Home learning heroes
Thank you for all the emails, photos and learning that you have shared during our zoom sessions. Everyone has done their best in these difficult circumstances and that is all we can ask for. Enjoy a well-earned half term break.
Have a listen to this super reading fluency.
Sometimes, learning goes off in a different direction – which is fine! Feeling proud of an achievement is great motivation to learn. Making a sock dispenser, using toys to count, baking a cake or finding out which materials are waterproof are all valuable lessons!
And to make learning even more exciting…some people like to dress up…
Happy Half Term – stay active with our 3 Peaks Challenge!
Well done to William, Sam and Emma who have been actively counting their steps on our ‘3 peaks challenge’.
If you would like to keep up with the challenge over half term, then see details below.
The Sphere Year 3/4 Team would absolutely love you to be part of this awesome challenge this February and March. We want to get you walking or running (or scooting!) as much as you can over the next two months.
Every time you do a walk or run, add the distance completed (and your time taken to complete this) in your chart. We will be adding up everyone’s distances each week to see how many of us can ‘climb’ the National three peaks. In topic this week and next, we will be learning about some mountains in the UK, so what could be better than a virtual mountain climbing challenge!
The three mountains in the challenge are the highest in each country in the UK:
- Snowdon, in Wales (1085m) Distance: 7 miles / 11.75 km
- Scafell Pike, in England (978m) Distance: 5.5 miles / 9 km
- Ben Nevis, in Scotland (1345m) Distance: 10.75 miles / 17km
You can record your steps taken (paces). The whole route is 37.75 kilometres long, and the average human step (or pace) is 0.75 metres. So you have to take 50,333 steps in total to complete the Three Peaks. Recording steps (paces) taken is easy – you can use a Fitbit, pedometer or just count your steps. A phone can track how many steps you take and how far you walk all by itself, if you walk with an adult who has a phone.
The idea is to make this as much fun as possible, to motivate you to get outdoors and maybe encourage as many of your family and your friends to do the same thing.
You don’t have to do the whole route. Maybe you can choose to ‘walk’ just one mountain, or two – it’s up to you and what you can achieve.
Throughout the month, we will share photos and graphics of the distances you’ve travelled. From this, we can show who has travelled up the peaks and what location we can reach together. Hopefully, we can find ways to help you during this challenge and through this you can share stories, pictures and videos with those joining in this challenge. All ‘Three peaks in eight weeks’ challenge walkers will receive certificates for effort and participation:-
Mountain 1 = Bronze; Mountain 2 = Silver; Mountain 3 = Gold.
Happy Half Term!
Well, we’ve made it! Another half term of lockdown done. You should all be very proud of yourselves for working so hard on your home learning. A massive thank you to those parents that have kept in regular contact and sent positive messages to the teachers – it has really helped keep us motivated when juggling video lessons, teaching and planning among many other things. Thanks to everyone that has continued to send their work in – we love to see how well you are doing at home.
The daily Zooms have continued to be a success in 5/6S and well done to all those children that have had the confidence to be one of our daily quiz masters. I love to see you all and have a giggle, even though I never win at the quizzes! I still can’t believe that I didn’t win the Michael Buble quiz!
Anyway, I hope you all have a great half term. Make sure you get out for some fresh air and spend some quality time with your families. Maybe some baking might be on the cards – photos will need to be seen by me though. Yum yum!
Hope to see you all very soon.
Mrs H.
Class News 3,4 NV
Hi everyone,
Well done for another week of fabulous home learning! It has been great to know how well you have been doing through the emails, zoom calls and phone calls home!
What a great way to end this half term – fossil making, creating a rock friend, reading about volcanoes and lots more!
Well done to those of you who have continued with TTRockstars and/or Numbots. I can see that so many of you are practising.
Have a happy, healthy and safe half term break. We have some exciting learning planned for you next half term!
Mrs Wadsworth
Let’s Celebrate Learning!
This half term has been…interesting!
Although schools haven’t been open, the home learning has been a great success! A big thanks to everyone involved in adapting to this way of learning in such a difficult time for all. Let’s celebrate some of the fantastic learning that has taken place over the last six weeks!
Fancy a twist on a classic dish?
Amelie has this half term covered in terms of new recipes to try out on your family. Her vegetarian ‘parmo’ with cheesy potato skins sounds great.
End of unit quizzes
Have a go at our quizzes to see what you can remember from the Science and Geography learning this half term.
5/6M writing
Bella, Leiyah and Olivia have sent in their writing from Mr Owen’s lessons. It’s great to see your pride in presentation hasn’t faltered.
Hall of home learning fame
Thank you for sending me your wonderful science work this week. I was over the Moon with the response to Mr Freeman’s lesson.
Week Commencing 08.02.2021 Home Learning
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Book of the week- Watch the story Mr Wolf’s Pancakes or read the book if you have it at home. Click here
Questions to discuss- 1. What three ingredients do you need to make pancakes? 2. Mr Wolf made a shopping list. Have you ever made a list? What did you make a list for? 3. Why do you think the neighbours didn’t help Mr Wolf? 4. How did you feel when no-one would help Mr Wolf? 5. What did you think about the ending of the book? |
| Phonics- ee
Click here to watch today’s phonics video. Activity 1: Take turns with an adult to play ‘Roll and Read’ (ee focus) click here to either print the word mat, or view it on screen. You will need a die or to draw 1-6 dots on 6 pieces of paper and draw at random from a bag.
