Year 4 Home Learning

March 24, 2020

Hello to all!

We hope that you are adjusting to your home learning experience and you are all keeping well.

If you have not had a chance to check it out already, please have a look at Class Dojo and send us a message. We will also be adding home learning tasks there which we can post and share with all of you. Please join us!

As always, continue to read, using Get Epic or your own books. We have added tasks to Mathletics and would love to hear about your experiences with Real PE and TT Rockstars.

New tasks for today’s home learning:

Reading:

Have a go at the comprehension task A Jungle Survival Guide

jungle survival 60 second reads

Maths:

Have a go at some problems of the day.

This one is a little easier;

problem of the day something easier

This one is a little bit trickier;

problem of the day something harder

Check out our video message on Class Dojo. We look forward to hearing from you soon!

 

24th March 2020

March 24, 2020

We are currently issuing invitations to join our class on Class Dojo. This will allow children to upload documents and photographs of their work. We would love to see photographs of the children’s newspaper articles and flags.

Don’t forget to clear any homework allocated to you on Mathletics. This will allow you to go on the games section of the website and access Live Mathletics and Rainforest Maths.

24th March 2020

March 24, 2020

Good morning (Day 2) 

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Parents can contact us via email: howardyear2@gmail.com
Children are welcome to share their work, thoughts videos, pictures etc via ClassDojo[/dropshadowbox]

Please complete the work at your own pace. How was your first day? Give us feedback via ClassDojos, we are missing you all and await your feedback.

https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html

 

https://www.youtube.com/thebodycoachtv

 

‘With the schools closed and with us all spending more time at home, it’s more important than ever that we keep moving and stay healthy and positive.

Exercise is an amazing tool to help us feel happier, more energised, and more optimistic.

The workouts will be fun and suitable for all ages and even adults can get involved.

You don’t need any equipment, just tune in to my YouTube channel at 9am each morning for a 30-minute, fun workout. ‘ –  Joe Wicks

REMINDER: Joe Wicks will be starting his workouts for children every morning at 9am on his YouTube Channel – TheBodyCoachTV

 

English

Using your plan, write your own version of monkey puzzle.  Make sure you use the success criteria to ensure you are using a variety of features.

Feel free to share your story on Class Dojo.

Remember to read through your work and edit it.

Editing your work involved proof-reading and making simple revisions and additions.

 

Maths

Remember to complete your Mathletics task

https://login.mathletics.com/?_ga=2.173132963.1001154013.1584951143-753707134.1569585217

We are now moving on to sequencing and comparing intervals of time.

Maths..

We want the children to understand the number of seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour etc. Activities involve ordering lengths of time, calculating how many minutes in two hours e.g. if we know that there are 60 minutes in 1 hour then we also know other time facts, timing activities such as star jumps.

 

Comprehension

I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside

Download the above attachment and complete the 60 second read.

When reading with your child at home ask them questions related to their book.

Questions to ask before you read

  • Can you look at the pictures and predict what you think will happen in this book?
  • What makes you think that?
  • What characters do you think might be in our story?
  • Do you think there will be a problem in this story? Why or why not?
  • Does the topic/story relate to you or your family? How?

Questions to ask during the reading

  • What do you think will happen next?
  • What can you tell me about the story so far?
  • Can you predict how the story will end?
  • Why do you think the character did _______?
  • What would you have done if you were the character?
  • How would you have felt if you were the character? (use different characters)
  • As I read____________, it made me picture________ in my head. What pictures do you see in your head?
  • As you read, what are you wondering about?
  • Can you put what you’ve just read in your own words?

Questions to ask after reading

  • Can you remember the title?
  • In your opinion, was it a good title for this book? Why or why not?
  • Were your predictions about the story correct?
  • If there was a problem, did it get solved?
  • What happened because of the problem?
  • Why do you think the author wrote this book?
  • What is the most important point the author is trying to make in his writing?
  • What was your favourite part of the story?
  • If you could change one thing in the story, what would it be?
  • Can you retell the story in order?
  • If you were __________, how would you have felt?
  • What is the most interesting situation in the story?
  • Is there a character in the story like you? How are you alike?
  • Why did you like this book?

