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.
- 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.
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.
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)
06 April 2020: Home learning – answers
Good morning everyone!
I hope you have all had a lovely weekend. As I’m sure you know, we are setting some activities for you to do over the Easter holiday – things a bit different to our regular posts. However, I know some of you will be desperate to know the answers to your maths learning from Friday, so here they are:
Year 5 maths task
Answers
- 500
- 50
- 5
- 2700
- 270
- 27
Using what you have just worked out- solve the following calculations.
- 1200
- 600
- 300
- 900
- 300
- 180
Year 6 maths task
2016 Arithmetic (2) Answers.pdf
Year 5/6 reading task
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.
03 April 2020: Home learning
Happy Friday everyone! You have survived another week of home learning – well done. Please feel free to get in touch with your class teachers today and let us know what kind of week you’ve had. We love hearing from you – it cheers up our day. Keep an eye out next week for some fun activities that will keep you and your family entertained over the Easter holidays.
Here’s the learning for today…
Year 5 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
- 190
- 1900
- 19,000
- 2,700
- 27,000
- 270,000
- 1000
- 1,200
- 27
- 10
- 43
- 100
Challenge: Alex has £30,000. Alex has £29,700 more than Freddie.
Starter
Create some 5-digit column subtraction sums and solve them.
Your learning today is dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.
- 5000 ÷ 10=
- 5000 ÷ 100=
- 5000 ÷ 1000=
- 27000 ÷ 10=
- 27000 ÷ 100=
- 27000 ÷ 1000=
Using what you have just worked out- solve the following calculations.
- 12000 ÷ 10=
- 12000 ÷ 20=
- 12000 ÷ 40=
- 9000 ÷ 10=
- 9000 ÷ 30=
- 9000 ÷ 50=
Challenge
5,700 405 397 6,203
Here are the answers to some problems.
Can you write some questions for each answer involving dividing by 10, 100 or 1000?
Year 6 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
The largest product is 5 (5 x 2 x 0.5)
The smallest product is 0.15 (3 x 0.5 x 1 x 0.1)
Your learning today is…
An arithmetic paper!
Year 5/6 Writing Task
Our learning is expanded noun phrases.
First of all, re-watch the video from yesterday – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVM1xEdp83Q.
Today, your task is to write a diary entry as Ali (the main character from the video). Imagine you’ve spent a day in Baghdad (the capital of the Ancient Islamic Civilisation). You must tell your diary what you’ve been up to and what it’s like to live there. You must also use expanded noun phrases. Your diary entry can be as long as you want but we’d like it if you took no less than 30 minutes to complete this task.
Challenge: write more diary entries as Ali – use your imagination and make some things up (they should be believable though) or find out some about this civilisation.
Year 5/6 Reading Task
Your learning today is to summarise.
Your task today is all about summarising. Use the full newspaper from Wednesday’s learning and scan to find the pictures in each section. Write down the page number and section and then write the key points from the article under “What’s the story?”.
Challenge: play the ERM Challenge with someone at home – choose a topic you’re confident about or choose an article you’ve read this week in First News and your job is to speak about it and summarise the key points about it for as long as possible without saying ERM or hesitating. Email us with your high scores!
02 April 2020: Home learning
Here’s today’s learning…
Year 5 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
2.
Challenge: Never. Square numbers have an odd number of factors because one of their factors does not have a pair.
Starter
Times Tables Rockstars- improve your multiplication skills.
Your learning today is multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000.
- 19 x 10=
- 19 x 100=
- 19 x 1000=
- 270 x 10=
- 270 x 100=
- 270 x 1000=
Fill in the blanks
- 5 x ?= 5000
- 12 x 100= ?
- ? x 100=2700
- 100 x ?=1000
- ? x 10=430
- 25 x ?=2500
Challenge
Freddie has £300 in his bank account. Alex has 100 times more than Freddie in his bank account. How much more money does Alex have than Freddie?
Year 6 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
Multiply whole numbers and decimals
Nrich Route Product- click on the link below.
Challenge
Design your own grid with your own numbers.
If you email it to us, we can choose one for everyone to complete after the Easter holidays.
Year 5/6 Writing Task
Our learning is expanded noun phrases.
Before we left school, our topic learning was mainly about Vikings. We had just started to learn about a new period: The Ancient Islamic Civilisation. Here is a video that will give us some useful
information about this interesting period of time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVM1xEdp83Q
Your task today is to write some sentences about Ali (the character in the video) and the Ancient
Islamic Civilisation. Each sentence must include at least one expanded noun phrase. You should
underline the ENP – like we do at school when you have finished a piece of writing.
Challenge: write a paragraph or two about the video. Include things you’ve learnt and make sure
you use expanded noun phrases – like the main task, underline them after you’ve finished writing.
Don’t forget that we’d love to see pics of any of your learning so please send them in.
Year 5/6 Reading Task
Your learning today is retrieval.
Your reading task today is to read the article and complete the crossword in your home learning book eg
1 down = answer
1 across = answer
R2s
– read the clues first
– read the article twice
– work out key words in the clue
– scan the text for the key words
– Does your answer make sense/fit?
Challenge: create your own clues for other words in the text and follow this format:
clue (word class, number of letters)
01 April 2020: Home learning
Good morning everyone!
I hope you all had a good night’s sleep and are keen to get on with your learning today.
Here’s today’s learning…
Year 5 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
- 1,2,3,6,9,18
- 1,2,3,4,6,8,12,24
- 15
- 1,2,4,8
- 8
- 1,3,7,21
- 1,2,3,4,6,9,12,18,36
- 1 and 3
Challenge: False. For example, 12 has 6 factors but 13 only has 2.
