Remote Learning 2021
Monday 11/01/21
Please go to Teams to find this week's learning.
Miss Goodwin will be setting your English work this week. Send her your completed work at mgoodwin@birklandsschool.co.uk
Miss Marsh will be setting your Maths work this week. Send her your completed work at lmarsh@birklandsschool.co.uk
You can email Miss Marsh and Miss Goodwin if your are stuck or have any problems. Of course you can also email me, but as I will be teaching the Key Worker children, I won't be able to respond until after they have left.
Keep smiling and have a great week!
Hello Kittiwake!
Good Morning everyone!
You should now have all been sent a username and password to access your work next week. These details also provide you with your own email! Go back to the Birklands homepage, and at the top you'll see an envelope icon, next to the twitter icon. Click on the envelope and then follow the instructions to login. You can now email me anytime! Get your parents to email me if you have any problems accessing this.
Once you are in Office 365 (your email account) you will be able to easily access TEAMS. If you look at the top left hand corner, you will see a square made up of nine dots. Click on it and you will get a list of things to choose from. Select TEAMS and it will take you to the place where all your work will be from next week. If you have any problems accessing this, get your parents to email me.
mallen@birklandsschool.co.uk
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Happy New Year! I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas break. I think it's going to be another unusual year!
We need to do our teaching and learning remotely at the moment to keep ourselves and other people safe. This will probably feel very strange to begin with and there are going to be some hiccups for all of us, but we will all do our best.
For today and tomorrow, your work will be on this page. Over the next couple of days I will be sending you more information on how to access the work we will be starting next week.
If you want to get in touch with me for anything, my email address is mallen@birklandsschool.co.uk
Friday 08/01/21
Maths
Fluent in 5
Give yourself 5 minutes to complete this arithmetic!
Figure Me Out!
A Mystery Teacher has made this poster all about herself. She has put clues on it to help you figure out who it is.
2. Make a Poster
Make a poster all about yourself.
You can use the same headings as this poster, or you might be able to think of some for yourself.
Make sure you put a number problem to be solved, to give the answer for each heading.
You can draw a picture of yourself if you wish.
Don’t put your name on it1
If you email a picture of the finished poster to Mrs Allen, she will post it on the Class Webpage for others to figure out.
English
'Rain before Rainbows'
You can read the book here or listen to it being read here.
Today's tasks:
In this story, the author uses weather and the environment as a metaphor for feelings and emotions. For example “the wind will start blowing and tall waves will crash” makes me think of fears and worries. When we are afraid, it can sometimes feel like we are battling against something strong and powerful like “tall waves”.
- Watch this video to remind yourself about similes and metaphors and take the quiz (on the same page as the video). For each emotion below, think about how it makes you feel and write a simile or metaphor to describe it.
- Happy-
- Excited-
- Calm-
- Worried-
- Angry-
- Upset-
E.g. Calm- A feather floating in the gentle breeze
- If you put all of the similes and metaphors together, you will have a poem all about feelings and emotions. I would love to share it on the class page if you send it to mallen@birklandsschool.co.uk
Topic
Here is a list of creative activities relating to the story we are looking at in English. Choose one to complete Thursday and another for Friday. Remember to send them to mallen@birklandsschool.co.uk
I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
'Rain before Rainbow's'
You can read the book here or listen to it being read here.
Activities
Thursday 07/01/21
Maths
English
'Rain Before Rainbows'
Today and tomorrow we will be focussing on a book all about optimism and how brighter, happier things are just around the corner, even when we are feeling down and dreary. I think this is an important message to keep us positive in these strange times.
You can read the book here or listen to it being read here.
Today's tasks:
1. Read/ listen to the story and write any words that need clarifying like we do in class. You are going to find out what those words mean (by using the other words around it, asking a grown up, using a dictionary/ online) to create a glossary.
E.g. Glossary:
- Duel- a fight or battle between two people/ things.
- Courageous- brave
2. In this story, the author uses weather as a metaphor for thoughts and feelings. Re-read the story and think about how the character is feeling at the different weather points. Choose one of the pictures from the story below and add thought bubbles to show how the characters are feeling at that point. (You could have a go at drawing the picture or just writing your ideas in thought bubbles on paper).
E.g. 
Remember to send your amazing work to mallen@birklandsschool.co.uk, I look forward to reading it!
Reading
It is essential that children continue to read every day at home. To support this, I will upload a text for each book band every week (starting Mon 11th). I have also included lots of free websites and resources for reading on the links page and at the bottom of this page.
Reading Online:
- Click here for some free Marvel comics- I know a lot of you love your superheroes!
- LOADS of celebrities have been reading their favourite children's books for Save the Children.
- Here are lots of videos of children's author Oliver Jeffers reading some of his famous books.
- Audible is now FREE! It has hundreds of book titles that you can stream on a phone, tablet or laptop using this link (including some of our 100 books to read by the end of Y4).
- Miss Goodwin turned into a youtuber last lockdown and made her own videos reading some stories, you can watch them here.
- Look at the reading section on the links page here for more free places to access books online.
Topic
Here is a list of creative activities relating to the story we are looking at in English. Choose one to complete Thursday and another for Friday. Remember to send them to mallen@birklandsschool.co.uk
I can’t wait to see what you come up with!