Computing 

https://scratch.mit.edu/

Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

 

Have a go at creating a game and share the link with us on Class Dojo.

https://blockly.games/

 

Have a go at directing the robot to different places.

https://lightbot.com/flash.html

 

History 

Continue  with your work from Monday

Pablo Picasso homework

 

Stay safe x

 

 

Tuesday, 24th March, 2020

March 24, 2020

Good Morning Every one,

Dear Parents We hope you and the children are well and are keeping safe and busy during this unprecedented time. We will continue to post a few new suggestions every day at 8:30 for as long as is required. During this time with the children, we would advise keeping to a schedule or routine that best suits everyone in your family. Please bear in mind that there are no expectations for your child to follow full school routines whilst at home. Simply adjusting their usual weekend routines to include a few short sessions of learning time will help to keep them on track with learning. It is also important to include time away from screens, so please do build in activity breaks. We also recommend the following published guidance when planning walks or other activities outside the home. (Scroll down to find some suggestions for on-screen activities to do at home). Keep safe and keep learning. Kind Regards Mrs Ramakrishnan & Mrs Jeevahan [/dropshadowbox}

Here are some suggested activities…
English
We are learning about Rain and focusing on the Paining by Rachel Dyer – Girl in the Rain – Walk through the Rain. Use the painting below and create your own story.
Painting Girl in the Rain Rachel Dyer

Hope you have managed to write your story. Today you can use the Year one Writing Expected Criteria to edit your work.

  •  Punctuation-Capital letters for names and I

Capital letters to start a sentence

Full stops.

Exclamation marks!

Questions?

  • Letters are the right sizes
  • Finger spaces
  • Simple adjectives- long, dark, heavy
  • Conjunctions- and, because, when, so
  • Pronouns – he, she, it
  • Spell some tricky words
  • Use some sounds
  • Check that my sentence makes sense
  • Correct spelling of keywords
  • Begin to use joined-up writing

Maths
We have started to identify the fractions of shapes.

Can half and quarter these shapes.

  1. circle-
  2. triangle-
  3. square-
  4. rectangle
  5. pentagon-
  6. hexagon-
  7. octagon-

Science
Can you write a paragraph about Herbivores.

 

Art

Can you draw/paint/colour a ‘Spring Picture’.

P.E
Enjoy some fun exercise with PE with Jo every day at 9:00 am.

Phonics
From Monday 23rd March there will be daily Phonics lessons provided by Ruth Miskin Training via this link: Daily Phonics lessons by Ruth Miskin Training
Children working with Ms Dale & Mrs Hunjan please follow Set 1 and Set 2
Mrs Ramakrishnan &Mrs Jeevahan’s group please follow set 3.
We will add more activities later on.

Mrs. Hunjan’s  and Miss. Dale’s Phonics Groups:

https://youtu.be/1Qpn2839Kro

Mrs. Jeevahan’s Phonics Group:

https://youtu.be/cS8bvbyWFZ4

Mrs. Ramakrishnan’s Phonics Group:

Watch the child friendly story of Corona virus. We have shared it in class and children are familiar with it.
https://www.mindheart.co/descargables
Non screen activities to do…

Please continue reading at home as well as doing your Mathletics. We will continue to update …
Thank you for your help and support, Stay safe and healthy.

Year Four Home Learning Blog

March 23, 2020

Things for you to try at home this week:

Real P.E (the programme we use for your twice weekly p.e lesson) now have a parent/home login for you to continue being active at home.

real PE at home includes an online programme which supports families to be active, play and learn together. It includes a programme specifically for children in Early Years and Key Stage 1 with 12 themes, 6 areas, over 250 activities and challenges and 1000s of hours of fun and activity. This programme is also great for family play and fun.

