18 June 2020: Home Learning
Year 5 Maths
Click on the link above for today’s starter.
Your learning for today is about converting between pounds and kilograms. You will be using conversion to solve problems.
Year 6 Maths
Let’s play the classic game of countdown. Set a timer to help you do the calculations at speed. You could set it to 1, 2, 3 or even 5 minutes. I like to choose one or two larger numbers from the top line. Give yourself 10 points for finding the solution. 5 points for being within 5 of the answer and 1 point for being within 10 of the answer. Once you have 50 points, pat yourself on the back and call it a day – Rachel Riley is proud of you.
Year 5/6 Reading
Your learning today is all about inference. Watch this video to find out more.
Year 5/6 Spanish
Today we are continuing with our Spanish skills from last week. Learn how to say your birthday and other phrases in this lesson. Buena Suerte (means good luck…I think!)
18 June 2020: Home Learning
Today’s Thursday message comes in the form of a friendly reminder: it’s Father’s Day on Sunday! (Dads, if you are reading this – pass the phone/tablet/laptop to someone else!)
I’m sure your dads would love it if you made them a Father’s Day card! I have attached some colouring templates that you can colour in if you have easy access to a printer, or if you love drawing (like I know a lot of you do!), you could design your own card – perhaps draw a picture of you and your family or make a list of all the things you love about your dad. If you would like to try something a bit more adventurous or have a bit more time to spare, why don’t you try making an origami card? This video explains the instructions step by step, and all you need is paper and colouring pens/pencils! Easy origami shirts I have tried the video and had to try a few different sizes of paper before I was happy – I found that A5 worked best (half the size of an A4 piece of paper).
Here is your learning for today:
Maths
Y3 Video Lesson and task
Y4 Video Lesson
Reading
Topic
I’ve seen some lovely ‘parts of a flower’ drawings and we are looking forward to seeing any more you send. Here is Alfie’s work:
Here is part three of our plants learning.
Science – parts and function of a flower
Story – read by Mrs McCormick
Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
17 June 2020: Home Learning
Thank you so much to the children who continue to share their work, stories and achievements with their class teacher. You can see some of these on the class news page.
Year 5 Maths
Starter
Log in to TT Rockstars and practice your multiplication skills.
Your learning for today is converting units of mass in a real-life context.
Year 6 Maths
Today’s challenge is to complete all four levels of Dark Tower of Division on Guardians – Defenders of Mathematica. If you haven’t completed Monday and Tuesday’s maths lessons, you might want a quick recap before starting. Be warned – Level one is ridiculously easy but levels 2-4 are much, much harder. Good luck on your quest!
Year 5/6 Reading
Your learning today is all about summarising and giving your own opinion. Have a go at this BBC Bitesize lesson.
Year 5/6 Living and Learning
Today, we’re going to focus on Living & Learning. Your learning today is about racism – particularly the recent events and the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement.
Watch this video by Mr Catherall to find out more.
17 June 2020 : Home learning
Morning everyone.
Maths
Have a go at the word problems adding 2 two digit numbers.
Challenge : Have a go at these extra tricky problems.
Reading – synonyms and antonyms
Watch the clip about synonyms (words that have the same or similar meaning) and antonyms (words that have the opposite meaning) : https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zk23c7h
The word ‘dark’ is used lots of times in the Funnybones story! (https://youtu.be/sJodPwWCClQ)
Can you think of any synonyms for dark? Make a list. Make 3 more lists of synonyms for big, hot and nice.
dark |
big |
hot |
nice |
| gloomy
black |
massive
|
Challenges
- Write a sentence from the story replacing ‘dark’ with the synonyms you thought of.
- Do the follow up activities on the BBC Bitesize page.
Topic – Science
Watch the BBC Bitesize clip : https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zmptsbk
Have a look at the animal skeletons. Can you work out which animals they belong to? Look at the shape of the body, legs and tails for clues.
Challenge : Choose a different animal and draw what you think it’s skeleton might look like.
Answers :
Top row – dog, horse, chameleon
Bottom row – bird, fish, snake
17 June 2020: Home Learning
Hello Year 3/4!
Have you ever heard of ‘a random act of kindness’? Whether what you do is big or small, every act can go a long way. The smallest thing can make someone’s day and completely change how they are feeling! Your challenge for today is to do just that! Can you perform a random act of kindness? Here are some of my examples to get you started:
- Compliment someone (maybe even a sibling!)
- Leave a nice message on a post-it note for someone else to find.
- Offer to help your parents with something e.g. making lunch, gardening, cleaning.
- Give someone in your family a HUGE hug ‘just because’.
Keep active:
If you like dance, then you’ll love to follow the video clip and learn some cool hip hop moves on iMoves. This week’s theme is hip hop: Hip Hop dance challenge.
