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Year 5 – Tuesday 28th April

Good Morning Year 5

We hope you enjoyed seeing our message to you yesterday and you enjoyed your day. Did you manage to go out in the cloudier weather or did you make the most of being indoors?

You are all doing so brilliantly and we are amazed with all of the work we are getting sent in! 

We were sent this excellent picture from Oliver which he took last Thursday when clapping for carers. If you take part in this, keep a look out and see if you can spot the light this Thursday!

New Resource Alert!

We have signed all of you up to have an account on the Scholastic website where you can complete some reading and reading comprehensions whenever you and your parents would like. This is not an extra daily task that you have to complete, it is just another extra resource that you can access if you would like to practise your reading skills a little more. 
For now, your teachers have assigned you three books to have a look at. We will assign you more as you need them, if you use the resource. If you run out of books, remember you can drop us an email and ask for some more. 
You will receive an email with your username and password plus the log in instructions soon. 
Good Luck and Happy Reading!

Year 5 Team 

Helpful Reminders

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Don’t forget you can email us on year5@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if you have a question, need a password, need some help, want to show us your work or even just say hello! Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you. We may not reply the same day!

Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.

Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do independently. We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child. 

Marvellous Maths

Today we will be starting the summer term units of work. To begin with we will be working on adding decimals within 1. There is a video on the website to support you whilst working through the worksheet – to watch click here. We are working on Summer term – Week 1 (w/c 20th April) lesson 1 – adding decimals within 1. Remember you don’t need to print it, you can just write it down on a piece of paper, just try your best with what you have around you! 

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Below will be the answers for the White Rose worksheet and the challenges we have created for you.

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Excellent English

For English today we are again looking at poems in ‘The Lost Words’. We would just like you to enjoy some of the poems from the book and think about which your favourite might be!

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Spectacular Science

As our science this term is all about living things, plants and animals, today we would like you to explore variation in animals. To start with, there is a PowerPoint to look through. After you have looked through the PowerPoint try and hunt for some animals, whether outside or virtually and categorise them using the PowerPoint for help! 

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Optional Daily Time Fillers

As well as the learning tasks we upload each day, there are a few ‘extras’ that you could have a go at, if you get time and would like to. 

  • Maths Challenges Page – Remember to look at the Maths Challenges page that Miss Goddard is creating each day by clicking here
  • TT Rockstars – Practise your times tables 
  • Numbots – Use your TT Rockstars login and work through the easier levels to get to the trickier ones.
  • Spelling Shed – Practise your spellings for this week (remember you can email in for your username and password).
  • Reading – Read a book, newspaper, online article or comic for 20 minutes. 
  • Spellings – Complete your Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check each day. 

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Year 4 Tuesday 28th April

Good Morning Year 4!

Good morning everyone, we hope you enjoyed your first day of learning about Big Cats! It was lovely to see some of your posters and fact files. We will continue the theme of Big Cats today with a bit more writing and some art work. As the week goes on, we hope that you will become real experts about your chosen Big Cat. We will also be looking at them through science and finding out about food chains.

Email Contact

As you may have read in Mr Applegate’s Newsletter this week, it would be lovely to hear from parents or children once a week if possible. You could send us a couple of sentences, a piece of work or even a photo of what the children have been up to. It doesn’t have to be school related, it would just be nice to hear from everyone. Equally, there is no pressure to email everyday but of course it is lovely to see all the work that the children are producing. 

Scholastic Reading Library

We are delighted to see that some of you have accessed the Scholastic Reading Pro Library resource. To give you a little more information about this, this resource is like an electronic library where you or the children can choose the books you to read. Once you have logged in with the details which we emailed out, then go to ‘Reading Pro Library’ and then click on the ‘Books’ tab along the top. Here, you will be able to look through books of different ability levels and of different topics. You can search a topic or even filter books by level. We are not actively assigning books to children however, if you would like us to assign books to your child, do drop us an email on the Year 4 email account. It would be helpful to us if you could give us an idea of the type of books too.

Have a terrific Tuesday, and please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any queries.

Miss Goddard, Miss Hardy and Mrs Happy

Helpful Reminders

EmailPresentation Too much to do?

Don’t forget you can email us on year4@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if you have a question, need a password, need some help, want to show us your work or even just say hello! Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you.

Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.

Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do independently. We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child. 

Maths – Write decimals

In today’s Maths lesson, we will be learning how to write decimals using tenths and hundredths. We will be using place value charts and part whole models to support our understanding of this. It is important to remember to use zero (0) as a place holder where necessary. In the video, decimals are also linked to fractions, you will need to watch it carefully to make sure that you fully understand. Here is the link for the White Rose video, remember it is: Summer term, week 1, lesson 2.

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For children who are completing their Maths with ease, and who would like further challenge, Miss Goddard is started a ‘Daily Maths Challenge’ page on the school website where she will upload a new set of challenges everyday. If you complete today’s work and would like to access it, please click here. 