It also includes a programme for children in Key Stage 2, with daily and weekly guidance provided for both programmes (starting from next week) in addition to an option to choose your own themes and activities.

There are so many benefits to being active, not only to our physical wellbeing but also to our emotional and mental health, especially in such testing times for all of us. We hope that the ideas help support you and your family to stay fit and healthy in the coming months. Here are the details to access real PE at home:

The website address is: home.jasmineactive.com 
Parent email: parent@howardprim-1.com
Password: howardprim

Maths-Use your Mathletics login to try the decimal tasks.

Reading-Write a book review for a book you are reading on Get Epic. You can print out or use the headings from this format if you like. Book-Review

Don’t forget you can let us know how you are doing and ask us any questions using Class Dojo. 

Homelearning – Week 23rd March 2020

March 23, 2020

Good morning all,

While we have our little, spikey visitor around and are required to stay at home, which is for everyone’s best, let’s not pull each-other’s hair out, but establish a routine that is as close to normal life as possible.

To avoid a classblog littered with thousands of messages from us, we will try to keep things as clear and straight forward as possible. Firstly, we will upload a weekly timetable which you can follow as closely as you wish. Then, for each lesson, we will upload a short instruction/overview and then a task-sheet. This does not have to be printed, but can be answered on paper or on the notepad from class-dojo which can then be submitted to us.

Class-Dojo: This morning, we are inviting all parents up to Class-Dojo which makes communication easier and quicker, allows children to build up a portfolio and enables us to see what the children have done as they can upload documents, pictures and videos. Class-Dojo conforms with GDPR regulations and is perfectly safe (closed circle of participants in a class). It works as follows:

  1. Download the ClassDojo app.
  2. Open app and tap ‘Parent’ to create a parent account.
  3. Enter name, email & create a password.
  4. Tap ‘Add child (+)’ and use this code: … (we will text the code to you / class-dojo will send you  a link with instructions within the next 30mins)

Any questions, please just ask using Class-Dojo or our email address: howardyear5@gmail.com. Please only use this for relevant correspondences. We will endeavor to respond within 24 hours.

Daily PE routines are essential (we have not timetabled them – sorry). Here is the homelearning link of the programme that we are using. Just click on the link and log in. Then, on the top left-hand side is a menu called Dashboard, simply click on it and choose Real Play where another field/button called Home appears. After clicking on it, you may choose any theme/topic. We will leave this for you to explore and choose rather than dictating which one to do.

The website address is: home.jasmineactive.com 
Parent email: parent@howardprim-1.com
Password: howardprim

Please bare with us this morning, as we are trying to organise the day and week. By 1pm, today’s Math, English and Art should be up.

Kind regards,

The Year 5 team

Since we are all gearing up for Year 6 – and the time will fly quicker than expected -, here is a link with a Grammar Glossary and examples:

SPAG-support-for-parents

https://www.theschoolrun.com/primary-grammar-glossary-for-parents

Monday:

Math: Sp2-Wk5-MeasurePerimeter-SimpleShapes (Since so many were off last week, we are going a little bit backwards, but will speed up a lot from tomorrow.)

English: Sp2-Wk5-L01 PerseusMedusa-Read&StoryMap

Text: PerseusMedusa p1-20 PerseusMedusa p21-23 

Spellings: Sp2-Wk5-Spellings

Art: ART-Sp2-Wk5  

Booklet: Choose one of the writing tasks. Remember, you can send it to me via Class-Dojo. 

Remember to also enjoy the sunshine a little bit. Go for a walk, but keep 2m distance from others.

 

Tuesday:

Math: all in one document today -> Sp2-Wk5-Perimeter of complex shapes

English: Sp2-Wk5-L02 – CharacterProfilePerseus

Science: Choose a mammal and create a poster/overview of its life-cycle. Include a box with keywords.

