Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Skylarks Home Learning 02.02.21
Date: 1st Feb 2021 @ 4:26pm
Tuesday 2nd February
Good morning Skylarks 😊
I hope you are all well this morning and staying motivated with your school work. Today is a very special day because it’s Teddy’s 1st birthday!! Here he is showing off his birthday bandana and cupcake!
Please find the link for this week’s zoom sessions in your emails or on our class discussion – Teddy might even join us this morning.
See below for today’s home learning tasks and remember that I will be available on our discussion/homework area throughout the school day to help you and provide feedback on your work.
This week is Children’s Mental Health week where we will celebrate the theme ‘Express Yourself’.
Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share your feelings, thoughts, or ideas and doing activities that make you feel good.
Please find attached a word document that contains lots of different ideas of things you can do to support your positive wellbeing at home. These activities allow us to explore our feelings and emotions, but also give us time to switch off our brains from school work and focus on doing things that make us happy.
Here is a gorgeous video you might like to watch at home. It reminds us that even though things are a bit different and strange at the minute, people around the world are finding new ways to share love, laughter and hope with each other:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl1NW7h7lrY
Maths
Comparing Area: For your maths lesson today, please see the PowerPoint attached. Just click on the little speaker icon on the PowerPoint page to listen. Today we are going to continue to look at area. We will be comparing and ordering shapes based on their area which means we will need to use our more than, less than and equal symbols (> < or =).
If you cannot access the PowerPoint, please view the maths lesson at the following YouTube link:
If you are watching the lesson through the YouTube link, you may need to pause the video at appropriate times to give yourself time to complete the tasks.
Times Tables
This week can you practice your x8 tables? Don’t forget to practice other tables that you still find tricky too. Can you say it forwards and backwards? Can you write out the multiples of this number? Do you know the division facts? Why not use TTRS or hit the button to help you:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Writing
Hansel and Gretel: Again, please see the PowerPoint attached. Like the maths, I have recorded the instructions so just click on the audio button to hear what to do. Today, we will continue to look at the book ‘Hansel and Gretel’ by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm. In today’s lesson, we will be using our notes from yesterday on the old woman’s appearance and personality to write some speech for her using inverted commas.
If you cannot access the PowerPoint, please view the writing lesson at the following YouTube link:
If you are watching the lesson through the YouTube link, you may need to pause the video at appropriate times to give yourself time to complete the tasks.
Reading
It would also be super if you could spend 10-15 minutes each day reading your school book that you have taken home or another book you have been enjoying at home.
This week’s author of the week is Sally Gardner. You can read her book ‘Mr Tiger, Betsy and the blue moon’ at the link below:
https://library.thenational.academy/meet-mr-tiger-betsy-and-the-blue-moon-with-sally-gardner/
Remember to continue writing in your reading diary and get an adult to sign in, then we can collect our raffle tickets when we are back in school.
Why not tell me what book you are reading over on our discussion?
Spellings
Have a go at reading, saying in a sentence and spelling words with the suffix -ent. You could make your own spelling doodle and add to it throughout the week. I will add a new word each day and then on Friday we can have a little quiz.
Today’s word: different
Previous words: confident
Story: You will find our story embedded into our Writing PowerPoint.
Eco Schools at Home Campaign
Mrs Brennan has registered our school into an #EcoSchoolsAtHome campaign and she needs your help! Have a look at the below eco-challenges that we would love you to complete before 26th March 2021:
- Draw a ‘Don’t drop litter’ poster and drop it to the school reception area to be displayed in the window
- Upcycle a plastic bottle into something new (e.g. a bird feeder)
- Carry out a 2 day single use plastic audit at home – this means keep a record of all the times you use single-use plastic that needs to be thrown away after use
- Design a new anti-littering slogan and logo for fast food, soft drinks or PPE litter
- Interview an older person to ask them about their thoughts on if the amount of litter is increasing
You can share photos of your work or you completing the eco-challenges with us on Twitter, or drop off anything you do make into the school reception area.
Worship
Today we will take part in an Open the Book worship where we will listen to the story of ‘The Two Houses’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or3Gm6I8Zy4&t=12s
Have a super day Skylarks and remember I will be on our class discussion during the school day for a chat or to help you with your home learning 😊
Love from Miss Beattie x