27 April 2020 : Home learning
Morning!
Week four of our home learning tasks already! We hope you are still enjoying the activities we are suggesting. Remember, there are lots of other ways to learn too. You could be cooking, exercising, garden, playing board games or talking to family or friends using digital devices.
Try to keep reading for at least twenty minutes per day – to yourself, your mum, dad, teddy or pets. It could be in two, 10 minute sessions. Keep reading anything and everything. 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/ if you are wanting more. We will be linking some of these lessons in activities we set too.
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 a set of times table or division facts to learn too.
Weekly spellings :
Y1 : queen quiz chip watch ship wish that with
Y2 : plant poor pretty prove should steak sugar sure told water
Times tables : times 3 and divide 3
Maths
Watch the lesson by Mrs Latham about money and how to make different amounts : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYf361A69D
How many 1ps do you need to make 10p? How many other ways can you make 10p?
Challenge : How many different ways you can make 20p, 50p or £1?
Reading
Read this postcard from all of the Year 1 and 2 teachers.
Challenge : Write a letter or note or postcard to someone. If you can, email or post it to the person. Or you could display a message in your window? It could be for someone from your family, a friend or maybe the local care home for someone who isn’t getting any visitors.
Topic – Geography
Our topic this half term should have been Geography driven. So, we are going to do some activities about the UK, other places, maps and directions over the next couple of weeks. There are some videos and reading to start off about the UK on BBC Bitesize : https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdq6t39
Can you remember four UK countries and their capital cities? Write them in your home learning book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncqDJW4EhmE
24 April 2020: Home Learning
Hi children,
Well – we have got to the end of another week in lockdown! Your teachers have made a video clip. You can check this out on the Class News page.
We hope that you are all keep well and still finding ways to exercise too. Remember – exercising helps to keep your mind healthy and happy. This is as important as keeping fit physically.
Enjoy your final learning tasks for the week. Look out for our learning heroes posts and the winners of the email competition – if you haven’t emailed yet, then there’s still time!
Stay safe and have a good weekend.
Team 3,4
Maths
Answers Y3 place value – further practice – partitioning
Answers Y4 place value – further practice – 1, 10, 100, 1000 more
Y3 place value – further practice – 1, 10, 100 more
Y4 place value – further practice – 1, 10, 100, 1000 less
Reading
Topic – answers
Counties
24 April 2020: Home Learning
Hi everyone
Well done on almost finishing your first week back at ‘school’. I’ve spoken to loads of people this week and they all said they had enjoyed getting back into the routine of learning from home. If you haven’t already, make sure you check out the following pages from our school website:
Our class news page has some video messages from teachers and the most recent entrants into the Hall of (home learning) Fame #HoHLF.
The latest news section of our website has a daily update from Mr Roundtree that contains loads of useful tips and information.
On Wednesday, we prompted you to check out BBC Bitesize. If you haven’t, make sure you do. They have loads of great resources including some daily lessons across a range of subjects. We think they’re really useful to supplement our home learning tasks.
Here’s your home learning for today…
Y5 maths task
Answers from yesterday:
Pond = approximately 9m²
Starter
Challenge yourself on Times Table Rockstars!
Your learning today is area.
Draw your own ‘Pirate Island’ to be used as part of a treasure map for a new game. Each square represents 4m². Draw lines to turn the page in your book into squares (imagine a maths book)
The island must include the following features and be of the approximate measure:
Circular Island 180m²
Oval Lake 58m²
Forests with a total area of 63m² (can be split over more than one space)
Beaches with a total area of 92m²
Mountains with a total area of 57m²
Rocky coastline with a total area of 25m²
Send some photos to your teacher to show us your amazing islands!
Y6 maths task
Answers for yesterday – provided by Lucy
There are 10 different ways.
The largest route is 2x7x3x6x2 = 504
The smallest route is 0.1×3=0.3
Your learning today is arithmetic.
Are you arithmetic skills still sharp? Answer these in your exercise book.
Y5/6 reading task
Your reading today is a little bit different! As you all know, we’re living through something that will go down in history for our children and children’s children to learn about!
Today’s task is to create a time capsule to record a snapshot of what is happening at the minute, how people are feeling and what we’re all getting up to in these strange times. The idea is that you bury or keep your time capsule somewhere hidden and then dig it up or look through it again in a number of years eg 2030, a decade after this famous year.
