Year 3/4- Starlings: Blog items
Starlings Home Learning - 22.6.20
Date: 22nd Jun 2020 @ 8:52am
Monday 22nd June
Good morning children,
I hope that you have all had a good weekend. It is the start of a new week, I hope that you are ready for lots of new learning.
Today’s learning:
LBQ Code: pjq
Reading – please try to complete 2 tasks on Read Theory over the week.
Other tasks
There will be new tasks set on the discussion blogs so look out for these. The writing will link to the Oak Academy English tasks which you completed last week so this should help you with your task.
Our Recommendation:
The Oak Academy has lots of other resources ready for you to explore!
Here is a link to the activity clubs. I this you will find lots of ideas for different subjects including art.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/activity-clubs/
Have a fantastic day children!
Mr Dean
Date: 19th Jun 2020 @ 12:27pm
It may be the end of the week but the work you are all producing shows no sign of slowing down!
Some of you have been doing some amazing work using our new online resource:
Thank you for your feedback and all your effort in working hard to make the switch really smooth and easy!
We have seen some incredible spelling scores already:
Have a look at Harry’s home made flag of Canada – Chosen for his love of Ice Hockey. There’s lots more examples of brilliant work on flags on the discussion page too!
If you are looking for something new and exciting to read, the writing discussion blogs are full of great short stories, including this one from Jayden – complete with illustrations as well!
You have all really impressed me once again Starlings, it really is a pleasure looking through all your work everyday!
Have a lovely weekend, you have earned a break!
All the best,
Mr Dean
Date: 19th Jun 2020 @ 8:58am
My Star of the Week has really impressed myself and their parents with the amount of resillience they have shown with their home learning. They have been helping their little brothers develop their reading, they have never missed a session of LBQ and they have adapted really well to the new online learning resource.
This young man has continously grown and matured throughout the year and he has shown everyone just how much progress he has made over the last few weeks.
Well done to Jayden! Congratulations young man!
Starlings Home Learning - 19.6.20
Date: 19th Jun 2020 @ 8:32am
Good morning Starlings,
It’s Friday children and I hope that you have all had a lovely week. Look out for today’s star of the week and also for Mrs Forshaw’s Golden Book nominations.
Today’s learning:
Normally, we will use LBQ for Maths on a Friday but today we are sticking with the Oak Academy. Please follow these links:
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-find-unit-fractions-of-a-given-quantity
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/features-of-poetry
Other tasks
Don’t forget the other tasks on the discussion blogs. Please blog your spelling scores. You can also use ixl to support any learning on The Oak Academy if you would like to.
Have a great day and a fantastic weekend!
Mr Dean
Starlings Home Learning - 18.6.20
Date: 18th Jun 2020 @ 8:40am
Good morning Starlings,
Here are some more ideas for your flag topic – I really like the cake!!
Take a look at our throwback Thursday – who do you think it is? Follow the instructions on Miss Fairhurst’s blog to make a comment.
Well done for the work completed yesterday.
Today’s learning:
Here are our tasks:
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-recognise-identify-and-describe-unit-fractions
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/poetry-reading-comprehension-language
Other tasks
Don’t forget the other tasks on the discussion blogs. You can also use ixl to support any learning on The Oak Academy if you would like to.
Have a great day!
Mr Dean
Date: 17th Jun 2020 @ 10:36am
Good morning Starlings!
Well done, you have made it half way through another week and once again you have kept up you great effort levels!
Have a look at the start of Nathaniel’s writing task:
Check out the discussion page to find out how this ends!
Eva has also been hard at work researching the Union Jack and how it was designed:
I can’t wait to see what array of flags you all decide to research!
A final well done to Amelia, Elsie, Eva, Harry B, Harry M, Isla, Jake, Madelyn, Matylda, Zak and Toby for attempting your online learning on LBQ on Monday and Tuesday; I hope you are all enjoying the break from LBQ today!
I know some of you are working hard on your paper learning and home schooling as well, you haven’t been forgotten! Keep it up Starlings!
