Lions class blog: May 2020

There is a new booklet below that covers comprehension, grammar and writing skills. Remember not to rush these as they should take 2 weeks to complete.

Spellings- Suffix -ous

courageous
mountainous
dangerous
poisonous
envious
spacious
various
famous
furious
luscious

The letters 'ous' are a suffix meaning 'full of'

When we add this suffix it usually changes a noun into an adjective e.g. danger > dangerous

Can you identify the root words in the spellings?

Can you create your own sentences using this weeks spellings?

Picture news

Virtual assembly

Story: There has been a huge increase in people wanting to work in the healthcare sector recently.

Question: Why do people choose the jobs they do?

Geography-Rivers

This half term we are going to focus on rivers. This week we are going to learn exactly what a river is and where they begin.

Watch the first video on the link below

Video

Can you explain to a grown up what a river is?

Have a look on a map or use google maps to find any local rivers.

Can you find where they begin?

Science

What is electricity?

We are going to be learning about electricity this half term.
Watch this video to learn what electricity is- Video

How many items can you find in your house that use electricity?

I wonder who will find the most 🤔

Design & Technology

This half term I will be asking you to research, design, make (if you can) and evaluate something so before we start, this week I would like you to learn about all the things we need to think about before we even start Designing- video

Begin to have a look at different types of boats. Can you find any peculiar ones?

R.E ongoing project

We would like you to learn more about the Churches in your local area.

What are they called? How are they the same and how are they different?

Think about why they are special to some people. Talk to people who have been inside to find out more about what is the same and different inside and why that might be.

Can you work out what all or most Churches seem to have?

You could also research 1 or more of the Churches and find about their history

or even do some Art or DT work inspired by them.

Remember to email pictures of what you have been up to, it is always lovely to see what you are doing 😃

missmarshall2020@carlton-in-snaith.n-yorks.sch.uk

24.5.20

Half term

Hi Humber,

It has been lovely to receive so many pictures of what you have been up to this week!

It looks like you've all be doing some fantastic learning and having lots of fun too! :)
Keep sending your pictures to
missmarshall2020@carlton-in-snaith.n-yorks.sch.uk

Next week is half term so I will not be setting any work, take some time to relax have fun!

Here are a few suggestions of things you could do:

Carry out some random acts of kindness

1. Make your brother or sister’s bed for them.

2. Clear the table after dinner without being asked.

3. Send a letter to your grandma or granddad, or a relative you don’t see very often. Write it by hand, not on the computer!

4. Read your little brother or sister a bedtime story.

5. Pour the rest of your family a drink at mealtimes.

6.Draw your mum or dad a picture, just because you love them.

7. Try to pay someone a compliment every day – for example, you could tell them they make you laugh, or they’re a good friend, or that they’re brilliant at drawing.

8. Paint rocks with pretty pictures or positive sayings and hide them in your neighbourhood for other children to find.

9. When you go shopping with your mum or dad, choose an extra item of food to donate to a food bank.

10.Smile and say hello to people you pass when you're out exercising

Do a jigsaw or play a board game

Keep up with TT Rockstars and Hit the Button

Find a book to read and enjoy as a family

Camp out in your garden or living room

Hold a Teddy Bear's Picnic

Help to make a meal for your family

Take part in "Get Active Summer C hallenge"

Scavenger Hunts

Have a fabulous half term!

Stay safe and keep smiling! 😊

Miss Marshall

Sam has a new baby blackbird friend in the garden, who is now feeding from the hand.

Sam has been very busy creating a PowerPoint about the partridge, make sure that you have a look on the link below, it's very interesting and Sam has taken all of the pictures for it himself!

The partridge

Well done Sam, great work! 😀👍

Neive has worked really hard to create her own Bayeux tapestry!

Well done Neive!

22.5.20

Charlotte has been enjoying her online ballet class from the comfort of her living room this week. It's great that you can still take part in your class Charlotte even if it is a little bit different :)

Charlotte has been helping out with a spot of gardening, planting her own tomatoes.

I can't wait to hear how they are doing Charlotte!

Tommy's slime

Tommy has really enjoyed helping his dad in the garden and has been making his own slime!

This sounds exciting Tommy!

Fantastic learning!

Amy created her own lava lamp this week, I know a few of you have been having a go at this, well done Amy!

Amys granny got her this pack from UNICEF to follow Paddington around the world. He sends a postcard and there are stickers to put on a map and a journal to complete. They are starting in London.

This looks really exciting Amy, keep us updated on where he travels! 👍

The book of hopes

Award-winning children’s author, Katherine Rundell, has launched The Book of Hopes: Words and Pictures to Comfort, Inspire and Entertain Children in Lockdown.

You can find the book on the link below.

Family Zone

Completely free for all children and families, the extraordinary collection of short stories, poems, essays and pictures has contributions from more than 110 children’s writers and illustrators, including Lauren Child, Anthony Horowitz, Greg James and Chris Smith, Michael Morpurgo, Liz Pichon, Axel Scheffler, Francesca Simon, Jacqueline Wilson – and Katherine herself.