First, you must read this ‘How To’ guide.
Finally, click here to see what the time capsule could look like. Feel free to print this one (don’t worry if you can’t), copy some of the things down into your home learning book, or change or adapt it to create your own. It’d be great to complete this with your family so everybody’s feelings and thoughts are captured!
Challenge
Improve your time capsule by adding in other objects such as photos, games or a newspaper! You could even make your own box (although an old shoe box works just fine).
Y5/6 writing task
Watch the videos about top tips for writing short stories. Choose one or two tips to help improve your story about Alice from yesterday. Rewrite a paragraph or even the whole story based on the top tips.
Evaluate your writing – you don’t even need to use a purple pen. What did you change? What impact did it have? How have you made it even more exciting?
24 April 2020 : Home learning
It’s Friday already! Have some fun with the Emoji tasks today. You could do a test on your spellings and times tables today.
Maths
Work out the answers to the Emoji codes.
Challenge : Create your own emoji code.
Reading
Read the story about the Meerkat with Big Ears. Can you spot all the ‘ear’ trigraphs (three letters that make one sound). Write a list of what you find.
Challenge : Write a list of other words that have the ‘ear’ trigraph in them. Put each word into a sentence.
Topic – Art
Draw your favourite Emoji.
Challenge : Make up your own Emoji. Take a picture, if you can, and email them to vickylatham@spherefederation.org and I will put them on the Class News page 😉
23 April 2020 : Home learning
Good morning. Here are the learning tasks for today.
Maths
Challenge : Create your own code that reveals a message.
Reading
Watch the short film about a girl and some bubbles and answer the questions below – https://www.literacyshed.com/bubbles.html#
How was the girl feeling at the start of the film?
What question would you like to ask her?
Why did she leave the bubbles on the beach?
Where would you like the bubbles to take you?
Challenge : Draw and label the land the bubbles take you to.
Topic – Languages
Have a go saying hello in different ways. There are some ideas below.
Challenge : Make own handshake or greeting to say hello.
23 April 2020: Home Learning
Hi children,
Here are your activities for today. Have fun.
There is still time to make sure that your class wins the competition that we announced yesterday. At the moment, Mrs McCormick’s class have the most emails. Thanks to those of you who have already dropped us an email.
Keep in touch,
Team 3,4
Maths
Answers Y3 place value – further practice – 100s, 10s and 1s
Answers Y4 place value – further practice – rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000
Y3 place value – further practice – partitioning
Y4 place value – further practice – 1, 10, 100, 1000 more
Reading
Topic
Writing – Impala recount – answers from yesterday.
23 April 2020: Home Learning
Hey everyone
I hope you’re all well and have managed to settle back into the ‘school’ routine. If you haven’t already, check out my top tips video for thriving over the coming weeks on our class news page. Speaking of class news, have you been checking it much? Your class teacher may have posted some images of other people learning, or even a little message to stay connected.
Here’s your home learning for today…
Year 5 maths task
Answers from yesterday:
Shape 1- 30m²
Shape 2- 75m²
Shape 3- 68cm²
Starter
Create your own 6-digit column addition sums and answer them.
Your learning today is area.
Estimate the area of the pond. Each square= 1m²
Look at the shapes below. Each square= 1m². Which do you think has the greatest area and explain your answer.
Challenge
Design your own golf course where each square represents 3m². Then work out the area of some of your features e.g. a lake, forest area.
Year 6 maths task
Answers from yesterday:
Answers Working backwards (Use the inverse)
Your learning today is to multiply whole numbers and decimals
Before the holidays, we set a Route product task then challenged you to design one of your own. Lucy rose to the challenge and sent us her puzzle. Today’s task is to solve Lucy’s puzzle.
Challenge
Lucy left two of the lines without values. Choose your own numbers to go here and calculate 5 more route products.
Year 5/6 reading task
Your learning today is all about the writer’s choice of language and the specific vocabulary they use.
First, reread the text we’ve been reading this week. Then, answer the questions. But! There’s a twist! Once you’ve worked out the answer to each question, you must then find it in the word search on the page underneath!
Challenge
Choose a synonym that the writer could have used for each question. Even better if you discuss your reasons why with someone at home or prepare your own reasons and write them in your home learning book.
Year 5/6 writing task
Here is the opening to a story.