Activity 2: Think of two different sentences for each word: queen, bee, teeth and sleep. |
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| Maths- Number 8. Session 1. Click here
Activity: Click here for today’s activities. |
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| Tuesday | Phonics- igh This is a trigraph. Three letters that make one sound.
Click here to watch today’s phonics video Activity 1: Be an ‘igh’ detective! Can you find any words in your storybooks with the ‘igh’ trigraph? Activity 2: Click here to play Buried Treasure. It’s on Phonicsplay-Buried Treasure – Phase3 -Set 1-7 – +igh. |
| Maths- Number 8. Session 2. Click here
Activity: Click here for today’s activities. |
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| Wednesday | Phonics- oa
Click here to watch today’s phonics video. Click here to read the rest of the story, Toads in the Road. You can sign up on the website free and access the reading books from here. Activity 1: Write a sentence using one of the ‘oa’ words. You might use: croak, roast, toast or toad. Steps to writing a successful sentence… 1.Think of a sentence. 2. Say the sentence out loud. 3. Count the words in your sentence. 4. Use your phoneme fingers to segment every word. 5. Check your sentence makes sense. 6. Have you remembered a capital letter at the start, finger spaces throughout and a full stop at the end? |
| Maths- Number 8. Session 3. Click here
Activity: Click here for today’s activities. |
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| Thursday | Phonics- Tricky word-you
Click here to watch today’s phonics video. Activities:
Click here for today’s Let’s Go comic. Click here for today’s A Bug comic. |
| Maths-
Play number stacking pancakes.
Make some pancakes: Draw around a circle template on a piece of paper or card. Cut the circles out and write the digits 0-10 on the pancakes. If you have a spatula and a plate that’s great but you don’t need them. Mix up the pancakes and spread them out on the carpet. Your child can scoop up the correct pancake with the spatula and put it on the plate. There are a few things that you can do with this game. 1. Order the pancakes from 0-10 in ascending order. Stacking them one at a time on the plate/in a pile. 2. Order the pancakes in descending order from 10-0. 3. Ask your child different numbers at random to select and put on the plate. 4. Play ‘run and splat’ the number when it is said. 5. Time yourself. How long does it take you to stack your pancakes in order? Can you beat your time? Can you beat your adult? 6. Put the pancakes in a random pile, face down. Decide on a fun action e.g. star jumps, jumping on the spot, running to the kitchen, turning around, hopping etc. Take it in turns to take the top pancake, whatever number you get, that’s how many of the chosen action you must do. (A few ideas: This activity can be extended to use different numbers to challenge your child. You might add 11-20). |
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| Friday | Understanding the World with Professor Myers; Making a volcano-
If you would like to join in this week’s video then you will need: washing up liquid, food colouring, bicarbonate of soda and some vinegar. Click here to watch this week’s video with Professor Myers. Click here to watch some children carrying out the investigation, as Professor Myers mentioned. It might inspire you to make a more elaborate volcano, if you have the time and resources to do so. -Can you carry out the experiment in the video like Professor Myers? -Can you draw and label a picture to show what happened? |
| Story time- The Magic Paintbrush with Mrs Allen-Kelly
Click here to watch today’s story. Questions to discuss- 1. Why do you think Shen was asked only to paint for poor people and not for rich people? Do you think Shen and the villagers were rich or poor? 2. How did Shen escape from prison? 3. How did the villagers feel when Shen returned home with her magic brush? 4. If you had a magic paintbrush that could make anything come to life, what would you draw? Perhaps you could also have a go at painting it at home. Friday 12th February 2021 is the celebration of Chinese New Year! 1. Have a look online or in a book to see if you can find China on a world map! 2. Click here to watch the ‘Let’s Celebrate’ episode of the Chinese and Luna New Year celebration. 3. You might like to have a go at writing numbers using Chinese (Mandarin) characters:
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Story Link activities to select throughout the week:
Literacy
- Be a friend to Mr Wolf and make a shopping list for him. You could make a list of ingredients for him to make his pancakes. Or you might make a list for him to make something else delicious. (Pizza, fruit salad etc)
- Draw and label two characters from the book.
Understanding the World
Spend some time watching this video about wolves click here
- What do you notice about the wolves?
- How many babies does a mother wolf usually have?
- What do wolves eat?
- What helps wolves to keep warm?
- How many teeth do wolves have?
Expressive Arts and Design
Make a stack of pancakes out of playdough. Can you serve them at you own café with different toppings? How much will each pancake cost? Can people buy drinks at your café too?
Click here for the no cook play dough recipe.
Make a wolf mask or picture!
Maybe an adult in your house will help you to make your own delicious pancakes. What topping might you choose?
Using construction toys, can you build Mr Wolf’s Village and the houses for all of the different characters.
Physical Development
Get Moving Outside! Why not take your numbered pancakes, from the Maths activity, outside. Hide them in the garden then find them. Take a number and match it with objects e.g. 3 leaves. Do laps of your garden to match a number. Make an obstacle course and use your numbered pancakes at each station.
Joe Wicks is hosting his live PE sessions, 3 times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 9am) You can subscribe to his channel here for alerts. A great way to keep fit at home!
Zoom Meetings
It has been terrific seeing you on Zoom! You (and your adults) were brilliant at Dough Disco. For our next Zoom session we are going to do some movement play to music. Please could you bring a small soft toy and a little blanket/pillow case/scarf.