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Toucans 2.6.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:38am
Toucans Blog Tuesday 2nd June
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Take a look at the attached Wellbeing Calendar for June. There are some great ideas on here. I’m going to try as many as I can. I may change the order and just do my favourite ones but plenty to keep us busy. I’m sure you will enjoy these.
ENGLISH
Like yesterday, I would like you to focus on ensuring that you can spell the majority of spellings from the Year 5/6 spelling list. Remember to make it interesting for yourself. You can use the attached ‘Make Spelling Fun’ document to help you. Also continue working through the other activities in the attached ‘Spellings at home’ booklet.
Make sure you have completed your green Read Write Inc spelling book, if you brought it home! Also try one of the Sats styled spelling tests from your CGP books.
MATHS
Today we will continue to work on developing our Maths Fluency skills. Again continue to work through the activities in your CGP books, if you have not completed these already. Also ensure your Times Tables are fluent by regularly going on Times Tables Rock Stars.
Using today’s fluency grid, decide on your own numbers to work with (e.g. 4, 50, 86, 700 etc) and just do a variety of the activities. Can you remember what a factor is, a prime number, how to find a percentage?
See the attached Home Learning Timetable for today’s lesson PSHCE – No Outsiders
Can I accept being different and being proud of who I am?
Mrs Powell’s Worship
Pause for Thought: Be Kind
Click here to watch the following video: https://youtu.be/Qcyc68d6OAk
We should be kind because we care about other people. However, the video that we just watched suggests that kindness is also good for us. Ask the children to think about why this might be. You might like to start by revisiting the ideas suggested in the video (go to 0.20 minutes and play the following ten seconds).
Can you make a list of something kind that you could do each day of the week?
Dear God,
Please help us to be kind to those around us.
Please help us to think about the needs of other people.
Please help us to seek to live in peace.
Amen.
Remember we are so proud of everything that you do and I’d like to give you all a gold star!
Best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick
Toucans 1.6.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 8:40am
Toucans Blog Monday 1st June
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Take a look at these video clips if you haven’t already
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evfOzPrzIu0 I Am With You At Home with Olaf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PnnFrPaRgY&fbclid=IwAR1R5JmXr7NHJ-krywFwv883lVzoK9Qjk0yRaA7x2w1-sMJao7oUxfmONdM While we Can’t Hug
ENGLISH
Today and tomorrow I would like you to focus on ensuring that you can spell the majority of spellings from the Year 5/6 spelling list. You will see it on page one of the attached document – Spellings at Home.
Start by making sure you can read all of the words. Then make sure you can explain what each word means.
Take a look at some of the suggested activities and try and complete all of these over the next 2 days. I know some of you have done these already but it is important that you regularly revise these words so that you will spell them correctly in Year 7. You can always come up with some of your own activities.
MATHS
Over this half term, we will be focusing on ensuring we have covered everything on the Year 6 curriculum so that you are ready for Year 7. Continue to work through the activities in your CGP books, if you have not completed these already. Also ensure your Times Tables are fluent by regularly going on Times Tables Rock Stars.
Over the next 3 days, I will attach some Fluency Grids, that we began to work on in class before the lockdown, as these will remind you of the key facts that you need to know. Decide on your own numbers to work with (e.g. 4, 50, 86, 700 etc) and just do a variety of the activities. Today you will revise place value and fractions.
See the attached Home Learning Timetable for today’s lesson Art – Drawing - become an illustrator
Lostock’s Lockdown Story
Take another look at this wonderful video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPp5GuVgkVg&feature=youtu.be
Wishing you all the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick
Toucans 25.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 25th May 2020 @ 9:06am
Toucans Blog Monday 25th May
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Good morning!
As we enter the start of what should be another half term, and we embark on another, tenth, week of lockdown, we wanted to thank you all for the amazing work you have done to keep your children safe, support their home learning, and communicate with us here at school. You have done an incredible job and we want to make sure that you are looking after your own mental health needs in this time of uncertainty.
It is important that we take some time to do something that will make us smile. That will make our children smile and that will bring us together at such a tricky time. So have a look below at some of our suggestions and choose one thing every day that brings happiness.
- Enjoy a yummy breakfast together; pancakes, boiled egg and soldiers, bacon sandwiches or maybe your favourite cereal.
- Have a carpet picnic, or a garden picnic at tea time
- Make something that shows off what makes you special for the school sharing window and deliver it to school on Monday or Wednesday this week.
- Draw a picture for somebody in one of our local care homes
- Tell us about something you have done in lockdown that you’ve never done before. Have you learnt to ride your bike, or tie your shoelaces? Have you baked bread for the first time? Have you planted some seeds and nurtured them into flowers?
- Talk about your favourite things to do and have a favourites day. Eat your favourite breakfast, listen to or dance to your favourite song, sing your favourite songs together, play your favourite game, watch your favourite movie or tv programme, read your favourite book or comic, wear your favourite outfit, arrange a video chat with your favourite friends or family member.
- Find a new way of hugging! Right now, hugging is a tricky thing because we have to keep our distance. Can you find a new way to send a hug to somebody? Perhaps send a postcard, or create a picture or video of you doing something funny/showing off a new skill.
- Facetime, zoom, whatsapp – keep in touch with those people closest and most important to you.
- Create a calm box, a little like the Christmas Eve boxes that so many of us use, put your favourite snacks, pyjamas, movie inside and settle down together for a soothing evening.
Remember, we are collecting photos of you doing wonderful things during lockdown so send your photos into school so we can share them as a whole community.
Look after yourselves, be kind to yourselves and have a wonderful week.
Remember Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing and Mr Beswick are very proud of each of you and also thought you would enjoy watching these….
Toucans 22.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 8:37am
Toucans Blog Friday 22nd May 2020
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ENGLISH
Today I would like you to do this writing activity. Hopefully you can use everything that we’ve been revising recently – expanded noun phrases, figurative language and semi-colons.
Mental Health Awareness Week - Kindness
I’d like you to take a look at the kindness chart attached. How many ways could you show an act of kindness today or over the weekend?
MATHS
Today we will have our final lesson on coordinates and shapes from the Oak Academy. https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/maths#subjects
Click on the link and scroll down until you see lesson 5 – Calculate unknown angles in quadrilaterals
See the attached Home Learning Timetable for today’s lesson Music – pulse and rhythm?
Virtual PE Assembly
Check out this virtual assembly where Mr Russell interviews Jenna Downing – inline Skating World Champion. https://youtu.be/-7MJlYa9yEA
The Great Realisation
Here is another treat from all the staff at Lostock – we are missing you lots and hope you enjoy this.
Have a fantastic weekend, best wishes from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick