I hope you are all safe and keeping well, how are we already in May?! Thanks again for the lovely emails this week, I am so impressed with what I have been seeing. I have attached the next weeks home learning for maths, guided reading and phonics for you all.
You can aslo access daily quality phonics lessons from Letters and Sounds via their YouTube channel. I have popped the link below for you all 🙂
If you prefer to use 1cm squared paper you can print it off from the link below and if you need blank number-lines because you find them tricky to draw you can also print these from the link below……Happy Maths Learning!
APOLOGIES – for errors on maths PowerPoint – they have hopefully been corrected!
We would like to wish very happy lock down birthday wishes to the following children who have had their birthday over the last few weeks or are due to have their birthday this month: Sofia, Lydia, Freya O’T, Alfie, Ada, Tharanya, Orla, Ella, Chloe and Tyler H.
Hello Reception, we hope you all had a lovely Bank Holiday weekend and managed to enjoy the VE day celebrations in the sunshine. We must begin by apologising for not yet ringing you with your email address to enable you to access Microsoft Teams to communicate with staff about the work set. It took a little longer than expected to sort out email addresses but we will be phoning you over the next couple of days to share this with you. Once you have your email address and password you will need to follow the following link https://www.office.com/ to log in. The password you will be given will be a generic one so you are free to change this. The idea of microsoft teams is to allow children to chat to their teachers live about the work set. This is obviously better suited to the older children but is a function available if you wish to use it. We must state though it is only to chat about the work that has been set not to disscuss other issues. Please use the class email addresses for any other communication. Please do not feel you have to use TEAMs, it is just another form of communication open to you. Class teachers will be available to chat about Phonics 10-10.30 every week day and Maths 11-11.30 every weekday.
We would like to say a massive thank you for all the lovely emails this week. We love seeing all the lovely work you have been doing and also your lovely smiley faces. If you haven’t managed to email yet then please try to this week.
This week for Phonics we would like you to try some phonic sessions that should help to move your Phonics on and teach what you would have been taught had we been in school. These online sessions are taught by Teachers and follow the letters and sounds scheme that we follow in school. Please let us know how you get on with these sessions as they are a little different to the PowerPoints the children have been doing over the last few weeks. We would love to know which format you prefer. Please note which sessions we would like your child’s Phonics group to follow ( these are identified under the link)
Miss Plimmer’s, Miss Warsop’s and Mrs Hollingsworth’s groups should Follow the Reception Link and should try the five lessons starting from the 27th April – 1st May. Miss Jones and Mrs Johnson’s Phonics groups should follow the ‘Learning to Blend’ link again the 27th April – 1st May. Mrs Towner’s Phonics group should follow the Year 1 link and again follow the 5 lessons from the 27th April – 1st May (If your child is struggling with this then please follow the Reception link so they can recap the sounds previously been taught). Don’t forget to warm up with the Jolly Phonics or Tricky words songs that can be found on YouTube.
For your Maths sessions this week we will be following the story ‘The Very Busy Spider’. You can find the story in the link bellow and also the link to the weeks sessions. We have seen some lovely photos of activities you have been doing with your Maths. Its lovely to hear that you are enjoying the Maths sessions. This week you will be doing some work on patterns, addition and subtraction and doubles. If you would like to learn a little more about ‘doubles’ we have added the link to the doubles rap that we would love you to have a try at learning.
For those of you who would like a little extra challenge then please have a go at some of these ‘Digging Deeper’ Tasks.
This week for our curriculum work we would like you to think about staying healthy. Please follow the different activities on the PowerPoint and think about ways that you can stay healthy. What things are you doing at home to stay healthy? See if you can help to make a healthy meal. And remember a great way to start your day in a healthy way is to join Jo Wickes on YouTube doing his daily exercise session.
Parents we would just like to say a massive thank you for all that you are doing at home. We know it is not an easy task to home school especially when you are also trying to work from home. We have had some feedback that some of the children are struggling at the moment. Please do not worry or stress. Let the children take the lead. If they don’t want to do something Please do not force it. The most important thing is to look after your child’s and your own well being. Get outside, go for a walk, bake a cake, play board games or card games, get down with the children and play their games or just read and chat to them. There is learning in everything that we do. If you don’t get all of the activities done it doesn’t matter. Do what you can and please try not to feel guilty we are all trying to get through this strange situation as best we can. Remember we are always only an email away and will get back to you as quickly as we can to offer any support or words of advice.