All the best,
Mr Dean
Starlings Home Learning - 17.6.20
Date: 17th Jun 2020 @ 8:47am
Good morning Starlings
Today’s learning:
Today we are starting to use a website called The Oak Academy. This website is a government site and on it they have put lots of links and ideas to support you at home. We have decided not to use the activities everyday, but wanted to use some of them on some days instead of LBQ. LBQ will be set on a Monday and Tuesday for all learning and also on a Friday for Maths.
As explained yesterday, there will be a mix of video clips from year 3 and 4. Sometimes the video clip will not be your year group but it’s all been carefully planned in so don’t worry.
I will set up a discussion feed for you to share any work which you complete using the Oak Academy. You could take a picture or screen shot the page then upload it if you wish.
Here are our tasks:
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/poetry-reading-comprehension-word-meaning
Other tasks
Don’t forget the other tasks on the discussion blogs. You can also use ixl to support any learning on The Oak Academy if you would like to.
Have a great day!
Mr Dean
Starlings Home Learning - 16.6.20
Date: 16th Jun 2020 @ 8:49am
Good morning Starlings!
Well done with getting off to a good start with your learning children. Lots of good work was completed on LBQ yesterday. I am really pleased.
Please read the following important information carefully about the next few weeks:
You may have noticed that there were quite a few tasks set yesterday on the discussion posts using The Oak Academy. We will be using this website on a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from this week to set the learning tasks at home. You will still have LBQ tasks on a Monday and Tuesday. We hope that this will give you something new to try at home but still keep some of the consistency which we have built up using LBQ.
The tasks will be a mixture of Year 3 and Year 4 to allow us to continue to teach the teaching sequence which we have planned in order to cover the key learning for the next few weeks. Therefore some video clips will show Year 3 at the start and some will say Year 4. Please don’t worry if this is not your Year group. All the learning set is suitable and appropriate.
Today’s learning:
LBQ: Use the code: ysb (all lower case)
There are 3 tasks. Please complete all 3. If you get stuck on a question, read the advice given then try again. Read the questions carefully – this will help you!
We are still working on fractions on LBQ and will be trying to recognise different fractions.
Here are some good links about fractions which may help you to remember some of the work we completed in class.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zjckq6f
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhdwxnb/articles/zxcfjty
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zs7g4wx
Reading
You will be set 2 reading tasks on LBQ. Please also complete 2 more reading tasks on Read Theory this week.
Other
Don’t forget to check out the Topic, Writing and Spelling tasks on the discussion pages. The pupil verification code is 956789.
Have a great day children!
Date: 15th Jun 2020 @ 3:20pm
Good afternoon guys!
Thank you for your patience today with the IXL usernames, I have been attempting to renew these for you.
Your new username is the same format with a different number - firstnamelastname491 (E.g. mrdean491)
Your password is the same - qwerty
If you have any problems please comment on this blog, I will check it everyday this week to help you out.
Have a great week,
Mr Dean
Starlings Home Learning - 15.6.20
Date: 15th Jun 2020 @ 8:33am
Good morning Starlings!
I hope that you have all had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the sunshine. Here we are again ready to start a new week. These weeks are flying by! This week we will be trying something different for our learning on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday so keep a look out for that. LBQ will still be used on a Monday and Tuesday.
Today’s learning:
LBQ: Use the code pnn (all lower case)
There are 3 tasks. Please complete all 3. If you get stuck on a question, read the advice given then try again. Read the questions carefully – this will help you!
We are still working on fractions on LBQ and will be trying to recognise different fractions.
Here are some good links about fractions which may help you to remember some of the work we completed in class.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zjckq6f
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhdwxnb/articles/zxcfjty
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zs7g4wx
Reading
You will be set 2 reading tasks on LBQ. Please also complete 2 more reading tasks on Read Theory this week.
Other
Don’t forget to check out the Topic, Writing and Spelling tasks on the discussion pages. These will be uploaded by lunchtime on Monday and will be there all week for you to have a go at. The pupil verification code is 956789.
Have a great day children!
Date: 12th Jun 2020 @ 9:16am
As the week draws to a close, I thought I would share with you some more of the fabulous work produced by children in your class as last minute inspiration!
