One of our home learning tasks this week was to write a note, letter or postcard to someone. A purpose for writing is so important and the writing is always great when it is for a real audience.
We also loved this video book review.
The maths learning has been all about money. Playing shops is a fun way to learn about this – great work, everyone!
And finally, try to watch this without a tear in your eye…
Good morning everyone!
Remember to read and work on spellings/times tables today.
Maths
Play shops at home by making some of your own price tags (just using scraps of paper or cardboard from your recycling). Write a different amount on each price tag all the way up to 20p (or more if you want a challenge). You could buy and sell fruit, vegetables, clothes or toys (just pretending, of course, and remember to put everything back once you’ve used it).
How many different ways can you make the amount on the price tag? Your parents, brother, sister, pets or teddies might like to join in with playing shops too?
Challenge : Make a price list, signs and write receipts for your shop.
Reading – Statements
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zp7mn39/articles/zdmjjhv
Statements are the most common type of sentence. They tell the reader a fact or idea about a single topic. They must always end in punctuation, usually a full stop.
Read the statements below.
Challenge : Write three (or more) statements of your own.
Topic – Geography
Follow the link to watch a selection of Go Jetters videos all about some of the UK’s most significant landmarks. What is a landmark? Can you think of any landmarks in Leeds?
After watching, can you locate all the landmarks on a map?
Challenges : 1. Choose one of the four landmarks. 2. Sketch or paint and label the landmark. 3. Write sentences describing the landmarks.
Hola everyone! Here are your tasks for today.
Maths
Write the amounts of money that are in each jar counting in 2s, 5s or 10s. Remember to use a ‘p’ after the numerals eg 20p.
Challenge: Draw around some 2p, 5p and 10p coins in your home learning book. Count in 2s, 5s or 10s to work out the total amount that you have made.
Reading – Questions
Watch the first short video about questions on BBC Bitesize Daily Lessons. Then, if you can, there are 2 follow up activities all about The Magic Faraway Tree, which was our much-loved class novel earlier in the year.
https://bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7b72sg
Topic – Geography recap
Can you remember the seven continents of the world? You could watch the song to remind yourself. Write them in your home learning book from smallest to largest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6DSMZ8b3LE
If you have a globe or atlas, you could find the continents there too.
We’ve had some fabulous emails about the home learning today. Everyone has been positive about the video lessons that the teachers are starting to make. Watch out for more as the week goes on.
We’ve seen some super learning about money. Counting and knowing how much money you have is a very important life skill!
We also have a budding radio presenter too. Listen to her awesome presenting skills.
The notes and letters are lovely too. Keeping in touch is so important at this difficult time.
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
I’ve recorded a message for you after setting up a tent for garden camping! Hope you are all well and enjoying the sunshine. The poems are below if you want to read them.
The ‘Design your own Emoji’ task has been very popular today! We love all your ideas and have also enjoyed hearing from lots of people, seeing photos and keeping in touch via email. Keep sending us your messages, photos and videos. Remember though, looking after your health and emotional well being is the most important thing at this time. Any missed learning can be caught up on at school when all this is over. We miss you all and hope to see you soon.
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 😉
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.
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.
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.