15 May 2020: Home Learning
It’s nearly the weekend. Yippee!
Don’t forget to check out Mr Catherall’s quiz of the week on the class news page later today.
Year 5 Maths
Your learning today is division.
Year 6 Maths
Here is a video lesson on fractions and percentages. Pause the video as you go and write the answers/ discuss with a grown up. Was your reasoning the same or different from Mr Lindsay’s?
Year 5/6 Reading
Watch this video to find out your learning for today.
You’ll need this link to The Book of Hope.
Year 5/6 Geography
Following yesterday’s learning on coastal erosion, your task for today is to create a fact sheet/poster on coastal erosion and the importance of preventing it.
Here are some points to think about:
- What is coastal erosion? How and why does it happen?
- What are the different types of sea defences? Why are they there and how do they work?
- Is coastal erosion a bad thing? Why?
- Any other useful information you find appropriate
15 May 2020 : Home learning
It’s Friday already again. It should have been a training day but we have some learning prepared for you instead!
Maths
Reading
Watch Miss Lowry’s video all about adjectives : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYheQ5BgGw
Topic – Science (staying healthy)
Watch the BBC Bitesize about staying healthy : https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9yycdm/articles/zxvkd2p
There are lots of things you can do to stay healthy. You need to eat healthy foods and drink plenty of water. You also need to do lots of exercise and get enough sleep. You need to keep yourself clean, too.
How many different ways can you think of to stay healthy? Make a poster all about staying healthy. There are some ideas below.
14 May 2020: Home Learning
Good Morning.
Remember to make sure you are reading on a daily basis. Your teachers would love to publish some book reviews and recommendations on the class news page.
Year 5 Maths
Your learning today is division.
Year 6 Maths
Watch this video for answers to yesterday’s rectangle tangle.
Today’s lesson is a recap of our learning on fractions, decimals and percentages. Collect all four shield pieces by playing Forest of fractions and decimals on Guardians of Mathematica.
Year 5/6 reading
Find the answers from yesterday here.
Watch this video to find out your learning for today.
You’ll need to use this text.
Year 5/6 topic
Read the powepoint about coastal erosion and complete the tasks.
14 May 2020 : Home learning
Thursday already! Keep up with your reading and times tables.
Maths
Watch the video by Miss Parling all about quarter turns : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhjDVgTTK then complete the activity below.
Challenge : Find some toys or books. Turn them a quarter turn clockwise or anti clockwise. Take a photo before and after, if you can.
Reading
Use what you know about phonics to write the words that would label this picture. You can write them as a list in your home learning book.
Challenge : Put each word into a sentence.
Topic – Science (5 senses)
Watch the BBC Bitesize all about the 5 senses.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9yycdm/articles/zxy987h
Complete the activity at the end too.
If you can, go on a senses scavenger hunt.
13 May 2020 : Home learning
Hope you’re having a wonderful Wednesday so far. Here is your learning for today.
Maths
Watch the BBC Bitesize clip about how much a quarter of an hour is.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zbc2y9q
Try telling the time today. Look at a clock as often as you can.
What are you doing at 10 o clock?
What are you doing at half past twelve?
What are you doing at quarter past 3?
What time did you have dinner?
What time do you go to bed?
Reading
Watch the Phase 4 review by Mrs Latham : http://somup.com/cYh1IKjnHo
Challenge : play the Read and Race game below.
Topic – Science (human body)
Watch the BBC Bitesize all about the human body. There is a labelling activity at the end too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9yycdm/articles/zqhbr82
Challenge : Draw your own body outline (small, on a piece of paper or around your actual body, maybe outside, using chalk). Label as many parts as you can.
13 May 2020: Home Learning
Happy Wednesday!
We hope you are ready for another day of home learning.
Here are some spellings for you to have a go at. They all include the rule of doubling up for a short vowel sound:
accommodate
accompany
correspond
immediately
opportunity
exaggerate
occupy
appreciate
Here’s your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths
Your learning today is division.
