

We have loved our Geography this week - finding out all about tectonic plates and earthquakes using oranges and Oreo biscuits! Your child has a task in homework to demonstrate this to you - see what they have learned!

We have had a great giggle writing persuasive letters from Brer Fox to Brer Rabbit then replying back again. We are also getting to grips with that tricky apostrophe for possession. Fractions learning in maths is also coming along nicely - we are now up to finding equivalent fractions.

Let’s Celebrate

This week , double whammy certificates!

I am awarding three Kiki Chameleon/Roger Robin certificates to three children who really considered their ideas and were so entertaining in their letter writing this week. These three children also receive Roger robin on their certificates because they are helpful, kind and level-headed when playing games on the playground and so co-operative within class too. Well done James, Stephanie and Isabella!

Our PE stars this week are Jess and Abi for super gymnastics but also getting really stuck in at team sports too!

Music stars this week were: Abi and Grace

Have a beautiful, Spring weekend everyone. I need to get in my garden and do some planting so lets hope for a good one! God bless.

Mrs Lyons, Miss Forster and Mrs Mather.

Year 4 Homework to be submitted by Thursday 25th March

All online homework this week.

English

1. Purple Mash - Jane’s Monster task all about Apostrophes for possession

2. We are going to invent a Brer Rabbit character in lessons next week. In preparation I want you to research North American animals and then decide on one that you research further. Find out its characteristics, can it swim, climb trees? Does it have claws, sharp teeth? Is it a herbivore or carnivore?

   Maths

   TT Rockstars - let’s pick up our speed. Mrs Lyons is now having competitions with members of the class on this game! Ten minutes a day will turn you into a pro!

   IXL Year 4 units Y7 AA1 AA2 and AA3

Geography

We have learned all about the movement of tectonic plates and what this causes this week.

Why not use an orange and an Oreo (or any biscuit with cream in the centre) and demonstrate to your parents our analogy.

You can use this vocabulary when explaining: tectonic plates, crust, slabs, movement, collide, earthquakes, convergent, divergent, transform, volcanoes, magma, lava

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 17th March 2021

Here is your home learning for this week.

Don’t forget to use Time Table Rockstars, AR reading (you can quiz at home) and IXL to support your learning.

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Maths - IXL Year 6 CC.4

Can you find the area of a triangle? We have worked really hard at this in class this week and you have all mastered this skill. Now it is time to consolidate this using IXL.

Area of a triangle = (base x height) ÷ 2

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Spelling - can you learn these words ending in ial? Don’t forget to complete your dictation task on Purple Mash too

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Science - What are the effects of exercise on the human body?

We have looked carefully at our bodies and how each system within our body works but how do we keep it healthy?

Next week we will be completing a few investigations that look at the effect of diet and drink on our body, and exercise.

There are 3 links below that will take you to websites and videos. Watch them carefully then complete the piece of work set that explains to me the effects of exercise on our body.

I have set you a piece of work on Purple Mash. Think carefully about the detail that is needed to show me exactly what you can do.

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