SpaG: Parenthesis/Brackets with additional/non-essential information Sp2-Wk5-SpaG-Parenthesis

Booklet: Pick a short task and complete it to the best possible standard.

 

Wednesday:

Math: Unknown lengths of rectangles and compound shapes. Sp2-Wk5-L03-UnknownLengths-Instruction       Sp2-Wk5-L03-UnknownLengths-Tasks

English: Using the Myth of Perseus and Medusa, write a news report about how Perseus defeated Polydectes.

Here are our Success Criteria: Sp2-Wk5-L03-5 – Newspaper-Article SC

Stuck with ideas? Use my poor example: Sp2-Wk5-L03-4 MedusaNewspaperReport

RE: Choose a religious key-figure and create a bank of 5-10 quotes that could motivate and help people during difficult times. http://www.atschool.co.uk/keystage2-ks2/re.asp

Music: Using the BBC bitesize website, create a learning poster with musical keywords. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zwxhfg8

Challenge: Since Ludwig van Beethoven would celebrate his 250th birthday this year, create a factfile about this musical genius.

Booklet: Pick a short task and complete it to the best possible standard.

READING: https://greece.mrdonn.org/odyssey.html  What else can you find out about Odysseus?

 

Thursday:

Maths: Today, we are looking at the area of rectangles. Sp2-Wk5-L04-Area of Rectangles

English: Continue with your news report on the Myth of Perseus and Medusa (see yesterday’s ideas and notes). Share it on Class-Dojo or howardyear5@gmail.com

READING: Read/Explore the Myth of “Jason and the Golden Fleece”. Then create a flipbook about the myth. (How to make a flipbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un-BdBSOGKY )

Geography: Here is a fabulous way of practising your map-skills and combining maps with aerial pictures. Have fun.

History: Create an acrostic or alphabet list of key words about Ancient Greece/Greeks. The letters could be within the words, they don’t have to be at the beginning like my example as that can prove tricky. Please do not copy my example. Upload your work on Class-Dojo.

Friday:

Homework:

Monday 23rd March 2020

March 23, 2020

Good morning

We hope you’ve had a good weekend. Please complete the work at your own pace, if it is not completed today do not worry. Take this time to be creative, help mums and dads at home. Spend this time reading your favourite books, making up dances, singing etc.

We miss you dearly and can’t wait to see you all again. Please remember to stay safe and wash your hands.

 

Feel free to contact us about the work on the email address below:

howardyear2@gmail.com

 

Children can contact us via Class Dojos

https://www.classdojo.com/en-gb/?redirect=true

They can share any work with us
Upload photos & videos
Share information with our Year 2 community.

 

PE.

Every day at 9am Joe Wick will be provided PE lessons so that children can remain healthy and positive .

Please click the link below

https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html

“With the schools closed and with us all spending more time at home, it’s more important than ever that we keep moving and stay healthy and positive.

Exercise is an amazing tool to help us feel happier, more energised, and more optimistic.  

The workouts will be fun and suitable for all ages and even adults can get involved. 

You don’t need any equipment, just tune in to my YouTube channel at 9am each morning for a 30-minute, fun workout.”

 

English 

Work –  Story-Box

Recap the story.

You will be writing your own version of Monkey Puzzle. In your story the main character will lose an item that is precious to them. Fortunately, after some help, they will find it. Today you will plan the story and tomorrow you will write the story.

Please use a variety of sentences within your plan.

Maths

Please remember to complete your Mathletics task

https://login.mathletics.com/?_ga=2.112928004.1001154013.1584951143-753707134.1569585217

 

In maths we will be looking at time facts.

Work – Maths Time

 

History

In history you will continue to research Pablo Picasso.

