20 April 2020 : Home learning
Morning!
Well, the Easter holidays are over. It may not have felt much different to the previous two weeks, but we hope you had some egg-cellent fun and enjoyed the sunshine. Here are your tasks for today. Each day we will set three main tasks.
We would also like you to read 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.
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 : was we were where you your
Y2 : half hold hour improve kind last many mind money most
Times tables : times 10 and divide 10
You can contact your child’s teacher if you are not sure about any of the learning or want to send us photos or messages about what you’re doing.
1K – Miss Parling – katieparling@spherefederation.org
1,2V – Mrs Latham – vickylatham@spherefederation.org
2KN – Miss Lowry/Mrs Lake – kaylowry@spherefederation.org natalielake@spherefederation.org
Maths
Warm up by singing the shapes song – https://youtu.be/WTeqUejf3D0
Go on a shape hunt. Look around your house see which 2D (flat) shapes you can see.
Draw the shapes from the song or shapes that you see.
Challenge : Write what you know about each shape.
Eg A square has 4 sides. It has 4 corners. The sides are straight and all the same length.
Reading
Read the instructions about how to make a fruit salad. Answer the questions in your home learning book.
Challenge : If you can, make your own fruit salad.
Topic – Science (observing nature)
Find three animals outside. Find out their name, write down where you saw them and draw or take a picture of them.
Do not pick them up!
Challenge : Find out/make up and write a fun fact about each one.
eg Blue Tit
I saw it in the tree in my back garden, singing.
Fun Fact : As they get older, their colouring gets brighter.
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.
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.
3 April 2020 : Home learning
Happy Friday everyone. Hope you’ve enjoyed this week’s learning. You could ask someone to give you a little spelling test/times table test on this week’s lists. Also, remember to read for 20 minutes today.
Maths
Maths fluency is like becoming fluent in reading – it involves lots of practising. Have a go at the fluency questions below. Some you might be able to do in your head or you might prefer to draw it or use equipment (or fingers). Write the questions and answers in your home learning book.
Reading
Go on a noun hunt around your house. Write a list of the nouns you find eg spoon, dog, garden.
Challenge: Put those words into sentences. Remember your ‘must dos’.
Topic – Science
We were due to do a science investigation about floating and sinking. You could have a go at home though! Find some toys or items from around your house. Check with as adult that it is ok to put them in water. Then predict whether each item will float or sink. Check if your prediction was correct by putting the items in a bowl or container of water (or you could do it at bath time if you’re allowed).
Draw or write lists of the items that float and the items that sink. What do you think that is?
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.
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!
2 April 2020 : Home learning
Hello everyone. Keep going with your reading, times tables and spellings each day. You can also warm up by singing the days of the week song – https://youtu.be/zJLiJIf8c_c
Maths – subtraction using part whole models
We use part whole models to help us represent number stories and calculations. From a part whole model, a ‘fact family’ can be created. These are calculations that are closely related and match the part whole model. There is a subtraction fact family example below.
Look at the other part whole models, copy them into your home learning book and write the subtraction fact families to go with them.
Challenge : Draw your own part whole model and write the subtraction fact family to go with it.
Reading
Read the words below. Copy these words into your home learning book and make them plurals by adding ‘s’ or ‘es’:
bird
goat
dish
chick
fox
witch
shoe
Challenge: Put those words into sentences. Remember your ‘must dos’.
Play a game on Phonics Play – https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Art : drawing
There are some great ‘How to draw…’ guides on YouTube or you could use the example below to draw a teddy.
How to draw a cat https://youtu.be/oJntsEBNalM
Pug https://youtu.be/H7Gp-GRnGdA
Easter bunny https://youtu.be/xMa5gsmZwHs
Send us pictures of your favourite drawing, if you can!
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.
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)