Year 6 Maths
Here are the answers to yesterday’s ratio and proportion questions.
Today, your learning is about fractions. Here is an NRICH problem involving fractions, quadrilaterals and tringles.
The large rectangle above is divided into a series of smaller quadrilaterals and triangles. Each of the shapes is a fractional part of the large rectangle.
Can you untangle what fractional part is represented by each of the ten numbered shapes?
Need some support? Here is a link to the problem with some support and possible solutions.
Challenge: make a similar fraction problem and email it to your teacher to post on the class news.
Year 5/6 Reading
Today, we continue with the non-fiction focus. Complete this FirstNews comprehension.
Year 5/6 Living and learning
Your learning today is recognising the importance of money.
12 May 2020 : Home learning
Hello everyone! Here is your learning for today.
Maths
Complete the activities below.
Challenge : Draw a square and a rectangle. Divide the shapes into quarters. Is there more than one way to make quarters (remember the four parts need to be equal) ?
Reading
Read ‘The boy who cried wolf’ again from yesterday. Try to add expression to the parts where someone is speaking.
Use the words with the suffix ed from yesterday. Put each word into a sentence. Say your sentence out loud and then write it. Remember to start each sentence with a capital letter and end it with a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark.
Topic
We had started singing this song in our singing lessons before school closed. The words are below. Read along and sing the song. It made us feel powerful, strong and confident when we sang it. We hope it makes you feel that way too.
Fight Song by Rachel Platten
Like a small boat, on the ocean
Sending big waves, into motion
Like how a single word, can make a heart open
I might only have one chance but I can make an explosionAnd all those things I didn’t say
Wrecking balls inside my brain
I will scream them loud tonight
Can you hear my voice this time?This is my fight song, take back my life song
Prove I’m alright song, my power’s turned on
Starting right now I’ll be strong, I’ll play my fight song
And I don’t really care if nobody else believes, ‘Cause I’ve still got a lot of fight left in meLosing friends and I’m chasing sleep
Everybody’s worried about me
In too deep
Say I’m in too deep (in too deep)
And it’s been two years I miss my home
But there’s a fire burning in my bones
Still believe
Yeah, I still believeAnd all those things I didn’t say
Wrecking balls inside my brain
I will scream them loud tonight
Can you hear my voice this time?This is my fight song, take back my life song
Prove I’m alright song, my power’s turned on
Starting right now I’ll be strong, I’ll play my fight song
And I don’t really care if nobody else believes, ‘Cause I’ve still got a lot of fight left in meA lot of fight left in me
Like a small boat
On the ocean
I might only have one chance
But I can make an explosionThis is my fight song, take back my life song
Prove I’m alright song, my power’s turned on
Starting right now I’ll be strong, I’ll play my fight song
And I don’t really care if nobody else believes, ‘Cause I’ve still got a lot of fight left in meKnow I’ve still got a lot of fight left in me
12 May 2020: Home Learning
Hello!
Hope you’re all well today and ready for another day of home learning.
Remember the importance of keeping fit and healthy as well as completing your home learning tasks. Are you eating enough fruit and vegetables? Are you keeping yourself hydrated with water? What type of exercise are you doing daily? It could be some skipping, riding your bike or you might still be a dedicated viewer of Jo Wicks.
Also, don’t forget to check out Mr Catherall’s quiz from last Friday if you haven’t already done so. He gets you doing some crazy stuff!
Here’s your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths
Your learning today is division.
Year 6 Maths
Here are the answers to yesterday’s arithmetic paper.
Today, your learning is about ratio and proportion. Here is a link to the White Rose Maths website. Watch the video in week 2 lesson two ratio and proportion.
After watching the video, answer these questions in your exercise book.
Year 5/6 Reading
Watch this video to find out your learning for today.
You will also need to read this text.
Year 5/6 Living and Learning
This week’s living and learning statement is ‘I recognise the importance of money’.