The Book of Hopes aims to comfort, inspire and encourage children during lockdown through delight, new ideas, ridiculous jokes and heroic tales. There are true accounts of cats and hares and plastic-devouring caterpillars; there are doodles and flowers; revolting poems and beautiful poems; and there are stories of space travel and new shoes and dragons.

The collection is dedicated to the doctors, nurses, carers, porters, cleaners and everyone currently working in hospitals.

Teddy bears picnic

As we were unable to enjoy a teddy bears picnic at school this week, Neive and pippa enjoyed their own teddy bears picnic in their garden. What a great idea girls, it looks like you had fun! 😃

Belle's home learning

Isabelle has been working extremely hard at home completing the blog tasks and reading but it looks like she has been very busy making pizza and butterflies too! Belle and Oliver watched as the catterpillars turned into butterflies! Fantastic learning Belle! 😄

Forest schools

Anna has been having a fantastic time completing some of the forest school activities Unfortunately she didn't have an open fire so she used a camping stove instead! What a great idea Anna! It looks like you had lots of fun!

21.5.20

Children being exposed to books beyond which they can read is an important part of the curriculum, so at school adults regularly read to the children.

It inspires imaginations, models how to use fluency and expression when reading, introduces new vocabulary, supports comprehension plus many, many more things.

Here is a links with books read aloud for the children to follow and listen to.

Top 10 storytimes to enjoy Ages 3-7

Top 10 storytimes to enjoy Ages 7-11

20.5.20

Reading for pleasure

For those of you beginning to run out of books for your children to read or for you to read with your children, over the next few days we will be suggesting places where you can find many more.

With the emphasis very much being on reading for pleasure.

Well done to all of the children using TTRS this week, there's so many of you!

I'm extremely impressed! 😃

Well done to:

Neive, Finlay, Eden, Lucas, Betty, Isabelle, Kaitlyn, Sam, Louis, Jack, Charlotte, Anna, Layla & Amy

There's a marvellous me heading your way! 😊👏

19.5.20

Busy Monday

Anna has had lots of fun creating giant bubbles! They look fantastic Anna! 😀👍

Eden has been very busy over the last week, creating her guinea pig information poster, baking an apple and pear crumble, teaching her Mum how to make lego and even some gardening too!

Well done Eden keep up the fabulous work! 😀👍

Neive used her resilience to complete this week's comprehension activity. Well done Neive! 😀👍

Fantastic work girls!😃

17.5.20

Summer Term Week 5

Weekly Maths Tasks

Please click on the link below to access this week's daily maths activities.

(Please ensure you click on the Summer term week 3 )

Money (Year 3)

Multiplication and division (Year 4)

and don't forget...
TT rockstars
Hit the button
Telling the time

Weekly English Tasks (plus daily reading) (to be done over two weeks)

The link below covers writing, grammar and comprehension activities.

Amazing Aliens

Comprehension

Spellings

Year 3/4 spellings

This week I would like you to choose your own spellings from the sheet above. Choose 10 different words that you find tricky to practise this week

Try using the different strategies that we use in class

· Missing vowels strategy (taking the vowels out of the word)

· Pyramid (build the spelling pyramid letter by letter)

· Get creative with your pictures around the spellings

Look, say, cover, write, check

There are some great games to help you practise these words on the Spellzone website

Weekly Wider Curriculum Tasks

History

Who was king Alfred?

Why was he called Alfred the great?
Why did people fight for him?
What caused the battle of Edington?

Science

What is pitch?

How many high pitched sounds can you find?
How many low pitched sounds can you find?
Do you notice anything different about the things that make a high pitched sound and a low pitch sound?

Art

The Bayeux tapestry is a very famous peice of art, find out about it in the link below

Bayeux tapestry

Have a go at creating your own section of the Bayeux tapestry or if you're up for a challenge have a go at the whole piece. The link below has some ideas of how you can create the whole piece.

Bayeux tapestry

Forest School

Click on the link and choose an acitivty or two

Forest school activities

Perhaps the children can lead the adults, as some of these activities are the ones the children have done at school.

Mrs Gay says that clay can be substituted for mud and water. Please make sure that you have parental supervision if you are using any tools

Picture News - Picture News Virtual Assembly

Story: An Italian architect designs a new way of living.

Question: If you could live anywhere, where would it be?

🌟 Humber Class Ongoing Task - Who is your hero?🌟

I’ve been hearing lots of people talking about their heroes recently, especially the NHS heroes on the news.

A hero is a person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. Heroes come in all shapes and sizes and each of you will no doubt have a different hero for very different reasons but I would like to hear all about them.

I would like you to choose your hero and learn all about them, then show what you know in whatever way you choose, you might choose to use the computer and create a PowerPoint, Poster or piece of writing or you could create a scrapbook instead.

Be creative and take your time, this is a project for you to work on over the next few weeks rather than completed in one session.

If you complete all of this week’s learning have a look on the BBC Bitesize website there’s lots to learn on there 😊

15.5.20

VE day celebration!

Bethan planned a fantastic VE day picnic for her family .

She carried out lots of research using the internet and speaking to her grandparents and came up with an authentic picnic menu and some games for everyone to play. She even followed a wartime recipe for rock buns too and they played egg and spoon races, skipping and wheelbarrow races.

It sounds like you had an amazing time Bethan! Fantastic work! 😀