This task can be completed over 3 days.
Work – Pablo Picasso homework

 

GPS

The children have already been working on adding the ‘er’ and ‘est’ suffix to words. 
Rules:
short vowel sound in base word – double the final consonant e.g. red redder reddest

drop the e from the base word and add ‘er’ or ‘est’ e.g rule ruler 

drop the y from the base word and change it to an I then add ‘er’ or ‘est’ e.g. windy   windier   windiest

Work – Est Er

 

 

Home learning week beginning 23rd March 2020

March 23, 2020

Maths – Please watch the following Youtube clips and complete the Mathletics tasks that have been set.

Long division

 

Area

 

Volume

Writing – 

Continue to complete SPAG activities from your learning pack.

Click on each of the links below for your writing tasks –

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5 – Edit each piece according to the Year 6 expectations.

SPAG support for parents – a useful booklet that provides ideas on how to support you child at home. 

Please click this link to take you to a fantastic website which provides a detailed grammar glossary. If you click each highlighted word on the website, for example ‘modal verbs’ it will take you to a page with specific examples (and some videos) to help support your child at home.

Ongoing Spelling Frame activities will be set throughout the week.

Reading – 

Have a go at the Deforestation Comprehension Ninja text. The answers will be posted in one weeks time! In the meantime, you can log on Fiction Express and complete the quiz after.

Science – 

Have a go at these revision activities:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/earth-squad-go

Geography – Similar to what we use in Science, we would like you to create a knowledge organiser for Scandinavia. Could you include elements of physical geography (such as the names of the countries and capital cities) as well as human geography (currency, culture, national holidays, festivals, religion, etc…)

Click here for an example – Knowledge organiser

PE – Have a go at these fun, physical activities (make sure that you move any intruding furniture out of the way):

Spanish – 

Please visit the link below:

https://www.languageangels.com/schools/

Once there, select the pupil games area.

Login: class name     (all lower case)

Password: howard

Please complete the task: Desayuno en el cafe topic.

 

Computing:

Please follow the link below.

http://code-it.co.uk/algebrainverse

Once there, please click on the ‘teacher planning’ section for your tasks (you have seen these type of tasks before).

(You can use https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted to access Scratch).

 

 

Thank you for your ongoing support,

The Year 6 Team

Monday 23rd March, 2020

March 22, 2020

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f3e408″ border_width=”3″ border_color=”#f74f91″ ]Dear Parents We hope you and the children are well and are keeping safe and busy during this unprecedented time. We will continue to post a few new suggestion every day at 8 :30 for as long as is required. During this time with the children, we would advise keeping to a schedule or routine that best suits everyone in your family. Please bear in mind that there are no expectations for your child to follow full school routines whilst at home. Simply adjusting their usual weekend routines to include a few short sessions of learning time will help to keep them on track with learning. It is also important to include time away from screens, so please do build in activity breaks. We also recommend following published guidance when planning walks or other activities outside the home. (Scroll down to find some suggestions for non -screen activities to do at home). Keep safe and keep learning. Kind Regards Mrs Ramakrishnan & Mrs Jeevahan[/dropshadowbox}

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Super Mathlete

Lambeth Class :Brady – 2380 Points

Vauxhall Class : Yigi Emre – 7328 Ponts

Silver

Lambeth Class :

Vauxhall Class : Adem

Bronze

Lambeth Class : Tome, Brady, Olivier, Bonnie, Emily, Shauns, Aliyah, Carlotta, Stanley, Mikael, Hasan, Yusuf, Mia, Mustafa

Vauxhall Class :Afia, Alesha, Olivier, Rayyan, Hamza, Fabeha, Agyeiwaa, Mohamed, Freddie, Aayush, Yigit, Ishmael, Elena

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English

We are learning about Rain and focusing on the Paining by Rachel Dyer – Girl in the Rain – Walk through the Rain. Use the painting below and create your own story.

Painting Girl in the Rain Rachel Dyer

Draw a story map –  a suggested plan

Recap setting- children start planning the beginning of their story. eg.

