Lostock Gralam C of E Primary School
Swallows - Monday 1st February 2021
Date: 31st Jan 2021 @ 10:29pm
Monday 1st February 2021
Good morning SUPER Swallows and welcome back to our blog.
I hope you all had a lovely weekend. I can’t wait to show you something new and exciting on our Zoom call this morning. I hope you are ready for a bit of a giggle today. Here is a little clue….
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.
Maths – Can you find the difference?
We are continuing to focus our learning on money this week. Please see the talking Power point video linked below.
Here is the link to the White Rose video mentioned in the PowerPoint. You may want to use this link if you have any problems with sound today.
Times Tables
Please use Times Tables Rock Stars to continue 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.
Here is a brilliant song to increase your fluency when learning your 2 x table. Can you sing along?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqbg87h/articles/zc7ygdm
Writing
Can you write a description of a cat?
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 how to use Kung Fu punctuation. I wonder who will surprise their adult by using a comma in their writing 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 sparkly new 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.
would who whole any many
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
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week so we have been thinking of lots of lovely activities for you to choose from to help with your wellbeing. Please have a look at the wellbeing plan which is attached at the bottom of our blog today.
Please click the link to Mrs Powell’s worship below which is linked to Children’s Mental Health Week.
PE –
Please spend some time completing some of our 5-a-day activities today. I recommend using these activities to break up tasks throughout the day. Perhaps you could complete a little dance in between your writing tasks today? As I want you to keep calm but also keep moving, I recommend the ‘Time-2-Chill’ videos for breaks during learning time. Perhaps you could then reward yourself for completing the lesson by completing one of the more energetic ‘Fitness’ videos.
There are NEW login details for 5-a-day
Home Access Username - LGPS97
Home Access Password - LosGr9
Have a brilliant day Swallows and don’t forget to let me 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 at the end if you would like to.
Lots of love from
Miss Gillam