Homework

Reading at home

We have had a few emails asking what to do when children have finished reading their school reading books.

Any books you read at home will be fine; story books, comics, magazines, dictionaries, atlases, chapter books, recipes or lists. The children don’t need to be able to read every single word independently. You can read to them, take turns, look for words they can read and talk about the book.

There are also lots of e books on Twinkl for free, ranging from traditional tales to information texts – https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/literacy/reading/reading-ebooks

Just keep reading!

30 March 2020: Home learning

Hello year 5/6. We hope you’ve had a relaxing weekend and you’re recharged and ready for another great week of home learning.

Firstly, thanks to all the children who responded to the teacher’s plea of getting in touch on Friday. It was great to hear from you. Don’t forget to keep sending us your fantastic learning/ activities so we can post them on the class news page. It would also be great to see what else you’ve been doing at home. It might inspire other families to do the same.

Here’s today’s learning…

Year 5 maths task

Answers from Friday:

I’m thinking of a number. The number was 4596.

1. 9,485 + 352 – 5241= 4596
2. 8,947 + 8,521 = 17,468

Challenge

Bottom row- 3,804, 5,005

2nd  row- 8118

3rd row- 15,094, 13,391

4th row- 28,485, 27,422

Starter

Write down all the multiples of 5 between 30 and 60.

For example: a multiple of 3 is 6, 9 and 12 etc.

Your learning today is multiples.

1.Write down the first ten multiples of 7.

2.What is the third multiple of 7?

3.What is the eighth multiple of 7?

4.Write down the first ten multiples of 6.

Fill in the blanks.

5.The third multiple of 6 is also a multiple of___________.

6.The tenth multiple of 3 is also a multiple of __________.

7.The multiple of a number is 24. What could the number be?

Challenge

Eva’s age is a multiple of 7 and is 3 less than a multiple of 8.

She is younger than 40.

How old is Eva?

Year 6 maths task

Write the answers to the questions below in your exercise book.

Y6 Four Operations A

Challenge: Write your own word problem, which is similar to question 9.

Writing task

This week’s learning is expanded noun phrases.

An expanded noun phrase is where an adjective is added to a noun to provide more information/description: ‘the table’ could be made into ‘the wooden table’.

Your task today is to convert the following nouns into expanded noun phrases.

boat     garden     Caliph     lightening    music    

Tip: Remember, a Caliph is an ancient Islamic ruler!

Challenge: Can you create three of your own sentences with expanded noun phrases in them?

Reading task

Your learning today is a comprehension task.

You should read the FirstNews task (it will open as a separate page in your browser when you click the link). Once you’ve read it, answer the questions on page 2 – these questions will help you practice a range of reading skills.

FirstNews comprehension

Challenge 1: create your own questions for someone else to answer.

Challenge 2: ask someone in your house to help – they’ll need to be able to read so maybe not your pet dog or your favourite teddy bear. One of you is going to play the role of a ‘journalist’. The other person will play the role of an ‘expert’. The journalist should ask the expert questions that they can answer using the text. The expert uses the text to answer them. You could swap roles, too. Why not go BIG and put on a different voice, dress up or use a hairbrush as a microphone. You could even film it and send it in to us!

30 March 2020 : Home learning

Good morning everyone! It is Monday again, so here are some new spellings and times tables to use throughout the week. Remember to keep reading every day too.

Y1 spellings

• she
• so
• some
• there
• their
• they
• to
• today

Y2 spellings

• every
• everybody
• eye
• fast
• father
• find
• floor
• gold
• grass
• great

Times tables for this week is the times 5 facts and divide 5 facts (for Y2s) and counting forwards and backwards in 5s (for Y1s).

Maths

Sing along with the counting in 3s song – https://youtu.be/V96IZWctZYA

Copy and compete the number patterns.

0, 2, 4, 6, …., 10, …., 14, …., ….

0, 5, …., 15, …., …., 30, …., ….

0, 10, 20, 30, …., …., …., 70, ….

0, 3, 6, 9, …., 15, …., …., 24

Challenge :

16, 14, 12, …., …., 6, …., 2, 0

50, 45, 40, …., 30, …., 20, ….

100, 90, 80, …., …., …., …., ….

24, 21, …., 15, …., 9, …., 3, 0

Challenge : Make your own ‘Guess my number’.

Reading

Read the ‘Hide and Seek’ text and answer the questions in your home learning book.