Dance is a great way to keep active, happy and healthy.
Here is your learning for today:
Maths
Y3 Video lesson and task.
x8 worksheet (for extra practise on your 8x tables).
Y4 Video Lesson
Reading
Topic
Art: How do we use texture to make our drawings more interesting?
Learn how to develop your drawing skills with this lesson from Oak Academy.
All you will need is a pencil and a sheet of paper.
Have fun! Send your teacher a picture of your drawings.
Story – read by Mrs McCormick
16 June 2020: Home Learning
Good morning.
Hope you all had a good night’s sleep last night and that you are full of energy ready for your home learning.
Below are some spellings to have a go at:
foreign
achieve
convenience
mischievous
soldier
sufficient
variety
ancient
Here is your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths
Click on the link above for today’s starter.
Your learning for today is converting between grams and kilograms. The lesson will focus on why we measure in grams and kilograms and how to read scales.
Year 6 Maths
Today, we will revisit our chunking method for long division. Remember to email your teacher if you have any questions.
Year 5/6 Reading
Today is our love of reading session. Choose a book, magazine, newspaper or online topic to read for your pleasure.
Year 5/6 Topic
Your learning today is Design and Technology related. It’s all about mechanical systems. Watch this BBC Bitesize lesson to learn more.
16 June 2020 : Home learning
Hi everyone. Here is today’s learning.
Maths
Add the two 2 digit numbers. Add the tens and ones separately. You could draw the tens and ones and then count them.
Reading
Watch the Funnybones story again : https://youtu.be/9O9ErtvJKEo and then the BBC Bitesize clip about Funnybones. Do the follow-up activities : https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfmtpg8
Topic – Science/art
Using magazines or newspapers, have a go at creating a person by cutting out different pictures of different parts of the body. You could draw any parts that you can’t find!
Challenge
Use the word mat to label all the body parts.
16 June 2020: Home Learning
Hola!
How’s the Spanish coming along? What words can you remember?
If you would like to learn some more Spnaish through songs that check out rockalingua. The hobbies song with a cartoon sheet is easy to follow. Or learn to count in Spanish Los Numeros.
There’ll be Spanish learning on Friday.
Here is your learning for today:
Maths
Y3 Video Lesson
Y4 Video Lesson
Reading
Topic
Story -read by Mrs Wadsworth
15 June 2020: Home Learning
Good morning everyone!
We hope you have had an amazing weekend and that you are feeling happy and healthy today. Remember to stay in touch with your class teachers – our email addresses are below. Keep sending us messages and photographs of your learning – we love it!
olliecatherall@spherefederation.org
benfreeman@spherefederation.org
marklindsay@spherefederation.org
sarahhogarth@spherefederation.org
Here is your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths
Click on the link above for today’s starter.
Your learning for today is about converting miles and kilometres. There is the quiz to start with and then you will look at the difference between imperial and metric units.
Converting miles and kilometres
Year 6 Maths
This week we will be focusing on division. Firstly, let’s recap our knowledge of short division.
Year 5/6 Reading
Your learning skill today is to make predictions using retrieved information. Watch this video and have a go at the predictive tasks. If you are feeling particularly academic today, there is a challenge to complete at the end.
Year 5/6 Topic
Your computing learning today is about decomposition – don’t worry, it’s not as confusing as it sounds. Watch this video by Mr Catherall.
You’ll need this document for the main activity.
For the challenge, go to the Scratch Website.
15 June 2020 : Home learning
Morning!
We hope you are still managing to do some home learning. We know it is a long time, and things might be tough, but try to keep going! Please email your teacher if you need any help or support. Keep sending photos and updates of what you are doing too.
katieparling@spherefederation.org
vickylatham@spherefederation.org
kaylowry@spherefederation.org
natalielake@spherefederation.org
Try to keep reading for at least twenty minutes per day. 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.
Weekly spellings :
Y1 : hair, chair, stairs, dinner, person, letter, sure, cure
Y2 : metal, pedal, capital, hospital, animal, pencil, fossil, nostril, pupil, spoil
Times tables : If you’re ready, start learning x6 (link to x3) OR keep going with times 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 and divide 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10
Maths
Watch the video about adding 2 two digit numbers : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1XX0CqBT
Choose 2 items from the shop. Add them together using what you know about adding the tens and then the ones. Keep choosing 2 items and adding them together.
Reading
Watch and read the Funnybones story : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1X6UCqwM
Lots of our learning this week will be linked to this story. The beginning is below.
Think of or look for any words that have the long ‘i’ sound. It can be made in 5 different ways (the alternative grapheme poster below gives hints about which sounds are found where in words).
Eg : night, frighten, idea, climbed
Topic – PE/Science
Get moving with this activity using all of your body :