Starter
Create some 5-digit column addition calculations and answer them.
Your learning today is squared numbers.
This is an array showing 3 x 3 = 9.
- How many different arrays can you create using 36 counters? Draw them and write the corresponding multiplication sums.
- What are the first 12 squared numbers? (when you multiply a number by itself)
Challenge
Always, Sometimes, Never
A square number has an even number of factors.
Year 6 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
There are the two solutions:
13 chocolate bars and 9 fruit bars
4 chocolate bars and 22 fruit bars
Solve the challenge in your exercise book.
Writing task (Y5,6)
Our learning is expanded noun phrases.
Your task today is to write an email to a loved one – perhaps a family member, friend or teacher. Your email can consist of anything you wish – it could be full of things that you have been doing at home to stay active and healthy, for example.
In this email, you must include expanded noun phrases. Here is a short example of an email.
Dear Jane,
I hope you are enjoying the roasting sunshine! My sister and I have been playing in the garden with our fluffy dog, Rosie. We have also been joining in with Joe Wicks PE sessions every morning. Thanks for sending me a beautiful birthday card – it really made me smile.
I look forward to hearing back from you.
Billy
Reading task (Y5,6)
Your learning today is a little bit different to normal. Today, we’d like you to just enjoy reading. Your task is to read the FirstNews newspaper (it will open as a separate page in your browser when you click the link). You should spend about 30 – 40 minutes reading it.
We’re not expecting you to do any learning in your exercise books today as the main thing we want you to do is to enjoy reading. However, if you like, you could complete one (or more) of the following tasks…
- Read the paper with someone in your house and discuss the articles you’ve read.
- Do the same as above but with a friend from school over the phone.
- Respond creatively to one of the articles you’ve read (a bit like a creative homework).
- Interview someone in your house, or someone over the phone, and write your own news article about what you find out.
31 March 2020: Home learning
Before we get into the tasks for today, remember to keep your TTR skills honed by logging on and playing for 15 minutes. Also, keep reading for at least 15 minutes a day. Remember: The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go – Dr Seuss.
Here’s today’s learning…
Year 5 maths task
Answers from yesterday:
- 7,14,21,28,35,42,49,56,63,70.
- 21
- 56
- 6,12,18,24,30,36,42,48,54,60.
- 2,9
- 5,6
- 2,3,4,6,8,12
Challenge: Eva is 21.
Starter
Times Tables Rockstars- improve your multiplication skills.
Your learning today is factors.
Factors- a pair of numbers we multiply together to get another number. For example: factors of 6 include 3×2.
- Find all the factors of 18.
- Find all the factors of 24.
Fill in the blanks.
- 1, 3, 5 and 15 are factors of the number_____.
- The factors of the number 8 are __________.
- The number 42 has _____ factors.
- List the factors of 21.
- List the factors of 36.
- What are the common factors of 21 and 36?
Challenge
True or false?
The bigger the number, the more factors it has.
Year 6 maths task
Here are the answers from yesterday: Y6 FourOperations A Answers
Solve puzzles
Chocolate bars cost 26p
Fruit bars cost 18p
Jack spent exactly £5 on a mixture of chocolate bars and fruit bars.
How many of each did he buy?
Challenge: How many different solutions can you find? How do you know you’ve found them all?
Writing task
We are continuing with expanded noun phrases as our learning.
Your task today is to draw and label a Viking. This picture must be accurate (don’t have your Viking character holding an iPhone!) Around this picture, you must label features and equipment that your Viking has, using expanded noun phrases.
Here is an example of some expanded noun phrases for a Viking.
a large, round shield
the glistening, silver sword
his ragged, curly beard
the powerful Jarl
Tip: Remember, a Jarl is a Viking village leader.
Challenge: Can you use some of the following vocabulary in your labelling?
Jarl Longhouse sheath
It would be fantastic to see some of these images, so that we can post them on the school website! Please email your finished pieces to your teachers.
Reading task
Answers from yesterday – see the attached document. The answers are on pages 6, 7 and 8.
comprehension answers to Monday’s task
Your learning today is a debate.
Read this information from First News
It’s all about whether the government should do more to reduce food waste. Debates are a great way to engage with the world around us and allow us to think about our own opinions. There’s a lot of information so don’t feel you need to read it all – you should read at least 3 pages though.
Once you’ve read the information, think about some reasons ‘for’ and ‘against’. Set it out like this…
‘Should the government do more to reduce food waste?’
| for | against |
For challenge, choose one (or more) of the things below to do:
Optional challenge 1: find someone in your house to talk to about this issue. Impress them with your new knowledge and give them your opinion. Then, ask them for theirs. If you disagree, why not debate it?
Optional challenge 2: do the same as above but with a friend from school on the phone – we’d love it everyone did this challenge!
Optional challenge 3: imagine you’ve been asked by the prime minister (Boris Johnson) to encourage the public to reduce food waste. Using information from the text, you must convince them to do so. You could do this however you like but here’s some ides…
- Create a poster.
- Write a letter.
- Design a leaflet to be posted through letterboxes.
- Make a video explaining why it’s important – it could go viral!
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.
- 9,485 + 352 – 5241= 4596
- 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.
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.
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!
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.
- I’m thinking of a number.
After I add 5,241 and subtract 352, my number is 9,485.
What was my original number?
- 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.
- 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:
- A) -85, -53, -35, 16, 32
- B) -297, -100, -5, 321, 685
- 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:
- A) 34621 + 25734 B) 4761325 – 938052
- 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?
- 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.
- A) -53, -85, 16, 32, -35
- B) 685, 321, -5, -297, -100
- 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:
- Father says he chose his shield brothers carefully.
- 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!