You can also use the text as ‘reading fluency’. We do this every day at school, reading the same text each day. The aim is to develop fluency and expression when reading. Each day we would focus on a different aspect of the text eg vocabulary (what do the words mean), punctuation (taking note of commas, full stops) and tricky spellings. By the end of year 2, children are expected to be reading approximately 90 words per minute.

Topic : Geography

Watch and sing along with the continents song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6DSMZ8b3LE

Write a list of all the continents. Remember that proper nouns begin with a capital letter (names of continents).

If you have a globe or atlas, you could try to find them on there too.

30 March 2020: Home Learning

Hi children and welcome to Week 2 of Home Learning.

We hope that you have had a lovely weekend and have managed to do some
interesting activities!

Check out these ways to Keep Fit At Home. There is something for everyone with a Gold, Silver and Bronze challenge bingo board to complete!

We have given you a list of spellings to practise this week – you could ask an
adult to test you on Friday. In addition to your daily tasks, please keep up the daily reading and times table practise too.If you haven’t already looked at the class news section of the website, then please do. You may see a few familiar faces and enjoy listening to our messages.
Please keep in touch – we really do enjoy hearing from you.
Happy learning! Happy Monday!
Team 3,4

Spelling.

accident(ally)

actual(ly)

address

answer

appear

arrive

believe

bicycle

breath

breathe

How many ways can you practise these spellings?

Examples:

• rainbow words – each letter is written in a different colour
• split each word into syllables en/joy/ment
• box words – draw a box around each letter in the word
• pyramid words
• look, cover, spell, check

Maths

Y3 – multiplication and division assessment

Y4 – multiplication and division assessment

Reading

How Thunor Got His Hammer

Writing

Watch the film clip of ‘The Present’.

What is the story here? Rewrite it.

Think about:

1. How does the puppy help the boy?
2. How is the boy different at the start and at the end of the clip?
3. How are they good for each other?
4. What do you think happened to the boy?

Happy learning!

27 March 2020 : Home learning

Happy Friday!

Read for 20 minutes and work on your times tables.

Maths

Warm up by counting in 2s – singing along with the song https://youtu.be/JyCr0IgbYcI

Reading/writing

Choose one of your favourite toys. Tell someone about it, using some adjectives to describe what it looks like, what it can do and what it is made of.

Challenge : write some sentences about it – remember your ‘Must Dos’

Topic : Geography

Sing the song about the UK –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncqDJW4EhmE

Write a list of all the countries and capital cities in the UK. Remember that proper nouns begin with a capital letter (names of countries and capital cities are all proper nouns).

If you have a globe or atlas, you could find them on there too.

27 March 2020: Home learning

Hello again everyone

It has been great receiving pictures and updates from people about their learning. Yesterday, we inducted the first entrants into our ‘Hall of (home learning) Fame on the class news section of our website #HoHLF. Please get in touch if you have any questions about anything – it’d be nice to do some teaching!

As today is Friday, the end of the school week, we’d like you to contact your class teacher today. We don’t really mind what you say. It could be as simple as ‘hello’ or you could let us know how your week has been. We just want to hear from everyone. Us teachers have got a competition going on. The class that sends the most emails, wins – simple! (C’mon 56OB!) Remember, our email addresses are…

56M – marklindsay@spherefederation.org

56S – sarahhogarth@spherefederation.org

56OB – olliecatherall@spherefederation.org   &  benfreeman@spherefederation.org   (send it to both of us, please)

At the end of this post in another super important bonus task. Check it out and have a go.

Here’s today’s learning…

Year 5 Maths Task

Answers from yesterday:

Missing number calculation

44937 + 23592 = 78529

 4,648 – 2,347 = 2,301

45,536 – 8,426 = 37,110

29,456 – 8,896 = 20,560

37,506 – 22,819 = 14687

 83065 – 45927= 37,1338

Starter: think of 6 numbers. Each number needs to have either 5 or 6 digits. Divide each number by 10, 100 and 1000. Then put them in descending order.

Your learning today is subtraction using column subtraction.

1. I’m thinking of a number.

After I add 5,241 and subtract 352, my number is 9,485.

What was my original number?

2. When calculating 17,468 – 8,947, which answer gives the corresponding addition question?

8,947 + 8,631 = 17,468

8,947 + 8, 521 = 17,468

8,251 + 8,947 = 17,468

Explain how you know.

3. Create some of your own addition calculations with corresponding subtraction sums.

Challenge: complete this pyramid using your addition and subtraction skills. Then, for an extra challenge, create your own pyramid with some missing numbers – perhaps someone in your house could try to complete it.