English – Creating a ‘Deadly 60’ report

For your English work today, we would like you to write a Deadly 60 style report based on your chosen big cat. I have watched a few Deadly 60 episodes and noticed that Steve Backshall likes to use lots of alliteration in his reports so you might like to try to do the same, he also uses similes and powerful adjectives. I have written a report about the snow leopard as an example, they really are fascinating creatures. In order to do some research I used the National Geographic and National Geographic Kids sites, which we have provided links for, you might also wish to watch some of the Deadly 60 episodes to get an idea of how Steve Backshall reports. The reports are not long, but do give a clear explanation of the animals that he reports on. Think about how powerful your chosen cat is and how it uses its legs, tail and paws, how do these make it so deadly?

You might also like to film your report once you have written it!

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Topic – Art observational drawing of a big cat

You’ve been working hard to find out lots of information about your chosen big cat. Now is your opportunity to use your observational drawing skills to find out a little more about your animal’s appearance. Miss Goddard will model how to use observational skills to draw a big cat in the Youtube Video below. You can search on Google images for a picture you would like to draw, but there are also some pictures below you can download and use if you wish. 

Please send in your drawings as we would love to showcase them in a gallery later this week. 

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Male-Lion-PictureDownload
Female-Lion-PictureDownload
Tiger-PictureDownload
Black-Panther-PictureDownload
Leopard-PictureDownload
Jaguar-PictureDownload
Clouded-Leopard-PictureDownload

Video Resources

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Ongoing Daily Time Fillers

Use your digital logins to play the following:-

  • TTRockstars – Play 5 garage games
  • Numbots – Play  for 15 mins
  • Spelling Shed – Play 3 rounds of this week’s spellings
  • Reading –  Read for at least 20 mins

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Year 3 – Tuesday 28th April

Good Morning Year 3

Happy Tuesday, We have been receiving lots of emails with fantastic pieces of work. Your work ethic with all your home learning has made all of your teachers very proud, so keep this up! Keep looking through the pictures of work as these change daily and you might be able to spot yours.

After your lovely sunny weekends, it seems that the sun has gone for a rest for a while. What else could you be doing on the rainy days that are coming up this week? Some baking? Maybe some reading in cosy corner? There is a book link below you could use to hear the story of Kid Normal. Do some more research on bees? Play some games with your family?


One of the Year 3 children has found this brilliant video on beekeeping and wanted to share it with everyone else. What lovely teamwork from the bees! Thank you Marcus for finding this for us. Click Here. 

Year 3 Team 

 

Maths

Today, we are continuing our work on Fractions using the White Rose Maths Lessons. This will involve watching the video clip and completing the worksheet.  There is an answer sheet to check your work. 

Please complete Summer Term Week 1 Lesson 2 – Equivalent Fractions 3 – This lesson builds on your knowledge from yesterday’s work on equivalent fractions, you will use a fraction wall to compare fractions and to help you find equivalent fractions.

You can find the video and resources for today’s lesson here https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/ 

Make sure you click on Summer Term week 1, Lesson 2 Watch the clip and follow the instructions.

Resources you will need: 
Please remember if you don’t have a printer you can copy into your maths book or onto paper. Try and complete as best as you can. 

Don’t forget Miss Goddard’s challenges: click here.

When you have finished use the answer sheet to mark your work. 

Things to remember

  • Use your fraction wall to help compare the fractions.
  • Remember the numerator tells you how many parts of the whole you are looking at so if you are finding 3/8 you can count three 1/8 sections on your fraction wall.
  • You can multiply the numerator and the denominator by the same number to give you an equivalent fraction e.g. An equivalent fraction to 2/5 = 4/10 because if we look at 2/5 the numerator of 2 x2 = 4 and the denominator 5 x 2 = 10 so this creates the fraction 4/10.

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English/ Bookclub 

For today’s English you are going to need a dictionary or a computer to search for the meanings of some of the words from the book.
Once you have done that can you draw a picture to help represent the word? Can you write them in a sentence too? 

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Resources you will need: 

  • A dictionary or computer 
  • Paper or your book  

French 

Enjoy today’s french lesson with Miss Stonehouse. Today you might recognise the tune that Miss Stonehouse is trying to play? Join in with today’s french lesson by signing in below.  

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Resources you will need: 

  • A quiet place to watch the video 

Other optional links to look at including teachers videos….. 

French greeting song:

 

Go noodle link:

Storytime – Enjoy some quiet time as you listen to Kid Normal.

Ongoing Time Fillers

You may choose to complete these daily, weekly or a couple of times a week. 

You can find lots of learning resources that we have collated on the Educating Home Page.  Click here to be redirected.

Helpful Reminders

EmailPresentation Too much to do?

Don’t forget you can email us on year3@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if: 
1. You have a question
2. Need a password
3. Need some help
4. Send us your work
5. Or even just say hello!
Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you. We will reply ASAP but it may not be the same day!

Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book. in your homework book (if you have it at home) or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.

Note for parents:
* Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do them independently.
* We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child.
* The work we have set should take about 2 hours maximum spread throughout the day.  
* Please note the ongoing activities are optional and could be completed once a week or more depending on time. 

Have a super evening!

