Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Toucans Home Learning 9.2.21
Date: 8th Feb 2021 @ 3:51pm
Tuesday 9th February 2021
Good morning Toucans.
I hope you are all keeping well and had a good day yesterday. It was great to see your achievements being shared on our Discussion and Homework pages. You are all working extremely hard and we are very proud of you. Keep up the great work.
Today we are going to celebrate #SaferInternetDay which aims to raise awareness and make the internet a safer and better place for all.
As we are all on this remote learning journey, we are probably spending a lot more time on the internet and so knowing how to keep ourselves safe is more important than ever!
Here are some internet safety tasks that you may wish to complete today:
- Watch the Safer Internet Day lesson using the link below which will go live this morning at 11am, however you can watch it any time after this too. In this lesson we will learn about how we can stay safe, responsible and wise in an increasingly digital world, with tips and advice from some of the biggest personalities on the internet:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/live-lessons/safer-internet-day-live-lesson/zdh2wnb
- Using what you have learnt in the lesson above, create a story board or poster to show how to stay safe when online. You could use the templates attached to today’s blog or simply design your own.
- Join Dr Chips and Ms Lieghio for a Safer Internet Day live special! They’ll be launching a brand new online game about phishing scams,‘ The Phisherman’, for KS2 children. Join live at 1.30pm today or watch again at this link at a time to suit you: https://youtu.be/lHbRiFmUFkw
- Sometimes being online becomes too much and it is important to take a minute, switch devices off and talk to a grown up. The following videos help to explain how we might feel online and explain that we may need to take a minute away from devices to focus our minds on something calming and relaxing:
Please share your posters and storyboards with us on Twitter using the hashtag #SaferInternetDay
Maths
Area of a Parallogram – This is a Year 6 objective so you won’t have come across it before. Just listen carefully to the audio on each slide and look carefully at the diagrams to help you today.
Please revise the names and properties of 2D shapes with this game.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/carroll-diagrams/2d-shapes
Please watch this video if you can’t access the audio on the PowerPoint. Remember to just pause it when needed and you can play back too if required.
If you have your Maths CGP book complete page 63 on Areas of Triangles and Parallelograms or see the Word document attached to the blog, including the answers for you to self-check.
Times Tables
Recap all your times tables using TTRockstars https://ttrockstars.com/ Where can you get to on the leader board today? We have been so impressed with your daily scores.
Writing
To improve spelling of words from the Year 5/6 spelling list
See the Power point attached. Like the Maths, Mrs Downing has recorded the instructions so just click on the audio button to hear what to do.
Please watch this video if you can’t access the audio on the PowerPoint. Remember to just pause it when needed and you can play back too if required.
Reading
Toucans, we would love you to read a little each day of the school book you have or a book you have been reading at home.
Spellings
This week we will be looking at the spellings – Plural Nouns
We will focus on the first 3 words today - wishes, matches, peaches,
Write down the singular form for each of these words - wishes, matches, peaches,
Then write down the plural form and explain how they have been made plural. What was the change?
Put each plural word in a sentence to explain its meaning.
Take a look at this lesson from Oak National Academy which will explain all the spelling rules for plurals
Spelling words: bonuses, addresses, boxes, wishes, matches, peaches, dictionaries, identities, coaches, opportunities,
Story
‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell
Please follow this link to see Mrs Whittingham read some more of our new class novel.
Worship
Open the Book – have a listen to the following story
The Long Journey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHu_5K9M2SQ&feature=emb_title
#2021FitnessChallenge – 10 Yoga poses for self-love
Can you improve your poses from the last time we tried this?
https://cosmickids.com/10-kids-yoga-poses-for-self-love/
Have a great day everyone. Remember to use the Discussion page on School Spider to chat to us and upload your home learning tasks using the Upload your Homework tab.
Best wishes from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham and Mr Beswick.