Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 2nd February 2022

““The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.””

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

REVISION

This week is all about consolidating what you have learnt this year (and from Year 3), practising those skills that you know you need to and celebrating what you can do well.

Tomorrow, you will be able to take home your GPS, Reading and Maths revision folders, as well as your spelling book. Use these resources carefully to identify areas that you know you can pick up marks next week.

GPS - what spellings are you getting incorrect? Is there a common theme? Could you use a different strategy to embed them? Which grammar areas are you struggling with? If these areas haven’t been taught yet, don’t worry, if they have, what do you now need to do to understand them further?

Use IXL to search for key areas that you need to practise further.

READING - You have another reading paper to have a go at, this time it is poetry. Have a go alongside looking at where you need to pick up marks on previous papers. Is it a case of not using evidence? Do you need to look closer at vocabulary?

MATHS - We have covered a lot of maths this year. Consolidate those areas that you need to practise further. Remember not to worry about something that hasn’t been taught yet. Look over the shape information that is in your folders too.

Maths is Fun is a great website where you can search for topics and it will provide teaching and questions for you to practise. Use it to work on areas that you are not so sure of.

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Year 3 Home Learning 21.1.22

Spellings:

Our spelling strategy this week is, ‘Curly Words’

Practise each spelling by writing the word again and again to create a spiral

Our spelling rule this week is focusing on words containing ‘c’ sound spelt ‘ch’

1. chaos

2. character

3. ache

4. school

5. anchor

6. chemical

7. stomach

8. charisma

English

We have spent time this week reading the book, Ice Cat. Today we have have finished reading the final chapter. In your homework books please find the sheet (PDF version below) and complete the book review. Remember to use your grammar skills!

Maths

Please complete IXL K1 - Understand multiplication: Count equal groups and IXL K.2: Identify multiplication expressions for equal groups

Year 3 21.1.22 - "Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning" - William Arthur Ward

It’s been a jam-packed week for us in Year 3! Today we finished our class novel as we read and unpicked the final chapter together. We have had drama and debates as we have come to learn more about Tom and how he learnt to handle his emotions. The children have had to think deeply to understand the reasons for Tom’s actions, something which proved to be a bit of a challenge to begin with. I have been so impressed with their creative minds when constructing their sentences, we really do have many super writers!

We have continued to be curious and active learners, this week with the help of our wonderful parish priest, Father Peter. He joined us for a special virtual call and the children asked him different questions that they have been curious to wonder about. The children loved seeing Father Peter and listened with such interest to his wise words.

Let’s Celebrate!

A Focused and Enthusiastic learner : Gabriella

You have had a super week! It has been so nice to hear others in our class notice your kind actions throughout the week. During our class council one of your class friends shared how you had made them feel special by smiling at them during lunch time and playing so nicely with them. You have also been trying SO hard to focus during our lessons and we have really noticed this, particularly in your writing!

An Enthusiastic learner : Ola

What can we say Ola?! You are such an enthusiastic learner. Watching you during your music lesson this week was just wonderful, your enthusiasm was shining so brightly! You have shown this same excitement towards your writing by listening carefully, participating during our discussions and getting fully immersed in our drama, acting out scenes from our novel. Well done Ola, keep up the great work!

Notices…

• We are starting to get a collection of water bottles in class with no name on. Please could you make sure all bottles and snack pots that children bring in have their names on, it really does help to send them home if they get left.

• Homework is given out on a Friday and due in again on a Thursday- there are a number of children who are not completing this, please could you encourage this at home, many thanks.

Finally, once again in music the children have been so enthusiastic (our little Bobby bees!) and are desperate to share with you another piece of music, this time they have had to focus carefully listening to the beat of the music.

Our Solar system

I can’t believe the learning that has been taking place in nursery this week. We have started to learn about the planets in our solar system, and wow I am amazed1

Click here for the solar system song

Click here for the planets song

We have written a poem map about the planets. We were inspired by Pie Corbett’s ‘Talk for writing’ concept. In talk for writing Children learn to tell a story off by heart. They tell the story with expression and actions. Once a story is learnt the children are encouraged to adapt it to make it their own, for example by changing the characters or the setting. We have very nearly learnt our poem off by heart.

Now we have our ‘map’ we are going to write an alien story next week. Watch this space! Be prepared for us to scare your socks off!

Key Person blog

Wow, what a rate our brains have been grown at this week! Our astronauts have boarded their rockets and crash, banged into our Solar System. We have listened to and learnt poems and songs and used this planet knowledge to create a super display in nursery. We are such a creative bunch!! More rockets have been made, (continuing to spot our 3 primary colours!), sparkly stars have been glued and glittered, and some of us have even started to design our very own planets. We have also continued to develop our scissor skills by giving some aliens a hair cut…a great one to try at home!

Outside we have been playing box monster, making aliens with stretchy blue sand and launching asteroids across the garden. Tin foil wrapped around a small soft ball, (with streamers dangling off!!) was perfect for practising our over arm throw!  

We have danced again to ‘Cherry Tots’ and met ‘quiet and mad’ this week. Can you remember how we moved to these pieces of music?

Worship- I am special

This week we have continued developing our understanding of the importance of valuing ourselves and others. We played the ‘I am special’ game. We had a golden box and inside there was something so special that there is only one in the whole wide world!

We looked inside the box to discover what could be so very special. Can you guess what we saw? Mmmmmm…you will have to ask your child to find out what it was!! Take a look at our pictures.

Throughout the day we all tried to be a little bit more like Jesus and to fill our hearts full of love for everyone.

We also visited the chapel again on Tuesday. It is fast becoming our favourite place.

We are still finding out about shapes in our environments. Here are a couple of games to try at home.

Click here for the shape pattern train.

Click here for the symmetry shape game.

Lastly, could we say a big thank you to you for supporting your childs learning at home. You are fantastic! Have a good rest this weekend but don’t forget Purple Mash, there is work set for the children to do!

See you all on Monday

Barbara

Year 6 Home Learning - Wednesday 19th January 2022

Spelling - Silent letter spellings.

climb, ascent, crescent, handkerchief, sandwich, consign, character, archeology, breathe, ghost, thumb, plumb, would, knight, wrapper, silhouette, autumn, wrinkle, guilty, yolk

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Maths - Can you complete these calculations in your homework book?

SHORT DIVISION

LONG DIVISION

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English - IXL ENGLISH - HH1 and HH2 - Modal verbs -
This is a revision and based on the grammar discussions that we had this week in class.

Are you learning your ROMEO and JULIET lines at home?

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Science - EVOLUTION

What is evolution? What are the basic principles? Using the buttons below, lift out the main ideas from the text and create a poster to illustrate your findings. This has been set for you on Purple Mash.

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