Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Swallows - Friday 29th January 2021
Date: 28th Jan 2021 @ 6:18pm
Friday 29th January 2021
Good morning SUPER Swallows and welcome back to our blog.
I hope you are all well and ready for another busy day of super learning. It is our last day of home learning before the weekend. Let’s make it a good one!
Please see our task list and PowerPoint presentations below to see what your home learning tasks are for today. Please also remember to take a few moments to look at the class discussion page each day where I will be available to ‘chat’ to you about the work that I have set for that day. You can just pop on there to say hi or tell have a little chat with your friends. The children can type in their own messages. It is a lovely, safe way of us staying in touch.
Science – Can you identify the characteristics of living things?
SURPRISE! We thought we would mix things up a little bit today and swap our usual Maths lesson for a Science lesson. You have all worked SO hard and deserve a bit of a change.
Please see the talking Power point video linked below.
Here is the link to the Oak Academy video mentioned in the PowerPoint. Uploading the video to the PowerPoint was interfering with the sound quality, so I thought a link might be best today.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-are-the-characteristics-of-living-things-70u30c#
Here is a fun science game which can be played to secure your knowledge of living and non-living things. Please remember to use MRS NERG to help you to give reasons.
https://www.turacogames.com/games/living-non-living/
Times Tables
Please use Times Tables Rock Stars to learn your 2 x table. If you would like your child's log in details, please contact the school office via the admin address and they will email them across to you. Alternatively, you could play ‘Hit the Button’. Please section the 2, 5 or 10 x table.
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/36325
Note: When you log in to TT Rock Stars, please select schools, students and then enter our school name and your login details.
Writing
Can you answer questions to show what you have found out?
Please see the talking PowerPoint video linked below. I have recorded the instructions so just click play and then pause when it is time to complete an activity. I hope you enjoy learning all about cats today.
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.
Here is another great resource to access lots of brilliant reading books online.
Children use a QR code to access a range of stories being read by their authors. The link is: https://www.booksfortopics.com/storytime-online To scan the codes, please download the posters attached at the bottom of today’s blog.
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. Please remember that the website updates at 9:30 each day. You may notice that the sounds will start to repeat soon. The children revisit sounds many times when we are teaching Read Write Inc in school. We want to encourage fluency. We want the children to be able to read a text containing each sound at speed, without the need to Fred Talk. In order to achieve this, the children need to see each sound several times. Please continue to focus on the spelling, red word and hold a sentence videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ
Spellings
Our spellings will be on our English PowerPoint each day. Please use your spelling whiteboard and roll and spell game to help you to learn them. Please remember to complete your Friday Quiz today!
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
Here is a link to Mrs Powell’s Friday worship. Mrs Powell has chosen to read a fabulous story which is written by one of our favourite authors, David Walliams.
Up at the North Pole, a big furry polar bear is swimming, fishing and eating. But when she nods off and finds herself far from home, she thinks things can’t get any worse.
But they can…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYc5Xfs2_SQ&feature=youtu.be
PE - Can you complete a 1 minute challenge?
1 minute Active challenges. How many of each of these can you do in 1 minute?
Press-ups
Sit ups
Star jumps
Bounces on the spot
High knees
Socks in the box (use a pair of rolled up socks and aim in a box)
Have a fabulous Friday Swallows and don’t forget to let us know how you are getting on with your learning today on School Spider. I will see you at 9:20 for our Zoom call this morning. Please have a piece of work that you are proud of ready to share with your friends if you would like to.
Parents, I will be phoning to check in today and answer any questions that you may have about home learning. I look forward to catching up with you all soon.
Have a wonderful weekend Swallows.
Lots of love from
Miss Gillam