She pulled down on the chain with her left hand, steering herself towards her target. It was supposed to be the most exciting birthday present ever; a hot air balloon ride. However, Alice had been hanging on for dear life for over 100KM (since the basket of the hot air balloon had fallen off). She was now getting used to steering the huge balloon by manoeuvring her body, leaning to the left or to the right.
Terrified yet excited at the same time, Alice could just about make out her house and garden far below. It was the one surrounded by trees straight ahead, wasn’t it?
She took a deep breath and focused…
Continue the story about Alice and the hot air balloon. Will she reach the ground safely? Is that really her house? Will she land in the right garden?
22 April 2020 : Home learning
Bonjour! We often like to say hello in different ways during the register. Which other ways do you know?
Remember to read today.
Maths
Look at the repeating patterns. Copy and complete them.
Challenge : Make some shape/colour repeating patterns of your own. Look around your house to see if there are any more repeating patterns you can see?
Reading
Look at the funny postcard. Write a list of words that you can see in the postcard. Use your phonics and knowledge of tricky words to spell the words you use.
Challenge : Write sentences describing what is happening in the picture.
Topic – History
Read the information about the Queen.
Answer the questions.
- What is the Queen’s full name?
- How many children does the Queen have?
- Who are two of her grandchildren?
- How long has she been the Queen for?
- What doesn’t the Queen need?
The bear from yesterday belonged to Mrs Latham. She got it in about 1978 when she was a little girl, over 40 years ago! She called it Barnaby and played with it a lot. It was special because it could suck its thumbs and toes.
22 April 2020: Home Learning
Hi children,
Here are your activities for today.
Competition time – which class teacher will receive the most emails this week? We want to hear from every single one of you so please email in to say ‘hi’. Thank you so much to all of you who have done this already. The winning class will be announced on Monday.
Keep staying safe.
Team 3,4
Maths
Answers Y3 place value – further practice – representing numbers up to 1000
Answers Y4 place value – further practice – partitioning.docx
Today’s work:
Y3 place value – further practice – 100s, 10s and 1s
Y4 place value – further practice – rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.docx
Reading
Writing
We are learning about adverbs. Watch the two clips to remind you.
Read the example ‘My narrow escape from the leopard’: Impala and leopard recount.
Identify and highlight any adverbs or adverbial phrases for WHEN, WHERE or HOW. You could also copy them into your book and make your own bank of adverbials.
Challenge: Create some of your own sentences using adverbs and adverbials about the Impala and the leopard. Use the adverbial phrase mat and fronted adverbials to help you.
22 April 2020: Home Learning
Good morning. We hope you are all staying happy and healthy and excited to see what home learning we have put in place for today. Have a look at the Class News page to see a video from Mr Catherall. He is giving some great tips on how to stay well during lockdown. Don’t forget that there are some great resources online that you can access too. The BBC offer some great programmes, videos and lessons that might inspire you. Have a look on the link below to see what’s available.
Here is your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
2.180cm²
Starter
Choose a sum from a times tables. Write down the associated division facts for each one. Repeat for other sums.
3 x 4= 12 12 ÷ 4 = 3
Your learning today is area.
How could you calculate the area of these compound shapes? Can you split the shapes into 2 rectangles? What is the area of each?
Draw some of your own compound shapes and calculate the area.
Challenge
Find out as many ways as you can to find the area of this shape.
Year 6 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
| 1)3 Zids and 4 Zods
2) The 5 possible ways of making 140 are: 28 Zids 21 Zids and 5 Zods 14 Zids and 10 Zods 7 Zids and 15 Zods 20 Zods |
Your learning today is working backwards.
Today, we’re practicing working backwards to solve I’m thinking of a number puzzles.
Working backwards (Use the inverse)
Challenge
Design some of your own similar questions. If you email them to us, we can choose some for everyone to complete next week.
Year 5/6 Reading Task
Answers from yesterday:
Answers for Tuesday’s retrieval questions
Your learning today is inference and interpret.
Skim over the text from Monday and Tuesday to remind yourself about it. All of today’s questions are about this text.
Now, answer the inference questions.
Wednesday – inference questions
For a challenge, imagine you are Mary and you are trapped in the cave. You don’t have any mobile reception but you manage to log on to the cave next door’s WiFi and so you can send an email. Choose someone to email asking for help. This could be her husband, her sister orher best friend.
PS I’m aware that if you were on the WiFi you could also send a message or Facetime etc –but an email made for better learning!
Year 5/6 Writing Task