Well done to all the people who have emailed me your writing task from today. There are some great instructions about clouds, that include good use of imperative verbs – presentation is super also! Here are some examples from Freya, Lilia and Alex D – I’ve enjoyed reading them today, so thank you.
Good morning. Hope you had a good sleep last night and that you’re ready for your learning today. Remember to get outside for some fresh air too – this is just as important for you and your mental health.
Your learning for today is…
Year 5 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
Challenge
14.2cm
Starter
Write down as many number facts that you know about 1,092. Think about addition and subtraction calculations, partitioning, multiplication and division, part-whole models.
Your learning today is area.
To calculate the area of a rectangle or a square, multiply the height by the width.
Challenge
Year 6 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
Solve puzzles
Today’s maths is a problem solving task that uses times table facts and mental addition.
Problem solving – Zids and Zods
Challenge
How many different solutions can you find?
How do you know you’ve found them all?
Year 5/6 Reading Task
Your learning today is retrieval.
First of all, you should re-read the text from yesterday (The Cave).
Next, you should answer the retrieval questions.
For a challenge, create your own retrieval questions for someone in your house, or even better someone in your class, to have a go at – remember that you’ll need to know the answer so you can check if they’re right or not.
Year 5/6 Writing Task
Re watch the video from yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-45TbOGadro
Read your work from yesterday. ChARM it! Check for punctuation errors, missing words and sense. Add more to a sentence or paragraph. Remove anything that you don’t like. Move a clause, phrase, word or sentence to improve the flow of your work.
Now, publish your work by rewriting in your best handwriting and sending it to your teacher to add to our Class News page.
Good morning! We hope you all had a lovely Easter and that you spent some more quality time with your families. We hope that lots of you had a go at the Easter challenges we set for you. We would love to see some photos of these, so please send some our way!
Anyway, it’s back to learning time. Remember to put lots of effort in and still think about your presentation.
Your learning for today is…
Year 5 Maths Task
Starter
Have a game of times table bingo with someone.
Your learning today is perimeter.
To measure the perimeter of a shape, you add up all the sides. A composite shape is a shape made up of two or more geometric shapes, like the ones below. They are made up of two rectangles.
1.
3.How many regular shapes (squares, rectangles) can you draw with a perimeter of 26cm?
Can you use any decimal numbers?
Challenge
Year 6 Maths Task
Four operations
Write the answers to the questions in your exercise book. If you’ve forgotten some of the ideas, your CGP books might help. Remember, you can email your teacher if you’re still unsure.
Challenge
Choose one of the problems and write your own similar question.
Year 5/6 Reading Task
Your learning today is a mix of retrieval and inference.
First, you should read the text – The Cave.
Your first task is to draw and label a picture of Mary. You’ll have done this before in your reading lessons at school. If you’re feeling arty, you could draw an actual picture of Mary, or, you could draw an outline (like a Gingerbread person). Around the outside of your person, you should label it with things from the text. This could be facts (eg her toenails are painted) or it could be inferences you’ve made about her personality (eg I think she’s brave because…).
Your second task is to imagine you are Mary when she realises that she is in a cave (towards the end of page 1). Your task is to draw what she can see around her – remember this isn’t an art lesson. Once you’ve drawn everything, use evidence from the text to label your picture. For example, you could label the floor as ‘highly uneven, but largely flat’.
For a challenge, you could write either a short setting description, or a short character description (or both!). Whichever challenge you choose, remember to use evidence from the text.
Year 5/6 Writing Task
Get thinking…. Get talking. Have a discussion with someone about the following questions.
Is it possible for us to touch clouds?
What are clouds made of?
Can we touch what they are made of?
What is the sky?
Where does the sky begin?
Why is the sky blue?
Watch this endearing video about a father and son creating clouds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-45TbOGadro
Today you have a choice of tasks:
Write a set of instructions for creating clouds based on the video. Include imperative verbs (cut, push, blow).
Write a narrative about how other natural phenomena is created (lightning, thunder, wind, snow)
Good morning everyone!
I hope you have all had a lovely weekend. As I’m sure you know, we are setting some activities for you to do over the Easter holiday – things a bit different to our regular posts. However, I know some of you will be desperate to know the answers to your maths learning from Friday, so here they are:
Year 5 maths task
Answers
Using what you have just worked out- solve the following calculations.
Year 6 maths task
2016 Arithmetic (2) Answers.pdf
Year 5/6 reading task
Happy Friday everyone! You have survived another week of home learning – well done. Please feel free to get in touch with your class teachers today and let us know what kind of week you’ve had. We love hearing from you – it cheers up our day. Keep an eye out next week for some fun activities that will keep you and your family entertained over the Easter holidays.
Here’s the learning for today…
Year 5 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
Challenge: Alex has £30,000. Alex has £29,700 more than Freddie.
Starter
Create some 5-digit column subtraction sums and solve them.
Your learning today is dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.
Using what you have just worked out- solve the following calculations.
Challenge
5,700 405 397 6,203
Here are the answers to some problems.
Can you write some questions for each answer involving dividing by 10, 100 or 1000?
Year 6 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
The largest product is 5 (5 x 2 x 0.5)
The smallest product is 0.15 (3 x 0.5 x 1 x 0.1)
Your learning today is…
An arithmetic paper!