Year 6 maths task

Answers from yesterday:

1. A) -85, -53, -35, 16, 32
2. B) -297, -100, -5, 321, 685
3. C) -52, -9, 67, 116, 701.

There will be 41 floors, as you need a ground floor (0).

Starter: improve your multiplication skills on Times Tables Rockstars for at least 15 minutes.

Your learning today is adding and subtracting whole numbers.

Calculate:

1. A) 34621 + 25734 B) 4761325 – 938052
2. C) A four bedroom house costs £450,000. A three bedroom house costs £201,000 less.

How much does the three bedroom house cost? What method did you use?

1. D) Find the missing digits. 52247? + 3?5904 = 90?3?2

Challenge: explain how to find the missing digits for a subtraction and addition problem of your own.

Writing task (Y5,6)

Your learning today is to write and punctuate speech correctly. Your task is to write a dilemma for your character. This should be no longer than half a page. Following from your setting description yesterday, your character needs to run into some sort of problem. This problem must include dialogue between two characters.

Remember to:

• Punctuate speech correctly, using inverted commas and capital letters appropriately.
• Use the said clause in different places for speech.
• When there is a new speaker, start a new line.

Here is an example of a dilemma with dialogue.

The ship entered a dark and gloomy cave – the sea was calm and quiet. Suddenly, a huge figure rose out from beneath the black water. “Prepare yourselves!” shouted Bjorn as he unsheathed his sword.

“I am Odin,” bellowed the shadowy figure, “God of wisdom, god of magic, god of death.”

“Remove us from this cave and let us pass,” said Ragnar. He knew that Odin was a powerful god, and would not take kindly to threats, so he threw his sword onto the deck.

Odin grinned, “To leave this cave, the price of death must be paid. Sacrifice one of your men to me, and I will guide you to the fame and fortune you desperately crave.”

“Do it,” hissed Floki, “Give him your son, Bjorn. You have many sons and you will have many more!”

“You think the death of my son is worth the gold and glory?” questioned Ragnar as he held his arm out to Floki.

“Yes,” spat Floki, clutching Ragnar’s arm. “Give him to Odin.”

Ragnar turned to look at Bjorn, then back at Floki. His eyes were full of rage. He grabbed Floki by his chest, and threw him overboard. “There is your sacrifice,” he growled.

Challenge: correct the mistakes in the speech below. How many points will you get? There are 11 to spot!

“what are you doing Thor” cried Loki

A laughing Thor replied “what does it look like?

“Well, dancing, yes! said Loki, also laughing now but only you’re in your underwear!

Reading task (Y5,6)

Your learning today is retrieval.

Read the extracts from the text.

Then, answer these questions…

• When Gunnar opened the chest, list two things that he saw.
• Where was Gunnar’s father a soldier?
• According to the text, why was the scabbard lined with sheep’s fleece?
• Here is an extract from the text. What is the missing word?

‘The blade had a _________ groove running from hilt to tip’

• Write down three things you are told about the sword.

Challenge: create your own retrieval questions for someone in your house to solve.

Bonus task: At some point today, take 5 minutes out and write down a little ‘three things’ list. 

Three things I’m grateful for:

Three things I love doing:

Three things I like about myself:

Three things I’m proud of:

Three things I’e enjoyed this week:

You could even add some of your own sentences. Do it – you’ll feel good! I’ve just done mine and it really did make me feel emotionally happier and healthier.

Enjoy your tasks – I’m going to go and do my daily exercise!

26 March 2020: Home learning

Hello again everyone

We all hope you’re getting on well and every one of us would like to give you all a virtual high five!

It was amazing to receive some pictures yesterday – we saw people learning and it was awesome to know that everyone looked happy and healthy. Check out the class news section of our website for the first entrants in our ‘Hall of (home learning) fame!’ – I’ll be uploading this soon!

Did you manage to complete the bonus task? Again, we’d love to hear from you if you did. If you did, how did it make you feel? I’ve been keeping in contact with all my friends and family as often as possible and each time I do it I feel happier and healthier. If you didn’t get chance, do it today!

Enjoy your tasks…

Year 5 Maths Task

Starter: Times Tables Rockstars- improve your multiplication skills.

Your learning today is subtraction using column subtraction.

Using the column method for subtraction, solve the following calculations. Check out the subtraction video on our website for a reminder if you need it.

4,648 –  2,347 =

45,536 – 8,426 =

29,456 – 8,896 =

37,506 – 22,819 =

There are 83, 065 fans at a football match.

45,927 fans are male. How many fans are female?

Create a word problem for a subtraction calculation.