Year 2 – Tuesday 28th April

Good Morning Year 2 

Hello Year 2,

How are you today? We hope you are all well and have been eating your fruit and vegetables to keep the dreaded scurvy away! Hopefully you have had a good rest, and are ready for another day of learning.What is one thing that you are thankful for today? Perhaps its the weather, time with your family, or your toys. Even at times as strange as these, it can really put a smile on your face to spend some time thinking about the things we are really thankful for. We like to think of these as ‘Hidden Treasures’ which is our topic at the moment. You may spot some hidden treasures when you head out for your walk today. Look at all of the plants and nature around you. Think about how things are changing and growing. Despite all that is happening, we have a lot to be thankful for. 

I wonder whether you can solve today’s clue! You have been super speedy at finding the clues so far- keep up the good detective work!

Pirate Clues!  Ahoy Me Hearties!

              This piece was found in the bathroom under some soap!

Well done to everyone who sent us yesterday’s clue. We are all nice and clean after spending some time in our bathrooms. They are shiny and sparkly too! We eventually found the clue stuck under a piece of soap! See if you can tell us what today’s clue is. We nearly have all of the map now! Hopefully we will find the treasure soon.  

We would love to hear from you and see your lovely work, so please do not hesitate to email us at year2@stmarksce.org.uk. Enjoy your day!

Many thanks,

Year 2 Team 

 

Find the latest clue under here: 

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English

In English today, we will be continuing our work on compound sentences whilst also learning about the characters that appear in adventure stories. Most adventure stories have villains and heroes and we can tell whether characters are nice (heroes) or nasty (villains) based on how they act or behave and by what they say. For today’s activity, we will use some speech bubbles to help us think about what the heroic and villainous characters might say to each other.  Whilst we do this, we can try and show the character’s personality and practise some of our compound sentences. We have included a speech bubble example sheet in the resources section below, to give you some ideas. 

Optional extra

As an extension task, your child may wish to explore how we write dialogue into our stories. The last two pages of the pdf flipchart below give some examples. Your child may like to go back and look at each of their speech bubbles and then write these as direct speech, using speech marks. This is a year 3 expectation but many children in year 2 like to write speech into their stories, so we often include a discussion of this in our classwork to begin to teach the children how to do this. Feel free to give it a go and challenge yourselves but there is no expectation that children must be able to do this in Year 2. 

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These useful resources include empty speech bubble pictures and some examples which can be used to get you started: 

Remember: You can also write the sentences onto paper rather than print anything out. 

Year 2 Tuesday Speech Bubbles

Speech Bubble Examples

Maths

Today in maths we will be continuing with our measurement unit, looking specifically at ordering lengths.

To do this, as suggested with the previous activities, you could approach this practically to start with by measuring a selection of toys or items that you have in the house. You can then consider which is the longest, and which is the shortest, before ordering them with the shortest at one end, and the longest at the other. If you used items to help with yesterdays maths, perhaps you could use the same items to allow for consistency, re-enforcing prior learning.

As with the other maths lessons shared, there is a video to help explore this concept, as well as an activity sheet to complete. You can then check your answers using the answer sheet provided. Please click on the first link below to access the White Rose page, before completing ‘Lesson 2’ in ‘Summer Term – Week 2’. Please email us if you have any questions regarding this. Good luck!

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Year 2 – Summer Week 2 – Lesson 2 worksheet

Year 2 – Summer Week 2 – Lesson 2 Answer sheet

Please click here for today’s additional maths challenge if you finish the maths above, and wish to challenge yourself further!

Topic

Today’s extra activity is linked with our science. We are going to be thinking about plant life cycles. Go to the BBC link below to watch 2 short clips about plant life cycles and how dandelion seeds disperse.  You can also have a little read of the ‘Year 2 Science- plant life cycle’ pdf below. There are then some cutting and sticking activities that you may like to try, or you could complete the BBC quiz, or you could also see if you can collect dandelions when you go on your daily walk and see if you can spot different points in their life cycle. 

Year 2 Science Tuesday plant life cycles

BBC Bitesize clip

dandelion worksheet

match the words and definitions

 

Daily Time Fillers

Here are some additional activities for you to have a go at each day if you choose to. Please feel free to do as much or as little of these as you wish. We have added a handwriting booklet that you could work through very gradually, not in one go. You can either print the booklet, or do this onto paper of your own at home. We look forward to seeing how amazing your handwriting will be when we see your work. The Common Exception Words should also be learnt gradually, by selecting 2 or 3 words a week that you should aim to learn along side your weekly spellings.

  • 20 minutes of reading either a school book or a home book.
  • Practice your 2,5 and 10 times tables using TTRockstars, or a different method.
  • Practice your weekly spellings which will be provided below, and the Year 2 Common Exception Words.

Common Exception Words

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Tuesday Weekly Spellings Update

Helpful Reminders

EmailPresentation Too much to do?

Don’t forget you can email us on year2@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if you have a question, need a password, need some help, want to show us your work or even just say hello! Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you. We may not reply the same day!

Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.

Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do independently. We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child. 

Bye for now!

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