There have been some amazing pieces of descriptive writing added to the discussion pages so far:
There have also been some incredible stadiums built. I am sure some of you will be competing in these stadiums just like these in the not so distant future!
Finally, a big well done to Amelia, Elsie, Eva, Harry B, Harry M, Isla, Jake, Jayden, Josh, Lily, Madelyn, Olivia J and Toby for completing LBQ every day so far this week! Keep up the hard work Starlings, hopefully more names will be joining you next week!
Have a lovely weekend!
Mr Dean
Starlings Star of the Week - 12.6.20
Date: 12th Jun 2020 @ 8:50am
My Star of the Week this week has been fabulous during this lockdown. They have been helping their parents whenever they can; they have completed home learning every single day as well as learning lots of new fun skills such as photography. This young lady has a smile that can brighten anybody’s day and I hope it does just that on a day like today!
Congratulations to Emelia Birchall, you are my Star of the Week!
Starlings Home Learning - 12.6.20
Date: 12th Jun 2020 @ 8:49am
Good morning Starlings!
It's Friday!!
You have all worked so hard this week, one more day and you can relax.
Your LBQ code today is: foz
Please make sure your writing and afternoon tasks are uploaded to the correct discussion pages today along with your spelling score.
It is also your last day to make sure you have completed 2 tasks on Read Theory and to get on TTRockstars.
Have a lovely weekend Starlings, stay safe!
Mr Dean
Starlings Home Learning - 11.6.20
Date: 11th Jun 2020 @ 8:49am
Good morning Starlings!
We had the highest participation on LBQ so far this week, keep it up guys!
Your code today is: zuo
Don't forget you have to complete 2 Read Theories and go on TTRockstars at least twice this week!
You also have IXL if you would like to challenge yourself further.
I've seen some work on the discussion pages so far and they look incredible!
Finally, it is throwback thursday! Please sign in using your pupil login and comment who you think it is! The pupil verification code is:956789
Have a brilliant day Starlings,
Mr Dean
Date: 10th Jun 2020 @ 10:28am
This is just a polite reminder that I will be removing anybody from the LBQ lesson who does not use their name for for the LBQ tasks. You can shorten you name, for example Joshua can but Josh, but you do not need to put anything silly.
This does not happen often and I am sure it will not carry on after today. Thank you for your cooperation!
Mr Dean
Starlings Home Learning - 10.6.20
Date: 10th Jun 2020 @ 8:55am
Good morning boys and girls!
We are half way to the weekend, not long to go now!
Don't forget to make a start on your writing and afternoon tasks so you are not rushing at the end of the week.
Your LBQ code today is: pad
You should be accessing TTRockstars and Read Theory each week. You are all so good at this this should seem more like fun than hard work!
Have a lovely day Starlings, I am looking forward to seeing the great work you produce today!
All the best,
Mr Dean
Date: 9th Jun 2020 @ 11:45am
Good morning Starlings!
I have been so impressed with your work so far and it is only Tuesday!
Here are some examples of projects that I have seen, I will be keeping an eye out for more as the week progresses!
A big well done to Amelia, Elsie, Eva, Harry B, Harry M, Isla, Jake, Jayden, Josh, Lily, Matylda, Olivia J, Olivia T and Toby for doing online learning everyday so far. I know there is still time left today so please do not worry, I will check again tonight!
A final well done to all children completing work at home, I know the effort you are putting in is still fantastic, keep up the hard work!
Mr Dean
Starlings Home Learning - 09.6.20
Date: 9th Jun 2020 @ 8:58am
Good morning children!
I was really pleased yesterday to see such great learning on LBQ. Lots of you had a go at all 3 tasks and tried really hard to answer all the questions set. Well done!
Today’s learning:
LBQ: Use the code zab (all lower case)
There are 3 tasks. Please complete all 3. If you get stuck on a question, read the advice given then try again. Read the questions carefully – this will help you!
Maths is a new topic all about fractions. We will look at fractions for the next couple of weeks now as it is very important to keep these skills going ready for next year.