Challenge: Eva makes a 5-digit number.

Jo makes a 4-digit number.

The difference between their numbers is 3,465.

What could their number be?

Year 6 maths task 

Answers from yesterday:

What is 6 less than 4? -2

What is 5 more than -2? 3

What is the difference between 3 and -5? 8

Starter: With an adult, count forwards and backwards in from these numbers in 5s, 10s, 50 and 25s. The starting numbers are 750, 2025, 1150, 9925.

Your learning today is negative numbers.

Place these numbers on a blank number line. You should also include the number zero.

1. A) -53, -85, 16, 32, -35
2. B) 685, 321, -5, -297, -100
3. C) 67, -52, -9, 116, 701

Challenge: A company decide to build an office block. Jim says, “If we build from -20 to 20, we will have 40 floors.”

Do you agree? Explain why.

Writing task (Y5,6)

Your learning today is to write descriptively. Following yesterday’s character description, your task today is to write a setting description. This should be no longer than one paragraph.

For your setting description, you need to think about:

• Where is your character? What can they see?
• Are they going somewhere?
• Describe the setting using effective vocabulary e.g. fierce thunder, roaring wind, golden sand.

Here is an example of a setting description.

The seas were rough for the first few days. Gigantic waves swept over the ships walls, but the Vikings continued to row. Lightning bolts pierced holes on deck, but the Vikings continued to row. Days and nights of torturous storms passed, but the Vikings continued to row. With a compass in one hand, and wheel in the other, Ragnar stood fiercely and laughed in the face of the unforgiving conditions. He saw it as a sign from the Gods, that his journey would bring him fame and fortune. His confident mindset, however, didn’t last long.

Challenge: Can you add some expanded noun phrases to describe the setting?

Tip: An expanded noun phrase is used to describe something. If you wish to describe the sea, you may say ‘the blue sea’. If you are describing a cave, you may say ‘the gloomy cave’.

Reading task

Answers from yesterday…

Retrieval question: A shield

Inference question:

1. Father says he chose his shield brothers carefully.
2. Father says he would never have fought alongside any man who lied as you have.

Choice question: and felt a wave of hatred for Skuli sweep through him

Your learning today is inference.

Below are three key moments from the story so far. For each moment, you should write a paragraph to explain how Gunnar feels. Make sure you back up (justify) why you think what you think.

Moment 1 = Gunnar’s Dad dies.

Moment 2 = Gunnar sets off on his journey to Valhalla.

Moment 3 = Gunnar is taken as a slave.

Challenge: Predict what you think happen at the end of the book. Explain your prediction. Then, write a possible ending.

Try your best and don’t hesitate to email us if you’re not sure!

26 March 2020 : Home learning

Thursday already!

Remember to read for 20 minutes today and work on spellings/times tables.

Maths

Warm up by counting in 5s – singing along to the song https://youtu.be/cJ4jV14Oz5I

Reading

Go on a phoneme (sound) hunt around your house looking for green sounds in words.

Write a list of the words you find.

eg toy, tray, slide, plate

Challenge : put the words you find into sentences.

Topic : Living and learning

We have been talking about body image in our Living and Learning lessons. We have talked about knowing how our body feels when we are relaxed and calm. We can use different techniques to calm ourselves. There are some ideas in the table below. Try some out and teach one to someone else in your house.

25 March 2020: Home learning

Hey guys,

We hope you’re all OK. Here’s the learning tasks for today. It’s been great to hear from people that they are doing them and enjoying them. It’s also been great to hear some of the other things you’ve been up to. Please get in touch with us via email if you have any questions – it’s been nice to help people when they’ve needed it. And, it’s sometimes just nice to hear that you are getting on well with the tasks. If you want to send us a picture of your learning you absolutely can – we might even start a ‘Hall of (Home Learning) Fame’ on our class news page. A reminder, our email addresses are:

olliecatherall@spherefederation.org

marklindsay@spherefederation.org

sarahhogarth@spherefederation.org

At the end of this post there is a very important bonus task for today!

Year 5 Maths Task

Starter: write down 6 6-digit numbers. Round each number to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.

For example:

357214            Rounded to the nearest 10= 357210

Rounded to the nearest 100= 357200

Rounded to the nearest 1000= 357000

Your learning today is addition using column addition.

Yesterday, you completed some column addition calculations. Can you create 4 word problems that would involve using this method? Can you solve your own word problems?

Challenge: write any addition of three 4-digit numbers where the answer is between 28,550 and 28,650.

