7 May 2020: Home Learning
Hello children.
Tomorrow is VE day. We have some activities planned for you tomorrow, and all your learning will be linked to the VE day celebrations in some way. You may have some ideas for celebrating this day at home already. Please let us know what you will be doing, or send your teacher a photo of what you did.
Keeping active: What is your super move of the day?
Here is your learning:
Maths Y3 and Y4
As tomorrow’s tasks will be slightly different due to the bank holiday, we’ll have our challenges day today instead. Here’s a link to another four problems from BBC Bitesize.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zd3q2sg
How many of them will you conquer? Answers are on the link too but suggested workings out will be posted tomorrow. Here are some things to remember when approaching each challenge. Given the content, Challenge 4 might be more accessible to Year 4 than Year 3.
Top Tips – Challenge 1:
Read the text carefully to avoid falling into traps. Think about what ‘half’ means and for the second part in particular, think about ‘half’ isn’t.
Top Tips – Challenge 2
Take time to understand the information that has been given. Bar modelling would help with this.
Top Tips – Challenge 3:
This is quite a long problem. Breaking it down into smaller chunks and showing your working will help you to avoid mistakes.
Top Tips – Challenge 4:
You are asked to find two ways but can you find all solutions? Think about how you might approach this systematically (in order). It’s useful to remember that 1000ml = 1l .
Reading
Answers for Wednesday_s reading task
Art
Story – read by Mrs McCormick
06 May 2020 : Home learning
Wednesday already! Here is the learning for today.
Maths
Mrs Latham has made a video all about half past :
https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYfU2UBl0G
Challenge : Draw some clocks showing some half past times.
Reading
Today’s reading is a Phase 3 phonics review by Mrs Latham : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYftlYA7sQ
Topic
Make a map showing a route or journey you know well. It might be your journey to school, if you can remember it! It might be a local walk that you have been doing or it could even be an imaginary journey. Make sure you give your map a title, a key and clear symbols.
6 May 2020: Home Learning
Good morning boys and girls!
There are a lot more video lessons this week – we hope you’re enjoying them.
Don’t forget to keep up with your daily times tables and individual reading. They are REALLY important and keep your brain in good shape.
What are you doing for your daily exercise?
Check out some street dance moves to keep you in shape (18 mins).
Happy learning!
Maths:
Y3 Maths:
Here’s a link to a task on adding two three-digit numbers. This is a really important skill to revisit every now and then because there are some traps that are easy to forget about. Have a go at all three activities in this link.
During the video, they use the terms ‘number column’ and ‘carry’. Throughout school, we refer to these as ‘column addition’ and ‘exchanges’. In the title of activity two, they use the word ‘regrouping’. Again, we opt for saying ‘exchanges’.
If you haven’t got a pack of playing cards for activity three, you could create what you need using some scrap paper.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z72dwty
Y4 Maths
Reading
Answers to Tuesday_s questions
Grammar
Test questions : verb and nouns
Topic Geography ANSWERS compass points
Story – read by Mrs McCormick
On a beam of light The Story of Albert Einstein
06 May 2020: Home Learning
Good morning and happy Wednesday. Your learning for today is below, however don’t forget to enjoy a book when you get chance. This might be one that you’ve got from school, or you might have that favourite book that you haven’t read for ages. Find a quiet spot and enjoy a good read!
Whist you are getting on with your work today, have a think about which of the 8 R’s you are using. Have you had to be resilient? Are you reflecting on what you are learning? Are you taking safe risks?
Here is your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths
Your learning today is multiplication.
Challenges
Year 6 Maths
Welcome to the polygon party.
Watch the short video about identifying polygons and then play the fill in the gaps quiz.
Write five of your own questions about identifying polygons.
The interior angles of an equilateral triangle total 180 degrees.
The interior angles of a square total 360 degrees.
(n-2) x 180
n stands for the number of sides. We can use this equation to calculate the interior angles of any regular polygon.
E.g. triangle = (3 -2) x 180 = 180
Square = (4-2) x180 = 360
Work out the interior angle totals for a pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon and decagon.
Year 5/6 Reading
Today, we’re going to take a break from our ‘Hobbit’ themed reading learning. Instead, I’d like you to complete this BBC Bitesize lesson (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfx6t39). This is the English lesson from 01 May – The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd.
Year 5/6 Art
Today, we are going to use our artistic talents! I am always amazed at optical illusions (where your eyes deceive your brain) and I find them fascinating. I thought we could all have a go at making our own!
Why are we doing this?
During this school year, we have been learning about different skills that can be used in paintings, drawings and sketches to improve our artistic abilities. Skills such as shading and colour choice are vital when improving form. This task is a great way to improve our skills and create an exciting optical illusion!
Look at this lesson from Oak National Academy and have a go at making your own.
I would love to see some of your finished pieces – don’t worry if you go wrong, I’m currently on my 3rd attempt! Please email myself (Mr Freeman), or any of your class teachers with your finished illusions.