Click the link to help you with the tasks this week.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhdwxnb/articles/z9n4k7h
Reading
One of your tasks everyday is a reading task which is great as this will help to keep these skills going. Please also read at least once a week on Read Theory.
Other
Don’t forget the writing, topic and spelling tasks on the discussion pages. The pupil verification code is 956789.
Have a great day children!
Starlings Home Learning -08.6.20
Date: 8th Jun 2020 @ 8:54am
Good Morning Starlings!!
Welcome to a new week. I hope that you have all had a lovely weekend. I have a great recommendation for you children which I think that you will enjoy. Follow this link to the kids museum site and you will find some great links about space, making badges, History and many more.
https://kidsinmuseums.org.uk/2020/06/jump-into-june-with-these-10-at-home-museum-activities/
Get ready for a new week of learning, here goes ...
Here are today’s tasks:
LBQ – dve Code (all lowercase)
You are repeating a task in Maths, however you will be doing fractions for the rest of the week so this task today should help you later in the week.
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the information given.
Everyday I set you a reading task on LBQ. Over the week, complete one other task on Read Theory too.
Other Tasks
Take a look on the discussion blogs for this week’s tasks 😊 Remember the Pupil verification code 956789
This week’s writing task is all about the character which you drew last week. If you didn’t draw one, you can draw your own character ready for the task. I expect to see lots of different characters and descriptions this week.
Have a great day children!
Mr Dean
Starlings Star of the Week - 5.6.20
Date: 5th Jun 2020 @ 8:39am
My Star of the week this week has shown fantastic enthusiasm to everything she has beeen doing throughout the lockdown. She very rarely has a day off and completes everything she does with great passion. Her science experiment has really caught my attention and I cannot wait to see how it ends up.
My star of the week this week is Lily! Congratulations, I hope you have a lovely weekend and keep up the hard work!
Starlings Home Learning - 05.6.20
Date: 5th Jun 2020 @ 8:30am
Good morning!
We have completed another week, well done! You have produced some brilliant work this week, I am hoping that there is still lots to come on the discussion pages. Be sure to check the next blog to find out your Star of the Week this time, and check the whole school blog to see who has been nominated in the golden book.
Your LBQ code today is:ndt
Don't forget to upload your spelling score, your writing picture (This is important for you next task) and the afternoon task.
Have a lovely day, stay safe over the weekend and have lots of fun!
Mr Dean
Starlings Home Learning - 04.6.20
Date: 4th Jun 2020 @ 8:31am
We are so close to the weekend now, just 2 more days of hard work and then you can start to relax again!
Good morning Starlings,
Your LBQ code today is: xrr
Over the next 2 days you will be recapping the four main operations in Maths so expect to see some similar tasks. This is fine as it is important you are fluent in addition, subtraction, division and multiplication.
You should be starting to upload your work to the discussions pages soon for your afternoon and writing task, thank you those who already have because they look great!
I hope you all have a lovely Thursday, hopefully it isn't as wet as yesterday and you are able to enjoy your afternoon!
Stay safe,
Mr Dean
Starlings Home Learning 03.6.20
Date: 3rd Jun 2020 @ 8:35am
Good morning guys!
I don't know about you but I had forgotten what rain looked like, it was quite nice seeing some change this morning.
Thank you for joining back in and doing so much work in such a short amount of time!
Your LBQ today is: ftd
Remember to check the discussion pages alongside using TTRockstars and IXL.
Keep up the good work Starlings, stay safe!
Mr Dean
Starlings Home Learning 02.6.20
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:41am
Good morning Starlings!
Here are today’s tasks:
LBQ – Code sax (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the information given.
Everyday I set you a reading task on LBQ. Over the week, complete one other task on Read Theory too.
Other Tasks
Take a look on the discussion blogs for this week’s tasks J
Remember the Pupil verification code 956789
Have a great day guys
Mr Dean
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 11:05am
Here is our topic web for this half term. It is all about the Olympics and health and fitness and has some fantatsic ideas for you to do at home. Don't forget to blog any of your learning as we love to see what you get up to at home.