We hope you have lovely week and look forward to seeing your lovely photos (these do not just have to be of school work).
Thank you to everyone who has been emailing us last week. We enjoyed reading your emails and it has been lovely to see all the work you have been doing. Below you will find Maths, English, Science and Creative Curriculum activities for the week. All of the activities can be completed in your exercise book and do not need to be printed. Well done to you for winning the TT Rockstars battle last week. There will be another battle on Tuesday at 2:00-2:30pm. Good luck!! We hope that you and your family are safe and well, we miss you all so much. The Year 5 Team
Please find below the powerpoint you will need for Maths this week. This week is all about co-ordinates, translation and reflection. Please click on the links in the powerpoint to take you to ‘live’ lessons by ‘The National Academy’. These lessons contain a initial quiz, video explaining the learning, activity and end of lesson quiz. If you do have any issues with opening any of these links please contact your class teacher. You don’t need to print anything but please record your learning in your book. If you have any questions please email your teacher.
Please find below the resources you will need for English this week. This also includes Guided Reading activities. This week is our final week on our ‘Debating’ topic. You can follow through the powerpoint each day. You don’t need to print any of the resources but please record your learning in your book. If you have any questions please email your teacher. We look forward to see your discussion texts….
This week’s Science learning should build upon your learning from last week about plants. We have another five videos that we would like you to watch. You can then decide how you would like to present your learning. This could be as a poster, a powerpoint, an information page….
The focus for this week in Creative Curriculum is Art. Your challenge is to draw a three-dimensional Anglo-Saxon house. Follow the powerpoint below (clicking on the links) to help you build up the skills to draw your house. We expect this piece of work to take a few days as you practice your skills before creating your final piece. When you have finished we would love to see your pictures.
Next week, we are launching Microsoft Teams as away of keep in touching with each other. You will receive a phone call from you class teacher to explain how to access this and to be given your school email address and password. The aim of this is to allow the children to ask any questions regarding the work set on the blog. We will let you know when it is up and running.
Important Information
To access Microsoft Teams you will need to login to https://www.office.com/ using your child’s school email address.
–Type in the password (this will be a generic one but you will be able to change it when they first login. Please record the new password in case your child forgets it.)
– Please explain to your child that they will only be able to send emails to the class email address and not to each other.
– Your child will be able to communicate with each other through the Year 4 team using messages. This may be with their class teacher or another teacher from their year group.
-A teacher from their year group will be available from Monday to Friday between 10-12pm only. After 12pm the chat function will be closed but they still can still email class teacher if needed.
-Please note that once your child is in the chat room, pupil’s name and the messages that they send will be visible to all the members of the group that they are in.
-When using the chat feature, there is an expectation that they follow the safety online rules and behave appropriately and will not be able to create their own groups. Inappropriate use/language/behaviour means that they can be banned form using chat for a week. Also not a place for parents to discuss issues, etc – child use only.
General information
One of the Year 4 teachers will be available on Microsoft Teams everyday from 10am until 12pm.
Where possible, please post questions in line with the following time slots: Maths – 10.00-10.45 English – 10.45-11.30 All other subjects – 11.30-12.00
Post questions in the correct channel. These can be seen on the left hand side (e.g if you have a Maths question, post in the maths channel…)
We will try our best to support any queries raised. If possible, please try to reply to any teacher responses (the reply button can be found below the posted comments). This will make it easier for staff to track any comments.
User guidelines
This platform is designed for users to raise questions to the Year 4 teachers regarding any of the home learning powerpoints.
It is not a place for you to chat and reply to other users (although we would like you to say hello!)
Please remember to be sensible at all times.
All comments posted are monitored and logged.
Please remember that any comments or questions you raise can be viewed by anyone else in the year group. Therefore, please do not request usernames and passwords on here. Instead, email your class teacher directly.
Posting questions
Select the subject from the channels shown on the left side of the page.
Type in the box at the bottom of the page to add comments (highlighted yellow in the image).
Click the icon on the right (shown in blue) to post a comment.
You can edit any comments afterwards by moving the cursor over your comment. Then, click on the … icon, followed by the “edit” button.
