Homework

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 

_The tunnel_ answers

Gary_s Big Adventure

Topic

1. Geography Cities

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.

Route Product by Lucy

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!

Thursday Writer’s Choice Qs

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.

1. What is the Queen’s full name?
2. How many children does the Queen have?
3. Who are two of her grandchildren?
4. How long has she been the Queen for?
5. 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

The tunnel

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.

BBC Bitesize

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:

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

21 April 2020 : Home learning

Remember to read today and work on your spellings/times tables. The BBC Bitesize Daily lessons and resources are also excellent. You can watch them on your tv, tablet or laptop. A full menu of how to access can be found here. We use White Rose to aid our maths planning at school and they have lots of resources too https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/.

Maths

Look at the 3D shape mat.

List the shapes and write the properties of each one.

Pyramid – 5 faces, 5 vertices (corners)

Sphere – 1 face, 0 vertices

Challenge : find some objects around your house that are the 3D shapes

eg a book is a cuboid, a toilet roll is a cylinder, the roof of the house is a pyramid

Reading

Sing the alphabet song : https://youtu.be/jPVbJ-IaHIw

Go on a scavenger hunt around your house or garden. Try to find something beginning with each letter of the alphabet.

Challenge : write out the alphabet and the item you found beginning with that letter.

Topic – History

Have a look at the photos of the old toy. It belongs to one of the teachers.

Write 3 (or more) questions that you would like to find out about the bear. Eg When did you get it? How old is it? What did you call it?

21 April 2020: Home Learning

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:

1. 58cm
2. 34cm
3. 70cm

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.

1. How many rectangles can you draw with an area of 24cm²?
2. Mo buys a house with a small back garden, which has an area of 12m². His house lies in a row of terraces, all identical. If there are 15 terraced houses altogether, what is the total area of the garden space?

Challenge

Year 6 Maths Task

Answers from yesterday:

Answers Four operations B

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).

The Cave Text

Next, you should answer the retrieval questions.

Tuesday – 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.

21 April 2020: Home Learning

Hi children,

Here’s a SUPERMOVERS clip to get you going today!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-maths-the-8-times-table-with-filbert-fox/z4mrhbk

Here are your activities for today – have fun!

Keep up that reading and times tables learning.

Keep in touch – if you haven’t emailed us yet, please do!

Stay safe.

Team 3,4

Maths

Answers from yesterday:

Answers Y3 place value – further practice – counting in 100s and 50s Answers Y4 place value – further practice – representing numbers up to 10,000.docx

Today:

Y3 place value – further practice – representing numbers up to 1000

Y4 place value – further practice – partitioning.docx

Reading

Can you still remember the poem that you learnt yesterday?

Which poem did you choose?

Reading Tuesday

Writing  

Answers from yesterday:

Day 1 adverbials  (answers)

Day-1 CHALLENGE(answers) 

Write a recount: ‘Narrow Escapes’. Our writing focus this week is to use adverbs and adverbials in our writing of a recount.

Take notes from a video:

• Watch the video clip about the Impala and the Leopard.  Don’t be worried: it has a happy ending!
• Read Impala Notes. Fill in the answers. Write as much description as you can. Watch the video again to help you.
• Extra challenge: Write some sentences about the video using adverbial phrase mat

20 April 2020: Home Learning

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.

2. How many composite shapes can you draw with a perimeter of 34cm?

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.

Four operations B

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.

The Cave Text

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)

20 April 2020 : Home learning

Morning!
Well, the Easter holidays are over. It may not have felt much different to the previous two weeks, but we hope you had some egg-cellent fun and enjoyed the sunshine. Here are your tasks for today. Each day we will set three main tasks.

We would also like you to read 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.

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 : was we were where you your

Y2 : half hold hour improve kind last many mind money most

Times tables : times 10 and divide 10

You can contact your child’s teacher if you are not sure about any of the learning or want to send us photos or messages about what you’re doing.

1K – Miss Parling – katieparling@spherefederation.org

1,2V – Mrs Latham – vickylatham@spherefederation.org

2KN – Miss Lowry/Mrs Lake – kaylowry@spherefederation.org natalielake@spherefederation.org

Maths

Warm up by singing the shapes song – https://youtu.be/WTeqUejf3D0

Go on a shape hunt. Look around your house see which 2D (flat) shapes you can see.

Draw the shapes from the song or shapes that you see.

Challenge : Write what you know about each shape.

Eg A square has 4 sides. It has 4 corners. The sides are straight and all the same length.

Reading

Read the instructions about how to make a fruit salad. Answer the questions in your home learning book.

Challenge : If you can, make your own fruit salad.

Topic – Science (observing nature)

Find three animals outside. Find out their name, write down where you saw them and draw or take a picture of them.

Do not pick them up!

Challenge : Find out/make up and write a fun fact about each one.

eg Blue Tit

I saw it in the tree in my back garden, singing.

Fun Fact : As they get older, their colouring gets brighter.