31 March 2020 : Home learning
Good morning!
Keep going with reading, spellings and times tables every day.
Maths
Warm up by singing the big numbers song – https://youtu.be/e0dJWfQHF8Y
There are some numbers missing from this part of the 100 square. Copy it and fill in the missing numbers.
Challenge :
Reading
Read a story book. Write three questions that you would like to ask one of the characters. Remember to use a capital letter, finger spaces and a question mark. For example –
How did you feel when you found Goldilocks in your house?
Topic – History
We have been learning about chronology in the last few weeks, putting toys in chronological order. Look at the toys timeline we created last week. Talk about what the timeline shows using the words below.
Challenge : Choose 3 or 4 of your own toys. Put them in chronological order of when you got them.
31 March 2020: Home Learning
Happy Tuesday everyone!
Here are your activities for today. Here’s a routine to help you structure your day Home Learning Routine. Have lots of fun and remember to keep up with your reading and times tables too!
Happy learning !
Team 3,4
Reading:
Maths (and answers from yesterday)
Y4 – column method, grid method
Topic
In history lessons this half-term, we have answered all of the following questions.
- When did the Romans successfully invade Britain?
- Who was the emperor during the first successful invasion?
- Why did the Romans invade Britain?
- Was Boudicca a Roman or a Celt?
- What was the name of Boudicca’s tribe?
- How did Boudicca die?
First of all, we’d like your child to answer the questions. If there are any questions they don’t remember the answer to, they can use the internet to find them. A couple of links below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html
Next, they should show off some of the knowledge they’ve learnt in the topic in a poster. This could be some of the answers to the questions above or other things they’ve learnt. Email some pictures of the posters you create and I’ll post them on Class News!
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!
Reading at home
We have had a few emails asking what to do when children have finished reading their school reading books.
Any books you read at home will be fine; story books, comics, magazines, dictionaries, atlases, chapter books, recipes or lists. The children don’t need to be able to read every single word independently. You can read to them, take turns, look for words they can read and talk about the book.
There are also lots of e books on Twinkl for free, ranging from traditional tales to information texts – https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/literacy/reading/reading-ebooks
Just keep reading!
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!
30 March 2020 : Home learning
Good morning everyone! It is Monday again, so here are some new spellings and times tables to use throughout the week. Remember to keep reading every day too.
Y1 spellings
- she
- so
- some
- there
- their
- they
- to
- today
Y2 spellings
- every
- everybody
- eye
- fast
- father
- find
- floor
- gold
- grass
- great
Times tables for this week is the times 5 facts and divide 5 facts (for Y2s) and counting forwards and backwards in 5s (for Y1s).
Maths
Sing along with the counting in 3s song – https://youtu.be/V96IZWctZYA
Copy and compete the number patterns.
0, 2, 4, 6, …., 10, …., 14, …., ….
0, 5, …., 15, …., …., 30, …., ….
0, 10, 20, 30, …., …., …., 70, ….
0, 3, 6, 9, …., 15, …., …., 24
Challenge :
16, 14, 12, …., …., 6, …., 2, 0
50, 45, 40, …., 30, …., 20, ….
100, 90, 80, …., …., …., …., ….
24, 21, …., 15, …., 9, …., 3, 0
Challenge : Make your own ‘Guess my number’.
Reading
Read the ‘Hide and Seek’ text and answer the questions in your home learning book.
You can also use the text as ‘reading fluency’. We do this every day at school, reading the same text each day. The aim is to develop fluency and expression when reading. Each day we would focus on a different aspect of the text eg vocabulary (what do the words mean), punctuation (taking note of commas, full stops) and tricky spellings. By the end of year 2, children are expected to be reading approximately 90 words per minute.
Topic : Geography
Watch and sing along with the continents song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6DSMZ8b3LE
Write a list of all the continents. Remember that proper nouns begin with a capital letter (names of continents).
If you have a globe or atlas, you could try to find them on there too.
30 March 2020: Home Learning
Hi children and welcome to Week 2 of Home Learning.
We hope that you have had a lovely weekend and have managed to do some
interesting activities!
Check out these ways to Keep Fit At Home. There is something for everyone with a Gold, Silver and Bronze challenge bingo board to complete!
We have given you a list of spellings to practise this week – you could ask an
adult to test you on Friday. In addition to your daily tasks, please keep up the daily reading and times table practise too.If you haven’t already looked at the class news section of the website, then please do. You may see a few familiar faces and enjoy listening to our messages.
Please keep in touch – we really do enjoy hearing from you.
Happy learning! Happy Monday!
Team 3,4
Spelling.
accident(ally)
actual(ly)
address
answer
appear
arrive
believe
bicycle
breath
breathe
How many ways can you practise these spellings?
Examples:
- rainbow words – each letter is written in a different colour
- split each word into syllables en/joy/ment
- box words – draw a box around each letter in the word
- pyramid words
- look, cover, spell, check
Maths
Y3 – multiplication and division assessment
Y4 – multiplication and division assessment
Reading
Writing
Watch the film clip of ‘The Present’.
What is the story here? Rewrite it.
Think about:
- How does the puppy help the boy?
- How is the boy different at the start and at the end of the clip?
- How are they good for each other?
- What do you think happened to the boy?
Happy learning!
27 March 2020 : Home learning
Happy Friday!
Read for 20 minutes and work on your times tables.
Maths
Warm up by counting in 2s – singing along with the song https://youtu.be/JyCr0IgbYcI
Reading/writing
Choose one of your favourite toys. Tell someone about it, using some adjectives to describe what it looks like, what it can do and what it is made of.
Challenge : write some sentences about it – remember your ‘Must Dos’
Topic : Geography
Sing the song about the UK – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncqDJW4EhmE
Write a list of all the countries and capital cities in the UK. Remember that proper nouns begin with a capital letter (names of countries and capital cities are all proper nouns).
If you have a globe or atlas, you could find them on there too.
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!