Year 5/6 Writing Task
Our learning is expanded noun phrases.
First of all, re-watch the video from yesterday – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVM1xEdp83Q.
Today, your task is to write a diary entry as Ali (the main character from the video). Imagine you’ve spent a day in Baghdad (the capital of the Ancient Islamic Civilisation). You must tell your diary what you’ve been up to and what it’s like to live there. You must also use expanded noun phrases. Your diary entry can be as long as you want but we’d like it if you took no less than 30 minutes to complete this task.
Challenge: write more diary entries as Ali – use your imagination and make some things up (they should be believable though) or find out some about this civilisation.
Year 5/6 Reading Task
Your learning today is to summarise.
Your task today is all about summarising. Use the full newspaper from Wednesday’s learning and scan to find the pictures in each section. Write down the page number and section and then write the key points from the article under “What’s the story?”.
Challenge: play the ERM Challenge with someone at home – choose a topic you’re confident about or choose an article you’ve read this week in First News and your job is to speak about it and summarise the key points about it for as long as possible without saying ERM or hesitating. Email us with your high scores!
It’s great to know that you are all still working well on your learning at home. Some people have even created very precise learning timetables – I’m really impressed! I love it when people are organised.
Below are a couple of photos from Lilia and Freya who have been busy completing the year 6 maths challenges. Well done!
Today, with my children, I have been researching the artist Henri Rousseau, a French painter born in 1844. He created many paintings of jungles, however because he had never visited a jungle, he based his ideas on trips to botanical gardens in Paris. My children and I had a go at creating our own jungle scenes and we used water colours to add colour.
Can you guess which one is mine?
Have a go at researching an artist and creating your own piece of art. Have fun!
Mrs H.x
Here’s today’s learning…
Year 5 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
2.
Challenge: Never. Square numbers have an odd number of factors because one of their factors does not have a pair.
Starter
Times Tables Rockstars- improve your multiplication skills.
Your learning today is multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000.
Fill in the blanks
Challenge
Freddie has £300 in his bank account. Alex has 100 times more than Freddie in his bank account. How much more money does Alex have than Freddie?
Year 6 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
Multiply whole numbers and decimals
Nrich Route Product- click on the link below.
Challenge
Design your own grid with your own numbers.
If you email it to us, we can choose one for everyone to complete after the Easter holidays.
Year 5/6 Writing Task
Our learning is expanded noun phrases.
Before we left school, our topic learning was mainly about Vikings. We had just started to learn about a new period: The Ancient Islamic Civilisation. Here is a video that will give us some useful
information about this interesting period of time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVM1xEdp83Q
Your task today is to write some sentences about Ali (the character in the video) and the Ancient
Islamic Civilisation. Each sentence must include at least one expanded noun phrase. You should
underline the ENP – like we do at school when you have finished a piece of writing.
Challenge: write a paragraph or two about the video. Include things you’ve learnt and make sure
you use expanded noun phrases – like the main task, underline them after you’ve finished writing.
Don’t forget that we’d love to see pics of any of your learning so please send them in.
Year 5/6 Reading Task
Your learning today is retrieval.
Your reading task today is to read the article and complete the crossword in your home learning book eg
1 down = answer
1 across = answer
R2s
– read the clues first
– read the article twice
– work out key words in the clue
– scan the text for the key words
– Does your answer make sense/fit?
Challenge: create your own clues for other words in the text and follow this format:
clue (word class, number of letters)
It was lovely to hear how Jessica is getting on with her home learning and she sent some pictures through of her work. Her illustration of a Viking is brilliant, with great attention to detail and some adventurous vocabulary in her noun phrases. I really like the posters she has coloured that display a great positive message for everyone. Thank you. Mrs H.x
Good morning everyone!
I hope you all had a good night’s sleep and are keen to get on with your learning today.
Here’s today’s learning…
Year 5 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
Challenge: False. For example, 12 has 6 factors but 13 only has 2.
Starter
Create some 5-digit column addition calculations and answer them.
Your learning today is squared numbers.
This is an array showing 3 x 3 = 9.
Challenge
Always, Sometimes, Never
A square number has an even number of factors.
Year 6 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
There are the two solutions:
13 chocolate bars and 9 fruit bars
4 chocolate bars and 22 fruit bars
Solve the challenge in your exercise book.
Writing task (Y5,6)
Our learning is expanded noun phrases.
Your task today is to write an email to a loved one – perhaps a family member, friend or teacher. Your email can consist of anything you wish – it could be full of things that you have been doing at home to stay active and healthy, for example.
In this email, you must include expanded noun phrases. Here is a short example of an email.
Dear Jane,
I hope you are enjoying the roasting sunshine! My sister and I have been playing in the garden with our fluffy dog, Rosie. We have also been joining in with Joe Wicks PE sessions every morning. Thanks for sending me a beautiful birthday card – it really made me smile.
I look forward to hearing back from you.
Billy
Reading task (Y5,6)
Your learning today is a little bit different to normal. Today, we’d like you to just enjoy reading. Your task is to read the FirstNews newspaper (it will open as a separate page in your browser when you click the link). You should spend about 30 – 40 minutes reading it.
We’re not expecting you to do any learning in your exercise books today as the main thing we want you to do is to enjoy reading. However, if you like, you could complete one (or more) of the following tasks…