In preparation for our living and learning lesson tomorrow, your task is to:
- Create a poster, spider diagram, list or any other choice you can think of, that shows what you know about the importance of money.
Here’s some ideas to think about:
- What activities can you do without money? What can’t you do if you don’t have money?
- What do you do with money? Do you save it, or spend it immediately? Why?
- How do people make money? Ask your parents/carers at home to help you.
- Could you live without money? Explain your thoughts.
Tomorrow, we will discuss some of these ideas in a video lesson – good luck!
11 May 2020 : Home learning
Morning!
Week six of our home learning tasks! Well done if you have done some home learning, even if it is not everything. We hope you are still enjoying the videos from teachers. It is strange not having anyone answering us but we know you like seeing your teachers talking about the learning. As time goes on, some of you may be struggling to keep up with all the tasks. Don’t worry, any learning that is missed we will catch up on once we get back to school. The most important thing at the moment is to stay safe and look after your emotional well-being. If you need any help or support, please email your class teacher.
Try to keep reading for at least twenty minutes per day. If you have run out of your own books to read there is a fab online library of eBooks to read on https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ Just register on the website, log in and choose what you want to read.
There is new content on BBC Bitesize, with three lessons each day: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize and Oak National Academy (ONA), also with three lessons each day: https://www.thenational.academy/ There’s also White Rose: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Each Monday, we will also upload a set of spellings for you to practise over the course of the week. Then on Friday, see if you can write them out without looking at them. Someone could test you if you want.
Y2s will also have times table or division facts to learn too.
Weekly spellings :
Y1 : soon food look book card dark fork short
Y2 : change badge edge race ice city knock know knee knit
Times tables : If you ready, start learning ÷4 (half and half again, link to ÷2) OR keep going with times 2, 3, 5 or 10 and divide 2, 3, 5 or 10
Maths
More fractions learning this week. We are focusing on quarters. Watch the slideshow by Miss Lowry all about quarters : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYh1ltg1e8
Reading
This week, the text we are using is ‘The boy who cried wolf’.
You can watch and join in with teachers reading it below.
Miss Parling : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhjQMg02z
Mrs Latham : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhhXEB9oP
Miss Lowry : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYh1l6ghRv
Mrs Lake : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhQlxgvjZ
Read the text along with a teacher. Look for the key vocabulary in the text. All the words have the suffix ed .
Challenge : Write a list of words that also have the suffix ed.
Topic
We want to make a Year 1 and 2 slideshow so everyone can see each other. It could be a photo of you smiling, doing something that makes you happy or a drawing (if you don’t want to use your photo). You could photograph a message you have written. Please send your picture/photo for the slideshow to natalielake@spherefederation.org with Slideshow as the email subject by the end of Thursday 14 May. Thank you.
11 May 2020: Home Learning
Good morning all!
I hope you’re all well and that you had a lovely weekend.
Remember you can contact your teacher using their email address at any time. You might have a question about your learning or you might be worried about something. Please get in touch and we will help as much as you can.
Here’s a little reminder our email addresses:
sarahhogarth@spherefederation.org
marklindsay@spherefederation.org
olliecatherall@spherefederation.org
benfreeman@spherefederation.org
Here’s your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths
Your learning for today is multiplication.
Year 6 Maths
You may recall that this week was supposed to be our SATs week. Don’t worry you can recreate that magical feeling from the comfort of your own home. Sharpen your pencil, set your timer to 30 minutes and take the 2019 arithmetic paper. Scroll through the questions and use your exercise book to write down your answers and working out. You don’t have to wait weeks to find out how well you did; the answers will be revealed tomorrow.
Year 5/6 Reading
For your learning today, complete this BBC Bitesize lesson.
Year 5/6 Geogrpahy
Your learning today is about trade and economic activity.
There is a link to BBC Bitesize below. Have a go at the quiz tasks 1 and 2.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfcnf4j