05 May 2020: Home Learning
Good morning everyone.
We hope you had a good night’s sleep last night and that you’re ready for your learning today.
Here are some spellings for you to have a go at. We will be looking at words that contain the ‘ough’ letter string. Remember the strategies that we use in class to help you learn the words – you could do some silly sentences, word doodling or speed writing!
thorough
although
sought
brought
ought
plough
though
thought
Here is your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths
Your learning today is multiplication
Year 6 Maths
Your learning today is quadrilaterals.
Challenge: find different quadrilaterals in your home. Take a picture and label them.
Year 5/6 Reading
Watch this video ( Hobbit Inference Lesson).
Again, using this word document (The Hobbit Opening extract ) might make reading the text easier for some of you.
Year 5/6 Topic – Geography
BBC bitesize lesson
Watch all 3 videos, have a go at the video tasks. For activity two, name the seven continents of the world.
This is a year 6 task, but it is designed for both year 5 and 6 to do, as our topic lessons are spread across two years. (Basically year 5 and 6 do it, not just year 6)
5 May 2020: Home Learning
Hi children,
Here are your lessons for today. Thanks to those of you who have emailed already. Remember – it is really important to stay in touch at this strange time. We really like to know that you are well and we are super impressed with all the learning you are doing at home. Enjoy today’s learning.
This Friday 8th May is VE Day. For those of you who would like to do some VE Day activities, or if you would like to share them with your families, you may be interested in the following: Child Friendly Leeds blog post all about VE Day. They have suggested activities, links to other websites and are even running a competition!
Team 3,4
Maths
Y4
Answers Unit and non-unit fractions
Y3
Video lesson (answers from yesterday included)
Reading
Topic
Geography Eight compass points
Story – read by Mrs McCormick
05 May 2020 : Home learning
Morning. Here are the tasks for today.
Maths
Draw some 2D shapes/draw round objects – cut/fold/draw a line showing half (the line is called a line of symmetry).
Reading – Words of week
These words are from the Owl and Pussycat poem from yesterday. Re-read the poem.
Read the three words.
Additional challenges : 1. Put each word into a sentence. 2. Find out what some of the other words in the poem mean (eg tarried, quince). 3. Re-write the poem in your very best handwriting.
Topic – Geography
Draw a map of your bedroom. Make a key to go with it to explain what you have drawn. Try to draw it from a ‘bird’s eye view’, as if you are looking down from above.
Challenge : Draw a map of another room in your house or of your garden.
04 May 2020 : Home learning
Morning!
Week five of our home learning tasks already! We hope you are 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 extra 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 – song bring train paint seen free coat soap
Y2 – who whole when where what why wild would could should
Times tables : If you ready, start learning 4x (double and double again, link to 2x tables) OR times 2, 3, 5 or 10 and divide 2, 3, 5 or 10
Maths
We are going to look at fractions this week. Watch Miss Lowry talk about halves. There are activities to do too, if you can.
https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYfODaAEbB
Reading
Poem – Owl and Pussycat
We have chosen a poem to focus on for a couple of days this week. Each teacher reads it here. Join in and read along with us.
Miss Parling : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYhVluBUyo
Miss Lowry : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYfUiEBQS2
Mrs Latham : https://screencast-o-matic.com/content/#/video/cYfulkBViK
Mrs Lake : https://vimeo.com/413721507
Topic – Geography
Have a go at drawing or making the individual flags of the UK.
Challenge : Draw a Union Flag or make some bunting. Save your flags to display on VE Day on Friday.
4 May 2020: Home Learning
Hi children,
How are you all? We hope that you have had a lovely weekend.
Here are you learning tasks for today. Enjoy!
Take a look on our Class News page we have posted some video messages for you to start the week! Stay safe!
Team 3/4.
Y3 01.05.20 answers maths
Maths Y3
Maths y4
Science
Reading
Weekly Spellings
Story (15 mins)
The Magic Finger part 1 by Mrs McCormick
04 May 2020: Home Learning
Good morning.
We hope you’ve had a good weekend and that you’re ready for a new week of home learning. There will be a lot more video lessons this week so we hope you have been enjoying them.
Make sure you all look at the year 5/6 class news page. We update it regularly with messages, news and photographs of your work. Have a look at Mr Catherall’s quiz from last Friday – it’s great fun!
Here is your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths
Your learning today is multiplication
Year 6 Maths
May the fourth be with you.
Time to dust off your CGP books and complete a few of those stray activities.
Today, I have two tasks: Angle rules on page 68/69 and mixed practice on page 8/9
Don’t forget to use the guidance book for support. If you can’t find your book, then email your Mr Lindsay and he will send you a copy of the work.
Year 5/6 Reading
Watch this video – Hobbit Retrieval lesson
Also, using this word document The Hobbit Opening extract might make reading the text easier for some of you.
Year 5/6 Living and learning
‘I can describe and use ways to calm down.’
Living and learning
Task: Create a spider diagram of methods you use to calm down.