Can you find solutions:

• that use all digits 0 to 9 at least once;
• where no digit 0 to 9 is used more than twice;
• that use the same number three times…?

Year 6 maths task

Answers from yesterday:

March is the month in which the number of cans sold is the same whether it is rounded to the nearest 10,000 or 100,000.

Starter: spend at least 15 minutes honing your rock skills on Times Tables Rockstars.

 Your learning today is negative numbers.

Draw a number line from  -20 to 20.

Using the number line answer these questions.

What is 6 less than 4?

What is 5 more than -2?

What is the difference between 3 and -5?

Challenge: write your own set of similar questions with answers.

Writing task (Y5 & 6)

Here are the answers to yesterday’s learning.

Task one: Punctuate the following sentences correctly.

“I can’t wait for Friday,” exclaimed Brian. “The trampoline park will be amazing!”

Pupils could have also used an exclamation mark. Pupils could have used a full stop.

“Grace held her hands over her eyes, “I can’t watch! It’s so intense!”

Pupils could have also used a full stop, a comma or a dash.

Task two: Re-write the following sentence with the said clause in a different place. Check for correct punctuation.

“The water is way too cold! I can’t swim in that!” said Lucy.

Lucy shouted, “The water is way too cold! I can’t swim in that!”

“The water is way too cold!” exclaimed Lucy. “I can’t swim in that!”

Challenge: The three sentences should be punctuated correctly. Check specifically for inverted commas around what is being said. The said clause should have been placed at the beginning, middle and end (one for each sentence).

Your learning today is to write descriptively.

Your task is to write a character description of your choice. This should be about one paragraph in length. By the end of the week, you will have created a story involving a character, a setting and a dilemma.

For your character description, you need to think about:

• Character appearance
• What do they sound like?
• What features do they have that stand out?

Here is an example of a character description…

Ragnar ‘shaggy breeches’ Lothbrok. A leader of men, a Viking legend in his own right, and a father to many sons. Ragnar was a distinctive man, who could not be mistaken for any other. His eyes were blue seas, clouded by a thunderous frown. An uncut, ragged ponytail hung from his head, with markings of snakes and war printed across his skull. Echoes of his fearsome roar could be heard across oceans, leaving enemies fleeing for their lives. A silver shafted sword hung from a sheath buckled on his right side. 

Challenge: Draw your character and label them with the key features you’ve described above. How about you and someone else in your family both do this without showing each other? Then, compare them – if they’re similar in some ways then you’ve likely written an effective character description. If they’re not, maybe one of you hasn’t practised their art skills that much, yet.

Reading task

Your learning today is a RIC.

Read the extract of the text and then answer the below questions. We will give you the correct answers tomorrow.

Retrieval question: according to the text, what was Skuli not holding?

Interpret question: look at extract 2. How do you know Gunnar’s father’s and Skuli’s relationship is not a positive one.

Explain two ways, giving evidence from the text to support your answer.  

Choice question: look at extract 1.

Find and copy one group of words that shows us that Gunnar does not like Skuli.

Challenge: create your own RIC for someone at home to complete – you could have as many questions as you like.

Bonus task: today, I’d like you to do something really important. Reach out to a friend from school. Use whatever technology you can to speak to someone from school; even better if this is someone you haven’t spoken to yet. We’re all going to feel a little lonely over the coming weeks and staying in touch will make you feel better – promise! Give it a go.

Don’t forget, there’s plenty of other things you can be doing at home, too. This web post from Mr Roundtree (School’s closed: how to support your child’s home learning – 23 March 2020) has loads of great information and ideas for things to do at home.

25 March 2020 : Home learning

Good morning.

Remember to read for 20 minutes today and have another go at your spellings and (Y2s) times tables. Don’t forget you can email us if you have any questions about the learning or want to send any photos in of what you’re up to.

vickylatham@spherefederation.org

katieparling@spherefederation.org

kaylowry@spherefederation.org

natalielake@spherefederation.org

Maths

Count in 10s singing along with the song – https://youtu.be/BokH3_zaLiA

The challenge is at the bottom of the slide : choose any number between 0-9 and add 10 as many times as you can.

Reading

Go on a phoneme (sound) hunt around your house looking for orange sounds in words.

Write a list of the words you find.

eg chips, coin, dish, spoon

Challenge : put the words you have found into sentences.

Play some phonics games on Phonics Play.

Topic : Drama/movement (performing poetry)

Read the poem a few times during the day. See if you can recite it from memory. Add some actions to match the words.

Challenge : find the rhyming words in the poem and write some more words that rhyme.