  1. create a character  boy or girl – The character goes for a walk in the rain – reasons ( may be pet is lost / bored and wanted to go out

2) Girl in the painting  =  meets a new character

3) They go somewhere together/ something happens (main action) – maybe girl helps to find lost pet or girl needs help as she is lost or her taxi for a party is late

4) problem solved

5) ending

Maths

We have started to identify fractions of shapes.

Science

Can we make a poster in our homework book about Carnivores, herbivores and omnivores,

P.E

Enjoy some fun exercise with PE with Jo everyday at 9:00 am.

Geography

Web are learning about United Kingdom.

 

Phonics

From Monday 23rd March there will be daily Phonics lessons provided by Ruth Miskin Training via this link: Daily Phonics lessons by Ruth Miskin Training

Children working with Ms Dale & Mrs Hunjan please follow Set 1 and Set 2

Mrs Ramakrishnan &Mrs Jeevahan’s group please follow set 3.

We will add more activities later on.

 

 

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#76d80d” border_width=”3″ border_color=”#247fed” ]Watch the child friendly story of Corona virus. We have shared it in class and children are familiar with it.[/dropshadowbox]

https://www.mindheart.co/descargables

Non screen activities to do…

Please continue reading at home as well as doing your Mathletics. We will continue to update …

Thank you for your help and support, Stay safe and healthy.

Home learning week beginning 23rd March 2020

March 22, 2020

[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#81f9d4" border_width="1" border_color="#dddddd" ]Dear Reception Parents

We hope you and the children are well and are keeping safe and busy during this unprecedented time.

We will continue to post a few new suggestions twice a week, every Monday and Wednesday, for as long as is required. During this time with the children, we would advise keeping to a schedule or routine that best suits everyone in your family. Please bear in mind that there are no expectations for your child to follow full school routines whilst at home. Simply adjusting their usual weekend routines to include a few short sessions of learning time will help to keep them on track with learning. It is also important to include time away from screens, so please do build in activity breaks. We also recommend following published guidance when planning walks or other activities outside the home. (Scroll down to find some suggestions for non -screen activities to do at home). 

Keep safe and keep learning.

Kind Regards,

Reception Team

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[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#2534f7" ]READING AND MATHS

Everyone should, by now, have received access details to Mathletics  and Ebooks  to keep up with reading and maths online. Please check your email.

Also visit the following link for some fun Reception Maths Lessons: White Rose Maths Home Learning for Reception children

PHONICS

From Monday 23rd March there will be daily Phonics lessons provided by Ruth Miskin Training via this link: Daily Phonics lessons by Ruth Miskin Training

The  lessons are delivered at set times each day (see below)so you may build this into your daily family schedule. Reception children may follow Set 1 and Set 2  lessons

SET 2 sounds: Please note that your child will have learnt an alternate spelling of some of the Speed sounds. Please explain that what they are seeing is a different way to spell the same sound or as we would say in a sing song voice " same sound, different spelling"

We have learnt the following alternate graphemes first instead of the one being shown in the video:

/ai/ snail in the rain  instead of /ay/ may I play

/oa/ goat in a boat instead of /ow/ blow the snow

/ur/ nurse with a purse instead of /ir/ whirl and twirl

/ow/ brown cow instead of /ou/ shout it out

/oi/ spoil the boy instead of /oy/ toy for a boy

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[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#3cf72d" ]PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

There are several online sessions available to keep you and the family moving and physically active. Please see the following suggestions:

PE sessions

Real PE

Try out the Real PE lessons which your children are familiar with from school. Watch the short video explaining this and try it out by using the access details sent to your email.

Other suggestions

YOGA for children

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[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#f596fa" ]EXPRESSIVE ARTS & DESIGN

Keep their creative minds active. Re-use recycling to create works of art.

Check out the amazing ideas at Pinterest Creative Craft ideas for kids [/dropshadowbox]

[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#1fefec" ]NON-SCREEN ACTIVITIES TO DO AT HOME

If you have had enough of screentime, try out some of the suggestions below:

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