Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Swallows - Friday 22nd January 2021
Date: 22nd Jan 2021 @ 7:28am
Friday 22nd January 2021
Hello Swallows!
You made it to Friday! Well done for another brilliant week of home learning. I have been amazed by the enthusiasm and determination shown by so many Swallows this week. I am so incredibly proud of every single one of you.
I would love to hear about the super learning that you complete at home today on our class discussion. Perhaps you could tell me your highlight of the week? What has been your favourite activity? Alternatively, you could send me an email with some of your work attached to it.
As always, please do let me know if you have any questions about today’s learning. I will be available on our discussion for the duration of the school day.
It was fantastic to see so many of you on our zoom meeting yesterday! Today’s meeting will start at 9:20 am again – please see your emails or our class discussion for the meeting link and password.
Please see below for today’s home learning tasks.
Maths – Can you count money? Today we are going to be learning how to count money with a focus on pounds AND pence. We will be using the part-whole and bar model to help us. Please see the link to our talking PowerPoint below. Please pause the video to complete each activity. Just like yesterday, I have embedded the White Rose video onto our PowerPoint. This should mean that you do not need to leave the video. As the PowerPoints are such large documents to download, we feel it would be best for everyone to access their learning via the YouTube link. We hope that this will make accessing your home learning even easier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ydtrB6YXQ&feature=youtu.be
Times Tables
Today we are going to continue to learn our 5 x table. Here is a link to a game that you can play online. Coconut Multiples is a tablet-friendly maths game which can reinforce your knowledge of times tables by helping you to recognise the multiples from each table. I want you to think to yourself, will I say this number if I am counting in 5s? Please select multiples of 5 first. You could then have a go at spotting multiples of 2 and 10 if you wanted to.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples
I have also attached a ‘Multiplication Muddle’ board game to the blog which you could choose to play if you wanted some time away from the screen.
Writing
Can you write a letter as one of the villagers to a friend/family member?
Please see the talking PowerPoint video linked below. Like the maths, I have recorded the instructions so just click play and then pause when it is time to complete an activity.
I have attached the story of ‘Saint George and the Dragon’ to our blog so that you can remind yourself of what happened in the story if you need to. Having your emotions graph out might help you with today’s lesson too.
Reading
Please spend some time reading either the school book you took home with you or a book you have been reading at home each day. Please also remember to use our Oxford Owl website to access reading books online. Here you can access Read Write Inc and other story books at your level.
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=&age_group=age%204-7&series=&level=¤t_page=school_ebooks
Username: starlings1 (from the last lockdown)
Password: Home
If you get an adult to sign your reading diary each time you read, you will still be able to collect your raffle tickets when we are back in school.
Read Write Inc
Instructions for how to find your RWI learning for today can be found on our English PowerPoint. Here is the link to the Read Write Inc home page on YouTube. It might help to add this as a favourite so that you can quickly find your Read Write Inc learning each day.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ
Spellings
It is time for our Friday quiz! Please ask an adult or sibling to read aloud each of our 5 spellings. Your job is to then record each spellings and say it in a sentence. I want to see if you can get 5/5 today. Alternatively, complete your spelling quiz with me at the end of our English PowerPoint today.
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Story
Please have a listen to the next chapter of our beautiful story ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’. You will find the audio at the end of our English PowerPoint. I will read a little bit of the story to you here each day.
Worship
"The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it."  
(Genesis 2:15) 
Please click on the link for Mrs Powell’s Monday worship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXAJvJZHekE&feature=youtu.be (Please don’t worry about the incorrect date!!)
Our new Christian Value is RESPECT. Look again at the 17 Global Goals below and think about how we can respect our own homes, gardens, parks and local area.
Reflection
Talk to your family about the Global Goals and think about what small actions you could take at home. Make a pledge on the blank puzzle piece attached to today’s Blog about what you and your family could do.
For example: Mrs Evans’ family are no longer using plastic food bags and cling film. They are on a mission to make sure they turn off the lights in the rooms they are not using and they go for walks and runs locally so they don’t use the car as much.
PE
Do you remember how much we enjoyed our gymnastics learning last year? In the game linked below, you get the chance to revisit all of the jumps that we learnt with Laura in our gymnastics lessons. You will need a large, clear space and please make you that you either have bare feet or trainers on. Warning…. This game might get tiring VERY quickly. Who is up for the challenge?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p6L7vObWgI
Have a brilliant day Swallows and don’t forget to let me know how you are getting on with your learning in our class discussion today. I can’t wait to see you all on our Zoom call today at 9:20!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Lots of love from
Miss Gillam