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
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
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
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.
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.
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?
Writing
Answers from yesterday:
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
Hi children,
How are you all? We hope that you had a fabulous Easter break. Did you eat any chocolate eggs or have an egg hunt? We have all been eating plenty of chocolate over the holidays! We have also been enjoying the sunshine from our homes and gardens.
We’d love to hear from you and find out what you have been doing to keep busy. Remember to keep in touch through email. Send us any pictures that you might want featured in our weekly posts.
Enjoy your learning activities for today – remember to read every day for at least twenty minutes and learn your times tables too.
Take care and stay safe!
Team 3,4
Maths
Y3 Place value – further practice – counting in 100s and 50s
Y4 place value – further practice – representing numbers up to 10,000
Reading
Writing
Today we are going to recap on adverbs and adverbials. Work through the Powerpoint – Adverbials 1.
Then, complete the task: Day 1 adverbials OR for a more challenging task: Day-1-adverbials CHALLENGE.
Copy the sentences out into your book and take care with your handwriting and presentation.
The answers will be available tomorrow.
A revision prompt is available for printing or if you do not have Powerpoint on your computers Revision adverbs.
Easter home learning
As it’s the Easter holidays, we’re taking a break from the daily home learning tasks. Instead, here are a range of activities that you might like to try over the two weeks. The tasks are creative and are designed to allow children the opportunity to enjoy some different learning, perhaps alongside family members. A few key points…
- The list will be the same across year groups, meaning if you’ve more than one child, they might work on it together in some way.
- Some of the tasks can take a bit longer, like a mini-project, and others match Creative homework tasks.
- You can encourage your child to do some or all of the activities – they’re all optional.
- During this time, you can still email your child’s class teacher about the home learning, although they may not respond as quickly as they have been doing.
- Teachers will return to daily home learning tasks on Monday 20 April.
Art Attack
Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist who creates art using things he can find in nature. The artwork shown here was created using different leaf types and creating a pattern. He creates his art outside as he likes the fact that it’s temporary and won’t be around for long!
Create your own piece of art using different materials you can find around your home or in the garden. You could even create some ‘rubbish art’ using only items that have been used and would be thrown away or recycled.
Take some photographs and send them to your teachers.
Hunted
Create your own treasure hunt with cryptic clues for your family members to complete. Make the clues as tricky as you can. What could be the prize for the winning hunter? Maybe, this could tie in with a family Easter egg hunt.
Secret Message
Create your own invisible ink.
Using a spoon, mix water and lemon juice. Dip a cotton bud into the mixture and write a message onto the white paper. Wait for the juice to dry so your message becomes completely invisible. When you are ready to read your secret message or show it to someone else, heat the paper by holding it close to a light bulb – be careful: maybe ask an adult to do this part. As the mixture heats up, your message should reappear so people can read it again.
Alternatively, the same result can be achieved by writing the message on white paper with a white candle or crayon. Then, paint over the message using coloured paint to reveal the writing.
For a challenge, come up with your own way of making invisible ink and try it out on your family.
‘Board’ Silly
Design and create your own board game for you and your family to play – perhaps play some existing board games first to research ideas.
There are a few key things to think about:
- What will your theme be?
- Will there be any ‘snakes’ or ‘ladders’ style elements?
- Do you need to make a dice using a cube net?
- Will there be any extra challenges or forfeits if you land on certain numbers?
Enjoy your games!
Extreme Reading
Reading is a great way to relax and learn about the world around us; also, reading regularly can help us to stay happy and healthy. This challenge is all about making reading even more fun. We’d love to know how many places you can read in. Try to read in a different place each day. Take photos or draw a picture of you doing it, if you can.
You could read…
- in a den that you’ve made
- up a tree
- under the bed/table
- to the dog/cat
- looking in a mirror
Stay safe and send your class teacher some pictures.
Come Dine/Bake with Me
Have your very own family ‘Come Dine With Me’ experience. Each family member could cook a meal or a course and then you must score each other out of ten. Similarly, each family member could bake something and you could all have a tasting after where you give points (like on Great British Bake Off). You don’t have to work on your own – you could help an adult.
Who will win?
Den Building
Who doesn’t love making a den? Either in your house, or in your garden, spend time building a den and enjoy some time relaxing in it – if there’s more than one of you, you could make it a competition. Use whatever materials you can find and see how creative you can get.
You could also read in it and combine this challenge with the ‘Extreme Reading’ one.
Get Ya Body Movin’
Staying physically active plays a crucial role in keeping us happy and healthy; it boosts our mental and emotional health, too. This task has three options – all of which are designed to get people moving during the holidays. You could include your family as well.
Option A: Create your own ‘Ninja Warrior’ style challenges in the garden or your house. Try to include a range of activities that include jumping, balancing, stretching, climbing and, if you’re feeling brave, water. The adults in your family will love a water challenge.
Option B: Create your own Joe Wicks style workout video. You could do it with your family or film yourself and send it to your friends. You might like to check out Joe Wicks’ YouTube channel for inspiration.
Option C: Choose your favourite song and create your own ‘Wake Up Shake Up’ (WUSU) dance routine. Again, you could lead this for your family to join in or film yourself and send it to friends or other family members. This’ll be a great way to get everyone dancing.
3 April 2020: Home learning
Hi Children – the last day of your home learning before Easter Holidays! Yay!
Well done to all of you (parents included) for working hard at home over the last two weeks. We REALLY appreciate all of your messages, emails and photos.
Here is your learning for today:
Reading – Love of Reading.
In school, we normally have one session a week where we all relax and enjoy a good book. Read your own reading book for at least 20 minutes – and enjoy!
Here is an additional task:
Maths
Y3 – multiplying 3 numbers.docx
Y3 – x and division (2) ANSWERS from yesterday
Y4 – bus stop division ANSWERS (UPDATED!)
Answers for today’s maths:
Y3 – multiplying 3 numbers ANSWERS.docx
Y4 – x and division (3) ANSWERS
History
We’ve learnt loads about the Roman invasion of Britain and the effect that this had on Britains living there at the time – specifically Boudicca and the Iceni.
What we haven’t talked about is when and why the Roman Empire ended. Read the text below to find out:
In AD410, the Roman Emperor Honorius sent a goodbye letter to the people of Britain. He wrote, “fight bravely and defend your lives…you are on your own now”. The city of Rome was under attack and the empire was falling apart, so the Romans had to leave to take care of things back home.
After they left, the country fell into chaos. Native tribes and foreign invaders battled each other for power. Many of the Roman towns in Britain crumbled away as people went back to living in the countryside.
In this history lesson, I’d like you to answer the following question:
Were the Romans good for Britain?
I’d like you to make a list or table of pros (positives) and cons (negatives) and debate these with someone at home. Here are some key points to get you started (you decide of they’re pros or cons):
- It isn’t nice to invade places. You wouldn’t like it if I invaded your home!
- The Romans treated Britons badly. They took their land, made them pay taxes, whipped them and killed them if they stood up to them.
- The Romans tried to change how we lived (houses, religion, language).
- The Romans protected us from other invaders.
- The invented lots of things that made our lives better: straight roads, central heating, sewage systems.
- They introduced things which had a big impact on Britain: calendar, language, Christianity.
Science – check out a brilliant science activity from Mrs Richardson.
2 April 2020: Home Learning
Hello and Happy Thursday to you all. Thank you for all your messages – keep them coming. Please email your teacher with any queries you may have – we are here to support you!
Here is your learning for today.
Reading Comprehension
Maths
Y3 – bus stop division answers from yesterday
Y4 – x and division (2) ANSWERS from yesterday
Writing
Challenge:
Can you create your own scene from Lego or from your own toys?
Write 3 questions of your own similar to the ones in the task.